No love? It crushes aggro and also counterspells. Its weak against exile graveyard effects and has game against everything else. Bye bye uro= less yard hate
What isn't talked about is that channeler forces you to include more triton and the saga.
-its super hard to escape kroxa and keep channeler at 4/4. You discard a card for a chance to play something off top. Good not great. Its overall inefficient use of resources. If only channeler binned instead of exiling, it would be soooooo good.
Conversely, exiling cards naturally, more dedicated to exiling non creatures has zero inefficiency. How many times are you escaping in a game.
For 3 mana call, you can proc a kroxa etb trigger AND get either a 5/5 flyer or a deathtouch fireblade charger. That fireblade turns into: if you attack into it, it's going to kill 2 creatures. Or you could just sac it to village rites... and still kill a creature if you need the instant interaction/draw
Not only that but call gets back Lurrus which can proc kroxa every turn, without escaping.
This is a potentially faster version aggro/midrange deck that absolutely wrecks control AND has better creature control early on.
Take out ox, channeler, triton, tymaret saga. And replace with aforementioned combo, more or less.
Had a strong matchup against omnath, preban, and still eats rogues.
4 Fireblade Charger
4 Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger
4 Skyclave Shade
2 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
3 Bloodchief's Thirst
3 Heartless Act
4 Call of the Death-Dweller
4 Village Rites
2 Demonic Embrace
2 Agadeem's Awakening
2 Spikefield Hazard
2 Castle Locthwain
https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/3473162#paper
What isn't talked about is that channeler forces you to include more triton and the saga.
-its super hard to escape kroxa and keep channeler at 4/4. You discard a card for a chance to play something off top. Good not great. Its overall inefficient use of resources. If only channeler binned instead of exiling, it would be soooooo good.
Conversely, exiling cards naturally, more dedicated to exiling non creatures has zero inefficiency. How many times are you escaping in a game.
For 3 mana call, you can proc a kroxa etb trigger AND get either a 5/5 flyer or a deathtouch fireblade charger. That fireblade turns into: if you attack into it, it's going to kill 2 creatures. Or you could just sac it to village rites... and still kill a creature if you need the instant interaction/draw
Not only that but call gets back Lurrus which can proc kroxa every turn, without escaping.
This is a potentially faster version aggro/midrange deck that absolutely wrecks control AND has better creature control early on.
Take out ox, channeler, triton, tymaret saga. And replace with aforementioned combo, more or less.
Had a strong matchup against omnath, preban, and still eats rogues.