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I like the Trilobite creature type, I like Trilobites and I think it's funny that they put them on cards. Unfortunately there aren't nearly enough to make a deck out of and they don't do anything synergistic as a tribe... but I was thinking about what I could do with them anyway.

So, looking at [[Cryptic Trilobite]] and [[Scuttling Sliver]] I thought "there's gotta be something we can do with this." We just need a way to make Cryptic Trilobite a Sliver like [[Arcane Adaptation]] or [[Maskwood Nexus]] and a way to reduce ability costs like [[Training Grounds]]. Then it's infinite tap/untap! ...but that's basically a really expensive and unnecessary way to do the [[Horseshoe Crab]] combo, and there's no actual payoff without another card that gives you some other benefit from doing this.

Any ideas to make this actually useful?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

You could add green for [[Hardened Scales]] et al to get an infinitely large trilobite and infinite colorless mana. One-shotting someone with a huge trilobite seems pretty funny, and green can give you trample enablers to get past pesky blockers. Plus this gives redundancy, as you won't need the cost reducers. Or you could drop the reducers entirely, as there's quite a few cards that do what hardened Scales does

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah, that is also infinite itself too! Thanks for pointing that out, I was too focused on making it work in Blue. Probably would wanna run Green anyway for creature tutors.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago