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Rules Q&A
- Servant of the Scale and Hardened Scales interaction
- Two Avatar of the Resolutes/Reverent Hunters enter from Collected Company?
- Servant of the Scale has ten +1/+1 counters on it. Hypnotic Siren takes control of Servant of the Scale. When Servant of the Scale dies, who gets the counters?
- Would Rite of Passage cause Servant of the Scale to distribute more +1/+1 counters?
Servant of the Scale
Creature — Human Soldier
Servant of the Scale enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.
When Servant of the Scale dies, put X +1/+1 counters on target creature you control, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on Servant of the Scale.
McMantis on Golgari Scales (next edit)
3 months ago
Replace both Kami of Whispered Hopes with 2 Rishkar, Peema Renegade
Replace 2 Servant of the Scale with 2 Quirion Beastcaller
wallisface on
11 months ago
Some thoughts:
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you’re only at 58 cards - you need 60 for a legal deck.
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I’d suggest going up to 20 lands (and also ditching the mana dork).
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you currently have no other warriors in your deck, making Bramblewood Paragon pretty useless as you’ll almost never be gaining counters off it.
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you’ll never be gaining counters from Scute Mob either - with only 18 lands you won’t have 5 in play until around turn 9-10… no game is lasting that long.
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both Forced Adaptation and Hydra's Growth are super risky/unideal cards to run as your opponent only has to use one killspell to remove both the creature & enchantment (costing you 2 cards for their 1).
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your deck currently feels very rag-tag/clumsy as far as being very slow to look threatening (Avatar of the Resolute and Rancor are the only cards that look strong in your deck currently. The rest feel weak/awkward/slow). Cards i’d suggest considering include Pelt Collector, Experiment One, Strangleroot Geist, Aspect of Hydra, Quirion Beastcaller, and maybe Servant of the Scale.
Dani3377 on Death Strike
11 months ago
Awesome! Inspiring Call was a feature card in the very first deck that I made in my whole magic playing experience, with Undergrowth Champion, Experiment One, Servant of the Scale and Avatar of the Resolute. PRetty sure I had Explosive Growth in there as well. Upvoted!
zachz on Aren't You Getting a Little Briared?
1 year ago
Servant of the Scale? Has the potential for more than just the one +1/+1 counter, if board-wide counters are added or get shifted around. Otherwise a cheap drop that guarantees more feeding.
Apollo_Paladin on Steroids Taste Good
1 year ago
Nice build!
This reminds me of a Green/White deck which I built specifically to run off of +1/+1 counter generation.
I myself went with Hardened Scales as a primary 1-drop & I think it could fit well with your build, as I also use Luminarch Aspirant as a means of building things up.
My method was to use Hardened Scales as a first-turn drop (sometimes even second turn drop, since I run 4 of them) as well as 4x Conclave Mentor, and then play creatures which come in with counters already (See: Servant of the Scale, Barkhide Troll, Ochre Jelly, Mikaeus, the Lunarch).
Few other thoughts:
- Hydra's Growth can make for a nice finisher in any +1/+1 counter-based deck
- Snakeskin Veil is a better alternative to your Arbor Armament since it can protect a creature with many counters already on it
- Basri's Solidarity combo's amazingly well with Hardened Scales and Conclave mentor, and overall is more powerful than some of the other Sorceries that you're currently running.
- Incubation Druid provides silly amounts of mana early-on provided you can get a counter on him (easy combo for mana ramp)
- Charge Through is a nice workaround for decks which have many blockers, as without Trample, even the strongest creature can still be blocked. This fires at Instant-speed as well, so it can be used as a finisher against an opponent hoping to block a large creature with a weenie blocker.
lagotripha on Modern Mono Green
1 year ago
If you want judge/denizen to be more reliable, you can grab some Oran-Rief, the Vastwood or lean into spells running Hall of Oracles/Inspiring Call. There are some great budget counters cards in the 1 mana slot - Experiment One, Generous Visitor, Willow Geist etc. Mutant's Prey offers light removal and Servant of the Scale/Swarm Shambler some survivability.
Other sources of cardraw exist - Brainstone is notable, as is Harmonize.
Drestlin on G/W +1/+1 counters exile
1 year ago
Chasmolinker the Panglacial Wurm seems great, since you don't even have to draw it, you'd need one or two at the most. i'll probably keep it in mind if i ever try to build this weird ramp counter deck we are discussing about now ahah
lhetrick13 what you found is what i suspected - unfortunately, cards should come next week so i won't be trying much apart from maybe very small changes - i don't want to print more proxies :D
i'll let you know as soon as i try out the new version.
or maybe i'll get around to print the few cards and will be able to try it tomorrow.
FYI, this is what i put together for next try:
Creatures - 4 Conclave Mentor - 3 Duskshell Crawler - 2 Hopeful Initiate - 2 Iron Apprentice - 2 Lion Sash - 2 Oran-Rief Ooze - 2 Savior of Ollenbock - 2 Scavenging Ooze - 4 Servant of the Scale - 3 Willow Geist
Lands - 4 Forest - 1 Karn's Bastion - 2 Llanowar Reborn - 3 Oran-Rief, the Vastwood - 3 Plains - 4 Razorverge Thicket - 2 Sunpetal Grove
//Enchants/Sorc/Instants - 2 Dromoka's Command - 3 Enter the Unknown - 4 Hardened Scales - 3 Swallow Whole - 3 Tezzeret's Gambit
//Sideboard - 2 Gaea's Blessing - 2 Gleeful Sabotage - 3 Mistcutter Hydra - 2 Predator Ooze - 4 Savage Summoning - 2 Wildwood Scourge
lmk if you have any comment on this one
DragonWolf420 on Abzan Hardened Scales
2 years ago
BioProfDude: what would you suggest i take out? i'm not really worried about board wipes, and 3 mana is too much for that effect. Servant of the Scale can't generate its own counters after the first turn, and doesn't provide any support unless it dies.
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