Commander Concept: Yakamaza, Deceptive Oni
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Posted on April 5, 2015, 11:38 p.m. by KalvinHobbez
Haven't posted here in a while, but I might as well show this concept I had gotten. My most fun ideas are always in the colors I don't like to play...
So I wanted to make a Kamigawa card, so this originally would have had a legitimate japanese name. But I just kind of gave up on that. Been told "Oni" refers to more so big giants and stuff so thats even wrong. Either way the Kamigawa part is the influence of having multiple legendary creatures as one design of her would simply state "The legend rule does not apply".
In the original concept I wanted a card in blue colors to have representation of blue creature copy tokens, like Rite of Replication and Cackling Counterpart. Yet this left it limited to only tokens when there were creature clones more often, like Phantasmal Image and, well, Clone. Eventually I came to this little conclusion of a card that is kind of a mix in inspiration of Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite, Relentless Rats, and taking into account the way black and red have made clones like Evil Twin and Splinter Twin
So yeah this is a card that I find interesting yet simple, but with stuff like Relentless Rats she can get scary, thus I had her a pretty high cost to make up for any standard decks wanting to speed run her into their win condition. Thoughts?
KalvinHobbez says... #3
I'm tempted to buff her mana cost a bit more or just make her have +1/+1 instead of +2/+2 and vice versa. I personally do find her to have a very annoying deck style seeing the craziness of Splintertwin and Rat decks in the past, and don't even get me started on Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker... But yeah I wanted to try a token styled commander outside of green and white just to experiment, but they have colors for a reason so I gave it a more homely style of Grixis in wording. Still tempted to tack onto the end "The legend rule does not apply" just to see how crazy the deck could get.
April 6, 2015 12:13 a.m.
You really need to fix the wording. As it currently is, all creatures your opponents control would automatically get -2/-2 and yours would get +2/+2 before anything else with a same name is in play. It's Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite. lol
It should read "each OTHER creature that shares a name with it."
Still, though, I think it's too powerful. Any sort of tokens strategy just breaks it.
April 6, 2015 1:39 a.m.
KalvinHobbez says... #5
Well I stated that Elesh Norn was inspiration on the concept, and yeah its supposed to be that the original creature will be effected. Thus why you might want to use a Clone to kill off an opponent creature. I probably will make her just have +1/+1 and -1/-1 and keep her mana cost, but with tokens I'm not sure if tokens have a name unless specified, like Sliversmith.
April 6, 2015 1:42 a.m.
Tokens have names; it's whatever creature type it is unless otherwise specified. Bile Blight will kill all generic 1/1 Goblin creature tokens on the board.
April 6, 2015 1:45 a.m.
KalvinHobbez says... #7
I guess I can state her ability as nontoken then, to urge the use of cloning instead of just token hate. I also noticed this is a commander for people who hate Riku of Two Reflections EDH decks :3
April 6, 2015 1:50 a.m.
FAMOUSWATERMELON says... #8
Yeah, token overkill alert. But besides that its a great idea. Though if you do take off tokens, she won't be of any use in edh...
April 6, 2015 8:34 a.m.
KalvinHobbez says... #9
Her concept is to utilize cloning. Like Evil Twin a creature an opponent controls, or Clone a priority creature you have.
April 6, 2015 3:43 p.m.
DERPLINGSUPREME says... #10
MAKE HER COST 15 AND GIVE IT FOR EACH!!! yeah! AMERICA! FOOTBALL! WHOO!
SCALLIES ARE FURRIES TOO!
April 6, 2015 6:59 p.m.
KalvinHobbez says... #11
Dunno what the hell is goin on with that but alright then. I just wanted to show card concepts and have a good time and I'm feeling so attacked right now D:
April 6, 2015 9:54 p.m.
DERPLINGSUPREME says... #12
I wanst trying to attack you!
That'd be pointless anyway, you control a Blazing Archon.
April 6, 2015 9:56 p.m.
KalvinHobbez says... #13
What was with the comment anyways? I'm confused how it was relevant o~o
April 6, 2015 9:57 p.m.
DERPLINGSUPREME says... #14
backs away slowly
turns around
looks back at you
runs away
April 6, 2015 9:58 p.m.
KalvinHobbez says... #15
Uh, alright, don't know if thats a joke or somethin but okay.
Anyways, what do you guys think of her having the "legend rule does not apply" thing? I know there was that one card that actually did it but I heard the legend rule changed or something?
DERPLINGSUPREME says... #2
seems REALLZY strong. It'd b better were ut also in green, but it wouldnt fit the theme. I like it!
April 5, 2015 11:58 p.m.