Mindshrieker

Creature — Bird Spirit

Flying {2}: Target player puts the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard. Mindshrieker gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is that card's converted mana cost.

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
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (51)

UltimateRoxas40 on Eldritch Captain of the Deep [Lovecraftian Primer]

2 months ago

DeeLight Thanks for taking a look!

I've actually run Mindshrieker before, primarily back when this was helmed by Lazav, Dimir Mastermind. For this deck, if it were also a Horror, I'd include it in an instant, but for now, I don't think it has a place.

Doom Whisperer is a Nightmare Demon. I wish Nightmares and Horrors were the same creature type, there would be several more creatures I could add to this deck. But alas, it's not a Horror, so for now I'm not including it.

Ive thought about adding Lim-Dul's Vault for a while, since its got some good Lovecraftian vibes, but it never jumped out as being essential. What would you suggest I take out to add it in?

I'll be sure to check out your deck!

Gandolfini on Mind Blast -Modern

1 year ago

The_Warleader Thanks The_Warleader for your thoughtful comment, those are definitely cards for me to consider! Here are my thoughts, with Lightning Bolt and Serum Visions, they don't get Mindshrieker out of Bolt range when milled from its ability. Maybe it's a fragile creature regardless, but I'm really looking to make sure my deck has as many cards as possible that keep Mindshrieker out of bolt range, maybe there are 3-cost alternatives to Lightning Bolt and Serum Visions? I agree I might end of cutting a few copies of Blinkmoth Infusion to make way for immediately useful cards, such as that Lightning Bolt. Temple of Epiphany could be better than Crystal Grotto, but it's situation dependent. The Temple of Epiphany helps ensure your mana base, but I hope to use the other scrying cards for that. Temple of Epiphany comes in tapped, when I feel the most useful turn to scry is on the same turn I want to play Mindshrieker or Calibrated Blast. So it is a dilemma.

DeeLight on Da Birbs

1 year ago

I love birbs. How about Aven Sunstriker, Mindshrieker, maybe even Duskrider Falcon? I like that you kept the creature lineup exclusively to bird types too.

zachz on Very Serious Mill Frog.

1 year ago

Mindshrieker?

Sharqy on Problem, Officer?

1 year ago

Sounds like a lot of fun in another bird tribal deck.

Mindshrieker with Index sounds like a neat combination, but ideally I want something to pull stuff out of my graveyard then.

Stitched Drake doesn't belong in this deck, but it was the only 3 CMC blue flyer I had on hand when initially building this deck from my collection of cards.

I'm considering the list of substitutes I added instead.

zachz on Problem, Officer?

1 year ago

I love this idea.

There's a roundabout way to maneuver unwanted cards out of your way on your library, using Mindshrieker. It's at instant speed, and while you can use it for attacking/blocking, you can self-mill to cut out an unwanted card you foresaw with Index.

Having a Cloudfin Raptor would also quickly become an annoyance for your opponents, as it is an early game flyer that grows as you do, and if your opponent kills it, easy fodder for your Stitched Drake.

Quick flyers with card draw include Sage Owl, Augury Owl, and Palace Familiar. I'm suggesting a lot of birds. If you do add more birds to the deck, you can use Airborne Aid for card draw. It's a tough sell, but Monastery Flock is a higher CMC alternative to Fog Bank that benefits as a bird?

Only Instant I can think of for this would be Deluge.

Lastly this doesn't help with card draw or advantage, but Flood would control your opponent until the Leviathan showed up. Best of luck!

carpecanum on Kangee

1 year ago

Contagion Engine if you can afford it. That way you only need one counter on Kangee to be meaningful. Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker might be a better commander since Kangee need so much more mana to get a counter.

This looks like you are trying for a budget build but it doesn't say that.

Even if its budget, Mindshrieker is cheap and can cause massive damage.

carpecanum on Tatyova draws card

2 years ago

Mindshrieker is terrifying with even a moderate amount of ramp