hoardofnotions says... #2
target Daru Spiritualist with Shaman en-Kor's ability infinite times to boost it's toughness to infinite then sac it to Miren, the Moaning Well/Diamond Valley. With infinte life, draw deck with Ad Nauseam and shot everyone with Aetherflux Reservoir. lol Not complicated at all right?
November 17, 2017 11:16 p.m.
Well, you can target Shaman with its own ability to get the triggers from Daru, or you could use Lightning Greaves to equip and unequip itself from Daru/Shaman, though you require another creature in play.
You could also sac the boosted creature to Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim, or Disciple of Griselbrand, you could also attack with the creature to kill a player and using Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper to gain life from that. You can then pour that into Aetherflux, Kuro, Pitlord, or Ad Nauseam
November 17, 2017 11:54 p.m. Edited.
bushido_man96 says... #4
If my count is right, it looks like you only have 5 cleric creatures. Is it worth it to run Daru Spiritualist? I don't think the effect is really that great, just looking at it from here, unless its just a super sweet card for you when you play it. Another mana fixer like Kodama's Reach might serve the slot in the deck better? It just seems like it wouldn't offer you much.
November 19, 2017 10:22 p.m.
bushido_man96, did you look at the primer or at the deck categories?
Daru Spiritualist is an infinite combo piece, you can make it's power 1/ (Though, legally speaking, it can't be infinite cause magic rules make me choose an actual number) by either using Shaman en-Kor's ability, targetting itself/Daru/any other Cleric or by using lightning greaves and unequipping and re-equipping it infinity times (though you require another creature). Once its all powerful, you can either swing with it if you know it won't be blocked or sacrifice it to a sac & lifegain outlet (Like Ayli, Diamond Valley, etc) then spend that life on Aetherflux Reservoir, Kuro, Pitlord, or Ad Nauseam. I'm sorry if I sounded a tad bit, or to any extent, rude.
As for Kodama's Reach, I honestly prefer creature ramp over card ramp like that. I do run Crop Rotation and Skyshroud Claim because they can fetch a wide variety of lands, while Reach/Cultivate only fetch basics and don't provide much acceleration. The reason I prefer creature ramp is that I can recur them using Reclamation or Witness, or pitch them to Survival and fetch a better card.
November 20, 2017 12:44 a.m.
bushido_man96 says... #6
I had not looked at that, so that's my bad there. Thanks for the explanation.
November 20, 2017 11:48 a.m.
Okay, so fair warning, I haven't looked through every past version of your list, so some of these may be cards you've already considered, but I wanted to take a broad approach and hope to give you some stuff you've never seen before.
Angelic Wall Avatar of Hope City of Solitude Cloudthresher Condemn Conqueror's Galleon Flip Dazzling Ramparts Deathless Angel Doomgape Eater of Days Elderscale Wurm Engulfing Slagwurm Erebos, God of the Dead Giant Adephage Grave Sifter Gutter Grime Hunted Horror Jareth, Leonine Titan Karametra, God of Harvests Kin-Tree Invocation Luminate Primordial Palisade Giant Pelakka Wurm Platinum Emperion Primal Command Scaled Behemoth Solar Tide Sunscape Familiar Sylvan Primordial Terastodon Terra Stomper Vengeful Archon Voice of Resurgence Wall of Hope Wall of Junk Wall of Nets Windbrisk Raptor
November 24, 2017 9:08 p.m.
PlattBonnay says... #8
Disowned Ancestor seems underwhelming. Sure its a 4/4 for 1, but its mostly a vanilla dude. Necropotence feels like a pretty big miss in a black deck that appears to have no problem achieving BBB early.
November 26, 2017 11:08 a.m.
itsmekidney says... #9
Finally a deck within my budget! Have you considered adding some better manna gain? I think Black Lotus could go a long way here.
VamosAComer says... #1
Dumb question, where is the infinite?
November 17, 2017 6:34 p.m.