Desperate Sentry

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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
Historic Brawl Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Pauper Legal
Pauper Duel Commander Legal
Pauper EDH Legal
Pioneer Legal
Planar Constructed Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Desperate Sentry

Creature — Human Soldier

When Desperate Sentry dies, put a 3/2 colorless Eldrazi Horror creature token onto the battlefield.

Delirium - Desperate Sentry gets +3/+0 as long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.

Goblin_Guide on Goblin_Guide

4 years ago

Cards with emerge: Abundant Maw, Decimator of the Provinces, Distended Mindbender, Drownyard Behemoth, Elder Deep-Fiend, It of the Horrid Swarm, Lashweed Lurker, Mockery of Nature, Vexing Scuttler, and the best, Wretched Gryff.

Cards to go with emerge: Foul Emissary (expensive but useful for creating blockers), Desperate Sentry (same issues but can be big and also gives a creature when it dies), and all travelers/creatures that create value by dying (Voice of Resurgence anyone?).

Masterful on Necronomicon | Teysa Karlov | Primer

5 years ago

willis1234 She certainly wouldn't be bad in the deck. However, for token producers, I'd rather them be death triggers to combo with Teysa. There's also the benefit of cards like Requiem Angel working immediately if I have a board presence plus sac outlet while Gisa is a bit slower.

CaptSillva Seraph has synergy, good flavor, and beautiful art, but I'm not sure it does enough for the deck to justify its cost. The only part I care about is the tokens, and there are better or cheaper producers. A 4/3 flier than can give itself deathtouch and vigilence isn't bad, it just doesn't work towards our gameplan. Though in other decks I can see why it would be played.

Dead Man's Chest is weird. It's card draw from an opponent's deck that also requires us to kill their creature. In the ideal scenario, we'll draw like 8 to 16 cards off of it. However, none of those cards will be working toward our death engine, we'll need to spend a removal spell on the creature most likely, and many of our removal spells exile instead of kill. With a more control heavy deck, I'd be more inclined to play this.

Desperate Sentry is ok. I value more tokens over big tokens, so I would rather play Ministrant of Obligation .

Yahenni, Undying Partisan is a good sac outlet that seconds as a moderate threat, but I personally don't care about the threat part much, so I'd rather play other sac outlets. If a free sac outlet is needed, I see its usefulness.

Overseer of the Damned is very powerful. If the deck ever needs more of a top-end (which it honestly might atm) I would consider playing this.

I'm going to add all of these cards to the maybeboard since they're all good suggestions.

CaptSillva on Necronomicon | Teysa Karlov | Primer

5 years ago

A little surprised not so see Seraph of the Scales here. She seems powerful enough, and the flavor would be on point.

Other interesting options would be Dead Man's Chest , Desperate Sentry , Yahenni, Undying Partisan , and Overseer of the Damned .

Zingano on Vampire Sacrifice Life drain/gain budget

7 years ago

I think you should use Kalastria Healer instead of Desperate Sentry. Also maybe Drana's Emissary instead of Pious Evangel  Flip. Possibly even a few copy's of Drana, Liberator of Malakir herself, she is fairly cheap now, use these cards while you can they only have about 5 to 6 months left in them, but still not too expensive to buy them so close to rotation

KuraiU on B-W Delirium

7 years ago

Personally I'd drop 2 of the Evolving Wilds in favor of 2 more Swamp to not rely too much on lands that either later in the game end up tapped, on that same note Mortuary Mire was never really good (sorry may not apply to Standard. I'm more drafter) so instead a third Vessel of Ephemera would be a recommendation.

I also suggest having at least 2 of a two drop or lower creature of some kind that can either get dumped quickly into the grave or benefits from you having Delirium. Such cards include Cryptbreaker and Thraben Standard Bearer, both allow you to discard a card you don't need to get a token, essentially fueling Delirium quickly within 3 or so turns if you play your cards right. Geier Reach Sanitarium allows you to loot, also helping fuel Delirium, Strange Augmentation buffs an enchanted creature which is helpful for your Desperate Sentry since it makes it an even larger threat that needs to be dealt with.

All in all this is a really good deck, kudos to you for making B/W Delirium and using Descend Upon the Fishermen

Atony1400 on yeago

7 years ago

Also, here's a few others: (I excluded all the ones I knew were reprints.)

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Rogue_Titan on

8 years ago

Well my brotha take a gander at my Mono_white soldier deck, its got a decent amount of soldier token production. Im not too familiar with black or green token making, some green suggestions could be

Blisterpod

Brood Monitor

Emrakul's Evangel

Eyeless Watcher

Hooded Hydra

my personal favorite for on the cheap is Desperate Sentry, you can block anything with him without worrying about killing him because you get a better creature when he dies, then duplicate the colorless 3/2, boom, now you have 2 3/2's or more, thats not bad.

Maybe not as many planeswalkers that dont create tokens if youre simply trying to make a token deck.

Hope this helps!

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