"Phyrexian Infiltrator:How to lose a Creature with 4 mana"
by:
Virgilio F. De leon Jr.
One of the greatest things that I enjoy working while working in Eastwood City is that I could walk around and look for stuff. Magic cards in particular , with the help of my friend Mark I was able to find a 2rats store in the City walk area..
I had fun browsing through binders that had old cards and one in particular caught my fancy. The Phyrexian Infiltrator. Right off the bat the ability to exchange this guy for one of your opponents meaner creatures appealed to me. I mean imagine your opponent mana accelerating to a cool creature like Griselbrand or Avacyn or even struggling in the EDH rounds to cast such a wonderful fattie creature and here you come along with 8 mana. Play a Phyrexian Infiltrator and starts stealing whatever you deem gives you more advantages at the moment. In an EDH game there is always at least one player who would try to dominate the board with a huge creature.It is safe to say therefore that here will always be a target for the Phyrexian Infiltrator.
I mean for 8 mana you could already exchange it the moment it comes into the battlefield or if you don't have anything worthy of stealing you could simply bide your time and use it as an early defender. Sometimes an EDH battlefield can get so clogged up and it does become harder to keep track of things. Chances are an opponent will forget your Phyrexian Infiltrator is even there in the first place and this is the best chance to strike. I mean it could just mean stealing their combo piece creature when they don't have mana to defend themselves.
When playing the Phyrexian Infiltrator you also need to be mindful of your opponents mana base. In EDH all you need to do is look at an opponents commander and your targets become really clear. Choose the ones that do not have blue.Stealing a creature is wonderful and all but it does seem a bit silly and wasteful of your efforts if your opponent could just steal that creature back.
There are a lot of ways for you to prevent your Phyrexian Infiltrator from returning. One of them is to kill it or to simply bounce it back to your hand. Yup even though you just gave it to your opponent , you just gave control of it to someone else and when it goes back to its owners hand , it would still be back in your sweaty palms because guess what? you still own the guy.Another trick is to use a Pithing Needle so that the Phyrexian Infiltrator's ability won' ever be used again.Making the transfer a one way street in your favor.
One sneaky(and political) way to win is to bribe an opponent with the Phyrexian Infiltrator so that he could go ahead and steal the weakest players only stalwart defender and go in for the kill.Of course that means that they have to agree that you would be left unharmed. For the price of merely taking care of one opponent rather than facing 3 that could gang up on him or her then the Phyrexian Infiltrator could really help improve your chance of survival until you are ready to unleash your next string of tricks.
Biding for time as always until the time is right to reap everyone for the win. Well the Phyrexian Infiltrator is a wonderful soldier in this regard.It could even do the task by its lonesome when you actually get a killer creature to smash your opponent with. Turning their own force against them. How ironic.
Well this is all I could write for today. In the mean time keep on brewing , keep on playing.
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