Spike Weaver

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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Archenemy 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
Oathbreaker Legal
Planechase Legal
Premodern Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Spike Weaver

Creature — Spike

Spike Weaver enters the battlefield with three +1/+1 counters on it.

, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Spike Weaver: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Spike Weaver: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

NV_1980 on Ezuri- The Tokens & Counters Are Coming Oh My!!

4 months ago

Kalonian Hydra; counter-doubling every attack seems pretty bad-ass. Spike Weaver is nice; when all your stuff is tapped and you want to prevent opposing attackers from dealing you damage. additions in here. As a control mechanism, I'd also recommend Steelbane Hydra; easy to recharge it with counters when Ezuri's there and keep zapping enchantments/artifacts.

NV_1980 on Mutation is Progress

1 year ago

Some ideas:

Have fun with the brew!

seshiro_of_the_orochi on

1 year ago

There we go!

First, do you really own all of these super-expensive cards? That's impressive. If not, it's still fine. Big green decks can use them, but there are so many cheaper ways to go nuts on mana.

Your mana curve is pretty low and you have tons of ramp. 32 lands still seems optimistic. I wouldn't normally go below 35, especially since quite a lot of your ramp is on mana dorks, which easily die to many things.

Spike Weaver makes me think of combos, but I couldn't figure out yours. Is there any?

I'm assuming Setessan Petitioner is in here as a human with an etb? It'll propably net you quite a lot of life, but how about cutting Petitioner and Feeder for these two:

Hyrax Tower Scout and Karametra's Acolyte go infinite with Kogla, and with just one additional devotion, you not only get infinite cast/etb triggers, but also infinite mana.

What's more? There are five expensive fetches in here that aren't necessary at all. As you don't have any non-basic forests, it wouldn't change anything if they simply were forests. That would save you more than a hundred bucks from the budget. The chance of simply changing your deck order doesn't seem worth it, either.

That's it for me. The general list looks pretty good, so I'll be sure to leave an upvote.

NocTurtle on

1 year ago

Strength of the Tajuru for an instant speed kill sometimes.

Fungal Behemoth garunteed counter's over time that can't be interacted with easily.

Nesting Grounds, Llanowar Reborn, and Oran-Rief, the Vastwood to put/move counters with your lands.

The Ozolith imperative in a counter deck, protects your counters from creature based board wipes. Resourceful Defense does the same as Ozolith but more controlled.

Heliod, Sun-Crowned allows you to put counters on whatever needs them, and provides lifelink (plus a big indestructible body to save from board wipes).

Spike Weaver Turbo-Fog if you get a slow start

Cytoplast Root-Kin allows easy moving of counters onto new creatures

Mortlocke on The Song of Phyresis

1 year ago

Sterling0528, thanks for commenting on the page and sharing your thoughts. My logic for running Phyrexian Scriptures is between flavor and having a proliferation target in addition to a semi-one sided boardwipe. But to answer your question there is only one choice for what card I select to replace it: Toxic Deluge. Getting around Indestructible, and not having to wait on the saga to get to II to get your wrath effect already make the previously mentioned a superior choice. Also, the life loss can be somewhat mitigated by Atraxa, Praetors' Voice under the right circumstances. You also reminded me that there was a reprint that has flavor text from Papa Yawgmoth, so I decided to swap in that instance of Toxic Deluge in for Phyrexian Scriptures as it maintains my flavor requirements.

There are however some honorable mentions I thought of in case Deluge isn't to your taste:

  • Culling Ritual in a more competitive meta can do wonders. I've seen this spell ramp a player in excess of 6 or 7 mana on a good turn. Depending on the shifts in my own meta I'm considering running this spell as well.

  • Black Sun's Zenith is a card I find genuinely interesting, one that I experimented with in an earlier iteration of the deck that I think deserves a revisit.

What I would replace Priests of Norn with? No idea. Honestly it's just a placeholder for a better infect creature who will hopefully be printed in the near future. I'm really holding my breath for a for a mono-white color shifted Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon like creature. Given that infect is parasitic, the slot needs to be reserved for an infect creature. On that same note both Grateful Apparition and Spike Weaver are slated to be replaced when better options are printed. My wishlist would be a monowhite creature with infect and proliferate, and another new infect creature that doubles as a stax piece that breaks parity through the proliferation of counters (like Tangle Wire on a body). One can dream though.

What other changes would you make with the deck? Thanks for commenting.

MetalHeartPipe on Grandfather Clock - Premodern Poison

1 year ago

I tried a starting hand and... nice!... Dark Ritual + Suq'Ata Assassin!... But only one land on hand, and it was a Tainted Wood lol.

I hardly reccomend to add the B/G Painland, perhaps more mana dorks to accelerate your strategy and start infesting ASAP.

Add a fourth copy of Dark Ritual and think on replace Fog for another "fog-effect" permanent, like Dawnstrider or Spike Weaver.

bushido_man96 on

1 year ago

You should consider running Spike Weaver.

TogbusPrime on Selvala hasn't the foggiest idea

2 years ago

So you missed some stuff you should definitely fit in: Blessed Respite, Encircling Fissure, Knight-Captain of Eos, and Slaughter the Strong. Similarly, Blunt the Assault seems like a must given your lack of life gain and your wincon requiring a large life total. I'd also look into more life gain in general.

Clinging Mists, Druid's Deliverance, Frontline Strategist (especially to increase the Eos synergy), Inspire Awe, Obscuring Haze, Pause for Reflection, Spike Weaver, and Spore Flower are also worth considering.

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