Arixmethes enters the battlefield with five slumber counters, and as long as he has a slumber counter, he is a land. Normally I would break all of a legend's text up to discuss each, but since every ability is linked to one another, we should talk about them in totality.įirst, let's talk about some rules that are going to be important for him. Whenever you cast a spell, you may remove a slumber counter from Arixmethes. Let's talk about the rest of Arixmethes's text, though:Īrixmethes, Slumbering Isle enters the battlefield tapped with five slumber counters on it.Īs long as Arixmethes has a slumber counter on it, it's a land. I'm not sure if that was intentional, but I'd like to believe it was. Both versions of Kozilek are also 12/12s. When Kiora first saw Arixmethes, she described it as almost as large as Kozilek himself.
This is also a great Easter Egg as well from a lore standpoint. That puts Arixmethes as one of the largest creatures every printed in Magic.
So let's check out the Kraken itself!īefore we read any text, lets just appreciate the fact that Arixmethes at first glance is a four-mana 12/12. I won't go into more lore, but I loved the concept, and I hoped to one day see it get a card. The planeswalker Kiora specifically sought after the Kraken to aid her in her defense of Zendikar as well. Arixmethes was a legendary Kraken who had a city built upon its back. The plane of Theros instantly became one of my favorites, not only because it was my first plane, but also because of my childhood love for Greek mythology. I started playing Magic around the time of Born of the Gods and Journey into Nyx. Everyone give it up for our newest entrant: Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle ! Arixmethes, Slumbering IsleĪrixmethes was one of the biggest surprises for me from Commander 2018, and it was arguably the character I was most excited to see get a card in the set.
We've already covered many legends from the set, but I think there's at least one more who will actually get even more overlooked after the release of War of the Spark. With that said, we're going to go back to Commander 2018. So who is our lucky underdog today? With War of the Spark releasing in two weeks, it's a little too early to give the nominal title of an underdog to any of those legends yet for the most part, that set so far seems to include two categories: Feather, the Redeemed, and everyone else. Each installment introduces a legend and covers its playstyle and key cards to showcase its potential. Hello, everyone! Welcome back to another edition of my series, the Underdog's Corner, where we shine a spotlight on the multitude of under-played, underappreciated, and underrated legendary creatures in EDH. ( Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle | Art by Dimitar Marinski) Sleeping Beast-y