Retribution of the Meek

Sorcery

Destroy all creatures with power 4 or greater. They can't be regenerated.

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
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (51)

Crow_Umbra on Fat Bottom Felothar

3 months ago

If you're looking for another removal option, I'd recommend checking out Retribution of the Meek as another Slaughter the Strong effect.

Cool deck! If I wasn't already brewing and editing some other stuff at the moment, I think I'd be brewing Felothar or one of the Sultai options.

Apoptosis on Smile all the way

3 months ago

In: Tragic Arrogance Out: Retribution of the Meek

In: Volrath's Stronghold, Temple of Malice Out: 1 swamp and 1 mountain

Crow_Umbra on Alesha, Who Blinks at Death EDH

1 year ago

Solid updates! Olá da Califórnia! Eu gostaria de estar no Carnaval em vez de estar trabalhando na próxima semana haha.

My last couple suggestions for this deck:

• If you're looking for a board wipe alternative to Dusk / Dawn, I'd recommend Slaughter the Strong or Retribution of the Meek. Dusk is kinda awkward since it still kills Alesha, & Dawn is also kinda clunky because it returns all your stuff to hand, except Alesha.

• If you need a mass reanimation spell, I'd recommend Living Death since it can also double as a board wipe, or Lich-Knights' Conquest which is kinda like a more surgical, but narrow Living Death. Lich-Knight's Conquest might be a bit harder to pull off in this deck, since you run some but not a lot of creature token creation.

I'll take a look at your Judith deck a bit later & see if there are any suggestions I can think of. Other than that, your revisions here are looking good!

K4m4r0 on Nobody has the intention of building a Wall

1 year ago

A bit torn on The Battle of Bywater. If I'd run Retribution of the Meek this would be an easy swap, but is it better than Wave of Reckoning or Fell the Mighty? Way cheaper yes, but also as powerful? Would be really good for the cmc, but Food won't do much for us in this deck.

Also Shire Scarecrow can be good for mana fixing, but I have no clue what to take out :D

DreadKhan on Need help ruining a combo players day

1 year ago

Thorn of Amethyst, Glowrider, Sphere of Resistance, Vryn Wingmare, and Eidolon of Rhetoric all exist, but I'm guessing they didn't make the cut?

Retribution of the Meek might be a reasonable wipe with so many smaller creatures, ditto Elspeth, Sun's Champion. If a wipe is one sided it's not just resetting the board, not sure how many of these you're willing to run. Elspeth makes a small army, much better at blocking than the Samurai from Wanderer fwiw, but Wanderer is really strong too. Smothering Tithe is great with Stasis out, Brago, King Eternal might be fun too. If people are running obnoxious stuff, you could run Enlightened Tutor to find your Stasis/Tithe cards as needed, Muddle the Mixture can find both Stasis or Brave the Sands, while also being a counterspell. If you like Stasis, you could also try Static Orb, Meekstone, Crackdown or even Winter Orb/Rising Waters, not sure how hostile you want to be but Stasis is harsher than these. How often do you cast Approach of the Second Sun in here? I ask because there are a lot of tax effects, but if it's not trouble have you thought about running some tutors to find it? The best ones I can think of are Mystical Tutor, Personal Tutor, and Solve the Equation, they can also find other cards as needed, handy if you need removal, a wipe or a counter.

As for alternatives that can do similar things, you might look at either Zur the Enchanter or Hinata, Dawn-Crowned as alternatives that offer more offensive punch while still offering a solid route to shutting the table down. Zur can dig out enchantments like Rule of Law, Stasis (and Black Market Connections) and various ways to fairly quickly win the game, all while being able to hold up lots of mana for interaction, be it counters or removal. Hinata is another tax effect, but you get access to Red as well, and Red has some interesting additions to the Stax department, you'd definitely want Grand Arbiter in your Hinata deck, and you'd run most of the same cards, but you also have the option of running a bunch of cards that care about Hinata's discount, Hinata makes interaction better, especially if it has multiple targets, the annoying thing for both is that they're much harder to cast than Grand Arbiter, so you'd have to raise your budget to have the same consistency. The big problem with Zur is protecting him. If there are literally specific players you know are a problem you can run either Baral, Chief of Compliance or Talrand, Sky Summoner, Baral is better at playing 'Counter Everything' but Talrand can be just offensively good vs a specific player since he also is generating evasive bodies while interacting with that player's win attempts. The nice thing about he mono-Blue approach is you can just brutalize a player or two while letting the others play a smaller (but more normal) game.

Oh, if those players run specific colours (and nobody else likes them as much) there are old school colour hosers, cards like Karma can make life extremely hard. They exist for all colours, and they were so staggeringly unpopular that the developer stopped printing cards like it.

mlequesne on Power ≤ 2 Tribal

1 year ago

I love your deck, the idea is great. In my opinion you lack some control, so I would suggest some one sided board wipes like Retribution of the Meek and the new The Battle of Bywater. There are other options like Crackdown, Elspeth, Sun's Champion or Dusk / Dawn

see you friend :)

SufferFromEDHD on Pramikon, The Wall of Stall

2 years ago

Retribution of the Meek would be another upgrade to the 8 and 9 cost removal.

Peacekeeper too much?

Orim's Chant the white time walk. Only suggesting this because you are running the neat Mandate of Peace. I think both fit the theme of the deck.

Long-Term Plans has potential.

Are the flicker effects for Pramikon? Clever. This list has graveyard recursion for enchantments via Hall of Heliod's Generosity so maybe Teleportation Circle?

Crow_Umbra on Alesha Aristocrats

2 years ago

Overall I think your deck is solid and has many of the core components an Alesha deck would want. I do have some recommendations on potential cuts and swaps.

Potential cuts

• Cathars' Crusade - I don't think it's super helpful for this deck, as most Alesha decks aren't really aiming to go wide and swing a big board at multiple opponents, especially if you are more combo focused as you seem to be.

• Dusk / Dawn - In general I think you can safely run 2 board wipes in this deck. The Dawn part of the card is kind of counter-intuitive since you would want those creatures returned to your board instead of your hand. This was a card I cut from my build fairly early.

• Ruinous Ultimatum - Mostly because of the restrictive and higher mana cost. I've used this in both Alesha and Isshin at various points of each build and ultimately cut it due to having games where my mana wasn't perfectly fixed to accommodate the cost, mostly because I had some colorless mana rocks or utility lands.

Stuff to consider for swap-ins

• Burning Inquiry - Can round out your suite of looting effects and also throw opponents off kilter if they chuck stuff they would want to keep. Def a risk/reward element.

• Gamble - Another tutor effect that can potentially chuck something into your graveyard that you might want there anyways.

• Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim - Another aristocrat that can cushion your life a bit.

• Loran of the Third Path - Another reusable ETB removal effect, and a strategic/political drawing option.

• Mayhem Devil - An aristocrat option that also punishes your opponents running sacrifice effects.

• Retribution of the Meek - Ditto as Slaughter the Strong.

• Slaughter the Strong - A wipe effect that Alesha can dodge, and is lower on cmc than some of the other options you're currently running.

• Tocasia's Welcome - Another draw option. Currently 17 of your 33 creatures, including Alesha, are 3 cmc or less. Would also trigger from your Preston and Jaxis tokens.

• Yahenni, Undying Partisan - Another Free sac-outlet, and a potential aggro option or decent blocker if needed.

I hope these suggestions are helpful. I'd be happy to chat more about your play experiences with Alesha so far, and maybe looking for other pieces that might be able to better help what you're trying to pull off. Cheers!