I've never actually played Tiny Leaders, but this is a concept I thought may be worth exploring.
Strategy:
*Get a bunch of cmc-0 creatures into my graveyard, by way of chumping (Ornithopter), playing for 0 (Endless One), or Dredging them away.
*Use Winding Constrictor or Hardened Scales with Varolz to Scavenge at a rate of 2 or 3 +1/+1 counters for 0.
*Give Varolz some bling and swing
Strategy:
*Get a bunch of cmc-0 creatures into my graveyard, by way of chumping (Ornithopter), playing for 0 (Endless One), or Dredging them away.
*Use Winding Constrictor or Hardened Scales with Varolz to Scavenge at a rate of 2 or 3 +1/+1 counters for 0.
I don't think this would actually work. From Varolz:
Each creature card in your graveyard has scavenge. The scavenge cost is equal to its mana cost. (Exile a creature card from your graveyard and pay its mana cost: Put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to that card's power on target creature. Scavenge only as a sorcery.)
OK. So if we take Ornithopter, the mana cost is 0 and the card's power is 0. So with Varolz alone, you're paying 0 to exile Ornithopter and putting 0 counters on Varolz. Now what happens if we add Winding Constrictor to the mix?
If one or more counters would be put on an artifact or creature you control, that many plus one of each of those kinds of counters are put on that permanent instead.
If you would get one or more counters, you get that many plus one of each of those kinds of counters instead.
Ornithopter does not fullfil the condition of adding one or more counters, since it adds 0 counters... What about Hardened Scales?
If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.
Same problem. AFAIK, the plan does not work.
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I've never actually played Tiny Leaders, but this is a concept I thought may be worth exploring.
Strategy:
*Get a bunch of cmc-0 creatures into my graveyard, by way of chumping (Ornithopter), playing for 0 (Endless One), or Dredging them away.
*Use Winding Constrictor or Hardened Scales with Varolz to Scavenge at a rate of 2 or 3 +1/+1 counters for 0.
*Give Varolz some bling and swing
Card Choices: Mostly budget. I can't afford a Liliana of the Veil or Sylvan Library.
I don't think this would actually work. From Varolz:
OK. So if we take Ornithopter, the mana cost is 0 and the card's power is 0. So with Varolz alone, you're paying 0 to exile Ornithopter and putting 0 counters on Varolz. Now what happens if we add Winding Constrictor to the mix?
Ornithopter does not fullfil the condition of adding one or more counters, since it adds 0 counters... What about Hardened Scales?
Same problem. AFAIK, the plan does not work.
A series of seven articles using Magic to explore the very stuff of the Universe!
"At least for those who can play cards, their present incarnation is not quite wasted."
[Click here for the articles!]