Grell Philosopher

Creature — Horror

Aberrant Tinkering — When Grell Philosopher enters the battlefield and at the beginning of your upkeep, each Horror you control gains all activated abilities of target artifact an opponent controls until end of turn. You may spend blue mana as though it were mana of any colour to activate those abilities.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	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
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (5)

UltimateRoxas40 on The Horror ... THE HORROR! *PRIMER*

2 months ago

How about Grell Philosopher? I actually took that out of my deck to slot in my own Roaming Throne. I never really got a good use out of it. Turning some of the Horrors into Sol Ring's is cool, but I'd rather attack with them to get good Mill targets for our Captain.

Rhadamanthus on Grell Phillosopher with vehicles and …

1 year ago

FalconForce: Since it's clear you got a satisfactory answer to your question and there don't seem to be any more follow-ups or corrections to be made, I marked it as the "Accepted answer" so this topic can move out of the list of unanswered questions. In the future you can take care of this yourself using the "Mark as Answer" button on the response that you feel best answers your question.

One side note: You mention getting blinks from the particular situation you describe above and I want to make sure one thing is clear. Grell Philosopher's ability only looks at the activated abilities of the targeted artifact, which are specifically abilities in the form of "[Cost] : [Effect]". Only the Crew ability on Golden Argosy is an activated ability (you can see the required format in the reminder text). The other ability is a triggered ability (a triggered ability always starts with "when/whenever/at") and Grell Philosopher won't interact with that.

FalconForce on Grell Phillosopher with vehicles and …

1 year ago

How does Grell Philosopher interact with vehicles or reconfigure? for example say an opponent has Golden Argosy or Ogre-Head Helm.

Will this attach the philosopher as a piece of equipment that has no effect? (At least, other than protecting it from board wipes) Or will it allow you to sacrifice either itself or the creature it's attached to?

Will Grell allow itself to be crewed even though it won't change? So as to enable free taps or blinks.

Xlp on Captain N'Ghathrod horror tribe mill

1 year ago

thefiresoflurve I took out Grell Philosopher and Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar because grell relied on an opp having an artifact and graz was only one draw per battle I only added Omniscience because jank love and Planar Bridge to search Bolas's Citadel and Omniscience

thefiresoflurve on Captain N'Ghathrod horror tribe mill

1 year ago

A few things you could consider cutting: As Foretold - this really works much better in decks that have more instants/counterspells, since it works on other people's turns as well. Additionally, the odds of getting this card out + having it survive long enough to be useful make it just not worth it. I've seen it played at my table and it's impact is considerably lower than something like Rhystic Study, which would make a great replacement.

Similarly, Omniscience and Planar Bridge seem too expensive to really justify using.

Grell Philosopher and Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar would be good replacements - Philosopher to turn your creatures into ramp/tech, and Grazilax for some more draw.