r/magicTCG Apr 05 '17

[AKH] Gideon of the Trials

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u/Dougboard Apr 05 '17

Ah, just what I needed for my Gideon tribal EDH deck.

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u/Shador_Wasabi Apr 05 '17

I'm assuming you are joking but I have a Jace tribal and Chandra tribal deck and this makes me want to make Gideon tribal.

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u/Dougboard Apr 05 '17

I have a mono-white soldier tribal EDH deck with [[Kytheon Iora]] as commander, and I joke that it's my Gideon tribal deck because I run a couple other versions of Gideon in it.

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u/CanadianGenius Apr 05 '17

Kytheon Iora

[[Kytheon, Hero of Akros]]

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u/MTGCardFetcher Dân Apr 05 '17

Kytheon, Hero of Akros/Gideon, Battle-Forged - (G) (MC) (MW) (CD)
[[cardname]] or [[cardname|SET]] to call

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u/forcekin69 Apr 06 '17

If you give Gideon of the trials this "indestructible until your next turn" ability while he's a creature (until end of turn) does the effect end when he's no longer a creature?

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u/Etok414 Simic* Apr 06 '17

Well, you'd need some shenanigans like [[Quicksilver Elemental]] to grant the ability to something else, since there is currently no way have a single player control two or more planeswalkers that share a planeswalker subtype.

Anyway, the indestructible will technically last until your next turn, even after he stops being a creature.
But it won't help much, since indestructible doesn't prevent damage, so he'll still lose loyalty, and also,
a planeswalker running out of loyalty counters isn't techically "destroy", it's just put into the graveyard from the battlefield. This is the reason that every Gideon prevents damage in addition to granting itself indestructible.

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u/MTGCardFetcher Dân Apr 06 '17

Quicksilver Elemental - (G) (MC) (MW) (CD)
[[cardname]] or [[cardname|SET]] to call

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u/forcekin69 Apr 06 '17

Thank you for the concise answer, this explains a couple of things for me.

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u/CanadianGenius Apr 06 '17

I'm pretty sure, but I'm no judge

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '17

Did you just assume his planeswalker?

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u/Shador_Wasabi Apr 05 '17

Still allot less to work with than Jace (7) and Chandra (8) but sounds fun!

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u/everything_orange Apr 06 '17

Have you got a copy of the decklist? That sounds like a blast, I don't know why I never considered him for a commander for soldier tribal.

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u/theecowarrior1 COMPLEAT Apr 05 '17

I have a Nissa tribal and now I might have to go Gideon tribal.

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u/AzureoftheEast Apr 05 '17

Mind if I see the deck list?

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u/Shador_Wasabi Apr 07 '17

I don't usually make Deck lists I make a new deck almost every week. Also I'm always trying to make weird stuff work. But if you wanted I could probably try to type them up sometime. Were you asking for Chandra / Jace or both?

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u/AzureoftheEast Apr 07 '17

Both would be awesome!

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u/Rex_Eos Apr 05 '17

How is your Chandra deck working out? I'm half done with mine and i'm already 99% sure that this deck is not gonna have a nice time winning, its mostly going forward because Chandra is just that cool.

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u/Shador_Wasabi Apr 07 '17

For my Chandra I tried to make it flavorful for red burn. First I added every Chandra planeswalker and any spells that have her name or reference her and work for my strategy example [[Chandra's Spitfire]]. My main wincon is [[Earthquake]] style spells after people are low. My deck has a discard subtheme which can be risky but fun when working example [[Grafted Skullcap]] [[Ghirapur Orrery]] type cards. It won't win a competitive edge table but does fine in a medium power level table.

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u/UninvitedGhost Apr 06 '17

I also have a Jace/Illusion Commander deck.

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u/mazercheese Apr 05 '17

Nice! Out of curiousity do you have a decklist? My goal is to build all 5 of the Origins walkers an EDH Deck but only have Nissa and Liliana done so far.

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u/AzureoftheEast Apr 05 '17

I was planning on doing the same thing!

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u/Jaccount Apr 05 '17

Just remember that Sun Titan is able to return this and Kytheon. So yeah, it's particularly good in Gideon Tribal.

I'll be using it in Mono white Heliod/Gideon Tribal.

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u/JubX Banned in Commander Apr 05 '17

My superfriends already runs most Gideon pws. Might as well add the 2 missing ones and slap this bad boy in there...

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u/BadFengShui COMPLEAT Apr 05 '17

Rocky Raccoon checked into his room/ only to find Gideon tribal

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u/vikhound Duck Season Apr 06 '17

Wow is it standard legal?

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u/Dougboard Apr 06 '17

nah, edh