Forebear's Blade

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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Archenemy Legal
Arena Legal
Block Constructed Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander / EDH Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Gladiator Legal
Highlander Legal
Historic Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Pioneer Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Forebear's Blade

Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature gets +3/+0 and has vigilance and trample.

Whenever equipped creature dies, attach Forebear's Blade to target creature you control.

Equip (: Attach this to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery. This enters the battlefield unattached and stays on the battlefield if the creature this card is attached to leaves the battlefield.)

wallisface on Knights of the Firststrike Table

10 months ago

Some thoughts/suggestions:

  • modern decks typically don’t want to run more than 4 cards costing 4 mana, and often run nothing above this cost (this is to try avoid the deck becoming slow/clumsy). You’ve got 8 cards costing 4-or-more, which is a bit high. I’d recommend ditching all of Dearly Departed, Vraska's Scorn, and Vraska, Scheming Gorgon, because all of these cards are extremely weak for their mana cost.

  • just from a mana efficiency persoective i’d also ditch Forebear's Blade (6 mana for +3/+0 is a pretty bad return), and Paladin Class (there are better white enchants, like Honor of the Pure).

  • having a 12/12 Plains/Swamp split when almost all your creatures need 2 white mana on turn 2-or-3 seems really unideal, as you won’t be able to reliably achieve that. A better Plains/Swamp split might be 18/6 - though realistically if you only have access to basic lands, then your deck would be a lot stronger & more consistent just being mono-white.

  • You need ways to interact with your opponent, as just letting them do what they want is a recipe for disaster. I’d recommend adding in Path to Exile and/or Lay Down Arms.

  • I get what you’re trying to do with Basilisk Collar, but an all-first-strike deck is already incredibly strong defensively (because you can double-block). It feels more cute-than-useful, imo.

superwill123 on unBEARable--Ayula EDH Lunacy

2 years ago

no Forebear's Blade? smh not a real bear deck.

All jokes aside looks fun

DadHumanPraetor on Nothing but bears

3 years ago

You need a Forebear's Blade! Its fore-bears.

LivingThing on Endless Forms Most Beautiful: Vadrok EDH [PRIMER]

3 years ago

I really like how you built him. well done as always. I would consider adding in Jace, Vryn's Prodigy  Flip - so much value. another addition I may consider if you are going for a tron subtheme would be Blackblade Reforged or Umezawa's Jitte, possibly over Forebear's Blade.

Well done. I glanced by him as the weakest of the 5, but I may have to reconsider, especially in commander. Cheers

Eskmohunter on Endless Forms Most Beautiful: Vadrok EDH [PRIMER]

3 years ago

Daedalus19876 im not the most massive fan of Forebear's Blade and this deck doesnt really have any sweepers. Forcing people down to your lands and creatures once or twice should let you connect without a fear of crack back.

Emearq on Syr Gwyn - charging back into commander

4 years ago

Hey, really appreciate your feedback.

Lot of your suggestions are excellent options I've completely overlooked. I had a Boros Charm already, so I've switched that with the Mace of the Valiant. Hadn't even looked at the sword options as thought they were all prohibitively expensive but Sword of Sinew and Steel looks like a great fit for the artifact removal. Will swap it out for Forebear's Blade once I get the card. Open the Armory is definitely a good shout too, have ordered but not yet decided what to swap for it. Finally will also pick up the suggested Buried Ruin for the utility benefits, swapping for a Mountain most likely.

Actually have a Kindred Dominance already, but the high mana cost puts me off as it might sit as a dead card a lot of the time as I'm not sure how deck ramp feels yet. It would certainly help with finishing games off though.

Not so sure on Ashenmoor Liege as many of the knights are white. Likewise, going to give the Haakon, Stromgald Scourge + Dauntless Bodyguard a miss as not sure how to go about getting Haakon into the graveyard easily.

Deck gets its first outing on Tuesday, looking forward to seeing how it plays out.

Thanks again for your thoughts!

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