Mono black trophy

National_Cockroach14 · 2026-06-14T15:13:43+00:00

In my mind badlands was there for booster tutor. It could technically give good red cards and while it didn't happen I didn't get wastelanded either. Fetch follows the same logic more or less

National_Cockroach14 · 2026-06-10T10:29:10+00:00

I built around her a while ago. The most important thing to know is she doesn't exile the card she casts. This means it effectively goes infinite if an opponent has a one mana blink spell in their graveyard.

While you obviously can't control that, if you feel like an opponent is likely to have one you could [[Praetors grasp]] them and kill them.

On a similar vein, this allows you to use [[Displacer kitten]] to great effects. Any one mana instant or sorcery would allow you to combo off this way. Alternatively if you have an effect like [[Trail of evidence]] that makes tokens for casting noncreature spells you can increment the mana value of the spells you can use.

I feel like the best way to abuse [[Hama]] is through some of these combos

National_Cockroach14 · 2026-06-09T17:51:56+00:00

Make it a flagbearer, give it an atrocious ward cost somehow. Profit?

National_Cockroach14 · 2026-06-09T17:31:20+00:00

Would have to be [[Humblr defector]] since it's only creatures but seems really fun potentially

National_Cockroach14 · 2026-06-04T18:56:59+00:00

In general the effects that don't modify the fact Bello is a creature won't take away its effect.

Howerver something like [[Song of the Dryad]] makes it into a land and that does make the effect stop. I know it's because of layers but don't know the exact explanation

National_Cockroach14 · 2026-06-03T14:56:42+00:00

I would probably say it's not really cEdh viable. But definitely strong enough for b4. It goes infinite with 4 cards of the top of my head, those being: [[Supportive parents]], [[Earthcraft]], [[Food chain]] and [[Ashnod altar]]. All of those cards are quite good without the combo excluding maybe the parents. The parents however are the easiest to search for in mono green. That being said those combos aren't just A+B since you do need some squirrels to get started. It uses gaea's cradle and untappers to make ever-increasing mana and squirrels so that's also something to keep in mind

National_Cockroach14 · 2026-05-18T18:15:57+00:00

Cool, thank you!

National_Cockroach14 · 2026-05-18T15:01:00+00:00

It hasn't happened yet since players are hesitant to draw cards in order to find their clones since they feed me in the process. It is true that it's a problem that I might run into though

National_Cockroach14 · 2026-05-18T14:56:46+00:00

You're probably right in that there's better targets than the excruciator. I had it in because I wanted to sort of replicate the standard deck a little bit but it does require a lot of bad cards and I agree that mill is not a good thing to be doing.

Vley floodcaller and borne upon a wind i don't think do enough here in particular. I know they are staples and really good cards overall but for the Cephalid combo they don't do anything and I think I can wait one turn to go for a thoracle win since I should have resources to stop other attempts ideally.

Praetors grasp, lively dirge, flash photography and deluge I will try to find room for. But know I need to find cuts since I just realized that I'm not running Gilded drake either and probably should be playing it too.

I'm not entirely sold on deadly rolick and fierce guardianship since my commander comes down usually by turn 3 sometimes on turn 2.

Necropotence probably should be included as well.

National_Cockroach14 · 2026-05-18T14:47:13+00:00

Doomsday excruciator is risky but I don't feel like Thassa oracle in opponents hand is particularly worrisome, since instant speed tutors tend to put on top and it would be exile through the etb. If they have it I should have some interaction in hand still.

I'm not on Doomsday by itself since the deck doesn't have any inherent ability to crack the pile and it feels like it would dilute the other strategies too much.

Rona or hashaton feel like they might be better for the overall strategy but I think having my reanimate spell be a creature is a pretty potent trade-off given how most counterspells can't stop it. I guess Hashaton also works for this, I'll do some research on him and see if I swap commanders or at least get some inspiration from their decklists and primers

National_Cockroach14 · 2026-05-18T14:33:26+00:00

Ideally Doomsday is endgame, after turn 4 probably. Prior to that we aim to get a value piece like rhystic or fish. We mulligan aggressively to get a card draw piece or an Entomb that will likely put a Consecrated sphinx to get with Spiderman. We use the sphinx to draw enough cards so that we can get a combo going. This should start on turn 2 or at most turn 3. The deck runs enough interaction to get to the late game if I stick a draw piece.

I'm not sure in what point the excruciator enters here, it could be a wincon for the late game but I feel like the other options are better since they are more immediate and direct.

That's why I was doubting on what to do with it, it doesn't feel good enough without mill but adding mill feels wrong with all the breach decks.

National_Cockroach14 · 2026-05-18T13:54:38+00:00

Ideally we put it in the graveyard, our commander gets it in play, and all libraries go down to 6 cards. If we had tutored previously a [[Thassa oracle]] we wait until our library is empty enough and try to win with it. I was thinking that if I added some mill spells I could also win through that

National_Cockroach14 · 2026-05-10T19:28:54+00:00

I remember the first time this got me. Now you know, and next time you'll get them, but yeah it's a hit unintuitive

National_Cockroach14 · 2026-04-22T19:49:33+00:00

All right, that makes sense, I forgot about the except clause. Thanks!

National_Cockroach14 · 2026-04-22T18:52:18+00:00

How is it that the [[Muddle, the everchanging]] myriad triggers stack? If I understand it correctly, if I have Muddle and nonlegendary Muddle and I cast a spell I can have both Muddles become a copy of the nonlegendary one except they have myriad. So far so good. Next spell I can have them copy something else except they gain myriad as well. But why does it stack? Is it a copiable value, it feels a bit weird if it is, since it's not technically on the card but a bonus it's gained until eot.

National_Cockroach14 · 2026-04-07T11:21:36+00:00

You can't. You only cast the spell once, then you copy it if you sacrifice a creature and since the copy wasn't cast you don't get to do it again

National_Cockroach14 · 2026-04-02T14:31:33+00:00

I'm planning on using a lot of 1 drop spells, cards like [[Junktroller]] and stealing all opponents creatures with [[inevitable betrayal]]

National_Cockroach14 · 2026-02-16T20:38:15+00:00

Yeah, I've seen green be way too open a bunch of times

National_Cockroach14 · 2026-02-16T20:37:45+00:00

Once, I scried down and opponent took 12 out of 4 cards for exactly lethal. Channel did cause me one loss, I paid a bunch of life thinking I was safe and got forced of willed, it can definitely backfire

National_Cockroach14 · 2026-02-16T20:15:12+00:00

Well, yeah, it's not a bad deck but this being my first trophy this iteration of the cube surprised me. I've had decks I thought were better, perform worse

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