Today we are going to talk about the Lord... Now before you try to bolt the door and hide behind the sofa, I should say I’m not talking about God. If you’ve been following things here at Adventures in the Meta, you’ll know that today is the day we talk about the many multi-purpose creature pumping dudes in the world of magic.
I doubt anyone could trace back to where we started calling them lords, but for whatever reason, someone did and the name stuck. I like to think it was because of this guy and in fact he remains the only actual creature type ‘lord’ in the game...
You may think our friend above has some baffling powers and as such deserves his unglued/hinged status, but there are even more bizarre examples of aristocracy out there and we’ll get to them later...
Now to make it clear what I’m talking about, I’m not going to be discussing creatures that are simply called lord or have lord in their name. I am only going to be looking at lords that give creatures of a type or a colour a bonus. It needn’t be +1 +! and it needn’t be much, but if they have an effect, your other critters can benefit from then they count..
Here’s a photo of what I am not talking about...
Yep that’s my ALPHA Lord of the Pit and it’s for trade if you’ve got anything good...
There are so many lords it’s hard to k now where to start, but as that has to be somewhere, we’ll have a look at the global lords first...
A global lord will affect ALL creatures of a certain type or colour, not just your own and are therefore a little bit riskier than the others to play.
Some obvious examples Goblin King, Elvish Champion, Lord of Atlantis, but here are a few others too.
Ascendant Evincar, Aven Brigadier, Balthor the Stout, Celestial Crusader ,Chainer, Dementia Master , Crovax, Ascendant Hero, Field Marshal, Kangee, Aerie Keeper (I use Kangee as a general in EDH just for fun), Zuberi, Golden Feather and Verdeloth the Ancient and this guy is a double lord…
Some of them need a little kick to get them started, but in essence they are still lords like… Orc General
And if you thought I was joking about weirder lords than the donkey lord at the start of this article just check these guys out..
So why global and then why did things change? Well for a start it makes more sense giving only your critters a boost, and there was nothing worse than a mirror match where your opponent had better goblins than you, but the real reason I suspect, was the introduction of the changeling...Changelings popped up in Lorwyn and were special becaus they every creature type.
It’s a bit disconcerting to be clearly winning until an opponent drops a Chameleon Colossus which suddenly has haste trample and forest walk...
and that my friend is where we are going with this little adventure...
At the end of of lord’s research I’m going to help you put together the meanest, nastiest, five colour multifunctional-do anything-Swiss Army Knife of an EHD/Commander deck using the best of the lords and the best of the changelings
So after having a look at some of the Global lords are there any that look good for our EDH / Commander deck? Well, as it says at the start they can be a bit risky, but I think there are two that jump out... So get digging for....Balthor the stout. (all barbarians get +1 +1 and target barbarian get firebreathing) and Chainer Dementia Master - All Nightmares get +1 +1 (and who plays nightmares?) and she has an awesome raise dead ability too!
After a wee bit research I’ve decided to make this a weekly feature as frankly anything else would be a dissertation.
So now we’ve had a look at some of the global lords and next week we’ll have a look at the leiges..
I’m putting a disclaimer in here by the way... There are over 11,000 different card to chose from... So if I miss a lord or two sue me..
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