Benthic Infiltrator

Creature — Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Ingest (Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles the top cad of his or her library.)

Benthic Infiltrator can't be blocked.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	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
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (49)

TheoryCrafter on Satoru Umezawa Brainstorming

2 years ago

Phage the Untouchable and Etrata, the Silencer are cards I can imagine going into a deck with Satoru.

Others I could imagine include cards with ingest such as Benthic Infiltrator or card draw such as Eternal of Harsh Truths.

I concur with average_overlord_enjoyer...this card is getting banned.

KaptnK on

2 years ago

Saw this deck list requesting help so ill provide some feedback here. First of all love the idea of winning with Eldrazi spawn tokens! I do feel though that you have too many creatures in the deck and could use some more utility spells to smooth out your games and push you towards your goal. I am not sure of your budget so ill try to keep that in mind with my feedback. Some ideas of this would be:

• Remove Benthic Infiltrator for Awakening Zone
• Remove Culling Drone for Arcane Signet
• Remove Dominator Drone for Sol Ring
• Remove Fathom Feeder for Baleful Strix
• Remove Mist Intruder for All Is Dust
• Remove Nettle Drone for Rhystic Study
• Remove Ruthless Deathfang for Dictate of Erebos or Grave Pact although the second is harder to cast
• Remove Salvage Drone for Ponder or Preordain or a similar spell
• Remove Sludge Crawler and Vestige of Emrakul for Dimir Signet or Golgari Signet or Gruul Signet or Izzet Signet or Rakdos Signet or Simic Signet

For your lands you look to be missing Command Tower which could easily replace a basic land. Additionally you could look to add the new triome lands Zagoth Triome to help with your colour fixing.

Finally you could look at some finishers like Overwhelming Stampede or Triumph of the Hordes to go with your "go wide" strategy.

Some general things to think about. You look like you need some more card draw and mana ramp (hence some of my suggestions above) but also need some additional removal spells to slow down everyone else while you get your army built.

Hope some of this helps!

joshw335 on Shadow's Desire

4 years ago

SUGGESTED ADDITIONS: Liliana's Caress , Quest for the Nihil Stone , Bloodchief Ascension , Demonic Tutor , Urza's Incubator , Herald's Horn , Raiders' Wake , Torment of Hailfire

REMOVE: Memory Plunder , 2 lands, Sword of the Animist , Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon , Rune-Scarred Demon , Marang River Prowler , Temporal Trespass , Jace, Unraveler of Secrets , Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver , Mask of Riddles , Necropolis Regent , Urgoros, the Empty One , Etrata, the Silencer , Drowned Secrets , Notion Rain , Benthic Infiltrator

gavriel1136 on Too Tough for Snuff

4 years ago

Remove->Replace:

Kambal, Consul of Allocation - Vesperlark ,

Benthic Infiltrator - Writ of Passage ,

Exquisite Blood - Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker -,

Felidar Sovereign - Lena, Selfless Champion

Test of Endurance - Brave the Sands

Nyx-Fleece Ram - Arboreal Grazer

Wall of Blossoms - Portcullis Vine

Rhox Faithmender - Loxodon Lifechanter

Belligerent Brontodon - Verdant Sun's Avatar OR Serra's Blessing

Also, some cards that may be of interest to you, but don't have an easy replacement: Proper Burial , Fruit of the First Tree , and Nissa's Revelation

DC_Geno on Bant Wall Beat Down

4 years ago

Sylvan Caryatid is important to get mana setup and I believe should be a staple in a bant defender deck. It is a defenders deck's Birds of Paradise . The hexproof makes it hard to remove and it can be targeted by it's controller "unlike creatures with shroud." This means Assault Formation can target it. Other cards that may help your strategy are Shape the Sands , and these four creatures even though they don't have defender Abzan Beastmaster , Benthic Infiltrator , Elusive Krasis and Dragon's Eye Savants .

sagramore on Sygg's Stabbers [Unblockable Tribal]

5 years ago

Hipparchos - thanks for all the upvotes and the follow :)

Regarding Thassa, God of the Sea - I actually had this card in an earlier version of the deck but I realised that almost all my creatures had unblockable already. There are one or two that need help but I still run Benthic Infiltrator. I am still tempted by Bident of Thassa though, both for the draw and the ability to force others to attack each other.

Regarding budget.... that's a hard one to answer! The really basic answer is no, I don't put a budget limit on my cards or decks. The more honest answer though is that my budget is obviously not infinite and so I often don't have a lot of the really expensive cards. My mana base is pretty average (I don't have any fetches or shocks for example). One thing that helps me a lot is that I use a "shared cards folder" so that if I own an expensive card I can use it in multiple decks. When playing with friends I just proxy up the card I own so I can have it in lots of decks at once, but I have the real card in a dedicated folder so if I play in a more public setting I can swap the cards out for the real ones in just a couple of minutes.

I've found this really helped me with budget considerations because it's easier to justify buying a $20 card if you can use it in more than one deck!

Usually what all of this means is that my decks end up being a bit more expensive than "budget" but they're not top tier expensive stuff with absolutely zero budget concerns. I like to this they're very affordable to anyone semi-serious in the format or anyone who's been collecting for a long time.

Cereal_Killer on Sultai New Eldrazi(+) - Exile all their stuff

5 years ago

Ok then, I have seen your card pool and I've seen lots of interesting cards.

As said before: Oblivion Strike, it's a too slow removal and you have tons of other things that exile, making it useless. Probably I'd change it with Dismember, Hero's Downfall or Go for the Throat; they do what you want them to do (destroy an opponent's creature) and they are faster and cheaper than the strike.

Other cards I would take in consideration:

• Drift of Phantasms cause of it's ability that tutors Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver, Dismember, Titan's Presence and other good 3 cmc cost cards (the problem is that in 1x I really don't know if it's woth).

• Manaweft Sliver, Expedition Map, Chromatic Lantern, Kruphix, God of Horizons and Burnished Hart (the last three not so much, since they are a bit slow), because they let you fix your mana.

• Cyclonic Rift, basically is Murk Strider that works as an instant on any kind of nonland permanent at the cost of . Really good. A less powerfull alternative could be Repeal.

• Lifecrafter's Bestiary let's you scry 1 every turn and, since you have tons of creatures, if you have mana to spend it also makes you draw a card (the problem is that this in 1x isn't worth, it should be put in 2/3x, that means you have 3 creatures less. Maybe do some tests with it and without).

• Hinterland Harbor and Tectonic Edge. Really good lands. The first one helps you fixing mana, the other one destroys good opponent's lands.

Things I would consider as sideboard are:

• Bontu's Last Reckoning (what if you are playing against an aggro and very fast deck?).

• Prowling Serpopard (what if you are playing against a control deck?).

• Ratchet Bomb (if opponent has enchantments or artifacts you don't know how to whipe out).

Now, what I DON'T like of your deck:

• Fathom Feeder, 2 specific mana to cast an easily destroyable creature. And it's ability costs really too much.

• Oblivion Strike, I've already expressed my opinion on it.

• Benthic Infiltrator, at first sight it seems good, due to it's "unblockable" effect, but is it really worth? it's a 1/4 (and so sometimes you would prefer to leave it as a blocker instead of attacking, thing that it's supposed to do), it costs 3 mana, so it will attack for the first time, we hope, on turn 4, doing just 1 damage to the opponent. You have better options than this.

kamelyan on Greek Mythology

6 years ago

Given Scylla's appearance, I think the closest in Magic would be an Eldrazi. Oblivion Sower, Void Winnower, Drowner of Hope, Benthic Infiltrator, or Bearer of Silence would probably be the best of choices.