The day that I learned that Living Death is a ramp spell in Varina, Lich Queen was a day that changed my perspective on EDH more significantly than many other experiences :D

This is a really hard question; the only 5c manabase I have kept consistently is my storage lands manabase with Kenrith, the Returned King which is a Bant based manabase (really UGw) with splashes of black and red, but has a storage land theme (https://deckbox.org/sets/3353727) So without a land the...

Fires was really critical back in the day and there really aren't that many strictly better options -- especially that work on tokens which is meaningful. It's gonna sound weird but I almost never have that much of a call to play haste enablers. I'm usually on something that makes generic haste not ...

For the skullclamp combo you mentioned, I do need a sac outlet right, but how does it go infinite? I was looking for that skullclamp write up but couldn't find it. couple bits on skullclamp https://www.mtgnexus.com/viewtopic.php?p=175794&hilit=varina+skullclamp+varinaristocrats#p175794 https://...

duducrash wrote: ↑

1 day ago

You could play every land out of your deck if you have Intruder Alarm , right?

Yar. There are actually a lot of pretty dumb uses for intruder alarm in this deck. So I should probably not be doing that :D

It'd also make earthcraft and thrasios go infinite fairly easily .

Will likely jam Wight of the Reliquary despite it having some sequencing issues. Looks like some cool new stuff likely. Some of the escape cards could be good since they make a lot of zombies with Tormod.

Skullclamp also works with putrid imp and Lazotep chancellor. Think I did a little write up on skullclamp at one point. But it enables a whole different angle of combos (or positive interactions as well) that let you turn discard outlets into value. Zombie Infestation and Putrid Imp have both proven...

materpillar wrote: ↑

3 days ago

@pokken
In your user control panel there's a "board preferences tab"
In there is a "Allow users to send you private messages:"

xD I can't respond at the moment

Wow I must have been super cranky last time I took some time off. Fixed. :D

It's pretty decent in my lame jorn snow deck. :D

What I can say about nyxbloom is what I've said basically. It you either untap with it or get to connect with old gnawbone with it, you win the game. It's not a good card but it does what it says on the tin which is win if someone can't remove it. My general experience with xenagos is that whatever ...

@pokken You still living a few hours away from Cleveland? I still think it'd be cool to meet up sometime. Yep! Actually just rode the train through there :D I'm in Erie (although Chicago for work this week). Got some cool early dawn shots of what I believe to be the Sandusky lake shore I should try...

Blood Artist . If you're already looking at making tokens, BA can cash them in (with a little help) and generator a trigger on each player's turn. It's hilarious to see blood artists biggest downside being useful XD I like it. Likely there is a whole decent deck full of garbage that targets on deat...

would be rather pathetic to walk that back just to appease anyone. You can spend some time on my ignore list but in the spirit of hopefully helping other people -- It isn't pathetic to realize you've offended someone and apologize. I walk things back all the time and I'm proud to do it. Not as prou...

Pillage the Bog - new set card, really strong. plot and play it later with 10 lands out is similar to demonic tutor but a bit more fair, and has early game fixing applications Interessante. I read and was like "would I ever rather have this than a actual tutor? even Diabolic Intent " but ...

How is calling Nyxborn Ancient or equally bad cards for xenagos as beyond garbage a personal attack? Are you yourself that emotionally attached to any particular card choise in your decks? :D Now that would be parody, at least I hope so, because that would be rather sad. : :explode: Any pleading bt...

My goal with echoing deeps is more to get multiple fields :D this deck goes absolutely insane if you have 2+ copies of field.

I may wind up needing a wasteland or something though if I'm gonna aim to make deeps reliable :D

Yea, the nice part about CI is it gives you a way to double up on those drain triggers without needing a mana sac outlet (even good ol phyrexian ghoul will do) Just remember the way it sequences things return one at a time via separate delayed triggers. So you need to put the drain guys in first or ...

Freestrider Lookout reminds me a lot of Rootpath Purifier in that it looks amazing if built around, but on its own it might not do anything. So my thinking on this card is more like... - if your general makes it goodstuff (e.g. Chatterfang, Squirrel General who likely has two angles to benefit from...

TheAmericanSpirit wrote: ↑

6 days ago

pokken wrote: ↑

3 weeks ago

I thought I'd remembered another Portal Mage variant but I can't seem to remember it :D

Portal Manipulator?

Ahh yeah. I remember now it has the very unfortunate text that loses to hexproof.

Man what drunk asshat at wizards was like,..."You know what Magic needs is more annihilator"?

As for your query, add this bit to your search to exclude all cards with Tap symbols. oracle:":" oracle:"target" (type:artifact OR type:creature OR type:enchantment) ci<=G (game:paper) -o:"{T}" this is helpful but the issue is it winds up excluding cards that have seco...

Koma is definitely one of those cards that asks really hard meta questions. In the abstract, the deck is not particularly strong; Koma is expensive, removable easily with non-destructive removal (just Swords to Plowshares it!). But on the flipside, just its normal mode of existing asks hard question...

Freestrider Lookout This card is so, so very stupid. The first and obvious combo is with Stone-Seeder Hierophant , but man there have to just be infinity ways to generate a trigger each turn -- Retreat to Coralhelm is fairly synergistic one too, where you crack a fetchland and it triggers a crime w...

Cards I have on my want to get in the deck list Pillage the Bog - new set card, really strong. plot and play it later with 10 lands out is similar to demonic tutor but a bit more fair, and has early game fixing applications Simic Growth Chamber - I really want a karoo in this deck. Might just wind u...

So I haven't had a chance to playtest this deck with the updates but I did finally find a Quartzwood Crasher by a seller that I also wanted other things from so I Didn't have to pay $2 shipping for a $1 card, so I got one of those and an Anzrag, the Quake-Mole . What I think I am going to do is put ...