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| Format | Legality |
| 1v1 Commander | Legal |
| Archenemy | 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 |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Oldschool 93/94 | Legal |
| Planechase | Legal |
| Premodern | Legal |
| Quest Magic | Legal |
| Vanguard | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
Arcades Sabboth
Legendary Creature — Elder Dragon
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Arcades Sabboth unless you pay .
Each untapped creature you control gets +0/+2 as long as it's not attacking.
: Arcades Sabboth gets +0/+1 until end of turn.
LeonSpires on
Arcades: The Writing on the Wall
1 year ago
@ marblerye Thanks for the compliment on the alter I did of Arcades. I was inspired by the painting "A Good Book" by the artist Ed Beard Jr. He was the one that painted the original Arcades Sabboth artwork.
As a nursing student I am too busy to take alter commissions right now. If you want to get an alter done I recommend you search online and find an artist you like that is taking commissions. There is even a subreddit dedicated to altered Magic the Gathering cards r/mtgaltered
rdean14 on Card creation challenge
2 years ago
Palladia-Mors and Palladia-Mors, the Ruiner are the worst Elder Dragons, imo. I want her to get better representation...
Palladia-Mors, the Hunter
Legendary Creature - Mors
+2: Palladia-Mors, the Hunter deals 5 damage to target creature or planeswalker. Excess damage is dealt to that permanent's controller instead.
-5: Choose a permanent type. Each player chooses a number they control equal to the number controlled by the player who controls the fewest permanents of that type, then sacrifices the rest.
-14: Creatures you control gain lifelink and indestructible. Each creature deals damage equal to its power to each other creature.
Palladia-Mors, the Hunter can be your Commander
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I'd like to see one of the three other Original Elder Dragons made into a Planeswalker-Commander:
Arcades Sabboth / Arcades, the Strategist
Chromium Rhuell / Chromium, the Mutable
mauricio49b on Legends by Plane
3 years ago
The Vorthos in me loves DemonDragonJ's commander by home plane, so I wanted to expand that to all eligible commanders and legends. Don't nitpick me, but I am also including Planeswalkers and some unofficial commanders in this list due to them being notable figures in magic lore, and some casual circles use them as commanders. Placements are made due to lore reasons and my best judgement. Several planes have pretext to explain some categorization choices. I'll update this list over time of course. Currently Updated to Innistrad, Crimson Vow (VOW, 2021).
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Worth noting that most of the earlier unknown origins (especially LEG) can be assumed to be Dominaria, but there's not official confirmation and for all pre-mending sets, having a spark wasn't required for planar travel. If the set takes place on multiple planes, and there isn't explicit confirmation of which plane they reside, they go in unknown. Post Mending (Post Future Sight), creatures are assumed to be from the setting of the current plane, unless otherwise stated.
If this isn't enough vorthos for you, check out https://www.mtg-multiverse.com
plakjekaas on Please help save this game
3 years ago
EDH was created by judges, who after long days of running big tournaments, wanted to play some magic, but not the magic they had been observing and correcting all day. So they made some 3-color singleton (Highlander) decks, commanded by one of the original Shard-colored legendary Dragons from Legends: Arcades Sabboth , Chromium , Nicol Bolas , Palladia-Mors or Vaevictis Asmadi . 5 Elder Dragons, all 7 power. If you got hit 3 times by one of these, you'd lose the game, regardless of your life total. Elder Dragon Highlander, 21 commander damage is lethal.
This resulted in a casual, fun-oriented, table kitchen style of playing magic. Wizards does know that only a very tiny percentage of their player base is actually playing in sanctioned tournaments in established formats. By far the most Magic players are casual kitchen table players that play the game to have fun, beating their friends, not the world. EDH as a format will speak more to those players than to the PTQ- and pro tour-grinding players. Believe me, the top16 GP players at my LGS usually cower in fear when someone suggests to play a game of EDH.
Wizards knows all this and has been printing cards for specifically that casual multiplayer format for the past 10 years now. The first Commander (Wizards' legally safe name for exactly the same format as EDH is) Set came out in 2011 and gave us mainstay generals like Animar, Soul of Elements , Ghave, Guru of Spores , Kaalia of the Vast , Zedruu the Greathearted and The Mimeoplasm .
What has changed, is that more and more people use EDH as their main way of playing magic. Wizards is a company, to keep existing, they need to make money. So when Commander took over from Standard and Modern as the most popular to spend your Friday Night Magic, Wizards found a way to accommodate their finances accordingly. By including cards that work better for multiplayer than for competitive constructed formats in every single set, they ensure every set will be a financial success.
So the whole hipster "I liked commander before every set had specific cards for it"-attitude is understandable, but not at all useful in the world we live in. We made this format the most massively enjoyed format around the world. By making it that successful, we changed how the company makes its money. As long as those cards sell, we will get more splashy multiplayer nonsense, Arcane Signet s, Jeweled Lotus , etc. And that is why green is the kingpin of colors in multiplayer/EDH right now. Green is famously the color of ramp. The term "ramp" even originates from the green Rampant Growth . Green is also the color of big monsters. Green is the color of nature, of harmony, the color that lets you do everything you want, while generally not hurting other players' cards.
I'm going to talk in stereotypes for a bit. People think of black and see Murder , Damnation , not a friendly environment for your own stuff. Red will Vandalblast , Blasphemous Act , Jokulhaups your stuff away. White will Wrath of God , Rest in Peace , Swords to Plowshares , while Thalia, Guardian of Thraben makes it harder for you to play your game. Blue will Counterspell and Cyclonic Rift everyone out of the game. Green will just play a bigger beast ( Worldspine Wurm , Craterhoof Behemoth ). Of course I know of all the Beast Within and Krosan Grip removal green has, but you generally will think of green as the least board-controlling color of them all. It will execute its game plan without meddling with yours. Green will let everyone do broken stuff, but will be doing the most stuff itself because of its Abundance of mana and resources. That's the most friendly way to let everyone at the table have the most amount of fun without adjusting your strategy to group hug. No wonder people like playing with and against that.
When people like green, Wizards is inclined to print better green cards, which makes people want to play green more. This is a positive feedback loop that spirals out of control of you're not careful. It's also not specifically a green problem. I think people call it Power Creep. It's part of keeping a dynamic game like Magic interesting. I think a hypothetical future Standard set without any Commander playable cards in it will cause much more of an uproar in the Magic community than Kaldheim ever could. Hate it or love it, but EDH is ingrained in the fabric of magic itself now, and as long as we enjoy EDH, that will not change. I plan to have the most amount of fun with available cards, regardless of color or intended format. Your mileage may vary.
Skyler1776 on
Defenders of the Friends
5 years ago
Maybe Arcades, the Strategist over Arcades Sabboth ?
420Liliana69 on What sould I do about …
5 years ago
they still have to reveal new versions of Arcades Sabboth and Ugin, the Spirit Dragon as it is now confirmed that ugin and bolas are twins.
Rabid_Wombat on HELP: How do you build …
6 years ago
What other peeps are playing is my motivation for deck building. For example - If a graveyard recursion deck is dominating the LGS I'll put together a deck specifically designed to destroy it.
Then I'm hailed as a local hero (at least for that day)....and the other guy/girl has to pull out another edh deck ;)
My other main motivator is to suprise peeps by making decks that suck actually win games. Arcades Sabboth Wall Tribal and Cycling Zur are my two latest projects.
And it's fun when someone needs a deck and I throw them over the Wall deck saying :"Here's a Tribal deck!"....then they see the Commander, skim through the deck and say: "Dude, wtf?" :D
ROUROU on
Throne of the God-Pharaoh
6 years ago
SICK DECK! i made some twitches for my FNM, because my playgroup is kinda aggro .
I sided in Arcades Sabboth, Chromium, Palladia-Mors and Vaevictis Asmadi , because i don't want to make bolas' brothers and sisters to feel secluded.
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