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First there was a war of Planewalkers, now a war of Gods. What will cause a war next?
edit: what are the other gods doing during this war? Seems like the big 5 + Klothys

You know the lore is telling me that "intervention" cycle might be a thing but will see

Anyway I see a strictly better Withered Wretch

Boosting toughness feels more white than black. Thank gods it has that second ability, otherwise it would be an underwhelming black ox.

CommanderMaster999 wrote: ↑

4 years ago

Anyway I see a strictly better Withered Wretch

I'm not sure about that. Only needing to hold up 1 mana to represent GY hate matters and Tymaret requiring black mana is a significant downside outside of mono-B. Tymaret has definite upsides but I'm still likely to go for Wretch due to it being more efficient GY hate, at least when it comes to EDH.

Ooooh, I like it. I try to jam Withered Wretch in all of my black EDH decks, but it usually ends up getting cut - it's hard to justify running in exclusively for grave hate when you can run Bojuka Bog and Nihil Spellbomb at lower opportunity costs. Giving a bit of extra toughness and adding some incidental lifegain sounds pretty good. You do lose Zombie tribal synergies, and holding open two mana instead of one is a significant cost, but seems worth it if you're using Necropotence, Dawn of Hope, Heliod, Sun-Crowned, or any other way to benefit from lifegain.

....still outclassed by Scavenging Ooze though.

The ultimate pestilence commander has finally arrived.