Fiend Hunter

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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
Freeform Legal
Gladiator Legal
Highlander Legal
Historic Legal
Historic Brawl Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Planar Constructed Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Fiend Hunter

Creature — Human Cleric

When this enters, you may exile another target creature.

When this leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

trippy_mcfly on Cumly Cube

1 month ago

Introducing Cumly Cube 1.4.1! 4 months ago, Cumly Cube 1.4 was released. This was the final major update. As promised, minor tweaks would continue, both to fix any remaining imbalances and keep the card pool fresh. The following 19 swaps should help remove some dominant strategies, specifically by curtailing the power of the “green slop” archetype. The additions also add a lot of new excitement to the cube in only 19 cards; there are multiple cards that introduce the monarch into the game, making this a more central mechanic of Cumly Cube, and there is one card that can be used as a niche combo finish with a Cumly Cube staple.

Here are the changes, provided with brief justifications:

REMOVED:

  1. Artifact Mutation: too powerful
  2. Aura Mutation: too powerful
  3. Captain Sisay: too powerful
  4. Chromatic Lantern: mana fixing should not be this easy
  5. Druid of the Anima: too obvious a choice of Cumly
  6. Endbringer: too powerful in multiplayer
  7. Explosive Vegetation: mana fixing should not be this easy
  8. Firemind Vessel: mana fixing should not be this easy
  9. Gilded Goose: too obvious a choice of Cumly
  10. Gilded Lotusfoil: too much ramp
  11. Glissa Sunseeker: too hateful against artifact decks
  12. Growth Spasm: too much ramp
  13. Growth Spiral: too much ramp
  14. Jetmir, Nexus of Revels: too obvious a choice of Cumly
  15. Joiner Adept: too obvious a choice of Cumly
  16. Karakas: too powerful
  17. Library of Alexandria: too powerful
  18. Muldrotha, the Gravetide: too powerful
  19. Worldfire: an iconic Cumly Cube card, but sadly too unbalanced due to the ability to float mana and cast your Cumly after, almost certainly winning the game. This strategy still exists with Apocalypse, but is less of a guarantee now

ADDED:

  1. Afterlife Insurance: supports the Spirit creature type and instant synergies
  2. Arcane Encyclopedia: supports artifact decks
  3. Court of Ardenvale: the monarch is now supported more heavily in Cumly Cube
  4. Eldrazi Confluence: supports Eldrazi decks
  5. Fiend Hunter: supports the Human creature type
  6. Horizon of Progress: a utility land to help with mana fixing
  7. Moira, Urborg Haunt: supports the Spirit creature type and graveyard synergies
  8. Palace Sentinels: the monarch is now supported more heavily in Cumly Cube, and supports the Human creature type
  9. Papalymo Totolymo: supports the Dwarf creature type and noncreature synergies
  10. Refocus: supports instant synergies
  11. Rile: supports instant synergies and works well with Dinosaurs
  12. Sage of Hours: supports the Human creature type and +1/+1 counter decks
  13. Secluded Courtyard: encourages creature synergies
  14. Sigarda, Champion of Light: supports the Angel creature type and the Human creature type
  15. Staunch Throneguard: the monarch is now supported more heavily in Cumly Cube, and supports the Construct creature type
  16. Thassa's Ire: supports enchantment decks and can do some very powerful things with certain creatures
  17. The Golden Throne: supports sacrifice decks and facilitates possible great comebacks
  18. Three Tree City: encourages creature synergies
  19. Wizard's Rockets: a utility artifact to help with mana fixing

Venturub on Mono-White Control Clerics

4 months ago

As a complement to my previous message, I am considering the following:

MollyMab on Can I use Lagrella the …

1 year ago

No.

This used to work for Fiend Hunter because the return trigger and exile trigger were separate. This meant the return trigger tied to that fiend hunter and that fiend hunter exile trigger would resolve so it returns before it exiled, and the exile trigger would then happen. The new fiend hunter would then not have any memory of the original exile trigger, so would not attempt to return things the things it had previously exiled.

In the form formating, instead it is all one. So it has to return when it leaves, and if you flicker Lagrella, all you would do is flicker the rest of the stuff.

Nunu312 on Blink Commander

1 year ago

When cutting cards, the question to ask isn't "is this card good enough", it's "will this card help me win the game".

Meteor Golem is good, but as you say, very expensive. 7 to destroy one permanent isn't worth it. Can you get the same effect for cheaper? Angel of Serenity is very similar in cost and effect, but can recurse parts of your combo as well as after blinking once or twice is almost total creature dominance. Similar with Runaway Boulder, it's expensive creature control, yes it works well with recursion, but if you can blink it enough to achieve dominance... you could be blinking something that will get you closer to victory instead.

Even Sun Titan, an incredibly powerful card... Doesn't actually help your deck win. It could get back Fiend Hunter or Wormfang Drake if they're dead, which is definitely good, but besides that, even if your combo is going the only way it could convert that to a win state is with Commander's Sphere or Mind Stone. Now... that may not be a sun titan problem, so much that it's that you aren't taking full potential of sun titan. If you swapped a land out for Flooded Strand, that combo is now Pay 1 Life: Put an Island or Plains (including non-basic land like Hallowed Fountainfoil) into play. Cheating land into play is doubly good, because now your not going to draw that land. Fabled Passage is then the next best of the search land, but they all work with sun titan.

Biblioplex Assistant can get your spells back... but it's to the top of your library, so it's also chewing up a card draw. If you have unlimited access to the top of your library, you have probably already won and don't need those spells anymore.

Venser, Shaper Savant on the other hand... he's a reusable counter spell, only more versatile. He isn't going to be a key part of your combo, but when you're putting that last piece of the combo together... he's going to be there stopping anyone from interfering. On top of that he's board control when you need him and he's not even that expensive.

One thing that you're missing is cheap card draw. Wall of Omens being the standard. You can drop it early and it gets you one card closer to winning, and it's a blocker. There are a bunch of similar cards as well. More cards means you are closer to putting your combo together.

Interestingly, you can also drop anything that gives you unlimited hand size. It will never help you win the game, in fact, being able to discard something that might be recursable to the battlefield might help you. It's just not something you need to spend mana on.

idfkgabe on She counter on my spell till I deck

1 year ago

This is a good deck, but I do have suggestions

  1. For some removal I would take either take out 2 Pacifism and replace it with Sleep of the Dead or put in Oblivion Ring

  2. Another thing is that Angel of Serenity costs specifically 4 white mana, I would try to find creatures who use the same ability ( such as Fiend Hunter) or a creature who is big enough to finish the game (Sphinx of Uthuun).

Case42 on Smelly cat! What are they feeding you?

2 years ago

I would suggest adding in Fiend Hunter to combo with Angel of Glory's Rise.

You exile the Angel with Fiend Hunter, sacrifice your board to a sac outlet, making sure to sac Fiend Hunter last. When it leaves, the Angel comes back and brings all your humans back with it. Repeat until you win.

The combo can even be tutored out with Final Parting, putting Fiend Hunter in the graveyard and Angel of Glory's rise into your hand.

Arrzarrina on Roon Shenanigans

3 years ago

19/01/2023 changes: There have been a few rounds of changes. Removed counterspells to attempt to make the deck to make more fun to play against, sold the Mox Diamond because it's become worth a mint in the last 7 years, added more draw and refocused the deck on creature ETB based interaction instead of something like Oblivion Ring. It's a good card but I don't get the value that I could get out of a Fiend Hunter. You know where I'm going with this. I've also added more mana fixing to the land base and adjusted colours for the new balance.

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