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Help me improve my dumb combo idea? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by jake_eric@lemmy.world to c/mtg@mtgzone.com
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I like the Trilobite creature type, I like Trilobites and I think it's funny that they put them on cards. Unfortunately there aren't nearly enough to make a deck out of and they don't do anything synergistic as a tribe... but I was thinking about what I could do with them anyway.

So, looking at [[Cryptic Trilobite]] and [[Scuttling Sliver]] I thought "there's gotta be something we can do with this." We just need a way to make Cryptic Trilobite a Sliver like [[Arcane Adaptation]] or [[Maskwood Nexus]] and a way to reduce ability costs like [[Training Grounds]]. Then it's infinite tap/untap! ...but that's basically a really expensive and unnecessary way to do the [[Horseshoe Crab]] combo, and there's no actual payoff without another card that gives you some other benefit from doing this.

Any ideas to make this actually useful?

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[โ€“] Cloaca@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@jake_eric
Any counter doublers or increasers with these two would go infinite if that is what you are looking to do.

For example with [[hardened scales]] on board you would pay one mana and tap the crypticfor two +1/+1 counters. Then you could pull both off for 4 mana and use 2 to untap and one to activate again.

[[Hivestone]] is a sliver specific ability to convert all creatures into slivers. [[Artificial Evolution]] is also a fun option for changing a creature type on a spell or permanent into something else.

[โ€“] jake_eric@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Ohh, those are great! I did a Google search for cards that make creatures into Slivers, but Hivestone didn't come up. Artificial Evolution is also a cool way to do it. Thanks!