So for April Fools wizards decided to release a Deadpool secret lair. I was lucky enough to get my hands on it, and today, I am going to talk about my thoughts on the Deadpool card and cards that work well with him.
Deadpool, Trading Card is a brand new legendary creature with a really unique and special effect. When you cast him, if he isn’t countered before he hits the battlefield, you can select a creature and swap text boxes with it. The really strong thing about this ability is that it doesn’t target, so you can get around hexproof and shroud. Also, Deadpool gets the enter effect of whatever creature he is swapping text boxes with, if it has one. This is really powerful if you use effects that makes copies of Deadpool the copies will die due to the legend rule, but before they do, they will swap their text boxes. So let’s look at some cards that Deadpool can use to make token copies of himself.
Blade of Selves is an equipment you can use to give Deadpool myriad an effect that will create token copies for each opponent. The token copies will swap text boxes with whatever creature you want but then will die to the legend rule. Swapping Deadpool’s text box with your own The Master, Multiplied, or Elturel Survivors will give Deadpool those powerful effects, and with the Master, specifically, the tokens will remain. So, let’s say we do use Deadpool to text swap with our own cards what can we do to get rid of those cards without letting our opponent’s draw?
Viscera Seer, Corrupted Conviction, and Goblin Bombardment are strong sac outlets that let you get rid of your own creatures with negative text boxes. Each of these can be used in different ways to your advantage scrying, drawing cards, and dealing damage are very useful ways of getting rid of them. Also, if you need to reset your main Deadpool you can sacrifice him to these types of effects. Well then, if we are going to be sacrificing our creatures we should have good ways of taking advantage of that.
Mayhem Devil is a strong way to take advantage of sacrificing our creatures by letting us deal 1 damage to any target. This can allow us to pick off pesky creatures or hit planeswalkers. We can even just go to our opponent’s face if we aren’t worried about their board. Zulaport Cutthroat allows us to deal damage to each of our opponents and gain some life this is really good and gives us a buffer for a longer game. Malakir Rebirth is a way to bring our Deadpool back from the graveyard right away we don’t have to send him back to the command zone; we can put him back onto the battlefield and get to text swapping.
Wrapping Up
Well, these are my thoughts on the new Deadpool, Trading Card. I am really excited to try this out as my commander he looks like a really powerful card, so much so that I think he could become a rakdos removal staple as he can deal with really pesky cards. I am including the decklist I came up with for him and let me know your thoughts. As always peace and rock on!
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