I'm curious to get some ideas thrown around regarding Eldritch Evolution. What are some plays you see with great value? What are some chains of plays you imagine as quite strong? I think it's a very cool card. It's reminiscent of Birthing Pod, but in some ways it's much more flexible as it allows the player to choose from a range of CMC.
What do you think? Or, what plays have you made with it if you have tried it out?
I've been thinking recently and first of all, I hate that it exiles itself. It would open up a really cool deck of it didn't. Imagine saccing a Matter Reshaper to grab a Goblin Dark-Dwellers, flashing back the Evolution, sac Dark-Dwellers to grab a 7-drop.
Alas, this is not the case.
As such, I think one of the best plays is Thalia's Lancers, go grab a legendary, Evolution, saccing lancers, go grab Bruna, Brunas CITP brings back Lancers, allowing you to go grab another Legendary. Off that single play, you can have something like a 4/4 first strike, a 5/7 Flying Vigilance, and I dunno, Kalitas and Thalia in hand?
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I think the best use for it in standard would be to get it in the graveyard with a mill or discard effect, then play Goblin Dark-Dwellers and cast it for free on turn 5. Sac the GDD and you have an dragonlord atarka on turn 5.
The trouble with eldritch evolution is that sacing is part of the casting cost and not an effect of the spell, meaning that it can be spell quellered and you will lose the sacked creature in addition to the counter.
5-drop into Bruna is probably the best play you can make right now. Aside from Thalia's Lancers there's also General Tazri and Priest of the Blood Rite as options. Archangel Avacyn would be insane if she didn't say non-Angel, but she's better than the others on her own so that's also an option.
the only hope for EE to have a chance to see standard play is tagging on to creatures with leave the battle field/dies effects...into a creature that has an EBF effect
this way you don't get 3 for 1'd when your creature gets killed/bounced
the pool of qualified creatures to choose from at sorcery speed is very limited in standard right now
I've been thinking recently and first of all, I hate that it exiles itself. It would open up a really cool deck of it didn't. Imagine saccing a Matter Reshaper to grab a Goblin Dark-Dwellers, flashing back the Evolution, sac Dark-Dwellers to grab a 7-drop.
Alas, this is not the case.
As such, I think one of the best plays is Thalia's Lancers, go grab a legendary, Evolution, saccing lancers, go grab Bruna, Brunas CITP brings back Lancers, allowing you to go grab another Legendary. Off that single play, you can have something like a 4/4 first strike, a 5/7 Flying Vigilance, and I dunno, Kalitas and Thalia in hand?
I somehow skipped the exile text when I first read it and thought of going t1 manadork into t2 ee for witness returning ee into t3 ee for darkdwellers flashback ee for protean hulk or something in modern.
Yep! That would have been EPIC! And you could've done something similar in standard with Greenwarden of Murasa! Or if the did the Seasons Past/ Ever After thing where it goes on the bottom, there could have been some sweet synergy with Sidisi. But nooooooo, Wizards has to put clauses on stuff to stop combo decks from dominating.
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I'm curious to get some ideas thrown around regarding Eldritch Evolution. What are some plays you see with great value? What are some chains of plays you imagine as quite strong? I think it's a very cool card. It's reminiscent of Birthing Pod, but in some ways it's much more flexible as it allows the player to choose from a range of CMC.
What do you think? Or, what plays have you made with it if you have tried it out?
Alas, this is not the case.
As such, I think one of the best plays is Thalia's Lancers, go grab a legendary, Evolution, saccing lancers, go grab Bruna, Brunas CITP brings back Lancers, allowing you to go grab another Legendary. Off that single play, you can have something like a 4/4 first strike, a 5/7 Flying Vigilance, and I dunno, Kalitas and Thalia in hand?
About Mindslaver rulings:
The trouble with eldritch evolution is that sacing is part of the casting cost and not an effect of the spell, meaning that it can be spell quellered and you will lose the sacked creature in addition to the counter.
this way you don't get 3 for 1'd when your creature gets killed/bounced
the pool of qualified creatures to choose from at sorcery speed is very limited in standard right now
I somehow skipped the exile text when I first read it and thought of going t1 manadork into t2 ee for witness returning ee into t3 ee for darkdwellers flashback ee for protean hulk or something in modern.
About Mindslaver rulings: