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Feb 3, 2014Mouse posted a message on Launch Giveaway!My favorite Commander out of my EDH collection is Ghave, Guru of Spores. He makes tokens, messes with combat math, enables combos, synergizes with Persist and Undying, and acts as a utility mana sink for big mana. What's not to love!?Posted in: Announcements
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So... basically, any build beside your own is irrelevant. And people shouldn't consider alternate build as valid. And it doesn't matter because that's not what you want to be doing with the deck. So you don't want to hear about how a card might be good in another situation.
Gotcha.
1. He hoses Bridge from Below. This improves the Dredge matchup.
2. He complicates combat math for the opponent. Meaning that however he chooses to block, you're going to get the trade or damage that YOU want, based on YOUR choices and lines of play, not his.
3. He allows you to retain on board value in spite of removal spells. Someone Lightning Bolt your Vault Skirge or Abrupt Decay your Cranial Plating. You just sac and retain some value. This improves the Burn, UR Delver, UWR Delver, and RUG Delver matchups.
4. He actually gives you maindeck game against a Reanimated Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite. I have held off an Elesh Norn from being able to attack with a 5/5 or 6/6 Ravager on turn 2 many times. This improves the Reanimator matchup.
5. He hoses Batterskull. You can safely attack or block into a creature equipped with Batterskull and sacrifice before combat damage to prevent the lifegain. This improves the Stoneblade and Deathblade matchups.
6. He may not synergize well with Cranial Plating, but he does synergize well with Etched Champion. Allowing you to safely dump your counters on a creature that cannot be touched by colored spells or creatures.
7. Players will often sideboard Pithing Needle for Cranial Plating. Ravager essentially gives you backup copies of Plating that get around this or force your opponent to have multiple needles.
8. He can allow you to sacrifice your own Tangle Wire if you need to keep your stuff untapped. A useful trick for those of us on the Wire plan.
9. He gets around Humility. +1/+1 counters are not effected by Humility.
10. He eats extra copies of Mox Opal for value. Cranial Plating cannot get value out of these.
11. At his worst (when you don't want to sacrifice anything), Ravager is a 2 CMC creature that pumps another creature when it dies.
Arcbound Ravager is great once you start looking at the interactions it has with other decks. He is the artifact Tarmogoyf.
That said. I haven't really gotten into the kickstarter thing. But supporting others' projects seems cool.
Also, how much weight are you wanting to lose?
Does anyone have any specific starter advice/tips for the deck?
Follow up question - how do you feel about the popularity of Lava Spike in sideboards?