I remember loving Blood Frenzy in my red aggro decks years ago. Along with it, Bloodlust (+4/-4, this can't kill the creature). It makes big creatures go down so quickly.
For Blood of the Martyr you don't need to worry about Blasphemous Act; it's a may trigger. You can even pick and choose which creatures you redirect damage from.
Idea for your Unique Builds series - Nalia de Arnise cleric kindred deck. I threw together a cleric deck last night after seeing you mention Battletide Alchemist in this video, and didn't like most of the traditional cleric commanders. I saw Nalia and thought the card advantage from being able to cast from the top of my deck would be a big help. And it was. Mine is approximately 4 wizards, 4 warriors, 4 changelings, and like 38 clerics. I mostly ignore the last ability to put +1/+1 counters on things and if I get a full party, it's just gravy. The real juice is casting from the top. So I have a lot of scry and mill cards and cost reducers to churn through my deck. It works surprisingly well (from my one game last night).
My pet card in commander is Festival. A gentlemanly way to survive a combat and only gets more relevant with the power creep on attack triggers/annihilator
Any video that includes Kithkin gets a automatic like from me. The alchemist was one of the first cards i grabbed out of my collection when making my black/white cleric deck
I love Blessing of Leeches! I use it in my Mortarion, Daemon Primarch "life is a resource" deck to guarantee I can make at least one warrior token every turn and keep my commander around.
I have Blessing of Leeches (and Soul Channeling, a similar regenerate aura) in my Queen Marchesa deck. It runs a lot of Brash Taunter type creatures that don’t have indestructible, so it’s a way of keeping them around slinging out more damage, especially if I can redirect it to them.
Bone dancer can be put into a dimir deck where you make your creature unblockable not only zombie tribal, you can use dauthi embrace or some land that make your creature unblockable :)
I really love this serie. The Kitkhin its good to play if you have enough clerics in play. 😊 im waiting some reprint of berserk to buy 4 of them to finish a deck. Maybe one more to commander format.
Blood funnel is a great card in combination with Lier, disciple of the drowned, as they prevent all spells from being countered. Also shuts off ward abilities of creatures that would counter your spells (you’d still have to pay ward cost for abilities).
Berserk fell off the radar because for the longest time it was just a (short-printed) A/B/U card that cost 85-90$ at a time Moxen could be got for 120-130$. It was the original Lethal Combat Trick. (The very first Gruul Deck was Kird Apes, Ball Lightning, Giant Growth, a couple Bloodlust, your Berserk, Wheel of Fortune, Fork, Fastbond, a couple Fireballs, and 3-point burn to round things out.) Man those were simple days. Seeing how high you could get a trampling Kird Ape’s power, lol. I won tournaments with that regularly until maybe mid-‘97. Probably hard for players from the post-4th Edition era to imagine there was a time that 0/1 Flying Regenerators were the pinnacle of defense. Until Ice Age was printed, Swords to Plowshares and Terror were literally the sum of what could deal with a Will-o’-Wisp or Yavimaya Gnat at Instant-speed.
Been running bequethal in my Oops all Permanents Muldrotha for a bit. And its so good to keep recasting it on stuff over and over and sacrificing or destroying opponents creatures to keep drawing 2.
Totally under played card is Calming Licid, only in 144 decks according to EDH Rec. I've used it for years and stops those big haymaker creatures in their tracks. Also hard to get rid of beacuse when its a creature you make it an aura it so it cannot be destroyed , when its an aura you stop the effect so it cannot be "disenchanted".
It’s great in any deck where it is a recurring effect. I love it in my Muldrotha deck. It would be great for anyone building a deck with the new Six as a commander which is Muldrotha-Lite.
I was actually wondering what you think about Soltari Guerrillas. :3c It's a card used in like 500 decks, total, and it's a 3/2 {2}{R}{W} Soltari Soldier with Shadow and "0: The next time Soltari Guerrillas would deal combat damage to an opponent this turn, it deals that damage to target creature instead." Despite being so criminally underplayed, that's a card that seems extremely useful in Soldier Tribal decks, where effects that cheat Soldiers out, give discounts, and give other soldiers +1/+1 are pretty much autoincludes. It's effectively unblockable and you can effectively assassinate _anyone's_ creature as long as you can get in on one opponent, and it's not a Fight effect, it just straight up deals its own damage to target creature. Double Strike also lets you double that effect and target two creatures. Even better, you don't _have_ to do that. You could decide to just deal the damage to an opponent's face if it would kill them or something. It would work extremely well with Myriad, I just discovered this card and I have no idea why nobody uses it. Shadow isn't a common effect, and it's not a blocker, but it works way better when it isn't blocking anyway. It's repeatable creature spot removal, and it can even target your own creatures if an opponent is giving you garbage that hurts you. It can even finish off a huge creature with more than 3 toughness that blocked something else but barely survived, and now they don't keep the creature anyway. It even works great against Goad decks, since they frequently have one or two creatures causing all the goad, and you don't need to attack that player to damage their creatures. :3c Even better, since it has no limit to how many times you can use it, if they cast a protection spell on the creature you just targeted, you can just switch the target for free by paying 0 again. This effect also counts as committing a crime in decks that care about those! This is basically unlimited crimes, too, since you target the creature whenever you use the ability, which costs 0. You don't even have to attack with it to use that ability, nor does it have to be your turn. It can be used right away even with summoning sickness, even if it already attacked this turn and can't do any more damage, even on other players' turns, so it can generate a huge amount of crimes, even with a "once per turn" limit on crime triggers. What a forgotten, slept-on card!
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="349">5:49</a> a similar card to this is Soul Channeling. Rather than 1 life each upkeep, it costs 2 life per Regeneration. I use it to pay myself down to 1 in decks where Near Death Experience is a win con. Do note that Soul Channeling lacks flash, though.
Good set of cards. I like to see how many of these obscure cards I've found and run before the video. I've put four of these in decks, before. I think the only one I had success with was Blood of the Martyr in Darien.
Battletide alchemist has always been one of my favorite cards and it always confused me why no one played it in any W deck with a cleric commander or one or two staples that just happen to be clerics.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="102">1:42</a> Battletide Alchemist in a Firja deck is a nonbo (unless you're playing Firja Clerics) since you want to be casting cheap spells. Shilgengar is a 5 drop from MH3 which seems like a much better fit. Obviously you can play both, but playing multiple 5 drops with a 5 CMC commander seems kinda bad
The problem with Bone Dancer is that you need to tell your opponents that they aren't allowed to reorder their graveyards I enjoy playing Blessing of Leeches, it's in my small stack of personal staples for when I care about my commander and have black Funny with Berserk, you can regenerate or indestructible its downside Titania's Song is criminally underplayed - Artifact deck got you down? Treasures? Food? Clean all that up as it not only animates them all by mana value, it strips all of the non-creature artifacts of their abilities
Does Battletide prevent Planeswalker damage? It sends like it should but my group said no but I would like opinions please. It was a planeswalker that did 2 damage to a player and I tried to use this to block but they overruled me. I searched online but didn't find much.
I believe you are misunderstanding the wording on Blood of the Martyr. You MAY redirect damage done to any NUMBER of creatures, this is a quite different than "any creature". You select which creatures damage is redirected from.
@@Dragon_Fyre Yep which could be useful in some situations to protect a creature an opponent controls that is benefitting you or really hurting another opponent.
No. It's one of the only "graveyard order matters" cards. It can only take the creature card on the top of the graveyard so you need to enforce keeping the graveyard in order if you use bone dancer. You ca't choose any creature you want from the gy.
