Evra, Halcyon Witness

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Lifelink

{4}: Exchange your life total with Evra, Halcyon Witness's power.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (51)

77hi77 on Restrictions to make commanders interesting?

1 week ago

I've been looking through my decks lately, and it's really hitting me how weird my deckbuilding style is. So while I don't consider myself an experienced player by any stretch of the imagination, I might have some perspectives to share.

Similar to what legendofa said, I'm a huge fan of messing with the colour pie. So, one deck I'm working on is Evra, Halcyon Witness, which most people would see as a life gain commander, I see it as a really specialized version of Hatred, but instead of "Pay X life", X is set for you. So that made me think, can I build a mono-white deck that plays like a mono-black? How many options does white have for paying life and sacrificing your own creatures? I'd like to do something similar with the other colours, like how many {U}{B} one-drops can I use to make a funky aggro deck?

A deck I'm still in the theorizing process for is the answer to the question "how funny would it be if I built a deck where I can't cast the commander?". Right now I'm thinking Inalla, Archmage Ritualist but build the deck in mono-blue and just go blue wizard tribal. Maybe I'd allow myself a Fellwar Stone and one card that can let me steal another player's mana rock, so that casting my commander becomes an achievement to celebrate. From there it's a balance of building a viable 99 that has a chance to win the game, while sticking to the idea that I want this deck to be funny. This was very much inspired by watching Commander at Home whenever Olivia gets incoherent from laughing so hard at her own shenanigans.

My favourite deck I've built yet, which still needs quite a bit of work, is Defile Me Daddy Rakdos. Rakdos the Defiler is the commander, and most decks I've seen with him as the commander focus on how painful it is to be hit by him, then double down on that pain. I thought, it'd be more fun if I were to lean into the politics of a commander like that. So I put in a whole bunch of cards that demand deals: Scheming Symmetry, Infernal Offering, Sower of Discord, and other effects that either say "two of us will get a very nice thing" or "two of us will get a very bad thing". I see it as forcing you to get in character, you kind of have to play like a demon to pilot this demon deck.

I've also been eyeing proliferating commanders, mostly because the lands and mana rocks that use counters of some sort are really cool. Peat Bog, Altar of Shadows and Pyramid of the Pantheon, for example. Then balance it with non-standard proliferating wincons, so instead of +1/+1 counters and infect, I've been thinking of cards like Strixhaven Stadium, or the ult on a few planeswalkers (Vraska, Scheming Gorgon immediately comes to mind).

Hope that gave you some ideas! I'm on the exact opposite journey, because I'm too good at restricting myself, and whenever I try to bring friends into the game I can't really lend them any of my decks.

77hi77 on You're Doing That in WHAT …

1 year ago

Here's some background on how my mind works: I grew up playing Warhammer (Middle Earth SBG, specifically) and continue to play it nearly 2 decades later. One idea I've always been drawn to is: making close-combat armies out of factions that primarily excel at shooting, and making ranged armies out of factions that primarily want to swarm and get in combat.

Why do I give you this background? Because I learned of Evra, Halcyon Witness and her effect is, in some ways, basically a restricted version of Hatred. The first time you use it, if you have your starting life total, that effect is: pay 36 life, Evra gets +36/+0. If that effect doesn't scream mono-black to you, well it does to me.

That same part of my brain that gets excited about those Warhammer armies got really excited about building a mono-white deck that plays like a mono-black deck. Life is a resource, your creatures are a resource, get Evra out at all costs and swing. Easier said than done, white doesn't have many cards that treat your life like a resource, but it's added to the list of decks I'm working on. That then gets me thinking about mono-blue aggro, etc etc.

So the discussion I'm looking to start here is, what are some ways that you've seen colour tropes be bucked?

king-saproling on RW EDH Brion Stoutarm 2022

1 year ago

You might like these: War Elemental, Evra, Halcyon Witness, Cauldron of Souls, Adarkar Valkyrie, Seance, Twinflame, Graceful Reprieve, Brought Back

bushido_man96 on Flings n' Things

1 year ago

Sorry, I keep thinking of things. One more you might consider that won't break the budget it Evra, Halcyon Witness. If your life total is decently high, you can one-shot someone by sacrificing her to Brion. Then you get to gain the life back. Fun to pull off; just watch out for tricks.

Vargasprox on Brion Control

2 years ago

Possible changes:

Remove: Kari Zev's Expertise, Insurrection, Harness by Force, Bloody Betrayal, Conquering Manticore, Jeering Instigator, Evra, Halcyon Witness.

Add: Magda, Brazen Outlaw, Hellkite Tyrant, Icingdeath, Frost Tyrant, Utvara Hellkite, Balefire Dragon, Urabrask the Hidden, Hofri Ghostforge.

TheoryCrafter on Why Are You Hitting Yourself

2 years ago

Whoops! My bad!

Other cards like Reverse The Sands and Soul Conduit include Axis of Mortality and Evra, Halcyon Witness.

Other cards you may want to consider are Darien, King of Kjeldor and Toralf, God of Fury.

Spells that pay life to do damage are tricky since yer not taking any damage. It can work though if your timing is right.

griffstick on YOUR SPARK IGNITED!! - How …

2 years ago

Work uniform neon yellow =

Folding clothes = bounce permanents

Plane chosen at random = EQUILOR

ON THE EDGE OF THE KNOWN

One of the oldest planes, in one of the farthest reaches of the Multiverse, Equilor is unknown to all but the most tenacious planeswalkers. Once visited by the planeswalker Urza on his journey to find allies against the Phyrexian scourge, Equilor can be described as nearing the end of its natural entropy. The plane has flattened mountains and risen seas, and the beings who live on it are self-described as being beyond any desire for greatness or any effect of boredom. The plane itself is covered in large swaths by an endless mist known as The Eon Fog, and has some areas of living flesh mountains known as Bloodhill Bastions.

GODS & AVATARS None known

SETS FEATURING EQUILOR None

The only card previewed here on this plane is a good one.

Soul of Eternity

I feel like this makes me a cross between two cards. And they have to be legendary because cmdr right? I am Barrin, Master Wizard and Evra, Halcyon Witness

Deathstroke2791 on YEET! [[Primer]]

2 years ago

DeeLight

Scuttling Doom Engine was in the original iteration of this deck. It was definitely serviceable, and I'd recommend it for a budget build, but if it can be afforded, there's better stuff out there.

Evra, Halcyon Witness is AWFUL against removal and if people really think about it, it's a non-bo.All the card that rely on having a high life total are SCREWED if you use Evra: Serra Avatar, Soul of Eternity, Aetherflux Reservoir, etc. So while it looks good on first glance, it's bad.