Phage, for when it’s personal

[@danielwisehart5460]

Option 3 (my favorite): force your opponent to cast phage from your graveyard

[@kaemonbonet4931]

Is this like a mindslaver emrakul angle or something else?

[@danielwisehart5460]

@@kaemonbonet4931 Endless Whispers 😈

[@WittyCorvian]

Or you could play her as one of the 99 in beamtown bullies and hold the table hostage by casting entomb to put her in the grave from deck

[@WittyCorvian]

Actually disregard my last comment, BB says clearly non legendary

[@kaemonbonet4931]

@@danielwisehart5460 thanks! Now have another thing to fit in my phage Deck lol!

[@Juniper_Rose]

If your buddy busts out a Phage deck, they are now your Sasuke and you need to run.

[@turtlekappa7141]

Or you use Magda and become Naruto. Basically counter most of these strats

[@TopsideCrisis346]

If I lose here... There's no way I could become Hokage!!! 💥😤💥

[@S.Grundy]

Zurgo deck has many board wipes, ed-boy

[@casono]

More like you're Kaiba and Yugi is about to BS out Exodia.

[@Air0Sparks]

😂😂😂

[@ragnar3434]

I love the art bc of the way her hand is reaching out, so you can slowly slide her forward with her hand aimed forward and go "i'm gonna get ya! Iiiiim gonnagetcha! Look out!!!" Its like playing Armageddon and saying "Armageddon outta here." Youre going to get your ass beat in the parking lot but at least you'll die having truly lived.

[@erebos42]

I had a funny moment like this one time while I was playing my Teysa, Orzhov Scion aristocrats deck in a situation where everyone else was one turn from winning. All I had was a bunch of zombie and spirit tokens that I had to keep using as blockers and my Zulaport Cutthroat. I was hoping to draw a sac outlet so I could sneak in a surprise victory by saccing my entire board for a lethal number of Zulaport triggers. I topdecked Damn. I tapped 4 mana and told the table, "Damn... you guys were so close."

[@josephwodarczyk977]

I'm gonna getcha. Watch out. Imma getcha. Oooooh it's comin for ya.

[@BenMarcWilliams]

This isn't even a "I died, but at least I got some!" situation. If you tried to bang Phage, you would die before you even got it inside, so you wouldn't even live long enough to enjoy it. She wouldn't enjoy it either; your flesh would immediately putrefy, so she couldn't even get off with your corpse. Only the Cabal Patriarch was able to get it from Phage, because he was immune to her powers. But he had similar powers to her, and she got her deathtouch powers from him in the first place, so there's probably some reverse polarity bullshit going on there that lets them not kill each other. The two also had a kid, weirdly. Various precautions had to be taken so that Phage's body wouldn't kill the baby during childbirth, and even then, it's implied that it mostly survived because it was the physical avatar of an ancient god-king. And, yes, that does mean that Jeska/Phage is officially a milf.

[@JT-ne8pn]

The deep dive we didn't ask for but always needed

[@xMareZx]

@@JT-ne8pnperfectly sums it up lmao

[@MrAkaidu]

But wouldn't it being the offspring of two ultra poop knifes make it naturally immune, though?

[@TheM8]

I mean the M is there but i dont think the iLF is.

[@thefez-cat]

@@TheM8 MILCF (Mother I Literally Can't Fuck)

[@SS4Inferno]

I learned not to run her in the 99 after I got Chaos Warped into her

[@peterbillings3276]

Yeah. Opponent insta-killed me by flickering her :/

[@stigmurder99]

​@@peterbillings3276oooof.

[@tanchwa3740]

I mean there's a reason why it's called chaos warp

[@krisq1589]

I run her in my henzie deck and i shit many bricks when i got chaos warped

[@AngelOvMercy]

That is the funniest Chaos Warp I could imagine.

[@MrRc1088]

I had Phage when I was a teenager. Someone from my class stole it from my backpack! Thats how ridiculous this card was. Someone literally comitted a crime just to get rid of this on our games. Losing this card was the main reason I stopped playing Magic. Not just for the card... I felt sicken that one of my so called "friends" would do that and stopped talking to them.

[@UnclePhil1112]

I never understood why people steal MTG cards, it’s such a scummy thing to do. This is why I don’t let my cards out of my sign when I’m playing in public. I’m sorry that happened to you.

[@slayinderp7501]

If deathtouch is poop knife territory, i couldn't even imagine the filth level Phage is on.

[@HarmonicResonanceScale]

A septic tank full of dynamite

[@Oxygen1004]

Shit sword

[@collinbeal]

She put Etrata into a septic tank, shit a ton, strapped some C4 to that mother, and dropped it from orbit.

[@baronfuath5872]

poop-nuke.

[@Jchmcom]

I had the pleasure of casting Fractured Identity on this once. I killed myself in the process but took out 4 other players. The laughs didnt stop for an hour.

[@phillipfry8141]

im glad someone else thought of it, well done!

[@xialnackharaa]

I have used fractured identity on phage quite a bit and am now curious how you died as well if you got it off.

[@Jchmcom]

@@xialnackharaa the Phage wasn't mine. I was losing the game and thought "hm. This could be funny."

[@soleo2783]

​​@@Jchmcom By 4 other players do you mean the whole table died? How does this combo kill the phage controller tho?

[@Jchmcom]

We were playing a 6 person game and the Phage player was using Sundial of the Infinite so Phage could be their commander. When I used F.I. on their commander it gave the other 5 of us a Phage, killing us all.

[@Drahjan_BeginDownload]

Phage is awesome. I won against a Zombie Deck, because they resurrected my entire grave. And my Phage had just been milled the turn prior. No win has topped that since. I've always wanted to pair Phage with Fractured Identity, but I haven't played enough to get that combo off.

[@truerealrationalist]

That's funny. I like pulling off janky combos in multi-player for funsies. So, I'd imprint something like Phage or a Leveler in my Summoner's Egg and give it to somebody to make them squirm. And, then, I'd throw in something like Blightsteel Colossus the next game with the expectation that they'd try to destroy my egg before I could pass the hot potato. Then, I'm like, "thank you very much." Couldn't do it reliably, of course, but the look on their face after doing it just once was worth it.

[@Deeplight32]

I don’t want to burst your bubble, but wouldn’t having your Phage being resurrected from the graveyard instantly kill you? Oh wait they resurrected your graveyard onto their battlefield?

[@Drahjan_BeginDownload]

@@Deeplight32 Yeah, they put the creatures from my graveyard onto their battlefield. It was glorious.

[@Bardineer]

​@@Drahjan_BeginDownload That's what my initial thought was, too. Then, I realized they must’ve used an ability like Grimoire of the Dead's to reanimate Phage under their control. Given that it was milled, I'm guessing there may have been an Undead Alchemiat involved..?

[@Drahjan_BeginDownload]

@Kevin.berger I believe it was Rise of the Dark Realms. I was the one who ran a Mill deck. I think I was trying to increase my graveyard to empower my Psychic Spiral.

[@SirZerous]

Funniest part is that Kayas Ghostform kills the user immediately because if Phage is resurrected by it, that means she entered the battlefield without being cast from hand ;)

[@juliandacosta6841]

Was about to say that

[@AnnihilatorDigimon]

If they got Phage out they got one of the several ways ot not die to that effect out already so Ghostform wouldn't kill them unless you deal with that first

[@yellowishnesses656]

They are using the platinum angel/lich's mastery strategy.

[@erebos42]

@@yellowishnesses656 or Sundial of the Infinite in a pinch if it happens on their turn

[@ThorsShadow]

My brother in Christ, if they manage to get Phage down from the Command zone without dying, they can ressurect her without dying. Think, SirZerous! Think! Lines of thinking like yours are the reason Phage players are able to win in the first place. Destroy their Platinum Angel/Lich's Mastery, when Phage's ETB trigger gets on the stack or destroy Sundial of the Infinite, if the Phage player plays it.

[@heixiong5860]

My favorite part about this is that I was the person who straight up rolled into a commander game with Phage at the head of the 99. I never won in our 4 way games but I made damn sure other people lost first, suicide black just has a power other colors can't compete with. You bring me down to eleven life? That's fine, I can still draw five cards with Greed, say hi to Gary for me. Black isn't even my favorite color in MTG but disrespect is colorblind and my favorite deck archetype is Mono BM

[@maxastro]

"Disrespect is colorblind" Holy shit. XD

[@sethb3090]

See, I'm a pretty chill player. I play lots of izzet and temur and gruul with random interactions, dumb copying, and timmy fun. On occasion, I build orzhov or esper and I haven't figured out why yet, but when I do that my chill gets lefts behind somewhere around figuring out the mana curve because that deck is here to destroy everything you care about before it sends you to join them. I built Kambal, Consul of Allocation. Game 1 win. Game 2 I'm playing Archenemy. I won anyway because their life total is *our* life total now. There was no game 3 because my pod unanimously banned the deck.

[@matthewgagnon9426]

@@sethb3090 I can be the same way. I'll play basically any deck and I'm super casual, but of all the decks I have that are hated the most almost all of them are Black.

[@polishhockeyfan]

I actually lost to a Phage deck once. He got shut down early, and me and the other guy were trading punches like Goku and Vegeta. Finally swung at the other guy with my 40/40 suited up commander and dented his head in before the Phage player tapped two mana, played False Cure, and pointed at my Loxodon Warhammer. Man let everyone else unalive one another before he rolled over the finish line with starbucks in hand 30 minutes late to the party. What a guy.

[@Quroe_]

In all seriousness, if a Phage deck is at the table, they're there to make you laugh when they subverting your expectations.

[@gatherer818]

My "lose-the-game-tribal" deck annoys the whole table when I get one of my "I don't die to my abilities that say I die" tricks and then rip Phage out of my graveyard like a boss. And they can't let me untap with her because they don't know if I'm holding the Fractured Identity...

[@paulcurran302]

Phage is wild dude, I’ve played against her a few times and it’s always crazy seeing how it plays out and interacts, they spend half the game playing the most niche cards you’ve ever seen and then boom they win

[@brock6174]

this, i play thrull mage to counter her when i cast from the command zone, then i cast raise dead just to cast her AGAIN from hand

[@B1ngusD1ngus]

Imagine a world where you play mono-black phage to punnish people that play mom in casual edh.

[@floridaman6982]

You are onto something. I hate fighting that crap and everyone has a mom deck

[@B1ngusD1ngus]

@@floridaman6982 thats what im fucking saying and they just stuff them bitches with board wipes and stax pieces. Dog i swear to big g, the sweetest words i can possibly imagine are, "pay 4 mana and activate rouge's passage targeting phage".

[@thedanox2741]

May i be illuminated, what is a mom deck? March of machines? The 2nd elesh? Plz tell me

[@Eagle0600]

@@thedanox2741 From context, they mean Mother of Machines. Her static ability to shut down ETBs will prevent Phase from being unplayable.

[@JohnTalbane87]

@@Eagle0600thank you for clarifying, I was thinking they were mad because their opponents were playing the og MOM (Mother of Runes) who could in fact stop a Phage. Most of the players at my lgs call norn by her other nickname “panharmonmycon”

[@TaosoftheVoid]

I respect it. Super deathtouch is a little too much. That said, I also gave a fluttering faerie a vorpal sword and said "go forth, my child! Commit all the warcrimes!"

[@1033515]

I have a (non-commander) Yuriko-themed deck that hands those to Invisible Stalkers

[@mollygladwin8160]

Only played against this once. A guy rocked up to my pod one night at the lgs, we were missing a player so we were cool letting him join. He was kinda annoying but it was whatever. My deck started to pop off and my two friends realized I was the threat so they worked together to deal with me. Meanwhile the Phage player is just kinda hanging out, doing his own weird thing. I get killed by the other two players, I start shuffling up my next deck and zone out. All of a sudden Phage is on the board and both my friends died to it. I don't even know what happened but we've never played with this person again. We see him all the time but my friends refuse to play him.

[@tristanmoschetto8571]

hes a fuckin cryptid bro

[@RisinTyson]

Myriad is one hell of a drug

[@Lady_Luxury]

@@RisinTyson doesn't that still make you lose, since there is a phage entering the battlefield outside of your hand?

[@telepathicdragon]

cool story bro

[@LapanNaxela]

@@RisinTyson Myriad is very likely to kill yourself before it kills the person you are attacking

[@markellison2152]

So commander wise, Phage is to darn expensive early game and is just a lightning rod for removal even if you some how ramp up in black. But in a Lazav, the Multifarious deck... it is fire because your opponents can't see it coming or they forgot that you buried alived it with invisible stalker on turn 3 and no one is playing bajoka bog. If they have nine mana up, you are about to die because they are shapeshifting past your blocker AND removal... with a smallpox stained knife with your name on it.

[@solbradguy7628]

Oh black can ramp, let me assure you. Nirkana Revenant, Crypt Ghast (which can be played in mono black btw, the white mana symbol in extort is on the reminder text not the card proper), dark ritual, bog witch, alongside the many mana rocks, caged sun...Last time I played with my friends I managed to ult Liliana of the Dark Realms, now all my swamps tap for 4 each. I think black has the second best ramp after green.

[@markellison2152]

@solbradguy7628 Also black market and black market connections. Those are my favs.

[@kisukebomb3750]

And not to mention Urborg-Cabal Coffers

[@AssimilateAndChill]

My favourite deck for the past year or so has been a mostly Commander agnostic mono-B ramp deck. The 3rd out of 4 commanders I tried for it (so far) was Phage. I ended up moving on to Tergrid’s Lantern because Phage felt too fragile, but man, untapping, looking someone in the eye, and saying “crack Command Beacon cast Phage give shadow equip Greaves kill you” feels incredible.

[@VihnNem]

13 days of halloween but it's the doctor commanders

[@keithfilibeck2390]

Phage can't get it, but her non-goth-phase self Jeska can, strongest character in the entire franchise.

[@somejerk5662]

Well yeah, the only reason Phage can't get it is that she has Super Turbo Dire AIDS.

[@Natboof]

I mean… in lore, she did get it…

[@SporeTres]

Wait Phage is Jeska? Phage was our playground Bully along with Avatar of Woe

[@matthewgagnon9426]

@@Natboof From the one person immune to her powers, yeah.

[@justenleonas]

@@SporeTres She's not just Jeska. She is also 1/3 of Karona. There's a reason her newest version is Thrice reborn.

[@PhoenicopterusR]

Each time you tell a story then hard name drop someone, I'm more and more convinced thats it's something personal, very very personal.

[@nilsvesterback6732]

As a resident of Finland I can confirm that Phage as a Commander is an accurate representation of the entire population of Finland

[@bartoszkonieczny3238]

2:09 are we sure about Kaya's Ghostform?

[@eximusr4175]

welcome back mald hope the break doesn't toss you out of the algorithm.

[@VersusMe101]

Lazav, the Multifarious: Don't worry, she can't hurt you, she's in the graveyard! [Kitchen Nightmares sfx]

[@skyfiresage5980]

The REALIST shit I've EVER heard. Phage came out at my heyday of playing MTG in high school, long before Commander was even a wet dream in somebody's boxers, and this is still the most accurate shit I've ever heard Why yes I ran a Phage -> Donate deck, why do you ask?

[@sethnichols733]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think you'd be able to use "when this creature dies, return it to the battlefield" effects, because Phage says when she enters the battlefield, if you didn't cast her from your hand, you lose, and return to battlefield effects are not casting from your hand.

[@AlchemicalGod13]

Phage was the Rare from my very first ever Magic the Gathering pack! She is a card I've never once actually played, but dang if it isn't a threat

[@BeaglzRok1]

Funny thing is, Phage getting it is lore-accurate. Granted, it was with the ugly bastard Cabal Patriarch Virot Maglan and she gave birth to Scion of Darkness Kuberr, but it happened.

[@juliandacosta6841]

You seem like you know the lore, does she kill everybody she touches, or only what she wants to kill?

[@thatguyintherain3168]

She can get it after she dies. Now I know how that sounds but she gets reincarnated into Jeska, Thrice Reborn.

[@hakeador4000]

The best combo is always giving your opponent phage and forcing them to play her from their graveyards 🤣

[@damonf4340]

"I'm not going to pretend like there's not somethin' out there I wouldn't die to get a sniff of" Bro, you can't just leave us hanging like that.

[@aboyes9835]

Avacyn is Mald’s #1 pick, pretty sure.

[@TheTicatic10]

Good moment was me stealing a hand casted phage then blinking it

[@xMareZx]

Phage and Akroma were my first legendary creatures back in the day and I really love them. It‘s heartwarming to still see content and conversations happening about those cards ☺️

[@brendan-kfp7.62mmminigun4]

I did not realize what kind of message Phage sends when she comes down. And now I really need to build it.

[@rosspare]

Forever asking for Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

[@dragonsgaminghoard7531]

not me over here with a Phage deck lol

[@ryantwomey3463]

this works perfectly for my mono black deck I never cast my fucking commander anyways

[@bundung123]

Phage is the commander I bust out when I play casually

[@creepercommande4171]

Another way to just end your opponent is to just give them Phage. Do you have an impenetrable board state, well bad news you get phage now.

[@MidgarMerc]

No way to do this in monoblack though but yeah if you're playing Esper then Fractured Identity your Phage to take out the entire table

[@slayinderp7501]

Woe, Phage upon thee.

[@mhmm4553]

@@MidgarMerc endless whispers maybe

[@MidgarMerc]

@mhmm4553 oh good call though the player would die and Phage gets exiled so you'd have to cast it again. Definitely an uphill battle

[@nykthosacolyte]

​@@MidgarMercher and whispers is an iconic combo, Sheldon (RIP) even mentioned it when talking about loving Endless Whispers. She is secretly cracked when it comes to ways of killing people. You can snipe her with the ETB on the stack for them after they get her to avoid having to recast her to take out another player.

[@ibukomioda9512]

Best thing i do wit Phage is manifest her so she's a mysterious 2/2. Attack with her, then bam! turn her face up and make my opponent have a heart attack, thus removing them from the game.

[@Turbulance16]

Phage has literally come only stronger and stronger with every set

[@NobodyDungeons]

My face when pairing this with either the ring temps, trample, and/or manifold key.

[@breakingblackmagic7617]

"tag your it " "AHAH I DONT WANNA PLAY THIS ANYMORE" - phage.

[@Brythnoth_of_the_Void]

I just hopped from your beamtown bullies vid, and wonder how that interacts.

[@UberTahm]

Phage may genuinely be the first legendary creature card I ever saw back in like. Middle school or whatever.

[@evandurham8908]

As someone who tried to run Platinum Angel in an actual Angel deck and it mean nothing when Lifelink is everywhere, I now reel in horror at this.

[@beauhoebo3570]

The Finland violation was super necessary

[@EMoney1295]

Glad to see maldhound is doing good, i was just thinking about it earlier that he hasn't posted in a while

[@pixelbomb97]

I have an esper deck that has Phage and Fractured Identity. I dream of winning the game with it, have not yet.

[@VivBrodock]

:) my favorite commander I prefer to use effects that add her to hand instead of some way to turn off her ETB. mostly because then you literally die to instant speed removal. also yes, she cannot get it, in the lore itself her literal touch spreads a flesh eating disease.

[@ryantinga790]

I beseech thee, in this our most dire hour, grant my request and roast Mr. More Pain, All Gains: Greven, Predator Captain!

[@PMacDs]

The return of the king.

[@NovaZero100]

Welcome back! Imma request Eriette here. I'm tinkering with Eriette and...ho boy. It's all the toxic things anyone has every said about Orzhov colors, which means Phage fits in oddly well amid a score of Pacifism effects and other nonsense.

[@doim1676]

Describing shadow as its a little bit to dark, hurts my soul. The pour creatures with shadow cant interact with other creatures because when once to planes collided they were sucked into the blind eternaties and and can therefore only fight with other creatures that also live outside of any plane. Its a really sad story 🥲

[@DatBoyNarge]

My lord, Magus Lucea Cane. If there's anything more fun than a 40/40 hydra, it's that there's 2 of them for the price of 1

[@barneyhogue6203]

Why stop at 2, when you can just untap Lucea 5 times with Pemmins Aura?

[@specialk5523]

“Oh. I see you’re playing Elesh Mommy of Machines. Hmm, which commander should I choose today?”

[@rubbersoulman5533]

"There's not enough protection in the world to tap that"

[@dylansylvester4719]

Phage and Haakon are examples of why edh needs a special once per game special action of" 0: move your commander to your hand if you haven't cast it this game.".

[@dylansylvester4719]

Squee Goblin Nabob would benefit from this as well

[@randomness888]

Fun fact, that aura you showed at 2:08 actually just loses you the game if you put it on Phage, gotta love mono-B players gaslighting themselves into a loss

[@LC-san]

Very true. It's likely meant to only be used once you have some other 'you can't lose' effect already out. But good eyes spotting that.

[@lifesapity]

I mean they found a way to stop the trigger from killing them the first time, I'm sure they can get around the trigger the second time as well.

[@nykthosacolyte]

You have no idea how Phage works if you think I'm losing by her returning to play. Think about this... How did we get her in play to begin with? Because the answer is 9/10 we cast her from the Command Zone with one of many permanents set up that says I don't lose.

[@Iz0197]

I was expecting Phage the untouchable but that works too

[@alexmulanney6864]

I can already feel the Ninjutsu nonsense radiating off of this one

[@hexxenbatts6176]

That was excellent..thank you, sir.

[@therealbahamut]

"Oh I'll just deal with it!" "ARROGANCE."

[@MattHarb]

Always thought giving opponents a copy of Phage was the way to go But preventing ETBs and Platinum Angel is a solid route too

[@colemcnutt4136]

Attempt 22 at requesting Sapling of Colfenor, also get well soon, love your content

[@Veelofar]

I continue to request Yeva, because Questing Beast also being a combat trick to counter a fog might as well happen.

[@AvaricioDues]

This is why Netherborn Altar and Command Beacon become staples

[@AbstractObserver]

2:08 you die if you try to return her from the graveyard to the battlefield

[@spoopyboi1882]

I am once again asking for Varina, Lich Queen

[@adamdouce353]

My Urtet deck lives rent free in my play groups minds. Teach others to fear the Myr.

[@TheBboyjackson]

I feel like endless whispers should have been mentioned here, it’s a card that basically says “if you fuck with me I will haunt your dreams for the rest of your life”

[@TheSeptet]

My friend was always the archenemy whenever he played Phage, so he took the deck apart and sold me the pieces. Half of it is unusable outside that exact deck, though I do have a Cabal Coffers now, which is nice!

[@jacobstone4070]

While this is very funny, I have to point out that the example aura you use to illustrate how a phage player would save phage from removal, would actually result in them losing as phage re enters and wasn't cast from hand. Gotta use regenerate or indestructible

[@nykthosacolyte]

No it doesn't... The deck lives despite casting her from the command zone, it doesn't lose when cards say you lose. Literally the cards he already showed prevent you losing with her ETB.

[@thesamuraiman]

"You can't see it that well" 😂😂😂

[@koragola]

This plus walking ballista and Agatha’s soul cauldron. GG.

[@obadijahparks]

As a mono black mage, I can confirm that it just got real if I pull her out. I've won with her on the field, and I've won with her just chilling in the command zone. Don't test our nerves, we'll sacrifice our commander for a ping of face damage! We're crazy!

[@knightofthewind1000]

I'll have you know startling physical agility is EXACTLY why I picked up Magic

[@colemcegg3894]

This card with Hive Mind is beautiful

[@alexanderandrews6980]

Platinum Angel and Command Beacon make her so hilarious. Although I typically run her in the 99 of my Assassins deck.

[@The1AndOnlyGoldenboy]

Last time someone tried to play Phage against me, I laughed as I cast the following spells on the same turn: Time Wipe, Beacon of Tomorrows, Nexus of Fate and Rip Apart... SEVEN TIMES EACH. They didn't scoop, but I did do my best Willy Wonka "You get nothing!" impersonation to really salt their shingles.

[@EssaysInTheCommentsSection]

I had a Breya deck with Phage in the 99, because the real gimmick was to use donate effects like Zedruu and Harmless Offering to pawn off a Sen Triplets and then Mindslaver you into playing the most despicably awful shit ever, including: Pact instants you can't afford, Lich Effects you can't sustain, gamble cards that force losses, and of course casting Phage from my hand which doesn't count and kills you. I would also make you cast Treason effects to steal my sacrifice outlets... and then make you sacrifice your own board state by using Mycosynth Lattice, Enchanted Evening, Opalescence, and March of the Machines to make it so all permanents were all permanent types. Which is also great for boardwipes.

[@FlyingDominion]

Phage player: *reveals commander* Mindslaver player: *heavy breathing*

[@lexilee7379]

Inb4 they flicker your Phage and you just lose lol

[@bobmonkey420]

Torpor Orb and any "You can't lose the game." just says "nah".

[@fenixmeaney6170]

Now I just want to build 99 ramp cards and turn 7 autodie myself by hardcasting her. Powermove

[@janmelantu7490]

It’s like casting One With Nothing after Demonic Consultation naming Black Lotus and then following it up with Tormod’s Crypting yourself.

[@fenixmeaney6170]

@@janmelantu7490 but that still leaves you there until your next draw step. Your opponent could still attack you to get in the last word!

[@janmelantu7490]

@@fenixmeaney6170 no my friend, all of those actions can be done at instant speed. You can do them in your upkeep

[@Cross177]

Thing is, I could see some psycho using Phage in a Black and Green deck and add trample to her series of effects when the other guy is just pulling 1/1s to basically keep on living on borrowed time. I’ve never seen this, but I have always played this scenario in my head

[@DousedFireball13]

Endless Whispers says hello. ☺️

[@aichmalotizo9873]

Let's go Kruphix, God of the Horizons! The ultimate mana banker!

[@avengerwolf646]

The "returning evil" host of cards, like Kaya's Nopeform, would all kill you because they return the creature to the battlefield without casting it from the hand.

[@theshark9574]

when I see a Phage the slivers come out

[@sergeantlonewolf]

I use this card in a "Jon irenicus, shattered one" deck. Pure evil.

[@carstein5696]

I must ask again. Goreclaw, terror my beloved.

[@bryanmullins8672]

I love how easy that commander is to counter though.

[@jaylenatri7113]

As I'm in the process of building a phage deck right now, I feel personally attacked

[@kaladelsol3432]

i have returned to ask for Runadi, Behemoth Caller

[@whyshouldieven]

the funny thing is blink decks love seeing a phage with the pure playline of i just need 1 instant speed spell

[@thingsthatgobomb]

Asking yet again for alesha

[@99JDT]

Please, Gargos roast my good sir

[@LSNiGhtStalker]

one you never thought about: please do Zabaz!