[mtgnexus] Random Card of the Day - Consecrated Sphinx

[TheGildedGoose]

The only Naya commander besides Hazezon, Shaper of Sand I've considered if only for being able to call the deck Rocco's Modern Life.

[Lifeless]

There was a time when I would have picked this guy up immediately and made a decisively un-fun deck that lasted all of 2 weeks. I guess I'm getting old because I just don't have the Naya bloodlust I once had.

[ISBPathfinder]

I really wanted to do a Norin the Wary deck on Rocco because the commander could assemble the pieces and it gave the right colors to have good support for him. I never got around to doing it but I think its still totally viable.

[duducrash]

I really wanted to do a Norin the Wary deck on Rocco because the commander could assemble the pieces and it gave the right colors to have good support for him. I never got around to doing it but I think its still totally viable.

Every time I've seen him in the wild it was actually "X in disguise". Zada, Hedron Grinder , Norin the Wary and Mavinda, Students' Advocate weirdly enough all 3 by the same person

[Dunadain]

I think "honorary commander" is really the best way to build him. I liked the idea of bouncing + recasting him to get a tutor every turn, but 3 mana, plus whatever it took to bounce Rocco, is a lot, and doing it every turn means you fall further and further behind on mana advantage every turn.

That said, their are a lot of cool "honorary commander"s so I'm fine with it.

[PrimevalCommander]

Speaking of honorary commanders, Rocco helps facilitate my enchantment commander Wild Pair deck. Link in sig.
I have tried Scion of the Ur-Dragon twice, but tutor in command zones just lead to repetitive gameplay. Rocco being only present to help dig for Wild Pair means he's usually only cast once per game. After commander tax, paying 5 extra for a creature is just so slow unless your desperate.

[3drinks]

Friday, February 2nd, 2024; Vraska, Betrayal's Sting

[Dunadain]

I love the design here, but I haven't played with or against it yet.

[duducrash]

I think "honorary commander" is really the best way to build him. I

I kinda want to build Monastery Mentor as a "commander"

[yeti1069]

I really dislike planeswalkers in general, and having a PW that grants loyalty to all other PWs (in addition to card advantage and other proliferate benefits) strikes me as being really dumb.

[Guardman]

Thursday, February 1st, 2024; Rocco, Cabaretti Caterer

He is one of those commanders I hate to see just because most I see don't have him to grab an "honorary" commander, but to grab combo pieces.

I will say that I have wanted to build him to make a Tallowisp deck, since that is my favorite card in all of magic.

Friday, February 2nd, 2024; Vraska, Betrayal's Sting

Vraska is a great planeswalker and one of the few that feels more like a commander planeswalker than a constructed one. I've also seen her show up in a variety of decks, from poison, to planeswalkers, to +1/+1 counter decks. Add in her general flexibility and she is one I am glad I have a copy of burning a hole in my collection as I have the feeling I am going to build a deck that really wants her sooner or later.

[3drinks]

Saturday, February 3rd, 2024; Ninja of the Deep Hours|tsr

[Dunadain]

I love ninjas, and this might be my favorite ninja, two thumbs up.

[Mookie]

I'm not sure if I would run Ninja of the Deep Hours in EDH outside a dedicated ninja deck - Thief of Sanity and other creatures that naturally have evasion are generally more consistent. It is a fun card though, and I've enjoyed playing with it in cube. It's not as splashy as Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow or Fallen Shinobi, but it's cheap to play - T1 evasive creature into T2 Ninja of the Deep Hours is a very strong start.

[Lifeless]

I'm a Yuriko guy so I'm a Deep Hours guy, but beyond that I'm very fond of him from budget decks back when he was first printed. A+ in my book, although limited usefulness in EDH

[yeti1069]

For a long time, nothing made me as happy in Magic as t1 Ornithopter, t2 NotDH.

Still very solid in Yuriko, even in cEDH.

[3drinks]

Sunday, February 4th, 2024; Shadow of the Enemy

[Toshi]

I have one of these sitting in my binder for Gonti, Lord of Luxury and i am yet to decide whether to go for it.
While it would be super fitting, it's just so much mana up front, less reliable and bonkers than Sepulchral Primordial is...
But i'm pretty sure this is super cool in tame creature-heavy metas and best combined with mass mill.

[Dunadain]

Thematically, it's pretty cool, but it's hot garbage, maybe it plays better than it reads though.

Would it have killed them to at least make it any number of player's graveyards? It's a six Mana, triple black, sorcery.

[Lifeless]

If this cost 4 and hit all opponents we might be talking but as is it's virtually unplayable.

[Mookie]

I was excited by Shadow of the Enemy when I first read it and thought it was an upgraded Hedonist's Trove. Unfortunately, the fact that it only hits creature cards limits it significantly. It seems alright if you're a mill deck or you have theft synergies like Brainstealer Dragon / Tasha, the Witch Queen, but I wouldn't be that excited by it otherwise.

[3drinks]

Monday, February 5th, 2024; Saheeli, Filigree Master

Pretty reasonable, I think. Emblem reached in one turn and is quite strong, as you expect from permanent cost reduction. Still a mythic that's under a buck.

[Dunadain]

Pretty text-book planeswalker, +1 for value -2 for protection, ult doesn't end the game, but it's much easier to achieve, so that's interesting.

[Sinis]

I've never seen this particular Saheeli, and she doesn't really do much for me. The ult is easily reachable, but doesn't seem particularly good. The +1 isn't especially exploitable and isn't too exciting for cost, and the -2 is pretty meh.

None of it is what I would call 'bad'; I think more than anything, the ceiling on these abilities are low and it just feels unremarkable/uninteresting (to me, of course, YMMV). There's nothing to really make me want to give it a card slot over some version of Tezzeret, or even other Saheelis.

[duducrash]

I'm trying to play her in T2 right now. with Third Path Iconoclast

I'm not having much success