My biggest love of the Swords is that a single sword turns Marisi into a 3 turn clock with the right sword. Played against a mono-black deck on Saturday and after 2 swings with Marisi and Sword of Light and Shadow, they essentially worked for me for the rest of the game.
Total war doesn’t really do anything if you’ve hit them with marisi from what I can tell. They already have to attack with everything anyway?
It'll keep them from flashing out creatures at the end of turn to have blockers and their mana still open when they pass the turn. Kind of a niche scenario, but more common than one would think.
I actually proxied up a Marisi list this weekend and played a few games with it. Two games it got locked out because, naturally, this was the week a buddy decided to try out Aboshan, Cephalid Emperor. It was a lot of fun to play though. My deck tries to give evasion with Swords of XandY, so it's a little different than yours, but one thing I think both our lists would enjoy is giving our opponents tokens. Things like the Hunted creatures and Forbidden Orchard, go along with Generous Gift and Beast Within.
What I like is that you can still let damage happen, but end combat with any saboteur triggers still on the stack. Your voltron opponent swing his sworded up commander at your other opponent? Let the damage happen to knock them out, but end combat before the attacker can gain life, ping that, draw, untap, spill your soda, kick your dog, date your mom, become your new dad, get a creature back, proliferate, etc.
Seasoned Pyro pitching graveyard pieces and being able to be Sun Titan'ed back seems really good too.
I'm wondering if Smiting Helix is also worth a spot; Gifts into Bolt, Smiting and Lightning Helix's, and Snapcaster, ask OP how they prefer their 6 damage?
If I continue playing singleton Gifts, it would let me play Mardu Charm as well, which is a pet card.
I dont recall how it goes this year, but I'm really hoping this is a foil... or has a foil at some point. The art on the Weatherlight characters would pop in foil. Especially this and the new Gerrard art
Weirdly, if they follow the general convention for foils, Greven will be foiled but Gerrard will not.
But seriously, in a multiplayer game, you pass to the next player, activate it during their turn, and then you take the next turn after that; player 4 hates you.
I am a fan of the list though. It actually gave me an idea for the singleton version I was working on. Maybe I take it 5c to get as many "redundant" copies as possible, playing it a bit more like Jund splashing UW.
It'll keep them from flashing out creatures at the end of turn to have blockers and their mana still open when they pass the turn. Kind of a niche scenario, but more common than one would think.
I actually proxied up a Marisi list this weekend and played a few games with it. Two games it got locked out because, naturally, this was the week a buddy decided to try out Aboshan, Cephalid Emperor. It was a lot of fun to play though. My deck tries to give evasion with Swords of XandY, so it's a little different than yours, but one thing I think both our lists would enjoy is giving our opponents tokens. Things like the Hunted creatures and Forbidden Orchard, go along with Generous Gift and Beast Within.
I'm wondering if Smiting Helix is also worth a spot; Gifts into Bolt, Smiting and Lightning Helix's, and Snapcaster, ask OP how they prefer their 6 damage?
If I continue playing singleton Gifts, it would let me play Mardu Charm as well, which is a pet card.
Weirdly, if they follow the general convention for foils, Greven will be foiled but Gerrard will not.
But seriously, in a multiplayer game, you pass to the next player, activate it during their turn, and then you take the next turn after that; player 4 hates you.
I do believe it works exactly how you want it to work.
Please, gawd, no....
I am a fan of the list though. It actually gave me an idea for the singleton version I was working on. Maybe I take it 5c to get as many "redundant" copies as possible, playing it a bit more like Jund splashing UW.
Also, how many of those were worth more than a few dollars when the product was released?
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