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| 1v1 Commander | Legal |
| Archenemy | Legal |
| Canadian Highlander | Legal |
| Casual | Legal |
| Commander / EDH | Legal |
| Commander: Rule 0 | Legal |
| Custom | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Highlander | Legal |
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| Limited | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
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Spike Weaver
Creature — Spike
Spike Weaver enters the battlefield with three +1/+1 counters on it.
, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Spike Weaver: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Spike Weaver: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.
Rhadamanthus on Deflecting Palm + Spike Weaver
4 days ago
Your opponent gets to choose the result, so they will probably choose for you to take damage.
The official current text for Spike Weaver's last ability has been updated to say "Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn" to make it clear that it's a damage prevention effect. If multiple replacement and/or prevention effects are trying to modify how an event affects a player or object, then the affected player or controller of the affected object decides which one to apply first. The unused replacement/prevention effects might still be able to apply to the modified event or they might not. Since your opponent is the one about to be dealt damage, they're the "affected player" in this example.
Andromedus on Deflecting Palm + Spike Weaver
4 days ago
I have a Spike Weaver in play with an untapped land. I attack with a creature, my opponent has no blockers (or doesn't declare any). My opponent casts Deflecting Palm in response. In response to the Deflecting Palm, I activate the second ability of the Spike Weaver so that there's no damage that "would be dealt" to my opponent.
Does the Deflecting Palm do damage to me, or not?
NV_1980 on
Ezuri- The Tokens & Counters Are Coming Oh My!!
5 months ago
Kalonian Hydra; counter-doubling every attack seems pretty bad-ass. Spike Weaver is nice; when all your stuff is tapped and you want to prevent opposing attackers from dealing you damage. additions in here. As a control mechanism, I'd also recommend Steelbane Hydra; easy to recharge it with counters when Ezuri's there and keep zapping enchantments/artifacts.
NV_1980 on
Mutation is Progress
1 year ago
Some ideas:
- Second Harvest: instantly double your tokens and with Ezuri around, greatly increase your XP at the same time.
- Rite of Replication: insanely good when kicked and completely bonkers when cast on creatures like Avenger of Zendikar, Kalonian Hydra and Mycoloth. .
- Vigor: make your creatures not just immune to combat damage, but actually lets them benefit from it.
- Herald of Secret Streams: already in your maybeboard; I'd really consider mainboarding it, he's just too good to pass on.
- Spike Weaver: acts as a permanent Fog during opponents' combat phases.
Have fun with the brew!
seshiro_of_the_orochi on
1 year ago
There we go!
First, do you really own all of these super-expensive cards? That's impressive. If not, it's still fine. Big green decks can use them, but there are so many cheaper ways to go nuts on mana.
Your mana curve is pretty low and you have tons of ramp. 32 lands still seems optimistic. I wouldn't normally go below 35, especially since quite a lot of your ramp is on mana dorks, which easily die to many things.
Spike Weaver makes me think of combos, but I couldn't figure out yours. Is there any?
I'm assuming Setessan Petitioner is in here as a human with an etb? It'll propably net you quite a lot of life, but how about cutting Petitioner and Feeder for these two:
Hyrax Tower Scout and Karametra's Acolyte go infinite with Kogla, and with just one additional devotion, you not only get infinite cast/etb triggers, but also infinite mana.
What's more? There are five expensive fetches in here that aren't necessary at all. As you don't have any non-basic forests, it wouldn't change anything if they simply were forests. That would save you more than a hundred bucks from the budget. The chance of simply changing your deck order doesn't seem worth it, either.
That's it for me. The general list looks pretty good, so I'll be sure to leave an upvote.
NocTurtle on
1 year ago
Strength of the Tajuru for an instant speed kill sometimes.
Fungal Behemoth garunteed counter's over time that can't be interacted with easily.
Nesting Grounds, Llanowar Reborn, and Oran-Rief, the Vastwood to put/move counters with your lands.
The Ozolith imperative in a counter deck, protects your counters from creature based board wipes. Resourceful Defense does the same as Ozolith but more controlled.
Heliod, Sun-Crowned allows you to put counters on whatever needs them, and provides lifelink (plus a big indestructible body to save from board wipes).
Spike Weaver Turbo-Fog if you get a slow start
Cytoplast Root-Kin allows easy moving of counters onto new creatures
Mortlocke on
The Song of Phyresis
1 year ago
Sterling0528, thanks for commenting on the page and sharing your thoughts. My logic for running Phyrexian Scriptures is between flavor and having a proliferation target in addition to a semi-one sided boardwipe. But to answer your question there is only one choice for what card I select to replace it: Toxic Deluge. Getting around Indestructible, and not having to wait on the saga to get to II to get your wrath effect already make the previously mentioned a superior choice. Also, the life loss can be somewhat mitigated by Atraxa, Praetors' Voice under the right circumstances. You also reminded me that there was a reprint that has flavor text from Papa Yawgmoth, so I decided to swap in that instance of Toxic Deluge in for Phyrexian Scriptures as it maintains my flavor requirements.
There are however some honorable mentions I thought of in case Deluge isn't to your taste:
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Culling Ritual in a more competitive meta can do wonders. I've seen this spell ramp a player in excess of 6 or 7 mana on a good turn. Depending on the shifts in my own meta I'm considering running this spell as well.
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Black Sun's Zenith is a card I find genuinely interesting, one that I experimented with in an earlier iteration of the deck that I think deserves a revisit.
What I would replace Priests of Norn with? No idea. Honestly it's just a placeholder for a better infect creature who will hopefully be printed in the near future. I'm really holding my breath for a for a mono-white color shifted Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon like creature. Given that infect is parasitic, the slot needs to be reserved for an infect creature. On that same note both Grateful Apparition and Spike Weaver are slated to be replaced when better options are printed. My wishlist would be a monowhite creature with infect and proliferate, and another new infect creature that doubles as a stax piece that breaks parity through the proliferation of counters (like Tangle Wire on a body). One can dream though.
What other changes would you make with the deck? Thanks for commenting.
MetalHeartPipe on
Grandfather Clock - Premodern Poison
1 year ago
I tried a starting hand and... nice!... Dark Ritual + Suq'Ata Assassin!... But only one land on hand, and it was a Tainted Wood lol.
I hardly reccomend to add the B/G Painland, perhaps more mana dorks to accelerate your strategy and start infesting ASAP.
Add a fourth copy of Dark Ritual and think on replace Fog for another "fog-effect" permanent, like Dawnstrider or Spike Weaver.
