Rumpy5897 wrote: ↑4 years ago
Huh, when I looked at Kadena my reaction was "damn, they're really trying to push this morph thing" rather than "damn, this is a worse morph commander than Ezuri"
somehow the combination of cost reduction and card advantage speaks to me more than piling on +1/+1 counters.
Pardon the aggressively cliche suggestion, but
Seedborn Muse?
I was thinking of Seedborn myself.
Adding Black doesn't really add any wincons; if you notice, most of my 5+ CMCs have stayed the same. Unless I go with an obviously good end game card, such as an
Exsanguinate, Black Morphs don't bring much to the table. And said Exsanguinate has nothing to do with the Morph theme.
Black gave me two more kill dudes, a
Bane of the Living Wrath, a little bit of protection with
Gift of Doom and more swarmy bodies with
Thieving Amalgam. I've made my mana base worse, as three colour is harder to support than two, and I'm not sure if I got enough oomph to win the game. 'Pushed' Morphs are still 2/2s and if your deck folds to 2/2s, you deserve to lose, but then again, this is in my 'Tier 4' which is what I play against newbies. So, we'll see if they deserve to lose.
Ezuri brings a lot of wincons to the table. With the loss of the +1/+1 theme, Prolifterate was cut which also eliminates
Simic Ascendancy,
Sage of Hours and
Viral Drake. That's three alternative wincons that left the deck without the addition of more ways to win, aside from turning sideways with
Gray Ogres. Y'know, plus putting a bunch of +1/+1 counters on Creatures that my opponent has no idea what's underneath; I have won without unmorphing except as an answer due to my guys all being 5/5+.
Hence the addition of Flash; that way in theory I should be able to keep playing Morphs each turn for free to draw a card. Still, I don't think the value is strong enough to cause a win. This isn't
Emeria, the Sky Ruin,
Astral Slide or
Sheoldred, Whispering One levels of value. Traditional methods of cheating aren't going to work, as I also want my Creatures to come into play face down. The good news is that I'm going to have to get
real creative to make this good, which is what I find to be the best part of Commander.