Hapatra, Stax of Snakes
Commander / EDH
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April 12, 2017
I got to do some testing with the deck last night. Played against (my) Animar, Soul of Elements Yisan, Wanderer Bard and Zur the Enchanter *f-etch*.
The deck started out so well but draws a lot of hate when you start dropping the minus counters on opponents dorks or animar haha.
I'm going to look at adding some graveyard recursion. People were hitting my lands and artifacts which put me back a lot. Any ideas welcomed.
I'd missed the token interaction. I'd typically prefer the deathtoucher, but cheating out a big thing early is definitely good. As for a big thing to cheat out, Zendikar Resurgent can act as somewhat of a wincon, in the same vane as Elemental Bond. It's advantage is of course the mana doubling, which is even better if you can get it out a few turns early and not have to worry about mana later. The problem with both is that the card draw is required, which could result in having to play out (and lose) games where you assemble the combo. Garruk's Packleader has the advantage that the draw is optional, so your mana isn't limited to the cards in your deck. It's big drawback is being a higher cost than Elemental Bond for the same effect, and being easier to kill.
Winterblast says... #1
ah, yes Mikaeus gives +1/+1, that won't work then...still, with Triskelion it's possible and much easier than a four card combo that "only" produces tokens. It depends on your opponents, but I don't think anything with more than 2 or 3 cards involved can be pulled off frequently in the same meta...we have a hermit druid deck here and apart from a tournament (with 1 vs 1 games obviously) it hasn't worked more than once or twice because everyone knows what the essential parts are and one of these is always disabled (unless someone makes a severe mistake and removes a card that prevents a combo from going off).
April 11, 2017 3:27 a.m.