Viridian Longbow

Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature has "{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to target creature, player or planeswalker."

Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery. This card enters the battlefield unattached and stays on the battlefield if the creature this card is attached to leaves the battlefield.)

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
PreDH	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (49)

Balaam__ on Jackie Chan’s First DeathTouchTrampleStrike

1 month ago

@legendofa definitely viable. I never thought of Power of Fire, but the old Viridian Longbow combo was at the back of my mind while building this. I had seen a few decks like that floating around so I wanted to do something a bit different. I found Crown of Fury while combing through old sets and liked the multi-approach angle it has, so built around that. I’ll Maybeboard those suggestions in case someone wants to build out that version for their use.

legendofa on Jackie Chan’s First DeathTouchTrampleStrike

1 month ago

Building off the Horrific Assault angle, you could always set your snakes on fire and whack things with them. Or just teach your snakes archery.

Ultarian on B/R Deathtouch Destruction

1 month ago

Viridian Longbow is pretty cool in deathtouch decks.

indieinside on Nest of Spiders

3 months ago

what about Viridian Longbow? I like it because it can be a response trigger to declared blockers.

Czarnian90 on Arachnophobia, Webs of Fear (Shelob)

5 months ago

seshiro_of_the_orochi: Thanks for your comment – and for the +1 on Hellegion! :)

Honestly, I’m not quite sure what a spider holding a bow would look like… maybe with one of its legs? Haha. But Vraska? She’d have no trouble at all. Jokes aside, you actually pointed me toward a simple combo I had completely missed – poisoned shots at opponents. Viridian Longbow plus Infect or Fynn, the Fangbearer is a really cool idea.

To be honest, I’ve been thinking more and more about building another deck – a Gorgon/Snake tribal with Vraska, Aphellia, Damia, and similar characters. The only thing that holds me back is figuring out what direction this current spider deck would go in then, because I wouldn’t want to run the same cards and strategies in both.

As for the infinite mana and board wipe combo – it’s a brilliant idea. I’m just a bit worried my playgroup might not be so nice to me for the rest of the evening. But hey, why not try it at least once, right?

Cards that protect Shelob are very welcome. I’ve already tried to include a few similar effects, and thanks to you I now see even more possibilities. Appreciate it!

seshiro_of_the_orochi on Arachnophobia, Webs of Fear (Shelob)

5 months ago

I've had a deck around Shelob for a while. It has since made room for Ygra, Eater of All, but Shelob can definitely do some rather unique things.

First, there is neat tech when having a commander with Ward. Including a number of spells like Snakeskin Veil, Fake Your Own Death and Not Dead After All always make fir great "Gotcha"s when an opponent tries to remove your commander.

Cards like Viridian Longbow are powerful for deathtouchers in general, and for Shelob, it can be easy removal. For even more shenanigans, Thornbite Staff with Longbow can be a one-sided boardwipe.

Finally, Shelob goes infinite with Devoted Druid. Just kill the druid with a spider to get an artifact that untaps infinitely to get infinite {G}. I don't know if this works for your playgroup, but it's quite powerful. Protean Hulk can do similar things, the only problem lies within it being 7 mana to get out.

I wish you all the fun with the deck!

Venum on Poison Counters go Brrrrr

6 months ago

I really like Fynn because you have a lot of cheap options to make that deck really strong.

• Viridian Longbow help you target a player without having to attack and then you can proliferate with Contagion Clasp afterward to pump the poison counter every turn.

• Ohran Frostfang + Toski, Bearer of Secrets for extra draw

• kill other creatures with some Fights mechanic such as Bite Down , Infectious Bite or Smell Fear

• As for creature, i really like some Toxic that help your other creature and poison counter up Bloated Contaminator, Contaminant Grafter, Phyrexian Swarmlord and Venerated Rotpriest

capwner on Poppin' My Collar

7 months ago

Vapor Snag and Electrolyze with the snappys sure takes me back. Yeah you could run other stuff to optimize this idea more like Urza's Saga+Viridian Longbow, but as it stands this list is--I believe the kids call it swag?