Thraxus, Praetor's Will
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Posted on July 13, 2020, 6:30 p.m. by modifiedlast
So I just made a custom commander quick and was looking for suggestions. I'll take criticism on any aspect including cmc, name of card, power level, etc. Thraxus, Praetor's Will Legendary Creature: Nightmare Angel
Flying, First Strike, Menace, Haste
When this creature attacks, choose one creature from each graveyard and return it to the battlefield under your control tapped and attacking. Sacrifice them at end of combat. , Pay 3 life: Each player reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a creature. Put that card into their graveyard and the rest on the bottom of their library in any order. 5/4
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modifiedlast says... #3
Yeah true. Well lore aside, I can change his name and he can have nothing to do with praetors or phyrexia. If its WUBRG he could be some kind of maelstrom angel or something. Or like an elder angel idk. Whatever makes sense.
July 13, 2020 8:46 p.m.
Per usual, I agree with TypicalTimmy on most accounts.
If we are aligning with Atraxa, Praetors' Voice, which lets be honest its too close to her to not, you want , if not even drop the entirely for consistency. She also needs to be an Angel Horror (IMO) not a Nightmare Angel
HOWEVER!!! I firmly believe that this second ability isn't at all but actually more of a flavor, which means your right on track.
July 15, 2020 8:25 a.m.
Sorry for the double post...
After looking again, through the lens of EDH, Haste with that ability is absolutely terrifying, bordering on OP. You have a keyword soup, that also gives you a FREE AND BETTER Postmortem Lunge, and then an activated ability, which can activated the turn she is played because Haste, that guarantees you have at least one target from yourself AND each opponent's decks.
We are talking massive damage and game changing potential on turn 4/5 WITHOUT the possibility of ramp from .
Just run no other creatures in your deck besides Blightsteel Colossus, and then anything you get from your opponents is just icing on the cake.
I'm not sure how to balance this, and I do like the effect, but I do think it needs some balancing.
July 15, 2020 8:39 a.m.
modifiedlast says... #6
So I've revamped this creature in a few ways. The cmc is now as well as removing haste. Removing green and red I think was essential for toning down this commander. Also esper is perfect for a graveyards matter deck I think. Second ability is , pay 3 life now. This was never effected by haste as it isnt a tap ability. Also blightsteel wouldnt work for recursion due to the graveyard shuffle ability. Thanks for the feedback! Also this creature is no longer phyrexian. It is now Azrael, Death's Magistrate. Type Elder Angel.
July 15, 2020 10:04 a.m.
griffstick says... #7
Drop first strike for deathtouch.
- Red has menace
- Red has first strike
- Red has haste
- white has flying
- white has first strike
- Black has flying
- black has first strike
- black has menace
- green sometimes has haste
So strictly for flavor and balance reasons take first strike away from red and black and give deathtouch to green and black
modifiedlast says... #2
Thanks for the feedback. Originally it was just going to be to go along with atraxa's color scheme. However since I wanted haste with the attack trigger, I figured I should throw in there. And I removed to restrict the deck that would come from this creature to keep it from being too OP. (Counters/mill effects). A WUBRG cost would be good though I think. Along with the cost of the second ability being WUBRG with no life cost? Let me know!
July 13, 2020 7:56 p.m.