Pointing to the culprit and making them pay...A Murder Investigation
by:
Virgilio F. De leon Jr.
My playgroup mates in Team Virulence know that I love playing with Aura's , Enchantments that can attach to creatures and give them boosts or abilities. Usually I am in the hunt for cards that can help my Infect decks but once in awhile I come across cards like Murder Investigation. At one colorless mana and one white mana and at Uncommon too it is an easy shoo in for some decks who want to put out creature tokens...and fast.It is also going to be effective in Selesnya token decks that usually produce 3/3 or 8/8 fatties. Nobody gives a fuss about losing a token especially if there will be more afterwards. Imagine if you can attach one of these to a Thragtusk , it attacks , your opponent deals with it by blocking or killing it...at the end of your battle phase you would have 5 1/1 soldier tokens and a 3/3 beast token...assuming of course that you would attack with these you would be dealing 8 points of damage on the next turn.
Murder investigation also makes your creature "unblockable" in a way because people would assess if it is worth blocking. They would rather have it deal damage early on because they don't want to give you any more token creatures to clog the battlefield as blockers or potential aggressors on the ensuing turns. The dream is to get one of these on a Worldspine wurm...which dies or gets sacrificed to something...that's 15 1/1 soldier tokens and 3 5/5 Wurm tokens in play. The Timmy in me is salivating at the thought because if my opponent doesn't have mass removal in his hand then it is good bye on the next turn.
Murder investigation also makes your creature "unblockable" in a way because people would assess if it is worth blocking. They would rather have it deal damage early on because they don't want to give you any more token creatures to clog the battlefield as blockers or potential aggressors on the ensuing turns. The dream is to get one of these on a Worldspine wurm...which dies or gets sacrificed to something...that's 15 1/1 soldier tokens and 3 5/5 Wurm tokens in play. The Timmy in me is salivating at the thought because if my opponent doesn't have mass removal in his hand then it is good bye on the next turn.
There are a lot of ways to abuse this token producing aura , you could also put it on a creature that starts out little but because of the other auras that you could attach to it, becomes huge , Like a Priest of Norn that has an Angelic Destiny. This puts a lot pressure on your opponents since they can either have 5 Infect damage from a creature who has Vigilance or just give you 5 tokens. In which case they would delay damage but still be at a disadvantage.
Normally an aura heavy deck wont be able to recover if its lone creature gets sacked or doom bladed out existence , with Murder Investigation though you have a chance at having Soldier tokens aim their swords at your creatures murderer and bring justice to him or her...swiftly. I would probably put in 3 of these in one of my current White/Green decks just for fun. You can never have enough tokens who are crying out for justice on the battlefield on any given day.
Normally an aura heavy deck wont be able to recover if its lone creature gets sacked or doom bladed out existence , with Murder Investigation though you have a chance at having Soldier tokens aim their swords at your creatures murderer and bring justice to him or her...swiftly. I would probably put in 3 of these in one of my current White/Green decks just for fun. You can never have enough tokens who are crying out for justice on the battlefield on any given day.
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