#PERPETUAL TIMEPIECE MTG HOW TO#

Here are the main attributes of Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis and how to abuse them: The clues to properly build around it are all over the card, but you just gotta think outside the text box a little. But it's unfair to dismiss Hogaak because it's 'just' an 8/8 trampler and doesn't beat you over the head with telling you exactly how to build around it like Meren of Clan Nel Toth does. Yeah, it has a cool, unique casting restriction, has the ability to dance around the commander tax, and it's a dope reference to Haakon, Stromgald Scourge, but the major criticism is always that it's 'just a big dumb beater.' And that's kinda true: when Hogaak is on the battlefield, it's an 8/8 trampling creature with no other relevant abilities. Most Commander folks weren't hot for Hogaak when it was first previewed. Sorry, folks! I hope you'll forgive me and still enjoy this article! It's not something I like doing but I took on this project with the assumption that I was building around a $2 card, not a $20 card. So instead, for the first time ever on Budget Commander, I'm gonna cheat: this article excludes Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis from the budget. The deck list prices will reflect the 99 cards in your library, not including the commander. Now Hogaak is just a rare, so as Modern Horizons continues to be opened and the hype for the Modern deck dies down, it should hopefully drop in price, but for now it's kinda rough for me to adjust my budget brews to accommodate that $20 price tag. Hogaak is now currently ~$20 US at the time of writing this, about the same price as my entire cheapest sample deck. And that caused a wee price spike that I didn't anticipate: until, oopise, Hogaak broke Modern! Like, uh, immediately, literally as soon as the card became legal in the format. You see, when I started writing this article, Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis had a preorder price of just $2. Alas, those price points were not meant to be.

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