Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

Legendary Creature — Human Cleric

Protection from Humans ((Remember the acronym debt.) This creature can't be damaged, enchanted, equipped, blocked or targeted by anything Human.)

Pay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Put a -1/-1 counter up to one target creature and draw a card.

{B}{B}, Discard a card: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

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
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (51)

Crow_Umbra on Watch the Party Die [Primer]

2 months ago

Profet93

• I gave the edge to Giver of Runes for having an additional toughness, and can also protect from colorless, which is a bit niche.

• I addressed this in the Draw & Tutor part of my primer:

"Imperial Recruiter - An excellent option for this deck, especially given the potential for repeat uses. Recruiter of the Guard could be another supplemental option to Imperial Recruiter. She would be able to tutor up 18/34 creatures, with some overlap with the 22/34 that Imperial Recruiter can tutor."

I gave the edge to Imperial Recruiter since it can grab options like Professional Face-Breaker, Yawgmoth, Thran Physician, Preston, the Vanisher, and Burakos, Party Leader.

• Hall of Heliod's Generosity is more so a contingency in case I recur any of my enchantments. It's niche, but I like it.

• I run Vault of the Archangel in my Mardu/Orzhov aggro decks, espcially if they have the Treasure support in the mid-game to threaten or actually use the activation. It's worked for me before.

Archon_Bel on "Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls" EDH …

3 months ago

I'm getting back into MtG after about one year and a half of not playing. Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls interests me because of the awesome artwork and ability to draw cards and get stronger without necessarily being an instant combo commander. I'd say I'm a casual player, but I like any deck I play to be fine-tuned, resilient, and effective in what it does. I still want to win, after all!

For this deck, I'm naturally thinking some kind of burn route with cards like Underworld Dreams and Sulfuric Vortex to consistently trigger Valgavoth's effect on every opponent's turn. Effects that punish the opponent for doing anything will also be effective in triggering the effect and whittling their life totals down. Additionally, I'm wanting to add in an aristocrats strategy for more life loss triggers, value, and more importantly, board control. A discard theme might also be nice, but aristocrats seems like it has more support.

Problem is that I'm not really familiar with either burn/punisher or aristocrats strategies, so I have no idea what cards and engines to put in a Rakdos deck. I have a Yawgmoth, Thran Physician deck, but that doesn't really need a whole lot of investment seeing how the commander is its own sac outlet, card draw, and board control.

tl;dr Valgavoth burn/sacrifice deck for life loss and board control. What do?

Goldberserkerdragon on Schwarzedämonenrampestampfen verstecktekombo

3 months ago

Yo! Groovy looking deck. Might i offer some constructive criticism? No K'rrk deck needs 40 lands. Idk what's going on here but K'rrk is one of the most powerful and broken commanders of all time. Usually requiring little mana as he cheats himself and other things. I would cut honestly about ten lands and add ramp in it's place, not simply for more mana to advance in general, but less is more. 40 lands will clump and you will have times of finding then for a moment and then not, or vice versa. You get hosed and flooded a lot. If you dont feel comfortable doing that, even just trying, add more draw? Seems a tad low; it's 100 cards, gotta find your pieces!

I have a buddy in my pod who has been playing K'rrk for years. He goes for the classic Gary line with Yawgmoth, Thran Physician and Mikaeus, the Unhallowed. It's pretty streamlined however. Usually pulling a win in a handful of turns. Not sure if that's your jam but it can be done on a budget with K'rrk. Btw, were is your Gary lol? Not many cards are above auto-includes like Gary. He's super-auto-must-have. This is a cool deck, dont get me wrong, I'm just seeing a mixed bag of just black stuff, just feel maybe a better commander or a better K'rrk build could be achieved for you. :) Is there not a demon commander that can do this better? Taborax, Hope's Demise? Rakdos, the Showstopper?

Gidgetimer on All the combos

10 months ago

I need a little more clarification on the objective of the deck. Are you wanting a deck with the longest list of combos, a deck with a large number of completely unique combos that you want to draw naturally, or a deck with a large number of completely unique combos and you will tutor the last piece? Each different style is going to require different combos.

Without any specific guidance on how you want to build the deck I am just going to list some of my favorites. I'll just list off cards, LMK if you need an explanation for any.

• Thopter Foundry/Sword of the Meek/Krark-Clan Ironworks(or Ashnod's Altar)

• Melira, Sylvok Outcast/Sac outlet/Murderous Redcap (or Kitchen Finks)

• Mikaeus, the Unhallowed/Triskelion (or Walking Ballista and a sac outlet)

• Earthcraft/Squirrel Nest

• Yawgmoth, Thran Physician/Blood Artist/two undying creatures

• Exquisite Blood/Sanguine Bond

• Protean Hulk/Karmic Guide/Saffi Eriksdotter/Reveillark

Metroid_Hybrid on Maxing out pre-Modern cEDH

10 months ago

I have a single, serious cEDH deck built around Yawgmoth, Thran Physician— but with a single, important caveat: EVERY card in the deck that is not explicitly part of the central combo has an “Old” border; that is, either legitimately has a pre-Modern (pre-8ED) printing, or at least received a “Timeshifted” printing after the fact..

But with the printing of Hancock, Ghoulish Mayor, and the recent “Timeshifted” reprinting of Toxic Deluge, I am compelled to asked the T/O community for the first time in over 3 years……

How can I max-out the competitive potential of this particular deck, while still maintaining the said “pre-Modern” prerequisite?

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Yawgmoth - mk_I (Vintage Phyrexia)(v2.8)

Commander / EDH Metroid_Hybrid

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The only possibilities that I can think of…

• Add Triskelion and/or Sling-Gang Lieutenant as back-up WinCons w/ Mikaeus, the Unhallowed

• Add Grim Monolith as the final cEDH mana rock...

• ???

fluffyeel on The apocalypse (Sheoldred)

10 months ago

Yay, darkness. Here are some thoughts that might synergize with your deck:

• With Sheoldred feeding off of card drawing, you might consider things that speed up card drawing. These can be double-edged swords, but Howling Mine, Font of Mythos, Teferi's Puzzle Box, Memory Jar, and the like might be worth considering. Reliquary Tower may also not be a bad idea.
• Rather than Infernal Darkness, why not Contamination? You can also get an engine with things like Bitterblossom, Dreadhorde Invasion, and Reassembling Skeleton (or other recurring creatures, e.g. Bloodghast) to make your opponents cry even more.
• Koskun Falls could also be another way to tax your opponents.
• You could also go with Wound Reflection to double up on the suffering. Things like Kokusho, the Evening Star and Yawgmoth, Thran Physician are must-plays in any deck I have with black, and considering Gray Merchant of Asphodel might also be worth your time.

fluffyeel on Death and Taxes

11 months ago

Apart from a spate of tutors of varying price points (Vampiric Tutor, Mystical Tutor, Demonic Tutor, Entomb, etc.), here are some thoughts of varying degrees of evilness/making sure your opponents "love" you forever:

• Kokusho, the Evening Star is, for me, a must-include in any black-containing EDH deck, especially with how its life-drain effect scales with the number of players. You could also add an Archfiend of Despair and/or Wound Reflection to multiply suffering, Archangel of Thune to make your board bigger with every passing turn (or life-gain occurrence), and/or Boon Reflection for more life-gain fun!
• Some additional reanimation in addition to what you already have could be handy. For this, I would suggest Karmic Guide; Junji, the Midnight Sky; Reanimate; and/or Necromancy.
• If you have access to it, Yawgmoth, Thran Physician would be super-handy: on-demand sacrifice, not to mention card draw and weakening your opponents' boards.
• Some more land fetch/land thinning tools, like Expedition Map; Urza's Cave; Prismatic Vista; and Marsh Flats, might help. Similarly, Field of Ruin and Demolition Field serve double-duty of land fetch and land destruction for problematic lands. Alternately, some more multi-lands like Reflecting Pool, Mana Confluence, and other pain lands could help you in early game stages.

Niko9 on WOTC announcement - All Commanders …

1 year ago

You know, this is exactly the kind of thing that I really like in magic. Not necessarily the format that this makes, but just wotc doing an event just because it's fun for players, that's something I haven't seen for a good bit : ) I could definitely build something fun out of what I've got laying around and have a good time with this.

That being said, I think it would make a terrible format, but a great event. Imagine somebody playing 5 color Heliod, Sun-Crowned and Walking Ballista combo that could hold up Fierce Guardianship and Force of Will to protect the combo. Or Yawgmoth, Thran Physician with an undying partner for a command zone combo.

I like that it's a fun event, it's a theme that just works great for me, and I don't know, I think it's kind of nice to see wotc saying to players, fun is playing the game, after so long of them saying, fun is buying the game.