Now is there a way to abuse this combo even more? As it stands if this combo goes off it will do 26 damage. Can you untap Strionic Resonator some how and have it trigger Maralen of the Mornsong again and do 39 damage total?
Thank you and I apologize if this is in the wrong forum.
Voltaic Key and Rings of Brighthearth are good cards outside of your combo, and both add a use. There are a lot of options in blue as well. Are you planning on running Ob as commander?
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For what it's worth, the extra 3 damage isn't worth letting them get another search off. If they survive the 26 damage they'll have both a removal spell and a combo piece/way to recover/threat. Copying Ob Nixilis' trigger is a better choice in the long-run.
For what it's worth, the extra 3 damage isn't worth letting them get another search off. If they survive the 26 damage they'll have both a removal spell and a combo piece/way to recover/threat. Copying Ob Nixilis' trigger is a better choice in the long-run.
have you considered running ob nixilis + maralen with a discard theme as well? that way they cant accrue pieces to combos should they let it sit? There are numerous discard effects you could pair them with to whittle away their hand while dealing consistent damage.
This seems like something awesome to do but in a removal/control heavy meta you won't get much use out of it. If the meta isn't heavy in answers for it they will be very quickly.
If you copy Maralen's ability a player will search up Trickbind and use it to counter Ob's second trigger. Then they will search for an exile effect for Maralen with the second card. They will still take 13 damage but the main point of the deck will be hosed.
If you copy Ob's ability it has to kill them or they will just hunt up the exile effect for Maralen or a kill spell for Ob.
By the time you can get it all going most combo decks are guaranteed to be one card away (if they haven't won already) so they might just take all the pain, if it's not lethal, to hunt up their piece and just win.
The best you can really ever hope for is to eliminate or cripple one opponent. So I guess if you are building a 1v1 deck it might be okay. But given how most 1v1 decks I've seen are built you have virtually zero chance of getting Ob and Maralen out together.
Honestly, the best use for Ob isn't as a commander but in an Esper control/stax deck that also runs Aven Mindcensor
Now is there a way to abuse this combo even more? As it stands if this combo goes off it will do 26 damage. Can you untap Strionic Resonator some how and have it trigger Maralen of the Mornsong again and do 39 damage total?
Thank you and I apologize if this is in the wrong forum.
As for untapping Strionic Resonator, Unwinding Clock, Voltaic Key, and Galvanic Key all work. Rings of Brighthearth is also a good idea.
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This is very true. Thank you.
If you copy Maralen's ability a player will search up Trickbind and use it to counter Ob's second trigger. Then they will search for an exile effect for Maralen with the second card. They will still take 13 damage but the main point of the deck will be hosed.
If you copy Ob's ability it has to kill them or they will just hunt up the exile effect for Maralen or a kill spell for Ob.
By the time you can get it all going most combo decks are guaranteed to be one card away (if they haven't won already) so they might just take all the pain, if it's not lethal, to hunt up their piece and just win.
The best you can really ever hope for is to eliminate or cripple one opponent. So I guess if you are building a 1v1 deck it might be okay. But given how most 1v1 decks I've seen are built you have virtually zero chance of getting Ob and Maralen out together.
Honestly, the best use for Ob isn't as a commander but in an Esper control/stax deck that also runs Aven Mindcensor
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