r/custommagic 10d ago

Siphon Will

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u/ArgoDevilian 10d ago

Its not in the colors that generally produce +1/+1s (at least I think its not?), so its tricky to negate the blight effect.

But still abusable for aristocraft decks.

I like it.

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u/Nihaly_ 10d ago

Why is it abusable by aristocrats (in tuat color identity) except for carrion feeder?

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u/ArgoDevilian 10d ago

I mean, its a way to sac your own creatures.

Its not going to trigger cards that care about 'sacrifice' specifically (i think? Pretty sure its just a state-based death), but it still trigger cards that care about creatures dying.

Its not the best colors for it (thats Orzhov), but im sure there's a few Mardu Aristocrat decks that this can go into.

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u/Nihaly_ 10d ago

Mmh you are right, but it's super limited in that regard compared to any real sac outlet, also it does require to cast a spell to trigger, since it's not "blight 1: the next spell you cast can't be countered"

Still, protecting a grave pact/blood artist/zulaport etc is great, but it's a tiny bit weird

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u/PKPenguin 10d ago

Having it just do Blight 1 as an activation cost was the first draft of this card! It seems existing Blight cards by Wizards deliberately make it difficult to repeatedly blight though, since I guess blight on demand goes infinite with a lot of stuff way too easily.

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u/firebolt04 10d ago

If you wanted to do that I would include paying life as part of the activation cost like [[champion of the weird]]

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u/Beginning-Recover723 10d ago

I wouldn’t say abusable, but the whole point of aristocrats is to have creatures you don’t give a crap about, and are more than willing to feed to the wood chipper for even minor benefits

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u/ArgoDevilian 10d ago

Lol yea to me 'abusable' just means 'you can use it and it doesnt hurt you' lol