Ethereal Usher

Creature — Spirit

(Blue), Tap: Target creature is unblockable this turn.

Transmute (1)(Blue)(Blue) ((1)(Blue)(Blue), Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same converted mana cost as this card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library. Play only as a sorcery.)

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (47)

seshiro_of_the_orochi on Satoru Umezawa Brainstorming

2 years ago

Each single blue or black evoke creature is pretty cool with Satoru: enter link description here

Pretty cool with Supreme Exemplar, btw.

More ideas:

Archon of Cruelty, Abhorrent Overlord, Archfiend of Despair, Archfiend of Sorrows, Baleful Beholder, Baleful Force, Chancellor of the Spires, Chromescale Drake, Goremand, Gyruda, Doom of Depths, Inspired Sphinx, Lord of the Void, Massacre Wurm, Polar Kraken, Quicksilver Gargantuan, Sanguine Praetor, Vampire Charmseeker,

Chained Throatseeker seems great.

Alhammarret, High Arbiter and Amugaba seem weirdly playable with Satoru.

Deepchannel Mentor maybe?

Denizen of the Deep could be some kind of boardwipe protection.

Diluvian Primordial

Ethereal Usher

You could also do some pretty sick things with Armory Automaton, Grafted Exoskeleton and just a few more equipments.

MagicMarc on New Combo Of sorts

3 years ago

You can stay Mono with Ethereal Usher and Walk the Aeons.

I_Want_To_PlayAllTheDecks on New Combo Of sorts

3 years ago

Karn's Temporal Sundering + Ethereal Usher with the Ghost and the troller

mtgdani92 on #JasonDiesFirst - Arixmethes Primer

4 years ago

I just came up with a pretty janky Tooth and Nail combo that works with Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle untapped, 6 other lands - or even fewer if you have mana doublers, and one additional mana (so 9 altogether). However, it requires at least 3 blue mana sources in your lands (including arixmethes) and at least 3 green ones (also including him). So no additional mana but T&N's casting cost is required (in contrast to the Palinchron/Eternal Witness combo).

Step 1 Show

Tap out and cast Tooth and Nail for Great Whale and Spellseeker. Remove the first slumber counter from arixmethes. Use the whale trigger to untap Arithmetes and your six other lands, and find a Merchant Scroll with your spellseeker trigger. Tap all your lands again. You should now have exactly 8 mana in your pool. Until Step 4, you should always leave as much blue mana as possible in your mana pool.

Step 2 Show

Cast Merchant Scroll removing the second slumber counter from arixmethes and search for a Ghostly Flicker. Cast Ghostly flicker (and remove a slumber counter) targeting Great Whale and Spellseeker, leaving 3 mana in the pool. Untap your lands again and tutor for a Finale of Devastation this time. Tap all your lands again. Now, Arixmethes has only 2 slumber counters left and you have 11 Mana in your pool.

Step 3 Show

Cast Finale of Devastation for x = 2, removing another slumber counter from Arixmethes and putting Snapcaster Mage onto the Battlefield. Target Ghostly Flicker with Snapcaster Mage to give it Flashback until end of turn. Now cast Ghostly Flicker with the same targets as in step 2, but don't remove the last slumber counter from arixmethes. Untap all your lands and tutor for Uncage the Menagerie. Tap all your lands again, making sure to have at least 4 blue mana in your reserve. In total, you now have 12 mana in your pool.

Step 4 Show

Cast Uncage the Menagerie for x = 3 using mainly green mana and remove the last slumber counter from Arixmethes, finally making him a creature. Tutor Eternal Witness, Fierce Empath and Drift of Phantasms to your Hand. Use 3 mana to transmute Drift of Phantasms into Freed from the Real. Cast Freed from the Real and use the remaining blue mana to untap Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle, who is now a creature. At this point, you have infinite green mana.

Step 5 Show

Step 5a: Cast Eternal Witness and use her trigger to get Finale of Devastation back to your hand. You could now just Tutor for Craterhoof Behemoth and swipe for the win, having at least 6 creatures with trample, haste and infinite power. If you - however - are in your second main phase or can't attack this turn, you can make this combo even more janky:

Step 5b: Instead of searching Craterhoof Behemoth with the Finale, just get yourself a Selvala, Heart of the Wilds onto the battlefield, saying the x from the finale is 100. Selvala gains haste and can tap for 100 mana of any color immediately. From this point on, mana doesn't matter.

Step 6 Show

Cast Fierce Empath and Tutor for Ethereal Usher. Transmute Ethereal Usher into Planar Portal and cast it. Use Planar Portals 6 mana activated ability to tutor for Beacon of Tomorrows, and cast it. You now gain an extra turn and the Beacon of Tomorrows shuffles itself into your library again. When you hit your extra turn, Selvala still taps for at least 12 any-color mana and you still infinite green and your Planar Portal in play, so you can go infinite turns. Enjoy the reactions ;)

Altogether, you will need to "build around" this combo a bit, but I'll try it myself when I switch from Vorel of the Hull Clade to Arixmethes.

Nathaniel1234 on Hive Mind

4 years ago

JKRice The issue I see with Idyllic Tutor is the same one I saw with Ethereal Usher ; just too slow and clunky to warrant a spot. The main way you find Hive Mind game 1 is to mulligan till you have it utilizing the London Mulligan + Serum Powder .

I can see putting big mana creatures in the main, I am unsure as to what I would want to take out for them though. I have the ones I thought would be the best in the sideboard for matchups like UW Control or Jund where the combo can be countered or taken apart with a timely discard spell.

triproberts12 on

5 years ago

Also, I forgot to mention this, but Ethereal Usher is especially important since it fetches either half of the Guile / Dovescape combo.

triproberts12 on

5 years ago

No trouble. I never considered that interaction! I've never been big on WU, but maybe I should look into a Taigam deck. Ethereal Usher , Enlightened Tutor , and Idyllic Tutor would probably be the next upgrades I would go for, then. Seaside Haven , Soulcatchers' Aerie , and Airborne Aid could also be good, depending on how reliably you get out Dovescape.

triproberts12 on

5 years ago

Also, I see Helm and Trike combo at a glance. Since both of those have pieces costing the same, you can use Clutch of the Undercity , Dimir House Guard , Ethereal Usher , and Netherborn Phalanx for additional tutors. Also, Walking Ballista is a second copy of Trike.