![]() ![]() Old-school Innistrad Werewolves didn’t have the daybound/nightbound technology of this newest batch of lycanthropes, but they do transform from day side to night side to day side the same way, so we may want to pepper them into the deck as well. The nightbound side of Fangblade Brigand is Fangblade Eviscerator, and it has an activated ability that boosts all of your creatures by +2 each time, so with enough mana you can really pump up an alpha strike and surprise people with your otherwise spell-heavy deck. Reckless Stormseeker is nice for our gameplan since it can boost Vadrik’s power, particularly on the nightbound side. We can also make use of the creatures that have daybound and nightbound sides to fill out our creature ranks, and in the Izzet colors of Vadrik they’re all red Werewolves. Firmament Sage lets you draw extra cards, which every good spellslinger deck can use. In particular it combos nicely with The Celestus if you have a bunch of extra mana for multiple activations. The adorable Component Collector lets you tap or untap target nonland permanent each time day or night switches, which can tap down a creature your opponent controls or untap one of your creatures. Innistrad: Midnight Hunt gives us a handful of other day to night to day payoffs in addition to Vadrik, and we may very well want to take advantage of them in our 99. Whenever day becomes night or night becomes day, you put a +1/+1 counter on Vadrik, and since Vadrik himself makes it day when he enters the battlefield, you can help ensure that daylight status will start changing through the course of the game even if nobody is playing Werewolves.īut let’s not stop there! We can certainly play cards that will increase Vadrik’s power to further discount our instant and sorcery spells further. Vadrik discounts your instant and sorcery spells by an amount of generic mana equal to his power, which starts out as one but Vadrik has a very Innistrad way of increasing that power built in. ![]() You’ve got no shortage of spice to add to your 99 if you want to build a deck around Vadrik, and I’ll show you the cards that jumped out to me below. ![]() Wizards of the Coast (WotC) has really been supporting this theme quite a bit lately leading up to the introduction of the Prismari school from Strixhaven: School of Mages. As an Izzet legend, that means you’ve got access to all sorts of spellslinger shenanigans that Vadrik’s text encourages and supports. If you ever wished that Goblin Electromancer could be your commander, then you’re jumping for joy over Vadrik, Astral Archmage. This week I want to shift gears and dig into all the cool things you can do with our new Izzet legend Vadrik, Astral Archmage! Last week I did a deep dive on a new mono-green legend with Saryth, the Viper’s Fang, which I think is awesome as either your commander or in the 99 of other green Commander decks. Innistrad: Midnight Hunt previews are complete and there are all sorts of goodies for Commander fans to get excited about. ![]()
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