Shyft

Creature — Shapeshifter

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may have Shyft become the color or colors of your choice. (This effect doesn't end at end of turn.)

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
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (3)

LandoLRodriguez on [PRIMER] No One Ever Suspects the Hippo...

2 years ago

yaoster Yes, Mechtitan Core certainly fits the bill; its color identity makes it playable here, and it generates a five-color token that can satisfy HEA. However, with exactly zero artifact creatures and/or vehicles in the deck otherwise to satisfy its demanding sacrifice requirements, getting it to work would require quite an overhaul. While Mechtitan could certainly have a place in another HEA deck looking to get all its colors, it's not gonna work here. Good looking out though, thanks for the suggestion!

Mountainmammoth Thanks for all the suggestions! I did come across and consider Angel's Trumpet as this deck was forming. It's certainly a staple in a lot of pillow fort decks, and I hadn't considered how it could interact with a forcibly recruited hippo legion. It could be fun to play in this list and I think I'll stick in the maybeboard for now, but I'm finding that the games where this deck performs the best are ones in which attacking in general for all players is kept to a minimum. The trumpet definitely runs counter to that.

Angel of Destiny is interesting too, but I don't think will quite be on-theme here. I'm finding as I play that my best role is to sit back while the other three players drain each other out until I'm ready to finish everyone off. Some games certainly develop a clear problem player, but I've had success enabling the other players to take care of them rather than doing so myself. I'm not trying to single anyone out myself, which appears to be this angel's wheelhouse. I also don't attack nearly enough for the lifegain angle to help much.

Elixir of Immortality I'm definitely familiar with. I run it in my Windgrace deck to get my basic lands back in my library once I've fetched them all out. I still have yet to run into anyone playing a legit mill strategy to feel like I need to gear this deck to account for it. Mill is just what I feel is the least satisfying way to lose a game of Magic so I always keep it in mind, but is more or less moot so far. From a recursion angle, having a card I need in my library is definitely better than having it in my GY, but getting it into my hand or into play from there is still a challenge that elixir doesn't address. The couple of new cards from Neon Dynasty I'm including/going to include should help a lot in this regard.

Shyft, on the other hand, I kind of love. It does exactly what I want it to do for a HEA win, albeit very slowly. It would need to be in play at the start of two consecutive turns (one to change colors, a second to trigger HEA) to work, but it could get the job done. It has a truly unimpressive stat line: a 4/2 with no combat abilities for 5 mana? This card really is kind of awful, but it strangely fits in here, as long as I want to spare a slot for a card solely to enable HEA. A second slot, really, since Planewide Celebration is more or less in here just for that reason too, although it provides a lot more flexibility if I need it for something else. I'll probably pick up a copy and keep it on hand to slot in once in a while, if for no reason other than seeing my opponent's wondering why I'm playing this train wreck of a card. I dig the art too. Thanks a ton for all the suggestions, especially Shyft. I can't believe I didn't come across it while I was digging.

Mountainmammoth on [PRIMER] No One Ever Suspects the Hippo...

2 years ago

Also a blue creature that can change its color permanently is a Shyft. Could help you get the red and black permanent you need for HEA. Actually it can be all five colors if you want it to be.

Kymberlyn on

6 years ago

gatherer says otherwise on the Wastes.

http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=407693

1/22/2016 Wastes is not a land type. If something asks you to name a land type, you cant choose Wastes.

however, true.. the lands would be colorless creatures, and thus wouldn't trigger coalition victory for the creature part of it.

Shyft Cromat Scion of the Ur-Dragon Progenitus would all work though