General "Looking for a card"-Thread
- Thread starter ravnic
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Did anyone ever actually try this? I know Codex Shredder exists and I run it already, but I wonder if at 680 cards my cube might be riptidian enough to play this as well.
I think these cards might be a little above retail level. Don't misread me, they fit perfectly fine in a retail format, but they are also just good cards you can play outside of that setting with the correct infrastructure. Abiding Grace is actually a card on my short list to test.Also, thinking back to "dumb retail-level combos"...
10/10 combo. Janky but not terrible. Big fan.
i tested Grace in my historic artisan cube on arena and… once you hit about 5 one drops, assuming they’re good like Thraben Inspector and not bad like Flying Men, it becomes this crazy grind engine for aggro decks. a mardu grace list i goofed around making is currently “best aggro deck in format” because all the one drops have various utility. i am still iffy on it in my paper cube where the density isn’t so good, but it’s worth a hard look IMO. and vexing devil is not so incredibly bad that you couldn’t just throw it in too for lulz
Onderzeeboot
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Are... are you all trying to convince me to test it out? 
yeah it’s not often me and ravnic like the same card but… test it before you write it off. i wrote it off for a while, tested it, and kinda had my mind blown
You got me after your sales speech.
Okay, opening up the submissions for low-powered 1-drops that can go into a deck with Abiding Grace
And don’t give me any medium powers, I said low power
And don’t give me any medium powers, I said low power
Onderzeeboot
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What exactly are you looking for when you're asking for "low power" here? Like, would Sidisi's Faithful be too strong of an interaction? How about Loyal Sentry? Archfiend's Vessel?
i am actually doing this in my artisan cube lol
Not a two card combo, but you can get back another 1-drop you sacrifice to Awakener, then use your 4/4 until it dies, get back the Awakener, get back the 1-drop to flip it again, and so on.
No, No, Borderline but probably not.
Faithful and Sentry aren't really cards non-Abiding Grace decks are going to be looking to play all that often. Archfiend's Vessel is, like, fine in an environment with some Unearth effects and cheap reanimation, but it's still in that "more cute than good" territory since the fail rate of a 1/1 lifelink is still kind of bad.
Onderzeeboot
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An assortment of 1 mv creatures at various power levels that sac themselves:
Please don't try:
Please don't try: