MTG Combo: Animate Dead + Entomb

Gennten on Carpe Noctum

7 years ago

Hey! sonnet666

I spent days looking at way to improve Kaalia, this list is what I currently have (Kaalia, Combo Stax), and I'm curious what your take is on it. This is a stax/hatebear list, and I'm trying to work with many things, such as a steep mana curve, low land count, and less noncreatures. I generally feel the anticipation of Kaalia of the Vast in casual metas makes her more susceptible to removal, making it more difficult to cast from the command zone. It's why it's preferable to cast her once she's ready to attack with Razaketh, the Foulblooded or Hellcarver Demon.

Regarding Razaketh, Kaalia as I could see serves as two roles. When Razaketh enters the field due to Kaalia's ability, Kaalia and another creature can be sacrificed to set up infinite mana strategies, whether be Bomberman (Auriok Salvagers + Lion's Eye Diamond ) or Worldgorger combo (Animate Dead + Entomb ).

With 3W, you float an arbitrary amount of mana using Salvager's ability to recur Lion's Eye Diamond, then sacrifice Salvagers to Razaketh and fetch Walking Ballista.

With BB1, you Entomb and Animate Dead Worldgorger Dragon. After floating that arbitrary amount of mana from the combo, you Animate Dead a different creature from the graveyard. Sacrifice that creature to fetch Walking Ballista.

These are each cost-effective strategies, and there are many others I've added to try deviating from the tribal aggro approach like Ad Nauseam + Angel's Grace .

Fresh303 on Karador Multiplayer Boonweaver Combo/Control

7 years ago

Jpegwun, as far as top-tier competitive decks go, Birthing Pod might be considered slow with the plethora of other ways to cheat Boonweaver Giant into play, such as Animate Dead + Entomb . However, as far as most decks go, the Pod is an all star. I run a similar but not quite as expensive version of the Karador Boonweaver style deck and from personal experience I can tell you that Pod can take over games by itself, continually upgrading your board and filling your graveyard with cards you can cast later with Karador.

To my knowledge, this version of the deck is the very latest. However, with the recent unbanning of Protean Hulk, many Karador Boonweaver lists have been converted to use the Hulk as the main win condition in place of Boonweaver.

RockinTurtle4 on Karador, ETB Chieftain

8 years ago

I also run Karador. I am not confident enough in my ability to tag a card yet to load them. But I looked through the comments and did not see a Fauna Shaman mentioned. The card is Survival of the Fittest on a body. The player either answers the creature or you essentially get to search for a creature that you want while putting a more expensive/useless creature in the graveyard until you feel like playing it.

Also, I really do think that Mulch and cards of that type are extremely useful in Karador. Best case Karador becomes a 3 drop by turn 3 or 4, and worse case you have a creature in there for later use.

Along the same lines, I believe Animate Dead is a really good option here. Leads to really good turn two combos. Like Animate Dead + Entomb .

(Sorry if none of these went through. This is my first time using the system.