What is Inverter of Truth good for?
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Posted on July 23, 2016, 4:10 p.m. by capriom85
How can I play Inverter of Truth? I am brewing mono black Eldrazi and want to use it....but...
It works great with Laboratory Maniac, but that's not Standard.
July 23, 2016 4:15 p.m.
in standard its bad but else it can be used for shenanigans
July 23, 2016 4:25 p.m.
Icedragon100 says... #6
Use it against people who mill. Just keep it in sideboard. Or it plus eldrazi mimic is pretty op
July 23, 2016 5:42 p.m.
actually I played this guy in a BR vampire madness build. I only had one, but really wished I had 2-3 maindeck once I saw how powerful he was in that build. you basically madness cast a bunch of spells like fiery temper, avacyn's judgement, alms of the vein, and the like, full your yard with madness spells, then cast inverter once you have a healthy amount in there. then you spend the rest of the game recasting your 'burn' spells and whatever creatures they killed (not exiled) and your madness enabler cards. your graveyard fills really quickly in a build like that, so you can cast the inverter pretty early in the game, like turn 4-6 without it really hurting you
July 25, 2016 11:19 p.m.
From an aggro point of view, you can make a decent use of him in a mono-black / golgari deck. There are really good creatures that have bigger power than their casting cost right now:
Inverter of Truth: 6/6 flying for 4cmc
Heir of Falkenrath Flip: 3/2 flying for 2cmc
Mindwrack Demon: 4/5 flying for 4cmc
Grim Flayer: 4/4 trample for 2cmc
Pale Rider of Trostad: 3/3 evasive for 2cmc
Erebos's Titan: 5/5 for 4cmc
Pitiless Horde: 5/3 for 3cmc
Smothering Abomination: 4/3 flying for 4cmc
Thing is: Is their drawbacks really a problem? Say we play with Duress and Transgress the Mind: we take out their removal spells. Do we really need to worry when we can have such big creatures deployed, threatening opp to kill him by turn 4 or 5? They're actually kinda big just like if they were Green-coloured. And most of them have evasive abilities...
MollyMab says... #2
The same thing as war.
July 23, 2016 4:11 p.m.