EDH: UG Momir Vig, Simic Visionary BW Vish Kal, Blood Arbiter BUG The Mimeoplasm UWR Zedruu the Greathearted RUG Riku of Two Reflections UR Niv-Mizzet, Dracogenius WR Aurelia, the Warleader
I've noticed a lot of people really like Draining Whelk. I've always looked at him and thought he's a little overcosted. But I'm probably just looking at it wrong.
I look at Draining Whelk a lot like Duplicant. Both cost 6, both remove something and then stay around as a blocker/attacker. The size of which is entirely dependent on what they removed, which can be lackluster or awesomely big. Whelk has flying which is a bonus, but is more mana intensive.
Both can be brought beck with Reveillark so they both are the bee's knees.
I've noticed a lot of people really like Draining Whelk. I've always looked at him and thought he's a little overcosted. But I'm probably just looking at it wrong.
Depends on the meta and the deck. In slower metagames, having a counterspell that also gives you a huge evasive beater is pretty awesome. I think Counterlash is probably better these days, but the welk is definitely playable in the right situations.
There's Avenger 1.0 in Hazezon Tamar but most decks that use him are designed around him. There's Riftsweeper that can return exiled stuff (one of few cards that can).
There's a multitude of 3 cmc creatures that return stuff: Treasure Hunter for artifacts, Cartographer and Tilling Treefolk return one and two lands respectively, Auramancer and Monk Idealist for enchantments, and Eternal Witness which is well known. The point of these 3 cmc creatures? Return them with Sun Titan for constant recursion.
(Side note: why can't I have a sorcery recursion creature at 3 cmc??)
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EDH:
Mayael, the Anima: Six levels of fat
Norin the Wary: Spreading the gospel and trolliness of Gaka
Child of Alara: Vast amounts of land and one angry baby!
Karn, Silver Golem: Welcome to the machine
Mistform Ultimus: and the quest for more blue lords!
Thada Adel: and the Theivius Merfolkus
In a vacuum I feel these cards can do/enable just about anything:
Primeval Titan: Utility lands will let you do just about everything. Brutalizer Exarch: Worldly tutor, or bury a permanent you can't otherwise deal with. Imperial Recruiter: I proxied this up a couple days ago. This feels like the stupidest card I've ever seen. Enables creature chains to find any creature (and eny ETB effect) you could ever want. Venser, Shaper Savant: Recurable counterspell capable of countering uncounterable spells and looking damn sexy while doing it. He also plays well with ETB creatures, and stuff like Cloudstone Curio or Equilibrium. Also he's not so offensive that the table will break you off for playing him (like p-titan).
Solemn Simulacrum is pure value and goes in pretty much anything.
Token producers like Cloudgoat Ranger and Siege-Gang Commander are staples in their respective decks.
EDH:
UG Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
BW Vish Kal, Blood Arbiter
BUG The Mimeoplasm
UWR Zedruu the Greathearted
RUG Riku of Two Reflections
UR Niv-Mizzet, Dracogenius
WR Aurelia, the Warleader
I've noticed a lot of people really like Draining Whelk. I've always looked at him and thought he's a little overcosted. But I'm probably just looking at it wrong.
R.I.P. Sundering Titan (6/20/12) and Braids, Cabal Minion (9/12/14)
Both can be brought beck with Reveillark so they both are the bee's knees.
GAzusa, Lost but SeekingG
WBVish Kal, Blood ArbiterWB
WBRKaalia of the VastWBR
UBGVorosh, the HunterUBG
WRGisela, Blade of GoldnightWR
WUGJenara, Asura of WarWUG
WBGTeneb, The HarvesterWBG
WUBRGHorde of NotionsWUBRG
Depends on the meta and the deck. In slower metagames, having a counterspell that also gives you a huge evasive beater is pretty awesome. I think Counterlash is probably better these days, but the welk is definitely playable in the right situations.
There's a multitude of 3 cmc creatures that return stuff: Treasure Hunter for artifacts, Cartographer and Tilling Treefolk return one and two lands respectively, Auramancer and Monk Idealist for enchantments, and Eternal Witness which is well known. The point of these 3 cmc creatures? Return them with Sun Titan for constant recursion.
(Side note: why can't I have a sorcery recursion creature at 3 cmc??)
Mayael, the Anima: Six levels of fat
Norin the Wary: Spreading the gospel and trolliness of Gaka
Child of Alara: Vast amounts of land and one angry baby!
Karn, Silver Golem: Welcome to the machine
Mistform Ultimus: and the quest for more blue lords!
Thada Adel: and the Theivius Merfolkus
Primeval Titan: Utility lands will let you do just about everything.
Brutalizer Exarch: Worldly tutor, or bury a permanent you can't otherwise deal with.
Imperial Recruiter: I proxied this up a couple days ago. This feels like the stupidest card I've ever seen. Enables creature chains to find any creature (and eny ETB effect) you could ever want.
Venser, Shaper Savant: Recurable counterspell capable of countering uncounterable spells and looking damn sexy while doing it. He also plays well with ETB creatures, and stuff like Cloudstone Curio or Equilibrium. Also he's not so offensive that the table will break you off for playing him (like p-titan).
Oh Rider, my heart will go on...
acidic slime
primeval titan
mulldrifter
trinket mage
bloodgift demon
fleshbag marauder
sun titan
reveillark
norin the wary
* the last one was a joke. sorry don't know much about fires.
'Greatness, at any cost.'
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