Ozolith, the Shattered Spire

Legendary Artifact

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on an artifact or creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.

{1}{G}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target artifact or creature you control. Activate this ability only as a sorcery.

Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Brawl	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
Pioneer	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Pre-release	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Standard	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (19)

NV_1980 on Variable Power *PRIMER*

2 months ago

Thanks for the upvote and your feedback Profet93. Honestly I've been contemplating this change for a while. Reason I've not done it yet, is because during games not that many new strength 4+ creatures entered the BF on my side. But I could rely almost always on having at least one such creature on the BF (I've experienced very few opponents deciding to remove Rosheen herself during games), so in that sense Majesty has been very reliable. Therefore, if I would put one of your suggestions in, it's more likely that I would do so in exchange for another permanent that's been less instrumental in provding me with victories. Maybe something like Ozolith, the Shattered Spire. I'll give it some more thought.

Angel_Zero on Bant's combo

3 months ago

Not sure about satyr enchanter with only 8 enchantments. 2 Snakeskin Veil might be perfect! Protect sage and get two counters on it. Ozolith, the Shattered Spire seems like a must have here too.

Master_J on Laser Beams

3 months ago

OUT:Temple of the False God, Alharu, Solemn Ritualist, Path of the Pyromancer, Ichor Elixir, Fractured Powerstone

IN: Karn's Bastion, Grumgully, the Generous, Ozolith, the Shattered Spire, Kami of Whispered Hopes, Kodama of the West Tree

Starting with a first round of generally obvious upgrades. Planechase is used so sparingly that any card that is generally only useful during Planechase comes out. As well as budget lands like Temple, and over costed bodies for little gain.

Balaam__ on Apotheosis

6 months ago

Thanks DMFF. I mention Hardened Scales and the budget ceiling somewhere in the description, so that one’s out, and unfortunately so is The Ozolith (for the same reason). But Ozolith, the Shattered Spire is one I haven’t seen before and is in the allotted price range, so I went ahead and added it to the maybeboard until an eventual revision. Thanks for the suggestions!

DMFF on Apotheosis

6 months ago

Really neat idea. I like the way the deck moves counters around. Have you tried out Hardened Scales, The Ozolith and Ozolith, the Shattered Spire? I feel all 3 of these would help your game plan considerably.

wallisface on Progress and Poverty

10 months ago

Andromedus What i'm suggesting is that your gameplan is too fractured/disjointed imo. If your main stragegy is around Hushbringer, then there's not really a lot of point to playing Hardened Scales (or Ozolith, the Shattered Spire) at all.

I think the biggest issue you're going to run into is that Hushbringer is, at-best a sideboard card. Trying to base your strategy around it is going to be super-awkward, because there is a huge percentage of the modern meta that doesn't use creature-etb effects at all. Notably from the top 15 decks in the meta, Hushbringer only hits 3 of them (Scam, Omnath, and Control, though control only-barely), while doing nothing to the other 12 decks (Creativity, Murktide, HammerTime, CrashingFootfalls, LivingEnd, Burn, UnderworldBreach, Tron, Yawgmoth, DomainZoo, HardenedScales, ThroughTheBreach). If your main gameplan does nothing in most matchups, then its probably time to consider why its in the mainboard. Added to that, Hushbringer is a nonbo with your own Anointed Peacekeeper.

I do really think that having 2 distinct things you care about, counters, and taxes, just makes the deck less efficient at doing either option effectively. Your tax-like effects are spread soo thin (and, as mentioned above, are incredibly narrow) that you're not going to really be disrupting the opponent much at all. And your cards that care about counters are all really slow/clumsy so will lead to being easily out-raced (I don't see these creatures outpacing any aggro or midrange builds).

Andromedus on Progress and Poverty

10 months ago

wallisface I appreciate the feedback. I think there may be some confusion as to how the deck works, which I'll straighten out in a write-up eventually.

It's really built around Hushbringer; any similarity with other strategies is purely incidental, and because those strategies don't use her they of course look completely different.

Running a full playset of Hardened Scales, for example, would be a disaster for this deck, as we run the risk of being flooded with scales with no counter generator. We can't throw modular creatures in as they would be impeded by Hushbringer.

I personally wouldn't call Ozolith, the Shattered Spire just a slower version of scales, because it can function as a counter generator (and, as a mana sink, synergizes with Archon of Emeria).

For Aether Vial I'll play around with a full set. It may be the better choice.

Cheers.

wallisface on Progress and Poverty

10 months ago

Some thoughts:

• Running only a single copy of Hardened Scales seems very weird, especially as you're running Ozolith, the Shattered Spire, which is just a slower version of Scales. You should really be running the full playset of Hardened Scales before even considering running any Ozolith, the Shattered Spire.

• If you're running Aether Vial, you should probably be running the full playset.

• Your deck currently feels split between doing counters-related stuff, and tax-like effects. I think trying to split your resources between these two very-different plans dilutes both options too much to be useful. Imo you should either commit to a taxes strategy, or a counters strategy, and ditch the other one.