But there wasn't anything else to the deck. I'm interested in putting this together, but don't know where to start. I do know I'll need to produce a number of colors of mana and possibly cheat out the cards above with the highest CMC. Any suggestions? The group I play with allows ANY cards that aren't silver-bordered.
That said, you might as well go five color. And run either a Good Stuff or a Fun Stuff build.
My preference runs to good lands and a lot of card draw.
Extra mana (fixing) helps, some endurance (pillow fort, life gain, or whatever) as well.
And maybe some control and sweepers.
Are you looking for more specific advice? Or does this help enough?
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My meta: 3 or 4 player free for all, anything goes but boring games or broken decks cause a vote to end that game.
You aren’t wrong, but in this anything-goes format we play, the decks get pretty aggressive. I appreciate you replying to this. And yeah, any additional concrete advice you’ve got, I’ll take it.
Alternatively I would build a Mass Polymorph deck to assemble your rag-tag group of friends and abuse things like Brainstorm and See Beyond to hide the stuff that you draw. Otherwise you play token generators like Sylvan Offering to create random bodies and then Synthetic Destiny for the win. You can't do it at EOT but you can do it on the second mainphase of the opponent who acts prior to you which means that unless they have a Wrath of God you can functionally grant your team haste.
How does Oko fit into this? (Other than being a generically good card.)
Oko, among all of the other good things that he already does, is a creature producer for Oath of Druids. It, alongside Exotic Orchard, ensures that at least one opponent will inevitably have a big enough board to continually cheat new threats into play. Fantastic card in Oath decks :).
It seems like combining Myriad with Populate is more feasible. Populating the Hydra Omnivore token, for example, could be brutal. Got any favorite cards that would
complement those mechanics?
It seems like combining Myriad with Populate is more feasible. Populating the Hydra Omnivore token, for example, could be brutal. Got any favorite cards that would complement those mechanics?
You're trying way too hard. If you attach a Blade of Selves to a Hydra Omnivore and swing for eleventy trillion damage that's typically enough to end the game.
I’m talking about cutting Saskia the Unyielding; Gisela, Blade of Goldnight; and Odric, Master Tactician. So just running the Blade and the Hydra with populate mixed in. It would probably be a white and green deck.
The Hydra is an 8/8. If you copy it twice that's already 24 damage. Why would you need to populate the tokens if the A + B combo already clears the table? My point is that you're trying way to hard to create some needlessly convoluted win-more combo when you can simply put Blade of Selves on cards like Inferno Titan and Hydra Omnivore and attack for the win. It doesn't have to be any more complicated than that.
Blade of Selves is THE card to build around, not Hydra Omnivore.
I tried to make Hydra Omnivore(and other cards like it) into brutal multiplayer creations.
It mostly doesn't work though, cos your opponents only need to see that trick once, and it's generally slow to assemble.
I don't think I ever connected for lethal damage with that deck, someone would always see it coming and stop it.
These days, I simply pop Blade of Selves into decks where all my creatures have decent *enters the battlefield* triggers.
Think Burglar Rat & Gray Merchant of Asphodel for example, they get utterly ridiculous when you trigger them 4+ times. Blade of Selves is genuinely a card that will have the whole table gunning for me if I play it... for good reason!
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Blade of Selves
Hydra Omnivore
Saskia the Unyielding
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Odric, Master Tactician
But there wasn't anything else to the deck. I'm interested in putting this together, but don't know where to start. I do know I'll need to produce a number of colors of mana and possibly cheat out the cards above with the highest CMC. Any suggestions? The group I play with allows ANY cards that aren't silver-bordered.
That said, you might as well go five color. And run either a Good Stuff or a Fun Stuff build.
My preference runs to good lands and a lot of card draw.
Extra mana (fixing) helps, some endurance (pillow fort, life gain, or whatever) as well.
And maybe some control and sweepers.
Are you looking for more specific advice? Or does this help enough?
My meta: 3 or 4 player free for all, anything goes but boring games or broken decks cause a vote to end that game.
You aren’t wrong, but in this anything-goes format we play, the decks get pretty aggressive. I appreciate you replying to this. And yeah, any additional concrete advice you’ve got, I’ll take it.
Alternatively I would build a Mass Polymorph deck to assemble your rag-tag group of friends and abuse things like Brainstorm and See Beyond to hide the stuff that you draw. Otherwise you play token generators like Sylvan Offering to create random bodies and then Synthetic Destiny for the win. You can't do it at EOT but you can do it on the second mainphase of the opponent who acts prior to you which means that unless they have a Wrath of God you can functionally grant your team haste.
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Green - Blue - Red - White - Gold
Oko, among all of the other good things that he already does, is a creature producer for Oath of Druids. It, alongside Exotic Orchard, ensures that at least one opponent will inevitably have a big enough board to continually cheat new threats into play. Fantastic card in Oath decks :).
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Green - Blue - Red - White - Gold
complement those mechanics?
You're trying way too hard. If you attach a Blade of Selves to a Hydra Omnivore and swing for eleventy trillion damage that's typically enough to end the game.
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Green - Blue - Red - White - Gold
The Hydra is an 8/8. If you copy it twice that's already 24 damage. Why would you need to populate the tokens if the A + B combo already clears the table? My point is that you're trying way to hard to create some needlessly convoluted win-more combo when you can simply put Blade of Selves on cards like Inferno Titan and Hydra Omnivore and attack for the win. It doesn't have to be any more complicated than that.
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Green - Blue - Red - White - Gold
I tried to make Hydra Omnivore (and other cards like it) into brutal multiplayer creations.
It mostly doesn't work though, cos your opponents only need to see that trick once, and it's generally slow to assemble.
I don't think I ever connected for lethal damage with that deck, someone would always see it coming and stop it.
These days, I simply pop Blade of Selves into decks where all my creatures have decent *enters the battlefield* triggers.
Think Burglar Rat & Gray Merchant of Asphodel for example, they get utterly ridiculous when you trigger them 4+ times.
Blade of Selves is genuinely a card that will have the whole table gunning for me if I play it... for good reason!