[SCD] Chulane, Teller of Combos (Let's Brew!)
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2019 8:06 pm
Chulane, Teller of Tales is our newest legend, previewed as a Brawl addition to standard. For commander, however, he is interesting.
- He generates tons of #value off of every creature cast. He's basically Glimpse of Nature on a stick/Beast Whisperer on a Commander, which can have a lot of power for an Elfball-style build. Suddenly you can slam a horde of one-drops and potentially just go off! Every mana dork is now a cantrip!
- He also lets you play a grotesque number of lands. That's a huge deal because it makes him a very powerful way to trigger landfall over, and over, and over, possibly generating tons of tokens off of Emeria Angel and Rampaging Baloths or tons of value alongside Retreat to Coralhelm or tons of life off of Courser of Kruphix or tons of mana off of Lotus Cobra.
- He's a natural leader for any deck hoping to use Portal of Sanctuary, Crystal Shard, and other such effects to rebuy powerful EtB triggers. He can bounce dudes himself (handy with vigilance, especially!), but loading up on cheaper ways to do that and then good EtB creatures like Coiling Oracle and Eternal Witness and Wood Elves and Reclamation Sage and etc ad nauseum seems stronk.
- It's also possible to go infinite with him in many ways. If you have a creature that recurs itself like Whitemane Lion, Shrieking Drake, Kor Skyfisher, Fleetfoot Panther,or Stonecloaker, you have a nice little engine - sort of like Explore with buyback for a very low cost, and mostly at instant speed. Shrieking Drake is actually "infinite if lucky" because the lands you play EtB untapped, which means as long as you keep hitting lands you can draw your entire library! But there's lots of ways to hedge that bet - you could get extra mana out of those lands thanks to Lotus Cobra, Mirari's Wake, Dictate of Karametra, Mana Reflection, and other such effects! Or you could lower your chances of "whiffing" with cards like Path of Discovery, Season of Growth, Cream of the Crop, Beast Whisperer, or Karametra, God of Harvests to see more cards or grab more lands. This can make your win with Drake more reliable, or allow you to more easily use one of the other mentioned creatures instead for redundancy.
- And of course, some "usual suspects" like Earthcraft, Aluren, and Cloudstone Curio + 0-cost creatures are bah-roken with him.
How do you plan to build with Chulane?
- He generates tons of #value off of every creature cast. He's basically Glimpse of Nature on a stick/Beast Whisperer on a Commander, which can have a lot of power for an Elfball-style build. Suddenly you can slam a horde of one-drops and potentially just go off! Every mana dork is now a cantrip!
- He also lets you play a grotesque number of lands. That's a huge deal because it makes him a very powerful way to trigger landfall over, and over, and over, possibly generating tons of tokens off of Emeria Angel and Rampaging Baloths or tons of value alongside Retreat to Coralhelm or tons of life off of Courser of Kruphix or tons of mana off of Lotus Cobra.
- He's a natural leader for any deck hoping to use Portal of Sanctuary, Crystal Shard, and other such effects to rebuy powerful EtB triggers. He can bounce dudes himself (handy with vigilance, especially!), but loading up on cheaper ways to do that and then good EtB creatures like Coiling Oracle and Eternal Witness and Wood Elves and Reclamation Sage and etc ad nauseum seems stronk.
- It's also possible to go infinite with him in many ways. If you have a creature that recurs itself like Whitemane Lion, Shrieking Drake, Kor Skyfisher, Fleetfoot Panther,or Stonecloaker, you have a nice little engine - sort of like Explore with buyback for a very low cost, and mostly at instant speed. Shrieking Drake is actually "infinite if lucky" because the lands you play EtB untapped, which means as long as you keep hitting lands you can draw your entire library! But there's lots of ways to hedge that bet - you could get extra mana out of those lands thanks to Lotus Cobra, Mirari's Wake, Dictate of Karametra, Mana Reflection, and other such effects! Or you could lower your chances of "whiffing" with cards like Path of Discovery, Season of Growth, Cream of the Crop, Beast Whisperer, or Karametra, God of Harvests to see more cards or grab more lands. This can make your win with Drake more reliable, or allow you to more easily use one of the other mentioned creatures instead for redundancy.
- And of course, some "usual suspects" like Earthcraft, Aluren, and Cloudstone Curio + 0-cost creatures are bah-roken with him.
How do you plan to build with Chulane?