Why it sold: resource stability, four-of staple energy, perfect week-one pickup
I mean, what if we accidentally had a Nerd Wedding, and the Jock Wedding next door came by and spat on our wedding cake
Her flip condition is easy to meet in sacrifice-heavy builds, and the planeswalker side sustains pressure over time, a role often compared across the best vampire commanders in MTG for grindy black strategies
Here are two decklists I've won tournaments with a Red-White Aggro Burn deck and an Azorius Control deck, each with vast differences in the number of cards I played in their sideboards: Boros Burn | Modern | Roman Fusco, SCG IQ/1st Creatures (12) 4 Eidolon of the Great Revel 4 Monastery Swiftspear 4 Goblin Guide Instants (16) 4 Lightning Bolt 4 Lightning Helix 4 Boros Charm 3 Searing Blaze 1 Shard Volley Sorceries (12) 4 Rift Bolt 4 Skewer the Critics 4 Lava Spike Lands (20) 3 Mountain 4 Sunbaked Canyon 4 Inspiring Vantage 3 Bloodstained Mire 2 Scalding Tarn 2 Sacred Foundry 2 Fiery Islet Sideboard (15) 4 Smash to Smithereens 4 Skullcrack 3 Kor Firewalker 2 Path to Exile 2 Searing Blood With the Burn deck being a dedicated strategy of every card trying to deal three or more damage to my opponents, my sideboard options were very limited
He's also quite difficult to recruit (or at least was back in the day) as he is a secret character stuck in a sandworm, meaning he's very easily missable
Etali, Primal Conqueror / Etali, Primal Sickness Etali, Primal Conqueror has a very similar ability to its counterpart Etali, Primal Storm, but what sets this one apart from the former is that you can use it as a Gruul commander thanks to its dual color identity
