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Recruiter of the Guard
Creature — Human Soldier
When Recruiter of the Guard enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a creature card with toughness 2 or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.
Andromedus on
Mono-White Control Clerics
6 days ago
Hey Venturub, thanks for the shout out, haven't had as much time lately as I'd hoped. (I think I've got my human control deck more or less finalized. I find it to be tons of fun.) In terms of the combos you want to keep, that makes perfect sense to me. I looked at every cleric ever printed, as I'm sure you have as well, and I think the list as it sits is a solid representation of what it's trying to do. The tough thing about 3-card combos is they're challenging to assemble and somewhat fragile (Mom helps with that). My main recommendation would be playtesting a few Recruiter of the Guards to get the deck's consistency up, although they aren't Cleric tribal so I'm not sure if that fits the theme. They would help with assembling the combo though, so imo it's worth testing out. I'll be following your list to see where things go!
Crow_Umbra on
Commander/EDH Game Changers
4 months ago
I don't intend to come across as pointed or abrasive, but have you played against either Kinnan or Winota in extensive capacity, DemonDragonJ? I used to have both commanders in my main play group, and faced off against them on multiple occasions each. I run into them on occasion now.
Kinnan is 2 mana, and has built-in mana acceleration to more quickly achieve his own (powerful) activated ability, which to call back to one of your threads from earlier this week, is a "Do the Thing" type of design space. Kinnan is his own engine and payoff in one package. On top of all that, his Simic color identity grants access to efficient ramp in addition to his own ability, and counterspells. The times I've played against Kinnan, my opponents were typically dropping Eldrazi Titans or big curve toppers like Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur or Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger.
Winota needs a bit more build intention with Humans to Non-Human ratios, but is still fairly powerful in terms of being able to dig for creatures. White has access to Stax-y Humans like Grand Abolisher and Drannith Magistrate, and also has tutors on bodies like Imperial Recruiter and Recruiter of the Guard to find additional answers. Beyond some of those efficient control and tutor effects on Human bodies that Winota can dig into, she can set up stax-y boards and break parity with her own ability. Throw Winota into the 99 for something like Isshin, Two Heavens as One and attack with a board of Non-Human creature tokens, and you can vomit up most if not all of the Humans in your deck. I'm speaking from recent experience on that last one lol.
Oko, Thief of Crowns could end up on the GC list, so definitely is more of a " not there for now".
Spirits on
Kaalia, Mirror Breaker EDH
7 months ago
Agreed the Entomb + Animate Dead () is less mana intensive than the Buried Alive + Reanimate (). It's much higher risk for sure, I thought about just using the Leonin Relic-Warder instead, but the extra mana slowed it down.
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight is a good pull out, along with Avacyn, Angel of Hope were both out from 2020-2024 but I decided to add a combat damage line back in, there both unnecessary angels in here.
Bogardan Hellkite lived in this deck forever, until the Orcish Bowmasters was printed, but it is a great alternative if the focus is the Worldgorger Dragon lines.
Red Dragon does the damage, but it doesn't have Flash so it's not really effective like Orcish Bowmasters or Bogardan Hellkite. Recruiter of the Guard and Imperial Recruiter are also great for finding the Orcish Bowmasters with the combo.
Love Kaalia combo, very cool matvone.
Nicklaffy2302 on
White/Blue and Rude All Over
7 months ago
DreadKhan, thank you for the suggestions! I like the look of Recruiter of the Guard, and I'll try to find a place for one or two of them!
DreadKhan on
White/Blue and Rude All Over
7 months ago
Have you thought about Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd, maybe with Recruiter of the Guard? It's like a nesting egg of weenies, and it's card advantage fwiw.
Crow_Umbra on
Watch the Party Die [Primer]
8 months ago
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I gave the edge to Giver of Runes for having an additional toughness, and can also protect from colorless, which is a bit niche.
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I addressed this in the Draw & Tutor part of my primer:
"Imperial Recruiter - An excellent option for this deck, especially given the potential for repeat uses. Recruiter of the Guard could be another supplemental option to Imperial Recruiter. She would be able to tutor up 18/34 creatures, with some overlap with the 22/34 that Imperial Recruiter can tutor."
I gave the edge to Imperial Recruiter since it can grab options like Professional Face-Breaker, Yawgmoth, Thran Physician, Preston, the Vanisher, and Burakos, Party Leader
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Hall of Heliod's Generosity is more so a contingency in case I recur any of my enchantments. It's niche, but I like it.
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I run Vault of the Archangel in my Mardu/Orzhov aggro decks, espcially if they have the Treasure support in the mid-game to threaten or actually use the activation. It's worked for me before.
Profet93 on
Watch the Party Die [Primer]
8 months ago
Crow_Umbra +1
Mother of Runes > Giver of runes?
Recruiter of the Guard - Tutor almost 20% of your deck
Hall of Heliod's Generosity - What do you usually recur?
Vault of the Archangel - Seems expensive to activate. How has it played for you?
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