Cloistered Youth

Creature — Human

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may transform this.

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
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (7)

Andramalech on Heart of Darkness Challenge - The Horror

2 months ago

Balaam__

1. EDH traditionally has no sideboard, and any card that references searching outside of the deck fizzles upon resolution, so my playgroup rule zero's that.

2. I think you make an excellent point about lands like Ancient Ziggurat and Unclaimed Territory, and my favorite.. Three Tree City. That last candidate is awful for flavor purposes, and I intentionally walk that line like a madman above New York on High-Wire.

3. When it comes down to the Commander I chose, my process for these challenges typically starts with a quick search through Gatherer for potential candidates. I like to filter who I think is most viable based on applicable abilities, synergies, etc. and of course- color identity. Atraxa was pretty much an obvious choice, but I'm disappointed I didn't lean into the "do it for the vine" of it all by choosing a harder candidate. So kamarupa, what do you think? Build a follow-up list with Umbris, Fear Manifest or Yarok, the Desecrated? Both are excellent candidates but I think the less colors we provide access to, the less effective and functional the list stands to be. This considered, my deck is so awful. It could be a lot better, and I want to demonstrate that from a flavor standpoint, and separately a mechanical standpoint. Might be able to demonstrate both within the same build, but I digress.

4. I want to comment about the MDFCs and the erroneous cards that Balaam__ mentioned. I think that those cards that demonstrate evolution operate on an entendre front, where they represent both change as an evolution as mechanical cards, and both as lore-wise changes. Atraxa is like a Scion of Corruption- so she effectively ruins all that she comes into contact with, it's kind of a beautiful and terrifying tragedy. I found a home for cards like Cloistered Youth  ^Flip. Showing someone horrified and actually from the realm of Innistrad but thematically fitting that Horrors are encroaching upon the living in these dastardly ways.. it's a chef's kiss kind of alignment. I hope it delivers satisfaction to you as it does to me, because I think that's a thematic win.

5. I refrained from defending my deck in the slightest because I wanted honest, unbiased feedback and I think that succeeded for you two! Lastly, Thing in the Ice  ^Flip is the perfect inclusion as it's name is Awoken Horror  ^Flip, and it effectively acts as a type-focused Cyclonic RiftGC that would more than likely win me the game on the spot, and that my friends kamarupa and Balaam__, is what we call a Three-Pointer.

rdean14 on Card creation challenge

3 years ago

Alright, 100%like WTF Mode the best:

Scarabosaur

Creature - Dinosaur Insect

You may cast Scarabosaur from your graveyard, but not from anywhere else.

Flying

Scarabosaur can only attack or block if you have more cards in your graveyard than your library.

5/7

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Idk, definitely extremely broken in Dredge, but otherwise just weird, lol. I think it'd be a fun mythic rare in a return to Amonkhet or some nonsense like that.

I recognize that you just meant color identity, but that wasn't WTF enough for me

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I'd like to see a child card Twins of Maurer Estate, Blessed Spirits, Child of the Pack  ^Flip, Cloistered Youth  ^Flip, Blood Bairn. Young Pyromancer and Young Necromancer are also pretty young, so if you want to continue that cycle, that's cool as well.

Guftders on Eldritch Moon Spoiler Thread

8 years ago

Oops didn't check gatherer first- there's only four cards with Hanweir in the name, and 3 with Hanweir in the flavor text (though we'll exclude the zombie). Bane of Hanweir  ^Flip, Hanweir Lancer, Gryff Vanguard (assuming they are part of Hanweirs army), Cloistered Youth  ^Flip and Hanweir Militia Captain  ^Flip. So it's either White (unlikely due to set number), or Red.

That Liliana's power level is practically on par with Jace the Mind Sculptor, so I'd be pleasantly surprised if it is legit (text looks weird on my phone so doubtful)

WolfDice66 on April 2016: Shadows over Innistrad

9 years ago

Cloistered Youth is pretty "Yellow Wallpaper" too, Argeaux!

magnetcrocodile on Depressing Flavor Text

9 years ago

Cloistered Youth  ^Flip is one

Cursebreak is somehow depressing if you think of the story behind it

Lokotor on Lokotor's Cube

9 years ago

Review this List and see if yall have any strong objections to it.

White

• Akrasan Squire

• Apostle's Blessing

• Attended Knight

• Aven Riftwatcher

• Aven Squire

• Azorius Arrester

• Ballynock Cohort

• Benalish Knight

• Blade of the Sixth Pride

• Bonds of Faith

• Breath of Life

• Captain's Call

• Celestial Flare

• Chapel Geist

• Cloudshift

• Court Street Denizen

• Daring Skyjek

• Disenchant

• Doomed Traveler

• Elder Cathar

• Elgaud Inquisitor

• Empyrial Armor

• Ethereal Armor

• Faith's Fetters

• Feat of Resistance

• Fortify

• Gather the Townsfolk

• Gideon's Lawkeeper

• Gods Willing

• Goldmeadow Harrier

• Guardians of Akrasa

• Hyena Umbra

• Icatian Crier

• Icatian Javelineers

• Journey to Nowhere

• Kill Shot

• Kinsbaile Balloonist

• Kitsune Blademaster

• Knight of the Pilgrim's Road

• Kor Skyfisher

• Loyal Cathar  ^Flip

• Lumithread Field

• Lyev Decree

• Mana Tithe

• Mardu Hordechief

• Master of Diversion

• Mighty Leap

• Moment of Heroism

• Oblivion Ring

• Otherworldly Journey

• Pacifism

• Porcelain Legionnaire

• Pride Guardian

• Prismatic Strands

• Raise the Alarm

• Revoke Existence

• Sandsteppe Outcast

• Sensor Splicer

• Seraph of Dawn

• Silverclaw Griffin

• Soul Warden

• Soul's Attendant

• Standard Bearer

• Sunlance

• Suture Priest

• Temporal Isolation

• Test of Faith

• Thraben Sentry

• Topan Freeblade

• Triplicate Spirits

• Unruly Mob

• Veteran Armorer

• Veteran Armorsmith

• Veteran Swordsmith

• Whitemane Lion

• Youthful Knight

• Zealous Strike

• Accorder Paladin

• Banisher Priest

• Banishing Light

• Battle Screech

• Boros Elite

• Celestial Crusader

• Cloistered Youth  ^Flip

• Flickerwisp

• Glimmerpoint Stag

• Griffin Guide

• Inner-Chamber Guard

• Intangible Virtue

• Knight of Glory

• Knight of Meadowgrain

• Midnight Haunting

• Mother of Runes

• Nearheath Pilgrim

• Path to Exile

• Seeker of the Way

• Serra Angel

• Swords to Plowshares

• Angelic Skirmisher

• Fiendslayer Paladin

• Glorious Anthem

• Militia's Pride

• Serra Avenger

• Silverblade Paladin

• Elspeth, Knight-Errant

Rayenous on So let's talk Ob Nixilis.

9 years ago

I think people are over complicating the SoI trailer/concept.

We already know that the Moon of Innistrad has the ability to warp/alter it's inhabitants, not just werewolves... though werewolves were the only ones to transform without some additional intervention. - Cloistered Youth  ^Flip needed additional dementia, Delver of Secrets  ^Flipbecame infected, or so I was told, Civilized Scholar  ^Flip through a toxin a-la Jeckal and Hyde, Ravenous Demon  ^Flip via a ritual... etc.

From the video, my assumption is that something has happened to alter the moons power. Now it alters things that it normally could not do on it's own, and there may possibly even be alterations without the moons influence, or in some cases, a reverse influence (feather turns to blood when it leaves the moonlight).

There's enough possible storyline in a Plane like Innistrad that I don't see why Wizards would stoop to throwing the Eldrazi into the story... there's no need. - Much better for them to 'hold onto' that plot for a later date. Keeping people in suspense as to when they will return.

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As for the concept of 'completing' the Planeswalkers stories... does someone have a source for that?

When Origins was announced, they stated that they wanted to tell the stories of their Origins, to make the stories 'more complete'... but that doesn't necessarily translate to 'completing all their story lines'.