"Taborax, Hope's Demise: Shadowborne Apostle's Glee."

 "Taborax, Hope's Demise: Shadowborne Apostle's Glee."

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.MD

One of my friends Jus Puntay exploded in our group chat. 

"Doc para dun sa mga Shadowborne boys mo!"

And I am glad that my friends know my pet decks and easily suggest something that can be a great addition to them. Especially this particular demon that seemed to be tailor made for the Shirei led Shadowborne Apostle deck.

So as a general review , you could sacrifice 5 Shadowborne Apostles to fetch a demon of your choice from your deck and put it on the battlefield. At the end of the turn if Shirei is still in play you could return those same creatures (Converted mana cost of 1) back to the battlefield.

If all goes well you could be fetching demons each your opponents turns. Now with this particular demon in play you get a lot more value for this cycle.

Tabarax, Hope's Demise is a 2/2 flying Legendary creatue costing just 2 colorless and a black mana. 

Taborax, Hope's Demise has lifelink as long as it has five or more +1/+1 counters on it.

This 2nd part can easily be filled up by the following triggered ability.

"Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Taborax. If that creature was a Cleric, you may draw a card. If you do, you lose 1 life."

You see Shadowborne Apostle's are non-token clerics. So when you sacrifice 6 of them to fetch a demon not only do you give 

Tabarax, Hope's Demise 6 +1/+1 counters , you also get to draw 6 cards! Oh don't mind the loss of 6 life. Power at any cost remember? And remember too that 5 or more +1/+1 counters give Taborax lifelink. An 8/8 Lifelinking flyer on your side of the board.

Plus if you have 3 opponents and you have were able to do the whole Sac clerics process 4 times. You would have an 18/18 Life link Flyer that can retrieve all of those lost life points as well as adding 2 more. Of course it needs to connect first but with 16 more cards in your hand I am sure you can figure something out.

It takes a lot of time to set up but this is a worthy target to fetch in a deck like this. So one more to go on my wish list.