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Rules Q&A
Ruthless Sniper
Creature — Human Archer
Whenever you cycle or discard a card, you may pay 1. If you do, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.
martiwluwka on
Mad House
6 months ago
Tormenting Voice > Dihada's Ploy
Gisa's Bidding > Ruthless Sniper
Gidgetimer on Yahenni's Expertise and Soulstinger
1 year ago
The counters can not be put on Ruthless Sniper because it is not on the battlefield to be targeted when the ability goes on the stack (and if something survives so that Soulstinger's ability does have a target, the sniper will not even be on the battlefield when the ability resolves).
Yahenni's Expertise casts a spell, it doesn't put it on the battlefield and it doesn't force it to resolve. Assuming that there is nothing else on the stack and no responses what happens is:
Yahenni's Expertise starts resolving and each creature gets -3/-3. Then you cast Ruthless Sniper and put it on the stack as a spell.
A player would get priority so SBAs are checked. Soulstinger has 0 toughness and is put in the graveyard, triggering its ability.
A SBA was performed, so SBAs are checked again. None are performed, so triggers are put on the stack and targets for them are chosen. (Remember Ruthless Sniper is still a spell on the stack.)
Assuming no targets for the Soulstinger ability, the Ruthless Sniper will be the next thing to resolve and will be put on the battlefield.
If there was a target for the Soulstinger ability there will be more rounds of priority and therefore more SBA and trigger checks before Ruthless Sniper resolves.
Liszt on Yahenni's Expertise and Soulstinger
1 year ago
My opponent casts a Soulstinger and puts two -1/-1 counters on it. I my next turn I cast Yahenni's Expertise and use it to put a Ruthless Sniper into play. I've had this interaction come up on mtgo and know that the counters from Soulstinger can't be put on the sniper. But why?
Technically, he dies before the Sniper enters the battlefield so his trigger would need to resolve in between the two effects of Yahenni's Expertise? But is that even possible? Does that mean the death trigger never happens? I don't understand this interaction.
Ishio on
Discards for Lili
4 years ago
dbsharkeyjacoby: The reason for the zombie lords isn't for the zombie tribal theme, but the buff they offer. Death Baron gives us the ability for our zombies to have Deathtouch, so unless we're getting swung with flyers, our opponents will think twice about swinging towards us. Lord of the Undead gives us the ability to recur a vast majority of our creatures, which are zombies. Undead Warchief reduces the cost of our zombies. Out of the 20 creatures in the deck, 50% of them are zombies.
Due to these effects, you'll see why I'm not running Lord of the Accursed, all it does is give our zombie duders menace, which would require us to need to swing more. If our game gets to that point where we need to turn sideways, I'd rather use Liliana, Defiant Necromancer and/or Geth, Lord of the Vault to steal creatures, and any of our other beefy boys and swing with.
Cryptbreaker was in the deck originally, but was cut due to not having enough utility. You need to tap three zombies to draw a card? Okay, that's three creatures less we have to defend with, and defend our Lili's with. The discard outlet is fine, but unless Ensnaring Bridge is out, we don't wanna be dumping cards from OUR hand, we wanna be dumping cards from either everyones hand or our opponents hand.
Ruthless Sniper costs mana for it's give -1/-1, not really ideal. Bone Miser is a fine card, but it's very costly. Archfiend of Ifnir is a good card, and I'll consider it, if I find myself in games coming across a common dead card in hand, to swap it out with.
As for the Lili's, Liliana, Dreadhorde General has been considered, however her cmc is way higher and will destabilize the curve more, as well as she runs more in Zombie Tribal. The only value I feel I'd get out of her is killing my creatures to draw a card, which may work, but I fear it'll be way too situational. Liliana, Death's Majesty runs best in a more zombie tribal theme.
The biggest thing to keep in mind with some of these higher cost suggestions is that we are running mono-black. We don't have access to ramp outside artifact ramp, and Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx.
Ziusdra on Card creation challenge
4 years ago
Here is a card I've been wanting for a while. Not necessarily on a god, but at least on a legendary creature.
Yu Ren Szi, the Power of Thought
Legendary Creature - God
Flying, haste, prowess
Cycling noncreature spells from your hand triggers Prowess abilities on your creatures.
Whenever you cycle a card, you may Scry 1.
4 / 5
I have wanted a commander for Cycling effects for a long time, and keying it to Prowess also gives it some power and flexibility, but it doesn't deliver you that win-con unless you go wide, which isn't easy to do with prowess, since those bodies aren't cheap and don't always replenish themselves.
Other prospects for cycling commanders that I can imagine would be rakdos (who likes it when you discard) and abzan (who will reanimate the creatures you cycle). Let me show you this Abzan commander I've been sitting on for a while (it's been ages since I've seen a wildcard so indulge me ;) )
Azranath, Master of Life's Cycle
Legendary Creature - Demon Angel Avatar
Vigilance
Creatures with cycling you control enter the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on them.
Whenever you cycle a creature card on your turn, until end of turn you may cast another creature card from your graveyard by paying its cycling cost and paying 3 life.
2 / 4
Not only is it card advantage, but it's a very cheap reanimator recursion of Abzan flavor that keeps it solidly in a cycling theme. (You can't break it with the big green or white creatures that you want to; instead you're limited to the ones that have cycling, like Krosan Tusker , Barkhide Mauler , Elvish Aberration , Greater Sandwurm , Jungle Weaver , Shefet Monitor , Pale Recluse , Horror of the Broken Lands , Archfiend of Ifnir , and Street Wraith ) ( Ruthless Sniper also goes in that deck, though it can't be reanimated or cycled). Access to white and green means you can remove those artifacts that keep you from accessing your graveyard.
Looking at Cycling as a commander theme thus far untapped, what would you do? Rakdos seems the other obvious choice for its wide discard mechanic applicability, but maybe you have another idea with bant, boros, orzhov... show me!
Strangelove on
Anje's Madness
4 years ago
Hey Matt, 'saw your reddit post and wanted to help!
I like the Psychosis Crawler effects with Shadow of the Grave as well as the Worldgorger combo dumping madness creatures with Anje.
I'd drop some of the vanilla madness for a few more lands and ramp (34-36 lands/ 6-8 ramp).
Squee, Goblin Nabob and Bone Miser were mvp, I'd put them back in.
Here are a few more:
Living Death / Balthor the Defiled / (etc)...
Ruthless Sniper / Flameblade Adept / Grisly Survivor ... low curve.
Hazoret's Monument ... win-more.
Bag of Holding / Dragon Mage ... win-more.
Poly_raptor on
Neheb - Minotaur Discard
4 years ago
Interesting deck, I think you should go lore down the efficient discard route than the Minotaur theme.
I’d run a Smuggler's Copter and Ruthless Sniper
Maybe cut some of the common Minotaurs and replace them with some other options in your sideboard that would be more valuable? I’m not sure, I’ve been trying to build a v similar deck for a long time and have always struggled to make it click! So maybe I’m not the best to listen to!
Happy brewing
