Using Experiment Kraj to Combine Planeswalkers

Posted on Oct. 7, 2015, 2:57 p.m. by Wleohy

Experiment Kraj Usingto Combine Planeswalkers

The combos that this forum is going over are; March of the Machines + Mycosynth Lattice and Enchanted Evening + Opalescence. ~ You can also replace Opalescence with Starfield of Nyx ~

My idea was to use one of the two and combining it with Experiment Kraj and Planeswalkers.

To start off, have either March of the Machines + Mycosynth Lattice or Enchanted Evening + Opalescence in play along with Experiment Kraj and at least one Planeswalker; this makes the Planeswalker into a creature, ~ a Creature Enchantment if you are using Enchanted Evening + Opalescence, and an Artifact Creature if you are using March of the Machines + Mycosynth Lattice ~ then, you will Experiment Kraj to put a +1/+1 counter on the Planeswalker of your choice; in this case well just use Liliana Vess.

Now Liliana Vess is a 5/5 Enchantment/Artifact Creature Planeswalker with a +1/+1 counter making her a 6/6, she also has her loyalty abilities and counters still. Meanwhile, Experiment Kraj is now a 4/6 with the following abilities; [1]

Experiment Kraj has all activated abilities of each other creature with a +1/+1 counter on it.

: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

+1 : Target player discards a card.

-2 : Search your library for a card, then shuffle your library and put that card on top of it.

-8 : Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.

Now that we have the general combo covered, lets go over how we can abuse it. [2]

For the sake of consistency, I will only be talking about Planeswalkers that are in the colors of ////.

Starting off with Gideon, Champion of Justices +1 should allow Experiment Kraj to get the largest amount of loyalty counters in a single turn. [3]

From there, we can use the hefty amount of loyalty to abuse broken Planeswalker abilities, examples:

Ajani, Mentor of Heroes -8: You gain 100 life.

Elspeth, Knight-Errant -8: You get an emblem with "Artifacts, creatures, enchantments, and lands you control have indestructible." ( This one is the most useful as it helps protects your Artifact/Enchantment Creature Planeswalkers )

Jace, the Mind Sculptor -12: Exile all cards from target player's library, then that player shuffles his or her hand into his or her library.

Venser, the Sojourner -8: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a spell, exile target permanent."

Narset Transcendent -9: You get an emblem with "Your opponents can't cast noncreature spells."

Ugin, the Spirit Dragon-10: You gain 7 life, draw seven cards, then put up to seven permanent cards from your hand onto the battlefield.

Sidenotes

Planeswalkers can die any way a creature can in addition to its other ways. No loyalty ~ dead. No toughness ~ dead.

Even if a Planeswalker has indestructible, it will still die from damaging effects such as Lightning Bolt if the damage brings it below 0. Regeneration has a similar effect as it will remove all the damage marked on the creature aspect; but the Planeswalker aspect will still have 0 loyalty.

Starfield of Nyx will kill all your lands, but will leave your opponents lands untouched.

You can use Ajani, Mentor of Heroes +1 to get counters onto your Planeswalkers faster.

You can use 3x Experiment Kraj in the mainboard and have the last one in the sideboard to be fetched with Glittering Wish. You can also do this with your multicolored Planeswalkers.

All lands are 0/0 Enchantment/Artifact Creatures, and therefore die as a state-based action. Some good cards to protect your lands would be;

121.1b The number of loyalty counters on a planeswalker on the battlefield indicates how much loyalty it has. A planeswalker with 0 loyalty is put into its owners graveyard as a state-based action.

[2]: Even though Experiment Kraj

606.3. A player may activate a loyalty ability of a permanent he or she controls any time he or she has priority and the stack is empty during a main phase of his or her turn, but only if no player has previously activated a loyalty ability of that permanent that turn.

201.4b If an ability of an object refers to that object by name, and an object with a different name gains that ability, each instance of the first name in the gained ability that refers to the first object by name should be treated as the second name.

Happy Deckbuilding! :-)