General "Looking for a card"-Thread

[Rasmus Källqvist]

draw card:


scry:

 

[sigh]

Flashback and flashback-adjacent

Ignition might be too good for "low power"

 

[inscho]

 

[ravnic]

Okay guys, during WAR limited I had this incredibly fun deck where I combined my four or even five Charity Extractors with Huatli, the Sun's Heart. I love it when two mediocre cards combine to something really good. So, what I am looking for today is sweet limited combos, where two (retail level) cards work extremely well together - without the synergy being too obvious (like named/tribal synergies). A few more examples:

 

[blacksmithy]

the Ben Stark Splice onto Arcane Deck from MH1!

 

[Sheltem]

Oldie, but goldie.

 

[Velrun]

@ravnic
At least do Morphling instead of Horseshoe Crap. You’ll be keeping thr combo in Izzet.

Or if you don’t want the combo to include a rare card, you can use the Morphling aura ‘I Am Superman’ Pemmin’s Aura.

Or if you want to keep the combo mono red you can use Torchling.

 

[Sheltem]

Or use horseshoe crab and psionic gift to keep the combo in blue.
I remember someone running that combo back in the day.

 

[LadyMapi]

OK, more seriously:





(EDIT: I decided to shift some stuff around a bit.)

 

[kModz]

Not sure if this falls under "too obvious," but to build off the creature ping idea:





Or build-your-own draw engine:

 

[LadyMapi]

 

[Chris Taylor]

 

[Rusje]

 

[ravnic]

Those are some sweet suggestions, thanks guys!

Don't worry @Velrun this is not for my (main) cube, rather for another idea I might one day actually build

 

[Onderzeeboot]

I used to have a deck that ran the following "combo":



Since Minamo can target itself, it basically gains: ", : Untap Minamo, School at Water's Edge. Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn." If that isn't obscure, retail-level synergy, I don't know what is

 

[Velrun]

Those are some sweet suggestions, thanks guys!

Don't worry @Velrun this is not for my (main) cube, rather for another idea I might one day actually build

Phew, I was worried I was going to have to update our cube lol

 

[frostymoose]

More creature pinging combos:





Of course there's basilisk collar but that's perhaps excessive.
I think I need more ways to create treasure tokens in my cube because I loved playing with forsworn paladin in AFR draft, but the only one I'm really in love with is tireless provisioner

 

[sigh]

For any pinger, or literally any tap-to-do-something, there's always

 

[LadyMapi]

 

[Sheltem]

What about:

Is this too strong?

 

[blacksmithy]

now we’re talking

 

[Velrun]

now we’re talking

I KNEW you would like the highest powered combo

 

[TrainmasterGT]

At least do Morphling instead of Horseshoe Crap. You’ll be keeping thr combo in Izzet.

Morphling is too good in a retail context most of the time, save for really fast formats. Horseshoe Crab is an absolute lad who deserves a chance to shine.

 

[Velrun]

I don't think Morphling has been good or even average since 2009 when M10 was introduced.

 

[TrainmasterGT]

I don't think Morphling has been good or even average since 2009 when M10 was introduced.

But in retail limited having a flier that can gain shroud, pump itself, and untap itself just wins games without support. You don't need to combine that card with Fire Whip (or any other cute combo piece for that matter) in order to make it better than mediocre.

Like yeah Morphling might be crap in a constructed context these days, but that's not what we're talking about here. If Morphling were in a modern retail limited set, it would probably still be a bomb card.