I play this in my Naya deck now with Apocalypse Hydra and Mycoloth. Pretty awesome. It's not too hard to get the conditional win with Apocalypse Hydra, especially if you are using any kind of mana acceleration. And the counters accelerate how many babies Mycoloth pumps out each turn and makes them beefier. I do agree with comments on how this card seems too uber, but I play with it anyway. :)
Posted By:
Trigvi
(6/18/2009 4:12:04 PM)
this definitely says "build me around Cradle of Vitality" if you can get a creature to ten power with both cards out victory could be assured.
Posted By:
PatrickWamsher
(4/30/2009 12:07:24 AM)
Unfortunately the other post is right, its on upkeep, an until end of turn power boosts wont trigger it. That having been said, there are several very very easy ways to make that happen, but the easiest one is apocalypse hydra, as long as its counters you add are more than 5 it doubles to 10, but it doesn't stop at 10 either. If you can pay at least enough to get 10, you can cast soul's might on it either immediately or during the next turn for a 20/20 creature. Feral hydra will also do, it can increase its own counters. On top of that, doubling season can signifigantly ramp up any creature to 20/20 in no time, your feral hydra would gain 2/2 per 3 mana, your mighty emergence would gain 4/4 instead of 2/2, and your apocalypse hydra would come into play as a 20/20.
Mayael's aria, doubling season, apocalypse hydra played with 7 mana = game win on next upkeep.
I think its a nice benefit to naya since a lot of "spikes" out there will do anything to win and this can short cut ther... (see all)
Posted By:
Donovan_Fabian
(9/22/2009 3:05:53 AM)
Not like you're not already well on your way to winning if you have a 20/20 Primordial Hydra =D
Posted By:
Arachnos
(4/15/2012 9:32:40 PM)
Rush of Blood or Fatal Frenzy can make this much more of a reality.
Posted By:
LordRandomness
(5/18/2012 2:41:12 AM)
Mayael is beautifully depicted here. Shows also Progenitus.
And also, I always combo this with Ajani Goldmane. If he doesn't appear, Soul's Might, Lifelink for the behemoths, and Cradle of Vitality is my second combo.
Posted By:
ExzcellionGamma
(6/7/2012 7:47:48 AM)
@RecurringNightmare: Since you control both triggers you get to stack them however you want.
Posted By:
adrian.malacoda
(12/9/2012 6:13:45 PM)
It's unconventional, but this should share a deck with Krosan Cloudscraper and a few Mythic Proportions. Just for cruelty's sake.
Posted By:
Zulp
(6/16/2009 9:26:32 AM)
This is offically my favorite card.
Run this with power counter decks and a Doubling Season. Game over.
Posted By:
KingRusty
(11/9/2010 6:27:19 PM)
It screams use with spiritmonger and maybe add gilder bairn to the deck... then again most cards that use counters scream use gilder bairn to me.
Posted By:
Xarule
(9/17/2009 7:21:38 AM)