Agent of Stromgald

Creature — Human Knight

(Red): Add (Black) to your mana pool.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (8)

I_Want_To_PlayAllTheDecks on Velvet fist, Iron gauntlet!

3 years ago

Why Agent of Stromgald? it doesnt ramp it just fixes.

Caerwyn on Rakdos Mana Dorks!

3 years ago

Most of these have a fatal flaw that keeps them from seeing significant play.

Agent of Stromgald is not a true mana dork, since it is not mana positive--you get out as much mana as you put into it. Filtering mana is already situational (and tends to be less important as the game progresses), and this filtering is made more situational by the limitation on the mana's use. There might be a rare instance where this card is helpful, but those instances are going to be overwhelmingly eclipsed by the number of times this will be a dead draw. It simply is not worth a card slot.

At three mana, both Bog Witch and Vesper Ghoul are a bit costly for a mana dork. Vesper Ghoul only generates 1 mana, so, that's a bit of a problem. Bog Witch at least generates a net positive of two mana and provides you with a discard outlet, so can be helpful in decks that care about graveyard shenanigans.

Priest of Yawgmoth requires you to have a high density of artifacts worth sacrificing--if not, then you just have it sitting there as a vanilla 1/2. There are some decks you can probably abuse this, but that's not going to be all of them.

VampDemigod on Rakdos Mana Dorks!

3 years ago

Agent of Stromgald is pretty bad. It only filters mana, and only 1 way. It lets you turn red mana to black. Not unplayable, but it gives you no ramp. It is NOT a manadork. Priest of Yogmoth is only kind of a mana dork. With the priest, you do still have to pay the cost of playing the artifact. This doesn’t make it bad necessarily, but it’s still debatable whether it’s actually mana advantage (tho I’d include it in almost any artifact-heavy deck).

The other two are strictly manadorks, and Bog Witch should be an include in any madness deck.

Sultai_Sir on Rakdos Mana Dorks!

3 years ago

What's the deal with these Rakdos/Mono Black mana dorks? They can be a little specific, but they're not terrible. I've never heard of them, but they seem like solid inclusions in some non-green deck: Agent of Stromgald, Bog Witch, Priest of Yawgmoth, Vesper Ghoul. For reference, Priest of Yawgmoth is in only 184 on EDHREC, while Agent of Stromgald has an even more measly 84. Am I being delusional, or are these actually good cards?

majorappliance on Love Stanggs

6 years ago

Agent of Stromgald Dragonsoul Knight Thunderscape Battlemage are not legal in this deck, cant use cards with black color identity. otherwise, i like it, i tried making a stangg deck once...

mentor6 on Markov Pebbles

6 years ago

Man, I've never heard of Agent of Stromgald. But I do use Initiates of the Ebon Hand. So far the only double white I have is enduring renewal, but usually I can use my mana rocks for it during my storm turn. Nvm on cartel aristocrat, I forgot it has 2 toughness.

asaking15 on The Bleeding Hand

7 years ago

heres the creatures:

Agent of Stromgald this one could mana fix your black spell....

Manaforge Cinder even better mana fixer

Bloodhall Ooze could be useful, it'll get big fast

Crimson Kobolds FREE!!! still red too

Crookshank Kobolds ditto

Kobolds of Kher Keep yup

Goblin Chirurgeon this might keep a more important card alive

Goblin Fireslinger a little extra damage couldn't hurt

Vexing Devil look familiar?

Heroslayer56 on Defend the Pure, Destroy the Wicked (Mod Knights)

7 years ago

Thanks carpage! Knights seem like a very underrated tribe and I just want to give it some love! The Oblivion Ring is there as a way to deal with any possible non-land permanent that is in the way, whether it be a irritating enchantment, artifact, creature, plainswalker, etc. I can't seem to find any other enchantment or spell that can take care a permanent that easy. I know of the ones for creatures and the like, but if you have any suggestions, I would like to hear it!

There are only 4 knight 1-drop creatures, three in white and one in red (The red one is only legal in eternal formats, Agent of Stromgald) and that was what Champion of the Parish was for (Even though he is a soldier type). I'm thinking of playing Lionheart Maverick as the budget one drop as the Caravan Escort does not have really any effect until Level 5 and Student of Warfare is a bit pricy.