Combustible Gearhulk almost always draws us six cards because opponents are too scared to take the damage, while leaving behind a massive, first striking body. Verdurous Gearhulk comes down and puts a ton of counters on our creatures, which either allows us to close out the game by attacking or to play solid defense while we are waiting to take over the game with an endless stream of card advantage and big threats. The biggest payoff for our Panharmonicon plan is the Gearhulks. With a Panharmonicon on the battlefield, Arborback Stomper gains us 10 life while also leaving behind a big body, while Cloudblazer not only gains us four life but also draws us four cards to make sure we have more relevant plays the following turn. Since we can be a bit slow and clunky in the early game thanks to our mana base, we need some ways to get back from the brink after we get a Panharmonicon down, and these cards do an amazing job of increasing our life total. Thragtusk and Mulldrifter-I mean, Arborback Stomper and Cloudblazer-are two of our best stabilization cards after we play a Panharmonicon. Meanwhile, Reflector Mage bounces a creature on Turn 3 to slow our opponent down and can turn into a one-sided Evacuation in the late game, bouncing two, three, or four of our opponent's creatures! Filigree Familiar gains us some life and chumps for a turn in the early game then, in the late game, it gains us a ton of life to keep us out of the danger zone while we are looking to draw our big finishers. Second, they fix our mana, which is extremely important, considering we are playing five colors and have double-colored mana costs in almost every color.įiligree Familiar and Reflector Mage help keep us alive until we get a Panharmonicon on the battlefield. First, they help make sure we have enough mana to cast our Panharmonicon on Turn 3 or 4, either by ramping us or by making sure we hit all our land drops. Servant of the Conduit and Pilgrim's Eye do two things for our deck. Prophetic Prism can sometimes draw us three or more cards for only two generic mana, and Glint-Nest Crane takes advantage of the fact that we have 18 artifacts in our deck to draw us not only more cards but also more relevant cards. In the early turns, they help us dig through our deck to find our Panharmonicons, and in the late game (after we have a Panharmonicon or two), they generate insane amounts of card advantage. Glint-Nest Crane and Prophetic Prism do double duty in our deck. It's also important to remember that Panharmonicon isn't legendary, and the way it is worded means it works in multiples, so the more copies we get on the battlefield, the better! Just what are we doubling up with Panharmonicon? Artifacts and creatures with enters-the-battlefield triggers are typically balanced under the assumption that you only get the trigger once, so when you can get that trigger two, three, or four times, things can get out of hand very quickly. It does literally nothing by itself, but then it can be insanely powerful in conjunction with other cards. Sooner or later, the insane amount of value we get from the enters-the-battlefield triggers will (hopefully) win us the game.
Thanks to Servant of the Conduit and Prophetic Prism, we can get away with playing the full five colors and still cast all of our stuff with regularity. The basic idea of the deck is pretty simple: we get a Panharmonicon on the battlefield to double our enters-the-battlefield triggers then, we play all of the sweetest creatures with enters-the-battlefield triggers in Standard, regardless of their color. Against the Odds: Five-Color Panharmonicon Deck Tech If you enjoy the Against the Odds series and the other video content here on MTGGoldfish, make sure to subscribe to the MTGGoldfish YouTube Channel. I considered a bunch of options (which will be on this week's all- Kaladesh poll, so make sure to vote!) and finally decided to go with one of the dark horse candidates: Panharmonicon! As such, today we are playing all of the best enters-the-battlefield abilities in Standard, spread across five colors, and looking to double, triple, or even quadruple up these triggers with the help of Panharmonicon!Īnyway, let's get to the videos, but first a quick reminder. Welcome to episode fifty-five of Against the Odds! As I'm sure you know, we didn't have an Against the Odds poll last week because this week marks the first week of Kaladesh on Magic Online, which means that it's time for a very special Kaladesh episode! Choosing which Kaladesh card to tackle first was actually pretty challenging.