Hard to beat wall and the upkeep cost will make you some friends, and will likely be played only in decks where opponents gaining life isn't an issue anyway.
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My Commander decks:
Chandra, Torch of Defiance - Oops! All Chandras.
Prime Speaker Zegana - Draw for Power.
Pir & Toothy - Counterpalooza.
Arcades, the Strategist - Another Brick in the Wall.
Zacama, Primal Calamity - Calamity of Double Mana.
Edgar Markov - Vampires Don't Die.
Child of Alara - Dreamcrusher.
Hard to beat wall and the upkeep cost will make you some friends, and will likely be played only in decks where opponents gaining life isn't an issue anyway.
Transcendence and Donate, although getting yourself below that life limit can be a little tricky.
Chandra, Torch of Defiance - Oops! All Chandras.
Prime Speaker Zegana - Draw for Power.
Pir & Toothy - Counterpalooza.
Arcades, the Strategist - Another Brick in the Wall.
Zacama, Primal Calamity - Calamity of Double Mana.
Edgar Markov - Vampires Don't Die.
Child of Alara - Dreamcrusher.
Step 1: Enchant the Kami with ST.
Step 2: Tap the Kami and make a copy of itself.
Step 3: The twinned Kami now sacrifices itself to untap the original.
Step 4: Repeat steps 2-3 until you feel have done it enough times.
Step 5: Cast Bitter Ordeal which has a Gravestorm equal to the number of times the token Teardrop Kami had sacrificed itself.
Step 1: Enchant the Kami with ST.
Step 2: Tap the Kami and make a copy of itself.
Step 3: The twinned Kami now sacrifices itself to untap the original.
Step 4: Repeat steps 2-3 until you feel have done it enough times.
Step 5: Cast Bitter Ordeal which has a Gravestorm equal to the number of times the token Teardrop Kami had sacrificed itself.
Thank you, thank you. A card is as useful as one can imagine it.
Step 1: Enchant the Kami with ST.
Step 2: Tap the Kami and make a copy of itself.
Step 3: The twinned Kami now sacrifices itself to untap the original.
Step 4: Repeat steps 2-3 until you feel have done it enough times.
Step 5: Cast Bitter Ordeal which has a Gravestorm equal to the number of times the token Teardrop Kami had sacrificed itself.
Step 1: Enchant the Kami with ST.
Step 2: Tap the Kami and make a copy of itself.
Step 3: The twinned Kami now sacrifices itself to untap the original.
Step 4: Repeat steps 2-3 until you feel have done it enough times.
Step 5: Cast Bitter Ordeal which has a Gravestorm equal to the number of times the token Teardrop Kami had sacrificed itself.
Technically, third. Fourth if you count Intruder Alarm. And if you add white or green, you have even more options. You could also replace Bitter Ordeal with Blood Artist and friends.
Meh, Kamigawa's a lot like Masques. There are a lot of good cards, but you have to wade through trash to get to them. Legends is also in that pile, but Legends makes people think less Shelkin Brownie and Great Wall and more Nether Void and Mana Drain, for some reason.
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Card advantage is not the same thing as card draw. Something for 2B cannot be strictly worse than something for BBB or 3BB. If you're taking out Swords to Plowshares for Plummet, you're a fool. Stop doing these things!
It's a blue 1-drop that does relevant things. There are only two other creatures that have a similar function. Trickster Mage is more versatile but requires cards and haste to function. The third creature is Vedalken Certarch which requires metalcraft and haste to work and it can't untap things.
It's not like Teardrop Kami is horrible. Even its' creature type is relevant to things like Mausoleum Wanderer. It's ability is just narrow. I think it's probably even better than Delver of Secrets.
Kamigawa liked to hamstring spirits just a little bit more than other creatures. A straight up Twiddle on a cheap body would actually be on the cusp of being good, and threaten to make Gilded Lotus storm a thing in Modern. Maybe.
The Kami in general have pretty interesting art for the most part, but this one just looks like Darkwing Duck mated with a frisky jellyfish.
I am a huge fan of Karador, Ghost Chieftain. My deck got too good, too grindy, for my usual playgroup, so I made a second, fun, Karador deck with a spirit tribal theme (25 spirits, a few other utility creatures)
In making this deck, I went through all the spirits in MTG.
There are many worse than this one, let me tell you. This one does something by itself, and can work synergistically with other cards.
As I've said many times, I like combo pieces that are innocuous and unthreatening. In addition to the Kiki-Jiki shenanigans a 1 cmc 1/1 is easy to recur with the likes of Reveillark and Sun Titan, so all you need is any of the numerous combo pieces that goes infinite with these recursion engines and you've got infinite taps, sacs, and untaps. If you can't win with that, I have no idea what to do with you.
Honestly, I want Wizards to go back to Kamigawa. The plane itself was not bad, it was just that Wizards were paranoid after what happened the block prior. They went too far in the opposite direction to prevent Affinity 2.0...
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This aint your girlfriends meta! This is a man's meta! TURBO META.
Step 1: Enchant the Kami with ST.
Step 2: Tap the Kami and make a copy of itself.
Step 3: The twinned Kami now sacrifices itself to untap the original.
Step 4: Repeat steps 2-3 until you feel have done it enough times.
Step 5: Cast Bitter Ordeal which has a Gravestorm equal to the number of times the token Teardrop Kami had sacrificed itself.
6/6 flying for 6 is nothing to scoff at, and he draws you cards...but he's dangerous. He is Suicide Black personified. He's certainly a threat, but he's not easy to use. I like him.
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My Commander decks:
Chandra, Torch of Defiance - Oops! All Chandras.
Prime Speaker Zegana - Draw for Power.
Pir & Toothy - Counterpalooza.
Arcades, the Strategist - Another Brick in the Wall.
Zacama, Primal Calamity - Calamity of Double Mana.
Edgar Markov - Vampires Don't Die.
Child of Alara - Dreamcrusher.
Drew me 10 cards the other day, which was nice. Another time someone killed me by dropping Squandered Resources and saccing all their lands, which was less nice. I like him.
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[Pr]Jaya | Estrid | A rotating cast of decks built out of my box.
I always feel better knowing old Kotho-Fred is lurking somewhere in my mono-BToshiro Umezawa deck. It has also been relevant twice now that if I Tainted Strike both Kothophed and Toshiro (through Toshiro's recursion) then that's exactly 10 infect damage.
Artifact sac decks featuring green can use Fangren Marauder for a similar effect.
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Card advantage is not the same thing as card draw. Something for 2B cannot be strictly worse than something for BBB or 3BB. If you're taking out Swords to Plowshares for Plummet, you're a fool. Stop doing these things!
6/6 flying for 6 is nothing to scoff at, and he draws you cards...but he's dangerous. He is Suicide Black personified. He's certainly a threat, but he's not easy to use. I like him.
One reason I love black cards is preciously because they are dangerous, and Kothy here is a prime example, people might even let it live thinking you fool for playing it. Most of the black cards today lack such thrill, very disappointing.
Hard to beat wall and the upkeep cost will make you some friends, and will likely be played only in decks where opponents gaining life isn't an issue anyway.
Chandra, Torch of Defiance - Oops! All Chandras.
Prime Speaker Zegana - Draw for Power.
Pir & Toothy - Counterpalooza.
Arcades, the Strategist - Another Brick in the Wall.
Zacama, Primal Calamity - Calamity of Double Mana.
Edgar Markov - Vampires Don't Die.
Child of Alara - Dreamcrusher.
Transcendence and Donate, although getting yourself below that life limit can be a little tricky.
Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest WUR Voltron Control
Temmet, Vizier of Naktamun WU Unblockable Mirror Trickery
Ra's al Ghul (Sidar Kondo) and Face-Down Ninjas
Brudiclad, Token Engineer
Vaevictis (VV2) the Dire Lantern
Rona, Disciple of Gix
Tiana the Auror
Hallar
Ulrich the Politician
Zur the Rebel
Scorpion, Locust, Scarab, Egyptian Gods
O-Kagachi, Mathas, Mairsil
"Non-Tribal" Tribal Generals, Eggs
8.RG Green Devotion Ramp/Combo 9.UR Draw Triggers 10.WUR Group stalling 11.WUR Voltron Spellslinger 12.WB Sacrificial Shenanigans
13.BR Creatureless Panharmonicon 14.BR Pingers and Eldrazi 15.URG Untapped Cascading
16.Reyhan, last of the Abzan's WUBG +1/+1 Counter Craziness 17.WUBRG Dragons aka Why did I make this?
Building: The Gitrog Monster lands, Glissa the Traitor stax, Muldrotha, the Gravetide Planeswalker Combo, Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix + Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa Clues, and Tribal Scarecrow Planeswalkers
Uh...yea, I got nothing.
Chandra, Torch of Defiance - Oops! All Chandras.
Prime Speaker Zegana - Draw for Power.
Pir & Toothy - Counterpalooza.
Arcades, the Strategist - Another Brick in the Wall.
Zacama, Primal Calamity - Calamity of Double Mana.
Edgar Markov - Vampires Don't Die.
Child of Alara - Dreamcrusher.
Teardrop Kami + Splinter Twin + Bitter Ordeal = Each opponent now has no library and loses at the beginning of their next upkeeps unless they have a Laboratory Maniac out.
Step 1: Enchant the Kami with ST.
Step 2: Tap the Kami and make a copy of itself.
Step 3: The twinned Kami now sacrifices itself to untap the original.
Step 4: Repeat steps 2-3 until you feel have done it enough times.
Step 5: Cast Bitter Ordeal which has a Gravestorm equal to the number of times the token Teardrop Kami had sacrificed itself.
Thank you, thank you. A card is as useful as one can imagine it.
Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest WUR Voltron Control
Temmet, Vizier of Naktamun WU Unblockable Mirror Trickery
Ra's al Ghul (Sidar Kondo) and Face-Down Ninjas
Brudiclad, Token Engineer
Vaevictis (VV2) the Dire Lantern
Rona, Disciple of Gix
Tiana the Auror
Hallar
Ulrich the Politician
Zur the Rebel
Scorpion, Locust, Scarab, Egyptian Gods
O-Kagachi, Mathas, Mairsil
"Non-Tribal" Tribal Generals, Eggs
Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker is a second copy of Splinter Twin. And you can replace Bitter Ordeal with Impact Tremors, Warstorm Surge, or Purphoros, God of the Forge. All this means that Teardrop Kami can essentially be a second Deceiver Exarch/Zealous Conscripts in a UR Exarch Twin deck.
Technically, third. Fourth if you count Intruder Alarm. And if you add white or green, you have even more options. You could also replace Bitter Ordeal with Blood Artist and friends.
Meh, Kamigawa's a lot like Masques. There are a lot of good cards, but you have to wade through trash to get to them. Legends is also in that pile, but Legends makes people think less Shelkin Brownie and Great Wall and more Nether Void and Mana Drain, for some reason.
On phasing:
It's not like Teardrop Kami is horrible. Even its' creature type is relevant to things like Mausoleum Wanderer. It's ability is just narrow. I think it's probably even better than Delver of Secrets.
The Kami in general have pretty interesting art for the most part, but this one just looks like Darkwing Duck mated with a frisky jellyfish.
In making this deck, I went through all the spirits in MTG.
There are many worse than this one, let me tell you. This one does something by itself, and can work synergistically with other cards.
It's not a 12 mana vanilla creature. It's not a parasitic Ki Counter. It's a legitimate card.
8.RG Green Devotion Ramp/Combo 9.UR Draw Triggers 10.WUR Group stalling 11.WUR Voltron Spellslinger 12.WB Sacrificial Shenanigans
13.BR Creatureless Panharmonicon 14.BR Pingers and Eldrazi 15.URG Untapped Cascading
16.Reyhan, last of the Abzan's WUBG +1/+1 Counter Craziness 17.WUBRG Dragons aka Why did I make this?
Building: The Gitrog Monster lands, Glissa the Traitor stax, Muldrotha, the Gravetide Planeswalker Combo, Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix + Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa Clues, and Tribal Scarecrow Planeswalkers
This aint your girlfriends meta! This is a man's meta! TURBO META.
Alternative U/R damage version: Teardrop Kami + Splinter Twin/Kiki-jiki, Mirror Breaker + Purphoros, God of the Forge. Or any ETB/dies trigger effect, really.
Today's card...
Kothophed, Soul Hoarder
6/6 flying for 6 is nothing to scoff at, and he draws you cards...but he's dangerous. He is Suicide Black personified. He's certainly a threat, but he's not easy to use. I like him.
Chandra, Torch of Defiance - Oops! All Chandras.
Prime Speaker Zegana - Draw for Power.
Pir & Toothy - Counterpalooza.
Arcades, the Strategist - Another Brick in the Wall.
Zacama, Primal Calamity - Calamity of Double Mana.
Edgar Markov - Vampires Don't Die.
Child of Alara - Dreamcrusher.
- Rabid Wombat
Artifact sac decks featuring green can use Fangren Marauder for a similar effect.
On phasing:
One reason I love black cards is preciously because they are dangerous, and Kothy here is a prime example, people might even let it live thinking you fool for playing it. Most of the black cards today lack such thrill, very disappointing.
Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest WUR Voltron Control
Temmet, Vizier of Naktamun WU Unblockable Mirror Trickery
Ra's al Ghul (Sidar Kondo) and Face-Down Ninjas
Brudiclad, Token Engineer
Vaevictis (VV2) the Dire Lantern
Rona, Disciple of Gix
Tiana the Auror
Hallar
Ulrich the Politician
Zur the Rebel
Scorpion, Locust, Scarab, Egyptian Gods
O-Kagachi, Mathas, Mairsil
"Non-Tribal" Tribal Generals, Eggs