Ink Treader Nephilim
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Posted on March 18, 2014, 8:55 a.m. by riddler89
Working on building myself a very casual, for fun commander deck based on Ink-Treader Nephilim (yes, I know he is not a legal commander). Unfortunately my grasp of older instants and sorceries that would produce amazing effects with Ink-Treader is decidedly lacking. So here is the deck, any and all suggestions appreciated.
Ink-Treader says no spot removal for you Playtest
Commander / EDH*
SCORE: 0 | 0 COMMENTS | 1 VIEWSI have an Ink-Treader deck, Treading Ink, and based on my experience: Run a lot of Goodstuff creatures in your colors. There's two good ways to win with Ink-Treader, one is to target him with an Act of Treason type effect, and the other is to us something like Distortion Strike . Either make all the creatures yours, or make all your creatures unblockable. I also would say to load up on some enchantment and artifact removal because enemy creatures getting Shroud or Hexproof shuts the fun of Ink-Treader down.
Heroic won't trigger off of Ink-Treader, and two instants is far too few spells to make Ink-Treader work.
March 18, 2014 10:50 a.m.
The 2 instants are just because I was blanking on what else to add at the moment. And why wouldn't heroic trigger? they are each being targeted by a copy of a spell.
March 18, 2014 11:17 a.m.
Because you are not casting the copies of the spell, they are simply being put on the stack. The wording of Heroic specifically says that the spell must be cast targeting the Heroic creature.
Ohthenoises says... #2
Act of Treason effects steal the board.
Rite of Replication woohoo fun times.
Check his gatherer discussion to see more.
March 18, 2014 9:24 a.m.