Haakon, Stromgald Scourge

Legendary Creature — Zombie Knight

You may play Haakon, Stromgald Scourge from your graveyard, but not from anywhere else.

As long as Haakon is in play, you may play Knight cards from your graveyard.

When Haakon is put into a graveyard from play, you lose 2 life.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	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

Discussion (49)

casual_competitive on Sir Ralph de Ashton ps-8

4 months ago

capwner thanks, i like building decks from unused commanders. getting Haakon, Stromgald Scourge in the graveyard is what kicks this deck off, being able to re-cast my commander over and over again from the graveyard kinda turns it into a x spell if i have a death trigger card on board.

going infinite is extremely easy once i have Haakon, Stromgald Scourge on board. if i had Phyrexian Altar on board any 1 drop knight will let me have inf etb and death triggers, another one would be Activated Sleeper and Cavalier of Night. josu also goes infinite on accident really easily especially if i have Roaming Throne out.

its fun to play this deck as i can either go for infinites in a higher power game or for a more casual game ill just not use the infinites and play the deck normally, winning by casting my commander a lot and swinging out or casting Smitten Swordmaster.

so getting Haakon in graveyard, getting sac outlet and casting mana doublers is the plan. every game plays differently with this deck. never the same wincon in a row

Balaam__ on Balaam__

7 months ago

Let me preface this by saying I have not even looked at anything from New Capenna forward (that’s how fatigued I am by wizards’ shoveling expansions down my throat, ha).

Off the top of my head there isn’t anything Modern legal that strictly functions like Crucible of Worlds, but with creatures. The closest thing to what you’re looking for are cards like Haakon, Stromgald Scourge which have that effect except it’s limited to specific creature types. Wrenn and Realmbreaker might be worth a look too. With thoughtful planning, either might fit the bill. There are a bunch of Reanimator spells, as you said, and there are some fairly easy-to-assemble endless loops you could pull off with them which might also trigger what you’re looking to pull off.

IHATENAMES on Sidar Jabari Knight Combo

1 year ago

Profet93

I see a few Cathars' Crusade + Basri's Lieutenant + sac outlet and any other nontokeln creature with +1 counters Inf tokens and more

Phyrexian Altar + Haakon, Stromgald Scourge + 1 drop knight 2 life per etb ltb trigger some effects can reduce life loss/kill opponents

Note to brewer

I think Ashnod's Altar might be not worth it here. You might be better with another free sac outlet like Viscera Seer or more reanimation like Victimize

Happy brewing!

DreadKhan on That's Why it's Called Murder, not Mukduk

1 year ago

If there are decks in your meta that aren't good at blocking, then Rite of the Raging Storm is very scary. It is also a constant source of tokens that are never coming your way. Another Enchantment that can provide lots of bodies is Elemental Mastery, Mastery can make a small army of tokens that are both very good sac fodder and decent chump blockers if you're desperate.

I'm not sure if it's too awkward to make work, but Haakon, Stromgald Scourge is a decent recursion piece, allowing you to recast knights from the graveyard (including Haakon). All in all probably not as good as Gravecrawler, but better than many recursion options since there are many 1 mana Knights/Changelings. Another interesting recursion option that might work in here is Hell's Caretaker, this can turn a chump into the best creature in your graveyard on your upkeeps.

Any reason you're not running Pitiless Plunderer? It has pretty good synergy with your Commander, but also with stuff like Mayhem Devil (and maybe something like Marionette Master, which also works with any artifact creatures). Pawn of Ulamog and Sifter of Skulls both work with any recursive creatures to help generate mana. Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder is a really weird token generator that synergizes well with Gravecrawler or Haakon, providing you an extra body for each cast, helping them go infinite.

It's pretty janky, but Lagomos, Hand of Hatred is a neat repeatable tutor that also makes a token each turn. Another janky card that might do some work in here is Mask of Griselbrand, the buffs can be useful, but the card draw is the real perk, very good in a deck with lots of sacrifice outlets as a weirder Skullclamp. Dream Devourer is a surprisingly good jank 'ramp' source in Black, this also can protect your cards from discard effects by clearing your hand (and still letting you cast the stuff later).

DreadKhan on (Mid-power playgroups) Do you value …

1 year ago

It's probably not a great idea, but you could technically use Haakon, Stromgald Scourge as a way to stretch out your Nazgul. You need to run a bunch of cards to try to get Haakon into your hand, so you almost have to run some tutoring, but Haakon lets you run other knights to fairly good effect. TBH you can also run Haakon in the 99, he's an alternative to just Encoring in Araumi, but you'd want some discard outlets (which you might want in Araumi anyways, as well as self-mill).

Out of the two you mentioned, I think Araumi is pretty sweet, there are a ton of creatures that are sweet with her Encore ability, if you want a strong deck one of the easiest ways to ensure it is to run cards that are good in relatively normal situations, if you pick good enough cards you can also run a bunch of pet cards, because the real reason we play EDH is so we can summon an Uncle Istvan or Preacher, the most intuitive of creature types!

Doombeard1984 on No Horsin’ Around

1 year ago

Hi there. I have also made a version of this deck and it is great fun to play.

So I see you have Haakon, Stromgald Scourge and Forsworn Paladin, if you add a Phyrexian Altar to that mix, gives you infinite ETB, LTB, and Death Triggers, which could be another win con. I am waiting on the cards to turn up to add to my deck to give me a combo.

I also have Invasion of New Phyrexia  ^Flip, as apparently when it flips, Teferi is also Knight Tribal Planeswalker... Who knew?

Also Akroma's Will is just win on its own, but its got kinda pricey as card since its release.

Great deck, and defo a +1 from me

At the end of the day... Its Knight - Heres mine if you fancy a gander.

wallisface on Haakon's Nazgûl knights

1 year ago

Some general thoughts:

• the Ringwraiths have too high a mana cost to ever realistically get cast in your current build.

• I think you’re investing too much effort trying to fill your graveyard, for minimal return. Yes Haakon, Stromgald Scourge can cast stuff from your grave - but you still need to pay casting costs the same as if it were in your hand. Its more of a “nice to have” effect rather than anything you should be specifically trying to build around.

• Your mana curve currently feels a bit slow, and you have almost no interaction to compensate. I would heavily suggest adding in a bunch of low-mana interaction. It will give you better odds of dragging the game out so you can make the most of your effects.

Donvier on Can I play creatures with …

1 year ago

I've heard of a new rules change with Haakon, Stromgald Scourge and Ashes of the Fallen which I don't totally understand but does this mean that Conspiracy doesn't work anymore either? To specify the idea is to play either type changing card and choose the Knight creature type to play any creature from my graveyard.

Just building a Hakkon EDH deck now and I'm quite sad about the idea that Maskwood Nexus is the only card in the game that can let me type change to make it work.