At my pre release Gray Merchant of AsphodelGray Merchant of Asphodel was amazing. I went almost mono black with a bit of white for Spear of Heliod . The Merchants won me almost every single game draining on average 5-7 life. I went 5-0 undefeated thanks to the merchant.
The creature can't be Targeted by sources of the named quality. For example, Putrefy could not target something protected by black, green, instants, or whatever other qualities it happens to meet. This applies even if the creature didn't originally have protection, but gained it before the spell/effect resolved. If you tried to play Putrefy on an otherwise normal creature, and Bathe in Light was played in response to name green, the Putrefy would fizzle on resolution because its target is no longer legal. Keep in mind that this only applies for targeted spells/effects, which means it has to say "target" on it. If it doesn't target anything but just affects it, protection does nothing. Wrath of God is a common example of something that could get through "Protection from white", for example.
Im currently working on a R/W aggro deck and i was wondering if anyone had any feedback or ideas on what i should improve, granted im making the deck based on the cards i have on hand and so far heres the decklist.
I feel like it could have a really explosive finish with silverblade and hellkite, bonding with hellkite and going in for 10 damage without blockers seems really good. Vexing devil could do some early damage as a burn spell or if left on the field might become a 4/3 double striker which would be able to trade up with large creatures like titans.
The Legionnaires and Blade Splicers for a good defense in the early game possibly.
Anyway this is what i have so far i would love to hear input on what else to add
I had it in my deck at pre release and it won me maybe 3-4 games just because of how useful it was, once i hit 6 land i just discarded the land for life, and with crusader of Odric making the goats was very relevant.
My favorite match was where i was attacking with exalted rancor-ed goats for 5 damage each turn. And it definitely was great with primal clay. I wouldn't put it as a first pick, but it has a lot of decent uses.
Hey, I recently started playing magic in the last year or so, and dont have alot of knowledge about modern, but i really wanted to make either a mono black, or a black/*some other color* Heartless Summoning deck, right now its kinda sudo standard and uses Rune Scared Demon and Phyrexian Metamorph as the main win condition but i was wondering what other cards might be good in a deck like that, but in the large pool of cards that is modern.
(this is my first post so forgive me if the formatting isn't correct)
This is a deck idea i have had for a long time and i would love to make it but im not entirely sure what to put in it. I wanted to build it around being able to have access to all 5 colors and search my opponents library with praetor's grasp and to have access to five colors i wanted to play 4 birds of paradise and 4 Abundant Growth with some board swipers like black sun's zenith .
and maybe some lands can be creatures to give me some defense against their creatures.
Preferably low cost deck i have a couple birds, and some other cards i had ideas of putting in this deck, this is for casual play so formats dont matter much.
(not sure how to make the deck list thing so ill just type it out. These are cards im thinking about putting in but its not exactly a deck list)
1 Temple of Silence
10 Swamps
6 Plains
Creatures
1 Hopeful Eidolon
1 Asphodel Wanderer
1 Returned Phalanx
1 Baleful Eidolon
2 Observant Alseid
1 Blood-Toll Harpy
1 Scholar of Athreos
1 Insatiable Harpy
1 Erebos's Emissary
1 Disciple of Phenax
1 Heliod's Emissary
1 Sentry of the Underworld
3 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
1 Abhorrent Overlord
1 Ordeal of Erebos
1 Spear of Heliod
1 Whip of Erebos
1 Lash of the Whip
1 Vanquish the Foul
I feel like it could have a really explosive finish with silverblade and hellkite, bonding with hellkite and going in for 10 damage without blockers seems really good. Vexing devil could do some early damage as a burn spell or if left on the field might become a 4/3 double striker which would be able to trade up with large creatures like titans.
The Legionnaires and Blade Splicers for a good defense in the early game possibly.
Anyway this is what i have so far i would love to hear input on what else to add
My favorite match was where i was attacking with exalted rancor-ed goats for 5 damage each turn. And it definitely was great with primal clay. I wouldn't put it as a first pick, but it has a lot of decent uses.
This is a deck idea i have had for a long time and i would love to make it but im not entirely sure what to put in it. I wanted to build it around being able to have access to all 5 colors and search my opponents library with praetor's grasp and to have access to five colors i wanted to play 4 birds of paradise and 4 Abundant Growth with some board swipers like black sun's zenith .
and maybe some lands can be creatures to give me some defense against their creatures.
Preferably low cost deck i have a couple birds, and some other cards i had ideas of putting in this deck, this is for casual play so formats dont matter much.
(not sure how to make the deck list thing so ill just type it out. These are cards im thinking about putting in but its not exactly a deck list)
LANDS
Dryad Arbor x4 (have 4)
Treetop Village x4 (have 4)
Woodland Cemetery (have 2)
vesuva (have 1)
For these lands i was thinking that because i can sacrifice them for multiple different color mana to play the spells i exile from my opponents deck.
Timberland Ruins (have 3)
Sulfur Vent (have 2)
Tinder Farm (have 1)
CREATURES
Birds of Paradise (have 2 or 3)
Fiend of Shadows (have one)
I dont know what other creatures to put at this point, i started playing magic a year ago so my knowledge of older cards is somewhat limited.
SPELLS
praetor's grasp (have 2, need 4)
Abundant Growth (have 4)
Sever the Bloodline (have one)
Realms Uncharted (have 1
sadistic sacrament (have 1
Thats what i have so far, i think it would be a fun quirky deck so help figuring it out would be really awesome