Heartless Hidetsugu Hates edH (EDH)
Commander / EDH
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To anyone still interested in HHHeH in 2024: —June 4, 2024
If anyone is still reading this in 2024, after a very long time piloting this deck, I have to say War Elemental and Knollspine Dragon have been INCREDIBLY underwhelming. They look slick and cool in theory but in practice they clog up your hand "waiting for the right moment". I think EVERY TIME I had them I wished it would rather be a land or mana rock or SOMETHING else. And even IF they are "ready to go", Hidetsugu is usually ready to end the game anyway.
You know who is a goofball wildcard pick? Vulshok Refugee. You throw him against similar red decks that try to burn the table and they just CANNOT get rid of him. Even against multicolor generals with red in the casting cost. I'm not gonna call him "super secret tech" or anything of that sort, but he REALLY comes in clutch at the most bizarre times.
Ashling the Pilgrim has also been a standout super-star in the deck. Keep pumping her up to threaten the board with a giant bomb going off. Or drop a Furnace of Rath or other damage doubler then set her off.
Lastly, I am re-evaluating a lot of the burn spell choices. It's not that they are bad, but 95% of the time I don't use them unless it's knocking off a creature or dropping someone to a even life total. What I'm saying is there's easier ways to do that. Much like I stated at the beginning of this, they just clog up my hand.
There is that meteor card from Ixalan that says destroy target land then deal 20 to each player and each creature. Can't for the life of me remember what it's called but its meaner version of inferno
November 29, 2017 3 a.m.
MrLinuxFish says... #4
The card you're looking for Bean18 is Star of Extinction
December 1, 2017 10:40 p.m.
Angry_Graybeard says... #5
Star of Extinction does sound super awesome with Furnace of Rath or something out and I do like the targeted land destruction. I'm not gonna write off Inferno yet because it's still my jam 20-something years later. I have killed people with it before.
I'll make space for it.
January 14, 2018 8:48 p.m.
Angry_Graybeard says... #7
@kdmurphy001
Terrible ironically.
I had him in the deck for probably...5, 6 years now? I cast him maybe twice in all that time and drew something like 8 cards because I never had out Hidetsugu. If I did have out Hidetsugu, I was probably close to ending the game in some way anyway.
War Elemental has kinda been the same way. It sounds good on paper, but in practice they KINDA don't pull their weight. I am considering cutting the dragon for Star of Extinction. Also, I understand there are other cards kinda "just for fun" that COULD be cut but I rather like them and wish to keep them in.
I think the problem was there aren't enough "do damage from the battlefield" cards in the deck, since most of the direct damage is from Sorceries so I would never have enough mana to do damage then cast the dragon. YOU WOULD THINK with someone like Hidetsugu you "draw deck and win" and don't need said cards, but no. It just never worked that way.
January 17, 2018 7:51 p.m.
randog2009 says... #8
Mindmoil might help you assemble the pieces as well.
February 8, 2018 12:48 a.m.
Have you considered Treasonous Ogre? I've found that resolving him can sometimes just win you the game.
July 18, 2018 8:22 a.m.
cobaltSniper says... #10
Stuffy Doll might be good, either as an upgrade to Darksteel Myr or a cheaper alternative to Darksteel Sentinel .
thatrhetoricguy says... #1
Stuffy Doll
August 9, 2017 9:34 p.m.