Hooded Assassin

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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
Pauper Legal
Pauper Duel Commander Legal
Pauper EDH Legal
Pioneer Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Hooded Assassin

Creature — Human Assassin

When Hooded Assassin enters the battlefield, choose one —

  • Put a +1/+1 counter on Hooded Assassin.
  • Destroy target creature that was dealt damage this turn.

MTGPALADIN on Punishing Jund

6 years ago

Hooded Assassin is the way to go for sure.

Grubbernaut on Punishing Jund

6 years ago

I'm going to test Seal of Doom, but it really needs something that can retrieve enchantments to shine.

Alternatively, considering Hooded Assassin to function similarly, but be fetchable with TortEx

solarbeam on

6 years ago

You definitely need removal and some more card advantage in this deck. I would recommend a couple Path to Exiles and Fatal Pushes. Thraben Inspector is just a great 1-drop, Fiend Hunter perma-exiles with your blink effects, Pain Seer and Glint-Sleeve Siphoner are 'great' budget alternatives to Dark Confidant. Kitesail Freebooter has been an all-star in human decks. I wouldn't advise against something like Arguel's Blood Fast  Flip or Phyrexian Arena for card advantage as well. Anthems like Always Watching or Radiant Destiny are always good.

As for your top end, I would splash green for Sigarda, Heron's Grace, run Angel of Invention, Ravenous Demon  Flip, Angelic Overseer, and Restoration Angel are all great.

Replace the Hooded Assassin with the Fiend Hunter, and Mardu Shadowspear with Bloodsoaked Champion

For your sideboard, Rest in Peace and Stony Silence. Collective Brutality is fantastic against control with its discard effect, and is one of the best hosers against burn and aggro. Cards like Fragmentize are always a safe choice. Arashin Cleric is a favorite of mine for faster match ups. Liliana's Defeat and Gideon's Defeat are great against those colors. Duress is also great against control and combo decks. You may need something like Eerie Interlude to protect yourself against wraths.

KingMathoro on On a Pale Horse

6 years ago

Hello there as a fellow Meren enthusiast I feel I may have some advice for you. You certainly have a lot of creatures and while Momma Meren loves her some creatures I feel as though you have a few too many. Verdant Force is a prime example of a card of which there are better options in the form of enchantments like how you have From Beyond in your maybeboard. It is much better because it m=has more survivability and it costs less. Another card that plays off of that is Awakening Zone. Both create tokens that Meren can sac. A few other creatures that are in my experience under performers are Great Oak Guardian, Vulturous Zombie, Centaur Vinecrasher, Cloudthresher, Kessig Cagebreakers terastadonBlood Bairn, Apocalypse Demon, Sifter Wurm, Hooded Assassin. They have a high cmc and/ or don't really do all that much. A few options for replacements would be things like Dictate of Erebos, Black Market, Diabolic Tutor, Cultivate, Kodama's Reach, Reclamation Sage, Beseech the Queen, Animate Dead, Strionic Resonator, Spore Frog(a champion of a Meren deck is this frog let me tell you), Viscera Seer, Merciless Executioner, Fleshbag Marauder, Buried Alive, Eldritch Evolution, Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Beast Within, Pawn of Ulamog, Sifter of Skulls, Evolutionary Leap, Gonti, Lord of Luxury, Smothering Abomination, Living Death. They offer Meren much more support and help you get the most value out of what you got going on. Because when you have too many creatures the lack of support spells like the ones mentioned above can really slow you down and make you more vulnerable to board wipes and the like and limit your potential wincons. I would also heavily consider Dictate of Erebos over some of the curses because it can just do a lot of work for you. Another thing I noticed is you have Dredge listed in your tag list and I don't really see that much of a Dredge-y presence in the deck. Those are just some thoughts I have after playing both Budget and Much more Expensive versions of Meren for quite a while. But if you don't like what I have to say that's cool. I don't mean to offend at all. And ultimately the choices are your's anyways. So please tell me your thoughts on what I brought up!

Also here is my take on budget Meren that I mentioned earlier. Who Needs $200+ Dollar Decks???

Quicksilver on Reyhan and Tymna Budget Counters

7 years ago

Get rid of:
Hooded Assassin its second ability is too situational.
High Sentinels of Arashin you'll never use its second ability, especially when the land Gavony Township is much more powerful.
Orzhov Advokist - You want the counters, not other players. Its soft lock ability is nice, but if you need the pillow fort ability, there are better cards for it.
Armament Corps and Sandsteppe Mastodon - Unless you can abuse ETB triggers, the abilities are a one off. The exception to this is Armorcraft Judge, as card draw is essential in EDH.
Topan Freeblade - Renowned serves no purpose whatsoever to the deck.
Revoke Existence - Fate Forgotten costs one more, but at instant speed, playing it when they cast an artifact or enchantment they'll have less mana to work with and are less likely to be able to counter you.
Herald of Anafenza - You're not running tokens, don't bother with this one.
Fleecemane Lion - No synergy with +1/+1 counters. The monstrous is good, but its ability doesn't really sync with the deck.
Creeping Renaissance - Really a dead card most of the time unless your running a graveyard based strategy.

Hope you find all this useful.

Grixis_Decks_Win on Noir/Vert Garruk: La nature au service du Noir

7 years ago

Hum ton deck a pris un tournant un plus ramp, intressant. Je pense que la Karametra's Favor, Hooded Assassin ne sont pas indispensable et a rduirait le nombre de cartes. Tu devrais aussi voir les terrains double comme Golgari Guildgate or Foul Orchard. Ils ne sont pas chers et peuvent tre utiles.

shabow6 on The Assassination

7 years ago

Scathain thanks for the feed back. I was iffy about putting Hooded Assassin in the deck to begin with. With the lower mana cost and deathtouch as and incentive, Ruthless Ripper could be a good alternative.

Scathain on The Assassination

7 years ago

I'd probably replace Hooded Assassin with Ruthless Ripper. That said, neat deck idea.

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