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Post by CommanderMaster999 » 2 years ago

Serenade wrote:
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Acererak, Lord of Unlife + Aluren
Gross!
Grosser with any of these with this And others

Oh since it go back to your hand… Vela the Night-Clad as well

Just don't venture into that particular dugeon

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Post by Serenade » 2 years ago

CommanderMaster999 wrote:
2 years ago
Serenade wrote:
2 years ago
Acererak, Lord of Unlife + Aluren
Gross!
Grosser with any of these with this And others

Oh since it go back to your hand… Vela the Night-Clad as well

Just don't venture into that particular dugeon
Those are overkill, though, right? You just run through Lost Mine of Phandelver, hit up the Dark Pool, and just win?
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Post by BeneTleilax » 2 years ago

This is still on the tame end of stupid Aluren crap.

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Post by Sanity_Eclipse » 2 years ago

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White Dragon, Monk of the Open Hand, and Grand Master of Flowers from the Mothership today!
Plate Armor, Mordenkainen, True Polymorph have been added.
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Post by folding_music » 2 years ago

Inferno of the Star Mounts
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Havengul Lich

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I know this is stupid, I was just thinking about ways you could hit 20 as many times as you want in a turn. Just add... a lot of mana

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Post by Igzex » 2 years ago

So Inferno of the Star Mounts ...Yeah between this lovely thing and Old Gnawbone I think I actually wanna build Xenagos, God of Revels dragon tribal now. I wanna indulge in some Gratuitous Violence and HURT PEOPLE.

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Post by Serenade » 2 years ago

Can I save some mana by using Unleash Fury with Inferno?
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Post by Igzex » 2 years ago

Also finally a use for Crucible of Fire. With the Xenagos out, I only need to pay 2 red to do the Shinku Hadouken

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Post by Hermes_ » 2 years ago

Sanity_Eclipse wrote:
2 years ago
Plate Armor
Voltron deck laughs and then realizes card is actually useless.....

Inferno of the Star Mounts tiem to remove one of the other dragons from my dragon deck finally
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Post by RedCheese » 2 years ago

Hermes_ wrote:
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Sanity_Eclipse wrote:
2 years ago
Plate Armor
Voltron deck laughs and then realizes card is actually useless.....

Inferno of the Star Mounts tiem to remove one of the other dragons from my dragon deck finally
Whats wrong with Plate Armor?

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Post by Wallycaine » 2 years ago

Serenade wrote:
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Can I save some mana by using Unleash Fury with Inferno?
You can, but you have to be careful not to go *over* 20 with it, since the ability only triggers on going to exactly 20. So the most efficent way to do it is to pump 3 times to get to 9 power, double the power with unleash, and then pump twice more to hit 20.

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Post by JWK » 2 years ago

Pretty big flavor fail on Mordenkainen. He should not be mono-blue. He is obsessed with the concept of order (vs. chaos) and is very willing to sacrifice others for the cause of order, or for personal power that lets him better serve the cause. He really ought to be in Esper colors.
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Post by Mookie » 2 years ago

JWK wrote:
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Pretty big flavor fail on Mordenkainen. He should not be mono-blue. He is obsessed with the concept of order (vs. chaos) and is very willing to sacrifice others for the cause of order, or for personal power that lets him better serve the cause. He really ought to be in Esper colors.
Possibly, but given that they're doing a monocolored cycle of walkers, they leaned towards just using the primary color of the character - and as a very powerful wizard, that's blue.

Anyway...
  • Hand of Vecna isn't that exciting, but it can represent a lot of stats for some decks. More interesting is the templating to pump up Vecna. Also, that art is.... chef's kiss.
  • Eye of Vecna is Phyrexian Arena lite - costs mana to use and more life, but you also draw a card immediately. Seems like an interesting draw engine for nonblack decks, although Mazemind Tome is probably better.
  • Grand Master of Flowers is some more fun templating - level him up enough and his ultimate is becoming a dragon god. Not the most exciting in EDH though.
  • True Polymorph seems a bit niche, but I assume there's a use case for it somewhere.
  • Acererak, Lord of Unlife is sweet. Probably will be used most often as a repeatable mana sink for venturing repeatedly (or a combo piece), but the payoff of a 5/5 that spawns a bunch of zombies on attack is also pretty strong.
  • Skeletal Swarming seems like a snap include for skeleton tribal decks.
  • Long Rest reads pretty bad - it looks a lot less efficient than Praetor's Counsel and Seasons Past. It does scale, but casting it for X=1 or 2 feels pretty bad (especially when Eternal Witness and Regrowth exist). Resetting your life total is certainly powerful, but also very difficult to pull off - eight different mana values is a lot.
  • Inferno of the Star Mounts is cool, but looks more geared towards Standard in the Thundermaw Hellkite 'big hasty dragon' slot. Still, blasting something for 20 is a lot.

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Post by Crazy Monkey » 2 years ago

So is True Polymorph the first non-permanent or temporary method to Imprisoned in the Moon a commander? I'd rather a problem commander be another Sol Ring than a must-answer card every turn. It's also copy/clone utility, but the 6 MV is a much higher than the Darksteel Mutation effects.
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Post by Rumpy5897 » 2 years ago

We technically had Mystic Reflection earlier too. Seems we're witnessing the rise of a new class of commander stuffers, and they don't feel as rules-loophole'y as tuck did, so that's a good thing. The recent prolonged phasing push doesn't sit right with me though, that doesn't feel as elegant as these polymorph things.
 
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Post by RedCheese » 2 years ago

Acererak, Lord of Unlife + Rooftop Storm YOOOOOO

Ops i win combo in my Varinna here you go.

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Post by Hermes_ » 2 years ago

RedCheese wrote:
2 years ago
Hermes_ wrote:
2 years ago
Sanity_Eclipse wrote:
2 years ago
Plate Armor
Voltron deck laughs and then realizes card is actually useless.....

Inferno of the Star Mounts tiem to remove one of the other dragons from my dragon deck finally
Whats wrong with Plate Armor?
What's wrong is i can't read, i thought it was +1/+1 not +3
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Post by Arebennian » 2 years ago

I'm really bad with the rules and odd stack interactions:

Acererak, Lord of Unlife + Inalla, Archmage Ritualist = ?

Can you return the card, and/or even the copy, before you have to sacrifice on of them to the legend rule?

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Post by Dragoon » 2 years ago

Arebennian wrote:
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I'm really bad with the rules and odd stack interactions:

Acererak, Lord of Unlife + Inalla, Archmage Ritualist = ?

Can you return the card, and/or even the copy, before you have to sacrifice on of them to the legend rule?
When the original ETBs, both it and Inalla will trigger. You can choose the order of resolution for those two triggers:
  • You can bounce the original in your hand, then create a token with Inalla that will also trigger and be "bounced" back to your hand (and cease to exist as soon as it leaves the battlefield)
  • You can create a copy with Inalla first, that copy will also trigger and will be put on the stack on top of the original ETB trigger. But before that trigger resolves, state-based actions will be check and you will be asked to sacrifice either the original or the token. Either way, the survivor will be bounced to your hand when its trigger resolves, and the other trigger will resolve normally, even if there's nothing to bounce.
So, assuming you haven't completed Tomb of Annihilation, the end result will be the same: two triggers of Acererak, Lord of Unlife but no version of him on the battlefield.

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Post by Cyberium » 2 years ago

I'm tempted to build a Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest deck using all the right classes: Fighter Class, Monk Class, Sorcerer Class, and Wizard Class.

Not sure about Barbarian Class, Cleric Class, and Paladin Class .

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Post by Sanity_Eclipse » 2 years ago

Cyberium wrote:
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I'm tempted to build a Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest deck using all the right classes: Fighter Class, Monk Class, Sorcerer Class, and Wizard Class.

Not sure about Barbarian Class, Cleric Class, and Paladin Class .
I was considering adding some of the classes to Narset, personally. Cleric Class, Monk Class, Paladin Class, Sorcerer Class, Wizard Class would be likely. Barbarian Class doesn't seem likely, unsure on Fighter Class due to last ability.
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Post by Cyberium » 2 years ago

Sanity_Eclipse wrote:
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unsure on Fighter Class due to last ability.
Mostly for the equipment fetch and equip cost reduction.
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Would Galea, Kindler of Hope work with bestow? I want to think they're not aura cards but are aura spells? Similarly sword of the realms and so forth?
Galea wouldn't work with bestow because it's not an aura when it's in your library; it's a creature and an enchantment. Same with Sword of the Realms; the game only sees it as Halvar, God of Battle when it's anywhere but the battlefield.

I'm gonna leave myself some wiggle room for someone to correct me if I'm wrong.
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Post by Sanity_Eclipse » 2 years ago

That's fair, just don't level Fighter all the way. 👍
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Post by Wallycaine » 2 years ago

Dragoon wrote:
2 years ago
Arebennian wrote:
2 years ago
I'm really bad with the rules and odd stack interactions:

Acererak, Lord of Unlife + Inalla, Archmage Ritualist = ?

Can you return the card, and/or even the copy, before you have to sacrifice on of them to the legend rule?
When the original ETBs, both it and Inalla will trigger. You can choose the order of resolution for those two triggers:
  • You can bounce the original in your hand, then create a token with Inalla that will also trigger and be "bounced" back to your hand (and cease to exist as soon as it leaves the battlefield)
  • You can create a copy with Inalla first, that copy will also trigger and will be put on the stack on top of the original ETB trigger. But before that trigger resolves, state-based actions will be check and you will be asked to sacrifice either the original or the token. Either way, the survivor will be bounced to your hand when its trigger resolves, and the other trigger will resolve normally, even if there's nothing to bounce.
So, assuming you haven't completed Tomb of Annihilation, the end result will be the same: two triggers of Acererak, Lord of Unlife but no version of him on the battlefield.
There is a (not so) corner case where it makes a difference the order you do them in. If you are 1 step away from completing tomb, so whichever one resolves first will finish the tomb, and the other will remain in play (because the "if you haven't finished tomb of annihilation" is an intervening if, and thus will be checked both on triggering *and* on resolution). Then you get to choose between bouncing the original and keeping the hasty copy, or just getting the trigger off the hasty copy and keeping the original.

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Post by Mookie » 2 years ago

Sanity_Eclipse wrote:
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I was considering adding some of the classes to Narset, personally. Cleric Class, Monk Class, Paladin Class, Sorcerer Class, Wizard Class would be likely. Barbarian Class doesn't seem likely, unsure on Fighter Class due to last ability.
The last level of Fighter Class doesn't allow creatures to block your evasive commander, if that's what you're worried about. It actually allows for some soft evasion - if you attack with a token or something else, you can force a creature to block the token instead of your commander. That said, if you don't have any other creatures in your deck, it won't exactly be doing much in the first place.

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