The Scorpion God
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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Archenemy Legal
Arena Legal
Block Constructed 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
Quest Magic Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

The Scorpion God

Legendary Creature — God

Whenever a creature with -1/-1 counter on it dies (is put into the graveyard from the battlefield, tokens are put into the graveyard before they cease to exist), draw a card.

: Put a -1/-1 counter on another target creature.

When this dies, return this to this creature's owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.

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TypicalTimmy on Card creation challenge

2 months ago

The Scorpion God was my favorite of the three, from a flavor standpoint. So I'll do him.

I guess there actually is a Goddess named Selket in Egyptian mythology? Never heard of her but that's what Google says so shrug?


Selket the Wrathful

Legendary Creature - God

Deathtouch, trample

Selket has indestructible if it has ten or more +1/+1 counters on it.

When Selket the Wrathful enters the battlefield, you may draw up to seven cards. You lose 2 life for each card you drew in this way. Then, you may discard any number of land cards. For each land card you discard, put a -1/-1 counter on each other creature in addition to a +1/+1 counter on Selket.

2/6


Rules text would clarify you add that many +1/+1 counters, not just one of them. So if you discard 3 lands, everyone else gets x3 -1/-1 and Selket gets x3 +1/+1.

I tried to say "and gets that many +1/+1" but that was even more confusing. So if 4 creatures each gets x3 -1/-1, does Selket get x3 +1/+1 or THAT MANY in relation to the total number of -1/-1 which would, in this case be x12 +1/+1

I know it's silly, but some people can't read and rationalize rules so you gotta hold their hands for them. Those people being the ones who "must win the game all the time".

Adding "in addition to" really helps, I think


Make an Angel Leviathan

Bonus points for being non-legendary

Extra bonus points for being Rare and not Mythic

And you win Tappedout if it's a named legendary mythic who transforms into a Planeswalker with initial casting cost of 8mv in Bant

FormOverFunction on Tsarrikh, Scourge of Ifnir

5 months ago

Matches up nicely to his lord and savior The Scorpion God. Nice! This does remind me, though, of the good old days when you could have both +1/+1 and -1/-1 counters on a creature. Sad.

Crow_Umbra on The Jeremy Renner App Experience

1 year ago

Thank you for the detailed breakdown thefiresoflurve.

I haven't really play-tested or edited the deck much since swapping in The Scorpion God about a week ago. In the play-testing I have done, it still felt helpful to have the deathtouch instants to set up a couple more spell slinging opportunities for the rest of the turn.

If they don't feel as helpful, then I'll likely cut one or two of them for a couple more mana rocks.

BRAZATO on What is your favorite Plane, …

1 year ago

Withouth any doubt my favourite plane is AMONKHET.

I love ancient Egypt, I had the luck to already visit Egypt and enjoy their ruins, museums and natural enviroments. I love their rich culture, their complex mythology and their awesome landscapes, from the rocky valleys and the sand deserts filled with tombs, funerary temples and pyramids, to the rich oasis and riversides of the Nile full of life and vegetation.

Until Amonkhet came out, many egypt fans like me were hoping for and egyptian plane very hard, and Amonkhet was the final gift.

I love how WotC team designed a new fantastic culture clearly inspired in ancient Egypt but with their own imaginative touch. The concept of the city of Nakthamun being a rich oasis protected from the perils of the deserts fits well the relationship of egyptians with the river Nile, living in their fertile sides, while buring their deads in the dry desertic west grounds.

The chosen mechanics like embalm to represent mummification, the deserts, and cycling to represent the need to seek and recycle in a hard desert enviroment where very fitting.

The awesome gods were also both recognizable and original: Oketra the True as an allusion to the protective but warrior feline goddesses Sejmet and Bastet, Rhonas the Indomitable as a reinterpretation of the guardian cobra god Wadjet but in a more savage way, Hazoret the Fervent as a twisted concept of Anubis (still being related to the afterlife journy) but with some "red" aspects of the desert and war god Seth, Kefnet the Mindful clearly as the sage ibis god Toth, and Bontu the Glorified as a mix of the river god Sobek and the monstrous goddess Ammyt, who keeped the passage to the afterlife devouring the souls of the not worthy ones.

The fallen gods also where awesome, representing with The Scorpion God the perils of the desert and the scorpion goddess Serket, The Scarab God being a reference to Kephri, wich represented the cycle of solar resurrection but in a more "evil" way, and finally The Locust God as a wink to the hebrew's famous myth of the plagues of Egypt. And Nicol Bolas was the perfect villain, bein a subbtle reference to the chaos serpent Aphopis.

Other famous characters where also referenced, like Cleopatra with her death myth caused by an snake bite in Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons and the young-deceased pharaoh Tutankhamun in Temmet, Vizier of Naktamun.

I'm hopping to return to Amonkhet in the future, to know how their people have reconstructed their civilization after Hour of Devastation, having a new Hazoret card and maybe new risen gods or the appearance of unknown ones... and of course more egyptian flavored legends for EDH!!!

TypicalTimmy on Ray Fe Laz, Scorpion Trainer

1 year ago

Ray Fe Laz, Scorpion Trainer

After becoming lost in the endless expanse of Amonkhet, Ray Fe Laz vowed his life to The Scorpion God, prior to Bolas' invasion, if he would be saved.

The God listened and agreed, but demanded a sacrifice; Ray Fe Laz was to capture a black Scorpion and drink it's venom.

He did so, without hesitation. The venom killed his body, but kept his mind true. He now summons scorpion to do his Gods bidding.

(crap backstory is crap lol but it's a nice one)

DrukenReaps on Which non-partner commanders would you …

1 year ago

The Scorpion God and Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons, I really just need that negative counters Jund commander...

TypicalTimmy on Card creation challenge

2 years ago

Return to Establishment

Enchantment

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, put a civilization counter on Return to Establishment.

At the beginning of your upkeep, create a number of 2/2 Citizen creature tokens that are all colors equal to the number of civilization counters on Return to Establishment.

After the Eldrazi were at long last rooted out of Zendikar, and the leylines mended and healed, the Roil began to settle down. Zendikar, the plane itself, began to relax and find calm once more - something which had not been seen in thousands of years.


Given this is Zendikar, it should be Ally tokens. But I thought it would be fun to use Citizen and show Zendikar finally becoming a "safe" place to live.

Hmm. Oh, I know.

So we have The Scorpion God, The Scarab God and The Locust God; Each one killed by Nicol Bolas and eternalized.

Take your pick and make the God-version of it before Bolas had his way with them.

Reznor31 on Don't You Know that You're Toxic?

2 years ago

I own a deck similar to this except it was with The Scorpion God but the deck plays exactly the same as this one. Control the board with -1/-1 counters. I run Blowfly Infestation + Nest of Scarabs to go infinite on draw or kill with Blood Artist or Zulaport Cutthroat. So my version tends to run more of a combo deck style. I can win with infect but its not the focus so it doesnt happen often.

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