Figured I'd start a combo thread for the prerelease so people learn combo's with the new cards as constellation can lead to some weird interactions. Here' 2 I saw that were pretty good.
Crystalline Nautilus, if you bestow it on an opponents creature and you have a Forgeborn Oreads out you can ping the guy you just bestowed to kill it.
One of the guys in our pool had a combo in his WB deck: Skybind + Gray Merchant of Asphodel. I never saw him pull it off but it seems like it would be pretty cool.
I had a Dictate of Kruphix which I flashed in at the end of my opponent’s turn. In my second main phase I would target my Triton Cavalry with a 1 cost spell and send the Dictate back to my hand. Repeat.
Net result: I got to draw two cards on my draw step, my opponent didn’t!
Combos with rares are obviously not a focus in limited, but fliers + fatty + Polymorphous Rush = victory. The Flying Octopus Squad helped me deal 10-20 points of damage to the face at a time at the prerelease (also note that the attack restrictions on the two large blue octopuses don't matter for this combo...as long as you cast rush after you've declared attackers it works fine).
More realistically, black has a wide variety of recursion effects that combo well with Constellation...especially notable with Grim Guardian. Black has a lot of cheap enchantment creatures (Spiteful Returned, Nyxborn Eidolon, Gnarled Scarhide) that play well into this strategy on an aggressive plan.
One more for the "going deep" category...Triad of Fates can do fun things with Constellation...it also works well with Supply-Line Cranes.
I had Grim Guardian + Forlorn Pseudamma going a couple times at the prerelease. I had a second Guardian and an Underworld Coinsmith in the deck, but I never got to fully go off there. Obviously this works with any desirable constellation trigger + any one of the inspired token cycle from Born, but Pseudamma has the advantage of built-in evasion and being in one of the better constellation colors.
I like the interaction with Pin to the Earth and Hubris. If you have both in hand, fire off that Pin early and just move it to a new target after resetting their guy.
I had a Doomwake Giant combined with a Satyr Nyx-Smith, though it might work better with God-Favored General, that did a lot of damage to the opponent as well as making some awfully favorable trades. Granted, it does require a rare, but I would imagine many of the Constellation triggers working well with the enchantment producing creatures. In addition, Akroan Conscriptor works wonderfully with many of the Strive cards being able to use a Phalanx Formation on both the Conscriptor and their fatty, whilst simultaneously gaining control of it is just fantastical.
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Basically, you drop the constellation guy giving evasion to your token maker and attack with the token maker. Every subsequent turn you make a token, triggering constellation to give evasion again.
Sacrifice Bearer to Rescue during your opponent's main phase (or during combat, or during your own second main phase, or whenever, depending on what you need to happen when -- just remember that Bearer's ability kicks in at "the beginning of the next end step"). At your next upkeep, Bearer comes back with his friend to find the battlefield otherwise empty, and presumably suddenly remembers why he never steps away "for just a minute" to run errands.
This also allows for the similar combo of Crystalline Nautilus + any targeting effect.
I remember one of my opponents casting the Crystalline Nautilus so that he could attack me with it. I targeted it with Oakheart Dryads’ ability and he was forced to sac. his Nautilus.
Sacrifice Bearer to Rescue during your opponent's main phase (or during combat, or during your own second main phase, or whenever, depending on what you need to happen when -- just remember that Bearer's ability kicks in at "the beginning of the next end step"). At your next upkeep, Bearer comes back with his friend to find the battlefield otherwise empty, and presumably suddenly remembers why he never steps away "for just a minute" to run errands.
Sacrifice Bearer to Rescue during your opponent's main phase (or during combat, or during your own second main phase, or whenever, depending on what you need to happen when -- just remember that Bearer's ability kicks in at "the beginning of the next end step"). At your next upkeep, Bearer comes back with his friend to find the battlefield otherwise empty, and presumably suddenly remembers why he never steps away "for just a minute" to run errands.
Just want to point out that the Crystalline Nautilus trick works with the white 2/3 constellation and the blue 4/4 constellation guys. I don't know the journey card names yet.
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-Terror is an emotion which, when experienced, results in death.
-The pox was a disease notorious for having killed one-third, rounded up, of Europe’s population. Smallpox, on the other hand, killed only a single person.
-A person riding a horse cannot be stopped by foot soldiers, large animals, walls, archers, or even catapults.
Crystalline Nautilus, if you bestow it on an opponents creature and you have a Forgeborn Oreads out you can ping the guy you just bestowed to kill it.
Riptide Chimera can lead to some sick things, bringing back Raised by Wolves and replayiing it leads to 4 2/2 wolves and your creature getting +4/+4. Dragon Mantle and cards like Fate Foretold and Stratus Walk are also amazing and keep drawing cards.
Chimera is also very good with bestow and heroic, as you can just recast bestow creatures triggering heroic.
Net result: I got to draw two cards on my draw step, my opponent didn’t!
More realistically, black has a wide variety of recursion effects that combo well with Constellation...especially notable with Grim Guardian. Black has a lot of cheap enchantment creatures (Spiteful Returned, Nyxborn Eidolon, Gnarled Scarhide) that play well into this strategy on an aggressive plan.
One more for the "going deep" category...Triad of Fates can do fun things with Constellation...it also works well with Supply-Line Cranes.
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Basically, you drop the constellation guy giving evasion to your token maker and attack with the token maker. Every subsequent turn you make a token, triggering constellation to give evasion again.
It is certainly a bit of a tempo hit, but it's not 2-for-1'ing yourself.
Also Spirespine + Sedge Scorpion e.g. "build your own Shriekmaw"
Sacrifice Bearer to Rescue during your opponent's main phase (or during combat, or during your own second main phase, or whenever, depending on what you need to happen when -- just remember that Bearer's ability kicks in at "the beginning of the next end step"). At your next upkeep, Bearer comes back with his friend to find the battlefield otherwise empty, and presumably suddenly remembers why he never steps away "for just a minute" to run errands.
Since the triggered ability is targeted, if there are no valid targets it is immediately removed from the stack.
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That's a nice one. I might have to try that.
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-Terror is an emotion which, when experienced, results in death.
-The pox was a disease notorious for having killed one-third, rounded up, of Europe’s population. Smallpox, on the other hand, killed only a single person.
-A person riding a horse cannot be stopped by foot soldiers, large animals, walls, archers, or even catapults.
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Oh my god. That's insane. Hope you built a deck with mill as it's only win con...
I played every removal and blue stall card I had, also I had the inspire two drop dimir tutor to get the phenax or midas.
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