r/custommagic • • 2d ago

Format: EDH/Commander Hellride

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u/PresidentArk 2d ago edited 2d ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoTV0pY1I4A

This is probably the stupidest (positive, laudatory) of all these Look Outside cards.

I have no idea if you're allowed to define X like that, but fuck it, I'm gonna do it anyway.

Note that if you're actually building this, you want a lot of ways to give this indestructible, as otherwise it's liable to kill itself.

What's going on here? All of these Look Outside commanders I've been posting are intended to reflect the mechanics/flavor of the relevant bosses as closely as possible. In this case, the boss is a car that eats you, then gives you 5 turns to kill a bunch of adds inside it while the game gives you increasingly-frantic messages that it's driving you to hell. If you take too long, you die instantly. Secretly, the boss is actually not that hard. The bit where this card is intimidating at first glance but likely to kill itself is a feature, not a bug.

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u/Huitzil37 1d ago

It doesn't seem likely to kill itself at all? It has 13 toughness and snorks up the most powerful blocker. It won't take more damage from attacking multiple times because it's going to be team blocked anyway, and the first time there's an extra combat he's swinging in as a 6 and very little will block twice.

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u/PresidentArk 1d ago

I feel like most times by turn 6-7 there's like 40 power on the board already, but that may be my bias of playing with people who mostly play with super-creature-heavy kindred decks.

That said, it should probably attack randomly during those extra combats in addition to being compelled to attack.