Needle Specter

Creature — Specter

Flying

Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)

Whenever Needle Specter deals combat damage to a player, that player discards that many cards.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Block Constructed	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
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (39)

Crow_Umbra on Felix Five-Boots - Reach for the Sky (v0.5)

1 week ago

Glad to see your Five-Boots list up like you mentioned! I'll definitely be keeping tabs on this as you make your changes and upgrades.

I checked out your Maybe List, and I'm glad to see that you have Spawnwrithe and Mist-Syndicate Naga; they were both some of my favorite "host bodies" for when I used to play Brokkos, Apex of Forever Mutate Voltron.

These are some cards I also used to run in Brokkos as host bodies, but I think they could do some work in Five-Boots, especially if you add in some of the Swords of X & Y, but check out Cephalid Constable and Needle Specter. Constable & Specter are much more immediately mean as hosts for Brokkos, but they could still be fairly disruptive with Five-Boots.

Crow_Umbra on Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor

1 week ago

As an additional example, Cold-Eyed Selkie is worded in a way so that you draw cards for the total amount of combat damage it deals.

Let's say Cold-Eyed Selkie is enchanted with a Rancor, and it connects for combat damage. If it connects with its full 3 damage, you will draw 3 cards.

Although their wordings have some similarities, their are some slight differences between "one or more" (Professional Face-Breaker, Grim Hireling, and Olivia, Opulent Outlaw), and "Whenever ~ deals combat damage to a player, X happens that many times" (Cephalid Constable, Cold-Eyed Selkie, and Needle Specter)

Gleeock on Haha Trust Me Dude, I'll Help You

1 year ago

Archon_Bel I threw Dreamstealer & Needle Specter in because Breena reliably pumps them up &, even in a vacuum, those 2 cards are such nutkickers when you can reliably pump. I've double triggered Breena onto one of them & had an opponent discarding 5 cards easily, I don't necessarily need any discard synergy to make them worthwhile. Also some of my reanimation pulls cards from my opponents' graveyards as well.

I do the same thing with lifelink, I don't neccessarily rely on lifegain, but lifelinking creatures are one of the better ones to be pumped when you have a reliable engine, so I throw in a bunch of lifelink aggro. Nullpriest of Oblivion is another one I like. One that probably meets halfway between our different strategies is Speaker of the Heavens.

A bunch of the new phyrexian things synergize well, that is the direction I saw the toxic/proliferate Breena deck going.

For me, Felisa, Fang of Silverquill was cut for Ratadrabik of Urborg. I do think guardian scalelord will playtest really well though.

If you end up leaning into the phyrexian build & run with "mites" you probably wouldn't miss Cathars' Crusade anyway :)

My deck is Birdlock, it may have some things that you like for the creature category anyway. Breena decks fascinate me because for whatever reason she is one of the Strixhaven precon commanders that I don't see explored as much. Alot of the decks don't deviate much from the precon build, yet she is so much stronger & more fun as a more aggressive build.

Gleeock on Haha Trust Me Dude, I'll Help You

1 year ago

Haha, yeah, I tend pump the agro-helpers more than the voltron to force that decision. Mistmeadow Skulk is a serious badass & since Breena's ability doesn't target, the protection isn't a non-bo. Likewise, Dreamstealer has built in recursion if you need it. Needle Specter becomes an instant threat with one combat instance. Voice of the Blessed becomes jacked easily.

I'm a fan of proliferate since Breena doesn't particularly lend herself to finishing wide as much as going midrange-tall, so usually I only have like maybe 4 creatures that I've truly pumped, then I can proliferate those +1/+1 counters at the very worst... but, the best-case scenario I am quickly ulting planeswalkers with it & pumping some low-cost critter. For a superfriends deck it is unusually agro & creature-dense (31 creatures). I've seen someone on here using proliferate with breena but with the infect/poison angle as a subtheme as well.

The new guardian scalelord will be one to look out for if you want recursion for non-land permanents.. It will be a shoe-in for me since I need ways to bring noncreatures back & you know how easy it is to meet power requirements with Breena

carpecanum on Look Mom, No Hands!

1 year ago

Honden of Night's Reach, Needle Specter

Tergrid, God of Fright  ^Flip is broken in discard decks

Coward_Token on Irenicus' Experimental "Donations"

1 year ago

Oh speaking of which, if you end up (partially) reconsidering, Needle Specter & Dreamstealer synergizes well with the counters without irritating the controller. Haven't found a lot of other good scaling creatures in UB, mostly milling related and that's risky with all the GY strategies around

Cosmoesis on Curse me love

2 years ago

Not curses but curse adjacent flavor in goading: (12 suggestions) 1)Shiny Impetus 2)Psychic Impetus 3)Parasitic Impetus 4)Disrupt Decorum 5)Vengeful Ancestor 6)Bloodthirsty Blade 7)Karazikar, the Eye Tyrant 8)Jeering Homunculus 9)Goblin Racketeer 10)Grenzo, Havoc Raiser 11)Coveted Peacock 12)Kardur, Doomscourge

Other Curse like things with wither: (12 suggestions - some of these aren't very good and can be left out) 1)Stigma Lasher 2)Fang Skulkin 3+4)Nest of Scarabs + Corrosive Mentor 5)Everlasting Torment 6)Needle Specter 7)Midnight Banshee 8)Kulrath Knight 9)Necroskitter 10)Fists of the Demigod 11)Cinderbones 12)Oona's Gatewarden

Add 12 more lands (36 cards suggested total) + 56 cards currently on the list = 92 cards

Remaining 8 slots should be card draw, removal and Board-wipes (15 suggestions here) 1)Rhystic Study 2)Erebos, God of the Dead 3)Wheel of Misfortune 4)Shadowmage Infiltrator 5)Phyrexian Arena 6)Eye of Vecna 7)Blue Sun's Zenith 8)Tragic Slip 9)Go for the Throat 10)Doom Blade 11)Feed the Swarm 12)Ravenform 13)Chaos Warp 14)Damnation 15)Ritual of Soot

king-saproling on Brokkos of the Bog (Mutate EDH)

3 years ago

Cool deck. You might like these: Cephalid Constable , Needle Specter , Dreamstealer , Wild Beastmaster , Cultivator of Blades , Nacatl War-Pride , Mist-Syndicate Naga , Spawnwrithe , Blade of Selves , Temur Sabertooth