Herald of Secret Streams

Creature — Merfolk Warrior

Creatures with +1/+1 counters on them can't be blocked.

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
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (50)

ET_ASH1228 on progenitus or morophon

1 month ago

DrukenReaps you are right it would be easir to just do mono green hydra commander, but i already have a monogreen hydra deck just for casual. and i wanted to give a little bit of a challenge to myself, and with doing five colors there are things that i could add to support the hydras and make them more nastier than those multi headed creatures are, like being a jerk and adding in Herald of Secret Streams

NV_1980 on Mutation is Progress

3 months ago

Some ideas:

• Second Harvest: instantly double your tokens and with Ezuri around, greatly increase your XP at the same time.
• Rite of Replication: insanely good when kicked and completely bonkers when cast on creatures like Avenger of Zendikar, Kalonian Hydra and Mycoloth.
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• Vigor: make your creatures not just immune to combat damage, but actually lets them benefit from it.
• Herald of Secret Streams: already in your maybeboard; I'd really consider mainboarding it, he's just too good to pass on.
• Spike Weaver: acts as a permanent Fog during opponents' combat phases.

Have fun with the brew!

TheoryCrafter on The Madness of Fractal Being Manifested

5 months ago

The biggest threat to your deck is Solemnity. I'd recommend some counterspells including, but not limited to, Decisive Denial, Quandrix Command and Voidslime.

If you can't prevent Solemnity from entering the battlefield, Fecundity and Soul Net will turn your 0/0 Fractals into a boon until cards such as Fade into Antiquity and Naturalize can be used. Your commander's static ability will also feed into it.

You may also wish to consider cards that affect or are affected by +1/+1 counters. These include, but not limited to, The Ozolith, Swarm Shambler, Bramblewood Paragon, Herald of Secret Streams, Vigean Graftmage, Experiment Kraj and Plaxcaster Frogling.

Scavenging Ooze can give your deck some much needed graveyard hate.

Have you considered Simic Ascendancy with all these cards creating creatures with +1/+1 counters on them? You can move growth counters from Simic Ascendancy to Paradox Zone by means of Nesting Grounds.

Other lands to consider for the deck are Cave of Temptation, Forge of Heroes, Littjara Mirrorlake, Llanowar Reborn, Novijen, Heart of Progress, Opal Palace, Oran-Rief, the Vastwood, Temple of Mystery and Tyrite Sanctum.

Other cards to consider for your deck are Altered Ego, Bioshift, Clone Legion, Hardened Scales, Jiang Yanggu, Wildcrafter, Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner, MirrorBox, Repudiate / Replicate and Slippery Bogbonder.

I hope this helps. Thank you for reading me out. Happy Hunting!

unstable_anomaly on Send Nids.

7 months ago

This commander is bonkers. Looking forward to building around her myself.

Doesn't look like you're going for the spell slinger route, but Seedborn Muse with any of the instant speed draw spells (Blue Sun's Zenith / Commander's Insight / Diviner's Portent / Drown in Dreams / Even the Score / Pull from Tomorrow / Stroke of Genius / Thassa's Intervention) would be really good here. Could easily draw the whole deck for a Thassa's Oracle / Laboratory Maniac / Jace, Wielder of Mysteries win.

Since you're going the creature based route Kindred Discovery / Herald of Secret Streams / Open Into Wonder.

Some other generic good stuff for a deck like this Nyxbloom Ancient / Selvala, Heart of the Wilds / Mana Reflection / Pest Infestation.

Lokotor on Marchesa, The Black Rose - Primer

9 months ago

Crow-Umbra

If you take a look at the Notable Exclusions section I address a few of these.

For Herald of Secret Streams, I don't think granting our creatures evasion is all that important in a Marchesa list as you can clear the board out pretty effectively usually. If they have no blockers then all our creatures are unblockable.

I haven't made too many changes to the creatures section in general for some time now, but usually it's also not based on a card underperforming or otherwise lackluster. Usually a card is just replaced because something new comes out that fills that role more effectively. eg Arcbound Worker > Iron Apprentice. arcbound worker was quite good, but iron apprentice is just a bit better. Similarly, Solemn Simulacrum > Atsushi, the Blazing Sky solemn was a perfectly fine card and was good to recur each turn as it provided card advantage and ramp, synergized well with things like arcbound worker, and was easy to cast, but Atsushi gives more ramp and more card draw per use. so even though I don't have them right now, I would still generally recommend either of those cards.

I'm generally happy with the distribution of things like draw, ramp, control, aggro, etc, so I try not to change those numbers around too much. For example, I wouldn't cut Arcane Denial for Dire Fleet Daredevil as they don't have the same purpose. So for some cards, like Watcher for Tomorrow I just cut them because they were occupying the same card slot as some other new card I wanted to try, and naturally, something has to go to try the new card. But it wasn't necessarily because they were worse than the replacement, so much as it was just a convenient substitute.

Crow-Umbra on Marchesa, The Black Rose - Primer

9 months ago

Nice primer! I recently picked up a Marchesa as a potential deck transition for my Anhelo, the Painter deck. This isn't a suggestion, more so an inquiry, but did you ever use Herald of Secret Streams?

My rough draft list has quite a few overlaps with yours, and I was wondering what creatures you've cut recently that seemed exciting at first, but you felt under-performed.

Jopling on Volo's Guide to Cooking Monsters (Budget Counters)

11 months ago

carpecanum Cephalid Constable looks like it would fit in very nicely, though one of my major focusses with this deck was a low budget. I'd absolutely put it in otherwise.

Tanazir Quandrix and Acidic Slime's mana cost are a little too high for me for what they do, I've tried to keep the curve relatively low.

Cold-Eyed Selkie, Herald of Secret Streams, Iridescent Hornbeetle, Managorger Hydra, Sakura-Tribe Elder and Trygon Predator have all been subbed in. Thanks a lot!

carpecanum on Volo's Guide to Cooking Monsters (Budget Counters)

11 months ago

Cephalid Constable (a little pricey), Tanazir Quandrix and Cold-Eyed Selkie benefit from counters

Acidic Slime, Herald of Secret Streams, Iridescent Hornbeetle, Managorger Hydra, Sakura-Tribe Elder and Trygon Predator are all useful and have creature types I did not see above.