White and black both had exalted themes in M13,
but White's legendary creature encouraged you to
attack with lots of creatures while Black's
played exalted to the hilt. The flying and the
sacrifice trigger make Nefarox difficult to find
and keep blockers for, and with enough exalted
triggers, he can easily eat through two
creatures per turn. Not sure how much I like it
as a Commander, but as your six-drop you could
do far worse.
I have to admit I'm a little confused by this
card, mostly because they're still apparently
adding new characters to Alara more than three
years later. I do like the way he lets a deck
based on the exalted mechanic defeat a Fog Bank,
though, and he'll often hit even harder than
your average dragon for the same mana cost. It's
too bad that a lot of recent demons haven't had
mechanics reflecting their destructive and
difficult-to-control natures - I thought we were
supposed to be hitting the flavor that people
expect these days?
Magic The Gathering Card of The Day: Nefarox,
Lord of Grixis
Welcome back readers todays card of the day
is an interesting legendary demon. In standard
this is decent six drop in a world without
titans providing a nice removal effect on an
efficient flying body the true question is what
kinds of decks would want to use this, perhaps a
deck in heavy black. This creature is decent but
not the most powerful or exciting. In modern
this card is pretty expensive and doesn’t
compete or combo with existing decks. In legacy
and vintage this card is slow and just not good
enough. In casual and multiplayer this could go
nicely into an exalted deck or make use of its
demon tribal aspects, in commander this creature
is fine in your deck but as your general it is a
little lackluster compared to other available
options for a player making it sit in and
awkward spot. In limited this is a bomb a flying
beater with a form of removal attached, it puts
you into black but it’s a big beater that can
take over games left uncheckecked. Overall this
is a solid card that may see small play in all
formats.
Today's card of the day is Nefarox, Overlord of
Grixis which is a six mana legendary 5/5 with
Flying, Exalted, and when it attacks alone the
defending player sacrifices a creature. While
this has potential as a finisher in a mono-Black
or Black/White deck built around Exalted the
comparatively high cost works against the
traditionally fast nature of the design. If the
sacrifice effect worked for whatever creature
was attacking alone like many other Exalted
themed cards this would be a bit better, but as
it is a lower cost option will usually be a
better addition.
In Limited this is a huge bomb that attacks
for six with evasion and forces a sacrifice from
the opponent when it attacks. Little compares to
the threat level this offers both in damage and
reusable removal, particularly if supported with
other creature destruction and Exalted cards.
The two Black out of six cost is easy to manage
and this is a definite first pick in Booster and
likely keystone to a Sealed build.
Welcome to
another installment of card of the days, here at
Pojo.com! Today we are looking at Nefarox,
Overlord of Grixis. Nefarox is a rare black
legendary creature demon that costs four generic
mana and two black mana, and is a 5/5. Nefarox
has exalted and says when Nefarox attacks alone,
the defending player has to sacrifice a
creature.
Nefarox is one of the new generals printed
in M13. Man, I do like some of his abilities,
and for six mana it’s not that bad. If
pre-combat you are able to eliminate some
creatures, and then make them sacrifice another,
what an impact. Of course you will benefit from
Exalted, and thus he should be in a black themed
exalted deck. Very good for the mana cost.
