Falkenbach wrote: ↑1 year ago
I am really torn between
Spit Flame or
Tuktuk Scrapper. Both work on a simular way but i think more often you will need to remova a creature than an artifact..
atm running 4 creature removal spells (with peer pressure 5) which is pretty low. (5 artifact removal with tuk tuk and 4 enchantment removal )
How are you guys on removal/interaction? How many and wich ones do you run? I don't wanna run staple removal or countermagic in this deck.
I'd say
Spit Flame keeping degenerate commanders off the board is really nice.
Tuktuk Scrapper hasn't aged super well. Hard casting it feels way worse as everyone plays lower cmc spells now a days. It's still worth considering if you're running
Moggcatcher or there's a lot of non-mana rock artifacts in your meta. The damage it puts out can add up pretty good.
I'm running a ton of removal. My instant/sorcery suite is fairly small. I'm running
Peer Pressure,
Spit Flame and
Crib Swap (plus
Cateran Summons to find it).
My misc removal is
Liliana, Untouched by Death,
Dragon Tempest and
Be'lakor, the Dark Master but these are more for pinging utility creatures until I'm really popping off. I've also got
Boseiju, Who Endures.
My creature based removal is
Reaper King
Patron of the Vein
Tolsimir, Friend to Wolves (and by extension
Skyshroud Poacher)
Kogla, the Titan Ape
Linvala, Shield of Sea Gate
Masked Vandal
Spellstutter Sprite (by extension
Vedalken Aethermage)
That being said I've also got
The Scarab God/
Graveshifter as recursion for the creature based removal.
Also, with some assistance
Hibernation Sliver/
Wirewood Symbiote/
Walker of Secret Ways can flicker my creature based removal.
Changeling Hero (the whole champion cycle)/
Moritte of the Frost/
Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore can also double up on my creature based removal.
All in total I have about 14 hard removal spells/tutors for them, plus 5 recursions/light removal, plus 8 ways to double up on my other removal. So a total of 14-27 depending on what exactly you want to count.
For example, recently when I played this deck I got 4 triggers out of
Patron of the Vein by casting him, flickering him and reanimating him.
Spit Flame/
Reaper King/
Dragon Tempest can also be used multiple times by just casting a Changeling.