Given that you can keep making copies of them for as many targeting creature cards as you have in graveyard it is easy to create an army of them. Torrential Gearhulk and Scholar of the Lost Trove represent potentially mid-late game finishers. Snapcaster Mage, Torrential Gearhulk, Scholar of the Lost Trove, Archaeomancer, Shipwreck Dowser. There are ways to cast or retrieve from graveyard in Solemn Simulacrum is more land ramp and of course a great creature to copy as you can get draw on death. You can keep looping value because the last instant you search for can be another targeting spell to specifically target Kaho meaning you'll get at least 2 instants for additional value each cycle. Kaho, Minamo Historian is great because it can get you instants and then when you have used all 3 you can then copy Kaho, Minamo Historian to create a new version and search for more.

However 1/1 is not an impressive stats even though you can literally put 22 of them onto the board. There are 21 instant or sorcery spells that can copy the Spellseeker so in theory you can keep looping these to make an army of them. With Spellseeker you can keep getting further cards to make copies. There are some that allow you to search your library for various cards. That way you get a permanent copy (token) in play that you can then use for further targeting. Note with Mulldrifter that you can pay the evoke cost and then while the trigger is on the stack then cast a target spell on it so that you get a copy before you sacrifice. These creatures are by far the most exponential way to take over a game by making creatures.Įnter the battlefield triggers are great for this to make sure you get value.įor card draw there is Augur of Bolas, Sea Gate Oracle, Mulldrifter. Because each time you cast a targeting spell you'll get to create another Ovar this has a cascading effect on number of Ovar you keep creating and the number of times a spell is copied. Sakashima of a Thousand Faces and Spark Double are able to copy Ovar.

Orvar, the All-Form is a cast trigger so you wouldn't be able to target the new copies yet, but it still an incredible cascading effect and because so many of your targeting spells contain draw you just get to draw heaps more cards for each Golem. You specifically copy the Precursor Golem creating 3 more Golems. Precursor Golem is like the signature card for the deck. High Tide is also a card that makes each land produce more mana so could be combined with other land targeting cards to really go off, if not infinite. Remember that Polluted Delta, Mystic Rainforest, Scalding Tarn, Flooded Strand can all get Mystic Sanctuary when you are ready for it. There are no other target land cards that only cost one mana but Twitch (untaps a land meaning virtual 2 mana) and Shimmering Mirage only cost 2 mana and therefore with Sapphire Medallion only costing u meaning that you could create infinite Mystic Sanctuary within these combination of cards. You can keep looping effects like this for as much mana as you have and remember a new land is being created each time which can be used to cast the spells. Orvar, the All-Form is a cast trigger so a token of Mystic Sanctuary is made while the Aquitect's Will is still on the stack, meaning you couldn't specifically target the Aquitect's Will.īut if you have another land targeting card (with draw) then you can put the Aquitect's Will on top and then draw it to cast again. So remember, while your commanders are a powerful part of your deck’s arsenal, if you want to win with the commander alternate victory method, you’re going to want to start attacking with your commanders (so while something like Rafiq of the Many makes a good command for this victory method, Skeleton Ship would make a poor choice).Mystic Sanctuary can be copied to put an instant or sorcery back on top of library.Īquitect's Will is a one mana card which means that you can cast it to make another Mystic Sanctuary.

So while Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind might be a powerful commander, its triggered ability is not considered combat damage, so that trigger won’t count towards that 21 points of damage.

Abilities never deal combat damage, even if you use them during combat. That means only damage assigned and dealt by an attacking commander at the beginning of the combat damage step counts. In addition to the rest of the state-based actions that we have in most Magic games, Commander has an additional one: if, over the course of the game, you have been dealt 21 or more points of combat damage from the same commander, you will lose the game. Today, we’re going to look at one of the unique rules for commander: the commander damage rule (formerly known as “General Damage” when Commander was EDH).

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