Watchers of the Dead

Artifact Creature — Cat

Exile Watchers of the Dead: Each opponent chooses two cards in his or her graveyard, then exiles the rest.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	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
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (50)

Coward_Token on Heliod is drawing all of the cards | V-MKM

1 year ago

Some selective graveyard hate: Soul-Guide Lantern, Lion Sash, Watchers of the Dead, Stonespeaker Crystal

(To analy clarify, Day's Undoing can only end your own turn, but since it's bad with milling it's still out of the question.)

Kazierts on Lifelink Cats

2 years ago

• Since you're playing all cats, Kaheera, the Orphanguard is a must include.

• I personally believe Leonin Warleader and Regal Caracal can be a bit too heavy for the curve. Maybe consider cutting two of each and replacing those cut for four copies King of the Pride.

• Even though it costs just {W}, Outflank is a but too condition. A good replacement would be Kabira Takedown  ^Flip. It's {1} more expensive, but you can cast it at anytime and it can serve as a land if you need.

• Because you're Monowhite, Sundering Growth is better than Disen Disenchant. You can use Populate to get copies of Embalm tokens.

• Since you want something for the side, two or three copies of Watchers of the Dead should be great against graveyard decks.

• Maybe cut a bit of removal to include any amount, depending on your preference, of Leonin Relic-Warder, Felidar Cub or Enlightened Ascetic. They may not be as versatile, but they can benefit from the lord and the anthem.

• As for lands, I'd recommend Shefet Dunes as a high priority. Secondarily, you could think about Sejiri Steppe, Sandstone Bridge, Windbrisk Heights and Idyllic Grange. Don't if any of these will interest you, but I hope at least one can be useful.

• If this deck goes against a lot of removal, maybe Abiding Grace could be a good sibeboard card to reanimate Charmed Strays.

Hope this wall of text doesn't bore you to death!

9-lives on Exiling and Card Rules

3 years ago

Can I use one card like a blink spell like with Eldrazi Displacer on Watchers of the Dead and it count as using Watchers of the Dead ability that says 'Exile'? That is, even if the card isn't exiled by the very card itself, can other cards exile it and still have the same effect?

9-lives on

3 years ago

LeaPlath Well, depends on what deck I'm facing. I don't always know first turn what deck I'm facing, but I have Agonizing Remorse to help me with that. I could also have Lay Bare the Heart as well if needed. If I see what cards they have in their hand, I might be able to know what they are doing. Also, using Watchers of the Dead I could see what two cards they save in their graveyard so I can get an idea of what they are running. But, of course, that's kind of a bad thing, since those two cards will be saved from removal. I would have to be an expert at the game, though, to know all the deck builds.

^-^;

Combos are what I'll have a hard time breaking with my toolbox deck but I think I can do it if I have enchantment and artifact removal and counter instants and sorceries, I'll be good.

TriusMalarky Bring to Light is a tutor card that costs 5 mana, optimal all different colors, for one use. If I use my Grim Tutor I can generally pay 3 mana, and then get a 2 mana or 3 mana card, and without using multiple colors, and still spend just as much or 1 more mana casting both the card and the tutor. Although, Bring to Light would cost me 5 mana of all different colors for at most a 5 mana card, which could be or not be a good thing. I don't plan on running rainbow, and a grim tutor can be just as useful in lower mana cost cards. Also, Niv Mizzet is prohibitive in the sense that it requires me to run a ton of color pairs, and those would be very difficult to run with a manabase of budget mana cards and non-shocklands (those aren't budget friendly at all!). I also might never play this deck, just messing around with an idea that when Pioneer MTG Arena comes out I might test on it. I know that 'MTG' game has pioneer on it, but I can't buy the cards I want unless I use some website that has trading bots, and I don't want to do that.

I mean, it doesn't have to be a perfect deck to run it, and to be honest, I just want a taste of what something like this can do. When I look on youtube for toolbox decks, even the word 'toolbox' doesn't come up, haha. I don't think there are many toolbox decks on this website either, when you define toolbox as running as much tools against anything as much as possible. I have a really weird mixture of cards in this deck that I don't think anyone has attempted yet.

9-lives on

3 years ago

Hello, Kaiser_Silver7 and thanks for posting!

I can't afford Temple Garden. And, Unclaimed Territory can be a problem if I draw anything other than a creature card, and on top of that everything in my deck is either green or white so it's no big deal to go without Unclaimed Territory.

Also, Always Watching will be useless with my tokens, as I plan on spamming 1/1 lifelink cats. I like watchers of the dead because it's a solid 2/2 and can be sacrificed to empty graveyards. I like Encircling Fissure because it is what will allow me to attack with tons of cat tokens without sacrificing them to the blocker.

Heroic Intervention is like Encircling Fissure, but I don't know which is better.

Unbreakable Formation costs 1 white and 2 generic, so it's just as good as Feline Sovereign, the difference being that one is a creature that can be killed, and the other an instant.Should I replace Feline Sovereign with Unbreakable Formation? I mean, both are really useful.

Collected Company could be useful, as I have generally 3 mana cost cards or lower, but it costs 4 mana for what is 3 or less mana, and I don't know the chances of drawing a 3 or lower mana card. Perhaps you can show me the mathematics behind it? I don't particularly like cards that say 'draw X' and then 'keep x and discard x'. I have Angelic Gift and Setessan Training for drawing power, but they also have other benefits.

What cards would you cut from my collection of creatures?

I'm trying to make this a toolbox deck, which is why i have Sundering Growth, Angelic Gift, Blessed Alliance,Prowling Serpopard, and Watchers of the Dead. Anything that will make it more varied in being prepared for anything would be great!

Kaiser_Silver7 on

3 years ago

Hi! I saw the deck, and it seems very funny!, but i think that you could include other cards that in my opinion is good with the deck. I guess that you didn't put shocklands or more Unclaimed Territory because it increase the cost of the deck, but its necessary have x4 Unclaimed Territory in a tribal deck and Temple Garden. With this lands, you don't have to worry about the mana, so i take off Open the Gates.Shefet Dunes can be a great card in this deck too.

I think that is better put Sundering Growth in sideboard, to avoid have useless cards in some matchs. Maybe you could replace Watchers of the Dead for Bronzehide Lion, because is more aggresive and it resists wraths. In this deck, could be usefull : Always Watching, Unbreakable Formation or Ajani, the Greathearted. And is essential to have in a creature deck Heroic Intervention in main or side. Also i change Encircling Fissure for Collected Company, is more usefull in this deck, you have already many cards against aggro, i dont see necessary.

Dracoman on Yuriko Midrange

3 years ago

I think you should consider using more useful enabler like Cauldron Familiar which can drain opponents after repeated etbs, Entrails Feaster which can grow bigger each turn with no investment, or Watchers of the Dead that can act as graveyard hate

You could also add more email blurs with pseudo evasion like Black Cat which will force a player to discard if blocked, Dreadmalkin that has menace, Frost Lynx which will stop a blocker, and Illusory Ambusher which will draw cards if blocked

9-lives on

3 years ago

Alright. I'll replace Watchers of the Dead with Tormod's Crypt, especially since I can tap it multiple times.