Spawnbroker

Creature — Human Wizard

When Spawnbroker enters the battlefield, you may exchange control of target creature you control and target creature with power less than or equal to that creature's power an opponent controls.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (9)

xstaticx on Lover of Shiny Things [A Primer]

1 year ago

Played a game at an LGS on Sunday. First time playing the deck. Only 4 players there and one had to leave early. Can't say the game was high quality. Faced a Yurlok and a Niv Mizzet. Niv player was new to EDH and pretty much net-decked and and then had a lot of difficulty tracking his triggers with Veyran, Voice of Duality and Harmonic Prodigy on the field. The deck had insane ways to control the board if I wanted to, but didn't want to ruin his experience as he's new. Still, was able to make some observations.

I knew the land count was low so I bumped that up to a more reasonable 36. Will have to observe how well that works since we have such high average CMC. Spawnbroker was a a dud. I have low power creatures in this list and couldn't swap for anything useful. Moderation seemed decent, but once you're over that hurdle of the first few turns, you really start to feel sluggish with its limitations. Planar Guide costs too much and is telegraphed. Ebony Owl Netsuke was cute against the Niv player and knocked him out, but was pretty lackluster. Iron Maiden fills this slot nicely.

Perplexing Chimera was game-warping. This card singlehandedly caused mayhem until people coordinated to get rid of it. Great card.

Additions: A land Djinn of Infinite Deceits Juxtapose Phantom Steed Order of Succession

Cuts: - Archaeomancer - Ebony Owl Netsuke - Paradoxical Outcome - Planar Guide - Spawnbroker

nathanielhebert on Screw politics! I'll be a shepherd in stead!

2 years ago

I'm a sucker for janky themed concepts! The Unsummon and Void Snare to retrigger Spawnbroker 's "exchange" ability is a nice touch — looks like I'll have my hands full with frogs and swine!

Strangelove on Giving Good People Bad Permanents

4 years ago

yooo this is just the kind of chaos-hug I want to see!

I've been sitting on a Karona, but I didn't know what to do with her... like, have you ever put her down and the table decides to name "Avatar" and 3-shot someone(you)?

Is the enchantress theme doing what you want? I'm thinking about more creature stuff. Random things like Boldwyr Heavyweights and the Hunted series seem fun.

Endless Whispers ?

Spawnbroker .

Vedalken Plotter .

Oh Wild Research .

If you have lands worth playing, Pir's Whim feels good.

Axis of Mortality ? Cruel Entertainment ?

Xantcha, Sleeper Agent , Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis , Athreos, God of Passage

Intimidate doesn't work with Karona... Vow of Flight or Vow of Wildness ?

Missing Akroma, Angel of Wrath for the lore flex.

xaarvaxus on Take It, Take it All!

5 years ago

Spellbook does only one thing that has no extra effect with multiples in play. The Journal, Reliq Tower and Library should be enough on that front. Graceful Adept as a creature is too fragile for just this effect.

Alabaster Leech is just a free blocker to a non-white deck. Seems narrow enough that it could be cut. Sapphire Leech is sort of in the same boat but blue typically gets played more than white so if you keep one, keep the blue one. I'd personally cut both.

Sunforger doesn't have a ton of targets that it can search up, though when you need to have Boros Charm I suppose you'd regret cutting it...

Drogskol Reaver seems a bit out of place here. Your commander should be drawing you more than enough cards plus gaining enough life and you won't often be winning through combat damage.

Spawnbroker seems the worst of this kind of effect so trim and just keep the better versions. Daring Thief could use some support to use reliably; Holdout Settlement , Cultivator's Caravan / Smuggler's Copter [or any other vehicle that it could crew].

My understanding is that a lot of people hate playing against Thieves' Auction as it really drags out a game and can be frustrating if it keeps getting played game after game so maybe cut to preserve your playgroup. Scrambleverse could fall into this category as well. I'd leave Possibility Storm though if you really want this kind of 'chaos' effect in the deck.

Its not 19 cuts but some suggestions that could help you make some decisions on what you really want to have stay.

multimedia on Eminence Necromancers (Budget)

6 years ago

Hey Randsome, thanks I've been taking a break from Energy Elves to play Commander. It's currently so much more fun, haha.

I haven't considered Spawnbroker, thanks for the suggestion I'll add it to the maybeboard. As far as eminence working with Spawn you're right can't get much benefit from exchanging a token for a 1/1 or less and the majority of Wizards don't have greater than 2 power, but there must be a good interaction here to find. I'll have to think about it.

What do you think of Ixalan so far? No Elves of course :(

Randsome on Eminence Necromancers (Budget)

6 years ago

And another cool deck from you, multimedia!Did you consider Spawnbroker? It seems to open up some cool possibilities with giving out tokens in exchange for actual creatures, though with wizards' size most we could hope for are probably dorks and some utility creatures so i'm not sure how to utilize it fully here.

Rzepkanut on Inalla's got your magic stick

6 years ago

Impact Tremors, Warstorm Surge, Spawnbroker, Archaeomancer, Disciple of Bolas, Gurmag Drowner

Darkaxel1990 on

6 years ago

2 to 2.0

Out: Blustersquall, Downsize, Gigadrowse, Goblin Test Pilot, Petrahydrox, Shattering Spree, Vandalblast, Mizzium Transreliquat, Dynacharge, Siege of Towers, Pursuit of Flight, Hypervolt Grasp.

In: AEtherize, Flow of Ideas, Pyroconvergence, Jace, Architect of Thought, Ral Zarek, AEtherling, Diluvian Primordial, Hunted Dragon, Hunted Phantasm, Molten Primordial, Spawnbroker, Tidespout Tyrant.