MTG Salvation

Infinite damage kill with Walking ballista and Triskellion.
Enlightened tutor grabs both parts of the combo

Gain infinite life with spike feeder....

semi-playable in mono white.

Think this is basically an auto-include for me.

Don’t forget persist combo enabler with Kitchen Finks!!! Slam dunk for my list. May even get me to Add Trisk back!

This is lots of fun and gives white a combo deck. I've got several white cards on the block: Reveillark, Kor Skyfisher, maybe Gideon Jura. Lots of stuff my drafters have no interest in, and I like testing new cards out, especially when they enable new decks.

With my heavier focus shifting to combo, this card will be going in alongside a couple of other cards that it can go infinite with. Looking forward to it!

Works off multiple cards and plays nice in multiple archetypes, and the art is just banging.

Will be finding a place for it somewhere, somehow.

I actually came here to rant about how we again don't get an interesting white card - turns out I was wrong

Probably won't play it, since I don't really have experience with combo-archetypes and I can't expand my Cube beyond 540 since I'm mostly playing 1v1 or 4-player pods, but nice to see some action going on for the rest of you

Enables a few 2 card combos and good if you have the “Ajani’s Pridemate” gain life archtype. Also good with whip of Erebos (hmmm.. wrong weapon though).

In a regular cube where white is weenie aggro, control, or maybe bkink, he will not contribute. So it’s a pass for me.

I wonder if it’s worth including heliod in your cube if you ONLY have say walking ballista + triskellion?

walking ballista is such a powerful interaction (turn 4 kill w/o acceleration) id be tempted to say yes.

the downside of that is , you probably can’t justify draftinn heliod until you already have a combo piece. Whereas with more support you can maybe justify building around heliod itself.

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I wonder if it’s worth including heliod in your cube if you ONLY have say walking ballista + triskellion?

walking ballista is such a powerful interaction (turn 4 kill w/o acceleration) id be tempted to say yes.

the downside of that is , you probably can’t justify draftinn heliod until you already have a combo piece. Whereas with more support you can maybe justify building around heliod itself.

it’s not a turn 4 kill without acceleration because ballista dies when heliods trigger is on the stack unless ballista has a second counter. I guess it’s a turn 4 kill if you play ballista in turn 2 and can attack with it unblocked, but that seems unlikely.

Unless I’m missing some interaction, which is entirely possible.

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Quote from LucidVision »

I wonder if it’s worth including heliod in your cube if you ONLY have say walking ballista + triskellion?

walking ballista is such a powerful interaction (turn 4 kill w/o acceleration) id be tempted to say yes.

the downside of that is , you probably can’t justify draftinn heliod until you already have a combo piece. Whereas with more support you can maybe justify building around heliod itself.

it’s not a turn 4 kill without acceleration because ballista dies when heliods trigger is on the stack unless ballista has a second counter. I guess it’s a turn 4 kill if you play ballista in turn 2 and can attack with it unblocked, but that seems unlikely.

Unless I’m missing some interaction, which is entirely possible.

"I guess it’s a turn 4 kill if you play ballista in turn 2 and can attack with it unblocked, but that seems unlikely."

I'm going to pretend this is what I meant instead of the reality that I didn't think through the interaction well enough when I said turn 4 kill.

It can also be a turn 4 kill if you have a turn 1 creature, turn 2 Ballista, turn 3 Heliod, and on turn 4 you give both creatures lifelink and chump attack with the 1 drop. Still a bit of a best case scenario.