Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Ruin of Seffala – Misc. Themes

Here are a few cards of each color that fill out some of the themes or subthemes of each.

Spot Plague, Rotting Wendigo, Heaving Slug
Some day I want to make a Wendigo-themed deck.
A few more -1/-1 counter synergy cards. Rotting Wendigo doesn't have any way of putting a -1/-1 counter on it by itself, but you can do it yourself with something like Spot Plague, or Giera from earlier. I bet Heaving Slug needs rewording, since you don't attack creatures, but you know what I mean.

Ferocious Dimmer, Dimmer Warchief, Unbound Brighter, Fleet Dimmer

A few more Djinni in Red. I like the mechanic of Ferocious Dimmer, being that you can either over pay for the effect, or you can tap the creature for the effect. This allows you to squeeze out one last activation, or choose to use the ability on itself and not have to tap the card before attacks. Unbound Brighter is a fun modal ETB effect, because it lets your opponent choose, but likely all of the options hurt no matter what the state of the game is.

Trash Herbalist, Restore Faith, Mated Unicorns
Also, I'd like a Unicorn/Pegasus theme sometime.
A few more lifegain cards for White. White doesn't often get discard abilities, so Trash Herbalist is a way to turn junk cards like extra lands into life. For Mated Unicorns, I expect there has to be a better way to word that.

Warding Witch, Smokebomb Herbalist, Volanti Assistant, Whisking Witch
If I had to do it all over, I'd skip Shamans and make 'Witch' be the subtype.
Extra miscellaneous Shaman in Blue. Not much to say about these, apart from Smokebomb Herbalist is a heck of a cheap counterspell.

Ripen, Tend the Garden, Slug Shepherd
Ok, this one is hardly a proper theme...
Green gets a bit of card advantage with these cards. Ripen, as a sorcery, means you likely would use this in a lifegain deck and will never use the first mode. I suppose I should make it Instant or reqord it. Tend the Garden is useful card selection, and all you have to do is what Green always wants to do: have a creature around. This is especially easy with all the Moss Wall tokens around.

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