MTG Salvation

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AKIRI, LINE-SLINGER(RW)
Legendary Creature - Kor Soldier Ally

First Strike, Vigilance

~CARDNAME gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control.

Partner
0/3

Seems like a good partner for Silas. You can go artifact Voltron, pack in some equipment that grants evasion, use Akiri for the damage and Silas to recur it when it becomes necessary. Though I wish there'd been a more traditional artificer partner for him because I like his recursion ability, but Voltron isn't the most exciting strategy to me.

A difficult wall to break in combat, with first strike and vigilance. However, this is yet another combat oriented Boros, I am growing impatient with Wizards' lack of dare. They have a more "physical" Izzet general with Kraum, Ludevic's Opus, yet they didn't even bother to try a Boros general outside of combat. >_>

Based on flavor text she's appeared in, I think the name of the card is "Akiri, Line-Slinger".

There are four tribes that I can think of that are white and care about artifacts. Dwarfs, Kor, Mirrodin Humans, and Mirrodin Cats. So this card could have fit in any of them really, but fabricate does have nice synergy with this card so being a Dwarf would have been a small advantage but oh well.

I really like this card as a non legendary creature. First strike and Vigilance guarantee that it will win every combat and she allows you to attack while not leaving yourself open. The artifacts matter theme is cool too as it encourages you to build around it with equipment, and artifact tokens.

As a legendary it is disappointing as this is yet another Boros commander that only cares about attacking. It doesn't provide card advantage or explore new deck building in red white either. I just don't understand why Wizards refuses to print any innovative cards for this color pair that is starved of quality commanders.

Abit plain. I'm thinking Legends-Plain Jane.

Was hoping for a legendary, named pillarfield ox to go with Bruse Tarl :-(

So thematically linked means "being from the same world and/or affiliation". Okay for me.


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Still waiting for the day when they make a RW legend that's actually interesting...

I suppose the saving grace is that she is VERY cheap to cast, yet can be potentially lethal right when she comes out.

So it has the Nim creature ability from Mirrodin (like Nim Lasher and like 7-8 other cards with black on them)? That's weird, but I guess they are shoving artifacts at red pretty hard, so that's cool.

I think I rather play Jor Kadeen, the Prevailer. Gives power to my squad. Wizards just can't make a good rw legendary (thanks for Depala tho)

I really hate the Ally creature type when the creature does nothing for ally tribal. :/ Pretty boring card, doesn't excite me.

Ally tribal is as linear as it gets.

One Torpor Orb is enough to nerf the tribe.

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Seems like a good partner for Silas. You can go artifact Voltron, pack in some equipment that grants evasion, use Akiri for the damage and Silas to recur it when it becomes necessary. Though I wish there'd been a more traditional artificer partner for him because I like his recursion ability, but Voltron isn't the most exciting strategy to me.

You don't have to be voltron. She can easily just be a solid defensive body/wincon to support Silas's gameplan and contribute colors.

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And the UW legend with partner? There are more than 10 commanders with the partner ability? I omited some info from Wizards?

There are 15 partner legends. 10 enemy color, 5 ally color. Then there are the five four color legends.

I hate to say this, but this is a really boring card. Other than being an Ally and having the Partner mechanic, nothing about Akiri screams support. Sure, I guess a X/3 first-striker is a good deterrent and therefore its supporting as a bodyguard... I know not every card has to be supportive, but I had higher expectation of all those cards with Partner to actually have more obvious/effective support/strategies.

I feel like I'm going to pick up the precons and the first edit I will make will be the removal of the partner commanders.

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Still waiting for the day when they make a RW legend that's actually interesting...

At this point, WotC has staked out their position and is fiercely defending it. "You want interesting? Go play GU or something! RW about smash! RW deal combat damage!"

It depends on who I can partner her with and what other cards are available to be used. She is cheap and a bear, that enough is fair to consider her to side her with another Commander. She's an early aggressive creature in an artifact deck that is recastable and works with other Allies.

I dislike the art, and will probably at some point have it altered or something.

This card will forever be known as Spider-Man. Mark my words!

I expected nothing, and I'm still disappointed.

You can put her into a voltron shell with a bunch of cheap artifacts and equipment. She does fit the deck's artifact theme. I just wish she played around with the graveyard, since white and red interact with artifacts from it a lot recently.

Boros is the NASCAR of the guilds.

Hopefully can pair into some kind of Jeskai artifact fun.

See, the problem here is, while the setup is fine (play a bunch of artifacts! That hasn't been done in rw before...oh wait) the payoff is so lackluster and boring that it doesn't matter. Artifact synergy for a RW legend would have been ok, (although I would have preferred equipment specifically given that 1) blue has always been the primary artifact-synergizing color, and 2) white rarely has synergy with artifact straight-up and has tons of synergy with equipment specifically, and 3) hasn't been done before) but you have to make the payoff interesting!

I mean, at this point maybe I should just give up on ever using sunforger again.