[DSK] Duskmourn-ing a day without a new set

The Miracle cost on this seems wildly pushed to me:
https://i.imgur.com/TEiAHBJ.jpeg

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Originally Posted by H

The Miracle cost on this seems wildly pushed to me:
https://i.imgur.com/TEiAHBJ.jpeg

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not really, 1b for a 4/4 lifelink is practically the basic cost at this point, and getting both abilities to trigger off the miracle requires a lot of setup, BS and a reanimation target.

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Originally Posted by morgan_coke

not really, 1b for a 4/4 lifelink is practically the basic cost at this point, and getting both abilities to trigger off the miracle requires a lot of setup, BS and a reanimation target.

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Good point, Triumph is a 5/5 Lifelink for basically the same cost. But the reanimation effect seems kind of good. I guess we'll see.

It would have played very well along Grief.

In some hybrid decks, it might make a single fetchable witch's cottage playable, as well as some street wraith. But I doubt it.
It should be kind of good with dragon rage channeler too.

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Originally Posted by rufus

I doubt there's a legacy playable combo for it. It usually takes abilities from two other cards - e.g. Walking Ballista + Phyrexian Devourer - to turn this kind of copy effect into something game-winning, and three piece combos are only going to be viable if the pieces can stand on their own.

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Isn't there a legendary creature with an ability that could combo if we had 2 on the battlefield?

You could maybe try to do something with Loyal Retainers but that seems more cute than good

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Originally Posted by morgan_coke

not really, 1b for a 4/4 lifelink is practically the basic cost at this point, and getting both abilities to trigger off the miracle requires a lot of setup, BS and a reanimation target.

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Triumph sees play and has a wildly lower ceiling while not really being much higher as a floor- a 4/4 lifelinker isn't much worse than a 5/5 actually. They're both big enough to matter against most boards and out of bolt range but die to Dismember and most beefy creatures in the format.

Someone on the reddit thread also pointed out that it actually makes Worldy Tutor pretty good in Reanimator since you can use it to tutor for both cheap reanimation effect and be an Entomb with a surveil trigger on the stack.

https://mythicspoiler.com/dsk/cards/formlessgenesis.jpg

This seems fairly useful.
Having a retraceable spell with every creature type is bound to cause some shenanigans.

People played worm harvest way back in the day. 2 cmc less makes it playable I think. Seems decent in loam pox.

Cynical Loner seems like a powerful ability:

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Cynical Loner :1::b:

Creature — Human Survivor

Cynical Loner can’t be blocked by Glimmers.

Survival — At the beginning of your second main phase, if Cynical Loner is tapped, you may search your library for a card, put it into your graveyard, then shuffle.

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Though, I guess, legacy is rife with "kill me or lose" bodies. A simple thing would be to combine it with Stasis.

http://mythicspoiler.com/dsk/cards/o...hebalemurk.jpg

This looks like the best one out of the Overlord cycle. It can do some shenanigans with Vampire Hexmage where can turn it into a creature and get the Hexmage back immediately (either via the ETB or the attack trigger, depending on the order you play those two).