Agoraphobia

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -5/-0. {2}{U}: Return Agoraphobia to its owner's hand.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (12)

wallisface on

1 year ago

I see you’re still making changes to the deck, but here’s a current list of things to consider:

• your land count feels too low. If you’re ever planning on being able to cast a 5 mana card, your deck really needs 24 lands minimum (for a 60 card deck… i see you’re over that number atm).

• Even with a higher land count, your mana curve is waay too high. Modern decks typically can't justify running more than 4 cards costing 4-or-more mana… you’ve got 12. This will lead to some really slow/clumsy plays/turns. This will only be made worse by you having almost nothing to do turn 1, meaning you’ll often be starting a full turn behind your opponent.

• I feel like you don’t quite understand how Willbreaker takes control of creatures - the spell/ability has to explicitly target a creature. To be clear, Willbreaker will trigger off the “enchant creature” clauses of Agoraphobia and Public Enemy, but does not trigger from the like of Bident of Thassa, Cumber Stone, Dampening Pulse, or Turn the Tide, as none of those cards say “target”.

• As such, your deck currently doesn’t really do anything. Turning your opponents lands into creatures doesn’t help you, and you have almost no way to achieve the goal you’re trying to. I think you need to rethink the whole plan for this deck, and start afresh.

• one more word of caution is that its incredibly risky to base your entire gameplan around a 5 mana card that you may not even draw - and if you do it still dies to pretty-much any interaction your opponent has.

FormOverFunction on Custom Ability Word: Apex

1 year ago

I love how this would give cards like Shrink and Agoraphobia a whole other realm to operate in. It always feels to me like those cards are getting undeservedly-limited play...

thomas9790 on COWABUNGA!!! Turtle power is a great toughness!

5 years ago

what about Slagwurm Armor , Accorder's Shield / Vanguard's Shield , Tree of Redemption , or Agoraphobia

Polupus on Ultra-Budget: Teenage Mutant Ninja Wizards

7 years ago

Agoraphobia could work to help steal larger creatures

DaringApprentice on Hope You Didn't Want That

8 years ago

Sweet deck! I didn't realize how interesting Yasova was to me until I started thinking of ways to use her ability better.

I see you have Willbreaker, letting you keep the creatures you temporarily steal. Some other options for keeping these creatures past the end of the turn could be Conjurer's Closet, Deadeye Navigator, Synod Sanctum, Cold Storage, Nephalia Smuggler, and Ghostly Flicker, which all return creatures back under your control without you having to return them to their owners.

You could also use Hellkite Charger, Breath of Fury, or World at War to trigger Yasova's ability multiple times per turn.

With Glaring Spotlight, you can steal your opponents' creatures that have hexproof. To steal your opponents' noncreature artifacts, try turning them into creatures with options like Toymaker and Titania's Song, and to steal your opponents' noncreature lands, try turning them into creatures with Lifespark Spellbomb or Quirion Druid.

Land suggestions include Command Tower, Frontier Bivouac, Rootbound Crag, Opal Palace, Lumbering Falls, Temple of Abandon, Temple of Mystery, Vivid Crag, Vivid Creek, and Vivid Grove.

If you don't want to give the creatures back after you've stolen them, you can use sacrifice effect cards to get rid of them for profit. Some powerful sacrifice engines include Ashnod's Altar, Culling Dais, Barrin, Master Wizard, Bloodshot Cyclops, Jalira, Master Polymorphist, Profaner of the Dead, Scourge of Skola Vale, Evolutionary Leap, Goblin Bombardment, Perilous Forays, Shivan Harvest, Momentous Fall, High Market, Life's Legacy, and Primal Growth.

To make your opponents' creatures easier to steal, you can use power-reduction cards such as Cumber Stone, Schismotivate, Downsize, Dampening Pulse, or Agoraphobia.

You can also make opponents' creatures easier to steal by increasing Yasova's power, with any of these or other boosting cards: Kessig Wolf Run, Ceta Disciple, Llanowar Augur, Moonveil Dragon, Ursapine, Wolfir Silverheart, Bonesplitter, Hero's Blade, O-Naginata, Ring of Kalonia, Sai of the Shinobi, Shuko, Sigil of Distinction, Silver-Inlaid Dagger, Sword of the Chosen, Boar Umbra, Briar Shield, Elephant Guide, Exoskeletal Armor, Forced Adaptation, Giant Spectacle, Goblin War Paint, Inferno Fist, Madcap Skills, Moldervine Cloak, Mythic Proportions, Quest for the Gemblades, Rancor, Seal of Strength, Shape of the Wiitigo, Spectral Flight, Spider Umbra, Taste for Mayhem, Volcanic Strength, Wurmweaver Coil, Blossoming Defense, Brute Force, Giant Growth, Groundswell, Invigorate, Might of Oaks, Mutagenic Growth, Prey's Vengeance, Strength of the Tajuru, Wax/Wane, Blessings of Nature, Elven Rite, Give / Take, Increasing Savagery, Phytoburst, Reckless Charge, and Soul's Might

DaringApprentice on Burn Baby Burn

8 years ago

My bad, forgot to check your maybe list before making that first list, so some of mine are duplicates.

If you are interested in non-creature spells that you can cast more than twice (typically the maximum with Flashback or Rebound), you could use Startled Awake  ^Flip, Pulse of the Fields, Pulse of the Grid, Agoraphobia, Ephara's Enlightenment, Flickering Ward, Fool's Demise, Genju of the Falls, Genju of the Fields, Genju of the Spires, Mark of Eviction, Molten Birth, Punishing Fire, Reality Strobe, Spirit Loop, and View from Above.

DaringApprentice on LEEEROY JEEENNNKIN (Shu yun sub 50 budget)

8 years ago

Nice deck, Shu Yun is pretty awesome, as a card and as a character: http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-story/khanfall-2015-02-18.

With the amount of low CMC spells this deck seems to be running, Mindmoil could be a good card for getting new options into your hand each time you cast a spell. Charmbreaker Devils is amazing with an instant and sorcery deck.

Divine Reckoning, Increasing Devotion, and Momentary Blink with Flashback and Nomads' Assembly, Distortion Strike, and Taigams Strike with Rebound are good ways to be able to cast a spell multiple times.

Agoraphobia, Disappear, Volrath's Curse, Cage of Hands, Gossamer Chains, Shimmering Wings, and Shackles are enchantments that you can return to your hand to cast multiple times.

Brave the Sands could be useful in letting your creatures block two creatures at a time.

Xica on Geist spirit token

8 years ago

Tallowisp + spirits + having enchantments in the deck can ruin poeople's day.

You could enchant your opponents creatures with things like Agoraphobia, Oppressive Rays, Guard Duty
Also having the combo of Arcanum Wings + Eldrazi Conscription lying around in the deck, while you are able to tutor for it for "free" is something one likes to have.