Captain's Maneuver

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Legality

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
Planechase Legal
Premodern Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Captain's Maneuver

Instant

The next X damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn is dealt to another target creature or player instead.

Tylord2894 on Can redirected combat damage from …

3 years ago

Yes, that would work, but wording is very important here. The key is that Captain's Maneuver is a replacement effect that changes what is getting damaged. There are other "redirection" effects that seem like they do the same thing but don't, such as Acolyte's Reward. The Reward prevents damage then it deals damage. While the effects from Reward and Maneuver seem identical, they are importantly different.

Since the replacement effect from Maneuver changes that is being dealt damage, you commander would be dealing combat damage to that player. All combat damage dealt to players is commander damage.

Hope this helps!!

Legendxp on Can redirected combat damage from …

3 years ago

For example, let's say I have Tajic, Blade of the Legion and 2 other creatures attacking. I've already dealt 14 commander damage from him and my opponent blocks.

I then cast Captain's Maneuver with X as 7 so that my commander deals his damage to the defending player instead of his creature.

Does that last 7 damage count as combat damage or noncombat damage and does it count as commander damage or non-commander damage?

TrashWolf95 on Blood Weaving

4 years ago

Captain's Maneuver can stop you dying when you pull off the Blasphemous Act + Repercussion combo

Boros Reckoner + Pariah or Pariah's Shield would also work

ZendikariWol on Feather, Jank Redeemed

4 years ago

You have a couple spelling errors in the description. Hate to be that guy, but I feel it's better you know, ya know?

"shuold" -paragraph 1, there's a properly-spelled "should" in there too, but trust me I'm not just playing gotcha!.

"not" -paragraph 7, I'm assuming you meant "now"?

Anyhow, down to the actual deck. You have a couple bulk cards I'm honestly a little perplexed by the inclusion of.

Cathar's Companion is a strictly worse Seeker of the Way.

Flamewright, while a fun card, doesn't have any synergy with the deck.

Shower of Coals is just not a good card. 4 damage for 5 mana? I know it's repeatable but it's really not great. I have a pretty hefty removal package and Imma be linking my deck below, if you'd like to look.

Assemble the Legion is in the same vein as Flamewright; a great and very fun card, with little to do with this deck. In fact- you should make a Marath, Will of the Wild token deck!

Pump spells that probably have better alternatives include Astral Steel (unless you're planning to have 5+ mana up), Captain's Maneuver (though a ton of fun, how often do you actually cast it?), Dual Shot (very weak), Enrage (also overcosted- love the flavor text tho), Kindled Fury (not bad, but there are better out there that do the same thing), Lithomancer's Focus (usually just a worse Brute Force), Onward / Victory (you can never cast the good half if Feather's out), Orim's Touch (there are just a lot of better protection spells), Radiate (worse version of Zada, Hedron Grinder or Mirrorwing Dragon), Spark Jolt (scry 1 for 1 every turn is decent, but better alternatives, bla, bla, bla), Sure Strike (worse Invigorated Rampage), Surge of Zeal (usually worse than Expedite, right?), Tandem Tactics (good, not great tho).

Sorry I kinda gave you a LOT of stuff. This is about what my Feather brew would be if I made it in real life. Fortunately I use tappedout to build my ideal deck and make sure I don't waste all my money on "ooh that's really good, I'll use it sometime" cards. Feel free to yoink some ideas from my brew!


Feather's No Lightweight

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Chandra585 on "Bird Leaf" | Feather EDH

4 years ago

A cool thing about Mirrorwing Dragon is when an opponent casts a removal spell on it, it copies that for all of their creatures. Anax and Cymede and Twinflame are HUGE overperformers, but only if you run a few more creatures. Captain's Maneuver is underrated, and the Lapse of Certainty + Mistveil Plains + Sunforger combo is nothing to sneeze at. All in all, great list. We’ve had some good luck with boros in Commander lately with Firesong and Sunspeaker , and I hope that we get more interesting commanders for the best worst guild in the sets to come.

MonkeySit on Damage Prevention Payoffs?

5 years ago

You could perhaps redirect the damage instead of preventing it entirely but you would preventing it from hitting you which would help boost your Selfless Squire. I'll try keep to the white theme for you as much as possible but what I have found is: Captain's Maneuver, Empyrial Archangel, Hazduhr the Abbot, Mirror Strike, Sivvi's Valor - I'm not sure on the play of this but my assumption is that damage may start targeting the above creatures so that they may target you instead, so this instant could have that damage target you which you could then activate one of the previous cards to have it target them? due to the low cost of the instant of course as there are other creatures out there that you can have the damage target another target creature such as Oracle's Attendants for example. Turn the Tables is an excellent way to have the opponent punished for attacking. As mentioned above, I think Azor's Elocutors could be a great Win Con.

As you can see there are quite a few examples of what you could go with. I have just used http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?action=advanced&text=+%5Bwould%5D+%5Bbe%5D+%5Bdealt%5D+%5Bdamage%5D+%5Btarget%5D+%5Bcreature%5D+%5Binstead%5D+!%5Bprevent%5D&color=+%5BW%5D (I'm sorry, I'm still new here and I can't figure out how to use the link function lol) and i'm sure that you could find something among this list that might be of more help to you :)

Bxbx on "Did you just attack me?" spot removal tribal

6 years ago

Hi,

your deck-idea is great! +1

I once thought about a similar deck, but it was more goofy. It tried to incentivize the opponents to attack each other and then cast pump spells and cards like Berserk or Blood Frenzy on the attacking creatures - ideally on their commander. Your deck somehow reminded me of that idea. I think, I'll have to start working on that again.

Some suggestions:

The following cards were in the deck I mentioned before and could be nice in yours as well:

That's all for now. Let me know what you think

DPenguin22 on Life's A Fillet 'O Fish

6 years ago

Also removed Mathas, Fiend Seeker, Flickerwisp and Captain's Maneuver. Replaced them with a few creatures from Ixalan with enrage.

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