Night Incarnate
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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
Freeform Legal
Highlander Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Planar Constructed Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Night Incarnate

Host Creature — Elemental

Deathtouch

When Night Incarnate leaves the battlefield, all creatures get -3/-3 until end of turn.

Evoke (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters the battlefield.)

trippy_mcfly on Cumly Cube

6 months ago

Introducing Cumly Cube 1.4! Two months ago, Cumly Cube was updated to Cumly Cube 1.3, which was touted as balanced and without any notable flaws. There is no more insidious poison than hubris! Many cards remained that were too strong, or close to unplayable. Many archetypes existed in the cube but had too little support to ever be worth drafting. Many cards failed to fit the ethos of Cumly Cube. With 89 more cuts and adds, I am now pleased to announce that, this time, Cumly Cube has reached a final form! Perhaps a few cards are still too strong, too weak, or out of place, but the vast majority of the draft pool is now in an acceptable state. Any further changes to Cumly Cube 1 will exist as minor updates, swapping out only a few cards at a time. This means that there will never be a Cumly Cube 1.5, only 1.4.1, 1.4.2, etc.

Here are the changes, provided with brief justifications:

REMOVED:

ARTIFACT

  1. Basilisk Collar: equipment is not part of Cumly Cube 1
  2. Hedron Archivefoil: cut to weaken the artifact archetype
  3. Mox Diamond: cut to weaken the artifact archetype
  4. Mox Opal: cut to weaken the artifact archetype
  5. Mox Tantalite: cut to weaken the artifact archetype
  6. Sensei's Divining Top:cut to weaken the artifact archetype

CREATURE

  1. Academy Manufactor: cut to weaken the artifact archetype
  2. Archfiend of Spite: madness is not part of Cumly Cube 1
  3. Arsenal Thresher: too weak
  4. Augmenting Automaton: too weak
  5. Autonomous Assembler: Assembly-Workers have been cut from Cumly Cube 1
  6. Baleful Force: too weak
  7. Battleground Geist: cut for a better Spirit card
  8. Belligerent Hatchling: too weak
  9. Bloodpyre Elemental: too generic of a red card
  10. Bloom Hulk: there are better proliferate engines available in Cumly Cube
  11. Copperhorn Scout: cut to weaken the Elf creature type
  12. Crosis, the Purger: too annoying to play against
  13. Deathrite Shaman: cut to weaken the Elf creature type
  14. Deus of Calamity: too weak
  15. Dutiful Replicator: Assembly-Workers have been cut from Cumly Cube 1
  16. Dwynen's Elite: cut to weaken the Elf creature type
  17. Emperor's Vanguard: cut to weaken green
  18. Farhaven Elf: cut to weaken the Elf creature type
  19. Fear of Exposure: cut to weaken green
  20. Fertilid: cut to weaken green
  21. Galazeth Prismari: cut to weaken the artifact archetype
  22. Geyserfield Stalker: too weak
  23. Greater Gargadon: suspend is not part of Cumly Cube 1
  24. Hallowed Priest: cut for an identical card to support the Cat creature type
  25. Heedless One: cut for a similar card to better support the Elf creature type
  26. Hematite Golem: too weak
  27. Hunted Horror: too weak
  28. Impetuous Devils: too generic of a red card
  29. Jeskai Student: too weak
  30. Junktroller: too weak
  31. Lashweed Lurker: emerge is not part of Cumly Cube 1
  32. Llanowar Visionary: cut to weaken the Elf creature type
  33. Lodestone Golem: we have seen enough of this card in other formats
  34. Lunar Avenger: too weak
  35. Maze Behemoth: cut to weaken green
  36. Mishra's Self-Replicator: Assembly-Workers have been cut from Cumly Cube 1
  37. Morselhoarder: too weak
  38. Night Incarnate: too generic of a black card
  39. Omnath, Locus of the Roil: cut to weaken the Elemental creature type
  40. Phantom Nishoba: too weak
  41. Quirion Ranger: cut to weaken the Elf creature type
  42. Scalding Devil: cut to make room for more interesting Devil creatures
  43. Self-Assembler: Assembly-Workers have been cut from Cumly Cube 1
  44. Seton, Krosan Protector: cut to weaken green
  45. Soul of Zendikar: cut to weaken green
  46. Teferi's Sentinel: too weak
  47. Thought Monitor: cut to weaken the artifact archetype
  48. Torbran, Thane of Red Fell: too generic of a red card
  49. Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre: cut to make room for more balanced Eldrazi creatures
  50. Walking Ballista: cut to remove an infinite combo payoff accessible from the Cumly Zone

ENCHANTMENT

  1. Aura Shards: too powerful
  2. Blood Moon: we have seen enough of this card in other formats
  3. Impending Disaster: too weak
  4. In Bolas's Clutches: cut for a similar but more expensive version of this effect
  5. Night Soil: cut due to the presence of two other very similar cards
  6. Revel in Riches: too powerful
  7. Urban Utopia: cut to weaken green

LAND

  1. Ancient Tomb: too powerful
  2. Flagstones of Trokair: too weak
  3. Mishra's Workshop: too powerful
  4. Urza's Saga: too powerful

INSTANT

  1. Accelerate: too generic of a red card
  2. Bedevil: spot removal has been removed in favor of removal found in commands, charms, and confluences
  3. Fading Hope: too generic of a blue card
  4. Fissure: spot removal has been removed in favor of removal found in commands, charms, and confluences
  5. Fracture: spot removal has been removed in favor of removal found in commands, charms, and confluences
  6. Frazzle: too generic of a blue card
  7. Inside Out: too weak
  8. Lens Flare: spot removal has been removed in favor of removal found in commands, charms, and confluences
  9. Schismotivate: too weak
  10. Seize the Initiative: too weak
  11. Volt Charge: spot removal has been removed in favor of removal found in commands, charms, and confluences

PLANESWALKER

  1. Karn Liberated: too generic and powerful of a draft pick
  2. Nissa of Shadowed Boughs: animating lands is not part of Cumly Cube 1

SORCERY

  1. Broken Bond: spot removal has been removed in favor of removal found in commands, charms, and confluences
  2. Chain Reaction: too generic of a red card
  3. False Dawn: too weak
  4. Grim Tutor: too powerful
  5. Ice Storm: spot removal has been removed in favor of removal found in commands, charms, and confluences
  6. Lava Flow: spot removal has been removed in favor of removal found in commands, charms, and confluences
  7. Sinkhole: spot removal has been removed in favor of removal found in commands, charms, and confluences
  8. Tezzeret's Gambit: too powerful
  9. Wildfire: too generic of a red card

ADDED:

ARTIFACT

  1. Banner of Kinship: encourages building around creature types
  2. Conduit of Worlds: supports graveyard synergies
  3. Pillar of Origins: encourages building around creature types

CREATURE

  1. Aetherjacket: supports the Thopter creature type
  2. Ajani's Pridemate: replaces Hallowed Priest to support the Cat creature type and lifegain synergies
  3. Akroan Conscriptor: supports spellslinger synergies
  4. Alibou, Ancient Witness: supports the Golem creature type and other artifact decks
  5. Ancient Cellarspawn: supports the Demon, Horror, and Nightmare creature types
  6. Angelic Aberration: supports the Angel and Eldrazi creature types
  7. Axgard Artisan: supports the Dwarf creature type
  8. Bloodwater Entity: supports spellslinger synergies
  9. Brass Herald: supports the Golem creature type and encourages building around creature types
  10. Campus Guide: supports the Golem creature type
  11. Chief of the Foundry: supports the Construct creature type and other artifact decks
  12. Chrome Courier: supports the Thopter creature type
  13. Cursed Wombat: supports the Nightmare creature type and +1/+1 counter decks
  14. Darksteel Colossus: supports the Golem creature type
  15. Duergar Hedge-Mage: supports the Dwarf creature type
  16. Eidolon of Blossoms: supports the enchantment archetype
  17. Endbringer: supports the Eldrazi creature type
  18. Essence Depleter: supports the Eldrazi creature type
  19. Gimli, Mournful Avenger: supports the Dwarf creature type
  20. Gishath, Sun's Avatar: supports the Dinosaur creature type
  21. Herald of Slaanesh: supports the Demon creature type
  22. Hunting Velociraptor: supports the Dinosaur creature type
  23. Immaculate Magistrate: replaces Heedless One to support the Elf creature type
  24. It That Heralds the End: supports the Eldrazi creature type
  25. Kozilek's Channeler: supports the Eldrazi creature type
  26. Mayhem Devil: supports the Devil creature type
  27. Patrician Geist: replaces Battleground Geist to support the Spirit creature type
  28. Petravark: supports the Beast creature type
  29. Pillardrop Warden: supports the Dwarf and Spirit creature types
  30. Precursor Golem: supports the Golem creature type
  31. Prosperous Pirates: supports the Pirate creature type
  32. Quandrix Pledgemage: supports the Merfolk creature type and spellslinger synergies
  33. Roaming Throne: supports the Golem creature type and encourages building around creature types
  34. Rootwater Hunter: supports the Merfolk creature type
  35. Shambling Suit: supports the Construct creature type and other artifact decks as well as enchantment decks
  36. Shantotto, Tactician Magician: supports the Dwarf creature type and spellslinger synergies
  37. Smokebraider: supports the Elemental creature type
  38. Solarion: supports the Construct creature type
  39. Species Specialist: encourages building around creature types
  40. Squealing Devil: supports the Devil creature type
  41. Tayam, Luminous Enigma: supports the Beast and Nightmare creature types
  42. The Balrog of Moria: supports the Demon creature type
  43. The Lady of Otaria: supports the Dwarf creature type
  44. Three Tree Mascot: adds mana fixing and encourages building around creature types
  45. Titans' Vanguard: supports the Eldrazi creature type
  46. Torch Fiend: supports the Devil creature type
  47. Ulamog's Dreadsire: supports the Eldrazi creature type
  48. Vengeful Devil: supports the Devil creature type
  49. Venomcrawler: supports the Demon creature type
  50. Wavecrash Triton: supports the Merfolk creature type and spellslinger synergies
  51. Zara, Renegade Recruiter: supports the Pirate creature type

ENCHANTMENT

  1. Destructive Flow: offers a land destruction engine that can provide a large advantage in some decks
  2. Efficient Construction: supports the Thopter creature type
  3. Keldon Twilight: offers a creature destruction engine for aggressive decks
  4. Lay Claim: replaces In Bolas's Clutches as a more expensive control spell
  5. Might Makes Right: encourages large creatures and can be used in conjunction with sacrifice synergies as a creature destruction engine
  6. Porphyry Nodes: offers a creature destruction engine for slower decks
  7. Retreat to Kazandu: supports landfall synergies
  8. Shivan Harvest: offers a land destruction engine and supports sacrifice synergies
  9. Sunken Hope: offers a creature bounce engine for slower decks
  10. Whirlwind of Thought: supports spellslinger synergies

LAND

  1. Foundry of the Consuls: supports the Thopter creature type

INSTANT

  1. Atarka's Command: commands have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
  2. Aura Mutation: quite similar to Artifact Mutation
  3. Brokers Confluence: confluences have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
  4. Cabaretti Confluence: confluences have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
  5. Dromoka's Command: commands have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
  6. Kolaghan's Command: commands have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
  7. Lorehold Command: commands have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
  8. Maestros Charm: rounding out the charms in Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
  9. Maestros Confluence: confluences have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
  10. Obscura Charm: rounding out the charms in Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
  11. Obscura Confluence: confluences have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
  12. Ojutai's Command: commands have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
  13. Pulse of the Fields: supports lifegain synergies
  14. Quandrix Command: commands have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
  15. Riveteers Charm: rounding out the charms in Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
  16. Silumgar's Command: commands have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
  17. Silverquill Command: commands have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
  18. Siren's Ruse: supports the Pirate creature type and blink synergies

PLANESWALKER

  1. Saheeli, Filigree Master: supports the Thopter creature type
  2. Vraska, Golgari Queen: supports sacrifice synergies

SORCERY

  1. Renegade Tactics: replaces Accelerate as a less typical red card
  2. Roar of the Crowd: encourages building around creature types
  3. Temporary Insanity: stealing creatures is a small but important part of Cumly Cube
  4. Witherbloom Command: commands have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility

multimedia on Muldrotha: Budget Elemental Tribe!

3 years ago

"I need to prioritize achieving the board state prerequisites my deck requires to function well, then focus on getting the biggest bang for my buck on the stuff that Muldrotha can do by supplementing her abilities." Bingo, well said, that's the direction to go.

The color pie here is majority green, but in three color deck that doesn't mean all basic Forests. Yes, you're right basic Forests should take up most of the lands, but you still want to balance the other colors. On a budget it's difficult to have a balanced ratio of color sources because good dual lands are so damn expensive, but even on a budget you can get closer to balanced.

You really need minimum 1x basic Island and 1x basic Swamp to help with color fixing for land ramp effects that let you search for a basic land. 31-15-15 is current ratio here of color sources, you can afford to cut a few basic Forests for basic Islands and basic Swamps.

Animate Dead is an excellent card upgrade, good choice, it's one of the best single reanimation in all of Magic and it's a permanent for great interaction with Muldrotha. Primal Rage isn't really needed here because you have a much better enchantment trample source in Garruk's Uprising. Wonder could replace Levitation? Wonder is great with self-mill and when you have effects such as Jarad's Orders that can tutor for it putting right into your graveyard. It also helps that you have many effects to search for a basic Island.

If you're only playing 1v1 with this deck then adding Planeswalkers can be good. Planeswalkers lose a lot of playability in multiplayer Commander because you have many opponents who will attack them. 1v1 is different, protecting Planeswalker from only one opponent is easier and if successful the Planeswalker can run away with the game. The problem with Master Chef here is it doesn't do anything until your ready to cast Muldrotha. You can do better than a three drop that relies on a six drop to get any value at all.

If you're having problems with opponents attacking you these are great options, budget one drops if you need to prevent opponent from doing combat damage to you. In 1v1 these can shut down your opponent from attacking as long as you control Mudrotha to cast them for one mana from your graveyard on your turn, each turn.

Consider adding more board wipes? Night Incarnate is good, but it's the only board wipe here. The idea with Frog and Grass as well as more board wipes is to delay the game long enough to get Muldrotha online with protection. When that happens Muldrotha can help to recover permanents that the board wipe removed. This theoretically gives you an advantage because your opponent will most likely not have as good as recovery that Muldrotha provides.

Pernicious Deed, Nevinyrral's Disk, Blast Zone are board wipes that are permanents so they can be repeatable with Muldrotha. These wipe a lot from the battlefield, yours and opponents, but they don't destroy lands. If you choose to play these then land ramp: Sakura-Tribe Elder, Font of Fertility, Farseek, Nature's Lore, Harrow, etc. should take priority for ramp over mana rocks/mana dorks. You can activate these at instant speed, but before you do that they're deterrents that sit on the battlefield staring at opponents preventing them from casting nonland permanents.

Kaya's Ghostform is powerful with Muldrotha because it's a one drop permanent that can revive the destroyed or exiled enchanted creature or Planeswalker. In 1v1 Ghostform on Muldrotha makes your opponent spend a lot of resources to remove Muldrotha. Slap this on any other Elemental before Muldrotha especially an Elemental who has an ETB ability. Ghostform pairs well with your board wipes. With Golgari Charm regeneration all creatures you control survive your board wipes.

multimedia on Muldrotha: Budget Elemental Tribe!

3 years ago

Hey, just saw your update. Something to think about for gameplay, is it more important to you to have Muldrotha on the battlefield or many Elementals? Having both is asking too much because Muldrotha requires much setup and Elementals don't provide that setup. Muldrotha is a go-tall Commander, but you're playing as go-wide with many small Elementals. This conflict of what Muldrotha wants and what the rest of your deck is doing is most likely hindering gameplay.

Your deck is not built to go-wide with Elementals because you don't have any Elemental tribal lords, anthem effects and no early game Elemental token sources to flood the battlefield with Elementals. Lords are needed to make little Elementals actual good attackers so that you can swarm opponent. You're best attackers other than Muldrotha when it has evasion are the Elementals who can grow themselves. These Elementals are go-tall strategy not go-wide, having a large power/toughness Elemental for an attacker, instead of many little Elementals.

You're not going to like my next suggestions, but now that you've seen that your deck is struggling, some changes could help? My advice is build your deck first to maximize Muldrotha and second add in Elementals after doing so? Cut the weaker Elementals for more Muldrotha synergy especially draw/self-mill, ramp, protection and removal? Just play the better Elementals? I'm not suggesting to change your deck strategies, keep Elementals, +1/+1 counters and proliferate, but tone them down in favor of Muldrotha?

An example of a streamline Elemental base using current Elementals (by CMC):

I left Slitherwisp off the list because you don't have any other cards with flash? Without other cards with flash, Slitherwisp isn't worth a deck spot. Now you could add cards to give spells flash, but even so Muldrotha doesn't work with flash since you can only during your turn cast permanents from your graveyard.

Flash doesn't get around this Muldrotha restriction. You can flash at any point during your turn, but not on opponent's turns which defeats the purpose of flash. Spending your mana in the early turns for ramp, evoke Elementals, self-mill and draw is better to setup Muldrotha then having many Elementals on the battlefield.

Just adding a small package of nonElemental budget creatures that have excellent interaction with Muldrotha and Cavalier of Night could help gameplay.

Lunarbripsaw on Muldrotha lands and stax

3 years ago

hey, nice list! i love the tech with Night Incarnate ima have to pick one up now

Jack32226 on Rot and Ruin (Muldrotha EDH)

3 years ago

Thanks for commenting, Lord_of_Cardboard!

This deck would do exceptionally well against a Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger deck. This is for the same reason that cards like Jace's Archivist do so well in the deck: if you have have Muldrotha on the battlefield, any cards you discard might as well still be in your hand cause you can simply replay them from your graveyard. If anything, an opposing Kroxa player is almost helping you by disrupting your other opponents' hands.

As for a budget version of the deck, here's some advice on budget options and replacements. Just note that this is advice specific to my Muldrotha deck, i.e., advice for the big mana and big X-spell strategy. If you'd rather play a more typical creature-based, swing-to-kill type deck, there may be better Muldrotha lists to look at.

The mana base makes up a large portion of the deck's budget, and I would leave that mostly up to your own discretion. Just keep in mind that fetch lands like Evolving Wilds and slow fetches like Bad River are good for being replayed every turn with Muldrotha. Also, for a budget version of the deck, it's important to run more basics than I do since you'll probably need to fetch more with your ramp. Cycle lands like Lonely Sandbar, Tranquil Thicket, and Barren Moor are fantastic, especially with Life from the Loam. Some other good options:

Which brings me to another point: if I had to pick one somewhat expensive card that's worth putting in a budget Muldrotha deck, it's this one. It's a one-card value engine, giving you card draw, mill, and lands. And depending on what utility lands you choose to run, it can do a whole lot more. And if you're worried about Kroxa in your meta, Life from the Loam is a great counter to it, allowing you to fill your hand with lands to discard.

Now to address key cards for the deck's "big mana" strategy. Important cards for generating a lot of mana include Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth, Cabal Coffers, Dryad of the Ilysian Grove, Crypt Ghast, and Nyxbloom Ancient. You could just replace these cards with normal ramp; casting X-spells for X=10 is still good and easy to accomplish without these cards. If that's unsatisfying for you, you could consider options like Zendikar Resurgent and Mana Reflection. Unfortunately there aren't many great cheap options for producing a lot of mana. This is an important part of the deck though, so it's up to you if it's worth spending some extra money on it.

To avoid this comment being any more lengthy than it already is, here's an extensive list of some budget alternatives for the deck. The great thing about Muldrotha is that being able to replay removal makes a lot of sub-par removal actually pretty good, so it's pretty budget friendly.

Win-Conditions: What's in the deck isn't too expensive, but here's some cheaper options.

Removal:

Draw / Mill:

Tutors:

Ramp:

Control and other good stuff:

If you have any other questions about budget options, let me know. I'm always happy to help!

Pikobyte on Muldrotha, Sac N Snatch

4 years ago

Why no ghostform combo?

I also can highly recommend Aura Thief, Mindslicer and Night Incarnate. Spore Frog also does massive work. And you should think about Siren Stormtamer to counter stuff like bojuka bog or tormod’s crypt

Pikobyte on Another Muldrotha deck

4 years ago

Well, first you should get some protection since Muldrotha tends to be a huge target. Kaya's Ghostform , Diplomatic Immunity and Curator's Ward are some really nice and cheap pieces. You should also play some cards to mill yourself and some free sac outlets. Hedron Crab and Altar of Dementia are some awesome choices. Altar of dementia also forms an infinite mill combo with Kaya’s ghostform and Lotus Petal . If you want to play it controlly, Night Incarnate is nice to wipe out entire decks like tokens, elves or goblins. Can also be used at instant speed if you have a sac outlet on the table. Seal of Doom and Seal of Primordium also provide you with options to remove key cards or combo pieces during your opponents turn and at instant speed. Cards like Aura Thief and Mindslicer are extremely effective in Muldrotha too. Mindslicer takes your opponents the ability to deal with your stuff while you cast everything from your grave. Aura thief always has some nice stuff to steal, think of propaganda, rhystic study, mana doublers or even Theros gods. I could go on with suggestions but I think that’s enough for now. If you’re interested in more feel free to check my primer. It’s not a budget deck by far but plays a lot really good and inexpensive cards too.

Pikobyte on Muldrotha, Queen of the Graveyard

4 years ago

You really need Kaya’s ghostform in there. It’s an instant win with lotus petal and altar of dementia. I can also highly recommend Night Incarnate , it does a lot of work in my deck. I loved that you kept the non-permanent count that low. Your list looks a lot like mine does. I would say feel free to take a look but you prob did already

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