Zagras, Thief of Heartbeats

Legendary Creature — Vampire Rogue

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature in your party. (Your party consists of up to four creatures, one Cleric, Rogue, Warrior and Wizard, each.)

Flying, deathtouch, haste

Other creatures you control have deathtouch.

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a planeswalker, destroy that planeswalker.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	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
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Pre-release	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Standard	Legal
Standard Brawl	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (19)

SteelSentry on Edh options

3 months ago

Zagras, Thief of Heartbeats makes your attackers hard to block and your pingers can keep the board clear of any creatures that might be problematic. Most of the pingers you'll want are Wizards anyway, Warriors love swinging in for free, and creative deckbuilding can get you close to a full party without too much trouble; but you don't even need a party to play him!

griffstick on Stumbled upon a decent combo

4 months ago

I was playing brawl arena and my cmdr is Zagras, Thief of Heartbeats, in my hand is a bunch of wizards, rougues, warriors, and clerics. But two particular cards that peeked my interest. Those cards are, Terror of the Peaks and Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet. I have Zagras, Thief of Heartbeats in play and Terror of the Peaks in play. Already this seems strong. Then I played Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet. This is the combo. Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet enters the battlefield, triggers Terror of the Peaks, I target a creature (doesn't matter how big the creature because they have deathtouch thanks to Zagras, Thief of Heartbeats) that creature dies but instead gets exiled because of Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet and she makes a 2/2 zombie token. That token triggers Terror of the Peaks, boom another exiled creature, and another 2/2 zombie. I do this 6 times and my opponent concedes.

So the combo goes, give all your creatures deathtouch have Terror of the Peaks out and play Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet and wipe the table and make a ton of 2/2 zombies tokens.

seshiro_of_the_orochi on Saskia the Viking

1 year ago

This looks hilarious, I love the sheer brutality this deck represents. I've been struggeling to build a Saskia deck in a similar style, and yours really helps me with that. Thanks a lot!

Looking through your list, I think I have some useful suggestions.

First, Drizzt Do'Urden would propably be another quite awesome addition, the same goes for Zagras, Thief of Heartbeats. And Vona, Butcher of Magan. Seriously, this deck could basically every badass looking character one could find.

Then, you play such a high amount of legendary creatures that Heroes' Podium has actual finisher potential. And it even draws cards.

Finally, a thing I've always considered hilarious for Saskia would be blink spells. Just imagine attacking the player chosen for Saskia, with the other two opponents thinking they're save, to then flicker Saskia, resulting in an unexpected double kill.

multimedia on Be'lakor Demons

1 year ago

Hey, Satoru Umezawa is spicy tech. Some other tech to consider is Zagras, Thief of Heartbeats? Makes it so with Belakor any Demon who ETB can kill any creature it targets with damage. Belakor + Great Unclean One is a machine gun with Zagras.

How about adding a few lower mana cost Demons with evasion to help to get through for ninjutsu? These can also help to get more Demons on the battlefield quicker for Belakor draw.

• Changeling Outcast --> Demonlord Belzenlok
• Blade of the Oni --> Gyruda, Doom of Depths
• Taborax, Hope's Demise --> Warstorm Surge
• Herald of Torment --> Venomcrawler

Loot, more entomb effects and expanding on reanimation are more ways to get Demons on the battlefield quicker, relying less on ramp.

• Faithless Looting --> Brainstorm
• Animate Dead --> Molten Echoes
• Entomb --> Panharmonicon
• Azra Oddsmaker --> Rakdos Signet

Emergence Zone is helpful with Liliana's Contract. It's mana before you want it as a flash source. Flash allows Contract to be on the battlefield much less time then not which gives you more chances of winning with Contract.

Good luck with your deck.

seshiro_of_the_orochi on Saskia's Mosh Pit

2 years ago

I've been looking for a way to build Saskia, and I really like what you did here. Might I suggest Zagras, Thief of Heartbeats to go with Archetype of Courage? As you're already running Stuffy Doll, how about Brash Taunter? It's even removal with Zagras.

NiTRoBoX on The Vampire Bloodlines

2 years ago

Woh quite a lot of new vampires, sadly many are with the Blood Token mechanics, and as I don't want to change my deck too much there aren't really much of a point to include them, but I did found place for 4 new vampires:
+1 Edgar, Charmed Groom  ^Flip
+1 Henrika Domnathi  ^Flip
+1 Olivia, Crimson Bride
+1 Welcoming Vampire
-1 Vampire Nighthawk
-1 Bloodlord of Vaasgoth
-1 Necropolis Regent
-1 Zagras, Thief of Heartbeats
Comments\suggestions are always welcomed, trying to update this deck from time to time along my other decks.

seshiro_of_the_orochi on Karazikar Discussion

3 years ago

On a sidenote, I imagine we'll get a un-blue (WBRG) commander somewhere in the future to combine all these forced combat monstrosities.

Also: The Oaths are a cycle? Didn't know that.

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Regarding Karazikar, Bloodthirsty Blade is awesome, obviously. When building Thantis, I started with some combat tricks that either grant deathtouch or turn the attacker into a glass cannon (Auger Spree) to make multi-kills in every combat more frequent. Trumpet Blast maybe? Zagras, Thief of Heartbeats is great in attacky decks, and I imagine that Karazikar will include some party-relevant types by default without even trying. You could play into granting creatures to opponents, but that might lead too far. Disrupt Decorum is obvious, and I really like the new Hellish Rebuke.

seshiro_of_the_orochi on

3 years ago

Looks great! Kardur, Doomscourge should be in here in think. His goading isn't keyworded, but effectively he still is Disrupt Decorum with upside.

Next thing, as you're already included Brash Taunter and Stuffy Doll, how about Blazing Sunsteel for the infinite combo?

Finally, you mentioned that you don't want to be attacked to often. How about Zagras, Thief of Heartbeats to mitigate that?