A very late Danian of the Week: Makrabon!

This week is a favourite of mine! Makrabon!



Makrabon

A common controller from Silent Sands, makrabon is like a reversed form of tabaal. Instead of spending a mugic to infect, he gains a mugic to infect. Makrabon is sorta like the poor man's Illexia, when you think about it. He can gain lots of counters with cards like Strain of Infection, and you benefit from it. He and strain of infection are a deadly combo. Infectious melody and tabaal infects four cards, uninfect three and Makrabon gains 3, and then you reinfect them. Then sacrifice a balladeer's flute, and use Rao'Pa Sahkk Chimegrid, or Dibanni, or Inner flood... The possibilities are endless and you can have mass infection in no time. He is a great partner to Illexia. Either you can let him activate hive and allow Illexia's counters to be used for your mandiblor count, or use Elna for hive, keep Makrabon for mugic like adaptive progression or choral of the apparition, and use Illexia for the mandiblor count. I'm currently running a pretty sweet infection deck using the latter combination, and he works a treat.

So here's to Makrabon, he's versatile, he's deadly, and best of all he's just a common! Hats off to one of the best controllers out there, and most controllers are to do with infecting (Dubin, Yondaf, Makrabon) so this guy is no exception.

Danian of the Week: Yondaf

So it's Wednesday again, which means another danian of the week!


C|50
P|35
W|65
S|20
E|30

If you saw ReiHaku's video on the deck of the month for February, you'd see his Fliandar deck, using Yondaf. In the video, he mentioned Armament Adagio - An awesome mugic for Yondaf, because it's two infection for one counter, which is almost impossible to do any other way. Yondaf himself has a counter, so right there you can do two things at once - Burn and infect. Now most danian mugic either targets your own creature (Like song of mandiblor, draining dirge, unisong) or doesn't target any creature specifically at all (katharaz's composition) but some old favourites like Song of Symmetry can be really effective. Gain 10, deal 10, infect. It's all about doing two things at once with Yondaf. If you are packing a heptadd's crown, or if you are in a mixed deck, it can be handy to use other tribal mugic, like rhyme of the reckless (which targets a creature and an attack) or canon of casualty.
Also, Yondaf has two elements, including one (fire) which is not all too popular in the danian tribe, so he would go well in a mixed deck, with cards like loderool, kamangareth UA, and Vunhra. However with low stats and a minimum of thirty energy, he's clearly not a combatant.

So that was this week's Danian! Yondaf, the infectious controller!

Danian of the week

Alright, this week, it's Ode to Obscurity




Now, I know it's not a creature, but if you read the last "What's Coming" I was planning to do an article on this anyway, and figured I could make it a danian of the week and hit two dractyls with one pebblestorm :P
Anyway, this is one of the most versatile infection mugics I can think of. First off, I love my infection :D In any shape or form, if it assimilates, I like it. I'm glad they brought this card in, as it makes up for the lurch that's left when you try infection in a mixed army. Mixed army infection, for the benefit of cards like Vunhra, often means you need to cut out one of the typical infectors, such as Tabaal. Right there, that's an easy two infection gone. So I assume Ode to Obscurity was made to make up for this gap, and boy am I grateful. But Mixed Armies aren't it's only use. Of course, you could use general's standard or northrange to act like you have non danians, but I don't like that idea. It seems unfair, like we are taking all the benefits from forged unity without actually filling our part of the bargain and mixing the tribes. But even so, let's look at the good this card can do in pure danian decks.

• A one cost, one infection mugic. Sometimes you want to infect just one creature, not two, and since Infectious Melody has to be a cost of two, you may not want (or be able to) go the extra mile. Melody of Infectious Mayhem works, but that's only when they are engaged, so cards like Wamma Hive Ordnance won't work. So with this, you can spend one, infect one.
• A third infectious melody. Run out of room for infection? Don't want to use Tabaal instead of a somewhat meatier creature with two MC? You can use this as a third infectious melody if need demands it.

And of course, in mixed decks, it's a two-fer. Spend one, infect two. Spend two, infect four. Spend 3, infect your entire opposition! If you want to really go mad, max out and spend all 6 (if your mixed deck includes a fluidmorpher) and infect every creature on the board! An incredibly valuable card for infection.

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