"The Mythic Streak: The Horror we Deserve"

"The Mythic Streak: The Horror we Deserve"

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.MD

Yarok , The Desecrated is one of those cards that you really want to build around. And since I have a self-imposed ban on buying a box till 2020 I had contented myself by buying just a couple of packs this rainy Thursday night.

Little did I know of the horror that I would see in the Mythic slot. None other than Yarok itself , whose horrible form filled me with so much abusive interactions in EDH.

I mean you have a creature who is basically the Panharmonicon on a 3/5 Death touch , Life linking stick! So when you have a permanent entering the battlefield that triggers an ability of an ability you control to trigger , it triggers an additional time.

What this means is that each permanent with an enters the battlefield trigger , triggers a 2nd time. If you have Yarok  and Yarok's Fen Lurker enters the battlefield , each opponent will exile a card from their hand and then exile an additional card! Yeah. If you bounce the Fen Lurker a couple of times you might as well cripple your opponents ability to fight by leaving them with an empty hand.

Or how about leaving them with an empty battlefield bereft of any permanents? Here's how you do it.

Create Unlimited Mana with Deadeye Navigator and Peregrine Drake then with Yarok in play keep on casting an Agent of Treachery. Then watch as you keep on bouncing Agent of Treachery and the amount of permanents on the other side of the board keeps dwindlind until you have so much permanents that you will know what to use for.

Sure you can do this combo without Yarok but this makes all of your stealing much faster because the Agent of Treachery triggers twice. bwahahahaha

Dread Presence can be good here too as each Swamp that enters the battlefield allows you to draw cards and lose 1 life twice or deal 2 damage to a permanent twice and net 4 mana in the process. All those 4 toughness creatures are now within reach.

These are just the things on top of my head. There are so much more when you check it out. 

And so my Mythic streak continues on it's 4th week.