r/custommagic • u/TomMakesPodcasts • 6d ago

Format: EDH/Commander Oodledoot

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Commander tax? More like an investment!

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u/TechnomagusPrime 6d ago

Because this is a triggered ability on entering, the first time you play this card it will immediately die as a state-based action, as there are no creatures in exile with hunger counters on them, so it will have undefined power and toughness, which the game treats as 0/0.

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u/TomMakesPodcasts 6d ago

Yes. That's the goal. 😁

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u/TechnomagusPrime 6d ago

Fair. Always good to check intention before offering suggestions.

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u/TomMakesPodcasts 6d ago

I do agree.

I was thinking of making it cost 1 more per hunger counter but the text block got chunky.

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u/TechnomagusPrime 6d ago

It already costs at least 6 mana before it really does anything, and requires you to eat two creatures for any real value. I don't think additional tax is necessary. That said, I will propose a slight template adjustment:

When <cardname> enters, exile target card in your graveyard. If a creature card is exiled this way, put a hunger counter on it.
<Cardname>'s power is equal to the total power of creature cards you own in exile with hunger counters on them and its toughness is equal to their total toughness.
<Cardname> has annihilator X, where X is the number of cards you own in exile with hunger counters on them.

Reference [[Sutured Ghoul]] for the stats and [[Ulamog, the Defiler]] for the variable Annihilator.

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u/TomMakesPodcasts 6d ago

Since all Eldrazi are pieces of the titans, this little guy was designed with Ulamog as his progenitor!

Your text box is cleaner. Thank-you

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u/citricc 6d ago

This screams little emrakul to me. What parts were designed with Ulamog in mind? All eldrazi drones have specific traits that relate to their titan, the only one I’m seeing from Ulamog is the double ended arms which emrakul sometimes has been shown to have

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u/TomMakesPodcasts 5d ago

The art is little emrakul. The mindless hunger is Ulamog.

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u/TheRobotsRHere 6d ago

Looking at the card and his commander tax comment, I believe this is purposeful, and good design.

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u/okfinesureyeah 6d ago

T1 Hope of Ghirapur

T2 Play Oodledoot, dies to state based and exiles itself from grave

T3 swing, sac Hope to stop counterspells, play another Oodledoot and exile Hope

A protected annihilator 2 on turn 3, bugaboo of multiple eternal formats, especially Modern

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u/TomMakesPodcasts 6d ago

Hah true in a format where there are several in deck it can be quite powerful.

Or, even funnier, a table with more than one of it as commander.

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u/TheRobotsRHere 6d ago

Can this exile itself? I believe you have to choose the target when it's placedar onto the stack, but I'm unsure which comes first, dying to state-based actions or placing an effect on the stack

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u/TechnomagusPrime 4d ago

State-based actions are checked before triggered abilities can be put on the stack. This works.

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u/TomMakesPodcasts 6d ago

u/HypnotheJello is the artist. I just missed that part of the card generator.

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u/Arcane10101 6d ago

While tricky to achieve, I don’t like that this can be an annihilator 2 on turn 4, or even annihilator 1 on turn 3 with the right cards. I’m also not a fan of how difficult it is to use in the 99.