Okay so I am on a mission to build a Nina Deck. The issue however is that there are only 10 ninjas making it very difficult to build around that theme. Vela the Night-Clad will be my general as her intimidate helps a lot to have my creatures unblocked and the U/B allows access to all 10 ninjas.
Ignoring lands my budget is 100 bucks. So I am looking for unblockable creatures/effects and lure effects. Bounce effects will also be nice so I can get my ninjas back in my hand., just to cheat them in again.
There are a lot of vela decks out there to look at, I happen to run dragonlord silumgar instead because the vela triggers don't really do much and the evasion she provides is unnecessary because most of your non ninja's will be naturally evasive. Cloudstone Curio is a must, as is equilibrium. Crystal shard and erratic portal also do good work. Also a kicked rite of replication targeting vela is auto win.
There are a lot of vela decks out there to look at, I happen to run dragonlord silumgar instead because the vela triggers don't really do much and the evasion she provides is unnecessary because most of your non ninja's will be naturally evasive. Cloudstone Curio is a must, as is equilibrium. Crystal shard and erratic portal also do good work. Also a kicked rite of replication targeting vela is auto win.
well kicked vela, unless my math is oncorrect, isn;t it only 30 damage? 5 velas leave and there are 6, seeing 5 leave each making it 30 damage.
The ninjas bouncing a creature s damage, so that is a bit extra.
Sorry, haven't used vela in my ninja deck since the old legend rule when it was 36 damage. You are correct, it is now only 30. She's even less appealing now. Oh Gray Merchant of Asphodel is a fantastic ninjitsu target
Sorry, haven't used vela in my ninja deck since the old legend rule when it was 36 damage. You are correct, it is now only 30. She's even less appealing now. Oh Gray Merchant of Asphodel is a fantastic ninjitsu target
I would recommend Sygg river cutthroat instead. He keeps the early CA flowing which is a strength of these types of decks. I personally switched my ninja build from vela to Sygg and it's made a world of a difference. Vela is just so clunky and does too little for 6 mana. I personally would recommend avoiding things like invis stalker or the like, they are very weak on their own and the deck just won't do enough if there are too many slots devoted to 1 or 2 power vanilla unblockable dudes. I'd recommend EDHrec for a few more suggestions. As previously mentioned, cloudstone curio and the like are all stars. The more ETB dudes you can run the better to abuse triggers. Hope that's a nice little starting point! Sorry I don't have my list up!
Both the new Paradoxical Outcome, and Gonti, Lord of Luxury seems pretty nice in such a deck. A thing to note is that Gonti's trigger is not required to have him on the battlefield, so you can bounce him back and forth for minimal problems. Power Matrix or Akroma's Memorial is interesting tech for a ninja deck. The ability that you really care about is First Strike, since you can Ninjitsu a creature in before regular damage has been dealt, but before after First Strike damage has been dealt. Furthermore, I would consider probably consider Marang River Prowler, I've had some excellent use with him as a reusable foot soldier. As far as creatures go I would look at things like Baleful Strix and Dimir Infiltrator as both have excellent utility.
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Okay so I am on a mission to build a Nina Deck. The issue however is that there are only 10 ninjas making it very difficult to build around that theme. Vela the Night-Clad will be my general as her intimidate helps a lot to have my creatures unblocked and the U/B allows access to all 10 ninjas.
Ignoring lands my budget is 100 bucks. So I am looking for unblockable creatures/effects and lure effects. Bounce effects will also be nice so I can get my ninjas back in my hand., just to cheat them in again.
All help appreciated.
UB Vela the Night-Clad BUDecklist
WBG Ghave, Guru of Spores GBW
WUBRGThe Ur-DragonWUBRGDecklist
well kicked vela, unless my math is oncorrect, isn;t it only 30 damage? 5 velas leave and there are 6, seeing 5 leave each making it 30 damage.
The ninjas bouncing a creature s damage, so that is a bit extra.
UB Vela the Night-Clad BUDecklist
WBG Ghave, Guru of Spores GBW
WUBRGThe Ur-DragonWUBRGDecklist
well 30 is not much less than 36
grey merchant would be very nice.
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