Karona, False God

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Haste

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player untaps Karona, False God and gains control of it.

Whenever Karona attacks, creatures of the type of your choice get +3/+3 until end of turn.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Big Apple Highlander	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
PreDH	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (49)

Stardragon on Bad 5 color commander

11 months ago

I'm making a 5 color bad legendary deck (as in bad not overpowered) and need a bad commander at helm. Any 5 color tribal commander like the slivers or The Ur-Dragon can work since there terrible commanders if not being used in a tribal deck but it doesn't feel right. There's of course Karona, False God but I already have her as a Bad gifts commander so I'd rather use a different one if possible. What are your thoughts

Caerwyn on Why Has WotC not Reprinted …

1 year ago

Building on the above, Homeward Path does not really have a clear reprint path. For a card to be included in a preconstructed product or a set, there needs to be some worthwhile reason to include it. Path rarely will fit the bill.

For a preconstructed product, Path would need to further that deck’s gameplay. That means you would need to have cards that both give your opponents objects and that you might later want to take back. That is a weird niche - and, while donate might get a precon, I doubt we will ever see a “donate then take back” precon, as that is not an archetype that really exists (outside of very, very niche cases like Karona, False God).

For a set, it would need to be in a set with a heavy theme of theft - enough of a theme to warrant including tech designed to stop it. I doubt we will ever see a set with such a large theft component to justify Path’s inclusion. Theft is one of those things which makes players angry - and thus is seen as not fun by anyone except the theft player. That alone likely means we will not see a significantly theft-themed set.

More importantly than some players being bored, however, is how poorly theft actually plays - when the game is over, you have to go through and sort out whose cards are whose. That is a hassle and leads to non-gameplay elements taking up a disproportionate amount of time at events. That goes past simply getting folks frustrated in game - it makes the event worse for everyone.

As such, since there pretty much is no real reason to print Path, it just does not get printed very often.

CopperheadCA on When I Was Done Dying

2 years ago

Tried playtesting this against my Minn, Wily Illusionist EDH deck. On turn 6 or 7, I gained control of Karona, False God, attacked, then played Ixidron, effectively trapping your commander on my board. Another card in my deck would effectively do the same thing: In Too Deep. It was a bit of a slow drawn out process from there, but you may need something to destroy your commander if it gets trapped like this. Also saw after that this is meant to be a political deck, but.. just some notes.

Something like Shiny Impetus, Psychic Impetus, or Parasitic Impetus may help in situations like this, where it gets turned face down.

4to16characters on Slicer, Hired Muscle

3 years ago

This is the faster, better, Karona, False God and I love it.

Caerwyn on karona, false god and shiny …

3 years ago

Your opponent controls Karona, False God, but you still maintain control of the aura Shiny Impetus. Auras can have different controllers than the thing they are attached to.

In this case, the "Owner" is not relevant to the outcome--only the controller of the Aura is.

kingc0rn on Karona [PREMODERN EDH]

3 years ago

Appreciate it! PREMODERN is simply a deck with the restriction of ONLY using cards available prior to 8th Edition (old bordered cards).

I've been on a mission to build a premodern EDH deck for a while now. I always love trying to make things I haven't seen done before. I wanted to make an Invasion Legendary Dragon deck but just couldn't choose between Rith, the Awakener (the best), Crosis, the Purger, or Darigaaz, the Igniter (best art IMO). So what went from a Saproling Tribal, to a Reanimator, to a Dragonstorm deck, is now a reanimator deck with ALL of the Invasion dragons; Karona, False God leading the charge.

I've got it to 124 but could really use some help tuning/chopping it a bit more. Any and all help would be appreciated. Spiritmonger is the only card I can see that is pretty out of place, but he's the only pet card from my childhood I can think of that isn't in a deck I own so I think he'll stay!

I fully acknowledge this deck will probably be a train wreck. Every other deck I have is pretty highly tuned, to the point I don't have any options for playing new players or underpowered decks. I'd like this to be that deck.

Gattison on What strange old commanders do …

3 years ago

Gallowbraid, of course, hence why I built a deck for him to call home. He has a little brother that flies whose name I can never remember, but I saw Gallowbraid first, so of course I'm partial.

And I like Karona, False God too. Kinda unique, interesting, potentially dangerous, definitely janky. It's got all the stuff I like about Magic. In fact, she may be a more fun/better commander for a chaos deck I've been wanting to rebuild, instead of using Obeka, Brute Chronologist. Hmm. Yeah.

Thanks for asking! Good talk! =D

Metroplex_Grimlock on Quintessons 2

3 years ago

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