Okay, so currently there is 1740 cards in mtgpq belonging to 11 different sets, and while some interactions between those are a little bit too powerful to be enjoyable (omni, huf, deploy, something as simple as draw+gem convertion etc), there is a lot of funny and witty synergies, which are hiding, waiting to be discovered by us, jank brewers.
Yesterday I had a blast playing a deck based around Belligerent Brontodon (that is how you design uncommons, boys and girls). While initially i wanted to use it along with Westvale Abbey, it turned out the Abbey was worded wrongly, and can never attack despite lacking that clause in the text. After some tweaking, I ended up with a deck, featuring Obelisk Spider, Fetid Imp and Saving Grace. Deck was not even close to tier 1, but it felt hilarious and unique.
Another funky idea is using Kaladesh Expertises (mostly blue and white ones) to cast cards with Awaken, which enter the battlefield awakened and it is a lot of fun. Especially when you use it with Valor in Akros and Anointed Procession.
So, what are your favorite uncommon and hilarious interactions? Feel free to share
Does Thopter Pie Network ever hit your creatures? The wording suggests it might, but I don’t have it to test. If it did, that’d be an interesting combo with enrage dinos.
If you have it, Tree of Perdition would be a great candidate for that Brontodon deck.
Some Dissassembly Required is a hard card to get to work well, but if you happen to have Relentless Dead, you can have a lot of fun with Dissassembly. I have a Nicol Bolas deck with it and Relentless Dead, Fleshbag Marauder, and Skaab Goliath that is an absolute blast if you can get all the parts into play. Takes a while to set up but is completely unbothered by kill spells, and between the huge berserk/lifelink Goliath and the regularly-recurring Fleshbag, keeps their board decimated and you sitting pretty. As a side benefit, any time you need to hit a “lose X or more creatures” objective with a legacy deck, it works like a charm.
My favorite so far is the interaction with Journey for Eternity and The Great Aurora.
Without any creatures on your side, there’s nothing special to note. But if there’s a creature under your control with Journey for Eternity out as well, The Great Aurora has an interesting interaction. What happens is that Aurora targets and kills creatures first, then goes after all of the supports afterwards. With Journey of Eternity however, is actually quite interesting…
When a creature you control dies with Journey for Eternity in play, Journey flips to it’s land side and returns the first creature that, “died,” back to the battlefield - allowing one creature to dodge a kill spell (NOT being exiled though).
Back to the interaction - when The Great Aurora goes off with a creature and Journey to Eternity in play, Journey to Eternity will flip, saves the first creature, returns as a land, and is not destroyed by The Great Aurora because it flipped!
I also have to say that this might be a bit buggy in a sense, but the way The Great Aurora has always worked… that honestly is how it technically should work?
Also, Journey with Lil3 in the current event is interesting, you kill Chupacabra (for example) with here first and it dies and one of them brings it back and then the other one brings the same copy of the creature back, it is not reinforced and whether it has the +3 depends on order but you do get 2 ETB effects!
But this one is interesting, thanks for the idea! Was planning on using Aurora with Garruk because he can save up his loyalty beforehand, but previously I’d been relying on Scrounger this is something nice and new to try!
I don’t think it’s a bug but it does sound in-line with how transforming supports are coded. It’s actually not the same support flipping, it’s one support being destroyed and at the same time a new support being cast to replace the old one. For proof, just use Sigil of the Empty Throne with transforming supports. You’ll get an angel on the support flipping. So it’s working correctly, just probably not how the devs mean for it to work.
@Mainloop25 That logic does sound reasonable - never did try to figure out how that would work with Sigil. Lets hope that the devs don’t change the interactions with flipping supports!
Also - I do have a very vicious deck that uses the interaction I have mentioned (mainly Journey to Eternity), but it’s in a green/white deck with Ajani; but once Hualti, Radiant Warrior is released… lets just say you don’t want to run into it if you don’t have removal that isn’t destroy effects…
That is what I am talking about, sounds very sweet!
Does this work with Hour of Revelation?
Journey to Eternity is such a quality card, very fun to play with. Especially if you have a Ruin Rat on your side of the table
