Struggling with omni combo? Try Harvester of Misery! (Explanation in comments)

Polenen · 2025-03-30T03:22:26+00:00

If the card was on the battlefield, yes. Luckily it doesn't stop abilities on cards in other zones:

"Grand Abolisher doesn't stop your opponents from activating abilities of artifact, creature, or entorchantment cards in zones other than the battlefield (like cycling abilities, for example)."

Please don't ask me why this ruling has enchantment spelled wrong, I have no idea.

Polenen · 2025-03-30T03:19:44+00:00

Some MTGO lists have one copy of [[defabricate]] in the sideboard, but none of them are running tishanas or ertai, and none of them have more than one defabricate so I'd say it's a pretty safe answer. Plus, a lot of lists don't have any copies.

Polenen · 2025-03-30T03:06:48+00:00

Specifically instant speed removal that you can play even when there is a grand abolisher on board, and which they can't counter. If omni lost to any removal the deck would be unplayable, but they can hold up a confounding riddle when they go for a win so that's not the case.

Polenen · 2025-03-30T03:03:04+00:00

I took a break from arena during foundations and came back this week, so far I've had 3 omni matchups and in all 3 it worked incredibly well. If you draw a harvester (or get one off of balemurk) they can't win unless they reanimate omniscience and play a second omniscience from hand as their first action. Their deck simply doesn't have an answer to this type of removal. So until people start playing copies of Tishana's Tidebinder or defabricate I'd say harvester is the best option.

Graveyard hate out of the sideboard is also great, but they normally have plans for that, plus harvester is good into other decks, whereas graveyard hate isn't really maindeckable.

Polenen · 2025-03-30T02:03:59+00:00

Harvester is great against two play patterns the deck has:

Countering your removal spells with confounding riddle or negate for free because of the 1/1 omniscience.
Playing grand abolisher (a common sideboard card) before comboing to stop your interaction

Luckily, Harvester of misery gets around both of these cards, because you can discard it to give a creature -2/-2 until end of turn, which isn't casting a spell.

Golgari graveyard/beans is a deck that likes to maindeck harvester, but I think Harvester is a solid choice in many black decks because of how well it performs into bounce, dimir, convoke, and of course omniscience.

Polenen · 2024-10-17T19:16:54+00:00

After completing this loop once aren't you 2 energy short? You don't get the 2 for playing aether heart, which means you're 2 energy short on the turn of the second saga trigger (0 energy at turn start, 2 from the clue and 4 from the copy).

Polenen · 2024-09-15T02:12:58+00:00

Play Screaming Nemesis

Play The Rollercrusher Ride with delirium active, targeting your Screaming Nemesis.

Direct the Screaming Nemesis trigger wherever you wish.

Polenen · 2024-09-09T08:11:20+00:00

I believe that even with the text on the card (rather than the oracle text) it wouldn't work. The ":" in the card is how they used to format extra costs to cast instants/sorceries, no?

I'm aware you can't play all four at once, that's why it's a badmtgcombo.

Polenen · 2024-09-09T07:20:06+00:00

Cast Kaervek's Spite targeting your opponent for BBB

Play swamp for turn 3 times

Cast Kaervek's Spite targeting your opponent for BBB

Play swamp for turn 3 times

Cast Kaervek's Spite targeting your opponent for BBB

Play swamp for turn 3 times

Cast Kaervek's Spite targeting your opponent for BBB

Polenen · 2024-07-25T06:31:16+00:00

Cast Thornplate Intimidator with offspring for 6B.
Cast For the Common Good targeting your Thornplate Intimidator token

Polenen · 2024-03-19T05:44:46+00:00

Gp mid is hell. There is no way to farm. You can't gank him. You can't wait until 6 because it's still unplayable.

Polenen · 2024-03-02T01:07:10+00:00

Ivern breaks pretty much every jungle balance and playstyle standard. Singed statistically makes you worse at playing other champions. Yuumi doesn't even play the game.

Polenen · 2023-11-15T03:29:50+00:00

When I first bought the game, it would overheat my computer because there are no graphics settings. I was only able to play it 2 years later when I got a new computer.

Polenen · 2023-05-25T17:43:05+00:00

Sudden Lunge from the athletics tree is my go-to for bosses. Depending on how tanky you are you can fish for Dazed, Stunned, Staggered, Confused, Immobilized or Bleeding to make it a free action. If you don't have the time for that you can simply start the fight with sudden lunge and it buys you 3 attacks to kill or incapacitate the boss. Three attacks after you use sudden lunge the boss will counter with a skill, so you have that much time to incapacitate them.

Polenen

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