Emissary Escort Another slightly off-the-wall card, I'm throwing this one in the mix to posit the question: is some kind of affinity deck viable in Standard right now
3) State-based actions are checked
, a series spanning two decades, there have been 8 main alternative methods to special summoning monsters aside from the typical "normal summon" and "special summon." The original three methods were Flip, Tribute, and Fusion, with Ritual added shortly after
They sit down to the Commander pod, and before you know it theyre in the triple digits for lift, the game is taking six hours, and the only way you can take them out is commander damage
Even Red ended up contributing more to this deck than I expected, not just with some good creatures but also Relentless Assault to double our combat damage output, Fervor to give our stuff haste, and both Price of Progress and Pandemonium which gives the deck some reach with burn to finish off low opponents
This can make big creatures even tougher, or it enables tricky effects that are based on adding or removing +1/+1 counters for various effects