Outcryqq wrote: ↑

3 years ago

3drinks wrote: ↑

3 years ago

Tuesday, May 4th, 2021; Noble Benefactor

When you want to tutour but you try to make it fair have an Opposition Agent.

FIFY

1. Hilarious (No sarcasm)
2. Being at the table while this resolves... ugh

Madcap into Platinum Emperion is a popular Canadian Highlander interaction, but it loses its appeal in multiplayer. I actually think the best plan in commander with these kinds of cards is to build around topdeck manipulation, which you can keep on theme with artifacts like Sensei's Divining Top and...

It seems you desire stax and lots of removal and board control because... you don't like losing. No one does, but some handle losing better than others. I've had so much fun in games I've lost just because I pulled of something crazy/silly/powerful/cool or seen a friend do so. If you just can't enjo...

What about Court of Grace ? I find it particularly useful with Solitary Confinement , which goes back to my suggestion with Spirit Cairn where I use them together in 60 cards enchantress deck. Lorehold benefits from discard and graveyard, and you got Squee, Goblin Nabob . Solitary Confinement + Cou...

*Many excellent suggestions* I went through all your recs and I think you are right on 99% of them. The only one I think I firmly disagree on is cutting Emeria, the Sky Ruin , although I understand your rationale. Oh, and Squee, the Immortal . I don't love paying 1RR /turn for a 4/2 when Squee, Gob...

Huh. I always disregarded the -2, but that's pretty swell with new stuff like Osgir, the Reconstructor and, to a lesser extent, Quintorius, Field Historian . I want to be mad about the static ability, but it's it realistically any "worse" than other hate/tax effects? Like, I'm ok with a me...

May I recommend Mairsil, the Pretender if you want to really go down a rabbit trail? Lots of avenues to build. Crazy Monkey has a good mairsil thread in the decklists subforum. Bant is weird because it ends up leaning more Simic than white IMO. Roon of the Hidden Realm is fun, and I've had one in my...

I've played with and against him now. I mean, he does pretty stupid card advantage stuff in Boros with dumb old Ichor Wellspring and Mycosynth Wellspring . There have also been some sick plays with that new red mana rock that enters as a clone (blanking on name - cursed something) and stuff like Aud...

I've always been curious about Volrath. I haven't gone over your list with a fine tooth comb, but out of curiosity: are you actively looking for any ways to abuse stacking his activations? I have to imagine he can be abused in this way a la Scion of the Ur-Dragon or Mirage Mirror.

So, like, I totally slept on this guy. Saw him spoiled for the precon and thought, "whatever". But since we've got him and my son and I have jammed some games with the precons, he's really impressed me. Even just with copying mana rocks and artifact lands. And if he's impressive in a preco...

Not sure if the proper etiquette would be to start a new thread now that I received my answer a few days ago, but I have another Rionya, Fire Dancer question: Suppose I copy Humble Defector X times with Rionya's trigger: if I tap the hasty token copies to activate their ability, thus drawing 2 cards...

Yeah, I had Stone-Seeder Hierophant open on a tab in my phone as a reminder since I just recently learned about it. Good call on cobra! Will update soon!

Another eureka moment. Humble Defector is great value with rionya. Swapping out Mindless Automaton for him.

Ahhh, Zedruu lands. I swear I'll revisit that deck someday. Much fun, very silly.

Alright, after much hemming and hawing, I think I've landed on a solid second rough draft for the deck. The OP has been edited to reflect changes, so check it out. I need to pick up a few of the cards I'm missing, but then I'll be eagerly shuffling this one up and testing it out. My suspicion is tha...

Eureka moment that should have happened a lot sooner: Combat Celebrant.

1. I move to combat with Rionya, Fire Dancer in play. With her trigger on the stack I cast some number of instants. When her triggered ability finally resolves, will it count the spells cast after it was already on the stack? 2. Rionya triggers while I have a Heartlash Cinder in play, and I make x c...

Rionya has immediately rocketed to the very top tier of copying in my Ghired list, and I see you're trying to apply some similar general ideas here. Dude, she's dope. I've got another slow day at work and I've been giving scryfall a workout. Some thoughts: Sundial of the Infinite is rad here. Good ...

I think you need Mogg War-Marshal Beetleback Chief Siege-Gang Commander Talk about multiplying goblins... Yeah, they were in my plans originally, but I veered heavier to the spellslinger side of things and wanted my rionya targets to be primarily creatures that had some hugely multiplicative effect...

Well, I've had a slow day at work to mull this one over, and truth be told I think I might just be off the goblin plan. The tension between tribal and spellslinger might just be a little too awkward. Plus there are lots of good non goblin rionya targets low on the curve that won't tax my mana too mu...

Rionya, Fire Dancer [br] [cardfan c1="Zealous Conscripts" c2="Kruin Striker" c3="Signal Pest" c4="Fanatic of Mogis" c5="Combat Celebrant"] [br] Commander (1) 1 Rionya, Fire Dancer Rionya Targets (15) Value 1 Humble Defector 1 Mogg War Marshal 1 Wily...

Molten Primordial is a fun one.

I kind of thought so, but surprisingly I haven't played much with MDFCs yet, so I thought I'd double check. I'm assuming this applies to library search effects like Expedition Map even if they don't say "target" land since you would effectively only "find" the spell half?

Can Life from the Loam return an MDFC which is a land on the back half of the card only to hand? Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge for example.

Lots of good suggestions there. Some of them were cards that were some of my last cuts ( Tibalt's Trickery , Reality Scramble , baubles), but some I hadn't even considered. I'm surprised you didn't mention Conjurer's Bauble , which is the one I wanted to keep the most. Somehow I missed that Bag of H...