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Rules Q&A
Leonin Relic-Warder
Creature — Cat Cleric
When this enters, you may exile target artifact or enchantment.
When this leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.
SaberTech on favorite pet card(s)
2 months ago
I like games where the power balance of the board shifts a lot between players from one turn to the next, keeping people guessing how it will ultimately turn out. I enjoy catching people off guard. I also tend to gravitate to sacrifice and graveyard recursion strategies so there are a few cards that tend to show up in my deck lists, at least until I start refining.
Whenever I build a deck with blue I like to see if Domineering Will fits in the list. I like how flexible it is and how it can really mess up an opponent's plans. You can be political and save an opponent if they agree to block how you want them too, often getting rid of a bunch of annoying creatures at once. You can give yourself surprise blockers. You can play it before combat to basically fog an opponent's three strongest creatures for a turn. If you have a way to give haste then you can snag three additional attackers. And if you have a free sacrifice outlet then it basically lets you kill three creatures at instant speed for just 4 mana.
Shriekmaw ends up in a lot of my black decks. The sacrifice trigger off of the evoke cost lets it nab extra value off of cards like Grave Pact and Morbid Opportunist. It's a creature that you can blink or recursion loop to kill multiple creatures over the course of a game. It's an evasive creature that might be able to help push through some last few points of damage. You can tutor for it off of Birthing Pod to kill something and then sac it the next turn to tutor up something else. You can also evoke it and then sacrifice it in response to its sacrifice trigger to Soldevi Adnate to give yourself a quick burst of mana ramp.
Necromancy is fun for its ability to grab a sudden blocker or utility creature out of any graveyard at instant speed to catch opponents off guard. The built-in sac effect when you cast it at instant speed can be relevant to get death triggers, like off of Protean Hulk. Since it's an enchantment form of reanimation you can also run it as backup for Animate Dead in Leonin Relic-Warder combos.
Jerkoid on
Delney
4 months ago
Karmic Guide Spirited Companion Abuelo's Awakening Maybe Felidar Guardian Skyclave Apparition only has the downside trigger once. Might be other similar cards. Leonin Relic-Warder lets you bypass the downside with instant-speed blinks
PuritanPuree on
Amalia and Her Loyal Lurrus
5 months ago
K4nkato Sure! I actually won a game out of nowhere with a mass-res pile once and didn't even realize it until I brought it all back and was like, "oh, you all take 60" or whatever the number was. Basically, I Ascend from Avernus'd like 11 creatures from the yard, including 5 or 6 different "Soul Sisters" creatures and, most importantly, my copy of Starscape Cleric. I do pretty aggressively explore to the bin because of mass res cards, so that helps, but I feel like you could actually pursue this as a win con more regularly with more dedicated self-mill. It was just happenstance when I did it lol.
There's plenty of other combos that can be put into an Amalia shell. Google "EDHRec Amalia combos" and you'll find gold. Leonin Relic-Warder + Animate Dead is a good one for infinite death & etb triggers. Just slap a Blood Artist-esque effect on the board and you win! It even works in a Lurrus build.
Spirits on
Kaalia, Mirror Breaker EDH
8 months ago
matvone your deck isn't public, but I would make sure you have Leonin Relic-Warder + Animate Dead or Dance of the Dead or Necromancy + Impact Tremors
. It doesn't work with Orcish Bowmasters or Dragon Tempest though, however it will pair within things like Corpse Knight or others I'm sure you might have if your running WGD primary. You probably are but thought I would mention :).
Spirits on
Kaalia, Mirror Breaker EDH
8 months ago
Agreed the Entomb + Animate Dead () is less mana intensive than the Buried Alive + Reanimate (). It's much higher risk for sure, I thought about just using the Leonin Relic-Warder instead, but the extra mana slowed it down.
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight is a good pull out, along with Avacyn, Angel of Hope were both out from 2020-2024 but I decided to add a combat damage line back in, there both unnecessary angels in here.
Bogardan Hellkite lived in this deck forever, until the Orcish Bowmasters was printed, but it is a great alternative if the focus is the Worldgorger Dragon lines.
Red Dragon does the damage, but it doesn't have Flash so it's not really effective like Orcish Bowmasters or Bogardan Hellkite. Recruiter of the Guard and Imperial Recruiter are also great for finding the Orcish Bowmasters with the combo.
Love Kaalia combo, very cool matvone.
Crow_Umbra on
Watch the Party Die [Primer]
9 months ago
Thank you capwner! The Reveillark/Karmic Guide loop is one of my old favorites since each piece can do so much work on its own. I took out Leonin Relic-Warder, because each time I'd have one of Animate Dead style auras, I felt like I was saving it for the combo, instead using it as intended.
As I continue working on the primer, I'm going to add a section about Bracket intention. I try to aim for 3 generally, but am eager to see how the Bracket criteria gets updated in April.
Crow_Umbra on In what color to combo …
1 year ago
What kind of combo are you looking for, or what is most fun for you? Every color combo has a plethora of combos available to them. I'd recommend checking out commanderspellbook.com as a resource to look up combos across different color combos. It explains in a pretty clear step by step manner how each combo is achieved.
Personally, I like to play combos where each of the components can stand on its own, so they don't necessarily feel like "dead" cards without the other pieces.
Some of my favorite combos:
This combo can be achieved with Leonin Relic-Warder and Animate Dead/ or Necromancy/ or Dance of the Dead. On their own, each can function independently & effectively, or be combined with something like Bastion of Remembrance or an Impact Tremors effect to drain out the table.
Again, on their own, each piece is fully functional and can stand on its own. In combination the two pieces can potentially lead to multiple combat steps.
I'd say figure out which colors and archetypes you like playing most, then search around on Spellbook to see if there are any combos that you might like. Just about every color has some kind of combo available to it, but each one might fit your playstyle or budget better than others.
Crow_Umbra on
Be The (Bane) Of Their Existence
1 year ago
I haven't played reanimator in a while, so my suggestions might be a bit rusty. I see that you have some potential combo pieces like free sac outlets like Carrion Feeder & Phyrexian Altar, Karmic Guide, & various your different aristocrats pingers. Do you currently have any dedicated combo lines? Could be helpful to list them in your primer if you do.
In regards to the pieces you do have, I have a few suggestions:
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Leonin Relic-Warder - A temp speedbump in terms of removal, but can also combo off with the Animate Dead & Necromancy you already have in the 99. Combo explanation if you're unfamiliar with it. It's fairly useful on its own, so doesn't really feel like a dead draw without the other pieces.
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Reveillark - Another combo piece that can pop off with Karmic Guide & pretty much all of the free sac outlets and aristocrats pingers you have in your deck already. On its own, it can potentially reanimate about 20 of the 37 creatures you currently have in your deck. Combo explanation again if you're unfamiliar with any of the Reveillark lines. Also suggesting since you have it in your Maybe board already.
