Apex Devastator

Creature — Chimera Hydra

Cascade, cascade, cascade, cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom of your library in a random order. Multiple instances of cascade each trigger separately.)

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (50)

Lordeh on Ghalta dumpy dino

9 hours ago

Here are some of my favourite green stompy cards for consideration. Managorger Hydra Apex Devastator Forgotten Ancient Zendikar Resurgent Vivien, Champion of the Wilds

Eilel on Selvala, Heart of the Wilds

2 months ago

Big fat creatures

Removal:

World Breaker (exile removal + flying blocker + graveyard recursion)

Woodfall Primus

The Tarrasque (big haste + ward + fight)

Endurance (een van de beste artefact / enchantment removal en is een creature (kan voor 0 mana spelen))

Enabler:

Thunderfoot Baloth (trample en +2/+2)

Dawnglade Regent (Monarch en hexproof)

Cultivator Colossus (ramp + card draw)

Seedborn Muse (Untap)

Pathbreaker Ibex (budget craterhoof)

Aggressive Mammoth (trample)

Bellowing Tanglewurm (intimidate voor alles (vervelende ability om te blocken))

Bramble Sovereign (mana sink, dubbel creatures, vgm speel je bijna geen legendary creatures dus dit past best goed!!)

card draw / advantage:

Return of the Wildspeaker (dit zou een no brainer moeten zijn, of +3/+3 of draw een miljoen kaarten op instant speed)

Cream of the Crop (setup)

Graveyard recursion:

Moldgraf Monstrosity (graveyard to battlefield)

Devotion

Primalcrux

Wincon

Tyrranax Rex

Apex Devastator

Hexdrinker (early game en mana sink, met genoeg levels is die unkillable en kan niet worden geblocked)

Carnage Tyrant

DarkKiridon on eladamri stomp

5 months ago

Yes, all of the Titans' cast triggers will not take effect from Eladamri's last ability. Same with Apex Devastator

CommanderMeanderer on Hold me fast...

7 months ago

From the iteration I'm looking at, I don't think you need more ramp - you actually have a decent amount of it. It's more likely that the deck feels like it needs more ramp because the average CMC is pretty high.

You may benefit from "focusing" the deck. Pick the theme you want, evaluate the cards you have, and ask for each one "does this help me achieve my goal"? It might be harder to evaluate generic cards that every deck needs like removal, ramp, or card draw this way, but it's a good starting point. While doing this also ask yourself, "can I get this effect at a lower CMC?"

For example:

Lets take a look at Phyrexian Triniform

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The goal of the deck is to cast as many Cascade spells as possible, then beat your opponents down with big creatures. Phyrexian Triniform is a big creature, but it also has a very high CMC - the CMC is so high that your only ways to cast it are hard-casting for 9 mana, or hitting it with an Apex Devastator cascade trigger. You aren't focusing on death triggers/sacrifice so its death trigger, while nice, isn't very synergistic. You aren't focusing on self-mill or ways to reliably get it into your graveyard, so you can't abuse its Encore ability early.

Now imagine if you replaced that card with something like Managorger Hydra. It's only 3 CMC, so it's much easier to cast (either on its own or from a cascade trigger). Even better, is it grows with each spell anyone casts. Cascade is about casting multiple spells using one card, so if Managorger is out and you hit a big score of 3 or 4 spells in a turn, it gets big fast. Not to mention that it already has trample and any/all spells that your opponents will cast will pump it more.

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Hexapod on Music of the Spheres | Jodah, Archmage Eternal

7 months ago

Reworked this deck with the addition of ramp creatures : Birds of Paradise, Noble Hierarch, Dryad of the Ilysian Grove

Removed some Eldrazi as I don't enjoy playing them that much, just kept my favorite ones. Also did away with Lurking Predators just because I have so many decks that run it and I wanted variety.

Added colorful cards that would not see play anywhere else in my lists, like Two-Headed Hellkite and Atraxa, Grand Unifier.

Added awesome cards I either just acquired: Apex Devastator, Etali, Primal Conqueror  ^Flip

Some cards were just released which made total sense in this build: Call Forth the Tempest, The Key to the Vault.

Finally I upgraded some of the art to tie into the aesthetics of Jodah traveling through the Multiverse.

m_tironi on

10 months ago

Woehrlebird, I delete decks often, so you should copy it if you are interested.

Ramp the is good with Lumra: Lotus Field Harrow Roiling Regrowth Springbloom Druid

Support for Lumra: Panharmonicon Amulet of Vigor

To help shuffle your graveyard back into your deck after you milled too much: Kozilek, Butcher of Truth Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre

The rest is optimized good stuff: landfall and cheating cards in with Apex Devastator, Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant and Last March of the Ents.

Also, Monogreen mass haste: Surrak and Goreclaw Concordant Crossroads

C5r1a5z0y on Animar cascade

1 year ago

If you're not going infinite combos, I'd take out Ancestral Statue, since it's a one-card infinite combo with your commander. I stopped running it in my Animar deck because it feels so cheap.

The biggest thing I see is you need like 10 more land, since you always want to hit Animar mana. I'd also look into more creature cascaders instead of non-creatures, as creatures will get your Animar discount. Apex Devastator, Maelstrom Colossus, Etali, Primal Conqueror  ^Flip, and Etali, Primal Storm will add a lot of cascade power.

legendofa on Why Does WotC No Longer …

1 year ago

There are only fifteen cards with some variation of this text. One pops up every few years, with a cluster from 2009-2012 covering Progenitus, the Eldrazi Titans, and Worldspine Wurm. There was then a six-year gap to Nexus of Fate (which may or may not count for the question, since it's not a creature).

I'm not sure it's officially stopped being a mechanic. It's just used infrequently, and usually to denote a creature of apocalyptic power with an equally apocalyptic mana cost. If they have fully stepped away from this text, it's in favor of rewarding the card being cast, like the BFZ/OGW/EMN Eldrazi Titans, Apex Devastator, or The Tarrasque.