Cactus Preserve is one of the best manlands we have seen in a while, but I'm not sure what it does for Karador's strategy. I guess it can do some post-wipe beats with hefty 8/8 stat line, but I am not sure that it worth the land slot here when there are so many other utility lands looking for homes...

Mookie wrote: ↑

20 hours ago

and Simic Growth Chamber are my current top picks.

I have been really warming to the karoos lately. The virtual card advantage plus extra landfall they provide is often really good. :D

goin infinite with Earthcraft and Training Grounds feels like my kinda jam tbh :D

Man you should run more Ponder , might as well be demonic tutor for how often it gets me out of jams :D if my deck runs blue as a main color it's running preordain and ponder. (20 ish blue sources) I don't remember losing a lot of games where I kept a turn one ponder. Might be my favorite turn one p...

Fair, but that just means your group is more competitive than mine. Yeah I think more than most. But in general I think commander's "at large meta" is becoming more removal heavy over time - my experience with pickup games is a decent amount of targeted removal. That said, part of this de...

Xenagos + Malignus + OG Nylea + Defense of the Heart = alpha strike from hell. You have Xenagos, so search the other two. I used that recently, hit a friend for 44 trample. Next turn hit the next friend for 37, and then the following turn the next friend for 56. Stupid levels of stoopid. :grin: Coo...

My short answer is that the ability to run them in place of more lands makes it usually right. 1 CMC cantrips are probably underrated by most players. Getting a land right now is the main reason to play Preordain Ponder and Brainstorm in most blue decks. That said, they really only belong in decks w...

I believe the first ability continues to trigger until he is unblocked, not just once a turn. They have to throw 8 toughness in front of him to kill him during a single combat step or he just gets bigger. If you have the mana to activate his second ability and you have a single opponents with mostl...

Serenade wrote: ↑

3 days ago

I want to use it in Carmen Cruel Skymarcher so bad.

man, what a neat card. I just...want to play fetchlands. :D

How the f uck has actually nobody here or in the "old" topic talked about Anzrag, the Quake-Mole ? It is basically the best creature ever printed for Xenagos. It is an basically a 4 Mana unblockable 16 damage. With Xenagos buff he is beafy enough to attack into someone who would be foolis...

I have played this card a lot and it always surprises people. You loop it with Hall of Heliod's Generosity in Heliod, God of the Sun and it's GGs a lot of the time.

annnd it's a Muddle the Mixture target in UWx enchantments :D yay

Enchantment sac outlets in BUG? Attrition , Erebos, Bleak-Hearted , Vampiric Rites Better sac outlets: Yawgmoth, Thran Physician , Spawning Pit , I've been liking Disciple of Griselbrand as a fair sac outlet. Token makers Curse of the Restless Dead , Chalk Outline huh curse is actually pretty cool,...

Living Death could also be nice. I am a little torn so far on whether this is a single target reanimation or mass reanimation deck; On one hand I think there's an Open the Vaults // Replenish deck using enchantments to make tokens, that could win with a massive Opalescence // Starfield of Nyx type ...

So I'm working on tuning this deck down just a little; can anyone think of any sacrifice outlets akin to Evolutionary Leap ? I feel like I'd like...maybe one more solid enchantment sac outlet that I can use to replace the powerhouse altars, as I retune the mana generation to include more Cryptolith ...

I saw the "Planeswalker token makers" and you could go Ascend from Avernus , Command the Dreadhorde , Primevals' Glorious Rebirth , Triumphant Reckoning to lean heavily into this theme. This is a pretty legit idea! Might have to acquire some walkers but definitely doable. I used to have B...

I am a sucker for reanimator builds. There is a Sefris of the Hidden Ways thread that plays the reanimator theme with lots of looting. Might be worth a look for some inspiration on that strategy in esper. I mean, if your not cheating the mana cost on an 8-drop, what are you even doing with your lif...

Hermes_ wrote: ↑

5 days ago

hope you have the actual cards, cuz no proxies.....

long term, I bet you the super interest in CEDH leads to discussions about the RL, and I think that's only good for the game most likely. It's always possible finally caving on the RL busts the game open but who knows.

Lost Jitte untaps Cabal Coffers which is kinda cool :D

I could possibly see leaning hard into the reanimator side of things. The fact that you get to throw away things sets the rez effects up easily. The self recurring things like Bloodghast are easy but I was also thinking reanimator in the idea of like filtering some big fat juicy creatures to grave ...

So I have three decks floating in the esper colors (orzhov breena, esper varina, esper tivit). these decks are collectively problematic in my current playgroup: * Breena has problems with countermagic and creates extremely agonizingly long games * Tivit is...tivit. C'mon, why did I do that. * Varina...

Recurring Nightmare I was surprised not to see an SCD for this given how much discussion it had in the thread. Here's my high level thought: This card does not belong anywhere near the banlist on power level or even ubiquity in our modern world. It was never really all that strong, and graveyard ha...

Four minutes of totality went awesome here in Erie. https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/I_ ... DKCUXk-SdU

I have largely developed the same feeling about greaves effects and have been eliminating them in favor of instant effects in most decks. Few exceptions ofc but definitely agree in Kalamax

I think coming update will continue my de-tuning of this deck, cutting moxen and jeweled lotus (as well as Trinket Mage who is there primariy to support Lotus), for Devastating Mastery , potentially Terminus and some less explosive ramp (maybe Knight of the White Orchid and now that Scholar of New H...

Hopefully this works… Historic Brawl Beatdown I imagine it's a necessity of being 1v1 playing the mana dorks, but if you can get a higher count of non-dork ramp and a higher count of sweepers you'l be a little more in line with the theory. I have no damn idea how that works on brawl though. I think...