Cabal Trainee

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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
Pauper Legal
Pauper Duel Commander Legal
Pauper EDH Legal
Planechase Legal
Premodern Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Cabal Trainee

Creature — Human Minion

Sacrifice Cabal Trainee: Target creature gets -2/-0 until end of turn.

Tacticsninja16782 on House of Cards

7 years ago

The way I play horobi is lots of targeting spells to clear the board, like Touch of Darkness and Cruel Feeding, and then a bunch of one drop targets. Aphotic Wisps Death Wind Disfigure Eye Gouge Lose Hope Tragic Slip Virulent Wound Cabal Trainee Shambling Goblin and so on. I also like Avatar of Woe, cause it's easy to get cheap with a deck like this.

ENZU on Win? I Just Want to Ultimate! (Liliana, Hereti...)

7 years ago

I think you might have one too many boardwipes in there especially with all the tutors you have. However it could just be integral to your gameplan to only have lili on the field and it could depend on your meta. If you find it's too many I would take out either Extinguish All Hope or Crux of Fate.

I must not be getting a major part of the deck because I can't imagine why some of these sacrifice outlets to flip lili would be worth a card. Cards like Shifting Wall and Death Cultist Cabal Trainee and Bile Urchin are dead drops on an already flipped Lili as far as I can tell. Phyrexian Marauder and Endless One and Dross Hopper also seems to just exist to die. Fume Spitter seems like it might have some utility against some good cards like Lotus Cobra but it still feels weak for edh standards. Same with Heap Doll.

I'm not sure what your devotion usually is in this deck, but I can't imagine it would be enough for an effective Gray Merchant of Asphodel.

Some cards I thought of adding: Dark Prophecy. This is obviously good with all your sacrifice creatures.Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder. This guy gives you presence and fodder for your sacrifice engines.Grim Haruspex. You seem to have a lot of nontokens dying in here. This fits with that and gives you some advantage for otherwise sub-bar sacrifice abilities.Harvester of SoulsOgre SlumlordLifeline - you're liable to have your dead creatures you sacrificed to liliana return and since none of them seem to be sorcery speed you could do them every turn.Pawn of UlamogBig Game Hunter - Great with liliana's madness effect and otherwise still good.Vampire Hexmage - Better by far than Dross Hopper. Can kill planeswalkers and hydras while flipping lili at the same time. And you can always tutor for Dark Depths for an alternative win-condition.

TheCenterOfTheUniverse on Extreme Budget No-Scoping - M19 Updated!

8 years ago

TheSlappKake: Deathgreeter is great, thanks. However, Cabal Trainee is not worth it for one mana and one removal, as Squee's Toy and Tower of Coireall give me much more value over time. Also, Cauldron Haze is white, so I can't use it. However, thanks for Cannibalize: It's price makes it much better than Serrated Arrows, which I was considering removing.

clayperce on None

8 years ago

Bovine073,
Thought you'd enjoy this ...

We've been cracking a few packs lately (over on this thread) and actually opened a Werebear!

We're had a couple others (so far!) with fun flavor text too: Overeager Apprentice and Cabal Trainee. Not sure they're better than anything on your list, but figured they were worth mentioning!

clayperce on Best. Advent Calendar. Evar.

8 years ago

December 7th
Well the packs got out of order and we didn't notice, so we opened a Judgment pack instead (guess we have to wait another day to see if we get that foil Entomb!) ... oops!

But the good news is Pick 1 is, for the first time, our rare!

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As expected from the block that introduced graveyard shenanigans to the world, the pack also had bunch of fun graveyard-matters cards: Grip of Amnesia; Rats' Feast; Funeral Pyre; and Exoskeletal Armor.

We were kind of bummed we didn't get any of the Incarnations (e.g., Genesis and Glory at rare), but we did get a bunch of interesting cards:

And we also have a new pick for best flavor text of the calendar (so far!): Cabal Trainee

Tomorrow: Odyssey. For real this time! :-)