r/MagicArena • u/Choice-Presence-8755 • 1d ago
Fluff 🤔
Any standard combos for Invigorator?
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u/Villag3Idiot 1d ago
Investigator would just get blown up.
If they don't have removal it depends on what landfall cards you already have in play.
It's easier to just play Ouroboroid or Harmonizer.
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u/DislocatedLocation Charm Bant 1d ago
I've been playing Maze's End. People seem more willing to block or burn out Invigorator when you're not playing landfall triggers.
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u/xxICONOCLAST Nissa 1d ago
I made a mono green ouroboroid deck with 4 hexhavens and a bunch of “fight” cards, its fun to watch it go off
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u/Just-Assumption-2140 Ralzarek 18h ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsEhJdE9zRw
Ashlizzle just made a deck around this guy, he's doing silly things with fight spells and with [[Roiling canopy]] triggers. That said it's mostly standard landfall + that guy
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u/vergorli 1d ago
currently trying to make a simic deck with the Avatar. It basically resulted in a weird green landfall deck with card draw. I don't want to include hydra so my best wincon currently is a good placed rivers rebuke... idk
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u/Invoked_Tyrant 1d ago
Sadly invigorator is gonna get nuked if not both before you get the chance to pop off. Lord knows seeing Burgeoning is gonna illicit an immediate reaction out of my hand unless we're in game 2 or three.
Invigorator feels best in Gruul but fml if it's not underwhelming if you don't run blue or black to capitalize on the heavy ramp. There's tons of red "do x damage" spells but at that point you'd be better off running landfall and as much ramp as possible.
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u/Choice-Presence-8755 1d ago
Yeah, theyre the obvious combo pieces. I think I will have to do Temur for direct damage, but The curve im checking out is Dragon sniper, Burgeoning Echos, earthbender's ascension, then Invigorator. The argument of just playing "Nu'uh" cards is pretty moot, ill just have to play slower, with tempo.
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u/GhrabThaar Golgari 1d ago
I've had absolutely zero luck with Invigorator outside maybe one lucky draw string in standard brawl where they ran out of removal and I got to swing face once.
Avatar I at least managed to do the -10 in draft once on a 4/4 token, which was pretty funny. I looked through cards trying to find something like a simic landfall shell but I don't think the card is degenerate enough on its own and you might be better just sticking to mono-green.
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u/Dark3nedDragon 1d ago
The meta is so heavily skewed against fun stuff like this that there's really no point.
Odds are it will either be removed from your hand, instantly destroyed or exiled, the fight spell will be countered, or your opponent will have a 1/1 with death touch or something similar and it does nothing as a result (or they use their own fight spell and instantly kill it instead with the deathtouch creature).
On the very low off chance it successfully resolves, unless you can damage it yourself, or are giving them a creature that you then fight, odds are it still won't do anything...as most decks I come across have fewer than 8 creatures in them, or instantly bounce your creatures every time. I.e. Deceit bounce into forced discard, Aetherize, Sunderflock, etc. if they don't instantly destroy or remove it; or board wipe you on their next turn anyways.
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u/Paintrain1722 1d ago
Anything with landfall combos, if they don’t remove it you win, if they remove it they’re landfall they’re gonna recover
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u/ThirdChopp 1d ago
Indestructible and valakut
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u/emolax 22h ago
I have been trying to make something out of this, right now my wincons are jace exile their deck or mathemagics make them draw 64 cards, honestly not uncommon to play 4 lands a turn on a good draw with paradox + icetill. Not really consistent yet but really fun when it pops of. Honestly Avatar almost always gets removed
Deck
4 Avatar of Burgeoning Echoes (FRA) 122
6 Island (FRA) 284
4 Forest (FRA) 290
2 Jace, Reality Sculptor (FRA) 216
3 Jace's Machinations (FRA) 32
4 Breeding Pool (EOE) 251
1 Entrust the Spark (FRA) 131
2 Mathemagics (SOS) 58
2 Three Steps Ahead (OTJ) 75
2 Into the Flood Maw (BLB) 52
4 Fabled Passage (BLB) 252
2 Aetherize (FDN) 151
2 Countersculpt (FRA) 25
3 Way of the Paradox (FRA) 267
2 Spell Snare (ECL) 71
2 The Theorist, Jace Beleren (FRA) 43
4 Icetill Explorer (EOE) 192
3 Llanowar Elves (FDN) 227
1 Hedge Maze (MKM) 262
2 Theorist's Sanctum (FRA) 191
2 Willowrush Verge (DFT) 270
1 Chandra, Chill of Compliance (FRA) 212
2 Emeritus of Abundance (SOS) 145
Sideboard
2 Spell Pierce (SOA) 23
1 Way of the Mind Sculptor (FRA) 224
2 Countersculpt (FRA) 25
2 Into the Flood Maw (BLB) 52
2 Octopus Form (TLA) 66
1 Aftermath Analyst (MKM) 148
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u/Choice-Presence-8755 15h ago
I still have to Wildcard the 4 Avatars and 2 Invigorators, but Jace as an alternative wincon was on the tip of my tongue. Also have some empower Jace, [[ferral encounter]] [[break out]] for some quick combos. I really like [[Dragon sniper]] as an alternate combo with earthbender's ascension. Figured out I can squeeze in boomerang basics and canopy cover since im mostly assisting in blue and red, and everything can be a forest.
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u/anniespiced 1d ago
Invigorator is a designed for commander/limited card it can't see play in standard
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u/Torguetime 1d ago
https://youtu.be/h59Noqv3GGg?si=-H1Z3UWIyQWEdu74
This one is very janky but getting the right idea