Sanctuary Blade

Artifact — Equipment

As Sanctuary Blade becomes attached to a creature, choose a colour.

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has protection from the most recent chosen colour.

Equip {3}

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	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
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (10)

griffstick on Unblockable artifact creature

1 month ago

Crypsis

Sanctuary Blade

Sword of Fire and Ice all the swords of cycle

Etched Champion

Commander's Plate

Also if you want to try Rebbec, Architect of Ascension, you might find it easier to have unblockable creatures

legendofa on Boros Legion

2 years ago

EDH evaluation isn't really my strong point, but here's what I got.

Daru Warchief is reliable Soldier tribal support, and Cenn's Tactician offers another 1-drop creature.

I'm not really seeing the purpose of Eldrazi Conscription. It's a good card, but it doesn't offer much to the go-wide, strength in numbers approach that Soldier tribal decks usually take. I also don't see a way to get it out quickly and reliably, so it's just kind of there.

Related to this, any effect that pumps a single creature probably isn't worth it. Sanctuary Blade, Angelic Gift, Eternal Thirst, and Gift of Orzhova in particular don't seem right for this deck.

I see a lifegain subtheme, which is fine as long as it works. How often does Angelic Accord trigger? Unless it's going off every turn, that's another one that can be taken out. Outside of that, I don't see any other payoffs for the lifegain. If you don't have any reason to include it other than "not losing," I would also drop Take Heart; there are better combat tricks.

Duress seems out of place, and doesn't really contribute anything to your soldiers. Champion of the Parish would be better served in a more Human-focused deck, since many of your creatures and almost of your tokens don't have the Human subtype.

Makeshift Battalion and Skymarch Bloodletter are generally pretty weak creatures.

For upgrades and replacements, you have some budget room, so I'm going to try to use that up. Rootborn Defenses should be Heroic Intervention, to save mana and get hexproof for your stuff instead of another 1/1 token. Switch Navigator's Compass for another mana rock that can provide mana instead of just changing it, like Fellwar Stone. Unless you regularly see regeneration, like multiple times every match, Dreadbore is better than Terminate.

Your lands are generally pretty slow, and I don't recommend the bounce lands (Rakdos Carnarium and friends) without a specific purpose beyond simply mana fixing. If you can, get the shocklands (Blood Crypt and friends) in their place. There are other land cycles as well for every level of budget. Look for ones that give the option to enter untapped. Clifftop Retreat is a good start. The Luxury Suite cycle (I forget what the nickname is) can get expensive, but if you can afford the investment are definitely worth it.

When looking for cuts, keep one question in mind: "How does this help advance my strategy?" If the answer is only "Because it's a Soldier" or "Because it gains me life," it's probably cuttable. Soldiers in particular are a very synergistic tribe, and ideally every card should help support every other card.

Hope this helps!

metuhs on Not hot enough for you?

2 years ago

I really like the build. There's quite a few cards I can think of that might be nice in here. Basilisk Collar is cheap alternative to Loxodon Warhammer, Blasphemous Act and Toralf, God of Fury  ^Flip have very interesting reactions with Repercussion and Chandra's Incinerator goes infinite with it, Heartstone decreases the cost of Ashlings ability which can really boost her once it's mixed with mana doublers, Leyline Tyrant would let you hold up mana for Ashling on opponents turns and stockpile it for later use, Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle seems like a nice choice given your land count and the presence of Vesuva and Thespian's Stage, Walking Atlas, Sword of the Animist and Ghirapur Orrery might help with ramping up for big plays, Stigma Lasher is a bit niche but if you can target it with Chandra's Ignition Lifegain decks are done for the rest of the game. Smoke and Price of Glory are nice stax pieces that shouldn't impact you too heavily given your low creature and instant count. Any one of Mogg Maniac, Brash Taunter and Stuffy Doll should all fit nicely given Ashlings explosive potential. Arcbond is a near guaranteed win against creature heavy decks. The Immortal Sun is a nearly strictly better Staff of Nin. Scrap Mastery might be a nice recovery from late game artifact wipes, or intense mill strategies. Sanctuary Blade is just as good as any of the swords at protecting Ashling and Hammer of Nazahn is nearly essential in such an equipment heavy deck, The Ozolith would help recover if Ashling gets popped before you can blow her up yourself. Harsh Mentor and Spellshock can keep infinite combos out of reach of those pesky combo players. Brass's Bounty and Reiterate can get you to infinite treasures/mana with enough lands in play and of course Ruby Medallion fits in nearly every red deck.

berryjon on Personal Play moments you are …

2 years ago

So, we play Commander here. What moments are you proud of accomplishing?

For myself, what got me to start this thread was last night for casual Commander. I was rolling my Killian Voltron deck that I was refining for Pattern Recognition, an my Turn 1 play was Vorpal Sword, Turn 2 Killian, then careful threat assessment and removal with a Sanctuary Blade set to for near total protection from creatures.

Then I got the magic number of mana. . Opponent 3 is told "No, I'm not swinging at you. #1 and #2 are threats." So he uses his turn to take out Opponent 1's Vorinclex. I then take out Opponent 1 on my turn. Next turn, Opponent 2. Opponent three lucks into Koma, but there's no way for him to block the activation of the Blade or have enough non-green creatures to throw in the way. He makes it clear that I can go for it, and Killian takes out all three opponents with the Vorpal Blade.

I was over the moon with that, that's for sure.

So, what moments in Commander are you guys proud of accomplishing?

griffstick on Let them fight! (Godzilla)

2 years ago

Wayward Swordtooth

Steel Leaf Champion

Bonecrusher Giant

Territorial Hellkite

Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion

Sunder Shaman

Bonesplitter

Sanctuary Blade

Bloodforged Battle-Axe

Blazing Sunsteel

Trepanation Blade

Ogre's Cleaver

O-Naginata

Heirloom Blade

Grafted Wargear

Barbed Battlegear

Phyrexian11 on God of Thunder and Love

3 years ago

I'm not sure of previous versions of this deck, but I have some cards I think you should add, plus some cards I think you should either just consider replacing or simply just take out. We'll start with the ADD list.

ADD:

• Earthquake and/or Rolling Earthquake (You already have an effect like this in Subterranean Tremors , but this also hits players, so you'll deal EXTRA damage on top of the extra damage from the commander.)

• Arcane Signet (You have Fire Diamond , but not Arcane Signet?)

• Starstorm (An effect like many others, but this one has cycling.)

• Fire Servant (It's not the cheapest creature, but it has an ability that you might want more of. You can always use more damage doubling.)

• Mana Geyser (Look, it's just a good card to get a lot of mana quickly. Not super necessary, but it's fast mana in R)

• Heartless Hidetsugu (I'm just suggesting this one because cutting your opponents down to 20 is great and makes killing them easier.)

• Seething Song (Fast Mana good.)

• Seize the Spoils (I noticed a lack of card draw, and this is a pretty neat mono-red card draw spell.)

• Endless Atlas (Again, card draw, and it's cheap and consistent.)

• Genesis Chamber (Yeah, it requires your opponents to be playing creatures a bit, but it makes it just that much easier to kill them. Plus the Myr generated are all 1/1s, so they will easily let excess damage through from the rest of the deck.)

• Sanctuary Blade (A little expensive on the equip side, but this is another consitent way to give your commander pro-red.)

• Sword of Sinew and Steel / Sword of War and Peace (You have Sword of Fire and Ice , so why not have more of the red ones?)

• Chandra, Awakened Inferno (Her + kills your opponents faster, her - does what you commander wants, her -X is neat. I think she's all around a great inclusion.)

• Chandra, Torch of Defiance (Okay, so now is where I admit that you only had 1 planeswalker and I talk about how much I like Planeswalker cards. I think they're cool and fun. This specific one is great beacause she either gives you mana or draws you a card, essentially. Her two differ +1's are really the only reason, but her ult is something your opponents wont want to have go off, either.)

• Caged Sun (More Mana in mono-red.)

Subtract:

• Ignite the Future (It's too expensive for what it does. You can better spend the mana on a Chandra, Torch of Defiance or something. Yeah, it's kind of card draw, but you can do better.)

• Pyroblast (Unless this is for a VERY SPECIFIC meta where you are going against mean U decks, this will be more frustrating in hand than useful, I think. Plus, color-specific hate like this just feels out of place in this format, unless, of course, your meta is particularly skewed a certain way.)

• Red Elemental Blast (See Above.)

• Tibalt's Trickery (Yeah, cool counterspell, but I think the deck should focus more on itself, personally.)

• Wheel of Fate (There are better, and faster, ways to draw cards. I like the idea of this card, but in having played it over and over again, either it never actually resolves -like the game ends- or it just feels like a relative waste because people can see it coming and plan ahead.)

• Fire Diamond (Replace this with Arcane Signet . It's just better.)

• Lavabrink Floodgates (To be fair, I've never played with this card, but OH BOY does it seem bad. If you're not proliferating the counters, then this will NEVER go off if your opponents don't want it to, and they would never want it to with this deck, unless a board-wipe JUST happened and there are not creatures. So then it's just a 4-drop mana rock producing 2, and you can just replace it with something better like Caged Sun that will help you Earthquake for a win faster.

• Arch of Orazca (I noticed in your mana base that you have 13 lands that tap for colorless. That seems like too many for me - it's almost the same number of Snow-Covered Mountain s you have. So I am recommending removing some. I get why this one is here, for the card draw, but this is SO EXPENSIVE. I don't even run it in my colorless Emrakul deck.)

• Great Furnace (I like this card, I really do. I LOVE artifacts. But without any artifact synergies, this is more likely do get Shatter ed or Vandalblast ed than actually help you, and that'll feel bad. Just replace it with a Snow-Covered Mountain .)

• Hanweir Battlements  ^Flip (Same reason for the colorless mana, and I don't really see many reasons other than, maybe 2 creatures for the need for haste, but it's not a necessity to be removed.)

• Leyline of Punishment (I get that this is here to make it harder for your opponents to survive or heal up, but honestly, just play Heartless Hidetsugu or something else to keep life totals low. This one is often going to feel more like a do-nothing enchantment unless your meta is HEAVY life-gain.)

• Treasonous Ogre (Fast mana, sure, but it seemed overall pretty meh to me in this deck. It's better at killing you than it is at providing mana in this specific deck, I think.)

• Varchild, Betrayer of Kjeldor (The effect is important for making sure you opponents have creatures, but getting her to hit you opponents before they have blockers is going to be a challenge, and if you draw her late-game, then she's just a 3/3 blocker.)

• Bonfire of the Damned (The miracle cost is cool, but most of the time I think you'd rather something like Earthquake that will most likely hit almost all of their creatures AND more than 1 opponent/opponent's board. Plus, if this isn't Miracle'd, then this is pretty trash in your hand.)

I'm sure I said add more cards than take out, and I know I said take out a couple lands, but not really add any, but I hope this is helpful.

KongMing on Gallia's Endless Revel

3 years ago

Living Hive might be a little slow, but it spawns attackers when attacking, and encourages opponents to block it instead of your satyrs.

Akroma's Memorial is another big add, but maybe too high of a power level for this deck?

Speaking of satyrs with pro black, Chameleon Colossus could be fun (what, it's not a satyr?) The +1/+1 and haste it gets from Gallia make it a great mana sink if you just wanna generate a ton of damage on the fly and can get it through somehow.

Polis Crusher kinda fits into the Theros theme. Takes a lot of mana to power up, though.

Sanctuary Blade can give Gallia protection, making it easier to get that commander damage through.

You only have 34 lands and not enough mana dorks/rocks to justify it... Needs more mana!!! Cryptolith Rite might be handy.

Monomanamaniac on Balan, One-Punch Woman

3 years ago

FounderX thank you for the upvote! I appreciate the suggestion, though I don't know what I'd take out to slot it. I kinda use Sanctuary Blade in the same role this card would fill. It's a decent suggestion, but I don't really think it goes well with my theme and it doesn't get Balan any closer to having double strike. Still, I'll definitely consider it thank you