Notably, opponents can't try to remove the conniving creature after you discard a nonland card but before it receives a +1/+1 counter
How To Use Menace The strategy for using menace effectively boils down to three factors: Maximizing your creatures combat damage Complicating your opponents defense Ensuring your creatures survival Increasing combat damage can be achieved with cards that boost your creatures power, from the classic Giant Growth, which adds +3/+3 until the end of the turn, to the powerful Colossification, providing +20/+20
(7/26/2024) If the spell is countered, the offspring ability will not trigger, and no token will be created
Ria Ivor, Bane of Bladehold Ria Ivor, Bane of Bladehold is a bit unusual as an infect commander because it doesn't immediately put poison counters on your opponents
But he can also sacrifice any card, including one of your own, every time he attacks
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