Shrieking Grotesque

Creature — Gargoyle

Flying

When Shrieking Grotesque enters the battlefield, if (Black) was spent to play Shrieking Grotesque, target player discards a card.

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
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (2)

Scion_of_Darkness on

5 years ago

+1 for Gargoyle Tribal!

Just a thought,

Shrieking Grotesque. Since Darklit Gargoyle has a activated ability that you may use, you could benefit from a little hand disruption, too. If you dipped into Black, that gives you access to Duress, Inquisition of Kozilek and Blackmail as well as Utter End and Terminate. Thoughtseize if your budget allows.

Since you have players revealing their hands, Voidstone Gargoyle to keep certain cards from being used, and maybe Sanctum Gargoyle for all the Artifacts in your deck.

For , I would replace the Warden of the Wall with Darksteel Ingot, and Needle Spires with Shambling Vent. All of the Darksteel in your deck, maybe a Darksteel Gargoyle and some board wipe effects.

C4X2 on

8 years ago

Hey HairyManBack, I saw your post and thought I would comment. I like the idea of the mana base and the interaction with Tilling Treefolk but I felt it t'was a tad clunky. But I also felt the interaction between the Ravnica bounce lands were especially strong (playing the cycling lands early then bouncing them back to hand w/ the bounce lands and cycling them) to the point were Tilling Treefolk's place in the deck was unneccesary (but please inform me if I'm wrong about that).

Also your creature choice is very interesting like running Shrieking Grotesque over a card like Yavimaya Elder, both provide card advantage but in different ways does the grotesque swing any particular matchups?

Also I understand running a card like Phyrexian Rager over a card like Read the Bones but the question is does the body of Phyrexian Rager make up for the extra card you draw off Read the Bones, in my experience it hasn't. Plus in a format filled with degenerate blue card draw I've found that Read the Bones has helped me more than the rager in that it lets me dig further for the more impactful cards in any given matchup like Qasali Pridemage for example.

Speaking of Qasali Pridemage why is he not in this list? I've found him to be the best creature in the deck tbh, attack as a 3/3 and has so much incidental splash damage against the format.

Also have you considered delve cards? Since you put a higher priority on getting lands into your graveyard then my brew did you could very reasonably be running Hooting Mandrills or Gurmag Angler.

Finally, I'm glad I inspired you to try taking on Abzan! It's a huge card pool and thee are so many things to be doing so feel free to ask me about whatever and I hope you do great with this deck because it looks good!