Sacrificing creatures for value is a time-honored tradition hailing back to the very first days of Magic as a core tenet of black’s desperate bids for power, regardless of the rites and costs associated. Read more Collecting 00 The 38 Best Blue Board Wipes in Magic Ranked ...
The set of four Warhammer 40k Commander decks is not colour balanced. It seems the 41st millennium has lots of Blue and Black, but not much White or Green mana to speak of – fitting for a far future where humans and aliens alike have ruined the galaxy with endless war. Wizards sold t...
Image via WotC The one bonus Viven Reid has as a Planeswalker card is her ultimate. Once the Emblem is created, it’s essentially game over unless your opponent wipes the board. Hitting the ultimate takes at least three turns, which in Standard is sadly three turns too late, considering Vi...
and gives you a black mana when you tap it. The real kicker is you can tap this card for its mana then use it to pay for the channel ability to return of your creatures, or even better, a planeswalker back to your hand.
In most decks, Daybreak Charger will do more than this at common. If you’re in black/white reanimate, this can give you some sweet value by killing their blocker and getting your reanimate target in the bin. Otherwise, it’s a pretty mediocre 3/1 that can use excess lands to save ...
But given the limited ways to save the board, Supreme Verdict stands apart from other board wipes. 3 Cyclonic Rift Technically more of a tempo spell than a removal spell, Cyclonic Rift still gets your opponent’s creatures (along with everything else) off the board for a turn or two....
t bring this in vs Bant and the answer is simple. They have too many ways to deal with it, FromGlass Casket,Devout Decree,Teferi, Time Raveler,Elspeth Conquers Deathto straight upShatterthe Sky. You never want to bring it in against any deck that has access to White or Black, ...
an advocate of condition mattering. Your goal isn’t to flip them to a dealer or store or anything. Your goal is to play with them. Sure, let them be a little messy, nobody is going to care if its a shuffle creased Ugin or a $110 Ugin’s Fate Ugin that wipes their board. ...
Even if the other player board wipes you completely, you can come back. As long as you have 6 lands, or can drop aSkirk Prospectorand some weak creatures, you can come back. OneMuxus, Goblin Grandeeis all it takes. Even if you have 0 creatures in play other than Muxus, that can ...
See, in the mono-black and B/W warrior builds they’ve usually run out of removal by the time you’re this far up the curve, and if your aggro deck gets hit with a sweeper, that’s just something you live with. The rest of the time, this guy starts doing a Gray Merchant of ...