A friend of mine runs an axe deck, where every card (sans lands) has an axe in the image. Another friend of mine is building a theme deck along the lines of a "no shoes" theme, with all the creatures being humanoids without shoes and all the equipment being various boots. I want to build something similar, and as I've fairly recently grown a beard I've settled on Beard tribal.
So I'm looking for suggestions for effective cards with beards in the image. The deck will need to be a bit goodstuffy to make up for the weak theme, but if there is any sort of coherent strategy that can be found in this theme I'll run with that.
Best cards I've seen so far are Feldon of the Third Path and the new Daretti, but not sure if I want to go RB mainly because of colour overlap with both the axe deck and my existing decks. Plus the most epic beard I've seen on a legendary is Ragnar who lacks both of those colours
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I liked the idea of modifying Mountain Titan's text to say that you put the counters on his beard. So his beard grows bigger with more spells cast. He could possibly have the biggest beard ever.
Oh god, so many good options in RB. But I really want to avoid that colour combo...
Problem with Barktooth Warbeard is, my friend said its pretty much essential to go three colour with a heavy theme deck in order to get enough cards to make it work. But my god, its hard to justify a beard deck without him in it.
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EDH RRGrenzo plays your deck, GGYeva's mono green control, WW9-tails trys desperately for monowhite not to suck RWBUTymna and Kraum's saboteur tribal, UWG Kestia's Enchantress Aggro, RUB Jeleva casts big dumb spells, RGB Vaevictis' big critters can kill your critters hard
Those are fantastic, and as a history buff I'm pretty keen on Theros.
What could I use to trigger the astronomer though? I really like the effect (and the beard) but I might need to focus on more generally applicable cards like the other two, not sure what synergies I can reliably trigger in this deck
Edit: Just noticed Ruhan of the Fomori has a sweet beard. Would allow me to meet my colour requirements (UW) and use my favourite colour as well. Could be a better general for the deck than Ragnar
EDH RRGrenzo plays your deck, GGYeva's mono green control, WW9-tails trys desperately for monowhite not to suck RWBUTymna and Kraum's saboteur tribal, UWG Kestia's Enchantress Aggro, RUB Jeleva casts big dumb spells, RGB Vaevictis' big critters can kill your critters hard
Rasputin Dreamweaver has a killer wizard beard, although that color combination isn't as beard heavy.
There is a breaking wheel and impaled figures with birds circling them in the background, and behind all of that the red coloring is fire. It's pretty dark.
That beard is sick, I reckon people would be ok with me proxying him in due to the theme and his overall crappiness.
I've found quite a few beards in UW so far. Also a lot of heroic and other aura focused abilities which helps justify that sweet as Meletis Astronomer
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I don't know what you mean by "overall crappiness". Rasputin gives you free 7 colorless mana just after casting him, enough to cast Karn. Untapping with him having all of his counters means you have 13 mana to play with. Blinking him gives you even more value. He does what that color combination normally doesn't do, which is why he is very strong.
What I meant is that I can't read properly. For some reason I thought he could only remove one per turn. Even then I'm jumping on all the ramp I can find due to a lack of rocks.
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Brago works well with mana rocks since he can blink them, essentially untapping them. Then again, Brago works well with just about everything that isn't Torpor Orb.
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!
Inferno Titan counts, and a massive thumbs up for letting me know about the alt art Sun Titan. What a score
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Ajani tends to treat the fur on his chin as a beard too so he's technically a bearded planewalker you can use. Sarkhan has a beard but his cards tend to be kinda narrow in use.
I liked the idea of modifying Mountain Titan's text to say that you put the counters on his beard. So his beard grows bigger with more spells cast. He could possibly have the biggest beard ever.
That's an awesome idea. Be sure to make some cardboard cut-outs of his beard to use as counters, though.
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You would never guess, at the terrifying sight of the man, that Hunding was as charming a companion as one could wish for.
I second Barktooth Warbeard, but if that's not a go, then Borborygmos has a pretty sweet beard in both of his incarnations. Stonebrow, Krosan Hero is well bearded also in RG.
If you really want to be three colour (I disagree with your friend on this point, btw), Halfdane is one of your few good options. Two beards for the price of one.
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So I'm looking for suggestions for effective cards with beards in the image. The deck will need to be a bit goodstuffy to make up for the weak theme, but if there is any sort of coherent strategy that can be found in this theme I'll run with that.
Best cards I've seen so far are Feldon of the Third Path and the new Daretti, but not sure if I want to go RB mainly because of colour overlap with both the axe deck and my existing decks. Plus the most epic beard I've seen on a legendary is Ragnar who lacks both of those colours
RRGrenzo plays your deck, GGYeva's mono green control, WW9-tails trys desperately for monowhite not to suck
RWBUTymna and Kraum's saboteur tribal, UWG Kestia's Enchantress Aggro, RUB Jeleva casts big dumb spells, RGB Vaevictis' big critters can kill your critters hard
Arena Standard
UUUU Tempo, since before it was cool
Various Wx decks running Fountain of Renewal and Day of Glory
Anything I can cram Chaos Wand in to
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Problem with Barktooth Warbeard is, my friend said its pretty much essential to go three colour with a heavy theme deck in order to get enough cards to make it work. But my god, its hard to justify a beard deck without him in it.
RRGrenzo plays your deck, GGYeva's mono green control, WW9-tails trys desperately for monowhite not to suck
RWBUTymna and Kraum's saboteur tribal, UWG Kestia's Enchantress Aggro, RUB Jeleva casts big dumb spells, RGB Vaevictis' big critters can kill your critters hard
Arena Standard
UUUU Tempo, since before it was cool
Various Wx decks running Fountain of Renewal and Day of Glory
Anything I can cram Chaos Wand in to
I'd pick a lot of Theros cards, since the culture is very beard-centric.
For example: Meletis Astronomer, Sphinx's Disciple. Prognostic Sphinx
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
What could I use to trigger the astronomer though? I really like the effect (and the beard) but I might need to focus on more generally applicable cards like the other two, not sure what synergies I can reliably trigger in this deck
Edit: Just noticed Ruhan of the Fomori has a sweet beard. Would allow me to meet my colour requirements (UW) and use my favourite colour as well. Could be a better general for the deck than Ragnar
RRGrenzo plays your deck, GGYeva's mono green control, WW9-tails trys desperately for monowhite not to suck
RWBUTymna and Kraum's saboteur tribal, UWG Kestia's Enchantress Aggro, RUB Jeleva casts big dumb spells, RGB Vaevictis' big critters can kill your critters hard
Arena Standard
UUUU Tempo, since before it was cool
Various Wx decks running Fountain of Renewal and Day of Glory
Anything I can cram Chaos Wand in to
There is a breaking wheel and impaled figures with birds circling them in the background, and behind all of that the red coloring is fire. It's pretty dark.
Beating Face with Bane
Beatrice, the Golden Witch
I've found quite a few beards in UW so far. Also a lot of heroic and other aura focused abilities which helps justify that sweet as Meletis Astronomer
RRGrenzo plays your deck, GGYeva's mono green control, WW9-tails trys desperately for monowhite not to suck
RWBUTymna and Kraum's saboteur tribal, UWG Kestia's Enchantress Aggro, RUB Jeleva casts big dumb spells, RGB Vaevictis' big critters can kill your critters hard
Arena Standard
UUUU Tempo, since before it was cool
Various Wx decks running Fountain of Renewal and Day of Glory
Anything I can cram Chaos Wand in to
Brago, King Eternal has a ghost beard. It's easier to see in Regicide, though.
Beating Face with Bane
Beatrice, the Golden Witch
RRGrenzo plays your deck, GGYeva's mono green control, WW9-tails trys desperately for monowhite not to suck
RWBUTymna and Kraum's saboteur tribal, UWG Kestia's Enchantress Aggro, RUB Jeleva casts big dumb spells, RGB Vaevictis' big critters can kill your critters hard
Arena Standard
UUUU Tempo, since before it was cool
Various Wx decks running Fountain of Renewal and Day of Glory
Anything I can cram Chaos Wand in to
Beating Face with Bane
Beatrice, the Golden Witch
On phasing:
RRGrenzo plays your deck, GGYeva's mono green control, WW9-tails trys desperately for monowhite not to suck
RWBUTymna and Kraum's saboteur tribal, UWG Kestia's Enchantress Aggro, RUB Jeleva casts big dumb spells, RGB Vaevictis' big critters can kill your critters hard
Arena Standard
UUUU Tempo, since before it was cool
Various Wx decks running Fountain of Renewal and Day of Glory
Anything I can cram Chaos Wand in to
That's an awesome idea. Be sure to make some cardboard cut-outs of his beard to use as counters, though.
Fixed it for you. Those lands need lush, full beards too. They can't go clean-shaven in a deck like this.
Beating Face with Bane
Beatrice, the Golden Witch
If you really want to be three colour (I disagree with your friend on this point, btw), Halfdane is one of your few good options. Two beards for the price of one.