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Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor
Legendary Creature — Human Warlock
Deathtouch
Whenever a Curse is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, return it to the battlefield attached to you at the beginning of the next end step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may attach a Curse attached to you to one of your opponents. If you do, draw two cards.
legendofa on Commander recomendation thread
2 months ago
There isn't a rhino-specific commander, but what traits do rhinos have? Bulky bodies, a lot of trample and trample-ish evasion, and some stall with cards like Stonehorn Dignitary and Rhox Meditant.
I would say look for a subtheme and choose a commander based on that. Dragonlord Dromoka and Karametra, God of Harvests are good utility options for protection and ramp, respectively. If you're pumping the Rhinos, Sovereign Okinec Ahau pushes that into overdrive.
I got a lot of these decks in need of commanders. Please send over suggestions for
Enchantments: Citadel of Pain + Manabarbs + Personal Sanctuary sort of thing. I know Go-Shintai of Life's Origin exists, but I'm not interested in adding and/or to this one.
Curses and curse themed Auras: Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor + Eriette of the Charmed Apple. Again, I'm not interested in adding .
Reanimator
"Bleeder" attrition: Value over time. Awakening Zone, Suture Priest, Kambal, Consul of Allocation, that sort of thing.
legendofa on What commanders do you want …
7 months ago
What's the mana value of this thread? I'm about to Reanimate it. I'd like to see more four-color stuff. Unlife mentioned this earlier, but I'd like to expand on the thought.
Four-color cards are especially hard to design and make meaningful, per Mark Rosewater. I'm willing to grant that. Right now, though, I'm trying to line out a Curse deck that uses Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor and Eriette of the Charmed Apple. Breya, Etherium Shaper, has absolutely no synergy, and the best partner options, in my opinion, are just kind of generically useful.
(I know Go-Shintai of Life's Origin is an option, but I don't see having a deep role in this deck, and it feels a little too "five-color good stuff" for me. It's off-theme and is offering stuff I'm not sure this deck concept wants or needs.)
There could be a graveyard commander, or a damage over time commander. Maybe I'm just being demanding, but I feel like outside of the two Atraxas and 's wealth of options (so two color sets out of five), there's just not any worthwhile choices for brewing four-color decks with cards that work well together but happen to not overlap in color identity.
plakjekaas on Banned card in Commander?
10 months ago
It's not actually in a precon, right? Isn't it just a set/ Collector booster only card like Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor? Those are printed with the commander set symbol showing they're not in the main set, and with the LotR set specifically; won't be added to the modern format.
I'd say it's a flavor decision to add the card, and do it like this to keep it out of modern, a reprint doesn't change the banlist so that should sort itself out.
marco-piatti on Bad gifts commanders
1 year ago
Hello everyone, I want your opinion on EDH decks based on commanders that are focused on giving "bad gifts" to your opponents. I think the most rapresentative of this category are (and maybe the only ones? I don't know for sure, wouldn't like to be missing someone): Blim, Comedic Genius, Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor and, of course, Zedruu the Greathearted.
I own a Blim deck and i must say that building around him was really complex because it's pretty clear you can't go easy on gifts since are the only weapon of the deck basically but, at the same time, once you start spreading your fantastic gifts, your opponents will start targeting you like crazy.
Since you can't restart the board every other turn (probably you could, but i don't think i could afford loosing my commander so often and there aren't enough asymmetrical boardwipes) and the deck can't be 50% removal (then again, technically it could be but the point of the deck is trying to win according to a specific strategy and not to just survive) other kind of precautions have to be made.
The first one that came into my mind are pillowfort cards like Crawlspace and Marchesa's Decree. They look good on paper, but after you have given an opponent an end stage Demonic Pact or "simply" an Aggressive Mining they are more then willingly to be paying 1 life for each attacking creature (and yes, sometimes the numerical restriction of Crawlspace isn't a factor either when an opponent can swing with huge creatures).
Another "solution" is using token generators like Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs since they give us the resource to block some creatures.
The last strategy to survive that came to my mind is filling the deck with "goad effects": this way our opponents' creatures can stay alive and are forced to attack the other players embracing the group slug theme i actually had in mind when building the deck.
Long story short, the deck has to be a delicate balance of all these strategies to be funcioning as it should and, at the same time, letting us survive till the endgame.
This is all in theory. In the actual games what's your experience when piloting/facing theese kind of decks? And what seem to be the most efficient tacticts?
nhhale on When a player leaves the …
1 year ago
Example: I am playing Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor and one of my opponents dies on their upkeep to my Curse of Thirst. Lyndes first ability triggers moving all curses on that player to my graveyard and those curses are attached to me at the beginning of the next end step. Did the player who just left the game have an end step, or will those curses come back attached to me at the beginning of the next player’s end step?
pedroedmarcos on Lynde and accursed witch
1 year ago
Hey there,
Just to make sure, if Infectious Curse is on the field and I sacrifice it somehow, Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor would trigger and try to bring back the curse. Synce Accursed Witch Flip is the front side, would Lynde actually reanimate the Witch making it return to the field as a creature on her frontside?
Guerric on Why are Commander cards being …
2 years ago
I think that also commander has now grown to be the largest format by a long shot, and it's growing so fast that trying to support it is challenging. A couple of years ago they were printing one commander set a year, and at that rate no one would be able to afford precons due to demand alone, and there could be a risk of there not being enough diversity among commanders and strategies. As such they are using regular sets to put out more stuff. Of course, they have been designing commander-intended cards in standard sets for awhile, the difference being that those were also standard legal. This came back to bite them though with cards like Omnath, Locus of Creation, which definitely fit in the Zendikar revival thematically, but which they didn't build a precon around and was standard legal. This broke standard and they kept having to ban stuff. So now they can just print those things in regular sets but make them not standard legal. Of course, some cards like Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor were never going to break standard, but this also frees up a standard legal mythic rare slot for a card that could have more impact on the format. It is very weird and could be potentially confusing to newer players to standard, but given the explosive growth of commander I understand it.
TypicalTimmy on Why are Commander cards being …
2 years ago
I noticed this first with Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor in Midnight Hunt, because with being Grixis, she couldn't have been in the Dimir or Selesnya decks.
I'm not sure if the trend continued since, but within Neon Dynasty, Myojin of Grim Betrayal and a few others are printed as Commander cards. However, ND doesn't have a black deck? It has Gruul and Azorius.
So why are cards being printed within the "Commander" set that aren't within the colors of their respective decks, and furthermore if these decks can't have these cards, where are the cards being opened from?
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