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- Mana Breach + Shrieking Drake
- Chulane, Teller of Tales + Intruder Alarm + Shrieking Drake
- Birds of Paradise + Intruder Alarm + Shrieking Drake
- Defiler of Dreams + Impact Tremors + Shrieking Drake
Legality
| Format | Legality |
| 1v1 Commander | Legal |
| Archenemy | Legal |
| Arena | Legal |
| Big Apple Highlander | 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 |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Pauper | Legal |
| Pauper Duel Commander | Legal |
| Pauper EDH | Legal |
| Planar Constructed | Legal |
| Planechase | Legal |
| PreDH | Legal |
| Premodern | Legal |
| Quest Magic | Legal |
| Tiny Leaders | Legal |
| Vanguard | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
Rules Q&A
Shrieking Drake
Creature — Drake
Flying
When Shrieking Drake enters the battlefield, return a creature you control to its owner's hand.
ASalesman on
Unesh, Ultimate Guide (Tribal)
5 months ago
New Decklist -- Post Jeweled Lotus and Mana Crypt
Obviously the Mana crypt and Jeweled Lotus Ban really hurt the deck. It made me really unmotivated to update this guide very much. I am a bit removed from the cEDH scene. The current deck list is more tuned to optimized rather then cEDH. I think that's where Unesh as a commander wants to live anyway. Updates include:
- With this list I REMOVED cards would only be good in cEDH such as Mental Misstep and several counterspells
- ADDED a few bombs like Conspiracy Unraveler and Sea Gate Restoration for fun.
- RETAINED all the really powerful game changers in the deck (except Rhystic Study, because it serves to annoy everyone in the format).
- Leaned more heavily into copying unesh triggers with clones like Spark Double, and ETB doublers like Panharmonicon
The win conditions are:
- Thassa's Oracle
- Aetherflux Reservoir w/ Shrieking Drake support.
- Combat Damage + infinite turns Nexus of Fate *list*
Some of the new changelings and other cards are really nice:
- Firdoch Core is a mana rock and a changeling, I think that's kind of dope.
- Changeling Wayfinder is the perfect ramp spell for Unesh.
- Mox Jasper works because there are so many inexpensive changelings.
- Barkform Harvester allows you to put Thassa's Oracle back in your deck, a way to keep the wincon alive even if it goes to the grave.
- Sea Gate Restoration is kind of nuts because it gives you unlimited handsize with limited counterplay.
- Conspiracy Unraveler (This card is a cluster bomb.) It allows you to play bombs, then use the bombs to play more bombs.
- Commandeer is an ideal defensive card, especially for protecting the win condition later.
- Reflections of Littjara for copying sphinx bombs like Consecrated Sphinx
- More consistent board wipes to keep the board at a normal state while you build up your Sphinx Machine: Engulf the Shore + Evacuation + Cyclonic Rift.
Expect a guide content update in the near future to reflect the current list... Perhaps the deck would benefit with some more interaction still. Will be considering this in the coming weeks.
Bookrook on Combo decks in limited.
1 year ago
I have been noticing a trend with more recent sets where there is a combo in the limited pool.
OTJ: Mindslaver+Esoteric Duplicator
MH3: Amped Raptor+Primal Prayers+ as many copies of Shrieking Drake as you can find.
Duskmourn: Say Its Name
Now looking at the upcoming Tarkir dragonstorm, I’ve found two mardu siege-breakers and any of the impact tremors effects in the set. This seems like a possibly viable infinite to get off, maybe appearing in 2-3% of drafts.
Is this a trend we will see in the future with a combo in every limited set?
hyalopterouslemur on Bantmare
1 year ago
Mulldrifter is interesting. Think of it as Divination with kicker , because 90% of the time, it will be a Divination. (This is true of all evoke creatures.) Still, it's nice to have evasion when you need it.
Shrieking Drake: "This baby can put so many combos in her."
And of course, Mystic Snake. I love this whole cycle (Absorb, Undermine, and Suffocating Blast are the others.) but Mystic Snake can be blinked making it a little bit better than the rest.
Who is your Commander? What are you trying to do?
Gidgetimer on Is Staff of Completion a …
2 years ago
Temple Bell is a bad card. There are reasons to play bad cards and playing a bad card (with a good reason) doesn't make you a bad player, especially in EDH. Most of the cards in my Jodah, the Unifier deck are bad, but they are cheap legendary creatures. So they just turn into insanely large beaters, which is what the deck wants to do. Shrieking Drake is an objectively bad card. It is a Flying Men with downside. But that doesn't stop it from being played in a cEDH deck.
ASalesman on
Unesh, Ultimate Guide (Tribal)
2 years ago
New Revision here!
- Replace Unsubstantiate with Flare of Denial. At 2 mana its hard to justify unsubstantiate when the rest of my interaction is 1 or 0 cmc.
- Replace An Offer You Can't Refuse with Strix Serenade. The downside of 'an offer' is a big downside. With the meta being more creature heavy, strix is a welcome addition and an homage to my Baleful Strix that can't be ran in this deck.
- Shrieking Drake got a foil printing in MH3!! Now just waiting on Gilded Drake and Enigma Thief (yeah right)
Azoth2099 on
Faerie Fears
2 years ago
Hey man, congrats on your first brew! Let's get into it.
In my opinion, this commander is practically begging to win the game through a Cloud of Faeries loop. The most easily applicable one that I can think of is Cloud of Faeries + Shrieking Drake + Panharmonicon for infinite mana and life drain for the win. I'm happy to explain how the loop works of you need me to, but try to wrap your head around it by yourself first. The combo itself is super easy to tutor up in this color combination, & all of the pieces are just good to have for the build anyway! Plus you're already running Faerie Impostor & Quickling for redundancy within this particular combo, so it kind of just works, ya know?
Some more value pieces like Virtue of Knowledge & Roaming Throne could be really great here too, but I would honestly cut value for things that help you get to and execute the aforementioned combo like card draw, ramp & tutors if you really want to win games. Let me know if you'd like any further suggestions on which of those would be best here.
Peace!
Azoth2099 on
Chun - li countless tokens
2 years ago
Ohh yeah man, Crystal Shard is great here for sure. As many economically feasible ways to reset Chun-Li as possible is a must here, certainly. Unsummon, Vapor Snag, Fading Hope, Rescue, Curfew, Chain of Vapor, Alchemist's Retrieval, Unsubstantiate, Familiar's Ruse, Geistwave, Call to Heel, Snapback & of course Capsize (so much utility here) are all worth a thought here imo, seeing as how they are also instants that can easily be recurred via the Commander's ability.
Other less synergistic synergies like Vedalken Mastermind, Waterfront Bouncer, Trusted advisors, Shrieking Drake, Faerie Impostor, Seal of Removal, Turbulent Dreams, Aether Spellbomb, Otawara, Soaring City & Sanctum of Eternity could potentially help the deck push through to victory as well!
And then there's Intuition, which is obviously just insane lol.
ASalesman on
Unesh, Ultimate Guide (Tribal)
2 years ago
Another combo involving dockside
I was thinking more deeply on the implications of Shrieking Drake. It is important to note that this ability doesn’t target. So it can return Phantasmal Image to your hand without it being sacrificed. That being said here is the combo:
Initial Conditions
- Panharmonicon is on the battlefield under your control.
- Dockside Extortionist is on the field under an opponent’s control.
- 1 blue and 1 colorless available
- Opponents have at least 4 artifacts/enchantments
- Phantasmal Image and Shrieking Drake
Steps:
- Cast Phantasmal Image, ETB as Dockside Extortionist and generate a lot of treasure due to Panharmonicon trigger.
- Cast Shrieking Drake. Panharmonmicon trigger. The first ability returns Phantasmal Image to your hand, the second returns Shrieking Drake.
- Return to step 1.
Without the shrieking drake.. doubling a dockside ability with phantasmal image just once is going to be insane value.
Without Panharmonicon on the field, you can double the trigger by performing this loop just once. it is crazy how when Dockside is in the format, we are able to abuse it even though it isn’t in our deck.
