Ugluk of the White Hand

Legendary Creature — Orc Soldier

Whenever another creature you control dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Ugluk of the White hand. If that creature was a Goblin or Orc, put two +1/+1 counters on Ugluk instead. (Dying is being put into the graveyard from the battlefield. Tokens enter the graveyard before they cease to exist.)

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	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
Quest Magic	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (3)

wallisface on

2 weeks ago

AxonsReplete the lust is looking a lot better! I think you should be able to win games with this so i’d suggest getting some games in with it!

My only thought if you’re wanting to strengthen this would be to swap Ugluk of the White Hand with Mayhem Devil.

wallisface on

3 weeks ago

This brew looks a lot better than your other one, so good job! There’s still some things to work towards though:

• your cards currently have no reason to care about the various sacrifice triggers happening outside of Ugluk of the White Hand and Stalactite Stalker… it would be nice if there were more cards that profited from your sacrifices.

• your deck is almost always going to be wanting to play proactively on your turn, which means you’ll often be using all your mana then. I think it’ll be really hard to ever be able to make use of Orcish Medicine

• interaction is good: Bone Shards is more useful than Corrupted Conviction

MadMork on Sauron The Grixis Lord

7 months ago

DreadKhan First on the board! Appreciate the insightful feedback and deep dive into your analysis regarding the deck.

Having started in Sultai {B}{U}{G} and then Temur {R}{G}{B}, this is my first foray into a deck without green. Based on your commentary I am understanding that we want to start leaning into blue in order to draw and/or fetch the mana we need to play. From a suggestion perspective I would agree that there is a place for all the cards you've suggested and that there is better value there than in some of the cards I have.

Thanks for the insight into value regarding the LOTR set cards. I think you're right regarding Ugluk of the White Hand and The Torment of Gollum being poor value here. Gollum is pretty expensive castwise for what you get, and Uglak is too situational to get good value in board states that do not contain Orc Armies.

Landwise I'll be the first to admit our mana base in not super efficient in current state. I essentially placeholdered 40 lands to adjust based on the final outcome of the other 59 cards. Going down to 36 seems doable, I'll have to run the numbers to see how our overall mana symbols shake out.

Once thing I would love some perspective on is whether or not sub 25 creatures is hamstringing myself, or if this style of play is doable if I focus more heavily on other spells. Right now I am essentially leaning on my Orc Army to become a big menace, while twisting my creature types to Orc Army to leverage Saurons amass ability. Then using The Ring to get to the point where we're burning players just by having creatures do what they do. My gut suggests that I either need to try to lean into pushing non creature spell damage more heavily, or potentially try to look for a knockout blow by leveraging mechanics that deal in excess damage.

Recap of advice as I understood it:

• Push ramp with colorless{C} and blue{U}, fix mana base to be more durable to different mana type spikes
• Drop low value/high cost cards around Amass or otherwise in order to drive deck speed
• Focus the gameplan to clearly defined objectives. I started by thinking "How do I maximize using my Commander, my Nazgul, and my Orc Army" and now am thinking about "How do I push my speed and durability to maximize my Commander, my Nazgul, and my Orc Army"