Akroan Crusader

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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
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Pauper Legal
Pauper Duel Commander Legal
Pauper EDH Legal
Pioneer Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Akroan Crusader

Creature — Human Soldier

Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets Akroan Crusader, create a 1/1 red soldier creature token with haste.

Control_Train on Feather Redeems Boros in EDH [Primer]

10 months ago

It's been a long time since the last update for various reasons, but here it is - everthing from SNC to MOM. Changelog will go up soon, but it'll be lengthy. Thanks to everyone for your comments as always - I will try to update this more consistently going forward.

Jambazoni - Glad you like the list! I still run Sol Ring just because it enables some nutty starts, and it helps casts the rocks and higher CMC spells way earlier. You are right though that there are times where it feels bad or like it isn't really making mana that's casting anything, but I still find it useful enough to keep around.

Kayzee007 - the snow lands aren't necessary at all, but they make the list pure singleton, which is a cool flavor thing for me

Aceh - Rosnakht is definitely playable, and a lot better in builds focused on going wide. I actually think Akroan Crusader is strictly better because the tokens have haste, but battle cry comes in handy some times, and I don't think one will perform noticably worse than the other

ezekiel_gml - Decanter is a perfectly fine substitute for another rock; I would run Reliquary Tower if it didn't make colorless mana actually.

Sealtest - five months later, but yes!

carlmoores - because of the increase in set releases per year and a lull in my own playing last year, I didn't have the drive to update the deck on here for some time. I don't see myself coming back and updating on a per set basis anymore, but I will try to be more consistent, especially if there are changes worthy of talking about. Speaking of Moxfield though, I do have my decklists on there and I update those decklists almost immediately because moxfield is just a little more mobile friendly. The link for this deck on there is below (I tried for about 30 minutes with no success to make this a link) The primer will remain here, as I don't feel like formatting one for Moxfield, and this is where the deck started, but if you want an updated list between changelogs, you can find it there in the recent changes

https://www.moxfield.com/decks/jjRYHbMhTEWkUpijHYjBcg

hiddengibbons on Mono Red Weenie Hyper Budget Value Engine

10 months ago

It’s good to see someone else using Akroan Crusader. I myself dabbled with akroan Crusader and recursive enchantments such as Crown of Flames and Mark of Fury. I completely forgot about Labyrinth Champion. Now, if we can include a draw engine that triggers with enchantments being cast or ETB, that would be nuts

zerowner on Enter the Battlefield

1 year ago

Your current average CMC is very small, and you have several mana rocks. You can probably drop around 3 lands (down to 35).

I'd suggest looking through this scryfall search for ideas. https://scryfall.com/search?q=%28oracle%3Aenter+oracle%3Abattlefield%29+commander%3AR+t%3Acreature&unique=cards&as=grid&order=edhrec

This one too, for copy stuff. https://scryfall.com/search?q=%28oracle%3Acop+oracle%3Acreature%29+commander%3AR+-t%3Aland+-t%3Acontraption&unique=cards&as=grid&order=cmc

I'd suggest removing Awaken the Ancient, Akoum Hellhound, and Akroan Crusader. They won't net much value most of the time.

johnpants on Mono Red Weenie Hyper Budget Value Engine

1 year ago

This is a really cool deck! I've always been a fan of Akroan Crusader and Harness the Storm looks fun to use with it.

I did a playtest real quick and had dealt 25 damage by the end of turn 5. Good stuff!

Wuzibo on Zada Hedron grinder + "whenever …

1 year ago

Let me begin by saying I have a Zada, Hedron Grinder modern deck i play around with that i started playing as soon as she was released because I thought and still think that cantrips on her is probably some of the best draw mono red can do. This is going to be more directed at zada decks i see on here in general though.

I wanted to check out some newer decks to see what people are running these days, and i see a lot of people running heroic stuff like Akroan Crusader that triggers, like zada, when you cast a spell targeting them.

The important thing to note here is it says "cast". If i understand right, copies aren't cast unless it specifically says "cast", like an imprint effect. Ideally you use heroic stuff with something like a red cantrip or Titan's Strength, Assault Strobe or Brute Force. However, if Zada is on the field, you want to be casting your crimson whisps, Expedite and the aforementioned buff cards on her, to spread it to your whole field and/or get a lot of scrying or draw. 1 mana draw 3, with a little effect on all your creatures is insane, which you only need 3 creatures to pull off. That's Ancestral Recall level power, but it is gated behind that as a required setup.

In that instance, Young Pyromancer and Guttersnipe only give 1 trigger each. For this reason, i think, like, Monastery Swiftspear and other prowess effects are a better choice, and more ways to put out more tokens. I feel she's better with more creatures. Turning 3 1/1s into 4/4s while making her a 7/7 is game ending. Stuff like Goblin Rabblemaster and any of the little goblins that make more goblins as an etb. Monastery swiftspear still only gets 1 trigger from the original spell you cast targeting zada, but, it still triggers when you target zada, unlike a Satyr Hoplite.

I wrote this to be about mono-red, but it's good to know this for any deck you're running them in. I actually do like Satyr Hoplite and Akroan Crusader. They're good if youre going for like, a thing that cares about auras entering the battlefield, since then you have a good target for your aura. I built a constellation deck once. Why did they get rid of keyworded stuff like that? Red is a hard color to do that with, but, something like that is more where Satyr Hoplite shines.

I hope this helps people build better decks.

Gidgetimer on What is considered a spell?

3 years ago

As Neotrup said, activated abilities are not spells. So Fabled Hero will not get a +1/+1 counter.

As an aside, Heroic not triggering off of abilities is the only thing that makes it not game breaking in formats where activated abilities exist. Nomads en-Kor and Akroan Crusader would be infinite hasty tokens on turn 2. Turn 1 with some minimal jumping through hoops. But they foresaw this and made it only trigger from spells.

ilovemydoghisnameistuna on Zada

3 years ago

Unfortunately, mechanics like heroic don't actually trigger from Zada's ability because you only copy the spell, not cast it. This means Akroan Crusader won't be able to trigger. The same thing goes for Mirrorwing Dragon, unless you just want it to serve as a second copy of Zada ... Also, depending on the speed at which you want the deck to operate, you might consider adding a little more ramp like Mind Stone or Arcane Signet (though the second might be outside your budget range).

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