Dragon's Herald

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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Archenemy Legal
Block Constructed 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
Modern Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Dragon's Herald

Creature — Goblin Shaman

(2)(Red), Tap, Sacrifice a black creature, a red creature, and a green creature: Search your library for a card named Hellkite Overlord and put it into play. Then shuffle your library.

ZendikariWol on The Shamans of Jund

5 years ago

Suggested cuts:

Ambuscade Shaman and Primal Forcemage : only works with hasty creatures.

Anowon, the Ruin Sage : slow and introduces a different tribal theme- feels out of place, especially to vorthos weirdos like me. Can't have a vampire card in a shaman deck, man!

Beastcaller Savant , Bloodline Shaman , Shaman of Forgotten Ways , and more or less all of your planeswalkers: dependent on the number of creatures in your deck and even without the cut cards has a <50% chance to draw you a card.

Dragon's Herald and Hellkite Overlord seems like an odd package.

Fauna Shaman and Underrealm Lich : you have no reason to stock your graveyard and very few things that get things back from the graveyard.

Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest - also Door of Destinies : so many people put him in aristocrat decks, it confuses me! Do you want your creatures to die or not??

Mindclaw Shaman : for you to get any real value out of him, you need to be casting an instant or sorcery that costs at least 4 mana. Decide depending on your meta whether that's consistently feasible.

Stoneshaker Shaman : how much instant interaction is there in your meta? If the answer is less than ALL OF IT, this card is bad.

Reach of Branches feels like bulk here. This card belongs in an Azusa, Lost but Seeking deck.

Jagg3r5 on Sek'kuar, Shaman Tribal Synergy

6 years ago

I agree with Firebones675, you've got a good thing going, but right now your still a bit scattered as to what your deck works around. You don't have the strongest token generation, recursion, or entry/exit abilities in general because as he stated, shamans are more of a jack of all trades than a specialist. To make them a truly dangerous you're going to have to think outside the box. Pulling the allies and working in some other options is something I would highly advise.

I would also suggest pulling Dragon's Herald and Hellkite Overlord, as the Herald serve's only one purpose and has a decent chance of being a dead draw; the overlord, while potentially devastating, is still relatively vulnerable and his high cost (regardless of whether he's hard cast or brought out with the Herald) of mana or creatures makes the rare situation where you get him out turn 3 or 4 not worth it. This is just my opinion though, so if he works for you then more power to you.

Dictate of Erebos is definitely a card I would suggest, as it can be a wonderful combo piece to help clear the board or just cause havoc. However, might I also suggest cards like Mimic Vat to be able to hold onto to combo pieces when they die or to keep triggering ETB/LTB abilities; Living Death as a way to pull out any creatures in your grave you need to combo out with or to simply flood the board with deceased Shamans; and Sidisi, Undead Vizier as a search and sac. If mana is a bother Black Market might also be of interest. On Sidisi I understand this might stray from what your is theme a bit, so that's up to you. As for what you have listed on the maybe board, you may wish to try Wolf-Skull Shaman, although he doesn't combo as much he's semi-reliable token spam and may draw out a kill spell due to sheer annoyance.

As a side note to all of this you have a lot of combos with Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, but if cards are only in the deck because they combo with him you may wish to reconsider them. Any player worth their salt isn't going to let Kiki stick if they can help it as he's the key to all sorts of infinite combos. Of course this can vary according to the group of people you play with, but that's my experience. Anyways hope something in here is helpful. Best of Luck!

Raging_Squiggle on When I play Dragon's Herald …

7 years ago

MTG Gatherer Website. Just search for any card in question and often times there will be additional rulings on the page. The link I have here for you takes you to Dragon's Herald's page.

vic on When I play Dragon's Herald …

7 years ago

For example, can I use an Odious Trow to fulfill both the green and the black? I've heard that I can, but the fact that Dragon's Herald uses the word "creature" in 3 separate instances makes me wonder.

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