But it's proven itself to be an extremely scary card thanks to its ability to start duplicating itself, rather than making a 1/1 Insect token, once we get up to six lands. Its a tad expensive and requires that no interaction takes place, but so do a lot of other multi-card combos. Unfortunately, here in the real world, It only AT BEST trades with the bigger threats holding an Embercleave. 27 10 1 22. All rights reserved. Is Koth actually good? Wizards of the Coast, Magic: The Gathering, and their logos are trademarks of Wizards of the Coast LLC. This matchup is grindy, but another matchup that is even. Be careful: in the late game with a beefed-up Ivy, it can become draw your library instead. I suggest picking the most powerful engine you have in your hand at the time to put on the battlefield. by artontherun. Highlighting the Pauper format where only Commons are allowed. Lovestruck Beast: This card has become a standard staple. I cut Lotus Cobra because it is a terrible blocker, attacker, and a magnet for the Bonecrusher Giant. Alchemists refuge lets you cheaply play nonland cards as though they had flash. Heliods Intervention can be used in the late game to clean up the board when we have fallen behind. The immediate 3/3s are great, and I can easily see a spot for her in the sideboard but now is not the time. But this matchup swings in our favor post board in my opinion because we bring so much to the table. I added four copies of Migratory Greathorn because it fits in with our strategy finding a land upon mutating. Instead of waiting for a Mutate creature and trying to go off with Scute Swarm the way Simic does, this deck pairs the bugs with Felidar Retreat. Utokian Fractalnator Otherwise I always get the immediate threat or Lurrus. I think the downside to playing Greathorn is low. You might think cutting Greathorn is the response but I dont think so. Then your scutes get nice big bodies. Dreamtail Heron. 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It's convoluted, but I still find it very clever: . My name is The MTG Hero. Ivys ability has some interesting connotations. /s, Can you give some examples when Scute Swarm came in clutch, and some where it under-performed or was disappointing? Migratory Greathorn. Well thats simple. He enjoys the deck building aspects of Magic and describes himself as a better designer than a pilot. It's also important to know that we're going to get two- or three-for-oned on occasion when our opponent manages to kill our mutate pile. Well Doomskar is your best answer to Mono-W aggro. I cut Greathorn because it is just too easily punished with removal or a counter. Showcasing offbeat brews from around the internet. Yeah, they can bounce it but we can recast it. Discussion. Follow me on Twitch and subscribe on YouTube! By changing up the sideboard and replacing a couple of the less important main-deck mutaters, we can get the cost of the deck down to just eight rares (four Scute Swarm and four Gilded Gooseand if you wanted to go really deep, you could drop the Gilded Goose for something like Ilysian Caryatid, although I wouldn't recommend it) and zero mythics. Migratory Greathorn tutors a basic land onto the . While I'm not sure it can be top tier thanks to the Ugin problem, it does seem good enough to rank up on the Arena ladder (especially against non-Ugin decks), and it's super fun to play, doing some truly spectacular things thanks to Scute Swarm! Set: Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths Type: Creature Beast Common Cost: {3}{G} Mutate {2}{G} (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature . Against Control decks cards like Esika's Chariot and Felidar retreat will bait out control decks' removal and then get run over by Scute Swarm. Gladecover Scout is a mutation target built in hexproof for a single green mana. 4. 26% of 7827 decks +26% synergy. . I bring in Elspeth Conquers Death because it takes care of basically everything in their deck. Otawara, Soaring City is another bounce source if you really need to get something out of your way. Join our Premium community, get access to exclusive content, remove all advertisements, and more! Deploy lands for mana Ramp as much as you can possibly ramp; Play scute swarm Mutate migratory greathorn onto scute swarm Continue to mutate it and search out lands till you can send in a stamped to swing; Deck. We're hoping Third Path Iconoclasts will help us make this Grixis Artifacts deck a bit more aggressive! Let's go all-in on ultimating it with the help of proliferate spells like Volt Charge and Staff of Compleation and find out! We bring in Glass Casket to help slow them down and remove Lovestruck, Mammoth and Bonecrusher. 21-22. Dreamtail Heron. As for our non-budget build, the non-land cards in the main deck remain unchanged, but we do get some meaningful upgrades in the mana base and sideboard. Auspicious Starrix stacks a pseudo-cascade effect each time it mutates. Theres repeatable artifact and. Learn about the most powerful format that spans Magic's entire history. Some have been hits (see: Jodah, the Unifier) and some have been misses (see: any commander with domain because youll always be limited by its colors). Sea-Dasher Octopus draws you a card when that creature deals combat damage to a player. Dude I just played had 3 Innkeepers and a Scute, couldn't even destroy enough of his cards with spells to stop him. Pouncing Shoreshark is our primary main-deck removal spell, allowing us to bounce one of our opponent's creatures whenever we mutate, while flash can do some cool tricks like letting us make Scute Swarm copies on our opponent's end step so we can untap and immediately attack for the win. Littjara Mirrorlake is another way to get the token train started. It would have gotten messy, but I may toss that decklist out someday if anyone is interested. Your email address will not be published. 96% of 7827 decks +95% synergy. When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Plus, as a bonus, you'll probably get to break Arena on occasion by Scute Swarming until its brain explodes! At any point, you can throw down a mutate target and get it online. At the end of it all, I am very pleased to finally see mutate get a bit of limelight again and hope that this will hold me over until we go back to Ikoria. It reads Whenever a player casts a spell that targets only a creature other than [it. The additional creatures (if you targeted any), Errant, and Ivy phase out, and then all other nonland permanents are returned to their owners hands. The sideboard, on the other hand, could use some tweaking. The big key is not letting them curve out into The Great Henge. Auspicious Starrix. 4 Cultivate (M21) 177 4 Cultivate (M21) 177 Low Curve Deck - You need 2 lands on turn 2 but would like 3 lands on turn 3 for some 3-drops . Meanwhile, Auspicious Starrix is the card that allows us to combo off. So you basically just get hella 3/4s instead of hella 1/1s. Your package of instants and sorceries includes a lot of the typical Simic ramp staples, so youd expect to get lots of mana as early as possible. It has the following text: Landfall: when a land enters the battlefield under your control, create a 1/1 green insect token. This does mean replacing Sea-Dasher Octopus and Illuna, Apex of Wishes with Lore Drakkis, which looks weird in a deck without any instants or sorceries to return from the graveyard, but is still solid as a cheap way to mutate and trigger Auspicious Starrix and Migratory Greathorn. Help | It is in virtually none of the top competitive tournament decks, so it could be that it is only overpowered in best-of-one because thats where most of the player base lies in MTG Arena. While the Insect can do some absurd things, just rushing out a quick Auspicious Starrix or Illuna, Apex of Wishes is sometimes enough to pick up the win. Scute Swarm doesnt trigger it with tokens. The deck is super fun and does some of the most spectacular things possible in Standard, so I think the answer is yes. ] This means you arent just worried about the spells that you cast, but also the ones that your opponents cast. mutate All in all, we finished 3-2 with Scute-tate, losing to a UB Rogue-ish Flash deck that seemed like a really tough matchup, thanks to our opponent's endless counters and removal, and to Four-Color Omnath, in a match where we took game one and then lost games two and three after going off the turn before our opponent would die thanks to Ugin janking us out. Thanks to Scute Swarm's ability to grow exponentially, we can easily end up with hundreds or even thousands of massive mutated Auspicious Starrix Scute Swarms on the battlefield in one big turn, which we can then use to beat our opponent down. This "combo" allows us to build a huge board of massive creatures extremely quickly once we get up to six lands. Terms of Use | There are some others that have very specific purposes. 27% of 2939 decks +24% synergy. I am not sure what I would cut. Giving your commander hexproof is a must along with indestructible. Until next time, Hero out! 20835 balmain As always, leave your thoughts, ideas, opinions, and suggestions in the comments and you can reach me on Twitter @SaffronOlive or at SaffronOlive@MTGGoldfish.com. Double Major and Irenicuss Vile Duplication are great ways to get the Ivy copies going before you have the other duplication engines online. I thought this list looked awesome and was doing a lot of stuff I liked. Why wouldnt you want six mana for the price of four mana. Topiary Stomper has an ETB ability to tutor a basic land onto the battlefield tapped. The other issue is Ugin, the Spirit Dragon. And again. TCGPlayer $292. After the mutate ability triggered and resolved, the landfall ability created a copy of the 1/1 insect instead of the Scute Swarm with Migratory Greathorn over it. At MTGGoldfish, we value your privacy. This deck is a bit different from other Voltron decks because you do your best to make as many mutated Ivys as possible. I think this matchup is even and it doesnt change after board. As a secondary measure, Ive also included Triumph of the Hordes so that all you will need to do is sneak through a 10/10 with infect or throw the big buys over the wall to hit your opponents with enough to end it. Has anyone honestly seen an application of Helm of the Host that isnt horribly broken? 2023 Magic Find, Inc. All rights reserved. Plus, the lands come into play untapped, which means we can use their mana to immediately mutate again, putting a bunch more permanents onto the battlefield! With six auras in the deck, +2/+2 from Ancestral Mask for each adds up quickly. 4 Skyclave Pick-Axe. The learn cards are indeed slow and are the first to cut to speed up the deck. In general, the deck felt solid. Dreamtail Heron draws a card when it mutates. 4 Mountain . If you mutate Greathorn onto Scute Swarm, all of your copies of Scute Swarm will be tokens named Migratory Greathorn but will also have the ability of Scute Swarm. While the ultra-budget build of the deck is worse and there isn't any reason to downgrade in paper (the ultra-budget build is only $5 less than the budget build we played for the videos), it should be fine for less competitive unranked play on Arena, and you should be able to make just as many copies of Scute Swarm! In the ideal scenario against an aggressive deck where I have it out and my opponent has nothing, then it is the best card in the deck. Where mutate has generally failed in Commander by concentrating everything into a single creature to get their benefits, youll be able to spread the love around and still get one massive mutation out of it.