I think all Totem armor (or now called Umbra armor) cards are really scary with this commander. Making extra copies of them makes it very difficult to get rid of it.
Got a pack, pulled this. Was disappointed at first, now I’m in love. She’s my next deck and the second commander I have ever played that’s not pre constructed
Kamigawa recofigure creatures. They can swap between creature and equipment form, giving you flexibility in the early game for creatures then swapping to equipment when you have better threats and can double them. And then siphon them off for free creatures every turn. Also helm of the host is insane. Because it triggers at the beginning of combat you can make a copy of Arna then attack and make a copy of helm (assuming you have a legend rule ignorer like mirror box) twice because of the double triggers. And it just snowballs from there. Imagine making 3 then 6 copies of all the glitters over 2 turns in addition to everything else. Then you can move the extra around to have an absolutely massive board state
@TheVitaNerd mirror box exists. There are ways around it, depending on the list you run and how many legendaries you want there's plenty of options. Ignoring the legendary rule also opens up blade of selves for myriad which snowballs even crazier. But even regardless if you can copy helm, this kind of deck scales incredibly well with creature copies. Armored slyhunter, grim guardian, doomwake giant etc all get insane with multiple copies in this deck
I want to build this commander with a mixture of the auras and equipment, using Ratonhnhake:ton from Assassins Creed as like a backup/secret commander for the deck.
Saw Arna and right away I'm like yup that's going to be my next commander when the set come out! I only build decks when the commander really draws my attention and I think I can get her ready for MagicCon Vegas!
With all the new Duskmourn spoilers, I’ve been thinking about trying to make this a manifest deck. There’s like, seven equipment and auras in Esper now that manifest, cloak, or dread the top card of your library. Now I just have to figure out how to turn that into a win, lol.
I added Lucille and Nazgul Battlemace to the deck, than realized Lucille is Legendary but you know what isn't? The Nazgul Battle Mace, super recommend it for Arna and stack your triggers!... one more: Eldrazi Conscription ;p
Really liked to video! Nice ideas for a new commander that looks like a lot of fun - just wanted to mention that you maybe overlooked the fact that Sword of the animist as a legendary equipment cannot really be copied by Arna - I brewed the deck and realized that that’s basically a small (but very fair) restriction on the equipments you can play because of the legendary rule
@@PubStompMTG I'm a Dino player in Yugi, I wasn't sure to come into MTG. But last year Wizards started to print so many dinosaurs (including JP dinos) that I couldn't resist 🤣 so I decided to give MTG a chance and start playing in MTG Arena, and now I love the diversity of this card game. I like dinos decks, white-black-blue (multicolor) soldier decks, artifacts, dragons xD now I have a new addiction
@@Duelosaurio absolutely I understand, i played dinos when I was in yugioh. I absolutely loved Ultimate Conductor Tyranno. Welcome aboard the addiction train🤣
I think all Totem armor (or now called Umbra armor) cards are really scary with this commander. Making extra copies of them makes it very difficult to get rid of it.
I'd suggest Arcanum Wings. It has aura swap for 2 and a blue, you can swap the token copies with an aura in your hand and cheat out expensive ones.
Arcanum Wings - What a good card for this kind of thing. Holy smokes. Thank you for this suggestion.
Got a pack, pulled this. Was disappointed at first, now I’m in love. She’s my next deck and the second commander I have ever played that’s not pre constructed
This commander is gas
Seriously. I'm scared of it
When I built my deck with this commander I found that aspect of Lamprey and Strands of Undeath let you make your opponent discard there hand.
Kamigawa recofigure creatures. They can swap between creature and equipment form, giving you flexibility in the early game for creatures then swapping to equipment when you have better threats and can double them. And then siphon them off for free creatures every turn.
Also helm of the host is insane. Because it triggers at the beginning of combat you can make a copy of Arna then attack and make a copy of helm (assuming you have a legend rule ignorer like mirror box) twice because of the double triggers. And it just snowballs from there. Imagine making 3 then 6 copies of all the glitters over 2 turns in addition to everything else. Then you can move the extra around to have an absolutely massive board state
Helm of the host is unfortunately legendary :( it would still be insane to make copies of Arna though
@TheVitaNerd mirror box exists. There are ways around it, depending on the list you run and how many legendaries you want there's plenty of options. Ignoring the legendary rule also opens up blade of selves for myriad which snowballs even crazier.
But even regardless if you can copy helm, this kind of deck scales incredibly well with creature copies. Armored slyhunter, grim guardian, doomwake giant etc all get insane with multiple copies in this deck
I want to build this commander with a mixture of the auras and equipment, using Ratonhnhake:ton from Assassins Creed as like a backup/secret commander for the deck.
Saw Arna and right away I'm like yup that's going to be my next commander when the set come out! I only build decks when the commander really draws my attention and I think I can get her ready for MagicCon Vegas!
With all the new Duskmourn spoilers, I’ve been thinking about trying to make this a manifest deck. There’s like, seven equipment and auras in Esper now that manifest, cloak, or dread the top card of your library. Now I just have to figure out how to turn that into a win, lol.
Fair enough🤣
I added Lucille and Nazgul Battlemace to the deck, than realized Lucille is Legendary but you know what isn't? The Nazgul Battle Mace, super recommend it for Arna and stack your triggers!... one more: Eldrazi Conscription ;p
Planning to add this card into my Eriette Beguiler deck, to make sure they dont remove auras and take back their cards . 😁
I’m building arna equip with a vorpal sword in the deck :)
Really liked to video! Nice ideas for a new commander that looks like a lot of fun - just wanted to mention that you maybe overlooked the fact that Sword of the animist as a legendary equipment cannot really be copied by Arna - I brewed the deck and realized that that’s basically a small (but very fair) restriction on the equipments you can play because of the legendary rule
Glad to help out! I completely forgot it was legendary! Thanks for pointing it out for everyone👍
I was curious weather effects from artifacts like “Living weapon” or Barbed spike would attach themselves to tokens when they get copied or not
They would attach to the germ that had the og copy making the other germ die
is this better than three dog? seems like three dog goes really wide, maybe they are just too different to compare
Yeah, I would say they're pretty different to compare. I like both tho
Legendary artifacts won't be blowing up, I guess that's the only limitation of this busted commander.
Agreed!
Mirror box says otherwise
Yeah until it gets taken out. Non legs are much safer. Swords of are much more efficient.
@@matteobagni1235Ye true tho, I havent had mine blow up yet so I'm chilling with having 20 virtue of eaters
Was build a eireet deck until i saw arna. now thief tron is a go with a fton of cats and fairies
I'm new to MTG
Is this card new? I love the effects and the art is so sick
Yes, it's a new card that's coming out soon! It is so good! Also, I love the profile art with the trex!
@@PubStompMTG I'm a Dino player in Yugi, I wasn't sure to come into MTG. But last year Wizards started to print so many dinosaurs (including JP dinos) that I couldn't resist 🤣 so I decided to give MTG a chance and start playing in MTG Arena, and now I love the diversity of this card game. I like dinos decks, white-black-blue (multicolor) soldier decks, artifacts, dragons xD now I have a new addiction
@@Duelosaurio absolutely I understand, i played dinos when I was in yugioh. I absolutely loved Ultimate Conductor Tyranno. Welcome aboard the addiction train🤣
Why not just run the mirror box and similar cards to bypass legends rules?
Definetly can!
You can run mirror box, but you might not be able to rely on it.
i think wotc forgot about mutate
Would love me some mutate
Too strong
I dont think Mutate works with Arna. Once it mutates, its considered one permanent so you wouldnt get copies of the cards mutated on the creature
Mutate won't trigger since game state sees it as a single permanent
Nerd rage 😤 😡. Where is nerd rage?