Does anyone have any creative solutions for dealing with Hixus, Prison Warden as mono black or blue? Support removal is beneficial when you have red, semi economical as green, and an absolute nightmare if you’re white, black, or blue and are not relying on a high cost card (Mockery of Nature) or a rare (Anguished Unmaking). I can’t think of many single cards that can shut me down like that. I never have a problem bouncing, stealing, killing, or disabling Olivia, Ulrich, et al.
Color changing supports or running with more than 3 creature types (or spells to grant you a fourth) so that you can keep replacing a disabled creature.
Mockery of nature is the card to go to I guess if you don’t have Anguished unmaking.
If you’re playing mono colour, I’ve found it beneficial to use grafstone for ramp. It also leads to quite a few line clear opportunities with >=4 match to help clear supports.
Strange. I believe you, but in my experience sometimes the color changers end up making it more impossible to fish for Hixus, ie. it breaks up matches that would have otherwise cleared him out the next turn. I actually stopped using color changers completely after getting shut down on more than one occasion. I don’t have Corrupted Graftstone so perhaps it’s a specific color changer that is more effective than others.
Hixus needs to be fixed. His paper card isn’t anywhere near this strong, it just exiles the creatures that attack the turn he enters, and so should only be able to disable creatures until the support leaves the battlefield that deal you damage until the beginning if you next turn, that way people can either cycle out disabled ones, or destroy the support.
Not a whole lot. Running against Ultradaved’s Gideon decks with Sorin or J2 is a pain, because he runs so many supports that there’s no guarantee that you’re going to target Hixus.
Monoblack? Forbidden Knowledge
Failing that, Anguished Unmaking… failing that, Shambling Vent, and maybe even Caves of Koilos (careful, tho, Caves is not, generally speaking, a good card)
Monowhite? Anguished Unmaking, Ajani’s Ultimate, or Nahiri’s second. Oh wait, they aren’t monowhite, are they
In that case, just make a bunch of white gems as normal and pop it.
Monoblue? Er… Sword of the Animist is all I can offer, I’m afraid.
Oh my yes, the 1st Gideon challenge. This one was a monster of a fight. It is, in my unnecessary opinion, the most difficult/frustrating/infuriating/vexing. I couldn’t achieve the color challenge on this one until I picked up Sarkhan and loaded him up with red support-killers.
Now I also recall a Nissa challenge that’s roughly the same difficulty. She starts with an Undergrowth Champ and that “Activate 2 to reinforce” support. It’s not as difficult to deal with and complete the colour challenge (except maybe blue) but I’ve never had a 2-round crushing defeat with any other match than this one Nissa challenge.
