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- Marrow-Gnawer + Thornbite Staff
- Avatar of Woe + Thornbite Staff
- Hell's Caretaker + Thornbite Staff
- Thornbite Staff + Visara the Dreadful
- Sling-Gang Lieutenant + Thornbite Staff + Whisper, Blood Liturgist
- Ruin Rat + Thornbite Staff
- Gravecrawler + Soldevi Adnate + Thornbite Staff
Legality
Format | Legality |
1v1 Commander | Legal |
Archenemy | Legal |
Block Constructed | Legal |
Canadian Highlander | Legal |
Casual | Legal |
Commander / EDH | Legal |
Commander: Rule 0 | Legal |
Custom | Legal |
Duel Commander | Legal |
Highlander | Legal |
Legacy | Legal |
Leviathan | Legal |
Limited | Legal |
Modern | Legal |
Oathbreaker | Legal |
Planechase | Legal |
Quest Magic | Legal |
Tiny Leaders | Legal |
Vanguard | Legal |
Vintage | Legal |
Rules Q&A
- Can I use a creature's tap ability multiple times in one turn if I can untap it?
- If a Creatures is untapped durring Combat, Can I use that creatures Tap ability multiple times as response to declared attackers.
- Do I have to pay the equip cost ( Thornbite Staff)?
- Destroy Creature - Order of Destruction and LtB
- Thornbite Staff vs Hexproof
Thornbite Staff
Tribal Artifact — Shaman Equipment
Equipped creature has "(2), Tap: This creature deals 1 damage to target creature or player" and "Whenever a creature is put into a graveyard from play, untap this creature."
Whenever a Shaman creature enters the battlefield, you may attach Thornbite Staff to it.
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SufferFromEDHD on Swiss Army Viashino
3 weeks ago
Industrial Advancement recycle your dragons. Easy cut Bloodshot Cyclops
Magewright's Stone and/or Thornbite Staff engine fuel.
SufferFromEDHD on Rosheen Meanderer
3 weeks ago
Fanning the Flames reusable.
Thousand-Year Elixir and Thornbite Staff abuseable.
Kootaroo on Glissa, the Traitor EDH: Combo Control
2 months ago
Glissa, the Traitor works with Thornbite Staff in case you were unaware. her deathtouch applies even on the thornbite "fight" ability.
legendofa on Mono Black Rats Deck (First Deck Ever)
3 months ago
I'll give some good general-use options for several budget levels.
$20+ Thornbite Staff, Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm
$10-$20 Contamination, Liliana of the Veil
$1-$10 Capital Punishment, Ratcatcher
Less than $1 Feed the Swarm, Fraying Omnipotence, Hex
legendofa on Planeswalk of the Pharaoh!
3 months ago
The Vorpal Sword + Thornbite Staff combo doesn't quite work. V.Sword only triggers off combat damage, which T.Staff doesn't provide.
I don't know Yu-Gi-Oh well enough to provide more concrete suggestions, so let me say welcome to the club!
legendofa on Mono Black Rats Deck (First Deck Ever)
3 months ago
Welcome to the club, Lardex!
If you're on Cockatrice and budget isn't a concern, Thornbite Staff allows you to create an infinite number of Rat tokens with Marrow-Gnawer. Ratcatcher and Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm are more good utility and aggro options. (If you're pulling this together in paper and budget is a concern, then it's safe to skip these suggestions.)
I'm not sure Spine of Ish Sah and Scour from Existence are pulling their weight here. Sure, they can get rid of anything, but is a huge investment to get rid of a single permanent, and you're in a color that has a lot of removal options for just about about everything.
Above all, have fun!
legendofa on Infinite rats
4 months ago
The important lines here are “Whenever a creature dies, untap [equipped] creature.” from Thornbite Staff, using the updated wording, and ", Sacrifice a Rat: Create X 1/1 black Rat creature tokens, where X is the number of Rats you control." from Marrow-Gnawer. You also need at least two other Rats to get infinite creatures. Let's say you have Marrow-Gnawer and exactly two other Rats.
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With Staff equipped to M-G, tap M-G and sacrifice one of your other Rats to activate Marrow-Gnawer's ability. You now control two Rats.
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Since a creature died, Staff's granted ability triggers and resolves, and M-G untaps.
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M-G's ability from 1 resolves, and you create two Rat tokens. You have effectively tapped M-G and sacrificed a Rat to untap M-G and create two Rats, with the net result being that you created a Rat token for no cost.
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If you go through this cycle again, you'll create three Rats, then four, then five, and so on, continually tapping M-G and sacrificing rats to untap M-G and create more rats.
Gidgetimer You create tokens equal to the number of Rats you control, not the power of the sacrificed Rat.
Gidgetimer on Infinite rats
4 months ago
You would also need a third card to generate value from this interaction. As is you will make a number of 1/1 rats equal to the total power of your rats. (Tap Marrow-Gnawer and sac a rat to make the 1/1s, untap from Thornbite Staff trigger, repeat). You either need an anthem effect (Bad Moon, Adaptive Automaton, Caged Sun, etc) to make the tokens 2/2s thus saccing 1 token to make 2 tokens and looping. Or you need a Blood Artist effect to win off off saccing a token to make a token infinitely.
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