Aku Djinn

Creature — Djinn

Trample

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature each opponent controls.

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
Planechase	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (7)

seshiro_of_the_orochi on Creature Donation Ideas

1 year ago

Did some research, found some things for you: Aku Djinn, Benthic Djinn, Juzam Djinn, Serendib Djinn, Bog Elemental, Chisei, Heart of Oceans, Demonic Hordes, Liege of the Pit, Lord of the Pit, Minion of Leshrac, Painwracker Oni, Shadowborn Demon, Yawgmoth Demon

For more exchange of control: Djinn of Infinite Deceits

If anything gets out of control: Tidespout Tyrant

munky702 on

4 years ago

Here's a silly idea. Aku Djinn . Give everyone counters so now you have options. Tetzimoc, Primal Death and Oblivion Stone is also ways you can throw counters on stuff as well

crazyduels on Interaction between Hapatra Vizier of …

5 years ago

I was looking at this myself so I'll put up an answer. There's an article magicjudges.org that sort of answers this. Since the printing of Hapatra cards do care who controls the effect putting the counters on a permanant. In this case your opponent's creature gains Persist, which means the opponent controls the Persist effect if it triggers, so they put the token on the creature when it return to the battlefield. As opposed to that punk Aku Djinn , who puts counters on your opponents creatures but makes them do it for you.

Hi_diddly_ho_neighbor on Krav, the Unhugged

5 years ago

Hmm, it's easy to suggest cards, but trying to suggest cuts is a challenge haha. I personally think that you should cut Aku Djinn, Master of the Feast, and Liliana's Contract. The Djinn and Master are the "bad type" of group hug cards IMO. All they are are big dumb beaters (which aren't really that big for EDH) that only provide benefits to your opponents. For me, if I am playing group hug, I want to be getting equal value to what I am granting my opponents, otherwise they will just outpace me.

As far as Liliana's Contract goes, I don't think that you are running enough demons for it to be a viable win-con and all it will do is put a target on your pack (no matter how much you are helping you opponents).

Also, you could probably swap out cards like Star Compass or Corrupted Grafstone for more thematic cards like Victory Chimes or Spectral Searchlight.

With all that said, I think the best way to figure out cuts would be to just play the deck and see what works and what doesn't work.

Coward_Token on Grixis!Zedruu

6 years ago

(I would add a proper community card but that feature seems to be malfunctioning right now.)

Farly straightforward, this card would mostly be Zedruu the Greathearted (although a different character, not simply her gone evil or something) with a casting cost of and an activation cost of . In EDH, this could lead to some fun usage of cards like the following:

(I realize you can basically already do this with any Grixis commander + e.g. Bazaar Trader, but that's a bit less straightforward.)

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Vampirism, Pitiless Horde, Aku Djinn, Witch Engine, Yawgmoth Demon, Andradite Leech, Moroii, Ebonblade Reaper, Demonic Hordes, Phyrexian Vatmother, Treacherous Vampire, Takenuma Bleeder, Archdemon of Greed  ^Flip, Immortal Coil, Null Profusion, Phyrexian Negator, Reaver Drone, Blood Funnel, Oni Possession, Benthic Djinn, Yawgmoth's Agenda, Phyrexian Etchings, Master of the Feast, Unholy Fiend, Bloodcurdler, Juzam Djinn, Wretched Anurid, Yukora, the Prisoner, Colfenor's Plans, Sleeper Agent, Gloom Surgeon, Minion of Tevesh Szat, Oath of Lim-Dul, Demonic Pact, Vampire Lacerator, Exiled Boggart, Midnight Oil, Herald of Torment, Jagged Poppet, Flesh Reaver, Measure of Wickedness, Nefarious Lich, Derelor, Ebon Drake, Liege of the Pit, Grinning Demon, Filthy Cur, Fledgling Djinn, Scourge of Numai, Hasran Ogress, Demonic Taskmaster, Thrashing Mudspawn, Gutwrencher Oni, Evil Eye of Urborg, Forbidden Crypt, Bellowing Fiend, Priest of the Blood Rite, Grollub, Xathrid Demon, Blessing of Leeches, Infernal Denizen, Evil Eye of Orms-by-Gore, Minion of Leshrac, Lord of the Pit, Abyssal Persecutor

(Hell, even things like Necropotence, Kothophed, Soul Hoarder, Carnival of Souls, Dark Prophecy, Dralnu, Lich Lord and Corpse Augur can be less-than-pleasant for an unsuited person.)

I'm unsure what would be suitable for its upkeep ability. Just copying Zedruu's straight off isn't too inappropriate, as drawing is certainly associated with black and life gain isn't too far out either, but that's kinda boring. Replacing the life gain with something negative towards opponents like milling, discard or plain life loss proportional to the amount of gifted permanent could be one option that's more in line with the color change (thought the negative effects would probably targeted in order to preserve some political potential). Putting a +1/+1 counter per gift on Zedruu the Grixishearted to take advantage of commander damage could also work (especially when combined with auras like Herald of Torment), in which case you could also change power/toughness from the original's 2/4 to 4/2 to signal greater aggression.

For the sake of flavor its subtype would be Horse Djinn, with the artwork depicting a djinn with a mare's head, wearing a mouth-covering veil.

Feedback would be welcome, especially on ways to make Grixis!Zedruu more distinct from the original while still fulfilling the basic function of giving out torturous black cards, in addition to the blue and red ones they both share.

(A version containing green could also be made for the sake of giving that color a chance to show off its painful cards, in which case the creature in question should probably have monkey paws.)

FrankStar on [Cunning Queen] - Queen Marchesa Political Control

6 years ago

Thanks a lot for the feedback RingoDingo92. Did you know about the dropdown filters to sort the categories displayed? I must've left the custom one by default, will change it so it doesn't confuse other people.

To answer you question about Aku Djinn it benefits me indirectly by playing the political game (I guess you could say group love). By helping my opponents get bigger and having a strong defence, I encourage them to kill each other and leave me alone. I reckon the Djinn might be a bit overkill though. Will adjust, thanks!

RingoDingo92 on [Cunning Queen] - Queen Marchesa Political Control

6 years ago

Interesting deck concept, no doubt. It wasn't easy for me to discern what's what in the deck without studying your various lists for several minutes, so you might want to consider revising that to help people help you, know what I mean? Anyway, at first glance I'd remove Aku Djinn, Wear / Tear, Rite of the Raging Storm, Luminarch Ascension, Divinity of Pride and Head Games. Some are just the casualties of cuts, some like Aku Djinn I don't understand how it benefits you. Anyway, I might look into Queen Marchesa myself too now, so thanks for the inspiration.