![]() ![]() This means you can use Athreos to steal an opponent’s creature that has activated abilities that cost colored mana to use, giving you its full potential. When your commander costs six mana you’re going to want plenty of mana ramp, but what makes Chromatic Lantern so awesome in Athreos is that it unlocks all colors of mana for you. Cast Athreos, attack with a creature equipped with this Sword, and you get to untap all your lands if you damage your opponent. I really like Sword of Feast and Famine in an Athreos deck since Athreos costs a whopping six-mana, and if you want to put a coin counter on a creature you don’t control after your end step you want to have mana open to kill it at instant speed. Problem, Athreos can bring that creature back from exile by putting a coin Of Erebos brings a creature card back from the graveyard during your turn, but during Put a coin counter on Salvager of Ruin and then you can use it to save any permanent that is put into your graveyard this turn. ![]() Striotic Resonator lets you copy Athreos’s triggered ability during your end step to put coin counters on two different creatures. If you put a coin counter on a creature with a powerful enters-the-battlefield ability, you can use Endless Sands to essentially blink the card and get the trigger again. Athreos has indestructible so the MagusĪctivation won’t destroy it, and if you keep putting a coin counter on it youĬan keep getting it back to use it again. Of the Disk is like Mangara with a wider range of destruction but unable toĭeal with permanents outside of artifacts, creatures or enchantments. Isn’t the only card that’s a super-spicy combo with Athreos: Mangara also supplies two pips towards Athreos’s seven devotion needed to become a creature. ![]() It feels to me that Athreos was designed with Mangara of Corondor specifically in mind-put a coin counter on it, and then when you activate Mangara to exile a permanent and Mangara, you get Mangara right back on the battlefield to do it again next turn. Being able to exile any permanent is a powerful ability and is worth jumping through some hoops to get to use it multiple times. You can activate Mangara and then respond by bouncing it back to your hand. Mangara of Corondor is a super-cool utility card that has seen play in Legacy, mostly in conjunction with Karakas since the exile is part of the activated ability’s effect not a cost. That’s a lot of cool things to think about, so let’s get into it-the Top 10 cards for an Athreos, Shroud-Veiled Commander deck! #1: Mangara of Reuse creatures that have a useful ability when they enter the battlefield orĪre sacrificed, or to steal valuable creatures your opponents may control inĬonjunction with your own removal spells. You can use Athreos to save creatures you don’t want dying or being exiled, to And third, the trigger happens not just if the creature dies, but also if it’s exiled-no matter if it dies to Terminate or get exiled by Swords to Plowshares, the trigger will happen and the creature will be returned to the battlefield under your control. Second, the coin counter can be placed on any creature, not just your own. Let’s dig into it!įirst, the ability has “haste” – you put a coin counter on a creature at the beginning of your end step after you cast Athreos. The new Athreos takes the choice away from your opponent and parcels out the get-out-of-the-graveyard-free coin in a more measured and much more powerful way. The old Athreos brought your creatures back from the graveyard after dying unless a target opponent payed 3 life. This Athreos costs twice as much as the original version, Athreos, God of Passage, but has much deeper strategic implications on deckbuilding. Was particularly excited about the new spin on the god Athreos and instantlyīegan thinking about building a Commander deck around it: Were recently treated to a holiday gift, some sneak peeks into the upcoming ![]()
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