Wrexa, Grand Butcher
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Posted on July 15, 2020, 6:20 p.m. by EleshNornsFs
Wrexa, Grand Butcher
Legendary Artifact Creature- Horror
Whenever a source deals damage to Wrexa, Grand Butcher, create a number of Equipment artifact tokens named Animated Cleaver equal to the amount of damage dealt. Animated Cleaver has Living Weapon, "Equipped creature gets +0/+1 and has, ", Tap another untapped creature with this ability: Animated Cleaver deals 1 damage to any target." and Equip . Power/Toughness: 0/10
A commander idea that I had. Let me know what you think. Probably needs some balancing.
TheCardPool says... #3
I agree, this is a really cool card idea! Definitely like the new spin it gives to Equipments. And it's kind of hilarious that the actual creature is an 0/10 Phyrexian. Love it.
A couple of thoughts, though: as it stands now, the card does combo with itself and its tokens, which isn't too OP, but would it be better to make the boost from the equips +0/+1 instead of +1/+1? That way it would lean into the toughness focus even more while still being able to play combo and defense while dealing damage. Making a huge army of 1/1s in addition to having that damage angle could be slightly overpowered, but I'm not sure. I guess you do have to keep in mind that it takes two creatures to do 1 damage, so maybe I'm wrong to be worried.
Also, you could slightly expand the card's range by making the tokens able to tap ANY other equipped creature, in addition to just your Cleavers. That way there's more options for synergistic deck-building and it broadens the card's appeal a bit. Esper Equips just got an awesome commander option!
EDIT: Since there's two token types being made at a time here, how does Anointed Procession work with this? My head is exploding just thinking about the possibilities.
July 16, 2020 9:52 a.m. Edited.
EleshNornsFs says... #4
TheCardPool Yeah! I liked the idea of a creature that has a telepathic connection with the cleavers, so he himself doesn't attack, but he uses the cleavers to do so.
He does combo with himself, which is why I wanted two cleavers to do the damage, to slow the rate at which he can generate them. I do think you are right about the +0/+1 being better. I'll edit that.
I am conflicted about expanding it. It does make the card more synergistic, and honestly more interesting, but like I mentioned previously, I wanted the ability to require 2 cleavers in order to slow down the rate at which he self combos, as well as flavor reasons. I'll definitely consider it, or figuring out some kind of alternative interaction with other equipments. Finally, people will have a reason to run something other than Oloro in esper artifacts!
Anointed Procession would double the cleavers and the germs (twice the cleavers and 4 times the germs) but all the unequipped germs would immediately die. Could be useful with ETB triggers.
July 16, 2020 11 a.m.
EleshNornsFs says... #5
That makes more sense. I guess Oloro is just the pet card in my local meta.
EleshNornsFs says... #2
Ah. Forgot about that bit. Thanks for the heads up!
July 15, 2020 8:20 p.m.