Ondu War Cleric

Creature — Human Cleric Ally

Cohort — {T}, Tap an untapped Ally you control: You gain 2 life.

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
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (50)

Simerix on Ally Commanders

3 years ago

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ZendikariWol on

4 years ago

The only real problem here is that none of the cards have any synergy, other than Ondu War Cleric and Serene Steward.

Yeah, these are all good cards, but a deck needs to be more than good cards to win the game.

eastly on Ally Drain

5 years ago

Deck Breakdown

I'm going to make hella recommendations for cards here. I'm not really sure what your budget is so I'll include cards that fall into the budget and non budget categories (Non budget mostly being a reasonable price, not the most optimal cards that tend to cost a ton of money.)

Mana Base Show

There are two things I want to address about the manabase. One is that your a bit heavy on lands, the bulk of your curve is in the 2 drop slot meaning often you should be pretty happy with just a couple of lands as long as you hit your lands later. I would try bringing it down by at least 7 lands.

Next is your mana base, you have the Ally Encampments which is good, but I would look into picking up a playset of dual lands to round out the manabase a little more. My go to budget option is: Scoured Barrens

Deck Focus and How Many Copies to Play Show

The primary goal of the deck is to drain your opponent of life. Gaining life tends to be a bonus that we can capitalize on, therefore cards that only gain life don't tend to play nice with the rest of the deck and slow down the time to kill. The biggest culprits are Ondu Cleric and Ondu War Cleric That being said, it doesn't mean we shouldn't run them at all. Which is what I want to talk about next.

TLDR: Every deck has themes that it uses to acheive it's goals, a deck can have sub-themes as well. For example, this is a Drain Deck with life gain and ally sub-themes. Almost every card should in some way compliment AT LEAST one of these strategies, Ideally every single card compliments the main theme, and builds upon one of the sub-themes. However, exceptions can be made. The question you have to ask yourself is: Does this card compliment my main theme? If not, is this card strong enough on it's own to warrent weakening my main theme

I'll give you the following advice, but I'll be vague so you can apply the theory yourself. I think that you have too many copies of Ondu Cleric but I don't think you should drop all of them. You should have at most 4 cards that cost 5 Mana. Cards that only serve to gain life are worth running only if they get incredibly powerful.

Removal Show

The deck lacks removal which constitutes cards that destroy other cards. My relatively cheap go tos are: Grasp of Darkness, Mortify, Anguished Unmaking, Murder

Cards you should know exist Show

• Blind Obedience
• Eerie Interlude
• Chalice of Life  ^Flip
• Read the Bones
• Palace Siege
• Bloodbond Vampire
• Serene Steward
• Expedition Envoy
• Really Epic Punch (I just like this one...)

PS: You have 61 cards rn

ticked-off-squirrel on Rally the Allies!

5 years ago

FluffyStormwise that is a good card but i dont have it. the Ondu War Cleric is the best i got for life gain not counting Lantern Scout though Ondu Cleric is common so there is a good chance i might pull one but i'd like two of them.

FluffyStormwise on Rally the Allies!

5 years ago

Hey! Love the basically all creature ally deck! I would suggest Ondu Cleric over Ondu War Cleric. It would give you much more life gain, without having to tap your allies.

DeadlyClaris on Amonkhet Approach of the Zombies

6 years ago

Removed Ondu War Cleric for an additional Tattered Mummy

Caerwyn on Amonkhet Approach of the Zombies

6 years ago

First off, welcome to Magic!

First improvement I would recommend making: improve your mana base. Cascading Cataracts does nothing for your deck, and should be cut. For a budget option, I would recommend adding four copies of Caves of Koilos and four copies of Tainted Field. Neither is particularly expensive, and will drastically improve your colour fixing.

Overall, I think you have too many cards that cost you 6+ mana--perhaps cut a few of your higher end cards, and add more easy-to-cast zombies. Zombies are a fairly aggressive tribe, so tend to work best when you flood the board with a massive horde in the early game.

I would also recommend running 4 copies of your most powerful/important low-mana-cost cards. Then run 3 copies of a bit higher costed cards. Your finishers--high costed cards that seal your victory--should generally be the only cards where you only run 1 or 2 copies.

Here are some suggestions of cards you might want to consider adding:

• Tidehollow Sculler is a pretty decent card as you can disrupt your opponents' plans by exiling the next card they are likely to cast.

• Endless Ranks of the Dead is a very fun win condition in a zombie deck.

• Death Baron and Cemetery Reaper are both pretty strong cards.

• Diregraf Colossus is quite a good card in zombies. In the early game, it comes in as a low power creature that will provide you numerous tokens as the game progresses. In the late game, it enters as a powerful creature and strong finisher.

Here are some cards I recommend cutting:

• Ondu War Cleric is a bad card, as you have to tap two creatures for a paltry two life. Further, you cannot actually use the card, as you are not running any other Allies.

• Never / Return is not that great. Sorcery speed removal is less than ideal, and spenind 4 mana for a 2/2 is pretty insignificant. Exiling a card from a graveyard is powerful against certain decks, but there are generally better ways to do this, if that is of concern to you.

• Stir the Sands is pretty mediocre. You are spending either 6 mana for 3 vanilla (lacking an ability) 2/2s, or 4 mana for one vanilla 2/2, and replacing the card in your hand. Neither are particularly good deals.

• Cruel Reality is not that great of a card. 7 mana is an extremely high amount of mana to play for something that does not outright win you the game. By the time you have 7 mana, they probably (a) have some extra creature to spare, and (b) the game is already close to the end of the game, and will not last long enough for Cruel Reality to make much of a difference.

Hope some of this helps!

ticked-off-squirrel on

6 years ago

here are a couple of suggestions for you for an ally deck:

Captain's Claws. a good ally token generator when the creature attacks, which is most likely.

Chasm Guide. why would you not give everyone haste from an ETB effect?

Zada's Commando. a great way to do cheap damage to a creature or player.

Ondu War Cleric. counterpart to Zada's Commando

Metallic Mimic. give all your allies an additional +1/+1. plus gain any ETB effects other allies would get/give.

Expedition Envoy a cheap ally creature good for scouting out what's ahead early on.