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| 1v1 Commander | Legal |
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| Arena | Legal |
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| Canadian Highlander | Legal |
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| Planechase | Legal |
| Pre-release | Legal |
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| Vanguard | Legal |
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The Water Crystal
Legendary Artifact
Blue spells you cast cost less to cast.
If an opponent would mill one or more cards, they mill that many cards plus four instead.
, : Each opponent mills cards equal to the number of cards in your hand. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)
wozislightning on
Phenax
2 weeks ago
I like it. Very similar to my build.
A couple of quick thoughts: Aphetto Alchemist at worst untaps your biggest toughness guy for a second Phenax activation. He can also be pseudo-ramp if you have artifact mana. At best, he goes infinite with Illusionist's Bracers by targeting himself with the copied triggers.
As you have Undead Alchemist already, you get a similar effect from Zellix, Sanity Flayer
. Both of these work spectacularly with Altar of the Brood. The Altar is one of my favorite cards in my version.
As you have Grindstone, have you considered The Water Crystal? The crystal makes it so it looks at more cards, and if any 2 of the 6 match, the process repeats (refer to the updated wording on grindstone with the newer printing). The Crystal also works well with any effects that just mill an opponent for a single card, turning simple effects into quick clocks (Mesmeric Orb shines here).
Elrond, Moon-Reader is a card that I am waiting to get my hands on to add to my paper deck. It seems like quite consistent card draw.
Best of luck and happy brewing!
ironballsmcgee on
10 months ago
I don't know if you're opposed to UB, but The Water Crystal is pretty awesome for mill. I also love Riverchurn Monument. Happy milling!!!
Barnie22 on
bloodchief
1 year ago
I really like the low mana cost of this deck, should mean that if the shuffle is in your favour you'd hit hard and fast. I think having some of one of the crabs (Ruin Crab or Hedron Crab) could be useful if you have The Water Crystal in there too but that card would be a much higher mana cost than the rest of your deck. I think you've done a great job with this, have you had the chance to see how it plays yet?
plakjekaas on Anowon, the Ruin Thief + …
1 year ago
The Water Crystal states: one or more, then that many plus four. Anowon, the Ruin Thief attacks and isn't blocked. Anowon triggers it's ability that triggers once per player taking damage: damaged player mills cards. How many cards? One for every point of combat damage. In the trigger, that's one number. That's the number modified by the Water Crystal, so four more than the damage taken by rogues in combat.
That's how it works, Anowon triggers once for every time a player is dealt combat damage by rogues. Because the amount it's variable, the amount it's worded to be variable. But it's one amount per trigger.
