Cephalid Retainer

Creature — Cephalid

(Blue)(Blue): Tap target creature without flying.

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
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (2)

z1ggyp1ggy on Iceman

7 years ago

Proposed change:

ADD (14)

• Illusionist's Bracers
• Counterspell
• Trail of Evidence
• Echo Mage
• Void Shatter
• Engulf the Shore
• Llawan, Cephalid Empress
• Cephalid Retainer
• Insidious Will
• Summary Dismissal
• Tamiyo's Journal
• Confirm Suspicions
• Tamiyo, the Moon Sage
• Memnarch

MOVE TO SIDEBOARD (10)

• Frost Lynx
• Ice Cage
• Iceberg
• Icy Prison
• Phyrexian Ironfoot
• Phyrexian Snowcrusher
• Phyrexian Soulgorger
• Snow Fortress
• Thermal Flux
• Torpor Orb

REMOVE (4)

• Brain Freeze
• Confiscate
• Ice Cave
• Universal Solvent

REMOVE FROM SIDEBOARD (10)

• Early Frost
• Frost Walker
• Glacial Crasher
• Glacial Stalker
• Scion of Glaciers
• Mind Bend
• Coldsteel Heart
• Seer's Lantern
• Stasis Cell
• Deepchannel Mentor

P47Healey on The Waves, They Are A Whelming [Gen 2. Kiora]

8 years ago

GARRGH I LOST THE FIRST POST. For that reason I'm going to be a little briefer in this one. Interesting note - while I didn't try to limit cards to only blue, that's what ended up happening. Most creatures that tap/bounce other creatures occur in blue.

My thoughts:The probability of getting a quest counter for Quest for Ula's Temple on any given turn is approx. 0.28, which means you'll activate Ula's 10 turns after you play it, on average. My main suggestion is to try to introduce cards that would act as spells, allowing you to get Ula's activated faster. However, all of these creatures can't be cast using Ula's once you've successfully gotten the quest counters needed. Suggested cards are:

• AEther Adept
• Bounding Krasis
• Cephalid Retainer (Even mostly on theme!)
• Sidisi's Faithful (Not on theme at all, but it can Exploit itself to make a really cheap return spell)
• Giant Oyster
• Seasinger
• AEtherplasm (A way to cheat out your Leviathins and such in the event Ula's takes forever to activate)
• Marjhan (Won't solve your spell issues, but I thought it was a neat card. Also pretty cheap, and can be used with Ula's once activated)
• Pestermite (A bit expensive, and it's a bird. :/)
• Glowing Anemone (Don't actually think it'll be very useful, but it's an interesting creature I found)

The second route that you could take is to add only creatures that can be cast with Ula's Temple. (LOTS AND LOTS OF FATTIES) Then, use cards with to artificially increase the quest counters on Ula's. If you go with this strategy also consider adding Dizzy Spell so that you can get as many Quest for Ula's Temple's out as possible. Suggested cards are:

• Fuel for the Cause
• Steady Progress
• Tezzeret's Gambit
• Throne of Geth (Would sac itself, 2 mana for proliferate sorcery)