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Nightscape Familiar
Creature — Zombie
Blue spells and red spells you cast cost less to cast.
: Regenerate Nightscape Familiar. (The next time this creature would be destroyed this turn, it isn't. Instead tap it, remove all damage from it, and remove it from combat.)
hyalopterouslemur on Why Are the Familiars Not …
1 month ago
In simple terms, there are only a few decks where either of them are useful. I tend to see the medallions more in storm decks and (maybe) some kind of Stax build, like with Static Orb?
The familiars have the requirement that you're playing two allied colors, possibly an arc, already hurting them. And one color, the one required to cast the thing in the first place, doesn't get the benefit. Plus, creatures are more vulnerable: Nightscape Familiar can regenerate, though.
legendofa on Why Are the Familiars Not …
2 months ago
The Familiars require colored mana to cast and reduce costs for two other different colors. The Medallions don't need any color.
If you have, for example, a mostly green deck with some black and blue, the black and blue Familiars aren't super useful, and the green familiar is a vanilla 3/1. Emerald Medallion can be cast off any two colors of mana and still be relevant.
The Medallions are just more flexible in what decks they can support, while the Familiars have a lot more hoops to get their full potential. In a color-balanced Grixis deck, Nightscape Familiar can be great. In a black-centric Grixis deck, it loses a lot of utility.
DemonDragonJ on Why Are the Familiars Not …
2 months ago
I saw this post on Mark Rosewater's Tumblr account, and it makes me wish to ask why the familiar cycle (i.e., Nightscape Familiar, Sunscape Familiar, and so forth) is not as famous as is the medallion cycle (i.e., Ruby Medallion, Sapphire Medallion, and so forth), since the familiars have additional abilities beyond reducing the costs of spells.
What does everyone else say, about this? Why are the familiars not as famous as are the medallions? I certainly am very interested to hear your thoughts, on this matter.
Azoth2099 on
March of Mordor
1 year ago
Cheers m8, happy holidays!
So having tested Sauron, the Dark Lord into the dirt since his release, I think you're gonna need to get him on the board waaay faster than this list is currently doing if you really want to be mean like that. I'd recommend a few of the following "means" lol:
Rocks: Talisman of Dominance, Talisman of Creativity, Talisman of Indulgence, Dimir Signet, Rakdos Signet, Izzet Signet, Fellwar Stone & Springleaf Drum
Rituals: Dark Ritual, Cabal Ritual, Culling the Weak, Burnt Offering, Sacrifice, Rain of Filth, Bubbling Muck, High Tide, Rite of Flame, Infernal Plunge, Pyretic Ritual, Desperate Ritual & Seething Song.
Cost Reducers: Nightscape Familiar, Sapphire Medallion, Jet Medallion, Ruby Medallion, Cloud Key & Urza's Incubator.
And then there are other value pieces like Conqueror's Flail to go along with The Reaver Cleaver to help you get out of hand once he's summoned, & Faerie Mastermind to draw you cards while your commander builds your board from your opponents actions. Mystic Remora is also great in this sense and is still pretty cheap compared to Rhystic Study. Teferi's Ageless Insight is another banger post-commander that should be considered imo, especially since you can't run Necropotence as efficiently as other decks can.
For more villainy, consider Dauthi Voidwalker, Opposition Agent, Praetor's Grasp, Mnemonic Betrayal, Bribery, Acquire & maybe even something like Empress Galina to really peeve your pod.
Peace!
ldvatwa on
2 years ago
Hey wideline1414! Sorry I didn't see your comments til tonight. Aside from Nightscape Familiar, Heartless Summoning doesn't really impact any of the creatures in the deck and most of them it's more important to get them out sooner than having slightly reduced power/toughness. Thanks for the comments! I'd love to see a list if you've got one of your Lord Xander, the Collector!
Agreed on Bruvac the Grandiloquent would make a great addition in here, but neither of my local shops have had him all year. I'm going to some shops on the other part of the state and if I can find one, I'll for sure pick one up. Dropping him down then casting Traumatize would feel so good!
DemonDragonJ on Commander Masters Previews and Speculation
2 years ago
Previews for this set have officially begun! Does anyone else have anything to say about them?
I am very glad to see that The Immortal Sun is finally being reprinted, so it shall now be affordable, and the reprint of Archfiend of Despair likely means that I shall now be able to obtain a foil copy of it for a reasonable price.
I am not happy to see Cyclonic Rift or the free spells from Ikoria reprinted (i.e., Deadly Rollick or Obscuring Haze), but I am very glad tos ee the confluence cycle being reprinted.
I am glad to see the medallion cycle be reprinted, but I actually would like to see the familiar cycle (i.e., Sunscape Familiar, Nightscape Familiar, and so forth) be reprinted, at some point, as well.
Kamerot on
Nekusar' s Group Hug of Death
2 years ago
AscendedLandfalls that is a good possibility, that or Nightscape Familiar.
legendofa on
I'm gonna cleave you
3 years ago
Maybe some more big mana enhancements, like Crypt Ghast, High Tide, Dark Ritual, or Burnt Offering. You have a lot of 5-7 mana spells, and Rise of the Dark Realms is up at 9 mana. TheJerryCan's suggestion of Ashnod's Altar is solid.
Right now, this deck has only nine permanents below 3 mana. This might be contributing to the feeling of having no board presence; I would expect this deck to start establishing a solid board at turn 4 at the earliest. Gravecrawler, Champion of the Perished, Bladestitched Skaab, Nightscape Familiar, Stitcher's Supplier, Mire Triton, and Undead Butler are all low-mana options, and the last three help kickstart your milling.
