Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper

Legendary Creature — Naga Wizard

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Combos

• Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper + Tymna the Weaver

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
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (49)

NV_1980 on Fat Bottom Felothar

1 month ago

It's good to see a resurgence of this strat, and this deck plays into it nicely! Some ideas:

1. Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper *f-etch*: a bit like lifelink on combat damage for all your creatures based on toughness; pretty darn powerful in this deck.
2. Oketra the True: with an ability to damage based on toughness, this god suddenly becomes quite the behemoth.
3. Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa: makes it more difficult to stop many of your attackers during combat.
4. Silklash Spider: a potent combatant when she's allowed to deal damage through toughness, as well as having a built-in, slightly less powerful, reusable Hurricane.
5. Skinshifter: great for being multi-functional and can become a 0/8 monstrosity in a flash.

Good luck with this brew!

DatShepTho on Arcades

1 year ago

Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper nor Ancient Lumberknot or Tree of Perdition can be in the deck because of Arcades' colour identity, unless your pod rule zeros it.

And even then only Exotic Orchard could possibly net you black mana from your lands as well as two of your mana rocks

8cardalchemy on Help me Build a Basic …

1 year ago

Hi All,

I want to build an Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper // Tymna the Weaver life gain commander deck. It will be used for semi-casual play at a LGS, so good players with decent decks but not a lot of bonkers combos going off by turn 5.

I have never been amazing a cooking up commander decks that actually function, especially on a budget. Can anyone help me put together a basic/affordable decklist that I can expand on with more expensive cards later (let's say sub $200, preferably closer to $100, price is a little flexible)?

So far, I have the following cards that I know will work here:

Deathrite Shaman Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose Swords to Plowshares Dina, Soul Steeper Voice of the Blessed Kambal, Consul of Allocation Willowdusk, Essence Seer Vampire Nighthawk Drana and Linvala Rodolf Duskbringer Rampant Growth Farseek

I also own both commanders, so that's $30 I don't need to worry about.

Any help is appreciated.

BroJuice on Bruiser Bruse Battle-cruiser Build by Bruce

2 years ago

carpecanum I love Concerted Effort, that's a great suggestion. However, it does not share the spicy keyword menace that we get from our girl Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper. Also, the double strike from Bruse Tarl, Boorish Herder will not get shared unless he is cast precombat with Odric, Lunarch Marshal.

H1v3l0rd on Life Swap Shenanigans!

2 years ago

Sanguine Bond is half of an instant win combo with Exquisite Blood but also Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose and Defiant Bloodlord do the same thing as Sanguine Bond. They're easier to remove, since they're creatures, but multiple instances will proc the effect more often. Consider also Tree of Perdition and Triskaidekaphobia for a laugh, or Tree of Redemption as another source of life swapping. I wouldn't recommend building around it, but if you could play Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper and somehow let the tree attack without defender, you could swing for something like 30 or 40 damage and immediately gain that much life back, so it's 40+13, then 53+13, then 66+13, and you're killing them with just some plant, some ordinary shrubbery from outside. That's such a niche combo, but if you swap someone's life to 13 that counts as them losing 27 life, so with Exquisite Blood, you would gain that much life as well. This also applies to things like Wound Reflection and my personal favorite best boy, Master of Cruelties

Grind on

2 years ago

Cool deck!!!
Rings of Brighthearth lets you copy the untap ability without paying the 10 life again.
Rude Awakening is another idea too. And i found Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper is decent at helping gain life.
Anyways cheers and have fun!!

DM_Aramis on Minions & Magic token deck

3 years ago

Thanks multimedia it took me a bit to get around to ironing out this deck and try. I love all the suggestions, I did have a land drop issue for sure, but funny enough I ended up winning the game mostly because I managed to get Mirari's Wake on the field that helped me keep up. Funny enough Rhox Faithmender ended up being my VIP as my token generators kept being targeted and the Sword of Light and Shadow kept the cleric safe as my playgroup leans REAL heavy into black cards. Drizzt Do'Urden with some boots / Sword of Hearth and Home and Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper were close seconds.

I also could never make use of Vorpal Sword effectively so now I've finally bent and took it out of the deck. That said, I've put in some choice mana rocks, added more lands, and took out a few things that weren't serving the deck. It's funny because I didn't intend it, but when my token strategy was taken down, this served as a decent Voltron with the equipment/enchantments it has going on.

Obviously, I'm still a bit light on lands, but I hope with the new lands/rocks and some of the treasure generators like Monologue Tax and Pitiless Plunderer these will set this in the right direction, but I'll know more after this Sunday when I get to try it again.

I think I'd still like this to be more of a token centered deck, so I might keep looking up some combo/token generators to expand upon this. If you have any suggestions for that specifically I'd love it as I have the rest of your help, even if they're not entirely budget cards. Thanks again for everything!

ZendikariWol on Who are the Commanders you …

3 years ago

I love love playing against two kinds of decks:

1: Politics! I love politics decks- playing them, playing against them, they never fail to bring a smile to my face. The table collectively slaughtering the first player not to pass the Humble Defector is a very rare experience (and would probably get old if it wasn't) but in its scarcity is very amusing; making decisions that are undeniably bad but very interesting and chaotic is a great time.

2: Decks that I have or want to build: Krark, the Thumbless / Sakashima of a Thousand Faces infini-Krarks and spell tribal, Ludevic, Necro-Alchemist / Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper clones, Prosper, Tome-Bound, I love looking at other people's takes on the decks I've built or want to build, it's just a great time, I'm always fascinated. I learn about new cards, can workshop things with the opponent, get a lot of cool insights on how to play my deck, and hopefully pass some on as well.

Also, just wanted to say, bummer we're all here talking about stuff we hate. Let's have fun and talk about fun stuff, we never do that!