Embercleave

Legendary Artifact — Equipment

Flash

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each attacking creature you control.

When Embercleave enters the battlefield, attach it to target creature you control.

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has double strike and trample.

Equip {3} ({3}: Attach this to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery. This enters the battlefield unattached and stays on the battlefield if the creature this card is attached to leaves the battlefield.)

Combos

• Cunning Nightbonder + Embercleave

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
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Standard Brawl	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (48)

Poly_raptor on Harry Potter - Universes beyond

2 months ago

The sword of Gryfindor never becomes a horcrux, so I don’t think so. I was thinking of a design for it but the more I thought about it the more I just thought the sword would just be Embercleave

Yeah I am not entirely sure on the Horcrux mechanics yet. I think you are right, the {4} does seem a bit easy, but I am mainly designing the Harry Potter cards so far.

I think a Jeskai spell slinger and blink deck seems to work quite well, blink / flicker seems to work thematically for apparation. I’m thinking the legendary wizards can have prowess, but all have relatively low power and toughness.

Doombeard1984 on What Card Should ReplaceSpidersilk Armor?

5 months ago

straight up casual 60 deck (sorry I am an EDH player usually), but wouldnt 4 Birds of Paradise just be straight better mana dorks? Could also go with your classic Llanowar Elves and the such.

Embercleave to go over the top with double strike damage? Anzrag, the Quake-Mole for extra combat?

Craeter on Bunny-Bushi

6 months ago

Nice I love Boros and the Bushido is perfect for it. Kudos on the story too! I see you put a good deal of effort into that, molding the story through the cards. I'm all about that and the old Kamigawa cards, that was one of the first sets I ever played in MtG and it makes me nostalgic everytime.

If you're looking to update the deck, you could consider some stuff like Fighter Class or Master Warcraft to force your opponent to block with something that will die to Bushi, rather than rely on them willingly blocking.

Embercleave is pretty nutty and could soup Bushi up big time, surprise double strike ain't nothing to shake a stick at.

Then there's the classic Umezawa's Jitte, build up some charge counters and you can buff Bushi at instant speed. Although the opponent will see it coming, they may not have a choice. And it's Betrayers of Kamigawa classic Samurai to boot.

Sejiri Shelter  ^Flip is also pretty cool, these new dual face lands have got potential to really pad a list. Admittedly more useful in EDH, but I see some stuff in here that could be replaced by that to make some room. There's a few Boros dual face lands too that could be considered here for our boy Bushi. Legion Leadership  ^Flip comes to mind.

Minas Tirith is becoming an auto include in almost all my White decks, it's just so good especially if aggro.

My deck Heroes of Redwall Abbey might give you some more ideas, most of these suggestions are pulled from there. Good luck brave Samurai Warrior!

KongMing on The Surgin' General [Primer]

9 months ago

Legion Loyalist can be a cheap and effective way to get damage through while attacking.

For getting Satya attacking midgame more without dying, how about something like Frontline Medic, Dolmen Gate, Angelic Guardian, or Spirit Mantle?

Also, including Embercleave and Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion could allow you to get some Commander damage kills.

austintayshus on Ruh-Roh-Roggy… It’s Hammer Time

11 months ago

Embercleave is a good finisher/combat trick for your deck.

I might also recommend either Mana Tithe or Lapse of Certainty just to have a counterspell that you can find with Sunforger

looks fun!

KongMing on Weapon X V.2

11 months ago

How about Flickering Ward, Inviolability, and Embercleave? Dolmen Gate might be worth it too.

lespaul977 on

1 year ago

Dana_in_Love845, I agree with you that Goblin Anarchomancer would be great in this deck. I’ve never seen that one before, and it looks like a solid card.

I use Burning-Tree Emissary in my deck because my deck is mono-red (not Gruul like this one), it needs to get wide fast since I’m playing Embercleave, and devotion to red is very important for my primary win con. In my use-case, it’s very effective. Here’s my deck if you want to check it out: Budget Mono Red Embercleave

Balaam__ on Budget Mono Red Embercleave

1 year ago

Looks fun. Do you think going up to 4x Vexing Devils is viable? Normally it’s a so-so card, but this build really plays to its strengths—you either get the immediate 4 damage or else you have a cheap creature ready to attack for Embercleave. I can’t decide, I’ve been going back and forth on it.