Ever look at a spoiler card and just think, “wow, that immediately slots into X deck!” That’s the feeling I got when I first read Egon, God of Death // Throne of Death.
Egon seems like the perfect card to slot into RB Kroxa. For starters, let’s take a look at a stock RB Kroxa list for context.
For one mana, Throne of Death puts a lot of work into a deck that’s aiming to flip a lot of its cards into its graveyard. Curving out a turn one Throne into Mire Triton and Kroxa allows for a guaranteed turn four Kroxa. This gives you more chances to power out a turn four Kroxa without totally relying on drawing a Tymaret Calls the Dead. Throne also acts as an additional way to put other powerful spells in your graveyard, such as Ox of Agonas, Woe Strider, and Skyclave Shade, giving you some insurance in face of a wrath or if your graveyard is exiled from an Elspeth’s Nightmare. I really like Throne because of how cheap the investment early on that will give you a snowballing advantage in the long run. Throne also acts as a way to draw cards! Giving you the power to make use of your dead Bonecrusher Giants and Mire Tritons, Throne of Death gives you some extra uses besides fueling your escape cards.
One notion about modal double-faced cards I’ve always advocated for is how versatile these cards can be. For the first time ever we’re getting legendary creature cards that can also be played as legendary artifacts. If you played four copies of Thassa, God of the Sea in Mono Blue Devotion some years back, drawing more than one copy of Thassa in your opening hand was almost like an instant mulligan, unless by chance your Thassa happened to get countered or exiled. Now, you are no longer punished for drawing your second copy of any of the Kaldheim gods, in this case, drawing either a one mana artifact that fuels your strategy OR a three mana 6/6 that even draws you a card as extra insurance if you can’t pay the exile two cards cost!
It’s no secret that the elder giants are absolutely busted cards, making RB the hallmark strategy for Egon to slot into. However, it’s worth noting that Egon is still a 6/6 for just three mana, making it a prime candidate to pair with The Great Henge.
Instead Ox of Agonas, Bonecrusher Giant, and Kroxa, GB gives you access to Polukranos, Lovestruck Beast, The Great Henge, and Chainweb Aracnir as a potential sideboard card. Red is probably the better color since Kroxa and Ox are better overall escape cards to be playing. One other important thing to note with the release of Kaldheim is that we’ll have access to all ten pathway lands. Is Jund back on the menu?
That’s going to do it for today. I hope you enjoyed this little article and are looking forward to more Kaldheim spoilers! Until next time.
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