MTG Combo: Fiend Hunter + Karmic Guide

iplayBANJO on Elenda - Life After Death

3 years ago

A bit of a long comment for you to chew some ideas over. I'm just going to throw out some cards that work for the aristocrats strategy that I think the commander would work well with. Then I'll give you some combos that could work here. Most of the combos rely heavily on white cards, so I think they are all pretty cheap. I'm sure there's a lot more that you could use, but these are the ones that come to my mind.

Aristocrat Mana Producers

Pitiless Plunderer , Sifter of Skulls , Nether Traitor , Pawn of Ulamog

Recursion

Reveillark , Karmic Guide , Sun Titan , Gift of Immortality , Angelic Renewal , Luminous Broodmoth , Mikaeus, the Unhallowed , Sorin, Vengeful Bloodlord , Nim Deathmantle

Self-Recursive Creatures

Reassembling Skeleton , Bloodsoaked Champion , Oathsworn Vampire

Free Sacrifice Outlets

Ashnod's Altar , Phyrexian Altar , Altar of Dementia , Blasting Station , Viscera Seer , Bloodthrone Vampire , Carrion Feeder , Spawning Pit , Bloodflow Connoisseur Vish Kal, Blood Arbiter

Aristocrat Payoffs

Blood Artist , Cruel Celebrant , Falkenrath Noble , Zulaport Cutthroat

Vampires

I'm sure these fit into combos, but I'll leave them to you to evaluate.
Marauding Blight-Priest , Famished Paladin Epicure of Blood Defiant Bloodlord Cliffhaven Vampire Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose

Combos with a free sacrifice outlet

Karmic Guide + Reveillark : Karmic Guide can return Reveillark to the battlefield. Sacrifice Karmic Guide, then Reveillark. Reveillark's death trigger returns Karmic Guide to the battlefield. Karmic Guide's ETB (enters the battlefield) trigger can return Reveillark to the battlefield. Repeat forever. Reveillark can also return another small creature to the battlefield in addition to Karmic Guide.
Gift of Immortality + Sun Titan : Enchant Sun Titan with Gift of Immortality. Sacrifice Sun Titan. Gift of Immortality returns Sun Titan to the battlefield. Sun Titan's ETB trigger returns Gift of Immortality to the battlefield, attached to Sun Titan. Repeat forever.
Kaya's Ghostform + Sun Titan : Same as Gift of Immortality combo above.
Angelic Renewal + Sun Titan : Same as above.
Fiend Hunter + Sun Titan : Exile Sun Titan with Fiend Hunter's ETB. Sacrifice Fiend Hunter to return Sun Titan to the battlefield. Return Fiend Hunter to the battlefield with Sun Titan's ETB. Exile Sun Titan with Fiend Hunter's ETB. Repeat forever.
Fiend Hunter + Karmic Guide : Same as Sun Titan combo above.

Leonin Relic-Warder combos

Animate Dead + Leonin Relic-Warder : Start with Leonin Relic-Warder in your graveyard. Play Animate Dead to bring Leonin-Relic Warder back from your graveyard. Exile Animate Dead with Leonin Relic-Warder's ETB. Leonin Relic-Warder dies to Animate Dead leaving the battlefield. Animate Dead returns to the battlefield targeting Leonin-Relic Warder. Exile Animate Dead with Leonin-Relic Warder's ETB. Repeat forever.
Dance of the Dead + Leonin Relic-Warder : Same as above.
Leonin Relic-Warder + Necromancy : Same as above.

Infinite Sacrifice Fodder

Divine Visitation + Requiem Angel : Sacrificing a creature will trigger Requiem Angel to create a 1/1 Spirit Token. Divine Visitation causes that to instead be a 4/4 Angel Token, which can be sarificed to trigger Requiem Angel to create another 1/1 spirit that comes into play as a 4/4 Angel.
Bishop of Wings + Divine Visitation : Same as above, but you also gain 4 life each time.

Matrixxx999 on

7 years ago

Ok, I hope my recommendations will be helfull to You:

• First of all, how many times You felt that Isochron Scepter is a dead draw? Cuz I see only four targets for that card, considering that You dont have any tutors like Fabricate and Merchant Scroll, I reccomend to increase the amount of Instants for Scepter (which is pretty hard I think), to add a LOT of tutors, or just to get rid of Scepter and put something more versatile and useful.
• I like Your combos with Solemnity, this card is realy interesting. The only thing that comes to my mind for this card is Dark Depths. HEY, stop! I just realized that Solemnity + Lost Auramancers = Decree of Silence + Solemnity on the battlefield. Damn, this card is interesting!
• I see that You have Blasting Station and Sun Titan, so all You need is to add Fiend Hunter and Karmic Guide. Blasting Station with Fiend Hunter + Karmic Guide , Fiend Hunter + Sun Titan - deals infinite damage to all opponents.
• Intruder Alarm + Presence of Gond - I hope You know tat this combination will work with ALL creatures (opponents too), it is not so bad, but in some situations and decks it can create disadvantage.
• Another good cards for bringing big enchantmets to the battlefield is Academy Rector.

Hope it will help to You in Your deckbuildeng. Later maybe I will look through Your deck more closely.

Matrixxx999 on Somebody Stop Me! v. 2.0

8 years ago

Thanks!

Here are the reasons why I use Fiend Hunter in this deck:

• It can be used in combinations to obtain infinite mana: Fiend Hunter + Karmic Guide + Phyrexian Altar - infinite mana / Fiend Hunter + Phyrexian Altar + Reveillark - infinite mana, you can add any creature with power - 2 or less to extend this combo / Fiend Hunter + Phyrexian Altar + Sun Titan - infinite mana
• It can be used in combinations to kill all opponents with Blasting Station: Fiend Hunter + Karmic Guide , Fiend Hunter + Reveillark , Fiend Hunter + Sun Titan
• It can be used with Flash to permanently exile target creature (you must place triggers on the stack in the correct order)
• It can be used to reuse ETB triggers of creatures (Gilded Drake etc.)
• It can be reanimated with Reveillark, and to transition in one of the combinations
• It is just a good removal tool by it self

rockmsockmhobo on blooooofjah

8 years ago

Some more combos that would work in this deck:

COMBO 1

One of the most important aspects to this deck is redundancy. The fact that so many cards in here can substitute for one another makes the deck very resilient.

A classic combo is Blasting Station + Karmic Guide + Reveillark

Step 1: Sacrifice Karmic Guide to Blasting Station. Deal one damage.

Step 2: Sacrifice Reveillark to Blasting Station. When Reveillark leaves the battlefield, it returns Karmic Guide to the battlefield.

Step 3: Stack your triggers so Blasting Station untaps before Karmic Guide's ETB trigger resolves. This is important.

Step 4: Respond to Karmic Guide's ETB trigger by sacrificing it to Blasting Station. The ETB trigger then resolves, bringing Reveillark back to the battlefield, untapping Blasting Station.

Step 5: Restart the combo all over again and machine gun your opponents to death.

Consistency is achieved through redundancy.

Saffi Eriksdotter can replace Karmic Guide or Reveillark in the above combo.

Saffi Eriksdotter + Sun Titan achieves the same effect.

Fiend Hunter + Sun Titan achieves the same effect.

Fiend Hunter + Karmic Guide achieves the same effect.

COMBO 2

Step 1: Get Boonweaver Giant into play, whether by casting it, reanimating it.Once the Giant enters the battlefield, you fetch Pattern of Rebirth.

Step 2: Sacrifice Boonweaver Giant through one of the many available sac outlets in this deck. Pattern of Rebirth's trigger goes onto the stack and you fetch Karmic Guide, reanimating Boonweaver, which in turn reanimates Pattern of Rebirth.

Step 3: Sac Boonweaver again, this time fetching Fiend Hunter to exile Karmic Guide.

Note: Depending on which sac outlet you have, Fiend Hunter and Karmic Guide automatically win (using Blasting Station). If you don't, move on to step 4.

Step 4: Sac Fiend Hunter bringing Karmic Guide back, reanimating Boonweaver Giant. Sac Karmic Guide, then Boonweaver and fetch Reveillark.

Step 5: Sacrifice Reveillark to reanimate Karmic Guide and Fiend Hunter. Karmic Guide reanimates Boonweaver Giant and Fiend Hunter then exiles Karmic Guide.

You now have a loop that lets you search your library for every creature and put them onto the battlefield.