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Triton Shorestalker
Creature — Merfolk Rogue
Triton Shorestalker can't be blocked.
multimedia on
Urza’s legion
7 months ago
Hey, good start on a budget with what you have so far. Command Tower is a budget staple land for multicolored Commander decks and Arcane Signet is a budget staple mana rock.
Ramos, Dragon Engine can only be played in a five color deck using it as Commander or another five color Commander. It's activated ability has all five mana symbols and those symbols count toward it's color identity. Urza's color identity is only three colors Esper (black, white, blue). Because Urza doesn't have red and green that's why Ramos can't be played with Urza as Commander.
If you want aggro with Urza lets look at the beginning of the mana curve first, cards spots of 0-3 CMC only then we can look at the higher end of the mana curve. The first changes to consider is to remove all the nonartifact creatures and then later determine if they are worth a spot in your deck because they have abilities that help artifacts or Urza. I think you'll find that you don't need any of these creatures because artifact creatures can take their places. If you want to be aggro with Urza then you want to utilize Urza's artifact creature affinity to cast Urza quicker. To do this consistently Urza wants 0-2 CMC artifact creatures and some 3 CMC artifact creatures more than the rest.
- Cut: Ramos, Dragon Engine
- Cut: Slither Blade, Triton Shorestalker, Fetid Imp, Neurok Familiar
- Cut: Parish-Blade Trainee, Gixian Skullflayer, Gryff Rider
- Cut: Naiad of Hidden Coves, Whispering Wizard, Cryptic Serpent
Some of these creatures may be added back in later, most likely not, but for now lets build the creature base with only artifact creatures. For making upgrades lets look at best cards here with Urza and build around them? Arcbound Ravager and Portal to Phyrexia are the two best cards here with Urza because they're artifacts and they're abilities are more powerful compared to most other cards here. Ravager brings the aggro, but if aggro doesn't do it and you need more reach to win the game then Portal can do that. Lets start with Ravager and what makes it better with Urza? Modular and you have some here, more one drops can help toward Urza's artifact creature affinity and Ravager.
- Add: Ornithopter, Vault Skirge, Arcbound Javelineer, Arcbound Mouser, Swooping Lookout
- Add: Steel Overseer, Baleful Strix, Triarch Praetorian, Malcator's Watcher
- Add: Silas Renn, Seeker Adept, Armix, Filigree Thrasher, Scrapyard Recombiner
Steel Overseer adds to the +1/+1 counter strategy, it's powerful but only for artifact creatures and if trying to be aggro it's a good reason to play very few nonartifact creatures. Silas Renn, Seeker Adept goes well with Arcbound Ravager since with Ravager you want to sac artifacts and Silas lets you cast an artifact from your graveyard. It's deathtouch combined with Urza's menace makes it a creature who opponent is not going to block and lose two or more creatures blocking it. Baleful Strix, Triarch Praetorian, Malcator's Watcher are two drop artifact creatures who fly and who draw when enter the battlefield (ETB) or dies.
Some artifacts here are worse than others.
- Cut: Veteran's Powerblade, Spellbook
- Cut: Journeyer's Kite, Pristine Talisman
- Cut: Reconstructed Thopter, Burnished Hart
Think about limiting the amount of nonartifact spells to just the better ones you have here?
- Cut: Involuntary Cooldown, Weakstone's Subjugation, Curse of Echoes
- Cut: Disfigure, Curate, Scatter Ray, Cancel
Equipment that increases the equipped creature's power equal to the amount of artifacts you control really ups the aggro since then any little artifact creature can become huge which combined with menace can make it a great attacker. I see Silver Myr and it's good here since counts twice for Urza, artifact creature affinity and ramp. Consider adding more artifact creature mana dorks who can make colored mana?
- Add: Cranial Plating, Nettlecyst
- Add: Ornithopter of Paradise, Gold Myr, Leaden Myr
The budget Signets can help for ramp as well as color fixing which is really needed because the manabase here is pretty much all basic lands. Arcane Signet is a staple budget mana rock for ramp in Commander. Chromatic Lantern is fine for color fixing, but you're going to want more than that.
- Add: Arcane Signet
- Add: Azorius Signet, Dimir Signet, Orzhov Signet
Some nonartifact creatures at the beginning of the mana curve can really help aggro and Urza.
Losheel, Clockwork Scholar is powerful with artifact creatures when attacking is what you want to be doing especially Constructs. Your artifact creatures don't take damage in combat meaning that opponents will have a difficult time choosing to block since their blockers might die, but your creatures will be fine. Losheel is also repeatable draw, once on each players turn when an artifact creature ETB you draw this includes when a Construct is created by Urza if you didn't have an artifact creature ETB before your end step.
Sai, Master Thopterist can be a repeatable source of artifact creatures, Thopters, to be attackers or sac fodder. Emry, Lurker of the Loch is like Silas Renn, Seeker Adept more ways to cast artifacts from your graveyard is good with Arcbound Ravager and other sac outlets.
That's it for this comment, but if you're still interested I'll give advice about the high end of the mana curve here to take more advantage of aggro into mid game and Portal to Phyrexia late game as well as some budget land options for the manabase. Would you like more advice?
Good luck with your deck.
stevezsiga on
Jungle Merfolks
1 year ago
Great build! Have you considered a similar build using Mist-Cloaked Herald or Triton Shorestalker or River Sneak?
For a board, I think Merfolk Trickster, Harbinger of the Tides, Kopala, Warden of Waves, Wizard's Retort, and Witness Protection are all great options.
Madcookie on
1 year ago
Niv-Mizzet, Parun seems like a nice inclusion. For me Blistercoil Weird and Delver of Secrets Flip feels underwhelming in edh you can swap them for some more draw or since you like cipher even Triton Shorestalker and Mist-Cloaked Herald.
Since you asked for card draw suggestions the main staples are X spells like Blue Sun's Zenith,Pull from Tomorrow, 4 CMC type Fact or Fiction / Steam Augury or Behold the Multiverse stuff and cantrips like Brainstorm, Ponder etc. There are also wheels like Windfall. Have you checked Scryfall? Their search engine is rather easy to use.
I still haven't build my Niv deck but I plan to put in the transmute package to find me the three combo pieces
Dizzy Spell for Curiosity
Drift of Phantasms for Tandem Lookout or Ophidian Eye
Hope this helps. Cheers!
newhannes on
Ninja Fun! V1
1 year ago
So for unblockables, I could run Triton Shorestalker and Changeling Outcast but I am thinking just using Ornithopter and Rogue Class to bring out the ninjas and Distortion Strike, Smoke Shroud, and Aqueous Form to give evasion to ninjas on the battlefield.
DrkNinja on
Dead Silence
1 year ago
Ok so I didn't check to see if any of these were in the deck already but... here's my list of suggestions!
It's a lot of cards so...
- Imperial Seal
- Personal Tutor
- Vampiric Tutor
- Liliana Vess
- Cruel Tutor
- Diabolic Vision
- Nephalia Academy
- Library of Leng
- Aqueous Form
- Ashiok, Dream Render
- Augury Owl
- Baleful Mastery
- Bolas's Citadel
- Brainstorm
- Cabal Coffers
- Castle Vantress
- Commit / Memory
- Connive / Concoct
- Curse of the Cabal
- Darksteel Pendant
- Dauthi Voidwalker
- Deadly Rollick
- Devastation Tide
- Dig Through Time
- Discovery / Dispersal
- Draco
- Far / Away
- Fierce Guardianship
- Foil
- Force of Will
- Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar
- Gudul Lurker
- Into the Story
- Invisible Stalker
- Jace, the Mind Sculptor
- Key to the City
- Krydle of Baldur's Gate
- Looter il-Kor
- Misdirection
- Mist-Cloaked Herald
- Murderous Cut
- Nether Traitor
- Never / Return
- Nexus of Fate
- Opposition Agent
- Phantom Ninja
- Rags / Riches
- Rogue Class
- Sage Owl
- Scroll Rack
- Sea Gate Restoration Flip
- Sensei's Divining Top
- Siren Stormtamer
- Spire Owl
- Spite / Malice
- Strionic Resonator
- Submerge
- Temporal Trespass
- Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
- Thalakos Seer
- The Cauldron of Eternity
- The Magic Mirror
- Thespian's Stage
- Throatseeker
- Tormented Soul
- Treasure Cruise
- Triton Shorestalker
- Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
- Whispersilk Cloak
- Deserted Temple
- Taigam's Scheming
Again some of these may be cut worthy but off the cuff this is what I came up with. Also I didn't include any ninjas... I figure they are easy enough to find
LB0818 on
Ill take that! (Anowon)
1 year ago
Finally got Thieves' Guild Enforcer removed Triton Shorestalker.
Kazierts on
1 year ago
Those aren't really better than some of the other options like Triton Shorestalker... but it's SO MEMEY. I'm actually gonna look for some other Horsemanship to include for a few laughs.
I also added Wei Scout and Wei Strike Force to the maybeboard.
Quicksilver2785 on
15: Sneak Attack (Rogues)
1 year ago
I will definitely switch out the Triton Shorestalker for Slither Blade. I think the curve is fine since most of those 4 drops usually only cost 2 with prowl. I will have to see if the mill is a big enough factor for Drown in the Loch
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