Firkraag, Cunning Instigator
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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Alchemy Legal
Archenemy Legal
Arena 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
Oathbreaker Legal
Planar Constructed Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Firkraag, Cunning Instigator

Legendary Creature — Dragon

Flying, haste

Whenever one or more Dragons you control attack an opponent, goad target creature that player controls. (Until your next turn, that creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)

Whenever a creature deals combat damage to one of your opponents, if that creature had to attack this combat, you put a +1/+1 counter on Firkraag, Cunning Instigator and you draw a card.

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Crow_Umbra on Ichizoku-No-Ryuto

4 months ago

Nice deck! Overall your curve is really low to the ground and you have a strong suite of cheap interaction & fast mana, so not too much to critique there.

In your play-testing so far, how have you felt with having 16 creatures? I recognize that you have some token producers on top of a creature base that can mostly bounce itself back to hand. If you feel like you aren't seeing them much, I'd recommend bumping your creatures up closer to like mid-20s or so, especially since G-G&S thrive on having your creatures connect.

If you do add more creatures, I'd recommend adding a couple of beefier top-end threats that can also act as defenders in case your Plan A to start getting Dragon Spirit tokens isn't really panning out. I've loved Firkraag, Cunning Instigator and Kolaghan, the Storm's Fury as ways to beef up the team, draw cards, and redirect attacks around the table. They fit right in with the dragon subtheme you already have going on with Dragon Tempest. Both of them are also on theme with Haste & Dash respectively.

If you want to add more dragons, from Kamigawa or otherwise, Atsushi, the Blazing Sky can swing or block freely & get one of its death triggers, and Archwing Dragon has pseudo-Dash to come back to hand.

Femme_Fatale on Official missing/incorrect card/token thread

9 months ago

ForceablePizza: None of what you mentioned were missing the thick treatment. Captain N'ghathrod, Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald and Firkraag, Cunning Instigator are treatments that only exist irl and in our database as thick. The default treatment for each is only in foil, and the extended border treatment for each is in both normal and foil.

Raugrin Triome does not have a standard promo as far as I can find across all vendors. It does have though Raugrin Triome, the borderless treatment, Raugrin Triome *pp* the promo pack and Raugrin Triome *f-pre* the pre-release promo. The final two which are treated as treatments, primarily because doing anything other than automatic treatments is needlessly wasting time.

You may want to read this site updates article to get more information on how tappedout deals with treatments. And this article about variations to better learn about those.


Now in making this post I double checked the card previews to make sure they were right and lo-and behold the CLB's were not showing their thick displays. I can do it manually but it should be showing up automatically. This made me double check what the text deck auto-complete list shows you, and it does not display the thick treatment. It should look like this Captain N'ghathrod *thick*.

So they are in the site, however the deck editor and the card preview here seems to have bugs which I'll forward to the devs.

ForceablePizza on Official missing/incorrect card/token thread

9 months ago

Captain N'ghathrod Missing Thick Treatment Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald Missing Thick treatment Raugrin Triome Missing Promo Art & Pricing Firkraag, Cunning Instigator Missing Thick Treatment

Please note, the missing treatment listed above are in addition to the treatments that are already in the database. These cards have both a "Foil" and a "Thick" treatments. Based on how many are currently missing, I am sure there are more from the CLB set that are missing their "Thick" treatments as well, but I am still imputing my collection, slowly.

Thanks, for your help.

NV_1980 on Mirrym Double Dragons

10 months ago

Dragon Tempest is extremely strong in a deck like this. Lathliss, Dragon Queen also seems like a lot of fun to copy with Miirym; dragon tokens galore! Firkraag, Cunning Instigator could be great fun too; as it leaves I'd also really recommend Steel Hellkite as an extremey powerful wipe on wings.

PhyrexianHellkite on 50$ Budget The Ur-Dragon

1 year ago

I have tested creatures/cards like that in the past and don't like the staying power or what they are adding to this deck. The creature versions get board-wiped the fastest and don't tend to extend the deck past extra mana available, so I prefer to start getting bigger game impact dragons out and only ramp via land ramp and some artifacts. Mainly to help with my mana fixing, draw, and one sided board-wipes. See the list of cards that those would not interact with other than Scaled Nurturer, that one gets the dragon pass but not card draw and would take up one of the 30 dragon slots. Garruk's Uprising, Elemental Bond, Frontier Siege, Wrathful Red Dragon, Silumgar, the Drifting Death, Rith, Liberated Primeval, Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm, Lathliss, Dragon Queen, Kolaghan, the Storm's Fury, Ganax, Astral Hunter, Firkraag, Cunning Instigator, Dromoka, the Eternal, Bladewing the Risen, Atarka, World Render, Haven of the Spirit Dragon, Relic of Legends, Jade Orb of Dragonkind, Carnelian Orb of Dragonkind, Crux of Fate, The Ur-Dragon

So 20 cards or 1/5th of the deck that those would not extend or interact with. Here is a link for some statistics for mana reducers that basically says if you can play cards every turn and use all mana you have as well then they work the best in those types of decks.

Is it worth it to play cost reducers in MTG EDH commander? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prltKyeJMKI

Form about this topic https://www.reddit.com/r/EDH/comments/b3stji/cost_reducers_vs_ramp/

Thanks for the comments! Hope this gives some insight on my deck building/playing style and if you run those mana dorks/cost reducers, I think cards like can help and, I do run them in other decks with less colors or better card draw. I do think a commander like Tiamat would benefit from those to help play the tutored cards after cast and help commander tax to recast it and refill your hand. The main thing I consider is what am I swapping, and in this deck and it's mana fixing for a 5 color deck on a 50$ budget, or a potential dragon slot for a deck that wants dragons on the field attacking to start getting ramped up.

I will continue to update this deck and work to give better descriptions of my other decks as well as I build and update my commander arsenal!

Chaospyke on Firkraag and The Rani

1 year ago

If I have Firkraag, Cunning Instigator and The Rani on the battlefield and attack with both, targeting Firkraag for The Rani's first ability, will Firkraag's third ability trigger on hit.

Short version: When do you determine "Had to attack this combat"?

Crow_Umbra on Goro-Goro and Satoru - Explosive Entry (v0.3)

1 year ago

I've definitely become more selective with what I pay attention to during the non-stop spoiler season. I pay far less attention to any of the Universes Beyond stuff that I don't have much interest in, and will usually skim through the spoiler summaries at the end of their respective spoiler runs. Even then, I'll look more so for upgrades and swaps to my existing decks than I will for creating something entirely new.

It's kinda funny you mention the "just to make the 100" bit, as I have had a similar-ish conversation with my best friend that got me into MtG. He and I have slightly different building styles in that he has a hard time cutting down to 100, and I can usually get a rough 100.

No prob! I might be mis-remembering if it was you or another person on here that doesn't use Universes Beyond cards at all. If you don't mind UB stuff, I'd say don't sleep on Firkraag, Cunning Instigator. Even then, D&D is probably the most thematically similar of all UB to MtG; it's all WotC after all lol. If not, totally understandable for exclusion. Firkraag has been helpful in the games I've played it.

Kolaghan, the Storm's Fury is also fairly on theme as a Dash body, and can act as a go-wide buff for all of your creatures.

Narrash on Storming Legends - The Ur-Dragon

1 year ago

Blade1945 The precon contains Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind which I quickly replaced because he shines in a deck built around himself. The is a bit risky too. Pinging 1 is irrelevant in this deck and if we want card-draw, Firkraag, Cunning Instigator works different but better. If you have a similar deck do feel free to replace one dragon you dislike for Niv-Mizzet.

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