Phyrexian Dreadnought
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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Archenemy Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander / EDH Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Highlander Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Planechase Legal
Premodern Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Phyrexian Dreadnought

Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Dreadnought

Trample

When Phyrexian Dreadnought enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you sacrifice any number of creatures with total power 12 or greater.

multimedia on Gisa, Zom Zom Queen *Work In Progress*

2 months ago

Hey, well done so far, but I think you overestimate needing so many buffs (anthems).

All the artifacts for anthem effects is overkill, you have tutors that can get the better anthem. Adding more repeatable draw sources can do more for gameplay than anthems because more reliable draw helps to draw the better anthems. Coat of Arms, Eldrazi Monument and The Immortal Sun are much better than the other artifact anthems here.

In my opinion anthem effects to be worth playing need to also have card quality for the mana cost. Instruments of War and Hall of Triumph are bad cards, only providing a small anthem effect nothing else for their mana cost isn't good enough to take deck spots. Obelisk of Urd is subpar, but at least it can be mana cost reduced even to 0 with Zombies. Bad Moon is only 2 mana, but there's greater two drops that have much better card quality. Heraldic Banner can be a mana rock, but even so you can do better for a three drop.

Adaptive Automaton is a creature who Gisa can sac and who can be a Zombie lord (anthem), but it's a bad card compared to all other Zombie lords who provide another good repeatable effect. Icon of Ancestry and Vanquisher's Banner aren't worth it since there's too many nonZombie creatures here. You can get more reliable repeatable draw from other sources.

You have Crypt Ghast, Cabal Coffers and tutors to get them, you don't need Caged Sun and Gauntlet of Power mana effects. These cards are better in mono white, red or blue because these colors can really use the mana ramp. Liliana's Mastery is a very low budget five drop for Zombies, not needed here.

There's several cards in the maybeboard to consider adding main deck if you have them. Areas to focus on improving with cards from the maybeboard are early game ramp, repeatable draw for only you, reanimation and more Zombie evasion.

Other cards to consider adding from the maybeboard.

Some cards to consider cutting:

Good luck with your deck.

zretrareo27 on RW EDH Brion Stoutarm 2022

3 months ago

Dropped some new cards in, most notably: Phyrexian Dreadnought, Sunbaked Canyon, and Loran of the Third Path

TheOfficialCreator on Green Black Scavenge Deck looking …

5 months ago

Lupine Prototype, Phyrexian Dreadnought, Rotting Regisaur, and Myr Superion are other decent options. Rotting Regisaur and Lupine Prototype have a nice synergy with the whole deck idea as well.

The Dreadnought is hella expensive though XD

kookoo on Brion Stoutarm Throws Out a Lifeline

6 months ago

bushido_man96 - I recommend Battlemage's Bracers as another copy of Illusionist's Bracers. Also, Phyrexian Dreadnought is a great fling target, because you can hit someone for twelve for two mana. Lastly, if the games go long enough you can play them, Gisela, Blade of Goldnight and Fiery Emancipation are great damage multipliers.

kookoo on Advertise your COMMANDER deck!

6 months ago

Here is my Yidris Storm deck: Yidris Storm (cEDH). It is competitive, so if that's not your cup of tea I'm completely fine with you not giving feedback.

bushido_man96 - I recommend Battlemage's Bracers as another copy of Illusionist's Bracers. Also, Phyrexian Dreadnought is a great fling target, because you can hit someone for twelve for two mana. Lastly, if the games go long enough you can play them, Gisela, Blade of Goldnight and Fiery Emancipation are great damage multipliers.

grimcase21 on Varolz, the Scar-Striped EDH - Competitive

1 year ago

If you are still looking to improve the deck, I've also been working on this deck for a long long time (when the card came out). I've always like the voltron big swing style as it was unique to commander, but my deck is solely for 1v1 and does not work very well in multiplayer. Here is a list of cards that I would recommend that have worked wonders for me.

Budget options

Tainted Strike - 2nd berserk (if you're ok with infect)

Belt of Giant Strength - after you scavenge, 2 mana equipment, free equip for another 8 power

Not of This World - my secret tech, after you make it big it's free

Veil of Summer - with this style of deck protection is very important

Sylvan Safekeeper - free protection that they constantly have to respect Wild Shape - flexible, mostly used for hexproof or trample

Jarad's Orders - the 2nd best tutor after buried alive, because there will be 2 creatures you always search for and it's on curve. you always look for Elvish Spirit Guide and Phyrexian Dreadnought. Phyrexian Dreadnought goes to graveyard and Elvish Spirit Guide goes to hand, exile, scavenge, swing with 14 power on turn 3-4.

Unmarked Grave - entomb #2

Demonic Embrace - you can entomb this and give you commander evasion and +3/+1.

Bramblewood Paragon - play this turn 2, minor buff counter, and gives trample because Varolz, the Scar-Striped is a warrior

Rancor - buff and trample, you need to get through

Destiny Spinner - one of the few ways green has to fight counters

Solidarity of Heroes - 2 mana double the 12/13 counters

Wild Growth - it may not be a creature, but it does get our commander out on turn 2

Mausoleum Secrets - 2 mana instant demonic tutor, you sac a dork in response, go find Phyrexian Dreadnought/Death's Shadow, protection spell, or in 99% of cases that I use this one is Berserk

Non-budget additions

Elvish Spirit Guide - serves 2 purposes, the Jarad's Orders trick and making all your turn 2 plays turn 1 (like Sylvan Library), you can also end the Survival of the Fittest chain with elvish spirit guide to do the same trick

Sylvan Safekeeper - free protection that they must always respect, it's very good

Collective Brutality - I value discard highly in 1v1. It also allows you to ditch your scavenge target from your hand to the graveyard while seeing the coast is clear. But in multiplayer, less useful.

Lightning Greaves - haste and protection, yes plz

Dismember - takes care of many of the early problematic targets

super non-budget

Hatred - 1 card win with commander

Necropotence - sculpt your hand for next turn kill

Cards that I would recommend reconsidering/taking out

Harmonize - a bit too slow imo

Arbor Elf - the amount of targets you actually have isn't enough to make it consistent

Asceticism - a bit too slow, you only care about the creature you scavenge on so in terms of mana efficiency something like Sylvan Safekeeper or Lightning Greaves

Quirion Elves/Devoted Druid - we want to go 1->3 mana, so we get our commander out on turn 2, this doesn't help to do that

bankrupt_on_selling on Illusionary Horror (Shadow Masknought)

1 year ago

Very much so. You can cast Phyrexian Dreadnought for (1) with a Chalice of the Void in play with x=1 and it doesn't get countered because the cast creature has a cmc of (0).

bankrupt_on_selling on Illusionary Horror (Shadow Masknought)

1 year ago

Hey bud, thanks! Mask is a wacky card for sure. At it's easiest explanation you can pay (1) (or more) and play Phyrexian Dreadnought facedown (morph in a way?) as a 2/2 no creature type. It ETB's as the 2/2 so dreadnought's trigger doesn't trigger. When the face down creature takes damage, deals damage or becomes tapped it flips into phryexian dreadnought and that creature deals or takes the damage instead.

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