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?
- Cryptic Trilobite - (G) (SF) (txt)
- Scuttling Sliver - (G) (SF) (txt)
- Arcane Adaptation - (G) (SF) (txt)
- Maskwood Nexus - (G) (SF) (txt)
- Training Grounds - (G) (SF) (txt)
- Horseshoe Crab - (G) (SF) (txt)
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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
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.
[[Runed Stalactite]] and [[Amoeboid changeling]] would work too!
@jake_eric
Any counter doublers or increasers with these two would go infinite if that is what you are looking to do.For example with [[hardened scales]] on board you would pay one mana and tap the crypticfor two +1/+1 counters. Then you could pull both off for 4 mana and use 2 to untap and one to activate again.
[[Hivestone]] is a sliver specific ability to convert all creatures into slivers. [[Artificial Evolution]] is also a fun option for changing a creature type on a spell or permanent into something else.
Ohh, those are great! I did a Google search for cards that make creatures into Slivers, but Hivestone didn’t come up. Artificial Evolution is also a cool way to do it. Thanks!
