Swords in EDH?
Commander (EDH) forum
Posted on April 29, 2014, 9:26 a.m. by pauljames61491
I'm curious how people feel about the Protection Swords Sword of Fire and Ice Sword of Light and Shadow Sword of Feast and Famine Sword of Body and Mind Sword of War and Peace . In a Voltron Deck, I know they're pretty much an auto-include. But outside of that, what are people's opinions?
Ohthenoises says... #3
Some of them have meh abilities in EDH and for some decks Sword of Body and Mind can actually help your opponents. However, I believe that the protection from colors is probably the most useful thing out there.
I run all 5 in my Derevi Voltron: I Vant, my burd....
April 29, 2014 9:43 a.m.
Sword of Body and Mind is really the only "meh" sword, which is reflected by it being the cheapest of them all. If you're playing The Mimeoplasm , though, it could still be useful.
April 29, 2014 9:56 a.m.
Sword of Feast and Famine is the most useful in terms of relevance in EDH. They can all see some kind of play, but really, if it isn't Voltron, most decks will only run 1 or 2 of them.
April 29, 2014 10:04 a.m.
pauljames61491 says... #6
I personally want to run Sword of War and Peace Sword of Light and Shadow and Sword of Feast and Famine in mine, but the other two seem kinda meh. But that's just my opinion.
April 29, 2014 10:10 a.m.
Ohthenoises says... #7
pauljames61491 The card draw from Sword of Fire and Ice is astounding.
April 29, 2014 10:47 a.m.
In 1-v-1 none of them are bad, although I would call them sideboard material more than mainboard.
The way I play EDH is 1/3rd deck building and player skills and 2/3rds talking people out of killing me until it's too late to stop me. This was one of the major reason I didn't put Curiosity in my Niv-Mizzet deck: it made it a lot easier to talk them down when they weren't worried about me comboing them to death. Meanwhile, I amass a 20 card hand and drop my Hypersonic Dragon when I'm ready to take over the world.
Sword of Fire and Ice worked quite well for it because I could sneak another card in on occasion, although if I had owned it, Sword of War and Peace would have been in the sideboard.
April 29, 2014 12:11 p.m.
I use all 5 in my Eight-and-a-Half-Tails Voltron deck. Some are much more useful than others. If I had to rank them...
- Sword of Feast and Famine - I love untapping my lands so I can play more equipment, board wipe, play useful creatures, and anything else I need to do.
- Sword of Fire and Ice - Card draw is great. Fire&Ice and Feast&Famine come close to sharing the number 1 spot.
- Sword of Light and Shadow - Pro-white to 8.5 Tails. Get a creature from my GY to my hand and 3 life. It's the graveyard interaction that I enjoy. Get back your Stoneforge Mystic or some other useful creature that got killed. This or Feast&Famine is usually the first thing I tutor depending on what I'm going against.
- Sword of Body and Mind - Mill and a wolf. Nothing really flashy, but probably the most underpowered of the swords. I think the pro-green and pro-blue go unnoticed a lot. I have milled people out before since double strike doubles all of the sword procs, puts em on a 3 or 4 turn clock. WHACK! WHACK! 20 cards, gone.
- Sword of War and Peace - Pro-white for 8.5 Tails. Since white lacks a bit in card draw (other than artifacts) the life gain is usually low. It depends who you swing against where the big damage comes in. If you swing at the player who has a large hand, chances are they'll respond and make sure they don't get killed.
gufymike says... #2
they are playable, depending on your meta and how their abilities help the deck, should define which ones you use more often than not.
April 29, 2014 9:41 a.m.