Arcbound Ravager

Artifact Creature — Beast

Sacrifice an artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on this.

Modular 1 (This enters with a +1/+1 counter. When this dies, you may put this creature's +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

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
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (46)

enraged on Perpetual Patterns of Proliferated Prosperity

6 days ago

Cool design of a new Commander! I feel like Arcbound Ravager would be a super powerful include. I also really like the Phyrexian creatures that let you phyrexianize a mana off your colored spells. Defiler of Dreams could save you mana and draw you cards, the white one makes tokens which is also super powerful!

Mortlocke on Spaghetti and Beatdowns

4 weeks ago

Balaam__,

I got my start with the game back in '01 and played type 2 til' Darksteel came and ruined everything. I still haven't forgiven Arcbound Ravager. I was there when the old magics were written and Commander was still a grassroots thing. It was my younger friends that sucked me into the format. If you ever want to jam out with a precon, i'm always down to play on Spelltable - when my little boy is down for sleep that is. When he was three he ate a magic card - i've never let him around cards I cared about since.

SaberTech on Pattern Recognition #366 - Sacrifice …

3 months ago

Sacrificing creatures as a deck strategy is now typically established in Aristocrat style decks, but what are some of the other prominent decks in MtG's history that highlighted the power of sacrificing creatures?

Some that come to mind for me are:

• Recurring Nightmare decks.
• Arcbound Ravager affinity decks.
• Decks that ran Skullclamp, like some goblin variants.

Are there any others that come to mind?

And from the old-school kitchen table, I'm going to give a quick nod to Breeding Pit for its noble work in helping to repeatedly sate Lord of the Pit's snack attacks back in the day.

Mortlocke on When and How Did EDH …

4 months ago

I agree with the sentiment that EDH/Commander is popular, but possibly doesn't fit - it is the most popular format by a wide margin. This feels the case anecdotally as from my observations the majority of products made by WOTC are marketed toward Commander players. But in terms of raw numbers, the best I could do was search various terms in google trends. Specifically, "mtg commander", "mtg modern", "mtg legacy", and "mtg standard".

MTG Trends 2004 - Present Show

If someone else has numbers to suggest otherwise, i'd love to see what they bring and discuss. For me, Commander became a thing around 2009 - 2010 as that's where I saw it start as a niche "grass roots" format. But it really started to pick up steam around 2011 when the first Commander decks were released. That's when I started to frequent LGSes to try and learn the game.

I can only speak for myself when it comes to why interest in standard was waning - having to lose tens if not hundreds of dollars because of a format rotation gets old after a period of time. When I was paying attention to standard (circa 2002) it was called "Type 2" and I was dealing with Affinity and the ol' Arcbound Ravager. That thing pretty much dominated the format and made games samey and downright boring sometimes. After that I took a break and picked the game back up when Llorywn dropped, but even then I only played draft.

Thinking about Commander it has everything going for it - all the good stuff of magic: expression of creativity, power (and the curation of it) and diversity minus all of the annoying problems such as meta (if we're excluding cEDH), set rotations, and budgetary constraints (remember: Proxying is Officially Endorsed by Wizards!). It was the professor of Tolarian Community College who opened my eyes to true potential of the format. Deck building can be so much more than cobbling together a pile of draft chaff, or a half baked Slivers deck that you can barely pilot - it can be a form of expression. The embodiment of your fantasy army of which you are the mastermind and your commander is your champion. Once that clicked for me I was hooked; fortunately and unfortunately I know I will be a life long player. Given how greedy Hasbro and by extension WOTC have been in recent years I've been working to try and balance my budget and make careful decisions on when to even think of buying.

Scion of Primal Hunter on Artifact Chucker (40$ Budget)

10 months ago

I've always been around this idea, although I'd add an Arcbound Ravager without ifs and buts.

If the opponent swipes the table, you can always make him eat all the artifacts in response and shoot it with Fling (Which I would put 4x instead of Rite of Consumption better an instant effect than sorcery).

BlueTorche on Gandalf the white Artifact Base

1 year ago

Your deck seems pretty fun to play with ! It doesn't seem really strong, but you can do some fun things with it.

I would just point two things about your deck : - As I said, your deck is fun. But some cards (Teferi's Protection, Rule of Law and Deafening Silence) aren't really fun to play against... Your friend may hate you by playing those cards. - You play in your deck some cards that say "Whenever you cast (...)" or "Sacrifice (...) : ..." (ex : Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle and Arcbound Ravager). I would just point that these abilities don't trigger twice, as the ability of Gandalf the White trigger only when the triggered ability says "Leaves the battlefield", "Enters the battlefield", "Dies" or "Is put into graveyard (from battlefield)" as said on the Gatherer page of the card(I guess, "Is exile (from the battlefield)" and "Is sacrifices" works too, but it has to be a triggered ability, not an activated ability). (Note that I'm not a judge, neither an expert in MTG rules, I may be incorrect on this point.) The cards I pointed aren't bad in the deck, I just wanted to point that they don't trigger twice.

I hope you'll have fun playing your deck !

DeinoStinkus on

1 year ago

Irenicus's Vile Duplication, Mirror Box and Vesuvan Duplimancy could allow you to copy your commander, and with an infinite artifact sacrifice machine like Arcbound Ravager, Grinding Station, or the like, you could easily go infinite. Plus, these cards fit decently into your gameplan.

I'd probably cut Trail of Evidence, since you only have seven instants/sorceries.

TheForsakenOne on You Shall Not Pass

1 year ago

What I'd cut:

Pilgrim's Eye: Not a very good rate, and it doesn't even ramp

Eldrazi Displacer: You don't have enough colorless mana producers to make this consistent, and there are better flicker effects you have acess to

Eight-and-a-Half-Tails: Clunky protection when it isn't really needed

Avacyn, Angel of Hope: Sadly just a win-more card in this case. If it sticks around sure you're probably going to win but you'll be enemy #1 and you're likely not going to survive that

Sword of Feast and Famine: Probably the most overpriced of the swords, and the most likely to draw hate. It looks good on paper but without a way to capitalize on it you're going to bite off more than you can chew.

The Wanderer: Not worth the 4 mana. There are just better cards that could be run.

Ephemeral Shields is kind of a weird addition. Its just not very good.

2-3 Plains: 38 is just a bit high for a deck that peaks at 3 cmc cards. Maybe add more ramp instead

Suggestions to add

The MDFC's are just great to have due to their flexibility: https://scryfall.com/search?as=gridℴ=name&q=type%3Aland+commander%3AW+%28game%3Apaper%29+is%3Amdfc

You don't have that many ways to sacrifice artifacts despite having several triggers off of. The standards are Trading Post, Arcbound Ravager and for this deck Oswald Fiddlebender is great because it tutors out another artifact for free. Kuldotha Forgemaster is a must because it can turn some of your dud artifacts into a portal or blighsteel, and at instant speed too.

Metalwork Colossus is just fun, plus with all your expendable artifacts it can be quite persistent

Wurmcoil Engine is just great, and doubling that death trigger is fantastic. Can't play its new little brother, because he's black, but the original is still a classic

Threefold Thunderhulk has two ETB's that can be copied, and he's a sacrifice outlet. I would also recommend Hangarback Walker since you can double the death trigger

If you put in enough Artifact sacrifices cards like Scrap Trawler, Myr Retriever, and Loran, Disciple of History to recur them back to your hand. Also consider Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender for payoffs to all that sacrificing.

Its a dead horse, but Swords to Plowshares and Path to Exile are never bad choices.