Fanatic of Mogis

Creature — Minotaur Shaman

When Fanatic of Mogis enters the attlefield, it deals damage to each opponent equal to your devotion to red. (Each {R} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts towards your devotion to red.)

Combos

• Boros Reckoner + Fanatic of Mogis

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
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (46)

kamarupa on Fanfire

2 months ago

In tonight's friendly game (1v1v1), this deck won 1 of 2 matches against Swarmyard Rats and Red/White Stuffy Doll and 1 of 1 matches against Swarmyard Rats and Tasha's Hideous Laughter *list*. In the first match, the deck was able to use the Harmonic Prodigy + Burning-Tree Emissary trick to ramp to 4 mana on T2 to cast Chandra, Dressed to Kill. On the next turn, I used Chandra's second ability and manaaged to get a Fanatic of Mogis which I was able to cast with a second Burning-Tree Emissary to deal 18 damage to each opponent, leaving them both at 2. I then swung for lethal against the Stuffy Doll deck. The remaining player didn't do anything much and passed. I was able to swing for lethal against him as well, though I also had a Lightning Bolt that would have sealed the deal. T4 win.

The next game I was ganged up on and the Stuffy Doll deck really targeted me. They couldn't change that target tho, so they were eventually overwhelmed. That player having lost twice was allowed to change decks, as per our group's rules. They changed to their Tasha deck.

In game three, everyone hates Tasha and ganged up on that player. Their deck fizzled after removing over half of their opponent's libraries. Then it was was just a slow grind until eventually I drew and played a Fanatic of Mogis for way more damage than I needed for the win. The rats would have had the win if they had one more turn.

Then a tornado warning went off and everyone went offline. Fun night!

kamarupa on Mono Red Devotion

4 months ago

I feel ya. With my brew, after playtesting it a bit, I think I need something better than Light Up the Stage to get Fanatic of Mogis into my hand more consistently. too many times it took more than 10 turns for a copy to show up, and that's just not consistent enough for a deck that's rather aimless without it. I'm about to start looking for other red Shaman/Wizard spells that might be good enough to be worth casting on their own, but also get really good with Harmonic Prodigy. I guess we'll see if I find anything.

kamarupa on Mono Red Devotion

4 months ago

I agree, the attraction of Fanatic of Mogis is that it's 1 less to cast than Gary. I think the downside is that red doesn't have as many value town/good stuff creatures with RR mana symbols to ramp up the Devotion as black does with stuff like Gifted Aetherborn. I considered Eidolon of the Great Revel, but it generates so much hate, I thought it better to omit it for my brew geared toward casual multiplayer. Perhaps in 1v1 it would be worth it. It certainly fits with your creature base MVs, but your Instants would make it really painful.

PhyrexianPraetor on Mono Red Devotion

4 months ago

kamarupa I cut Braid of Fire due to not being sure if I can make it work 100% of the time. I can look at adding it again.

I was considering on making each of my devotion lists two colours in the long run. The thing that helps Fanatic of Mogis is that it is easier to cast than Gray Merchant of Asphodel, it also helps that red is a rather aggressive colour compared to black.

Thanks for the suggestions.

TypicalTimmy on Why doesn't fanatic of mogus …

2 years ago

Fanatic of Mogis

You should probably link the card(s) you wish to discuss.

Gary has tribal synergy, black has recursion / reanimation, and life loss is superior to damage because damage can be prevented or redirected whereas generally speaking life loss can not. Also, black generally has more permanents out with many pips. Red likes tokens and stack spells. While a boardstate will have red pips, almost always they'll be more black ones.

Gary simply has more going for it.

IHATENAMES on Mighty Mighty Minotaurs

2 years ago

I'm a big fan of the minotaur tribe. Im unsure what competition your casual meta will have at your lgs. I normally do black red minotaurs so mono reds a little out of my norm but here are a few suggestions.

Generally good minotaurs:

Sethron, Hurloon General 5 drop makes all nontoken Mintotaurs bring a buddy and gives a buff.

Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion looting with ramp is powerful.

Fanatic of Mogis deals damage on etb. Then is a threatening body.

Rageblood Shaman trample and pump

A one card finisher type card may be helpful. Stormbreath Dragon was my unexpected hasty flier when I had a standard minotaur deck I'm khans of tarkir block long time ago. Some big unexpected spell or creature can help you get the last few points of damage in.

Other notes
Focus your deck. If you want to focus instant and sorcerys run some of the prowess minotaurs. If you want looting you can run the creatures that benefit from that. General minotaur tribal cut down some instant and sorcerys.

Cut your average cmc down. I don't like Dreamshaper Shaman unless it's to combo. Too expensive for what it does. Skophos Maze-Warden is OK as far as minotaurs go but you might as well run the land it mentions.

I'd also suggest going from casual to a more structured format. Pioneer or modern or legacy are my suggestions. Also in order of price low to high. Standard does not currently have a minotaur deck to my knowledge otherwise that may be cheapest. Happy brewing.

mn6334 on Janklord Rionya

3 years ago

Cast Creative Technique for the first time last night. It practically won me the game all by itself. Definitely got lucky but it was pretty impressive, imo.

I untapped with Rionya and 9 mana available. Decided to try the Technique and see what it would get me before deciding on anything else. First copy flipped into Wildfire Devils and I randomly chose myself and recast Thrill of Possibility from my graveyard. Second copy flipped into Volcanic Torrent which in turn cascaded into March of Reckless Joy. March did nothing but I had 4 Instants/Sorceries cast for the turn to make 5 copies of something off the Rionya trigger. I also happened to draw Fanatic of Mogis off the Thrill of Possibilty and I had 4 devotion already on the field (Rionya, Devils, and one other creature with one pip).
Cast and copied Fanatic and domed each opponent for 55 total damage!

seshiro_of_the_orochi on Coach Kardur

3 years ago

This looks pretty cool!

Cauldron of Souls with a sac-outlet and a way to put +1 counters on Kardur seems like a great option for more goading. Also, Vengeful Ancestor and Karazikar, the Eye Tyrant seem like great additional ways to goad some creatures. The same is true for Bloodthirsty Blade and especially Shiny Impetus.

Finally, as you're already planning to trigger Kardurs etb as often as possible, Gray Merchant of Asphodel and Fanatic of Mogis would be great alternative wincons.