Iona, Darksteel, Progenitus, these are currently the best possible ones for a polymorph deck, and who says you cant use all 3 in your deck, 4 darksteel, 2 progenitus, 2 iona, twincasting poly targeting darksteel would = 3 large unbeatable creatures on the field, darksteel and either a progenitus, iona or darksteel
who would ever use this on an opponents creature, I mean, it wont mill an opponent like telemin performance, and really annoying stuff will have shroud or be indestructable, and whatever they get will be able to attack or do whatever it does on their turn
Posted By:
Dingo777
(11/20/2009 9:24:37 PM)
Awesome card.
I'mma have to get a few copies.
Posted By:
.Fighter.
(11/26/2009 4:07:22 AM)
Someone put together this in a poly-genitus deck and tell me how it turns out.
Posted By:
CatsAreCthala
(1/15/2010 10:00:40 PM)
This could be a fun card if you know your opponent has Phage in his or her deck.
Posted By:
Gomorrah
(1/25/2010 6:19:59 PM)
This card is fantastic in standard right now. You can easily make a deck with NO creatures except for a few fatties and use this card extremely effectively.
1. Summoner's bane- AWESOME with polymorph. Let your opponent tap out on turn 4 to play a creature (cough cough bloodbraid) and then counter it. Then, on your turn, polymorph the token to get a guaranteed fattie.
2. Wind zendikon (Or any zendikon, really)- Self explanatory. Make a creature without using a creature spell, polymorph it, get a fattie.
3. Gargoyle castle- A little more desperate as it costs 5 mana and sacs a land. Still, it works and the 3/4 flying gargoyle can double up as a bolt-proof beater if necessary
4. Mind control- take an opponents creature, polymorph it, get a fattie.
5. Rite of Replication- make a copy of an opponent's creature, polymorph it, get a fattie.
There is also awesome synergy with other colors- especially red.
1. Goblin assault
2. Dragon fodder
PLUS there are some huge fatties in standard right ... (see all)
Posted By:
Eric1618
(2/17/2010 2:24:08 AM)
this card is really great, you're hoping to turn your kraken hatchling, into either a sphinx of jwar isle, or an inkwell leviathan great card to put in an aggro deck or a deck with creatures composed mostly with high casting creatures. out of 5 games i play when i use this card, the result is great i could summon my lorthos, the tidemaker, or my sphinx of jwar isle, or my inkwell leviathan :))
Posted By:
ace117
(2/27/2010 7:53:08 AM)
i don't think you shuffle if the first card is a creature because you are told to shuffle the other revealed cards into the library.
Posted By:
Uhhsam
(3/28/2010 6:15:21 PM)
I realize most of you are probably talking about standard but seeing as this card has been around for a while, I'd expect someone to have mentioned using this with worldly tutor. It seems like the most direct way to use polymorph but I guess the problem would be that you would then have to have 3gu available unless you had a sylvan library or mirri's guile on the battlefield, or you were prepared to brainstorm (or something like that). Anyway, in most non-standard decks, natural order is probably better... unless you just won't settle for a 10/10 pro-everything never-quite-dead hydra avatar (or you don't wish to be sac'ing green creatures). That being said, Polymorph does have the added benefit of being an emergency creature remover for your opponent's creatures (albeit an unreliable one) and also, to be honest, I've never actually seen a tokens/zendikons/genjus/ma... (see all)
Posted By:
heenaheena
(4/7/2010 8:12:44 PM)
"Ahh! Opposable digits!"
Proteus Staff is better
Posted By:
Tezz
(4/10/2010 3:58:27 AM)
Fun casual deck I just made:
4x Polymorph
4x Dragon Fodder
2x Nuisance Engine
2x Proteus Staff
4x Ponder
3x Brainstorm
2x Library of Leng
2x Frantic Search
1x Scroll Rack
1x Feldon's Cane
4x Unsummon
4x Electrolyze
4x Kher Keep
4x Izzet Boilerworks
2x Urza's Factory
7x Island
6x Mountain
4x Creature*
Fairly simple, works pretty well. Make tokens, Polymorph into scary things. The Libraries are very good for making sure you don't put your necessary pieces in the graveyard, and Scroll Rack can put things back on top. Feldon's Cane is sort of a last resort for renewing your deck.
*Any four scary fatties you want - I run Progenitus, Darksteel Colossus, Inkwell Leviathan, and Iona, Shield of Emeria.
Posted By:
Exuberance
(4/10/2010 2:08:13 PM)