Agate Instigator

Creature — Lizard Rogue

Offspring {1}{R} (You may pay an additional {1}{R} as you cast this spell. If you do, when this enters the battlefield, create a 1/1 token copy of this.)

Whenever another creature you control enters the battlefield, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Tokens

• Agate Instigator 1/1 R
• Copy Clone

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	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
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (6)

legendofa on Does curiosity and agate instigator …

2 days ago

That depends on how much life your opponents have. If you have more cards in your library than everyone's life total, you win. If not, you deck out.

Let's say your three opponents have 2 life each, and you have 50 cards in your library. You draw a card, which lets you create an Insect token from The Locust God. This triggers Agate Instigator, which deals 1 damage to each opponent. State-based actions are checked, and each of your opponents are alive with 1 life. Curiosity triggers, you draw your cards, and the cycle repeats until Instigator deals damage again. When SBAs are checked after the second damage from Instigator, each of your opponents have 0 life and lose.

Now, let's say two opponents have 2 life and one has 200,000 life, and you have 50 cards in your library. As above, two opponents lose after two cycles. You've drawn four cards, created four tokens, and dealt 4 damage to the last opponent, who now has has 199,996 life. You continue for 46 more cycles, emptying your library and bringing the opponent down to 199,950 life. The next time you try to draw a card off the Curiosity trigger, you draw from an empty library and lose.

As a side note, Curiosity is a "may" effect, so you can choose to stop the cycle any time Curiosity triggers.

Monomanamaniac on Does curiosity and agate instigator …

2 days ago

So for this scenario I have The Locust God and I have the Agate Instigator with the Curiosity on it. If I draw a card, I will make a body, triggering the instigator, which will deal 1 damage to each opponent and put 3 curiosity triggers on the stack. I will draw the next card which does the same thing. So my question is, if I do that loop enough to kill the table, will I kill the table or will I be stuck in an infinite loop of triggers that actually won't end the game until I draw out my entire deck and lose?

Venum on Math is for Blockers

4 weeks ago

your average CMC is 2.83, i don't know if the three talisman and 2 signet are really worth it.

1. I would swap the 5 of them for something similar to Mirkwood Bats that you already have.
2. Agate Instigator for extra damage whenever you create a token
3. Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon + Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim + Blood Artist
4. Warleader's Call is a nice addition also since you already have All-Out Assault
5. Isshin, Two Heavens as One to trigger additionnal Mobilize/Myriad.
6. Feel free to look at my version Mardu, meat token dispenser

DemonDragonJ on Elemental Storm

8 months ago

I have replaced Molten Gatekeeper with Agate Instigator, which reduced the average converted mana cost of this deck from 3.82 to 3.81, because the instigator has a stronger synergy with this deck than did the gatekeeper.

DemonDragonJ on All Creatures Great and Small

8 months ago

I have replaced Molten Gatekeeper with Agate Instigator, which reduced the average converted mana cost of this deck from 3.62 to 3.60, because the instigator has a stronger synergy with this deck than did the gatekeeper.

Crow_Umbra on Your favourite Card from Bloomburrow

9 months ago

There's a few I've taken a liking to and already slotted in a couple of decks, and others I like simply for the art:

• Into the Flood Maw - Foil looks lovely

• Ruthless Negotiation - The art is cool. I've wondered what raccoon pic served as template for it; it looks familiar

• Agate Instigator - One of my favorites from the commander precons.

• Overprotect - A card I would have killed to have had in my old 60 card G/W Heroic deck from when I first started playing during OG Theros. Currently trying to shoehorn it into my Vraska deck.

• Raccoon Rallier - Love the random raccoon zoomin in the background.

• Starscape Cleric & Junkblade Bruiser - Lovely arts by Omar Rayyan

• Dragonhawk, Fate's Tempest - Does pretty much all my favorite things in Red, just short of making Treasure tokens.