I have a +1/+1 counter tribal deck helmed by Skullbriar that I enjoy. It's not the highest power-level commander for counters, but it's fun making him big.
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I have a +1/+1 counter tribal deck helmed by Skullbriar that I enjoy. It's not the highest power-level commander for counters, but it's fun making him big.
If you try hard enough, you can make anything sound silly and moronic.
Eternal Taskmaster
Of course you want to. Flipped Bolas wins games. It's just getting there in Grixis colours that becomes a problem more often than not.
I have that Atraxa EDH deck, while its pretty fun to see your creatures grow exponentially with their counters, all that hard work is pretty easy to negate by boardwhipes and removal.
I do wonder now that proliferate is changed in this set, if this also applies to Atraxa's proliferate.
After seeing all the spoiled cards, this set looks interesting. I like the focus on planeswalkers and how it'll be possible to see many of them in a typical game instead of just one that either wins the game for its controller or dies instantly. The new amass mechanic sounds underpowered though. You simply have a token creature that can get big, but has no abilities at all and it'll be probably easy to deal with. Not worth the effort, unless you build some silly combo.
Just block it by the time it's relevant. It has nothing on murmuring mystic
I have recently built Pir and Toothy as a Superfriends deck but they also work great as +1/+1 counters commanders. Having 2 commanders is pretty nice and being restricted to 2 colours means having to dig deeper and run cards you'd normally never run.
Eternal Taskmaster
Gonna hate this thing in limited!
As someone who only plays Constructed/Arena, I don't see this card being good, but I love decks that fool with the graveyard so I'll try it out.
The new set is definitely interesting, but as it stands I'm not sure how effective Amass and Proliferate are going to be. Not in the face of Esper, which is only getting stronger.
I'm not so sure, there is so much upside. A two mana 2/3 is pretty good and the activation cost is quite cheap. Even if you send it to its death you can cash it in for your best creature in the gy. It's also not a given that your opponent will be able to kill a 2/3.
The best commander for this type of thing is, without a doubt, Ghave, Guru of Spores. He goes infinite on accident regularly. Very good, but very powerful and I don't know if that might be a turn off in your playgroup.
The other choice for both would be Marath, Will of the Wild. I think Marath could be a very fun deck. Might be a good idea to look into.
If you want lower power but fun for counters, I kind of like Prime Speaker Zegana. She's interested in big stuff generally, and you could certainly build her caring about +1/+1 counters. She'd be my choice if I wanted a lower power commander that did only counters.
Atraxa is a +1/+1 counter deck if you want it to be. She's good and not overpowered, but I suspect you'll see 100,000 Atraxa decks over the next year, all of them super friends, and no one will want to play against your own Atraxa deck. I wouldn't do her.
If you want to do tokens, Rhys the Redeemed is good. Potential to be extremely strong, too. I think that deck is very vulnerable to board wipes, but it can definitely win even in a strong playgroup if you build it competitively.
Depending on the meta, it could be as good as mystic. Creatures will likely be more valuable and getting them back is good. That said, I do agree mystic is probably much better overall most of the time. It's hard to directly compare cards like that as they don't exist in a vacuum.
The quality will prob be in the PW so I expect creatures to be slightly less relevant/busted. It wil be a strong unco like gravedigger but nothing to lose your mind over.
Fblthp, the Lost
Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion
It should- just because you usually "draw" the 6 cards when you CC, they are technically on top of your library
This seems good. Does it work with Collected Company?
Also, i'm surprised that this shuffles into the library instead of going to the bottom- I thought they tried to lessen the amount of shuffles in a game
This seems good. Does it work with Collected Company?
Amazingly, this is simultaneously a combo and non-bo with Experimental Frenzy.
Experimental frenzy, vivien's arkbow.
This seems good. Does it work with Collected Company?
I am going to totally slap at least one Neheb in a mono red deck. I don't know whether it will be terrible or not.
it will probably find an home in big red/rakdos/grull decks, not in the classic mono red deck.
Fblthp does one thing very well: he gets lost. Very lost. I think the point is that you aren't supposed to know where he is ever.
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Fblthp's reveal article explains that they tried having him go three cards from the top of the library, but it didn't feel very "lost".
I like Neheb's effect. I hope he's playable.
I like Neheb's effect. I hope he's playable.
Very disappointed that Cascade technically casts from Exile; otherwise he'd be a fun inclusion in a lot of cubes.
It should- just because you usually "draw" the 6 cards when you CC, they are technically on top of your library
Also, i'm surprised that this shuffles into the library instead of going to the bottom- I thought they tried to lessen the amount of shuffles in a game
I always question my card evaluating skills, but this seems like a very good card.
I think not because it doesn't do anything when it comes into play and costs 4. At 4 mana, you typically expect something to happen (or otherwise generate great value, such as Rekindling Phoenix). This card is just asking to get hit by removal, and I know that can happen against any creature, but it does happen regularly and he's high value but easy to deal with, so I expect he will get dealt with.
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it's a powerful effect, but there's a high bar to clear for 4cc cards without CIP abilities, haste, or built-in protection. it does get interesting with any ways to give it haste.
Neheb might be playable somewhere midrange-y but he's probably too slow for mono-red, yeah. Not really surprising since 99% of all cards are too slow for mono-red.
but imagine attacking with neheb the eternal AND neheb dreadhorde champion at the same time
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For reference since I'm new and didn't know this, "CIP" is slang for "Comes Into Play" which translates to "ETB" which stands for "Enters The Battlefield" which is another phrase for "Battlecry".
Not the same as Battlecry because Battlecry requires casting.
Is this some kind of gotcha? I'll clarify. Neheb doesn't otherwise generate value until your next turn. Rekindling Phoenix is often a 2 for 1 or better.
I think you knew what I meant, though.
That Yoshitaka Amano artwork on the jp site appears to have been an April Fool's joke? God dammit I just wanted see the full version that wasn't cropped
arclight phoenix, you mean? rekindling has been a chase card since its reveal
edit: neheb is a highly underestimated card, but i don't think monoR wants him. regardless, buy when the price is low
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If you're running Neheb you're presumably trying to cheat out something (or a quantity of somethings) that requires more mana than you can naturally produce, rather than just cycling by itself. Like maybe powering out an Angrath or something. In theory you could just cycle into a grip of Skewers and blast off to the moon, but in practice you're generally going to be happier with Experimental Frenzy if that's your gameplan.
I'm sure there'll be some goofy YouTube decks that use it to ramp out a Thousand Year Storm combo or Etalli or Haphazard Bombardment or something. The dream of red ramp never truly dies in the land of building gimmick decks for clicks.
I'm sure there'll be some goofy YouTube decks that use it to ramp out a Thousand Year Storm combo or Etalli or Haphazard Bombardment or something. The dream of red ramp never truly dies in the land of building gimmick decks for clicks.
Y'all act like rhythm of the wild isn't a thing, and that there isn't a planeswalker that gives everything haste. That being said, I can't see you wanting to discard much of anything in Gruul midrange, so I'm not sure what deco this guy would fit on.
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