#hedron crab

[googlyeyesonmagiccards]

Hedron Crab, please

What a harmless little fell-OH GOD MY DECK!

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Hedron Crab

Hedrons perplex minds both great and small.

Artist: Jesper Ejsing TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[teenytinycoffeebean]

I don't want to buy a Hedron Crab for my new Charix EDH deck so this is the proxy I made for it for it

If you don’t know... 

[emrylurkeroftheloch]

Also you have 4 Hedron Crabs and 4 ruin crabs cause crabs are good and make mill funny

TRUE!!!!!!!!

[cleopatraphouse]

This is the dark spire that exists between pages of history, do not stay here.

- Samuel "raocow" Tanguay, MaGLX2 - 109 - hedron crab

[walcutt]

DECK TECH - 8Trap, or 8Crab, or 8Rav

Against all odds, got first place at the league AGAIN. This deck has some similarities to last week's, but actually has remarkably little overlap in cards-played (just 4x Prismatic, 3x Harrow). Again, we're playing off of the creature-axis to throw off our opponents. Unlike last week though, we don't want to play a long game. We want to mill our opponent's deck as fast as possible!

There's 3.... or, 3.5 cores to this deck.

CORE I: 8Crab

This has been a staple tier-2 core in the format since before I joined in. Hedron Crab + Fetches has been a rogue staple since it was printed back in Zendikar. Fetchlands are the best fixing in our format anyways, so we're happy to play 12 to double the effectiveness of our little critters. Snow Crab is much worse, but is a good blocker and still helps us count to 60. We play snow lands for him.

CORE II: Removal

We don't play a ton of removal, but we have some primo shit. Dead of Winter is an extremely powerful wipe, and was quite prevalent before there was a ban on Arcum's Astrolabe. However, even labeless, it helps us clear threatening early boards and give us time to win. We're playing snow anyways, and it doesn't even kill our best blockers. Speaking of anyways, because the format only has enemy fetches, both our blue and black fetches overlap on green, making the splash for Abrupt Decay just kind of fall out of the manabase on its own. It's a pretty key card for hitting noncreature threats like Aria of Flame, Oath of Druids, or Survival of the Fittest.

CORE III: 8Trap

Archive trap is our heaviest mill-hitter in the deck. Slamming in for a whopping 13 cards, a playset of these literally wins the game on their own. Sadly, we can't draw all of them. However..... we can search for more! Trapmaker's snare is my new spin on some old Archive Trap/Crab lists, effectively doubling our reach of Archive Traps for the low cost of 2 mana. Since fetchlands are dominating the manabases of FS7, it's almost always a freecast, or the hardcast will win in the endgame.

CORE III.5: 8Trap, Part 2, AKA 8Rav

Now.... since we're playing a trap tutor, we might as well play some more.... and there's plenty of pretty good pieces for a toolbox! Lethargy and Ravenous are the clear winners here, with the former shoring up aggro matchups considerably, and the latter hosing the numerous graveyard decks that would otherwise only be fed by us. Usually, these would all be sideboard options, but we get the chance to pre-board them, gaining us some game-1 wins.

SIDEBOARD

Our sideboard consists of 3 more copies of each of the above traps, as well as 3x Grafdiggers Cage. Cage primarily is here to stop Oath of Druids and Hogaak, but helps a bit against some prominent Green Sun's Zenith and Flashback plays. Notably, each trap in the sideboard has an amplified presence due to the tutor -- after board, we can effectively play 8 copies of Ravenous Trap, truly shredding the many, many decks weak to it in the format.

[island-delver-go]

Look at this deck and tell me you don't love #mtg a little more after seeing Hedron Crab show up as a 4x in Vintage

[reuxben]

This was our MTGinktober for “Deep,” starring Kioriel and Hedron Crabastian! Under the C-spell, under the C-spell, nobody beat us.

Click this post’s Source link for this piece’s Making-Of.

More MTGinktober here.

Daily Art updates on Instagram and Twitter.

Not normal,

Reuxben

[antegradient]

I think I'm going to start glitching out all of my decks. Just have to figure out a good printing process for the proxies.

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Hedron Crab

Hedrons perplex minds both great and small.

Artist: Jesper Ejsing TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[markrosewater]

Is there a particular reason crabs have an association with mill? E.G. Hedron Crab, Ruin Crab?

When you do something once the players like, it can snowball.

[inventors-fair]

Our Next Stop: Region contest Runners-up ~

Our runners-up this week are @ghoulcalculator64, @hiygamer and @hypexion!

@ghoulcalculator64 — Towashi Workshop Curator

After a little deliberation, I found out what was bothering me about the wording. I’m 99% sure that, based off of Inspired Awe, this card should say “Equipped creatures and Equipment creatures you control get +1/+1.” Small price to pay for such an ambitious anthem effect. I’m fairly certain that this card should be uncommon, but it’s a fine uncommon, and it’s another one of those cards that I just like a lot. Now, is this an Animal Crossing dude? I’m unfamiliar, but that also has no bearing on the card. I can tell they care for their world no matter what. It’s easy to envision them talking to the camera, or an apprentice, or to a family member worried about their life choices or whatever.

In a draft, hey, you like to see it. Not first-pickable but really fun nonetheless. I like the way that it’s just straight-up power. You have to build around it for sure and a majority of equipment creatures aren’t in its color and there aren’t too many to begin with, BUT. The swords and knives do their work, too, and that’s totally fine. It’s a cute and powerful card that makes sense in the world. They’re honing skill! Still, NEEDS to be upped in rarity.

~

@hiygamer — Bosk Wanderer

And now you, too! The rarity above is a slight tweak, but on this card, it’s an actual problem. Not that you did it maliciously, but it’s important to understand that this is a weird card and in a premier set it’s going to do weirder things than you might intend for it to do. What kind of weird things? Hell if I know. But it’s got “rules nightmare” written all over it.

The way you circumvented the Dryad Arbor problem is nothing short of stellar, though. I’m confident that a card like this won’t be printed for a while but it’s as much a proof of concept as any and you should be more than proud of yourself for sending this little baby in. Love ‘em. Wording on the flavor text is a little off? The mood is great. You can cut out “that lead back” and the flow will be much better. These little trees, growing around the oak, the whispers of Lorwyn and the ancient magic within... Lovely! Lovely all around. Shear those rough edges. Sand ‘em.

~

@hypexion — Dinrova Journalist

Argh! I was so happy to make this a winning contender—all it needed was “from your graveyard” instead of “in your graveyard.” I know graveyard things I’ve been weird about with the rules in the past, but I checked this one. No matter. I think my leniency goes far enough when you have a card this yonkingly strong. Yes, not enough to break a format, but enough to make things amazingly fun. Because, after all, it turns Buried Alive into a tutor with benefits. Chronic Flooding! Hedron Crab! I think this card is dangerous. I like the danger.

I think the simplicity of the flavor works too. What does a journalist with an insidious side look like? Picturing them is immensely fun. Changing signs as they walk past, changing visions, creating billboard-sized hallucinations, whispers, a smirk in the smoke. Yeah! Very traditionally Dimir. Just like the judge example post this week, it leans into the things we know and love about Magic already in a way that feels fun and fresh and connected.

Commentary to be posted when I’m all done writin’ it up <3

@abelzumi

[mtg-realm]

Magic: the Gathering - Zendikar Rising - Crabs !

"To an explorer, a priceless treasure. To the crab, a rock to call home." "Hedrons perplex minds both great and small"

FUN FACT : I lost a game once back when the first Zendikar came out by my opponent milling me with Hedron Crab.  Yes, there was a LOT of FNM players looking on when this happened, and I became known locally as the guy who lost to Hedron Crab for a good long while.

Ruin Crab (Zendikar Rising), illustrated by Simon Dominic Ruin Crab (Zendikar Rising Showcase Frame), illustrated by Matteo Bassini Charix, the Raging Isle (Zendikar Rising), illustrated by Kekai Kotaki Hedron Crab (Zendikar), illustrated by Jesper Ejsing

MISSING ART ! - Anyone find this lovely gem yet ? FOUND ! Charix, the Raging Isle (Zendikar Rising Showcase Frame), illustrated by Viktor Titov

[h4ckedfoxboyg4mma]

*taps 3 black*

*casts Murder*

aaah my hedron crab!!! how could u kill him... hes just a little baby

[dailymtgflavortext]

The new Zendikar looks pretty cool so far. The “dual” flippy lands are what I’m looking forward to the most (as of 1:26 PM central time, September 1st, 2020 AD), but I’m also happy to see more Landfall.

The whole “party” mechanic seems a little off to me. It gives me strong Konami vibes of “this is a deck we built for you, so play it.” Drafting it well seems tough. A quad-tribal deck might be doable in EDH, but... I dunno. Tons of support for it though, so maybe it’ll be okay.

Also, a better Hedron Crab. Nice.

Are the new Expeditions in-pack? Or are they just, like, collector booster exclusive? I’d like to see them return to in-pack lottery tickets again. More exciting that way.

[drantlers]

Chandra meditating when suddenly Hedron Crab.