Mistford River Turtle

Creature — Turtle

Whenever Mistford River Turtle attacks, another target attacking non-Human creature can't be blocked this turn.

Legality

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
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (10)

seshiro_of_the_orochi on

2 years ago

So I'll assume Phase Dolphin and Mistford River Turtle are to slow for Pioneer? Another card that might be useful is Dive Down . Question: Is Rapid Hybridization pioneer legal? If not, you could consider Generous Gift as a very versatile removal spell. The 3/3 won't be a problem since all of your creatures will overpower them easily.

seshiro_of_the_orochi on

2 years ago

I like this deck, and I like how Charix is somewhat of a foil for Moraug, Fury of Akoum (which is one of my most favourite commanders).

For Charix, it seems being able to manipulate the number of lands under your control in both directions. For putting out additional lands, Ghirapur Orrery and Patron of the Moon seem great. To bounce your own lands, any Soratami, e.g. Meloku the Clouded Mirror or Uyo, Silent Prophet can be very useful.

A card I really like to push through a fatty is Mistford River Turtle, and Phase Dolphin is the same but a little smaller. They'd also help with your lack of early blockers.

Whispersilk Cloak is a great voltron card, the same goes for Fireshrieker. One final suggestion I recently included in Moraug is Oblivion Sower. It's simply terrific in non-green lands-decks.

seshiro_of_the_orochi on Favorite Janky Cards?

3 years ago

Angler Turtle, Meandering Towershell and Mistford River Turtle. The first one is an insane finisher/control-card, the second one is a flavour-bomb with a surprising lot of utility, and the third is actually a pseudo turtle-lord.

A card I havent used yet that I'd love to is Belligerent Brontodon. Maybe I should build Bant Butt Strike soon...

Murphy77 on Simic standard

3 years ago

It is generally a good idea to choose cards that best work in your planned deck and stick with multiples of those cards. Having singles of good cards really does nothing because you will have a small chance of drawing them.

Looking at your deck, 2 strategies stand out - being able to add to the attack power of creatures and being able to attack with unblockable creatures.

Yes, using the effect of Phase Dolphin, or Mistford River Turtle to get in some attacks that can't be blocked can be a great strategy. The problem is the cmc of cards in your combinations and the amount of time that you need to set up combos. I would tend to stick with Phase Dolphin to allow unblockable attacks by Lorescale Coatl and Thieving Otter.

You then need to speed up your card draw and play speed of your deck. Growth Spiral will work to get extra draws and thin down your deck, increasing your chances of drawing the cards that you want. Primal Empathy can build on creature power or card-draw. Keep Safe gives you some protection from your opponent's spells, but also helps with a bit of card draw.

I would want Moss Viper for early creature presence and Maraleaf Pixie for early mana-ramp.

For me, the cherry on the top of this delight would be Hydra's Growth which will give you ridiculously large attacking creatures, very quickly.

That is 9 core cards. 4 of each and a land-base built to support them, should give you a very strong deck.

Yoshypt on Simic standard

3 years ago

First standard deck built with cards from a few drafts, play group only building decks with cards since throne of eldraine

With Mistford River Turtle and Phase Dolphin to help some creatures go through, both for card draw and big creatures

Shimmerwing Chimera so I can bounce Kenrith's Transformation and Warbriar Blessing if needed

Any suggestions are welcomed

seshiro_of_the_orochi on TMNT

3 years ago

This is a great flavourful deck, I love it. May I suggest Mistford River Turtle as either Donatello (giving his brothers the tech to unblocked) or Rafael (aka the tank of the team)?

seshiro_of_the_orochi on Card creation challenge

4 years ago

DragonOfTheWest: You just made me realize that Mistford River Turtle us a great card for both Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow and Ezuri, Claw of Progress . Thank you!

seshiro_of_the_orochi on SUPER BUDGET ARCADES

4 years ago

The landbase seems a little too simple for a 3-colour-deck. May I suggest du add at least Evolving Wilds and Terramorphic Expanse ? They aren't expensive and help a lot. Primal Druid and Wild-Field Scarecrow are fitting ramp/fixing options, and Scaretiller might be worth a look, as well.

You should play copies of each High Alert , Assault Formation and Belligerent Brontodon as backups for your commander. Wakestone Gargoyle might be very useful as well.

Two more interesting options are Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive and Mistford River Turtle to make your walls unblockable. Oh, and a way to give your creatures vigilance seems importan as well ( Always Watching is fine for that). Three more nifty cards for toughness-decks are Bident of Thassa , Angler Turtle and Profaner of the Dead .

Keep up the work, you definitely are on a good way.