Trial of Strength

Enchantment

When Trial of Strength enters the battlefield, create a 4/2 green Beast creature token.

When a cartouche enters the battlefield under your control, return Trial of Strength to its owner's hand.

Tokens

• Beast 4/2 G

Legality

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
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (22)

BRG24 on

3 years ago

9-lives, unfortunately unblockable is an effect mainly kept in blue, so I’m not sure if there are any effects like it in your colours. The way you will be getting damage through in this deck will most likely have to be trample instead. Unflinching Courage might be a good way of giving your big creature trample, and the lifelink is also pretty nice for a huge creature to have. Setessan Training and Cartouche of Strength are two other auras that can give something trample, and each having a useful secondary effect (card draw or removal).

About the only card I can find that does give unblockable in your colours is Key to the City, but I would not recommend it for a deck like this. While is have used the card a lot in discard decks, this deck probably can’t afford the discard cost, since the draw effect is pretty clunky and you don’t have any other sources of draw.

Regarding Sylvan Caryatid, this deck doesn’t feel like it is in need of ramp all that much, it would most likely rather just play out threats each turn. It would also prevent you from running Kaheera, the Orphanguard as your companion, which could prove significant.

Trial of Strength also feels a little strange. Sure it works well with Anointed Procession and populate, but it’s also moving away from all your cat synergy and is ultimately in lots of cases just a 3 mana 4/2. If you want another good token producer for the deck, I’m going to say once again that Ajani, Strength of the Pride feels like the best way to go. The tokens are replicas of one of the deck’s most powerful creatures, plus it has the flexibility to do so much more, which seems perfect for the toolbox strategy you are to be going for.

As a final thing, I’ll mention your sideboard. To make your toolbox strategy you’ve moved a lot of the traditional “sideboard cards”, like Prowling Serpopard and Watchers of the Dead into the mainboard, which I feel is a mistake. They are good into some matchups, sure, but they will often be dead draws against other decks. You’d probably be better off running flexible cards or cards with multiple effects in your main board, then having the full blown counter cards in your sideboard. Feline Sovereign is a great card for the mainboard, for example, since it has a primary buff effect that helps in every game, but can also have extra incidental value in some matchups, and then in the games where the artifact or enchantment hate is necessary you can sideboard in some more. Since we’re viewing this as a toolbox, you could see it as trying to fill the mainboard with “multitools”, shall we call them, and then have the precision tools for specific jobs in the sideboard (please forgive the awful analogy, but hopefully it makes sense).

And regarding Kaheera, cut down to only one in the sideboard, since you can only cast one from there each game.

Sorry that this is long again, hopefully this is helpful.

9-lives on

3 years ago

Ooh, and Trial of Strength is an amazing card for its cost and use of a token. Then populate! I think if I need anything, it is a card that gives 'reach' to all of my cards. Can't fight a flying deck without being destroyed! Haha1 Cats Toolbox FTW!

9-lives on

5 years ago

Darth_SavageI guess you could call my deck a anointed procession deck. It's what I'm depending upon to get as many tokens of cats as possible. Trial of Strength is also useful for its cost, and I like Advent of the Wurm.

Tsuru-Hime on Official missing/incorrect card/token thread

5 years ago

Trial of Strength does not have the 4/2 beast token associated with it.

Agusdakilla on Green stomp

5 years ago

If I were you, I would take out Territorial Allosaurus, Grunn, the Lonely King, Marwyn, the Nurturer, Adventurous Impulse, Nature's Way, Rhonas's Last Stand, Cartouche of Strength, Song of Freyalise, Trial of Strength, Ambuscade, and Blackblade Reforged, and put in Rhonas's Monument, Merfolk Branchwalker, Jadelight Ranger, Blossoming Defense, and Verdurous Gearhulk, and add more Rhonas the Indomitable, Steel Leaf Champion, Greenbelt Rampager, and another Ghalta, Primal Hunger.

Kappalauzius on Official missing/incorrect card/token thread

6 years ago

Trial of Strength is missing it's token in the playtest

Murphy77 on

6 years ago

I think that I would change your Cartouches and Trials. The idea is to use your Cartouches to recycle trials, which can have a big impact. 4 Trial of Strength, 4 Trial of Ambition and 4 Cartouche of Strength would most likely be better. Each time you play a cartouche you get all your trials back into your hand to replay them. I built a whole deck around this mechanic - see Trial Trial

MrBoombastic on

6 years ago

Nest of Scarabs is the main reason for playing this deck in my opinion. It's just too good to not include. The creatures by themselves are fairly easily outclassed, unless you get some payoff from your -1/-1 counters. Vizier of Remedies makes sure that more or less none of your creatures trigger Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons, which seems counterproductive. I'd add the Cartouche of Ambition over Cartouche of Strength simply because of the synergy. Removing all white cards would make room for both Cartouches, maybe even a Trial of Strength or two. Since you're playing block constructed (wish my LGS tried that) the Decimator Beetle looks really good to top off your curve. Exemplar of Strength could be good too.