Varchild, Betrayer of Kjeldor

Legendary Creature — Human Knight

Whenever Varchild deals combat damage to a player, that player creates that many 1/1 red Survivor Creature Tokens

Survivors your opponent control can't block, and they can't attack you or a PW you control

When Varchild Leaves the battlefield, gain control of all Survivors.

Discussion (51)

carpecanum on Hey! Ho! Let's Goad

3 weeks ago

Upvote purely on the strength of the Ramones reference.

Rogue's Passage, Aspect of Mongoose, maybe Bond of Discipline

Rite of the Raging Storm or Varchild, Betrayer of Kjeldor give everybody more attackers but they can't attack you

Earnest Fellowship maybe? Infinite Hourglass?

KBK7101 on [Primer] Kelsien - One shot, one kill

2 months ago

Kelsien is so cool! Definitely my favorite commander from C20. His backstory really interests me and I wish he had more lore.... As for recommendations, Chandra's Ignition works really well with Kelsien. Pitiless Plunderer as well, if you wanna go in more on the treasure route (which seems to be getting a LOT of synergy with the past two standard sets).

Varchild, Betrayer of Kjeldor and Akroan Horse are more ways to give opponents some creatures to kill.

ObIviom on Honour from the Grave

3 months ago

Super neat deck, I love the flavor and the use of Haakon, Stromgald Scourge Also really think that the Varchild, Betrayer of Kjeldor + Blades of Velis Vel combo is cool! +1 from me boss :)

carpecanum on Warweaver's Chant

3 months ago

Heh. I notice you found my Thantis deck. Thanks for the upvote. I haven't played in the last year so all my decks are out of date, but that deck is fun. Forcing people to attack throws off the playstyle of at least half the people at the table.

One card i thought would be good with Thantis is Varchild, Betrayer of Kjeldor . Haven't tried it yet though.

HerbieWingis on Sword and Shield Beasts of War

4 months ago

Deck looks fun and good so far! I like it. I have a comment to start. Tahngarth's ability works similarly to Kaalia of the Vast in the sense that there is no attack trigger, so for things like Bear Umbra the ability does not trigger when you give him to other players to attack, so it's really only useful on other creatures.

Interestingly enough, even if you kept him on an opponent's field for a full turn cycle, this actually is bad! Since they control Tahngarth, they will get the benefit, due to the card's wording. You only control the things attached to Tahngarth, so since Bear Umbra gives the ability to Tahngarth's text, the opponent would get to untap lands.

All this ^^^ was more just of interest rather than general advice.

Moving on, in your OTHER category. You have a LOT of incentives to get people to not attack you, too many in fact. I'll tell you which ones I think are best, but it's up to your personal preference which ones to cut. I think the Curse of Predation , Curse of Disturbance , Bloodthirsty Blade , Frenzied Saddlebrute , Disrupt Decorum , Varchild, Betrayer of Kjeldor , Shiny Impetus , Xantcha, Sleeper Agent , and Goblin Spymaster are the best personally, as they are the most effective at goading.

I have already explained Bear Umbra , and the same goes for Sword of the Animist , since there aren't attack triggers. I think that Banshee's Blade is not good compared to your other cards.

I think Dimir House Guard is really not that great, and you have enough other tutors to get Tahngarth.

Cunning Rhetoric is a fabulous card for this deck (also in general, holy moly I'm glad I know about this card now). Your monarch cards might not be that great to have, but I think it's worth play-testing. I think it might make it hard for you, since you can't attack a person who is the monarch for fear that they will attack you, although this can be counteracted through goad cards.

Otherwise, I think this deck is pretty cool, and I approve of it.

Phyrexian11 on God of Thunder and Love

6 months ago

I'm not sure of previous versions of this deck, but I have some cards I think you should add, plus some cards I think you should either just consider replacing or simply just take out. We'll start with the ADD list.

ADD:

• Earthquake and/or Rolling Earthquake (You already have an effect like this in Subterranean Tremors , but this also hits players, so you'll deal EXTRA damage on top of the extra damage from the commander.)

• Arcane Signet (You have Fire Diamond , but not Arcane Signet?)

• Starstorm (An effect like many others, but this one has cycling.)

• Fire Servant (It's not the cheapest creature, but it has an ability that you might want more of. You can always use more damage doubling.)

• Mana Geyser (Look, it's just a good card to get a lot of mana quickly. Not super necessary, but it's fast mana in R)

• Heartless Hidetsugu (I'm just suggesting this one because cutting your opponents down to 20 is great and makes killing them easier.)

• Seething Song (Fast Mana good.)

• Seize the Spoils (I noticed a lack of card draw, and this is a pretty neat mono-red card draw spell.)

• Endless Atlas (Again, card draw, and it's cheap and consistent.)

• Genesis Chamber (Yeah, it requires your opponents to be playing creatures a bit, but it makes it just that much easier to kill them. Plus the Myr generated are all 1/1s, so they will easily let excess damage through from the rest of the deck.)

• Sanctuary Blade (A little expensive on the equip side, but this is another consitent way to give your commander pro-red.)

• Sword of Sinew and Steel / Sword of War and Peace (You have Sword of Fire and Ice , so why not have more of the red ones?)

• Chandra, Awakened Inferno (Her + kills your opponents faster, her - does what you commander wants, her -X is neat. I think she's all around a great inclusion.)

• Chandra, Torch of Defiance (Okay, so now is where I admit that you only had 1 planeswalker and I talk about how much I like Planeswalker cards. I think they're cool and fun. This specific one is great beacause she either gives you mana or draws you a card, essentially. Her two differ +1's are really the only reason, but her ult is something your opponents wont want to have go off, either.)

• Caged Sun (More Mana in mono-red.)

Subtract:

• Ignite the Future (It's too expensive for what it does. You can better spend the mana on a Chandra, Torch of Defiance or something. Yeah, it's kind of card draw, but you can do better.)

• Pyroblast (Unless this is for a VERY SPECIFIC meta where you are going against mean U decks, this will be more frustrating in hand than useful, I think. Plus, color-specific hate like this just feels out of place in this format, unless, of course, your meta is particularly skewed a certain way.)

• Red Elemental Blast (See Above.)

• Tibalt's Trickery (Yeah, cool counterspell, but I think the deck should focus more on itself, personally.)

• Wheel of Fate (There are better, and faster, ways to draw cards. I like the idea of this card, but in having played it over and over again, either it never actually resolves -like the game ends- or it just feels like a relative waste because people can see it coming and plan ahead.)

• Fire Diamond (Replace this with Arcane Signet . It's just better.)

• Lavabrink Floodgates (To be fair, I've never played with this card, but OH BOY does it seem bad. If you're not proliferating the counters, then this will NEVER go off if your opponents don't want it to, and they would never want it to with this deck, unless a board-wipe JUST happened and there are not creatures. So then it's just a 4-drop mana rock producing 2, and you can just replace it with something better like Caged Sun that will help you Earthquake for a win faster.

• Arch of Orazca (I noticed in your mana base that you have 13 lands that tap for colorless. That seems like too many for me - it's almost the same number of Snow-Covered Mountain s you have. So I am recommending removing some. I get why this one is here, for the card draw, but this is SO EXPENSIVE. I don't even run it in my colorless Emrakul deck.)

• Great Furnace (I like this card, I really do. I LOVE artifacts. But without any artifact synergies, this is more likely do get Shatter ed or Vandalblast ed than actually help you, and that'll feel bad. Just replace it with a Snow-Covered Mountain .)

• Hanweir Battlements  ^Flip (Same reason for the colorless mana, and I don't really see many reasons other than, maybe 2 creatures for the need for haste, but it's not a necessity to be removed.)

• Leyline of Punishment (I get that this is here to make it harder for your opponents to survive or heal up, but honestly, just play Heartless Hidetsugu or something else to keep life totals low. This one is often going to feel more like a do-nothing enchantment unless your meta is HEAVY life-gain.)

• Treasonous Ogre (Fast mana, sure, but it seemed overall pretty meh to me in this deck. It's better at killing you than it is at providing mana in this specific deck, I think.)

• Varchild, Betrayer of Kjeldor (The effect is important for making sure you opponents have creatures, but getting her to hit you opponents before they have blockers is going to be a challenge, and if you draw her late-game, then she's just a 3/3 blocker.)

• Bonfire of the Damned (The miracle cost is cool, but most of the time I think you'd rather something like Earthquake that will most likely hit almost all of their creatures AND more than 1 opponent/opponent's board. Plus, if this isn't Miracle'd, then this is pretty trash in your hand.)

I'm sure I said add more cards than take out, and I know I said take out a couple lands, but not really add any, but I hope this is helpful.

king-saproling on Prami-Pros and Pramikons

6 months ago

You might like these: Conjurer's Closet , Nephalia Smuggler , Isochron Scepter , Elite Arcanist , Kaho, Minamo Historian , Varchild, Betrayer of Kjeldor , Genesis Chamber , Angler Turtle , Goblin Spymaster , Frontier Warmonger , Fiendish Duo , Gisela, Blade of Goldnight , Charmbreaker Devils , Eerie Interlude , Ghostway , Ghostly Flicker

king-saproling on We Like To Party

6 months ago

Hi jlane, welcome to EDH! I take it Marisi is your general? You can designate your general in the Edit page (button on the left) by adding CMDR next to it's name in your list, like so:

1x Marisi, Breaker of the Coil *CMDR*

Marisi is a really interesting general, however I'm not sure the party mechanic suits him that well, or vice versa. Are you heart-set on the deck revolving around party stuff? If yes, Tazri, Beacon of Unity might be a better choice for the general. If you want to build more around Marisi, I'd recommend the following swaps:

• Angelheart Protector -> Toski, Bearer of Secrets

• Dauntless Survivor -> Varchild, Betrayer of Kjeldor

• Tajuru Snarecaster -> Soltari Visionary

• Springmantle Cleric -> Frontier Warmonger

• Stonework Packbeast -> Ilysian Caryatid

• Thundering Sparkmage -> Odric, Master Tactician

• Turntimber Ascetic -> Soltari Foot Soldier

• Shepherd of Heroes -> Avacyn's Pilgrim

• Scorch Rider -> Subira, Tulzidi Caravanner

• Synchronized Spellcraft -> Skyshroud Elf

• Might of Murasa -> Paradise Druid

• Sizzling Barrage -> Druid of the Anima

• Kabira Outrider -> Storm the Citadel

• Emeria Captain -> Artifact Mutation

• Practiced Tactics -> Hunter's Insight

I can recommend more if you like. Let me know!