Anointed Peacekeeper

Creature — Human Cleric

Vigilance

As Anointed Peacekeeper enters the battlefield, look at an opponent's hand, then choose any card name.

Spells your opponents cast with the chosen name cost {2} more to cast.

Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name cost {2} more to activate unless they're mana abilities.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Brawl	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Pre-release	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Standard	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (10)

PuritanPuree on

4 months ago

Hey there! Always love seeing a good angel deck, they're my favorite tribe. I also have a pioneer Angel deck, feel free to check it out. Beatings From On High

1. Anointed Peacekeeper might be just the card for you, for the exact reason you listed. Either hand hate card is a great sideboard option.

2. I like having a 4th Giada to more reliably have the mana ramp, but there are plenty of successful lists only using 3. I think you could easily drop a Youthful Valkyrie, Inspiring Overseer, or Skyclave Apparition. That 4th Apparition can easily slot in and out of the sideboard when needed.

Andromedus on Progress and Poverty

10 months ago

wallisface Whether this deck ever places in any tournaments remains to be seen, but I'm not about to throw the concept out in favor of making just another scales or taxes deck. If I wanted to do that the copy/paste function would have saved me a lot of time.

I'll answer much of this when I get the description written on how to pilot it. To hit an easy one: Anointed Peacekeeper is a replacement effect, not an ETB trigger, so Hushbringer has no effect on it.

Regarding Hushbringer hitting only three decks in the meta, based off MTG Goldfish data this assertion simply isn't true. In addition to hitting Scam (Dauthi Voidwalker, Seasoned Pyromancer, Grief, Fury), Omnath (Endurance, Omnath, Locus of Creation, Fury, Solitude, Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines), and (both Jeskai and Azorius) Control (Solitude, Wall of Omens, Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines), it also hits Creativity (Archon of Cruelty), Hammertime (Kor Outfitter, Stoneforge Mystic), Temur Rhinos (Fury), Living End (Architects of Will, Grief, Subtlety), Mono-Green Tron (Wurmcoil Engine), Yawgmoth (Young Wolf, Blood Artist, Strangleroot Geist, Endurance, Geralf's Messenger), and Scales (Hangarback Walker, Zabaz, the Glimmerwasp, Arcbound Ravager).

So the decks that Hushbringer doesn't touch are Burn, Murktide, Underworld Breach, and Domain Zoo.

The top 15 decks represent exactly 80% of the meta (per MTG Goldfish), with the four above decks that Hushbringer doesn't touch representing 21.5% of the meta. So assuming Hushbringer has no impact on the missing 20% of the meta not represented by the top 15 decks (definitely untrue, Death and Taxes, Eldrazi Tron, Merfolk and Amulet Titan being four obvious examples that Hushbringer hoses just off the top of my head, but let's pretend) it still prevents something in 58.5% of meta competitive decks.

Granted it's not a great card against all of those decks, but it still disrupts something, while sitting on a 1/2 flying lifelink body.

Regarding those decks that Hushbringer's static ability doesn't impact at all, four quick points:

1. She can be an excellent chump blocker or damage trader in a deck with 4x Giver of Runes when the opponent lacks trample, plus lifelink is naturally strong vs burn.
2. Not all +1/+1 counters are created equal, you get a lot more mileage on a lifelink flyer than on most other creatures, especially if you're trading.
3. Those four decks are generally hosed by other aspects of the deck (by design), i.e. Archon of Emeria hoses Murktide, as does much of the list, frankly. That's not to say it always beats Murktide, but it does hold its ground respectably (at least in my playtesting).
4. Our sideboard is designed to help us most vs our weaker matchups, and since it's white it's a pretty solid toolkit. I do think the sideboard could probably be further improved.

In general, since we're trying to deny value and slow down the game, we're looking for mana dumps and value engines that help us grind ahead. The +1/+1 counter engines help us do that, and when placed on a lifelink or vigilance creature punch above their weight.

If you think it's a garbage deck concept then that's fair. I've playtested vs a handful of the top competitive archetypes with surprisingly good results, but it may be that despite my best efforts I'm just no good at piloting other decks. In any case I'll entertain feedback that helps it do what it's meant to do better, but I'm not looking to create just another deck that everyone's seen a million times except with a slight two-card tweak just so I can call it innovation. I hope that makes some sense.

When I get a description written up I hope to make things a bit clearer. Undoubtedly the deck isn't for everyone, and may not ever end up on a meta list. That's ok.

wallisface on Progress and Poverty

10 months ago

Andromedus What i'm suggesting is that your gameplan is too fractured/disjointed imo. If your main stragegy is around Hushbringer, then there's not really a lot of point to playing Hardened Scales (or Ozolith, the Shattered Spire) at all.

I think the biggest issue you're going to run into is that Hushbringer is, at-best a sideboard card. Trying to base your strategy around it is going to be super-awkward, because there is a huge percentage of the modern meta that doesn't use creature-etb effects at all. Notably from the top 15 decks in the meta, Hushbringer only hits 3 of them (Scam, Omnath, and Control, though control only-barely), while doing nothing to the other 12 decks (Creativity, Murktide, HammerTime, CrashingFootfalls, LivingEnd, Burn, UnderworldBreach, Tron, Yawgmoth, DomainZoo, HardenedScales, ThroughTheBreach). If your main gameplan does nothing in most matchups, then its probably time to consider why its in the mainboard. Added to that, Hushbringer is a nonbo with your own Anointed Peacekeeper.

I do really think that having 2 distinct things you care about, counters, and taxes, just makes the deck less efficient at doing either option effectively. Your tax-like effects are spread soo thin (and, as mentioned above, are incredibly narrow) that you're not going to really be disrupting the opponent much at all. And your cards that care about counters are all really slow/clumsy so will lead to being easily out-raced (I don't see these creatures outpacing any aggro or midrange builds).

legendofa on Anointed Peacekeeper + Aether Vial

10 months ago

In both cases, the Anointed Peacekeeper won't affect the spell or ability on the stack. The target has already been cast/activated, and Peacekeeper won't retroactively make it cost more.

Andromedus on Anointed Peacekeeper + Aether Vial

10 months ago

My opponent casts a spell, putting it on the stack. In response, I flash in an Anointed Peacekeeper using Aether Vial, naming the spell he put on the stack.

Does this essentially work like a beefed up Mana Tithe?

Same question again, except with an ability. Let's say my opponent activates Engineered Explosives, putting its ability on the stack. Same as before I flash in an Anointed Peacekeeper using Aether Vial and naming the Engineered Explosives.

In both cases it's not clear to me what happens, whether the opponent has the option of tapping more mana (or even needs to), whether the EE sac effect goes through (even if the ability fizzles?) and so on.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Andromedus on Anointed Peacekeeper names Engineered Explosives

1 year ago

I want to make sure I understand how this interaction works.

I play an Anointed Peacekeeper and name Engineered Explosives.

After that, my opponent casts Engineered Explosives on their turn, intending to set the number of charge counters to 1.

Am I correct that in order to do this, he will need to tap only 2 total mana (to pay the Peacekeeper tax) being careful that those two mana are either the same color, or one of them is colorless? Meaning he can pay zero for Engineered Explosives' baseline cost as if he were casting it for 0, and then account for the 2 colorless, which then brings the charge counters up to one?

Or does he need to pay for the single charge counter with a mana, and then pay two additional mana? And if so does the color of the two additional mana matter?

Secondly, if I had two Anointed Peacekeepers both with Engineered Explosivess named, would he would need to have some combination of mono-color mana plus colorless adding up to 4 total in order to cast it with 1 charge counter? Or again, would he need to account for the initial 1 mana first, and then add the 4 "colorless" after that?

philosopher on Mono W Taxation

1 year ago

Cool deck.

Let me know how Anointed Peacekeeper is because I am thinking about removing my Skyclave Apparition for Anointed Peacekeeper because my Skyclave Apparitions cannot remove the murktides and rhinos in my meta.

CNG_Stream on Kickers

1 year ago

Weird suggestion but you might want to cut 2 copies of Into the Roil and add 2 copies of Blink of an Eye. The cards do the exact same thing, but this would allow you to play around cards that exile all copies of a card (example: Test of Talents), or tax all cards of a named type (example: Anointed Peacekeeper). Not necessarily needed, but doesn't hurt if you have it.

Also you may want more black sources for more consistent draws. This suggestion is because all your kicked black spells will require at least 2 sources of black to cast. A land to consider Throne of Makindi as this allows you to stockpile extra mana for kicker spells, but also color foxes for those splashed colors. It is awkward to use so you may just want some other dual source lands like you already have (untapped sources are usually preferred).