Comments on: Zendikar by Kard: Getting Under the Hood of Lotus Cobra

By: Angel's Rule

Angel's Rule — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:12:34 +0000

Anyone would have to agree that white green became extremely good with 4 lanowar elves that drop turn one boosting green mana advantage and then you drop turn two one plains and an akrasan squire and so on so forth until you get by turn 5 with 4 elves tap 9 mana and bam now you have Iona Shield of Emeria out. Another thing you could do to my opinion could be green white birds with harrow and rampant growth and throw in Emeria Angel now you have a shit load of one one birds that swing into your opponent; but the key to a deck like this is to run a little bit of stall till turn 5 so that you have a better chance of playing Iona. Something like pacism or journey to nowhere or oblivion ring. Zendikar more or less just made angels one of the most powerful creatures in the game.

By: Ian Weydert

Ian Weydert — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:43:04 +0000

Further examination of Warp Worlds suggests that all artifact, creature, and land cards revealed come into play at the same time. If that is the case, then I am wrong. I’m really not sure though.

By: Ian Weydert

Ian Weydert — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:41:32 +0000

I think this is an amazing idea, but while I was playtesting I ran into an interesting situation. What exactly happens if you reveal two Ob Nixilis, the Fallens when you play Warp World? It is legendary, so when two of them come into play, they immediately go to the graveyard, and since creatures come into play *before* lands, this happens before any lands can trigger Landfall, right? Or am I missing something?

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:52:41 +0000

Hey, bdm could you please explain something to me. I was wondering since the lands and Ob Nix come in at the same time how can the “Landfall” ability activate? I’m just wondering lol sorry if I sound rather ignorant I was just wondering,

By: Seifyk

Seifyk — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 05:02:54 +0000

I don’t think this is a Lotus Cobra deck. This is a decent deck that happens to be broken if Cobra lives.

By: Machine

Machine — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:27:58 +0000

How about Farhaven Elf… some extra acceleration and would add a boost to both Balloths and Nixilis…

This deck looks fun, I’d probably try some birds for a one drop and some extra (much needed) speed. And maybe a Bloodbraid or two for something to engage opponents before the Warp

By: Darnok

Darnok — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:54:59 +0000

yes we’ve all heard the argument it dies to this and that (but that goes for a lot of other critters) but like BDM said, what if it lives?

By: MTGBattlefield

MTGBattlefield — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:42:19 +0000

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By: Diego

Diego — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:08:21 +0000

I forgot to add my personal url, there it is, I hope BDM could test some stablished archetype vs a cobra deck in new t2 and then, post his thoughts about it.

I ran harrow because was doing a lot of things that the deck needed, you need 3-4 basics in play, and harrow does it, you need your knight of reliquarys be 4/4+ when play them to not die against bolt, and you need to play 3/3 wild nacatls, also was a nice combo with cobra and way to ramp up mana from 3 to 5 maybe to grow your pseudo tarmogoyfs (the ones for G) and stuff.

Well like I said the only deck I find cobra is medium abusable is in jund aggro. But when opponent plays putrid leech instead of cobra you are already behind in board position.

By: the Lighting Bolter

the Lighting Bolter — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:53:22 +0000

this also dies to lightning bolt.