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| Format | Legality |
| 1v1 Commander | Legal |
| Block Constructed | Legal |
| Canadian Highlander | Legal |
| Casual | Legal |
| Commander / EDH | Legal |
| Commander: Rule 0 | Legal |
| Custom | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Freeform | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Highlander | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Leviathan | Legal |
| Limited | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Planar Constructed | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
Auntie Ool, Cursewretch
Legendary Creature — Goblin Warlock
Ward—Blight 2. (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player puts two -1/-1 counters on a creature they control.)
Whenever one or more -1/-1 counters are put on a creature, draw a card if you control that creature. If you don't control it, its controller loses 1 life.
hyalopterouslemur on Mark Rosewater's Commentary on Poison …
3 months ago
@DemonDragonJ: "I feel that, as poison becomes more prevalent and increases in power, a counter to it shall become increasing necessary,"
That's just it: It likely won't. Infect is a 9 on the storm scale, and what made infect so deadly was the Giant Growth synergy. Toxic is...less of a win condition and more of a marker for corrupted.
Now, given how little impact infect has on EDH, I expect it will continue to be a niche thing: A Rafiq of the Many deck winning with Blighted Agent here, a Doran, the Siege Tower deck using cards like Tangle Angler there, an Animar, Soul of Elements deck running Blightsteel Colossus in a third place, possibly some infect cards in Auntie Ool, Cursewretch.
RiotRunner789 on When does Bracket 4 move …
6 months ago
Played a game recently with a player known to play absurd decks. I was playing Auntie Ool, Cursewretch modified precon which I would consider bracket 2. Another player was playing Kastral, the Windcrested with a Tempest Hawk theme (also would consider a bracket 2, maybe even 1). No idea what 3rd player played because we didn't get very far (mono white maybe?).
The issue was the 4th player who played his "strong bracket 3" Zhulodok, Void Gorger. Having played him and the deck before, I knew the match wasn't going to be fun but despite the pre-game conversation, he said he was playing bracket 3 (different but aggravating issue).
On turn 3, he played Scorched Ruins which let him cast his commander (Zhulodok, Void Gorger). I convinced one player to blow up his only land to slow him down (Generous Gift). I blew up a land un-tapping artifact with Putrefy. So, he went into turn 4 with no lands. He only had a 3/3 token and his commander.
He dropped an Ancient Tomb, some ramp piece and played Bygone Colossus, which led into Void Winnower and several other cards including Excalibur, Sword of Eden dropping that turn (not in that exact order). He swung for 17 commander damage that turn. He effectively locked myself and the bird player out of the game with winnower. Turn 5 he drops ~20 permanents, including Darksteel Monolith and Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter. He was then able to tutor All is Dust. We all scooped when he cast the board wipe at instant speed before his turn.
This is what leads into my question. When he was exploding on turn 4 and 5, I asked, "How is this not competitive?" To which he replied while obviously annoyed, "Someone would have won by turn 3 already." Has the competitive meta changed so much, that any win post turn 3 isn't cEDH? His build, to me, came off as bracket 5 since it was insanely resilient. Where is the line between bracket 4 and 5?
hyalopterouslemur on What do you want more …
7 months ago
Companions are probably my least favorite design, doesn't help that the Izzet one was emergency banned, but I do like the idea of cards that force you to choose fringe cards. I'm right now trying to build Auntie Ool, Cursewretch.