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Bell Borca, Spectral Sergeant
Legendary Creature — Spirit Soldier
Note the converted mana cost/mana value of each card as it's put into exile.
Bell Borca, Spectral Sergeant's power is equal to the greatest number noted for it this turn.
At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn.
Crow_Umbra on
Isshin: Mardu for Dummies
2 years ago
No worries! I'm glad you liked my first couple suggestions ACapo18.
I've played my Isshin deck about 5-7 times IRL with some more games on the horizon for this weekend. I think I swapped out Cunning Rhetoric after my first couple of games. In my experiences, it wasn't much of a deterrent, and the cards it exiled weren't particularly useful.
I love Prosper, Tome-Bound; he's one of my recent favorite commanders. I understand how he can be a card advantage engine, but I think him and the other Impulse draw sub-theme is kind of disjointed with the aggro, go-wide stuff that Isshin wants to do. If you needed to, you can likely keep Prosper and Laelia, but Bell Borca, Spectral Sergeant feels kind of out of place compared to the other 2. If you like Impulse draw, have you looked at Florian, Voldaren Scion? He can dig down and pseudo-tutor depending on how much damage you're throwing around each combat.
I can see what you're going for with the creatures that care about Modified status, but I don't think they synergize enough, or have enough support with the rest of your deck to keep included. I personally like Breena, the Demagogue the most (I run her in my own list), but I don't think you're running enough Modified enablers to keep some of the others. That's ultimately your call depending on which ones you like most.
Mirror Box also feels kind of out of place as an anthem effect, since it only helps your Legends. The only other card in your 99 that this really benefits is Rionya, Fire Dancer
Underworld Sentinel also seems really slow for the payoff that it can potentially achieve.
I think if you cut any of those cards, you could likely include a bit more: token productions damage anthems, draw, and board protection. Here are some cards I've played with in my list that I like:
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Signal Pest a low to the ground anthem effect that can come down on any turn and be relevant.
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Boros Charm One of the modal options helps with board protection
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Plumb the Forbidden is pretty great with tokens, especially if you're about to get board-wiped, or know the tokens will die in combat blocks
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Tome of Legends a bit pricey, but will usually have 1-3 counters each game, and drawing investment is pretty minimal.
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Guardian of Faith Kinda like a budget Teferi's Protection
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Soltari Champion Fairly compact anthem effect on a creature
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Unquenchable Fury Can front load damage on any of your creatures and will usually return to hand for reuse.
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Faith's Reward More board protection
Hopefully these additional suggestions are helpful. Would be happy to keep exchanging ideas if you would like. I have an Isshin primer write-up on my profile where I discuss some card options, in case that's of any interest to you. I've generally found that keeping Isshin's mana curve fairly low allows him to rebuild pretty quickly after waves of removal.
Crow_Umbra on
Prosper: Having a good Tome
2 years ago
Yeah those are all very understandable points.
I also get the sense that Prosper is kind of aimless and general value generating (for now). I'm hoping this is one of those commanders that will continue to evolve with the addition of upcoming sets. There are plenty of mechanics that generally synergize with what Prosper wants to do and hopefully the upcoming Standard sets will have some additional support. Red has received plenty of impulse draw support in recent sets and seems to generally be trending more in that direction.
Between Prosper, Bell Borca, Spectral Sergeant , and Vega, the Watcher , it does feel like commanders caring about interactions with Exile is a new territory being explored and expanded on.
All that being said, I'm at the point where I want to get more games in IRL with my current list and test it out that way. I have been looking into more competitive builds to see what combo lines are already being considered as options for the deck if I ever want to change it up. One combo I'm considering is Dualcaster Mage + Heat Shimmer / Twinflame . It doesn't necessarily fit the theme Prosper is going for, but it's an option and one where I know I already have all the cards in my binders lol.
abby315 on
An old elephant learns new tricks
3 years ago
Cloudchaser.Kestrel I just mean Bell Borca, Spectral Sergeant would probably be the commander, since he gives card advantage.
Osbert on
EDH Card-Draw Master List
3 years ago
I see you have included Future Sight but not Magus of the Future . Functionally identical albeit slightly worse.
There are some cards that let you play off the top of your library that I would count as card draw: Radha, Heart of Keld , Oracle of Mul Daya , Courser of Kruphix , Elsha of the Infinite , Realmwalker , Vizier of the Menagerie .
Some impulse draw you're missing: Bell Borca, Spectral Sergeant , Dark-Dweller Oracle , Chandra, Torch of Defiance , Showdown of the Skalds , Theater of Horrors , Apex of Power , Birgi, God of Storytelling Flip, Ignite the Future , Jeska's Will , Magmatic Channeler , Soulfire Eruption , Valakut Exploration .
Others: Memory Jar , Magus of the Jar , Allure of the Unknown
Omniscience_is_life on None
3 years ago
In this video, Gavin outlines the types of draw that we can expect to see from mono-White. I honestly agree that the things he pointed to are the best ways to move forwards flavorfully, and think this card feels more Boros (e.g. Bell Borca, Spectral Sergeant )
meME12 on KorandAngels
3 years ago
I love your Value hate and also They finally made an Exile Matters Commander! and I have a Bell Borca, Spectral Sergeant deck called Defender's of the Boros Legion, Exile Cops! that is very interesting. You make fun decks and I like fun decks too. You don't Azorius? I am WITH YOU, but this deck called Niko's Back on Theros! (kind of) and its gonna be fun when Kaldheim releases, I tested the deck out with proxies and it worked amazing. I love the rest of your decks too, I mainly play standard on MTG Arena because everybody does cause of the quarantine, check out my decks, give an upvote, comment, or something if you agree with me.
gavriel1136 on Favorite boros commanders?
3 years ago
Bell Borca, Spectral Sergeant is one of my fave new commanders from CMR.
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