Skrelv's Hive

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and create a 1/1 colourless Phyrexian Mite artifact creature token with toxic 1 and "This creature can't block."

Corrupted — As long as an opponent has three or more poison counter, creatures you control with toxic have lifelink.

Tokens

• Phyrexian Mite 1/1 C

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Brawl	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Pre-release	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Standard	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (5)

multimedia on Urza's Legacy

2 months ago

Hey, some interesting card choices for upgrades to the precon. I can tell your deck is based on the precon because I see Darksteel Juggernaut.

A kink here to work on is the avg. CMC. The mana curve is very high at 4.3 not including Organic Extinction and Mycosynth Golem. The precon mana curve is already high at 3.5 not including Thought Monitor. A higher mana curve would be fine if supported with lots more low mana cost ramp, but you cut most of the low mana cost ramp (Signets, Liquimetal, Vessel) from the precon. There's only 6 ramp sources here 3 CMC or less which is low.

You could have a difficult time casting Urza using artifact creature affinity with only 7 artifact creatures 3 CMC or less. You really can't count on Urza's artifact affinity to first cast him and having not many ramp sources, ramp can't be counted on either. Master Transmuter is a great upgrade, she helps a lot when playing a lower amount of ramp. To improve the mana curve which will help gameplay consider choosing a few of the better high mana cost cards and cutting the others? Most 4 drops here are much better than the 5-7+ drops and that's good for the mana curve.

Research Thief, The Mightstone and Weakstone  ^Meld, Blightsteel Colossus, Mycosynth Golem, Thopter Assembly, Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge, Organic Extinction, Darksteel Forge, Mycosynth Lattice, Kuldotha Forgemaster, Cyberdrive Awakener these are the better 5-7 CMC cards here. The others could be cut to lower the mana curve because they're simply not as good as these.

• Thief, it's repeatable draw effect is good when you want to be attacking with Constructs.
• Weakstone because you have Urza, Lord Protector  ^Meld.
• Blightsteel, best secondary attacker and because you have Master Transmuter.
• Golem because Urza is a consistent way to create artifacts.
• Assembly because you have Time Sieve.
• Tezzeret because of Constructs.
• Extinction because of Constructs.
• Forge, best protection for all artifacts and because you have Lattice, Transmuter and Padeem.
• Awakener flying for Constructs.

Some upgrades at your price point to consider:

• Esper Sentinel, Mystic Remora
• Diabolic Intent, Fabricate
• Skullclamp (in the precon), Baleful Strix (in the precon)
• Ornithopter of Paradise, Signets and Liquimetal (in the precon)
• The Reality Chip + Sensei's Divining Top combo
• Spellskite, Skrelv, Defector Mite, Ethersworn Canonist
• Skrelv's Hive
• Counterspell, Swords to Plowshares (in the precon)

Good luck with your deck.

BlueSnakeMagic on Phyrexian Progress

2 months ago

Yeah... In all transparency, I really really REALLY wanted to keep Annex Sentry for flavor-sake, and the artwork but, you're totally right. Didn't quite think about that with Staff of Compleation either since the only 3-drop without those two is usually going to be a one-drop as is- Which is nice.

I'd honestly rather have another Tainted Strike as opposed to the 4th Skrelv's Hive since it could be a nice combat trick / finisher due to doubling down with Toxic. Plus, come to think, Inkmoth Nexus and The Seedcore would be great finishers, even alone.

wallisface on Phyrexian Progress

2 months ago

Interesting Brew!

The only two cards that feel dubious to me here are Annex Sentry and Staff of Compleation. Partially because you're running a really low land count, and so reaching 3 mana is going to be a bit of a struggle in-of itself. But also because neither one seems to do a great job of applying pressure (which the rest of your deck seems to do well). Personally I'd drop Staff of Compleation in favor of the 4th Drown in Ichor and 4th Skrelv's Hive - and then I'd swap out the Annex Sentry for Slaughter Singer.

DraconicDestruction on Kick Start My Heart | Winota, Joiner of Forces EDH

3 months ago

instead of something like Krenko's Command, you could run Skrelv's Hive because it constantly creates non-humans and is the same mana cost as krenko's command

DraconicDestruction on Artifactual News (Urza, Chief Artificer)

4 months ago

Skrelv's Hive and Biotransference generate affinity for urza and artifacts for the constructs that urza makes