Ok, here's the deal. I've been working on an online extended version of the life deck and it currently uses Lightning Greaves for repeated targeting. Shuko however, has 2 big advantages over Greaves: it only costs 1, and you can go off with only 1 creature in play. Could this make the Life deck playable in online extended, and later paper extended when it rotates?
I think that it could work. although life looses a combo piece from all 3 catagories( en-kors, worthy cause, task force) it still has good search cards to get these and sterling grove to get the enchantments. however, i think that leonin shikari is gonna be included in the deck because the good thing about life was that it could go off at instant speed. the shikari allows it to do that again and also acts as the second creature for the equipment go switch to.
Once again I must state you do NOT need a second creature. You can target the same creature over and over again, which I have done with Grafted Wargear online. The problem with Wargear is that it costs 3 and has a tendency to kill your creatures when it gets destroyed, so I use Greaves and need 2 creatures. The Shuko solves all these problems. As for tutoring, you have Steelshaper's Gift, Living Wish, Eladamri's Call, Sterling Grove, and Commune With Nature, all of which are fast enough to provide an extremely consistent turn 4 combo.
I've also worked on a Cephalid Breakfast list, which will be just as happy to use this card, although it will then need to run a mountain and Anger to get the Ghoul hasty, something the Greaves previously took care of.
Once again I must state you do NOT need a second creature. You can target the same creature over and over again, which I have done with Grafted Wargear online. The problem with Wargear is that it costs 3 and has a tendency to kill your creatures when it gets destroyed, so I use Greaves and need 2 creatures. The Shuko solves all these problems. As for tutoring, you have Steelshaper's Gift, Living Wish, Eladamri's Call, Sterling Grove, and Commune With Nature, all of which are fast enough to provide an extremely consistent turn 4 combo.
I've also worked on a Cephalid Breakfast list, which will be just as happy to use this card, although it will then need to run a mountain and Anger to get the Ghoul hasty, something the Greaves previously took care of.
couple of things, yes, you can equip the same piece of equipment to a creature multiple times, the reason it doesn't work w/ lightning greaves is obvious (aka RTFC, kids).
personally, i don't see thsi fitting into life.dec this season, maybe next season when it'll have a harder time doing its thing.
and as for cephalid breakfast, dragon breath doesn't rotate out chief
Doh, I completely forgot about the breath! This deck is actually looking really good. (And BTW, I'm not talking about Life.dec for paper Extended, but for Online Extended, and later paper when it rotates)
the real problem with online Life.dec is that you can't just say, "i'm doing this a billion times, sac". you actually have to click on your equipment, click on a guy, click on the equipment again, then click on the guy, so on and so forth. it's not so much that it's tiring, its more of time consuming, as in feasibly you can gain a total of 300-400 life max per game, also considering the fact that you gain life points one by one on a counter that flashes painfully slowly as its gaining the life. 300-400 is not impossible for a good bidding deck to deal in 2-4 turns.
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I've also worked on a Cephalid Breakfast list, which will be just as happy to use this card, although it will then need to run a mountain and Anger to get the Ghoul hasty, something the Greaves previously took care of.
couple of things, yes, you can equip the same piece of equipment to a creature multiple times, the reason it doesn't work w/ lightning greaves is obvious (aka RTFC, kids).
personally, i don't see thsi fitting into life.dec this season, maybe next season when it'll have a harder time doing its thing.
and as for cephalid breakfast, dragon breath doesn't rotate out chief