Alpine Houndmaster
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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
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Pioneer Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Alpine Houndmaster

Creature — Human Warrior

When Alpine Houndmaster enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a card named Alpine Watchdog and/or a card named Igneous Cur, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle your library.

Whenever Alpine Houndmaster attacks, it gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of other attacking creatures.

Crow_Umbra on Isshin (Unfinished)

6 months ago

Hi there, welcome to Isshin brewing! He can be a blast to play, especially once you get hone in on what you want to focus on. Since you're still trying to cut down to your final 100, I was wondering if you have a general theme you wanted to try out for Isshin, and what your general budget overall/per card is? Isshin is a lot of fun as a go-wide tokens build, but his wording also allows for forced combat control.

In looking at your build, I do have a few suggestions for cuts:

  • First of all, make sure to list Isshin as your Commander in the edit view by labeling with CMDR with an asterisk on either side of ""CMDR". The edit feature also has some formatting guides to help.

  • I think you can cut Alesha, Who Smiles at Death. I love her as a commander, and used to run her before converting her into Isshin about a year ago. Based off how her ability & Isshin's trigger interact, you would have to pay for her ability for each additional time Isshin triggers her.

  • Akroan Hoplite and/or Alpine Houndmaster could both be potential cuts. Their buff is board dependent to pop, and they lack Trample or Menace to really connect with their big damage.

  • I'd recommend swapping Glint-Sleeve Siphoner with Breena, the Demagogue. Glint-Sleeve is kinda slow and unreliable to get the draw. Although Breena can benefit your opponents, they may be less likely to attack you if they can benefit, meanwhile Breena will help grow threats on your board. She's def gotten huge in a few of my games and helped me close them out.

  • Shakedown Heavy is a card I was initially excited for, but soon realized that it can be removed from combat on its initial trigger. Also a kinda awkward means to draw 1 card.

  • I'd recommend swapping Plasma Jockey with Hammers of Moradin. Hammers of Moradin put in work, and the Myriad trigger pops off an additional time with Isshin, meaning you tap down 2 creatures per board, and make an additional Myriad token for opponents not defending your OG Hammers of Moradin.

  • Bane of Bala Ged is on the higher end of the curve and could potentially be cut. From playing Isshin for over a year now, I think ideally his curve should top out at 6cmc. It makes it more ideal to pop off multiple spells per turn in the mid-late game, instead of 1 bomb-y creature that might eat removal.

I hope these handful of suggested cuts are helpful to get you started. Would be happy to chat through some more potential cuts if you're interested. Best of luck with your deck, Isshin is a lot of fun!

king-saproling on Mardu Warriors

3 years ago

You might like these: Mindblade Render, Goblin Wardriver, Alpine Houndmaster, Berserkers' Onslaught, Goblin Rabblemaster, Jazal Goldmane, Banewhip Punisher, Blood-Chin Fanatic, Brion Stoutarm, Fleshbag Marauder, Merciless Executioner, Goblin Cratermaker, Greven, Predator Captain, Stingscourger, Avenging Huntbonder, Honored Crop-Captain

paytongamer on Frenzmanity

3 years ago

The only issue I have with this deck is that once it gets going your turns take quite a long time. Sometimes you just play solitaire and then win. Because my playgroup is small I limit how frequently I play this deck. I busted it out again last week over webcam. No one dealt with Morophon and I drew into Chulane at the perfect time. I also had Experimental Frenzy and Cream of the Crop out and it was essentially game over. I rarely win with any other deck but this one keeps on delivering. It’s too slow for super competitive metas but in a more casual meta, look out.

I added a couple of new cards from Core 21. Alpine Houndmaster and Obsessive Stitcher. The Houndmaster is free and the Stitcher is cheap to cast with Morophon out. They both allow me to deal with the top of my library which is really the most important thing you need for this deck. This deck is crazy good and the steady flow of potential new (and cheap) pieces to try out is super fun too.

Strangelove on WARriors

3 years ago

Hi Shayda!!!

Dude those dragons are doing so well (when no one wipes them)!

Did you want a similar deck? 'Cuz that's what you've got here... but I think you should lean into go-wide-aggro > midrange and play more 1-2 cmc creatures and move all your ramp to 2 (Rampant Growth, signets, etc).

I'd also recommend Golgari Charm, Boros Charm, and Heroic Intervention.

Tribal decks have so much flavor! Hope this helps, maybe we'll see it next weekend? :o

Podkomorka on Pauper EDH Deck Compendium

3 years ago

Decks added:

Ovanlight on "MASS HYSTERIA! (or) IT'S RAINING CATS AND DOGS!"

3 years ago

I'm 50/50 on moving mana rocks around. I'll do more testing and see what I think too. There are also more changelings that I could toss in before I start going for Igneous Cur mostly because it's the generic fire-breathing effect. I get that It's for Alpine Houndmaster to have 2 targets to find, but realistically that's not much of a payoff for 3 deck slots.

gottagoedhart on "MASS HYSTERIA! (or) IT'S RAINING CATS AND DOGS!"

3 years ago

do you think it would be worth is to get Alpine Houndmaster and Igneous Cur for the extra card advantage and plus you also get those tokens as a bonus

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