#Need help with Shanid, Sleeper's Scourge, wanting to pivot from legendary knights to any legendaries

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glossy carbon
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@worldly python knights kind of are now in esper with the new commander stuff.

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Might be useful as a subtheme but legendaries would probably give you more milage. If you want n extra tribal subtheme, go humans.

worldly python
glossy carbon
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There's a lot of solid cards in mardu that are legends of course.

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you can even run the banding legendary lands for funsies.

jaunty stump
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Putting a ton of legendary lands into Shanid seems good. I have a Shanid legendary equipment deck and the lands helping with card draw feels pretty powerful every time. The problem with just choosing legendary tribal/legendary good stuff can be that the deck becomes less focused, I’ve found. If I were to rebuild Shanid I might go legendary humans

zealous cobalt
carmine spade
fickle prairie
full cove
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Here’s my list, it’s exactly what you’re asking for

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I also have a Karakas in there because it’s legendary but I don’t plan to activate it

fickle prairie
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Karakas is banned

full cove
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I r0 it by showing it to them and saying it’s functionally a legendary plains in the deck

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Because I won’t activate its other ability

fickle prairie
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I wanted to make it clear just in case.

glossy carbon
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I dunno

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you can run [[Cathedral of Serra]] for funsies.

hexed mountainBOT
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https://scryfall.com/card/leg/301/cathedral-of-serra

Cathedral of Serra

Land
White legendary creatures you control have "bands with other legendary creatures." (Any legendary creatures can attack in a band as long as at least one has "bands with other legendary creatures." Bands are blocked as a group. If at least two legendary creatures you control, one of which has "bands with other legendary creatures," are blocking or being blocked by the same creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

carmine spade
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there's an entire cycle of these with amazing names

zealous cobalt
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Problem is that it doesn't make mana

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And shanid is a very mana greedy deck

glossy carbon
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sure but it has banding and banding is a bs ability

full cove
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I’d also recommend running [[Urborg]] and [[Hammerheim]]

hexed mountainBOT
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https://scryfall.com/card/me3/214/urborg

Urborg

Legendary Land
manat: Add manab.
manat: Target creature loses first strike or swampwalk until end of turn.
"Resignedly beneath the sky/The melancholy waters lie./So blend the turrets and shadows there/That all seem pendulous in air,/While from a proud tower in town/Death looks gigantically down." —Edgar Allan Poe, "The City in the Sea"

full cove
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Both have slightly relevant abilities

zealous cobalt
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Menace honestly solves most blocking issues

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If your bodies are respectable

full cove
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They get pretty large when many legendaries buff power and toughness. Some of the best ones include [[Moraug akoum]], [[d’avenant]], [[gandalf white rider]], [[Ravos Soultender]]

hexed mountainBOT
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Multiple cards match “d’avenant”, can you be more specific?

full cove
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And of course [[Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite]]

hexed mountainBOT