Agrus Kos, Eternal Soldier

Legendary Creature — Spirit Soldier

Vigilance

Whenever Agrus Kos, Eternal Soldier becomes the target of an ability that targets only it, you may pay {1}{RW}. If you do, copy that ability for each other creature you control that ability could target. Each copy targets a different one of those creatures. ({RW} can be paid with either {R} or {W}.)

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
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (9)

legendofa on Anybody else take issue with …

9 months ago

In general, I agree 100%. In this one specific case, though, return was pretty much a foregone conclusion, as other people have said. And yeah, if anyone else just shows back up and keeps going as normal, it hugely reduces any stakes. Although, Ravnica seems to be pretty generous with its post-mortem options. Agrus Kos, Eternal Soldier came back as early as Jumpstart 2022, and everyone else has a home in the Ghost Quarter.

De-compleating major characters, on the other hand... It's going going to take a while before I come to terms with that.

awesomedude20 on Dihada's Harem of Heroic Hooligans

1 year ago

Mattio38 Hey, thanks for stopping by yourself haha!

I've played this a handful of times with my group, and it's always at LEAST been a major threat, with her ability to toss out huge threats at a moment's notice. Magda is genuinely an all-star lol, the ability to fetch Avacyn's Memorial out of the deck is insane. Especially considering you can swing Magda safely, since the fetched Memorial will make her indestructible lol. Allowing you to continue fetching big nasties (Bladewing, Deathless Tyrant, Drakuseth, Maw of Flames, Oros, the Avenger, and Piru, the Volatile are all excellent targets, with Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge as prooobably your last choice) turn after turn. Luxior, Giada's Gift is another great choice.

But honestly? I usually hate infinite combos, so I usually try to avoid tossing those in as wincons, so this deck usually just wins by beating face better than anyone else. There's a good amount of fliers too, which are both great at protecting Dihada, as well as getting in to damage people, and any winning boards just... facilitate keeping your board around to continue doing that haha. The boardwipe creatures are especially good at keeping everyone else's board in check, since all of them deal with most go-wide strategies pretty immediately, as well as smaller utility creatures and whatnot, paired with lifelink to boot, it gets kinda funny.

A combo I do quite like is Dihada + Myrel, Shield of Argive + Agrus Kos, Eternal Soldier.

Lets you target Agrus with Dihada's +2, then you pay the {1}{RW}, which copies her +2 for every one of your legendary creatures, and with Myrel out, your opponents don't have too many common options to deal with your board since USUALLY your board is quite vulnerable from your upkeep to your main phase 1. But Myrel stops people from doing anything during that point, so you can basically keep your Dihada +2 going safely for your entire creaturebase, letting you swing relentlessly and gain a ton of life, all while keeping Dihada safe behind the fliers and big bodies etc. etc.

Also Primevals' Glorious Rebirth won me a game hilariously hard once. A Lazav player milled like 3/4s of my library. Got to my turn. Topdecked Primeval. Put basically every legendary card in my deck straight onto the field, lands included. Generally speaking, I prefer to let all 4 cards go to the grave with Dihada's -3, since the 4 treasures is REALLY strong, but if I ever mill Primeval, you bet I'm grabbing that lol.

As for your recommendations, yeah Blasphemous Act is kinda just never a bad idea lol. I might toss it in, but I find I've been able to get by using Piru, Oros, or Ashling in a similar way. The deck makes enough mana to make it functional haha, plus it leans more into the legendary tribal aspect, which I enjoy. Sheoldred is definitely a great include, I'm not really sure why I didn't include her other than maaaaybe being a massive hate magnet. I would argue that Rodolf is even better in the deck with a little extra legwork involved, but Rodolf, for some strange reason, doesn't attract as many bad intentions haha

Definitely not a bad idea though, fits into my theme of "keep my things on the board", if I ever find a card underperforming I might just swap it out for her.

awesomedude20 on Dihada, Binder of Wills

1 year ago

Hey! Just swinging by because I'm a fan of Dihada, I'll drop my deck for you to check out, see if you can pull any ideas out of it. The description kinda goes into details about all of the major legendaries I've included, so maybe you'll find something you'd like in there.

The Deck

Anyways, as for some opinions on your deck as is, I'm just going to assume there's no real budget limitation here since it's already sitting pretty high up there.

I would included a LOT more legendary lands, just, generically. It's incredibly helpful to have Dihada's -3 ability consistently fetch lands if you need them. Honestly just grab as many as you can that aren't like... actively bad for the deck.

I also don't know how particularly worth it the Eldrazi titans are. Like, sure, they're always not BAD, but if you're looking for big splashy creatures, while keeping your CMC relatively low, I feel like there are better options. There's also a distinct lack of fliers, which any planeswalker-commander deck kinda caves to for obvious reasons.

You got Gisela, who CMC aside thanks to the -3, is pretty great, but may also be an absolutely enormous hate magnet from everyone at the table immediately. Skithiryx is solid thanks to his self haste-enabling and regeneration if need be. Drana seems... kiiinda low impact in my opinion? It's easy to connect with someone since she flies, but unless you have a big board set up, she doesn't really do much for you. Breena is a great include for card draw, she can get big, or buff something else, and helps the rest of the table enough to incentivize people to NOT blow her up. And lastly, Rodolf is actually pretty cool, and is probably worth keeping around for sure, his recursion is really nice and synergizes well with Dihada's lifelink shenanigans. Important to note however that lifelink will not give him indestructible when he, or anything else punches stuff, at least, not until AFTER the combat damage and everything has been dealt, in case that matters.

A couple of immediate recommendations, including stuff from your maybeboard, at your discretion then:

Zeriam, Golden Wind - Is a respectably cheap dude, is a flier to protect Dihada, makes even MORE fliers to protect Dihada, and then THOSE fliers can produce even more fliers, it's great.

Agrus Kos, Eternal Soldier - Using Dihada's +2, with an additional {1}{RW}, means you can apply her +2 to every legendary creature you control every turn. Which is really, really, really strong lol.

Luxior, Giada's Gift - Let Dihada throw hands herself. Equip this to her, and use her +2 on herself now that she's a creature. Now you have a commander with vigilance, lifelink, and indestructible, that's slowly getting bigger and bigger, and there's very little your opponents can do to shut it down conveniently. Plus, Luxior is legendary, and can be fetched in any number of ways, including her -3.

Magda, Brazen Outlaw - This lady is NUTS. Hear me out. You have her out, and she's able to attack. Use Dihada's -3, putting all 4 treasures onto the field. Then you attack with Magda, creating a 5th treasure. Then, before damage is even dealt, you use Magda's last ability to sacrifice all 5 treasures you just made, to fetch something like Avacyn's Memorial straight out of your deck and onto the field. Yeah she's pretty good lol.

Oros, the Avenger - Flier that shooouldn't hurt your own field too much, but is extremely good at wiping out everyone else's small things, for a small cost. If you give it lifelink, you're golden lol. Is also a target for Magda, if you include her.

Drakuseth, Maw of Flames - This dude with lifelink is wonderful. You get 10 damage to throw around just for attacking, serves as decent removal, and itself hits for 7. Is also a flier, and can be fetched by Magda.

But yeah, I could probably say some more stuff but I'll leave you with this for now, is a super fun deck, I hope you get it to a place where you're happy with it!

Gidgetimer on Can a copied version of …

1 year ago

Trying to minimize clutter in the forums is appreciated, but it is best to just ask a new question. I'm not sure if Rhadamanthus has subscriptions enabled for all the posts they comment on. I just happened to see this pop up in the comment feed earlier or else no one was likely to see it and help you.

Agrus Kos, Eternal Soldier only allows you to copy the ability if they are the only target. This includes targets controlled by other players. You will never be able to copy any ability that targets Argus and an opponent's creature.

CamraMaan on Can a copied version of …

1 year ago

Digging this up from the grave so I don't ask a similar and very related question. So Fury ETBs and targets Agrus Kos, Eternal Soldier, divvying up the damage with 1 to Agrus Kos and 3 to an opponent's creature, with Agrus being activated to repeat this for each of my creatures, where each will receive 1 damage and then I can distribute 3 damage to each of various other opponent's creatures for each of my creatures, correct? A similar example would be the -X of Huatli, Warrior Poet, doing the same 1 damage to Agrus, and the remaining to an opponent's creature, then repeated with Agrus' activation, likewise making each of those opponents' creatures unable to block if they were to survive. Correct? And say Huatli's -X = -9 with 1 damage to Agrus Kos, then 5 damage to an opponent's creature and 3 damage to another. When Agrus Kos repeats this for each of my creatures I will get to deal 5 and 3 damage to various creatures for each of mine, correct?

CamraMaan on Interaction between Agrus Kos, Eternal …

1 year ago

When I +1 Elspeth Resplendent targeting Agrus Kos, Eternal Soldier and activate Agrus, do all my creatures have to get the same kind of ability counter, or do I get to pick one of the options for each of them? My assumption is that I get to choose, but I'm far from positive about it, and I can see this being an argument at my local table. Like I know that typically whatever happens to Agrus Kos happens to each creature, but the "or" option makes it less clear that it MUST be the same for each. Thanks in advance!

CamraMaan on Interaction between Agrus Kos, Eternal …

1 year ago

If I copy Agrus Kos, Eternal Soldier with Delina, Wild Mage, then target one of them with an ability before the end of combat, can they go infinite sharing back and forth, spreading the infinite love with all my creatures...?

CamraMaan on Interaction between Agrus Kos, Eternal …

1 year ago

If I pay the 3cc to sac Basilica Skullbomb and target Agrus Kos, Eternal Soldier, paying its activation to spread the love, I get that all my creatures will get +2/+2 and flying, but will I also draw a card for each creature it targets? My assumption is the cost to sac the Skullbomb only gets paid once, then everything after the colon will happen for each creature, so I'm guessing I draw a card for each creature too...?

Thanks in advance!