I like this card except for one thing: the double negative in its text is confusing.
Wouldn't saying "Whenever Kroxa enters the battlefield or attacks, each opponent discards a card, then each opponent who discarded a land card this way loses 3 life." be A LOT simpler and less confusing?
For those not familiar with the Prime Speaker Vannifar combo it goes like this:
Prime Speaker Vannifar on the battlefield not summoning sick + any one drop on the battlefield.
Step 1: Sac the one drop to Vannifar getting Corridor Monitor.
Step 2: Have Corridor Monitor untap Vannifar.
Step 3: Sac the Corridor Monitor to Vannifar getting Renegade Rallier.
Step 4: Use Renegade Rallier ETB trigger to return Corridor Monitor to the battlefield.
Step 5: Have Corridor Monitor untap Vannifar.
Step 6: Sac the Renegade Rallier to the Vannifar getting Felidar Guardian.
Step 7: Felidar Guardian ETB targets Corridor Monitor, blinking it.
Step 8: Have Corridor Monitor untap Vannifar.
Step 9: Sac Felidar Guardian to Vannifar getting Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker.
Step 10: Have Kiki-Jiki make 1000 hasty Corridor Monitors.
Step 11: Attack.
This deck has lots of synergies.
I've seen a few Vannifar combo decks use Rhythm of the Wild to give Vannifar haste and go off the same turn she gets played, but I had a better idea. Saheeli Rai. Saheeli can create a copy of Vannifar the turn it gets played and then u keep the copy due to the legendary rule, effectively giving it haste. This opens up including Copy Cat combo as an alternate win con as Felidar Guardian is already part of the Vannifar combo.
Neoform is faster than Chord of Calling if you have access to one extra land thanks to the single copy of Snapcaster Mage. Meaning you can Skill Borrower combo on turn 3 more often if you have a Skill Borrower, a Mana Dork and 3 lands in play.
Saheeli Rai works really well with any two of Neoform and/or Eldritch Evolution combination on turn 3 if you have a mana dork in play, a sac land in your graveyard and 3 lands. Consider the following plays:
1. T1 Sac Land, Mana Dork
T2 Land, Saheeli Rai, Scry 1
T3 Land, Saheeli makes copy of Mana Dork, Sac Mana Dork copy to Eldritch Evolution to get Renegade Rallier, Rallier returns sac land, Neoform or Eldritch Evolution the Rallier into a Felidar Guardian and Copy Cat combo them to death.
2. T1 Sac Land, Mana Dork
T2 Land, Saheeli Rai, Scry 1
T3 Land, Saheeli makes copy of Mana Dork, Sac Mana Dork copy to Neoform to get Snapcaster Mage, Snapcaster targets the Neoform, Neoform the Snapcaster into a Renegade Rallier, Rallier returns sac land, Neoform the Rallier into Felidar Guardian and Copy Cat combo them to death.
So I was attempting to break Eldritch Evolution by looking at what the best targets when sacrificing a mana dork were when I discovered a three card turn 3 combo and build a deck around it.
Turn 3 Combo goes like this:
T1 - Land, Birds of Paradise OR Noble Hierarch
T2 - Land, Skill Borrower
T3 - Boggart Harbinger OR Eldritch Evolution sacrificing mana dork to get Boggart Harbinger.
---- Harbinger ETB trigger puts Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker on top of library. Skill Borrower uses Kiki-Jiki ability to
---- target itself creating a Skill Borrower token. Tokens repeatedly target themselves until you have 1000 tokens. Last Skill Borrower
---- token uses Kiki-Jiki ability but instead targets the Boggart Harbinger. Boggart Harbinger token ETB effect puts Mogg Fanatic
---- on top of library and then you sacrifice each Skill Borrower token with the Mogg Fanatic ability to kill your opponent.
I incorporated the combo into the Devoted Druid / Vizier of Remedies combo package as Skill Borrower can act as Devoted Druid 5-8 if it is on
top of your library.
There are a TONNE of ways to win turn 3 with this deck as the combos are very synergistic. I added a singleton Deceiver Exarch as a way
to win with a Kitchen Finks and 2 Eldritch Evolutions in a pinch.
Obviously if the combo only works if Kiki-Jiki and Mogg Fanatic are in your library so if you draw them you'll need to pivot to one of the other combo
kills.
With Skill Borrower on the battlefield and not summoning sick play Boggart Harbinger. Use ETB trigger to put Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker on top of your library. Skill Borrower uses Kiki's ability to target itself creating token and tokens do the same. After you've made like 30 tokens the last token created targets the Boggart Harbinger and then the ETB trigger puts Mogg Fanatic on top of the library. Sacrifice Skill Borrower tokens to deal damage to opponent.
My pick for sleeper of the set is Insult//Injury. Seems crazy powerful in an aggro beatdown deck acting as a non-trample overrun and in a grapeshot storm deck.
Repeatable Burrenton Forge-Tender, Hope of Ghirapur, Kami of False Hope, Martyr of Sands, Mausoleum Wanderer, Sakura-Tribe Elder, Selfless Spirit seems strong.
Hope of Ghirapur + Teferi, Time Raveler + Lurrus of the Dream-Den = Non-creature lock
Also, as previously stated about this guy is a perfect match for Bogles as a 1-of in the sideboard.
Pay 2G or 2B, tap, sacrifice any creature: Get Corridor Monitor.
Untap Fiend Artisan.
Pay 3G or 3B, tap, sacrifice Corridor Monitor: Get Renegade Rallier.
Return Corridor Monitor from graveyard and untap Fiend Artisan.
Pay 5G or 5B, tap, sacrifice Renegade Rallier: Get Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker.
Use Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker's ability to make infite Corridor Monitors.
Maybe the less restricting color combo will make it playable.
Wouldn't saying "Whenever Kroxa enters the battlefield or attacks, each opponent discards a card, then each opponent who discarded a land card this way loses 3 life." be A LOT simpler and less confusing?
Why wizards, why?
WHOA! *bump*
This does the combo better than Skill Borrower. Something like this would be super fun:
4 Birds of Paradise
4 Noble Hierarch
Devoted Druid / Viser Combo
4 Devoted Druid
2 Vizier of Remedies
1 Rhonas the Indomitable
1 Duskwatch Recruiter
Skill Borrower / Conspicuous Snoop / Boggart Harbinger Combo
4 Skill Borrower
4 Conspicuous Snoop
2 Boggart Harbinger
2 Mogg Fanatic
2 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
1 Deceiver Exarch
4 Eldritch Evolution
4 Chord of Calling
Lands
1 Temple Garden
1 Overgrown Tomb
2 Steam Vents
2 Stomping Ground
3 Breeding Pool
4 Misty Rainforest
4 Wooded Foothills
1 Windswept Heath
2 Forest
1 Mountain
1 Island
Two card combo that is on tempo: T2 Conspicuous Snoop T3 Boggart Harbinger. GG
Or even if you remove green completely for a Grixis combo deck:
4 Scheming Symmetry
2 Skirk Prospector
4 Viscera Seer
4 Conspicuous Snoop
4 Corridor Monitor
4 Boggart Harbinger
4 Postmortem Lunge
2 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
4 Mortuary Mire
3 Polluted Delta
4 Bloodstained Mire
3 Scalding Tarn
3 Blood Crypt
3 Mountain
2 Island
2 Steam Vents
This deck has a LOT of synergies:
1. T2 Conspicuous Snoop + T3 Boggart Harbinger = T3 Combo Kill
2. T1 Skirk Prospector + T2 Conspicuous Snoop + T3 Scheming Symmetry + 1B Mana = T3 Combo Kill
3. T2 Conspicuous Snoop + T3 Scheming Symmetry + Scheming Symmetry = T3 Combo Kill
4. T2 Conspicuous Snoop + T3 Scheming Symmetry + Mogg Fanatic + Mortuary Mire = T3 Combo Kill
5. T2 Conspicuous Snoop + T3 Scheming Symmetry + Viscera Seer = T3 Combo Kill
6. T2 Conspicuous Snoop + T3 Scheming Symmetry + Corridor Monitor = T3 Combo Kill
It runs 4x Postmortem Lunge + 4x Mortuary Mire to rebuild after opponents interaction.
It also has cheap converted mana costs.
** October 10 2019 Update **
Been a while since I updated this idea.
I've been away from Magic for a while and just getting to know new cards.
Here is an updated list incorporating new cards like Prime Speaker Vannifar, Saheeli Rai, Felidar Guardian & Neoform.
4 Birds of Paradise
4 Noble Hierarch
Prime Speaker Vannifar Combo
4 Prime Speaker Vannifar
1 Renegade Rallier
1 Corridor Monitor
Skill Borrower / Boggart Harbinger Combo
4 Skill Borrower
1 Boggart Harbinger
1 Mogg Fanatic
2 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
1 Snapcaster Mage
4 Saheeli Rai
2 Felidar Guardian
Tutors and Utility
4 Eldritch Evolution
4 Neoform
Lands
1 Temple Garden
1 Overgrown Tomb
2 Steam Vents
2 Stomping Ground
3 Breeding Pool
4 Misty Rainforest
4 Wooded Foothills
1 Windswept Heath
2 Forest
1 Plains
1 Island
For those not familiar with the Prime Speaker Vannifar combo it goes like this:
Prime Speaker Vannifar on the battlefield not summoning sick + any one drop on the battlefield.
Step 1: Sac the one drop to Vannifar getting Corridor Monitor.
Step 2: Have Corridor Monitor untap Vannifar.
Step 3: Sac the Corridor Monitor to Vannifar getting Renegade Rallier.
Step 4: Use Renegade Rallier ETB trigger to return Corridor Monitor to the battlefield.
Step 5: Have Corridor Monitor untap Vannifar.
Step 6: Sac the Renegade Rallier to the Vannifar getting Felidar Guardian.
Step 7: Felidar Guardian ETB targets Corridor Monitor, blinking it.
Step 8: Have Corridor Monitor untap Vannifar.
Step 9: Sac Felidar Guardian to Vannifar getting Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker.
Step 10: Have Kiki-Jiki make 1000 hasty Corridor Monitors.
Step 11: Attack.
This deck has lots of synergies.
I've seen a few Vannifar combo decks use Rhythm of the Wild to give Vannifar haste and go off the same turn she gets played, but I had a better idea. Saheeli Rai. Saheeli can create a copy of Vannifar the turn it gets played and then u keep the copy due to the legendary rule, effectively giving it haste. This opens up including Copy Cat combo as an alternate win con as Felidar Guardian is already part of the Vannifar combo.
Neoform is faster than Chord of Calling if you have access to one extra land thanks to the single copy of Snapcaster Mage. Meaning you can Skill Borrower combo on turn 3 more often if you have a Skill Borrower, a Mana Dork and 3 lands in play.
Saheeli Rai works really well with any two of Neoform and/or Eldritch Evolution combination on turn 3 if you have a mana dork in play, a sac land in your graveyard and 3 lands. Consider the following plays:
1. T1 Sac Land, Mana Dork
T2 Land, Saheeli Rai, Scry 1
T3 Land, Saheeli makes copy of Mana Dork, Sac Mana Dork copy to Eldritch Evolution to get Renegade Rallier, Rallier returns sac land, Neoform or Eldritch Evolution the Rallier into a Felidar Guardian and Copy Cat combo them to death.
2. T1 Sac Land, Mana Dork
T2 Land, Saheeli Rai, Scry 1
T3 Land, Saheeli makes copy of Mana Dork, Sac Mana Dork copy to Neoform to get Snapcaster Mage, Snapcaster targets the Neoform, Neoform the Snapcaster into a Renegade Rallier, Rallier returns sac land, Neoform the Rallier into Felidar Guardian and Copy Cat combo them to death.
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** June 13 2018 Post **
So I was attempting to break Eldritch Evolution by looking at what the best targets when sacrificing a mana dork were when I discovered a three card turn 3 combo and build a deck around it.
The combo is:
(Birds of Paradise OR Noble Hierarch) + Skill Borrower + (Boggart Harbinger OR Eldritch Evolution)
Turn 3 Combo goes like this:
T1 - Land, Birds of Paradise OR Noble Hierarch
T2 - Land, Skill Borrower
T3 - Boggart Harbinger OR Eldritch Evolution sacrificing mana dork to get Boggart Harbinger.
---- Harbinger ETB trigger puts Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker on top of library. Skill Borrower uses Kiki-Jiki ability to
---- target itself creating a Skill Borrower token. Tokens repeatedly target themselves until you have 1000 tokens. Last Skill Borrower
---- token uses Kiki-Jiki ability but instead targets the Boggart Harbinger. Boggart Harbinger token ETB effect puts Mogg Fanatic
---- on top of library and then you sacrifice each Skill Borrower token with the Mogg Fanatic ability to kill your opponent.
I incorporated the combo into the Devoted Druid / Vizier of Remedies combo package as Skill Borrower can act as Devoted Druid 5-8 if it is on
top of your library.
4 Birds of Paradise
4 Noble Hierarch
Devoted Druid / Viser Combo
4 Devoted Druid
2 Vizier of Remedies
1 Rhonas the Indomitable
1 Duskwatch Recruiter
2 Eternal Witness
Kitchen Finks Infinite Life Combo
3 Kitchen Finks
1 Viscera Seer
4 Skill Borrower
1 Boggart Harbinger
1 Mogg Fanatic
1 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
1 Deceiver Exarch
Tutors and Utility
4 Eldritch Evolution
4 Chord of Calling
Lands
1 Temple Garden
1 Overgrown Tomb
2 Steam Vents
2 Stomping Ground
3 Breeding Pool
4 Misty Rainforest
4 Wooded Foothills
1 Windswept Heath
2 Forest
1 Mountain
1 Island
There are a TONNE of ways to win turn 3 with this deck as the combos are very synergistic. I added a singleton Deceiver Exarch as a way
to win with a Kitchen Finks and 2 Eldritch Evolutions in a pinch.
Obviously if the combo only works if Kiki-Jiki and Mogg Fanatic are in your library so if you draw them you'll need to pivot to one of the other combo
kills.
I chose Rhonas the Indomitable over Walking Ballista because it attacks the opponent in a different method (attacking with large
creature versus pinging opponent to death). Reducing the impact of cards like Leyline of Sanctity and Stony Silence
The 9 fetch lands also add more top of library manipulation for Skill Borrower to abuse.
Thoughts?
Doesn't work. Hollow One has to be the second CREATURE spell not second spell.
Dodges Fatal Push, Lightning Bolt and Abrupt Decay.
Easy to get out turn one.
In modern something like:
4 Hollow One
4 Death's Shadow
3 Tasigur, the Golden Fang
2 Gurmag Angler
4 Thoughtseize
4 Street Wraith
4 Faithless Looting
4 Burning Inquiry
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Fiery Temper
4 Temur Battle Rage
19 Land
Skill Borrower + Boggart Harbinger on battlefield with a Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker and a Mogg Fanatic in your library is infinite damage.
With Skill Borrower on the battlefield and not summoning sick play Boggart Harbinger. Use ETB trigger to put Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker on top of your library. Skill Borrower uses Kiki's ability to target itself creating token and tokens do the same. After you've made like 30 tokens the last token created targets the Boggart Harbinger and then the ETB trigger puts Mogg Fanatic on top of the library. Sacrifice Skill Borrower tokens to deal damage to opponent.