Selfless Savior

Creature — Dog

Sacrifice this: Another target creature you control gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

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
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (43)

theNeroTurtle on test

1 month ago

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theNeroTurtle on test

1 month ago

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theNeroTurtle on

1 month ago

Absolute Virtue

Decree of Silence Nine Lives Rest in Peace Solemnity Web of Inertia

An Offer You Can't Refuse Counterspell Cyclonic RiftGC Dovin's Veto Fierce GuardianshipGC Force of Negation Force of WillGC Mana Drain Oblation Pact of Negation Path to Exile Swords to Plowshares

Lightning Greaves Swiftfoot Boots

Boromir, Warden of the Tower Giver of Runes Grand Arbiter Augustin IVGC Mother of Runes Pippin, Guard of the Citadel Selfless Savior Skrelv, Defector Mite Vexilus Praetor

Academy Ruins Adarkar Wastes Ancient TombGC Command Tower Deserted Beach Flooded Strand Floodfarm Verge Gemstone Caverns Glacial Fortress Hall of Heliod's Generosity Hallowed Fountain Island Kor Haven Mana Confluence Maze of Ith Meteor Crater Mystic Gate Nimbus Maze Plains Prahv, Spires of Order Reflecting Pool Rogue's Passage Sea of Clouds Tundra

Dovin, Grand Arbiter Land Tax Rhystic StudyGC Smothering TitheGC Tithe

Arcane Signet Chrome MoxGC Grim MonolithGC Mana VaultGC Mox Amber Mox DiamondGC Mox Opal Sol Ring

Augur il-Vec Hunted Phantasm Infiltrator il-Kor Invisible Stalker Latch Seeker Looter il-Kor Soltari Champion Soltari Crusader Soltari Foot Soldier Soltari Lancer Soltari Monk Soltari Priest Soltari Trooper Soltari Visionary Spirit en-Dal Thalakos Deceiver Thalakos Dreamsower Thalakos Mistfolk Thalakos Scout Thalakos Seer Thalakos Sentry Zealot il-Vec

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razelfark on The Blight That Blinds *Updated*

7 months ago

Since you have some of that legendary creature subtheme going here, I would suggest Jirina, Dauntless General for the deck as it enters to nuke a grave, but can be sacrificed to protect other humans, namely Squall. This is really good if you can get Squall through to hit OP as it can be a recursive protection card.

If you like the idea Jirina, but find the human only syergy lacking, then I would suggest Selfless Savior or Selfless Spirit as good alternate options. The Spirit is great for its evasive qualities and can be a decent attacker since if it attacks alone with Squall on board, it can pressure 4 in air easily.

If you want another great legend that pairs with the legend human theme, then I suggest Adeline, Resplendent Cathar as it creates human tokens and is an amazing curve into squall for attacking by itself for the doublestrike bonus (attack trigger token will not stop the doublestrike trigger).

Guide of Souls Would be a great 1 drop for your deck as it can help give Squall flying if you have enough energy built up and it can build up energy by itself at a good enough rate you don't need other energy based cards to run. This would also pair very well with the Adeline if you chose to include.

Some useful disruption I have had succes with (when in standard) is Momentum Breaker. This card is useful for being nontraget removal to deal with ward/hexproof but also great because it make OP discard if no threat on board so you can even pressure hand with it. This is great for deck as you can sacrifice for small life to get in grave to recur and pressure OP board/hand more.

A side optin you can run over the Tidehollow Sculler would be Deep-Cavern Bat as it is an evasive threat that does the same thing roughly, but is easier on the mana types and has lifelink. If you want a human you could use Kitesail Freebooter and would only be good for trying to syergise with Kudro you currently have in deck.

Cards I am not caring fo rtoo much in your list would be Judge Magister Gabranth, Killian, Ink Duelist, and Corpse Knight. Judge is good for sacrificed focus decks, but you don't have any sac outlets or token strats to make this really work. Killian feels out of placed with the lack of targeted interactions that benefit his cost reduction. Lastly Corpse Knight just never works out for me unless I am playing some combo deck that dumps alot of creatures on the board.

Hope these options help. If you would like more suggestions I am will to recomend more. Whether it be looking for more general good cards or going for specfici theme cards.

Necramus on It Rose From The Dead

1 year ago

aladinnsane Totally get that! I personally use Eternal Witness and Timeless Witness to give me a couple tools to recur what I need to.

It's nice when the protection can be on a creature. In that case, perhaps Selfless Savior and Alseid of Life's Bounty could be decent adds for you!

Taida on You've been gnomed

2 years ago

plainsrunner I completely forgot I included Alseid of Life's Bounty. Originally I had 4 Selfless Savior, but I do not know why did I change them. Maybe I should, but it is true that protection from a color covers more scenarios than indestructible. I will still test it to see what works, so thanks!

PuritanPuree on Amalia the Explorer

2 years ago

BioProfDude Thanks for checking out the deck!

I was actually just checking out the results of a big pioneer tournament that happened this past weekend to check how Amalia combo decks did and to compare lists. It actually did really well, taking 3rd and 4th, and it had a winning record against the winning deck, Izzet Phoenix. It was interesting to see that the most successful versions didn't even use Fiend Artisan at all (though a couple that made top 32 did), which was a bit surprising to me. Their sideboards also had a much more varied sideboard toolbox of 1-off creatures, which didn't surprise me too much, but I'm bad at sideboards, so I let other people figures those out, haha.

As for the suggestions, Selfless Savior actually did show up in basically all of the lists, usually as a 1-off. I was using Tamiyo's Safekeeping as a similar effect, but I'll happily trade them out for a good boy if that's the move. Selfless Spirit is a bit too tricky to play with in this deck since accidentally giving Wildgrowth Walker indestructible while trying to protect the combo while it's going off will draw the game, which is obviously not ideal. All of the top decks were also running Return to the Ranks, which I also found mildly surprising since I just assumed it'd find more use in a self-mill variant of the deck, which I'm not using, but they for sure know better than me. I'm assuming that Rally the Ancestors doesn't see any play both because of the sac clause, and because Return only costs 3 if I only need to get back 1 thing.

Thanks again for checking the deck out! I'll likely be editing the deck to reflect some of the changes from the tournament results shortly.

BioProfDude on Amalia the Explorer

2 years ago

I think you want a couple of Selfless Saviors or Selfless Spirits to give your creatures indestructible for when Amalia reaches the 20 power, or to help against board wipes so you don't have to rebuild as much.

I also think the Return to the Ranks are pretty good, but I'd also offer Rally the Ancestors because you could get back cards on your opponent's end step (or your end step when someone uses their mana at the end of your end step) to assemble the combo if the cards are in your graveyard, particularly if you can get Dina + Amalia + Wildgrowth as that can kill at instant speed.

Cool deck! +1 from me!