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Master of Cruelties
Creature — Demon
First strike, deathtouch
Master of Cruelties can only attack alone.
Whenever Master of Cruelties attacks a player and isn't blocked, that player's life total becomes 1. Master of Cruelties assigns no combat damage this combat.
Profet93 on
Tri-bal
1 month ago
Oops, not sure how I missed that. Couple of questions...
- How often do you get a chance to meld them together?
- How often does your creature get removed in response to equipping gift of immortality?
- Budget? I ask because Demonic Tutor/Grim Tutor > Diabolic, mostly due to your curve.
Master of Cruelties > Ironas - Given all your creatures have flying, how often do you run into fliers stopping them? Master is deadly.
Sneak Attack > Quick amulet - maybe
Spirits on
Kaalia, Mirror Breaker EDH
4 months ago
The Snow-Covered Swamp and Snow-Covered Plains are protection against Blood Moon. We don't need Mountain because most of the lands will be mountains in that case.
They also cannot be Swamp or Plains because then you have a potential of countering our own Tainted Pact when looking for a Razaketh, the Foulblooded or a Master of Cruelties with Kaalia of the Vast triggered ability on the stack, or when looking for that last combo piece, or a Counterspell to stop someone from winning the game. It doubles our options for basic lands but also means that they don't conflict with our intstant tutor.
Mox Diamond could replace an interaction piece like Praetor's Grasp but it is nice to pull the opponents Thassa's Oracle and then win the game with a Tainted Pact. It could also pull a more control oriented card like Hellkite Tyrant that doesn't necessarily win the game, but he can devestate some players boards, could replace a Grand Abolisher but probably Everybody Lives! because well Everybody Lives (except the player trying to Fish-Consul win that is). Chrome Mox has a low activation rate in the turns that matter (I have a tab with the calculations but I haven't update my combine rates based on new artifacts, although Mox Diamond actually improves it's rate. Rakdos Signet isn't great becuase it's a MV3 (2 to cast, 1 to activate), so probably just easy to replace that! Thrill of Possibility is good to get a Worldgorger Dragon or Razaketh, the Foulblooded if for some reason we draw it, but isn't necessary. Thoughtseize might even be better (just target yourself), but even when used on an opponent it creates card disadvantage for you and one opponent, leaving the two others with card advantage now.
Probably Rakdos Signet goes, but we have different options for sure.
Crow_Umbra on
8 months ago
Hi there Nezkul, generally speaking, I think Myriad is right at home in Isshin. Battle Angels of Tyr and Hammers of Moradin are both a couple of my favorite cards in my Isshin deck. Hammers of Moradin puts in lots of work clearing up lanes for aggro swings.
The combo you mentioned does have some nasty potential, but I do think it leans a bit more towards being telegraphed and mana intensive. I have used Master of Cruelties (MoC) to finish off someone before, but that was in my old Alesha, Who Smiles at Death deck, before I converted her into Isshin. I think MoC has a bit more viability in Reanimator decks, than in Isshin, because Reanimator decks can discard and reanimate MoC in the same turn. Without a Haste anthem of some kind, MoC will have to sit around a turn and be vulnerable to removal. The one time I pulled off a MoC kill, everyone else still left proceeded to rightfully focus me and finished me off next. Every game after, people suspected me of being able to set up MoC again, so I removed it from the deck.
As mentioned before Master of Cruelties (5 cmc) + Blade of Selves (6 mana to cast & equip) + Response / Resurgence (5 cmc) is fairly mana intensive to pull off over 1-2 turns at 16 total mana to pull off.
All of that being said, I do think that Myriad has a lot of viability when combined with Enter the Battlefield group-slug effects like Corpse Knight, Impact Tremors, Witty Roastmaster, and Purphoros, God of the Forge. Another potential heavy hitter in Myriad and token Isshin decks in general, is Devilish Valet. Its power can get out of hand with a couple of Myriad creatures swinging away.
If you want to check out some Myriad-focused Isshin decks, I'd recommend checking out some of the following:
- Isshin, Two Heavens As One - Eiganjo Uprising v1.2 - Great primer that gets updated fairly often.
- Double-Barrel Triggers
If you do want to incorporate Blade of Selves in an extra combat combo, you can slap it on Aurelia, the Warleader. She's already strong on her own, that much more pushed with Isshin on the table, and nutty if you can get Blade of Selves on her with Isshin out. Even without Blade of Selves, she can act as a finisher for Isshin token decks.
Hope this helps!
TheRevelator on
Kaalia’s Kombos cEDH
11 months ago
Azoth2099 I do just want to clarify that Master of Cruelties's ability is triggered during the declare blockers step according to Gatherer:
"An ability that triggers when something “attacks and isn't blocked” triggers in the declare blockers step after blockers are declared if (1) that creature is attacking and (2) no creatures are declared to block it. It will trigger even if that creature was put onto the battlefield attacking rather than having been declared as an attacker in the declare attackers step."
TheRevelator on
ANCIENT DRAGON TEMPEST (KAALIA)
11 months ago
Azoth2099 I see that you have Hoarding Broodlord in your list!
As far as cards to cut for Master of Cruelties, I don't see that you're playing Bomberman combo, so what is the Disciple of the Vault for exactly? Just a hate piece against treasures?
I'm always of the mindset that it's better to build your deck to prioritize and protect your own win condition(s), rather than try and just use cards as hate bears or 1-for-1 removal.
I'd suggest to cut Disciple for Master as a way to further advance your gameplan of killing the table lol
I do have a question about the include of Ashnod's Altar - your smaller creatures seem very impactful for either card advantage or disrupting your opponents in some way, so what exactly are you sacrificing to the Altar? Is it just to generate more mana to get to the top of the curve faster?
Another card you could add to ensure that Master gets through more often is Access Tunnel
I wound up cutting it from my list for more colored mana sources, but I'm not seeing you playing any infinite combos so if Master becomes your game-plan to quickly eliminate opponents, it could be helpful!
Azoth2099 on
Kaalia’s Kombos cEDH
11 months ago
TheRevelator Oh man, that's great news, I'm gonna have to slot Master of Cruelties into my own build then. I remember it being a major point of contention for Kaalia players for a bit, but if it triggers on the declare blockers step instead of the declare attackers step like I thought...that's amazing lol.
I've been trying to find room for Hoarding Broodlord since it's release, but I can't quite decide what to cut. Would you be willing to give my list a look and give some recommendations?
Cheers!
TheRevelator on
Kaalia’s Kombos cEDH
11 months ago
Azoth2099 thanks for checking it out! Master of Cruelties does trigger with Kaalia thankfully! If unblocked, Master of Cruelties (due to First Strike) will "hit" the opponent first, setting their life total to 1. Then normal combat damage will happen from Kaalia which will kill them!
Restoration Angel is great as it's the primary combo piece with Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker and can also help flicker my tutor creatures like Rune-Scarred Demon & Hoarding Broodlord.
And I am playing Karmic Guide - it's part of the combo with Buried Alive & Reanimate :)
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