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by Crazy Monkey
7 months ago
Forum: Decklists
Topic: Zada: Grinding up an Arcane Storm
Replies: 224
Views: 44090

Re: Zada: Grinding up an Arcane Storm

Unless your hand is empty, Witch's Mark is some of the best draw Zada can get. The discard can also feed a graveyard plan and a discard plan such as Underworld Breach . Even with the discard cost, I would never have considered a 2 card cantrip as a possible card to print. Even more amazing, it's fun...
by Crazy Monkey
7 months ago
Forum: Decklists
Topic: Zada: Grinding up an Arcane Storm
Replies: 224
Views: 44090

Re: Zada: Grinding up an Arcane Storm

Sorry all, I've been quite bad at checking in here. I immediately like Flick a Coin as Rile stapled to Sudden Breakthrough . It's great as long as we have sufficient density of effects of offset the damage. 3 Mana is a lot for a cantrip, but a ritual and cantrip on one card is amazing. I've been con...
by Crazy Monkey
9 months ago
Forum: Variant Commander
Topic: Commander Jumpstart Box - Drafting Partners
Replies: 6
Views: 1672

Re: Commander Jumpstart Box - Drafting Partners

Are you still developing this battle box? Any more experience testing it since a couple months ago? I had the thought to make this exact kind of battle box with mixing partner Commanders and Jumpstart, so I'm curious about any other experience you've had :) This project is still active, and we were...
by Crazy Monkey
9 months ago
Forum: Competitive (cEDH)
Topic: Geth: Lord of your Graveyard
Replies: 0
Views: 415

Geth: Lord of your Graveyard

The local cEDH metagame for my group has rather heavy stax, Underworld Breach and midrange plans. I built Geth, Lord of the Vault to play into this metagame, where turbo decks get stopped by the rest of the metagame. Disrupting hands and battlefields until Geth lands and builds put of my opponents g...
by Crazy Monkey
11 months ago
Forum: Decklists
Topic: Unesh: Fact or Sphinx?
Replies: 16
Views: 4729

Re: Unesh: Fact or Sphinx?

I have made several changes over the past year as my local cEDH metagame has expanded and new cards are printed. They broadly fit into either sphinxes or interaction. First, the sphinxes. Defiler of Dreams is absurd. Between cost reduction on Unesh and the ability to pay life for blue mana, storm-st...
by Crazy Monkey
11 months ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: The Community Deck Build Project v6.0
Replies: 351
Views: 6429

Re: The Community Deck Build Project v6.0

Yea Tragic Arrogance, that's a great hit.

I'll nominate Chandra's Ignition for interaction. I'm a sucker for inefficient interaction that gets much better with the commander.
by Crazy Monkey
11 months ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: The Community Deck Build Project v6.0
Replies: 351
Views: 6429

Re: The Community Deck Build Project v6.0

Darn, I was distracted during an interesting discussion. I will go on record as supporting the cards that got voted in, the multi function nature of Collective Effort makes it particularly appealing. It's not the most efficient but that doesn't matter if it is free. Yea Swords to Plowshares and Fare...
by Crazy Monkey
1 year ago
Forum: Variant Commander
Topic: Commander Jumpstart Box - Drafting Partners
Replies: 6
Views: 1672

Re: Commander Jumpstart Box - Drafting Partners

A couple more games to report. I was only in the first one, so the second game is more of a recap/feedback from players. Game 1: this game quickly had 4/5 players building massive board states, with voltron, tokens, golems and deathtouch. The last player mostly played a more control game. Each playe...
by Crazy Monkey
1 year ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: Very small deck idea
Replies: 6
Views: 296

Re: Very small deck idea

This isn't exactly what your question is, but I have a meme/theme deck that runs 50 Persistent Petitioners to set up Necrotic Ooze combos with Sphinx of the Chimes . It only has 11 cards that are neither lands nor petitioners; 5 cards for necrotic ooze, Dread Return and petitioner combo cards like L...
by Crazy Monkey
1 year ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: The Community Deck Build Project v6.0
Replies: 351
Views: 6429

Re: The Community Deck Build Project v6.0

I'll put in a Yay for Battle Angels of Tyr . Also works for Bonder's. I am uncertain about Wild Ricochet because I don't understand what @Crazy Monkey is talking about with stack order and triggers making this not work for cards we freecast with Velomachus. Or do you mean we can't use it when we sw...
by Crazy Monkey
1 year ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: The Community Deck Build Project v6.0
Replies: 351
Views: 6429

Re: The Community Deck Build Project v6.0

I have definitely been spending more time looking for dedicated CA than virtual CA, so that assessment is true for me. I will nominate Battle Angels of Tyr , as we are considering a subtheme of attack triggers. I have also been wanting to nominate that Chandra if the deck is still in progress on rel...
by Crazy Monkey
1 year ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: The Community Deck Build Project v6.0
Replies: 351
Views: 6429

Re: The Community Deck Build Project v6.0

I didn't realize that Conch Horn wasn't nominated. I will make that my nomination. There are other, more repeatable, ways to put a card on top; but those are often card disadvantage. Approach of the Second Sun tends towards my mental category of "too easy", but it's extremely powerful here...
by Crazy Monkey
1 year ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: The Community Deck Build Project v6.0
Replies: 351
Views: 6429

Re: The Community Deck Build Project v6.0

Yea Brainstone and Conch Horn. Putting cards to free-cast back on top of our deck should be a very efficient pairing with Velomachus. There aren't many in this color identity and they should pay off.
by Crazy Monkey
1 year ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: The Community Deck Build Project v6.0
Replies: 351
Views: 6429

Re: The Community Deck Build Project v6.0

Yea Double Vision . I don't think that we're going for storm here, so copying a good spell 1-4 times per turn cycle should pay off quickly. Yea Dragon's Rage Channeler . It's not a massive amount of card selection, but it is hard to argue with the MV. I think Bonders' Enclave is a low enough opportu...
by Crazy Monkey
1 year ago
Forum: Variant Commander
Topic: Commander Jumpstart Box - Drafting Partners
Replies: 6
Views: 1672

Re: Commander Jumpstart Box - Drafting Partners

I am planning to start reporting games in this thread, partially for note taking, and so I can try to track overall balance. Deck 1: Prava of the Steel Legion + Halana, Kessig Ranger . This was a newer player, and they could have had a much larger impact on the game with minor changes in threat asse...
by Crazy Monkey
1 year ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: The Community Deck Build Project v6.0
Replies: 351
Views: 6429

Re: The Community Deck Build Project v6.0

I spent a while thinking about top, and ended up also a nay on Sensei's Divining Top . Velomachus Lorehold looks 7 cards deep, so rearraigning the top 3 cards doesn't really pay off much. If it was a "flip until you Reveal X" then I'd agree that it pays off. I could see using it to chose w...
by Crazy Monkey
1 year ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: [mtgnexus] Random Card of the Day - Samwise the Stouthearted
Replies: 16697
Views: 1046614

Re: [mtgnexus] Random Card of the Day - Sphinx of Enlightenment

I don't recall seeing this sphinx before, despite playing sphinx tribal for years. It's a middle of the road between Master of Winds and Sphinx of Uthuun on mana, cards, and stats when looking at sphinxes. In an Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign deck it's reasonable, but I think worse than the more effeci...
by Crazy Monkey
1 year ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: The Community Deck Build Project v6.0
Replies: 351
Views: 6429

Re: The Community Deck Build Project v6.0

Yea Waves of Aggression, casts off the commander and allows for more attack triggers.
Yea Scroll Rack: why spend 5 mana on waves of aggression when I could spend 1? Setting up spells to trigger is great here.
by Crazy Monkey
1 year ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: The Community Deck Build Project v6.0
Replies: 351
Views: 6429

Re: The Community Deck Build Project v6.0

I didn't remember seeing Prosperous Partnership before, that's a cool method to get mana from tokens. I think that I am an abstain vote for now, mostly because it is not clear how well that will mesh with the concepts for the deck. There was a fair amount of discussion regarding attack triggers, and...
by Crazy Monkey
1 year ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: The Community Deck Build Project v6.0
Replies: 351
Views: 6429

Re: The Community Deck Build Project v6.0

Based on prior discussion, my nomination today is Big Score . It is not great card advantage, but it gets to 7 mana faster, and is still a reasonable flip off of the attack trigger. It is also an instant, so if we have interaction, we can hold that up for a turn cycle before ramping during an oppone...
by Crazy Monkey
1 year ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: The Community Deck Build Project v6.0
Replies: 351
Views: 6429

Re: The Community Deck Build Project v6.0

Yea Talisman of Conviction. There's a small risk in mana rocks between Null Rod or removal, but it's still efficient, fixes mana colors, and less likely to be targeted than a Thran Dynamo.
by Crazy Monkey
1 year ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: The Community Deck Build Project v6.0
Replies: 351
Views: 6429

Re: The Community Deck Build Project v6.0

Yea Tithe. Similar to Gift of Estates, it can get any plains. However, I am getting somewhat concerned by the amount of ramp category cards that don't advance the amount of mana in play. We do need to count up to 7 mana after all.
by Crazy Monkey
1 year ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: The Community Deck Build Project v6.0
Replies: 351
Views: 6429

Re: The Community Deck Build Project v6.0

Archaeomancer's Map and Visions of Ruin have both been confirmed. I'm going to place the first tentative nay on Inspired Tinkering where I never want to spend five on this and a Big Score will almost always be superior. Tinkering is the kind of card I want to hit off the dragon though. This makes s...
by Crazy Monkey
1 year ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: The Community Deck Build Project v6.0
Replies: 351
Views: 6429

Re: The Community Deck Build Project v6.0

I missed the last deck, so this might not be how we do things anymore? Yea Visions of Ruin as a cool combination of ramp and board control. 2 Yea, 0 Nay Yea Archaeomancer's Map . It's not an instant/sorcery, but it is some consistent lands to count up to 7. 4 Yea, 0 Nay Yea Gift of Estates . This de...
by Crazy Monkey
1 year ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: The Community Deck Build Project v6.0
Replies: 351
Views: 6429

Re: The Community Deck Build Project v6.0

I think that a trigger which looks 7 cards deep should be supported by at least 1/7 of the deck, so 15 card. Then add on the cards which it *Can* cast, but aren't ideal, such as Swords to Plowshares . If we include a Sunforger package, that's probably 15 "value" instants and sorceries, the...

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