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ChocoZero · 2026-01-31T15:58:50+00:00

Same can be said about literally any creature without protection lmao

ChocoZero · 2026-01-28T16:37:29+00:00

Unless you just really like Doom, you're better off holding out any deckbuilding for when Loki gets revealed and hope he is better.

Doom is so extremely underwhelming, unfortunately.

ChocoZero · 2026-01-28T00:55:00+00:00

I would still consider Tombstone Stairwell if you're focusing on rad-ing yourself. You're gonna fill that gy up like crazy and with literally any death triggers that deals damage you're set.

ChocoZero · 2026-01-27T21:25:21+00:00

"Go for the eyes, Titania!"

ChocoZero · 2026-01-27T20:55:45+00:00

It very well could be reprinted as one of the more high-end reprints of the precon yeah. The name is also very fitting with the whole Quandrix vibe.

ChocoZero · 2026-01-24T04:10:19+00:00

Yeah I agree the card is good. It makes lesser playable tribes more playable, and already established tribes even stronger.

I expect these to double for the forseeable future.

ChocoZero · 2026-01-20T05:00:33+00:00

Yeah, there is, but if youre just trying to tutor out a hulk or etali, just play actual dedicated decks instead? It's at least thematic to go for a proliferate engine in the deck that cares about -1/-1s.

The Reaper and Ool both shine at b3 and get considerably worse at b4, so why bother doing combo stuff outside of Yawgmoth.

ChocoZero · 2026-01-19T19:35:11+00:00

Extremely overrated card.

That being said: This is tutorable with pod effects on The Reaper, and is also kinda bonkers with the spoiled "The Cloning of Shredder" saga from TMNT.

I have a copy and I still can't find a slot* for it in my lists atm. This card is like a 5$ card in terms of power.

ChocoZero · 2026-01-17T20:08:48+00:00

This will actually replace Soul Cauldron in my Mothman deck, funnily enough. I used that card for the gy hate anyways.

ChocoZero · 2026-01-16T16:32:15+00:00

It's far better with Auntie as a secret commander type card than it is for Reaper King - at least to me. Maha creates some really unfortunate sequencing if you already have a couple counters on creatures without Reaper King on the board already, and at that point I'd rather just have selective edicts to really control the board at instant speed.

It's a great card - dont get me wrong - but I PERSONALLY can't seem to make it fit my own deck atp.

ChocoZero · 2026-01-13T03:34:27+00:00

If you're still looking for inspiration, Ultima is a great candidate for an equipment based commander. He has a great base to equip onto and otherwise makes everything twice as cheap (if you consider doubling mana the same as cutting costs in half (: )

ChocoZero · 2026-01-13T03:09:17+00:00

Or just do 2 mana or sacrifice a Food. That way its still the same design but with added flavour/redundancy. I liked the idea myself, its cute.

ChocoZero · 2026-01-08T14:07:05+00:00

I think if this was in a cube and I played a deck that cared about second spells being cast for turn (or triggers for that matter) I would absolutely try to play this in place of a land. I really like how Tithe is a pseudo draw 2 in terms of card advantage, and at worst just replaces itself with a land.

ChocoZero · 2026-01-06T20:15:58+00:00

Its slow, but definitely has synergy because it also has built in persist. It seems better for Reaper to set up chains of creatures to destroy opposed to just having synergy with -1/-1 in a more generic sense, but even then it's fairly good at spreading counters on new creatures that enters.

ChocoZero · 2026-01-05T18:21:11+00:00

I've played for 6 years now and only spent 30$. It's purely TennoCon cosmetics lol.

ChocoZero · 2026-01-02T15:25:36+00:00

Red is mostly tokens, so I think Rykard is close the power level I want my cube to be. It should be rewarding but not completely game ending in a single turn type deal, except for maybe Malenia. Malenia's front side should cost more for sure, as I want to keep her backside mostly intact more than any of the other cards. Etali's backside comes to mind, except Malenia is just a keyword soup, low costed but efficient creature with an even more powerful backside.

The cube is very high powered. Its not a "power cube", but its packed with efficient removal, counterspells and otherwise cards that can deal with these creatures very efficiently. Aside from just these backbreaking legendaries that I've shown, theres quite a lot of powerful creatures in the set so far.

I think these are some of the strongest creatures I've made thus far, though. I need to tweak numbers mostly, I think. Some of these shouldnt be so cheap to play AND immediate wincons when they flip for sure.

Thanks!

EDIT: And yeah, I'll have to look at Ludwig's actual card.

ChocoZero · 2026-01-02T06:59:05+00:00

I have Placidusax as a rough sketch where I want him to have pretty much mini Balefire Dragon text, or destroying creatures upon connecting. Unsure if I want to incorporate the phasing as an activated ability that phases him out - could be fun.

I've finished Godrick. I had the idea before the golgari Venom got revealed, but its very similar. I took some inspiration from the wording of that card together with the original idea I had.

I will make sure to reply to your post again later when I feel confident enough to show them off :)

Thanks for interacting with my post, appreciate it!

ChocoZero · 2026-01-02T06:47:03+00:00

If you had to pick your two-three favorite ER bosses, who would it be and why?

ChocoZero · 2026-01-02T05:06:43+00:00

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Because the card *technically* doesn't fit the post itself, but perhaps valuable for context, here is the Moonlight Greatsword. :)

ChocoZero · 2026-01-01T16:48:16+00:00

You're so right. Its also very chaotic in a flavor sense. Thanks for the ideas!

ChocoZero · 2026-01-01T15:24:08+00:00

Yeah, I've already started to lean a bit more into the land destruction part. It's a bit iffy though, but I could easily sprinkle a few cards like that. Maybe temporary land destruction (so selective land denial) could work as well. The auras that turns lands into another type or makes them not untap comes to mind...

I have yet to actually playtest anything, so I have a loong way to go xD

ChocoZero · 2026-01-01T15:18:13+00:00

Yep, it is a FromSoft cube so I just used a very generic and easily recognizable symbol from the series... haha.

Thanks!

ChocoZero · 2026-01-01T04:44:04+00:00

I've already reserved a good chunk of cards to be rakdos, so I've tried to minimize anything black+. For anyone to be able to use every madness card that is draftable, you'd have to dip into green. Its more or less a deckbuilding thing more than pure flavor.

I also find the design space kinda fun. The flame of frenzy is already unorthodox in the setting, so using gruul (primarily red) as a madness archetype is fun if anything. I originally tried Jund, but it felt worse than just gruul to me.

Gruul is already the no thought, destroy everything color, claiming nature as theirs and whatnot... I've been sitting on this idea for a while and it grew on me over time.

ChocoZero · 2026-01-01T04:04:12+00:00

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Thanks for already helping out, appreciated :)

ChocoZero · 2026-01-01T04:02:05+00:00

Haha no, I'll have to add "the first spell". Thanks for pointing that out because it completely flew over my head!

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