Once Arixmethes is in play, you'll need to cast five more spells before it transforms from a land into its titanic 12/12 body
TL;DR this monkey may not look like much, but a slight tempo boost at no cost is sometimes all you need to bury the competition
Table of Contents show The Deck The Haunt of Hightower | Illustration by Lius Lasahido Commander (1) Planeswalker (1) Creatures (31) The Haunt of Hightower Shard of the Void Dragon Phyrexian Obliterator Grief Gisa, Glorious Resurrector Sheoldred, the Apocalypse Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth Sheoldred, Whispering One Gray Merchant of Asphodel Burglar Rat The Raven Man Plaguecrafter Virus Beetle Braids, Arisen Nightmare Demon's Disciple Rankle, Master of Pranks Tourach, Dread Cantor Necrogoyf Cunning Lethemancer Rotting Rats Hypnotic Specter Mindslicer Solemn Simulacrum Stronghold Rats Gravelighter Skullslither Worm Liliana, Heretical Healer Chain Devil Bloodhusk Ritualist It That Betrays Instants (10) Vraska's Fall Sheoldred's Edict Liliana's Triumph Soul Shatter Hellish Rebuke Pharika's Libation Infernal Grasp Deadly Rollick Tragic Slip Black Sun's Twilight Sorceries (11) Smallpox Pox Dark Deal Syphon Mind Vicious Rumors Mire in Misery Awaken the Erstwhile Mind Rake Delirium Skeins Torment of Hailfire Fraying Omnipotence Enchantments (4) Waste Not Court of Ambition Necrogen Mists Dictate of Erebos Artifacts (6) Geth's Grimoire Lightning Greaves Expedition Map Sol Ring Jeweled Lotus Nyx Lotus Lands (36) Cabal Coffers Cabal Stronghold Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth Castle Locthwain Tyrite Sanctum Geier Reach Sanitarium Swamp x30 I tried to split my attention between discard and sacrifice effects for this build
Bullet Points on Bulk Rares Its been a little while since Ive covered bulk rares as a topic, but there are a couple more things I wanted to mention about them that dont warrant an entire articles worth of content
Irencrag Feat's effect doesn't stop you from activating any abilities or from playing lands
But they arent just hanging around to add some flavor to the expansion
