Nivmagus elemental how does it work

However, having surgical in the mainboard can result in some great metagame plays. For example, I was up against death's shadow and I won game 1 by extracting their shadow on their turn one after they played a thought scour on themselves.

I would love some sideboard suggestions, and I would love to hear how another player does with this deck. Note- yes I tried adding red. Buy from Card Kingdom. Buy from Cardhoarder. Buy from TCGplayer. Rent from Cardhoarder. Creatures 14 2 Blistercoil Weird 0. Creatures 14 2 Blistercoil Weird 2 Unc. Enchantments 4 4 Clout of the Dominus 4 Comm. Calculating the deck price based on your collection What you have to do is actually pay the mana, pick targets if needed, and cast the spell from wherever, and then exile it with Elemental.

If you feed it to Nivmagus Elemental, it leaves the stack before it resolves. None of its effects happen. If you had to explicitly pass priority every time you cast a spell so your opponent could respond which is technically true according to the Comprehensive Rules , it would just bog down the game with technicalities. Again I play a little conservatively which is probably my main fault with this deck and decide to Duress and attack for 3, saving cards to Storm off with my Ground Rift.

My opponent Explore s and plays a Prismatic Omen. My opponent has one more turn but despite having a Scapeshift isn't able to do the necessary damage either to me or my Nivmagus and concedes.

I'm not really convinced that there are many reasons for choosing this deck over the very similar Infect deck, which is currently a lot more popular. I haven't got round to building an Infect deck yet but I feel like it is a lot more versatile in that it has more creatures and Inkmoth Nexus as another angle of attack, which is not susceptible to cards like Abrupt Decay.

Personally, I'm inclined to believe that the Infect deck, although involving similar risks, is the superior option for this type of strategy. Elemental Combo is weakened considerably by its reliance on just two creatures as its win condition. Infect has more options and is just more versatile and would be my preferred option. This basically looks and operates like Som Standard infect with some interesting additions. That it can go off turn 2 is pretty insane as there aren't many decks that can do that consistently.

I was aware of the list from several friends playing it but haven't really been paying attention to its progress. Thanks for sharing. The deck can win on Turn 2 which is pretty impressive though I'd hesitate to say it can do it consistently. In terms of how the progress of the deck has gone, it had some early success but that seems to have waned considerably.

I haven't seen much of it in the Daily results recently and I think, as I mentioned in the article, people are preferring the Infect deck over the Elemental Combo lists. Regardless, it is still an interesting and fast deck and pretty fun to play provided your don't have to make too many mulligans. Nivmagus seems to play nicely with all the 0 mana pacts.

I wonder if it might be an option in a hivemind deck. Maybe sideboard it in to give the deck a secondary attack. Though it just might gum up the works. I agree that infect is probably the better turn two kill deck, but the artwork on nivmagus is too awesome not to play it. How can anyone hope to defeat Ironman. That's actually a really good point. I never thought of that.

Doesn't seem like too bad a plan! Though I suppose the strategies aren't exactly compatible, in that if you use all your Pacts to pump Nivmagus you won't have the Hive Mind win. I like your thinking, might have to give that a go sometime. I built this deck the other day trying to make an Heirloom version.

He's like an agressive version of Psychatog. It's not hard to see the potential of the card. My heirloom version has the Clouts of the Dominus as well, before I saw this list , nice to see it making some waves in Modern. I agree that Nivmagus' power level is very high and I think if it had been printed during Scars Block it would have had some very serious applications in Standard.

Sadly, I don't think the support is there in Standard but I'm sure he could be a deck in Heirloom. The group is always there, quite independent of my involvement these days, though I do like to show up and try a new brew now and again.

In the classic event a few Sundays ago I managed to abuse Forbid with exile into darkness in basically a monoblue control build to take the win. Getting hatching plans, abjure and perilous research to work was pretty satisfying. I really like the monogreen deck mihahitlor and Cathomas are often running, atm we have a pretty powerful suite of monogreen cards legal in the classic event, Dungrove elder, Rancor, Strangleroot Geist, Garruk 1.

Its certainly been the most consistently well performing lately though next rotation it will lose a lot i think. On fridays theres the standard event and on Saturdays the rotating block format as well kamigawa atm. By: olaw , Oliver Law Nov 21 pm 5. Elemental Combo. Login or register to post comments. Thanks for the comment and the positive review Paul! I agree that the deck draws a lot of comparisons to Infect and those comparisons are very fair.

Thanks for the comment! Also agreed that the art on Nivmagus is sweet! This deck makes me all kinds of excited.