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Defense of the Heart
Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent controls three or more creatures, sacrifice Defense of the Heart. If you do, search your library for up to two creature cards and put those cards onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.
Mortlocke on
The Song of Phyresis
1 month ago
Sorry to spam but I finally remembered why I cut Defense of the Heart - it's hit or miss and more often than not it misses hard. Let me explain, so in my playgroup poison generally gets focused down on early in the game. With DotH on the field everyone immediately bands together because they already know that either two praetors or Blightsteel Colossus is hitting the board. Sure, I can maybe get rid of one or two players but more often than not I just get dealt with. In short - I cut it because of the bad politics Defense of the Heart brought.
Mortlocke on
The Song of Phyresis
1 month ago
I think you're right. Norn's Choirmaster only shines if I can attack more than once with my commander while Tekuthal synergizes with the deck as a whole giving consistsnt added value. Also, once upon a time in the deck's earlier iterations Defense of the Heart was in the deck, I dont remember why I cut it though.
Venum on
The Song of Phyresis
1 month ago
I'm happy you came back to update that deck, which is my favorite one of yours.
I've been wanting to ask about the reason why you're not including Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus for doubling the proliferate effect? If you do have Vorinclex or Innkeeper on the field, with the free proliferate of Atraxa, it would be 4 poison counter on end step.
I also like Defense of the Heart for cheating Blightsteel Colossus and Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider
Lordeh on
Predatory Seafood Buffet
9 months ago
Just a quick update! Played and managed to pop off a Defense of the Heart on turn 4 and got both Koma, Cosmos Serpent and Koma, World-Eater which ended the game in 2 rounds.
bankrupt_on_selling on
Mayael the anima: Big stomp
9 months ago
I've dusted off my magic cards after not playing for a long while and I'm comparing and contrasting my deck with yours. My "Anayalation" themed Mayael I made destroy stuff a sub theme. Curious what your thoughts are on some cards I have that you don't. Homeward Path, Defense of the Heart, Godsire, Worldspine Wurm, Impervious Greatwurm. And if you had the three on color og duals what three lands would you take out for those?
Asder on
Kona the King of Unfun
1 year ago
Winter Moon, Winter Orb, God-Pharaoh's Statue, Orb of Dreams, Storage Matrix, Freyalise's Winds, Defense of the Heart and Sandwurm Convergence all feel like they are worth considering.
Quickspell on Build a Deck with Me …
1 year ago
If I may add a few other notes to your thought process.
- You said that you want to go infinite, and Ghired and Sunstrike Legionnaire or Midnight Guard would be you main line.
- You also mentioned other combolines such as Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker and Zealous Conscripts.
At this point, you are already on the track of using known combos and putting them into a Naya shell. There are many other combos that can go with this, you just need to tutor for them.
Note that haste is an important aspect to this. Zealous Conscripts is much better than Hyrax Tower Scout or Sparring Mummy for this reason, even though both have cheaper mana value. Without haste, your million tokens will just be board-wiped. You could argue for redundancy, but the truth is that tutors and recursion such as Eternal Witness and Skullwinder are much better, because they add to your strategy with more flexibility.
Most creature tutors are green non-creature spells that search for green creatures. However, you want to keep the amount of non-creature spells low, because Ghired's ability doesn't apply to them. But there are some great tutors that can help you find your pieces:
- Defense of the Heart is great to outright win the game with Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker and Zealous Conscripts. If you can produce a lot of treasure (which shouldn't be a problem with Ghired), Tooth and Nail does the same for 9 mana. Shared Summons tutors them to your hand.
- If you are considering Molten Duplication, there is redundancy with Twinflame and Heat Shimmer. All of them will be helpful for Ghired, but most importantly, all of them go infinite with Dualcaster Mage.
- Sunstrike Legionnaire can be found by both Imperial Recruiter and Recruiter of the Guard
- Midnight Guard can be found by Imperial Recruiter
- Both Imperial Recruiter and Recruiter of the Guard can also find Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
Most of these cards use ETBs. If you can give them haste - ideally with creatures - you can cast them, make use of their ETB, and directly tap them with Ghired for value. Anger comes to mind, Hellraiser Goblin is great (you won't be attacking, because you are going to tap your creatures with Ghired), Yarus, Roar of the Old Gods can be okay. As for non-creature spells, you have Mass Hysteria, Concordant Crossroads, Fervor, Rising of the Day. Though I would probably only consider Hammer of Purphoros as it can create tokens.
As for the token doublers, I'm not sure if they really fit the deck. Sure, they are staples for token strategies. But what's the point of making infinite tokens go double? Mondrak, Glory Dominus and Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation
Flip will put a bounty on your head which is not a good thing in a combo-deck. You want to stay under the radar until you can go off.
Mondrak only doubles creature tokens, so you are not making more treasures. And the other doublers like Anointed Procession, Parallel Lives etc. will not tap with Ghired. Since you also want to put in all the other Naya-staple enchantments like Smothering Tithe and Guardian Project etc., you will just fill your deck with non-creatures that don't synergize with your commander.
Some cards worth mentioning are:
- Illusionist's Bracers
- Cloudstone Curio (create a creature token, return a creature with an ETB to your hand).
- Helm of the Host
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