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Free sacrifice outlets are incredibly important, and because of that fact, we will often see the same cards fill that role. To no one's surprise, a deck headed by a commander who cares about creatures dying should include ways to sacrifice creatures. Not only does Whisperwood replace each of our dying creatures, but each manifested replacement also counts as a nontoken creature as well, allowing Sek'Kuar to create more Graveborn tokens if need be. It's a card that I've always really liked, but I had never found a deck for it until now. One interesting thing to note is that Sifter of Skulls and Pawn of Ulamog both appear in Sek'Kuar's signature cards, while Caller of the Claw and Vile Redeemer don't appear on the page at all.Īnother card that doesn't appear on Sek'Kuar's EDHREC page is Whisperwood Elemental. Sifter of Skulls and Pawn of Ulamog can stay on the board and allow us to replace our creatures when they die, while Caller of the Claw and Vile Redeemer can be held in hand to allow us to replace our creatures with bear tokens and eldrazi scions respectively when required. According to EDHREC, each of these creatures appear in about 40% of Sek'Kuar decks. Grim Haruspex and Harvester of Souls both give us draw power to go with our creatures dying. While there are not that many cards that benefit from having nontoken creatures die, we do get redundancy in the effects. If our deck list is geared towards taking advantage of nontoken creatures from the beginning, we can start to include other cards without making sacrifices. The first and most obvious is looking at other cards that benefit from nontoken creatures dying. This can take us in two different directions.
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A Nontoken AffairĪs we noted earlier, Sek'Kuar's ability specifically requires that nontoken creatures die. However, the more I dug into Sek'Kuar, the more possibilities I found, and I began to get more and more excited about his potential. Every obvious option quickly got nixed because the interaction either produced a creature token, or the recursion element was anti-synergistic, such as Unearth. I guess everything can't work out how we want it.Īs I started brewing, I couldn't get over his limitations. Along with that, Sek'Kuar specifies that another creature has to die to get a Graveborn token, which means that our general won't replace himself with a token. I love creature tokens as a general rule, and seeing text that reads "nontoken" throws up a caution sign for me. This line is what has always discouraged me quickly from giving Sek'Kuar a closer look. "Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies."
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How can we use this guy to full potential? What am I missing?Īt first glance, there are a couple of limitations that stuck out to me that hindered my outlook.
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When I started re-reading his card lately, the wheels started turning in my mind. That's not his fault most Jund commanders haven't interested me. I personally didn't really give Sek'kuar a hard look until recently. Looking at those legends, it's easy to see how he struggled in his own weight class. Then, when he was reprinted he had to stand against Prossh, Skyraider of Kher.
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In Coldsnap, our orc general had to compete with the likes of Zur the Enchanter, Arcum Dagsson, and even Darien, King of Kjeldor. Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeperįirst appearing in Coldsnap and then again in Commander 2013, Sek'kuar has always competed with other more obviously powerful commanders. Ladies and gentlemen, with a face only a mother could love, meet Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper! Coming in as only the 5th most played Jund commander, our red, green, and black Orc Shaman was probably beginning to think he was permanently left out in the cold. Along with this change, our newest underdog is going to explore a color yet to be seen in the series: black. I'm sorry to have misled you with my articles' bias. To those who don't know me personally, blue actually isn't my favorite color. The bell has rung, and we're back in the ring with this installment of the Underdog's Corner! One thing I noticed after the first three articles is that all the commanders so far contained blue. Each article makes the argument for a single commander that deserves more play, as well as highlighting key cards and synergies.
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This article is Round 4 of the Underdog’s Corner, a series spotlighting various lesser-used commanders and their place in the format.