#goreclaw

[magic-the-girlbossing]

The Wanderer vs. Goreclaw

Magic: The Girlbossing Round 1, Match 26

[almostlookedhuman]

[mtg-art-daily]

Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma

You don't want to know how she got that name.

Artist: Svetlin Velinov

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma

You don't want to know how she got that name.

Artist: Svetlin Velinov TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[guarshroom]

"Goreclaw counts" my siblings in Magic HIS CREATURE TYPE IS BEAR!

[markrosewater]

Hiya Mark! Today is my birthday, and I would like to invoke birthday trivia please if that is okay! Is there anything you can share about my favorite woman in all of magic, Goreclaw?

Ethan Fleischer, winner of the second Great Designer Search, has a Commander deck based around Bears. I believe he made Goreclaw for that deck.

Happy Birthday!

[bastard-number-5]

Ok mtg moots, I am so fucking excited! As background info, I'm going to a standard tournament with a couple friends on the 21st of december and yesterday evening, I looked over my decklist with one of them. We did some tweaks, finished the sideboard, but ultimately couldnt quite finish it. I said I was gonna playtest it a bit and maybe find a ratio of combo "finders" and payoffs that works. I feel like at this point is a good idea to explain what my deck does. The idea of the deck is the cheat out [Omniscience] as early as possible by milling it and then casting [Abuelo's Awakening] or by using [Kellan Joins Up] to plot a [Bramble Familiar] and then cast the [Fetch Quest] for free the turn after. With Omniscience on the field, I can do whatever I want, right, but I opted for playing things like [Atraxa, Grand Unifier], [Valgavoth, Terror Eater] and multiple [Rune-Scarred Demon]s. Now my "issue" was that I didnt just want to make a big board of flyers, I wanted to kill my opponent the same turn, so i put in [Surrak and Goreclaw] to give my stuff haste. The issue with that is that surrak and goreclaw need to be on the board before the rest of the threats, which is annoying. So I experimented with putting in [Imodane's Recruiter] so I can go demon into demon into demon into demon into recruiter. That also proved to not be very reliable though as I often just mill over the recruiter and then cant get him back onto the board. So, after some scryfall searches to find better alternatives, I had an epiphany: I can play [Rakdos Joins Up] and [Hulking Metamorph]. If i reanimate Rakdos joins up qith abuelos, then reanimate the metamorph with rakdos joins up, the metamorph can copy rakdos joins up, dies bc of the legend rule, reanimates itself, rinse and repeat until the rakdos joins up kills the opponent with its second effect. The best part about this though, is that that doesnt need to be what I go for 100% of the time. I can still just abuelos on the rakdos joins up to get like an atraxa back, or i can still abuelos an omniscience and vomit out big threats. Furthetmore, I can play more "aggressive" cards that search for my combo pieces, meaning stuff like [Founding the Third Path] with just mills and only gets back instant sorceries, not permanents like the kellan joins up or the bramble familiar. I can play such cards because abuelos is the only card i need in my hand, the rest can go to the yard. And then I askef myself, what to do if abuelos gets countered or milled over with fetch quest. While founding the third path is an obvious choice here, i also became fond of the [Daring Waverider], which can cast abuelos from my graveyard on etb for free! I cant wait to get home so I can work out the details, I'll send the decklist when i'm finished!

[whatsthatmagiccard]

Ongoing list of the cards under the MB2 playtest cards, as per the official card image gallery. Just text. There's so many. Somebody go put these into the Scryfall Tagger like they did last time.

Interestingly, not all cards that directly reference another make the backing card visible as part of the joke (see Intangible Vibes).

If there wasn't a direct reference, usually, they just used the most recent card they had that fit the frame. Unique cards are bolded.

A Girl and Her Dogs + Abbot of the Sacred Meeple + Defender of the Queue + Jeskai Baller + Knight of Lost Causes + Noble Ox + Plain Walker + Sliver of Hope + Tax Taker -> Phyrexian Pegasus (MOM)

Arcanum Things + Avacyn's Collar, the Symbol of Her Church -> Kor Halberd (MOM)

Brigid, Who's Seen Some Stuff -> Brigid, Hero of Kinsbaile (LRW)

Champion of the Hareish -> Champion of the Parish (DDQ)

Essence of Ajani + Friarball -> Surge of Salvation (MOM)

Intangible Vibes -> Intangible Virtue (ONC)

Muraganda Eldrazi -> Eldrazi Displacer (OGW)

New Master of Arms -> Master of Arms (WTH)

Alberix, the Trade Planet + Duelist's Convocation International + Heart of a Duelist + Map to Lorthos's Temple + Two by Four -> Temporal Cleansing (MOM)

Blurry Visionary + Catch of the Day + No-Regrets Egret + Panglacial Shinobi + Search Elemental -> Preening Champion (MOM)

Can't Quite Recall -> Ancestral Vision (TSR)

Night of the Flying Merfolk -> Kiora Bests the Sea God (THB)

Subgoyf -> Sharding Sphinx (MOC)

There / They're / Their -> Said / Done (MH2)

(Wisedrafter's Will is inconclusive; digital print)

(Your Wish is My Command is inconclusive)

(Call from the Grave is inconclusive, though likely Call to the Grave (SCG))

Cleaver Blow + Common Black Removal + Halving Season + TL;DR + You Compleat Me -> Vanquish the Weak (MOM)

Creepy Crawler + Lifening Elemental + Magus of the Chains + Pinchy McStingbutt -> Nezumi Informant (MOM)

Lich's Duel Mastery -> Lich's Mastery (DOM)

Liliana's Other Contract / Liliana's Undead Minion -> Grasping Shadows (LCI)

Odric, Lunar Marquis + Toofer, Keeper of the Full Grip -> Syr Konrad, the Grim (likely MOC)

The Many Deeds of Belzenlok -> Rite of Belzenlok (DOM)

Yawgmoth's Day Planner -> Witch's Cauldron (CMM)

All-Star Kicker + Boulder Jockey -> Trailblazing Historian (MOM)

Bolshak Dragon -> Shivan Dragon (M20)

Boltfire -> Firebolt (MH1)

(Dwarven Confluencer is inconclusive)

(Flanking Licid is inconclusive, but likely Convulsing Licid (STH) or Enraging Licid (TMP))

Gobland -> The Autonomous Furnace (ONE)

Immerstum Battlefield + Planeswalkerificate + Snap Judgement + Toddler's Rage -> Volcanic Spite (MOM)

Pyromancy 101 -> Start From Scratch (STX)

Vuzzle Spaceship -> Shrapnel Slinger (ONE)

Wormhole Warp -> Chaos Warp (likely MOC)

(Zone of Flame is inconclusive)

(Built Bear is inconclusive)

Dairy Cow, Flavor Nightmare, Phyrexian Seedling, Spuzzem Strategist, Starting Town NPC -> War Historian (MOM)

Glade of the Pump Spells -> The Hunter Maze (ONE)

Keeper of the Crown / Coronation of the Wilds -> Lovestruck Beast / Heart's Desire (ELD, showcase)

Meandered Towershell -> Meandering Towershell (KTK)

Naturalize 2 -> Naturalize (M19)

Penumbra Umbra -> Penumbra Spider (MM3)

Plant a Sapling / Fully-Grown Treefolk -> Herbology Instructor (MOM)

Questing Cosplayer -> Questing Beast (ELD)

Teferi, Druid of Argoth -> Surrak and Goreclaw (MOM)

The Colossal Dreadmaw -> Colossal Dreadmaw (XLN)

Werewhat -> Tireless Hauler / Dire-Strain Brawler (MID)

Wrenn and One -> Wrenn and Realmbreaker (MOM)

Anax and Cymede & Kynaios and Tiro + Convention Maro + Chea, Friend to Maybe Too Many + Hish of the Snake Cult + Wowzer, the Aspirational -> Niv-Mizzet, Supreme (MAT)

Chatzuk, Mighty Guitarist -> Melira, the Living Cure (ONE)

Don't Worry About It -> Growth Spiral (DMC)

Fludge, Gunk Guardian -> Yargle and Multani (MOM)

Glimpse, the Unthinkable -> Hidetsugu and Kairi (MOM)

Jund 'Em Out -> Rebuild the City (MAT)

Lutri, Pauper Otter -> Lutri, the Spellchaser (IKO)

Mothers Yamazaki -> Djeru and Hazoret (MOM)

Narod, the Beige Flower -> Doran, the Seige Tower (LRW)

Pokey, the Scallywagg + Terry Pin, Turboturtle -> Baral and Kari Zev (MOM)

Rin and Seri, Inseperabler -> Rin and Seri, Inseperable (M20)

Stone Drake -> Halo Forager (MOM)

Wrath of Finkel -> Shadowmage Infiltrator (inconclusive)

Indicate -> Vindicate (EMA)

Kozilek, Compleated -> Kozilek, Butcher of Truth (ROE)

Marchesa's Surprise Party + Rule with an Even Hand -> Sovereign's Realm (CN2)

Omnipresent Impostor -> Farfinder (IKO)

Who's That Praetor? -> All Is Dust (UMA)

Luxior, Ignited -> Luxior, Giada's Gift (SNC)

Microscope -> Urn of Godfire (MOM)

(Mox Poison is inconclusive)

(Orb of Origin is inconclusive)

Runed Terror -> Skittering Surveyor (MOM)

Fetching Garden -> Blossoming Sands (MOM)

Lazotep Archway -> Scoured Barrens (MOM)

Madlands -> Bloodfell Caves (MOM)

Maestros' Totally Safe Hideout + Omenpath to Naya + Processing Plant + Temur Elevator + Under-Construction Skyscraper -> Jeskai Monastery (MOC)

Slumbering Waterways -> Thornwood Falls (MOM)

The Heron Moon -> Geier Reach Sanitarium (CMM)

Value Town / Take a Trip To... -> Swiftwater Cliffs (MOM)

[mtgtips]

Magic the Gathering tip: Get a monogreen value engine going that lets you cast your entire goreclaw, terror of qal sisma deck full of creatures all on the same turn and get hit with the most massive wave of dopamine you'll ever experience.

Magic the Gathering tip: this sounds like you’re speaking from experience

[dailymtgflavortext]

I wanna hear more about your Thromok deck. I had a fling deck based around it, but it was slow and inconsistent and easily disrupted.

Absolutely, here's the deck as it currently stands:

Thromok

Originally the deck made a lot more tokens, but I guess I've sort of veered away from that strategy over the years. Of course there are still some tokens, but it's more about getting things into play and then gobbling them up when you're able to win.

The problem is that Thromok isn't good. Yeah, it gets huge, but without trample, haste, and a way to take out multiple players you're kinda stuck. So buffs like Surrak and Goreclaw, Xenagos, and Giant Ankheg are extremely important. Heart-Piercer Manticore does offer a "fling" strat in there, and Pathbreaker Ibex turns your entire board (or what's left of it) into Thromoks as well.

I've been experimenting a bit with 2-mana mana dorks that tap for 2, and they've been doing okay. A loooong time ago I had more Wood Elves effects to ramp, but they're too slow now to rely on entirely.

Since this deck is entirely creatures and lands, I've also added in a bunch of hate effects for other types. Ruric Thar can be game-warping against some decks (heck, even Magebane Lizard can be), and cards like Arasta and Heartwood Storyteller give you extra value when your opponents do stuff. It's a neat little sub-theme that makes games more interesting.

Finally, and this was the most fun part of building the deck, I got to dig really deep to find weird "instant/sorcery-like effects" to use instead of true instants or sorceries. Sure, technically the Adventure cards have instants attached, but in the deck they're still creatures. But, Trumpeting Carnosaur is also a (bad) Lightning Bolt! Magus of the Order is a (bad) tutor! Generous Patron is a (bad) Divination! Weaknesses are part of what makes a deck fun, and building this way in spite of that has been a blast.

[dimestoretajic]

if yargle paired with goreclaw instead

[toskarin]

Ms Toska of the Rin, could I have a bit of deckbuilding advice for MTG?

I have a goreclaw deck, yannow. Big stompy. Commander. Creatures. And as always I've been wanting to improve my mana production, for those massive pop-off turns where I cast like a dozen massive bodies through cards like nyxbloom ancient/vorinclex and stuff that draws me cards on creature cast or ETBs.

And I've been looking at my Nissa, Who Shakes The World and I've been looking at her passive and I've been looking at her ult. And those are really really tempting. But. She's five mana. And while sure that's not really an issue in monogreen ramp, it's a matter of opportunity cost. She's not getting cost reduced by most of my options there. She's not going to directly contribute to my board state. Her 3/3 lands don't ping off of Goreclaw's combat ability and all it does is make them vulnerable to creature removal. And she herself is kinda vulnerable.

But it's another mana multiplier. Another mana multiplier.

Truly I am in a bind.

[my eyes glaze over because I don't actually play mtg] oh you definitely want those numbers up

[angel-advise]

if i had a pussy i would give it a name like deathtron or goreclaw and i would put my fingers in it also i think. is that what you do with them

[mtg-art-daily]

Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma

You don't want to know how she got that name.

Artist: Svetlin Velinov

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma

You don't want to know how she got that name.

Artist: Svetlin Velinov TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[markrosewater]

At the beginning of upkeep, I'd like to move birthday trivia phase please!

Can you please tell me anything about Duskana, Ayula, or Goreclaw? Love me some Bear facts.

Ethan Fleischer has a bear deck and is a huge fan of bears. Many bear cards have his hand in them.

Happy Birthday!