Taunt from the Rampart

Sorcery

Goad all creatures your opponents control. Until your next turn, those creatures can't block. (Until your next turn, those creatures attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.)

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	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
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (3)

Crow_Umbra on Director Isshin's Cut

2 months ago

If you'd like more goad, I'd highly recommend Taunt from the Rampart. It can either buy you a turn, or basically clear away all blockers for you to alpha swing everyone if you have the means to.

Agrus doesn't Goad on his own, & would only Goad if Nelly is also out. Suspecting opponents' creatures without Nelly might not be as good on its own since it doesn't incentivize opponents to attack each other beyond giving their creature Menace.

There's also the classics Kardur, Doomscourge and Disrupt Decorum if you want more mass Goad effects. Bothersome Quasit is another option.

Crow_Umbra on All out attack

3 months ago

Pretty solid deck! Have you had a chance to play this deck irl? I have a few suggestions for potential edits:

• I think it might be worth swapping out some of your creature slots at the 5-8 cmc range for stuff that's lower in the 1-4 range. From having played Isshin for almost 2 years, I don't think the deck needs many top-end bombs.

• If you do trim off the top-end, I'd recommend swapping out: Witch-King of Angmar (might not deter boards that go-wide), the Ancient Dragons can probably be swapped since they're combat-damage based, and either of your 8 drops could probably be cut.

• Ogre Battledriver is a cool haste & power anthem. Could be helpful for giving you another haste option if you keep some of your higher end creatures.

• Breena, the Demagogue and Karazikar, the Eye Tyrant are both excellent draw for Isshin, & can compliment the Firemane Commando & Aurelia, the Law Above that you already have in mainboard.

• Taunt from the Rampart could replace one of your board wipes, maybe Cleansing Nova, & compliment the cards from the previous bullet.

-Legion Loyalist, Signal Pest, & Reconnaissance are all excellent 1 drops for Isshin. Reconnaissance can essentially be a pseud0-vigilance anthem that saves your creatures from combat; this EDHREC artcle explains how the timing works.

• Lastly, I'd suggest maybe getting 1-2 more lands, and maybe swapping Bitterthorn & Parhelion for a couple more mana rocks like Talisman of Conviction and Talisman of Hierarchy.

I hope these suggestions were helpful. Down to chat through additional suggestions if you're up for it, if not, no worries. Best of luck with the deck

Crow_Umbra on Isshin, King of the castle

10 months ago

Nice build! To go along with your pillow-fort strat, I have some recommendations for your consideration:

• Angel's Trumpet - Another means of forcing combat, if you need one.

• Breena, the Demagogue is an excellent draw source for Isshin decks. She is one of my favorite creatures in my Isshin deck, as she can get pretty huge. She incentivizes your opponents to swing at each other instead. My meta leans a bit more aggro, so she tends to stick around until she gets big and can one-shot people.

• Call for Aid - Can be useful against other aggro or token strategies, and temporarily steal their board.

• Taunt from the Rampart - Potentially excellent lead into an Alpha Strike, if you have enough of your own aggro pieces online, then force your opponents to attack each other.

Best of luck with your build and piloting it. It looks fun

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