Crackling Triton

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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

Crackling Triton

Creature — Merfolk Wizard

, Sacrifice Crackling Triton: Crackling Triton deals 2 damage to target creature, player or planeswalker.

Rhadamanthus on Plainswalker abilities and the stack

6 years ago

To back up what Neotrup explained: the only times an ability will fail to resolve properly if its source gets destroyed are when the ability specifically checks to see if its source is still on the battlefield (Durkwood Tracker, Myr Servitor, etc.) or if part of the effect is subject to a specific game rule that says the object still has to be on the battlefield in order for it to work ("exchanging" control of permanents, the "fight" keyword action, etc.). The cards in your example don't fall into either of these categories, so the abilities will resolve normally if the source gets destroyed.

Also consider this: activated abilities that require you to sacrifice the source as part of paying the cost (Insolent Neonate, Crackling Triton, etc.) wouldn't be able to work at all if removing the source also stopped the ability on the stack.

freddiepeddi on

7 years ago

Alright I am back with another update for the Threos cube!

I have some balance changes I wish to impliment,

First of all, I Removed Anvilwrought Raptor and Astral Cornucopia because they where worthless most of the time, in exchange I added Chained to the Rocks so boros decks can deal with some of the control/tempo defenders.The other card I added was Prophet of Kruphix to give people an insentive to draft the simic archetype, because Kiora is not quite strong enough herself to encourage the color combo!

Naturally With a cube with every god in it they will ofcorse be played, so I switched out Necrobite for Nightmarish End so black decks could remove gods more efficient, black also does not have a lot of Heroic cards so Necrobite is less usefull then for other classes!

I reverted an earlier change to, I removed Crackling Triton and once again added in Nyxborn Triton Because you rarely want to sac the Crakling triton anyway and it is only for izzet decks (witch preformed better then expected) while Nyxborn triton fits in every deck and works best in heroic!

JWiley129 on Jori En, Ruin Diver

8 years ago

I will note that there have been Merfolk with activations which kindof count as Merfolk: Crackling Triton, Ceta Disciple, and Whirlpool Warrior.

Anyways, I don't think so? My first instinct is to try Jori in Storm, but then she only draws you one card. So the question is, "Is she good enough for Merfolk?" And when you think about it, Merfolk rarely casts two spells each turn nor does it want to. It'd rather AEther Vial its Merfolk into play. Sure it could get to a turn where you go Cursecatcher into Lord of Atlantis, draw a card, but I don't see that as a great line of play with a 2/3 do nothing in play.

I'm hedging on Jori En not seeing play, but she has potential to be sure.

JWiley129 on A way Red can interact …

8 years ago

StopShot - I'm beginning to think you don't understand what the color pie is all about. The Color Pie is a balancing effect that lets some colors have access to some abilities and the other colors don't. While I appreciate you're trying to find an in-color way of dealing with Red's weakness, colors are allowed to have weaknesses. Furthermore, you saying that Green has 13 uncounterable creatures to Red's 1 is proof of Red being secondary in uncounterable creatures. If Green is primary in "can't be countered" on creatures, then it should have the most of those types of creatures. So currently all I'm seeing is the color pie acting as intended.

Also, your comment "The reason I make a big deal out of this is, the effect is not red for creatures and Wizards isn't going to produce red uncounterable creatures in the future unless you're willing to splash green to get that effect, which seems kind of sad red would need to rely on another color to do what it needs to do." is another proof of the color pie working as intended. You want to get some extra reach in your mono-Green aggro deck? You need to splash Red for the burn spells. You need some way to get rid of creatures in your mono-blue deck? You need to splash Black for some removal. That is how the color pie works. If you want an effect outside of your color, you need to put in another color that does what you need. And this is where I'd like to address your example. Mardu Hateblade is a White card, but it didn't give White deathtouch. It has an off-color activated ability giving it deathtouch, which is in-color for Black. Cards with off-color activated abilities aren't "proof" of Wizards giving them an out of color ability, but a way of putting in two-color cards without making them gold. Some other examples include: Agent of Horizons, Graverobber Spider, Crackling Triton, or Firehoof Cavalry. None of those cards give their color an out-of-color effect, because they require the correct mana to use that effect.

Now, as for your Ransack mechanic. It's waaaay too powerful. Cycle, the mechanic, is usually and you have to discard the card as a cost. Putting it for free on spells? Way too good, and makes Red way too consistent. Card advantage is supposed to be one of Red's weaknesses. Which is why Red doesn't get Merfolk Looter effects and instead gets Rummaging Goblin where you have to discard first. It's also why Red is getting more of the "Impulsive Draw" mechanic first seen on Chandra, Pyromaster and more recently on Abbot of Keral Keep. And as other users pointed out, the mechanic is very easy to abuse and makes some decks stronger by default.

Nemesis - I'd like you to point out where the ad-hominem attacks happened, because I reread the thread to make sure and I don't see any such attacks.

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