#dihada binder of wills

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THE MAGIC PLANESWALKER ULTIMATE BRACKET, FIELD OF 32 PART 2!

It's a couple of meanies duking it out! Will Dihada's mass temporary steal beat Oko's permanent king-catching? Let's find out!

Make your choice!

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I fucking love Dihada, Binder of Wills and The Wise Mothman

Dihada has three abilities that are each worth building a deck around so you have options and decisions

The Wise Mothman is so good that I kept my deck headed by him instead of switching it to The Master, aka Richard Grey, aka one of the coolest and most iconic villains in the history of gaming

So there are more tumblr mtg players than I anticipated, it turns out. What's everyone's favourite commander?

I'll go first, Juri, Master of the Revue.

(Honourable mention to my meme deck where you have to get a date for Jenson Carthalion, Druid Exile by swiping left or right with his scry ability.)

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Dihada, Binder of Wills

Legendary Planeswalker - Dihada

Artist: Nester Ossandon Leal

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Dihada, Binder of Wills

Artist: Nestor Ossandon Leal TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

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THE MAGIC PLANESWALKER ULTIMATE BATTLE, SWEET 16!

We got a match up between Ursula and Hiccup! Who's gonna come out on top between these two board-presence-cheating titans? You're making the call on that one!

Make your choice!

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Depending on how much you squint, there's lots of those! I'm working under the assumption that you're being dragged into Commander, first, since that's the most popular format for newcomers, and is the best place to use a "pet card" of sorts. Vampires are the easiest: Olivia, Crimson Bride is my first choice; she want's to just absolutely run people over, and bring back anyone who dies in the process. Both her artworks are gorgeous, as well.

Olivia Voldaren herself benefits a slower gameplan, letting you turn other people's creatures into Vampires and take them for yourself. She doesn't slay quite as hard, though.

Those are the two most interesting Vampire Women in Black/Red (I don't much care for either version of Anje, just because their strategy is very narrow imo. Would be remiss not to mention them.) Depending on how far you wanna push the limits, Licia, Sanguine Tribune is an interesting lifegain/spend commander, and adds White mana which, as some have already mentioned, does a lot of what you might like. You can also just shove all of the other Vampires into the 99 still.

Demons- I will not lie, there are very few Demon Women. And only one of them is really "humanoid" and she has not a single ability. I guess Ziatora, the Incinerator could count? I don't think this really counts.

If we wanna stretch our definitions a smidge, Kaalia of the Vast is a lady with demon elements (among other things) that can let you summon lots of demons very quickly.

There's also a few Tieflings, which is probably closer to what you want anyways? Most notably, Karlach (as well as almost all the important BG3 characters) is here, and can be made into a hyper-aggresive sacrifice plan in B/R with something like Cultist of the Absolute or perhaps Agent of the Shadow Thieves. Any "Choose a Background" card isn't going to be very nuanced on their own, but getting a second Commander to build around gives them lots of directions you can take them, based on your Background choice.

Witches... I had to get a little creative with. They aren't their own creature type, usually split between Wizards or Warlocks, so I've used my best judgement. There's a few from Innistrad that are very witchy, but they don't seem like what you're looking for. Instead, consider Rowan, Scion of War. She's not so much a witch as a mage, admittedly, but she's in B/R and fits the goal of "Mess with life for value" very well. You lose a bunch of life to gain an advantage, and then cast very powerful spells for cheap.

We can sacrifice one of the two colors and replace it with green to get witchier®. By giving up red, we get Baba Lysaga, Night Witch. She wants to sacrifice lots of different types of cards (or just one card with lots of different types, if it's convenient), to get more cards to do it all again, draining out your opponents in the process.

If we instead sacrifice black, we get Agatha of the Vile Cauldron, who makes activated abilities cheaper based on her power. This can go lots and lots of different directions and half of them probably break the game. She also has a signature cauldron, which is great theming.

Lastly, by once again adding White instead, we get Dihada, Binder of Wills, who I'm pretty sure counts. She just wants you to have lots of legendary stuff, which is a great excuse to play a lot of fun cards.

Werewolves, sadly, have only one person who can reasonably build a deck around, and he's not a woman best I can tell. If you're playing with cool people, they might let you run a planeswalker as a commander, which would let you run Arlinn, the Pack's Hope or maybe just Arlinn Kord? I don't know which is better. You could also run them in the 99, but werewolves don't really line up with any sort of sacrifice gameplan anyways, so maybe not them.

Some bonus things- on top of lots of BG3 characters (minor spoiler warnings?), we also just got Doctor Who, which I am pretty sure is a series you like. If not, sorry, ignore the next chunk of text?

The Master, Multiplied is a B/R commander that can get very complicated if you let it, and is also maybe a woman by virtue of being everyone? I've watched the scene but I'm unqualified to comment on the gender identity of people turned into The Master.

Probably a better fit is Missy, with a very powerful first ability and a second ability to keep you fueled up (note: chaos ensuing is part of a spinoff format of sorts, but she's still strong without that doing anything).

There seems to be a lot of characters represented, so if you really like a specific character, especially a Doctor or Companion, they're probably here.

That's all I can come up with, I'm afraid. Forgive the extremely long and dubiously requested post, I suffer from Mental Illnesses. Hopefully this will have been of some help in finding a card to build around, or at least gives you a sense of direction. EDHREC and Scryfall are great places to look for other cards, if you know what you're looking for!

Sigh

So Sophie's getting me into magic the gathering

I've been using black and red decks

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THE MAGIC PLANESWALKER ULTIMATE BRACKET, ROUND THREE OF FOUR!

Let's face it - neither of these combatants is very nice. But you know what is nice? Mass creature theft and what is essentially Overrun in blue!... nice for you, that is. Which one do you like, gang?

Make your choice!

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THE MAGIC PLANESWALKER ULTIMATE BATTLE!

... oh my god, I hit Ctrl+Z ONCE and it blanked everything I wrote. FUUUUUUUCKING Tumblr!

Oko got creamed, Nick v. Nick was WAY too close. Here are your bouts. I'm gonna leave town for the weekend. Ugh.

Calix, Destiny's Hand vs. Vraska, Golgari Queen

Chandra, Torch of Defiance vs. Nicol Bolas, Dragon God

Venser, the Sojourner vs. Teferi, Master of Time

Daretti, Scrap Savant vs. Grist, the Hunger Tide

Dihada, Binder of Wills vs. Sarkhan, Unbroken

Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh vs. Ral Zarek

Kiora, the Crashing Wave vs. Vraska, the Unseen

Ugin, the Spirit Dragon vs. Garruk, Cursed Huntsman

Vote! Share! Comment with opinions! Do the things!

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THE MAGIC PLANESWALKER ULTIMATE BRACKET!

Welcome to week three, gang!

Phew! Sorry for the delays. BRAIN FUN. This is gonna get done, and not due to gritted teeth, but because this is FUN and I love seeing the discourse. You guys are great!

Now, as to last week, we had some folks get the taste slapped out of their mouth and some... well, there really was only one that was close. :P But we're having some great matchups and some of this week's are suuuuuuuuper spicy!

Here are the brackets!

Oko, Thief of Crowns vs. Tamiyo, Compleated Sage

Dihada, Binder of Wills vs. Tezzeret, the Seeker

Elspeth, Sun's Champion vs. Wrenn and Six

Sarkhan Unbroken vs. Kaito Shizuki

Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh vs. Ugin, the Ineffable

Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker vs. Wrenn and Seven

Sorin, Vengeful Bloodlord vs. Narset of the Ancient

Tamiyo, Field Researcher vs. Ral Zarek

Be sure to reblog these bad boys! And if you see any errors or goofs that I can change, lemme know and I'll fix it right away!

Have a great week!

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deck names: Bang Bang Bang (Pull My Magecraft Trigger)

Goldsmith Cats

The Sinister Icy Black Hand Of Death Club

Stop Decking Yourself, Stop Decking Yourself, Stop Decking Yourself

Sun Tzu's Animal Fight Club

The Party Don't Stop 'Til 1:11

I need a good name for my Dihada, Binder of Wills legend / reanimator deck

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THE MAGIC PLANESWALKER ULTIMATE BRACKET!

Things progress apace!

We got eight winners on our left side (plenty of blowouts, but a couple of squeakers too) and now another eight battles are about to commence! We got Spider-Dragon pointing at Spider-Dragon, nerds, someone who got usurped from the friend group, and so much more!

Here are the bouts!

Oko, Thief of Crowns vs. Dihada, Binder of Wills

Elspeth, Sun's Champion vs. Sarkhan, Unbroken

Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh vs. Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker

Narset of the Ancient Way vs. Ral Zarek

Kiora, the Crashing Wave vs. Teferi, Who Slows the Sunset

Vraska, the Unseen vs. Dack Fayden

Ugin the Spirit Dragon vs. Teferi, Hero of Dominaria

Garruk, Cursed Huntsman vs. Vivien, Monsters' Advocate

Share these bad boys around! Thanks!