I'm surprised nobody has mentioned or Shifting Grift or Return the Favor or Final Showdown ? Shifting Grift can provide an early swap for Zedruu the Greathearted , or work as a huge disruptor swapping six!? pieces around the board. Depending on your meta—and the utility of swapping lands/planeswalk...

1) Is Electrodominance worth its spot in the list without Rootha, Mercurial Artist and MOM for their Swans loop? Seems an easy swap for Vedalken Orrery / Tidal Barracuda / Heliod, the Radiant Dawn // Heliod, the Warped Eclipse to me. Once upon a time, I played Shimmer Myr , and I cut it from the de...

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2 weeks ago

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I started responding, but it's gonna take a bit. I'll circle back in a few hours.

I quite like the scenario where you donate indestructible creatures and have Toralf repeatedly ping back and forth for either infinite single target damage or infinite draws, It's a 5 card combo, but Chance for Glory + Taii Wakeen, Perfect Shot + Toralf, God of Fury // Toralf's Hammer + Zedruu the ...

Okidokie, updated deck draft time. Question of the day is how many legends is too many legends? Zedruu(1) 1 Zedruu the Greathearted Lands (33) 1 Azorius Chancery 1 Izzet Boilerworks 1 Boros Garrison 1 Cascade Bluffs 1 Mystic Gate 1 Rugged Prairie 1 Mystic Monastery 1 Raugrin Triome 1 Path of Ancestr...

I don't follow. Giving something flash seems like the main reason to play it over other instant removal. If you have a hand that's all sorcery speed things and an Electrodominance , you get to play one of them at instant speed for a couple extra mana. But if your hand is all sorcery speed otherwise...

Expedite is okay, but there are a lot of 1mv cantrips to choose from. I'm leaning towards Crash Through as a way to get damage through for the alpha strike (though in general I favor cantrips that provide card selection). Expedite is kinda awkward since you can't give your newly-made dragon haste u...

I think in this sort of shell, I'd try to fit in a haste granter like Expedite . Cheap cantrip for a double spell turn, and ideally from an empty board you could afford a cheap Eris, expedite to make a dragon and swing in for 5, and still be able to leave mana up for other people's turns. I also wou...

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2 weeks ago

Assimilation Aegis works pretty well with Wormfang Manta. A bit TOO well, it goes inifnite with any self-bouncing creature (Hi Rootha and Sakashima).....

Can we get the self-help book "101 Ways To Combo With Wormfang Manta"?

Ban it

I think The Locust God + Taii Wakeen, Perfect Shot + Outpost Siege goes infinite assuming you have 2 1-toughness creatures when you trigger outpost siege. [top of stack - first to resolve] "Outpost Siege damage targeting insect A" [bottom of stack] When insect A dies, you get an Outpost S...

Alright brain trust, I need a sanity check. Does this go infinite: The Locust God + Taii Wakeen, Perfect Shot + Outpost Siege I'm fairly confident Pandemonium is getting replaced long term, which opens up a lot of cards I've never been allowed to play because of Pandemonium + Swans of Bryn Argoll , ...

This seems like a reasonable moment to acknowledge @3drinks dedication. On Salvation, there were 3 RCotD threads from November 2013 → July 2019, passing from Cryogen to LouCypher to me, 5 years and 8 months, a little less than 2 years per person. This thread has been going for 4 years and 9 months, ...

Taii Wakeen, Perfect Shot is a tough card to analyze. I do a fair amount of noncombat damage in here (especially in version with Nin, the Pain Artist and/or Brash Taunter), but I can't even guess know what that amounts to without trying it.

Have a rules and interactions question for the folks here. Assuming I control a Mirage Mirror , Restless Spire and some enchantment. What would be the end result of activating the abilities in this way: (Top of stack, resolves first) - (Mirage Mirror ability targeting Restless Spire) - (Mirage Mirr...

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1 month ago

Also, I've been busy compiling all the combos this deck can play into 1 big list: https://archidekt.com/decks/7097071/
If you'd like to see, be sure to view as Grid, and group by Categories (Multiple): image.png

That's super neat! I got a good laugh at "how are these not 3-card combos?"

You assess that the current power level based on available information for the players is such that the dealmade players are each now less threatening than the player who didn't participate in the deal. Who do you target? If it's the dealmaking players, then aren't you misplaying? And if it's the n...

Do you keep targeting them, even though the scales are now equal? Okay, let's say you do that - you've gotta target someone if you want to win, usually, might as well be them. Okay, so you do that for a second and now they're at 24% and player D is now at 27% because you haven't been targeting him....

If the degree to which you increase your threat assessment against dealmakers is proportional to the advantage those players get from said dealmaking, then wouldn't that dealmaking, at worst, equal out and be strategically neutral? Not if it's a 4 player game, and you put 2 players on notice every ...

I feel like your position has shifted from "I logically threat assess dealmaking players as being bigger threats and thus target them more frequently" into "I dislike dealmaking because I don't like the play experience it creates, and so I'm socially engineering my meta against dealm...

I don't think it's a huge factor in most games though. And in my experience, while certainly I've played against people who refuse to make any deals, the vast majority of players are at least willing to do some dealmaking. So I feel like you'll be targeting most people...which kinda just means you'...

I don't think "being on the record for selling out the table" counts for anything whatsoever. There is distinct strategic value in eliminating players who would collude. When a table becomes 2v1v1 instead of a free-for-all, it is almost never going to be correct for the ones to target eac...

-When people are playing at typical-commander-player level (i.e. pretty bad) defector is an element of chaos (at best) or accelerationist stupidity (at worst). Bad gameplay experience. I might phrase this differently, but conceptually I agree. -When people are playing more intelligently, but using ...

This thread is kind of amazing, DirkGently . Humble Defector is everything you think politics is, and it's precisely the sort of politicking I hate, and yet here we are. How many times have we had the argument about whether dealmaking is good or bad strategy, and now you've got an entire thread dedi...

Think Struggle for Project Purity will be replacing Font of Mythos ? Not for me. A lot of the games I get to play are 1v1, probably like 1/3 of the time. And then some games are 3 people, more than 4 is super rare, and the card will do less if opponents die. So for me, I'd expect that to average ou...