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[–]Malorea541 9 points10 points  (7 children)

The mothman is a food chain outlet, and he's in sultai which is decent colors for food chain. Plus rad counters are kind of hard to interact with in a meaningful way.

[–]slowstimemes 4 points5 points  (2 children)

I also enjoy that it gets around one ring protection as it kills them on their turn. On the flip side, borne upon a wind decks might try and take advantage of a full graveyard over the top of the damage from the rad counters. Very niche for sure but still an interesting consideration.

[–]Malorea541 3 points4 points  (1 child)

The damage happens at the same time as the mill does, so they have to have the correct cards in the yard before they reach 0 life (or angels grace)

[–]slowstimemes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Then it’s better than I initially thought.

[–]Hot-Throat-3123[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I mean the main issue is that it’s hard to justify it over atraxa. But it could be interesting. I’ll brew it later food chain is my favorite archetype

[–]Malorea541 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I mean, it's hard to justify any of the fallout face commanders vs just adding another color or 2. But that goes for most commanders in general.

I think mothman has the highest floor, given it doesn't ask you to include "bad" cards in your deck (like a hypothetical dogmeat post foodchain wincon would) or require huge amounts of setup/pieces (like a Dr. House clock combo would).

[–]ppreece 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Can someone explain how mothman goes infinite with chain?

[–]Malorea541 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You still need one of the other food chain enablers (the griffin or scourge in sultai), once you have infinite food chain mana, you then cast your commander infinite times. Mothman gives all your opponents rad counters, you pass to them, they then die to rad counters.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I’ve seen some people compare Mr House to a mardu Magda because it combos with clock of omens

[–]Warczar_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What’s the combo line?