A friend of mine was asking me why I don't write blogs anymore. I said that I still write blogs regularly, but it just looks like I don't because TCGplayer moved my stuff into the 'actual writers' column. Also, my face doesn't adorn the thumbnail as it used to when I had my own little box in the upper right hand corner of the Magic page. Instead, it's usually some art from a card that is in the deck I am writing about, such as Patrician's Scorn in my last article. I just told him to look out for the 'TMP' tag. This seemed to help him.
But he pressed on, saying that even taking into account these changes thatI don't write as much as I used to. This is very true. I have been focusing a lot on my stand-up comedy career recently, and combined with my school and job responsibilities it leaves me little time for in-depth commentary and writing. That said, I could of course pump out an article or two per week but I would rather not do that. I have too much respect for the readers to simply churn out a cookie-cutter blog that didn't do anything to stimulate any discussion.
That said, after having my conversation with this friend of mine, I had an idea. It may not be the most innovative or original idea, but I think that there are some cards that folks have forgotten about.
To illustrate this point, take a look at this deck:
G/W Dudes
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Birds of Paradise
4 Wilt-Leaf Liege
4 Gaddock Teeg
4 Amrou Scout
4 Tarmogoyf
2 Saffi Eriksdotter
1 Mirror Entity
3 Oblivion Ring
2 Griffin Guide
2 Bound in Silence
2 Garruk Wildspeaker
4 Plains
4 Treetop Village
4 Wooded Bastion
4 Brushland
4 Horizon Canopy
3 Forest
Take a few multicolored 2/2s. Any multicolored 2/2 will do, but I say have between 6-8 of them in a given deck. Then throw in the Liege of the corresponding colors and voila! 4/4 for 2 mana.
This isn't the newest strategy ever, but it is being overlooked for some reason.
To ease deckbuilding I have consolidated the current list of 2-power allied multicolored creatures for 2 mana and the Liege that makes them humongous.
White-Blue (Thistledown Liege)
Sygg, River Guide
Puresight Merrow
Somnomancer
Blue-Black (Glen Elendra Liege)
Inkfathom Infiltrator
Oona's Gatewarden
*Honorable Mention* Sygg, River Cutthroat ('cos he's the nuts)
Black-Red (Ashenmoor Liege)
Spiteflame Witch
Red-Green (Boartusk Liege)
Radha, Heir to Keld
Spined Sliver
Tattermunge Witc
Vexing Shusher
Green-White (Wilt-Leaf Liege)
Gaddock Teeg
Saffi Eriksdotter
Those of you with astute observational skills will note that I missed a 2/2 for BR... Ghostflame Sliver. I hope you can figure out why.
I hope this has whetted your appetite. I will let you explore the world of exploitable 1- and 3-mana (and so on) creatures that can be exploited by the Lieges, from Tattermunge Maniac to Shadowmage Infiltrator to Kitchen Finks... and beyond!
Reubs
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