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| 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 |
| Oldschool 93/94 | Legal |
| Pauper | Legal |
| Pauper Duel Commander | Legal |
| Pauper EDH | Legal |
| Planechase | Legal |
| Quest Magic | Legal |
| Vanguard | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
Ifh-Biff Efreet
Creature — Efreet
Flying
(Green): Ifh-Biff Efreet deals 1 damage to each creature with flying and each player. Any player may play this ability.
FlavorPolice on
Selvala Brostorm
3 years ago
I have a few questions about high power Selvala builds that haven't really seen discussion at all, even as to why they are bad (I preface all of this with stating that obviously the deck is strong/fast, I'm just wondering why I never saw any of these things discussed):
Sword of the Paruns: clearly a similar but worse version of Umbral Mantle in more than one way, but a possible redundancy for a card that the deck can't search up and has to draw.
More than a few of the win cons for the deck require winning via combat damage even if it is infinite, which generally from what I've seen in cEDH games isn't as good as winning without combat due to the extra vectors of interaction you give your opponents to stop you. Having your combo finish being impossible to interact with as possible always seems to be beneficial, it's what makes the strongest combos what they are. Obviously there is one particular loop possible where you destroy all your opponents permanents, but if you don't do that and swing with haste or pass to the next turn with infinite creatures you could still have issues. Also, Beast Within isn't searchable by the deck.
So I have a couple of cards to ask about for that.
Helix Pinnacle: Clearly it requires you to wait until your next upkeep which isn't great. But if I were going to sit for a turn before winning, with my opponents having permanents or not, I would expect getting a 'you win' effect off an enchantment with Shroud would be superior to needing to swing. The only thing that I'm really curious about is the lack of any talk about it even to say it's bad most places I looked.
Aetherflux Reservoir: You're basically storming off so just kill people without attacking? Not searchable though clearly.
'Hurricane' effects, there are a few so I won't link them all. The downside is they hit you too, but in this style of deck it's not to hard to gain some incidental life. Primal Command already does this, tweaks could be made to have better consistency. The upside is you only need to have more life than your opponents and it doesn't require you have reached infinite mana yet, just that you have accumulated a lot. I only bring this up because in the past I had played a 60 card deck in casual that was essentially a sort of 'green high tide' deck that also made lots of mana and drew lots of cards and it wasn't super hard to gain a touch of life along the way and then Hurricane the table down as the win; that deck did so through land ramp mostly, so a critical card in that deck like Fruition doesn't really suit this deck and would be more at home in a Tatyova or Azusa for sure, but Primal Command is already present in some lists and does the job. It is worth noting that there are several creatures, which the deck could actually tutor, that can do this either through looping or just having a repeatable ability:
Ender666666 on
Ctrl-G | Fear the Forest
4 years ago
Hi exiled69, those are both cards that are difficult to replace. I suppose that Squallmonger can do an Ifh-Biff Efreet impersonation, but Gaea's Cradle is pretty unique, and we already run Growing Rites of Itlimoc Flip
SirFowler on Ifh-Biff Efreet in PDH
5 years ago
I wanna make a mono green PDH deck and it says Ifh-Biff Efreet is a common in the Masters Edition, but the color is gold which usually means that a card is rare. Is this just a site error or is it actually legal in PDH?
Cloudius on
Life is Like A Hurricane
5 years ago
SFCD Thanks for the feedback. I've changed the font, let me know if this is better.
Never thought of Ifh-Biff Efreet. Will add this to the Maybeboard.
Ender666666 on
Ctrl-G | Fear the Forest
6 years ago
So I'm considering my options and am tempted to cut Seer's Sundial in favour of Ifh-Biff Efreet.
Thoughts?
chaoswalker on
Mono G flying
6 years ago
Some stuff you could consider
Uktabi Drake: Aggro
Ifh-Bff Efreet: Against green this is suicide, but against everyone else this is a 3/3 flying for 4
Giant Dustwasp: Great draw in an opening hand. Not so great later.
Scryb Sprites: I mean... it's as effecient as flyers get for green.
Skinshifter: Does this count?
Faerie Noble: lol you ready for that green faerie tribal?
MonoBrown on
6 years ago
Playtest vs. Avacyn -- White Power and Saint Traft's Silent-Commander, Odric
lol so it was a slow game until this deck managed to -7 Nissa, Worldwaker with Retreat to Kazandu on the field. Gained 42 life and put Omnath down. This should go well.
White Power exiled Omnath. Silent Commander hit this deck for 36 in the air, with lifelink. This deck hits Silent commander for 48, no blockers. White Power is useless. Silent Commander hits this deck for 40 in the air and this deck dies, hits White Power for 32, all of it's lifelink so Silent Commander has 128 life. Silent Commander wins handily on turn 13.So Omnath performed really well, much better than my Avacyn deck which got crippled by one board wipe early on. If it weren't for Entreat the Angels paid at Miracle cost Omnath would've definitely won.
So, unsurprisingly, this deck has a problem with flyers. For sure, I think you need Tornado Elemental and Cloudthresher. Hornet Queen, Arashi, the Sky Asunder, Squallmonger, Hurricane, Squall Line, Raking Canopy, and Silklash Spider could help. Akroma's Memorial and Ifh-Biff Efreet would be pretty killer, I think, if you're willing to pay for them.
Anyway, well done!
