DirkGently wrote: ↑

4 years ago

Dragoon How dare you besmirch the honor of AoO. Repeatable CA on a land in a draw-go control deck is suh-weeet. Although Bonders' Enclave is likely an upgrade for a lot of decks.

True, I didn't think of draw-go. I might try it in Kykar, Wind's Fury at some point then.

Just a side note, but I see people citing Arch of Orazca as a utility land that competes with Reliquary Tower . I don't see why though. If your deck needs an Arch of Orazca , there is very little chance that it needs Reliquary Tower and vice versa. (Also I find Arch of Orazca pretty bad, 6 mana to d...

I like the card. Sure, it's not an auto-include, but it can shine in some decks, especially Green ones who tend to have explosive draw based on the power or the number of their creatures. I also like it in decks that don't run too many recursion spells, or toolbox decks that like keeping a lot of op...

I still need to try this in a heavy "activated abilities" build, or maybe cycling.

Mookie wrote: ↑

4 years ago

....seems like almost all the cards I suggest point towards a Naya deck.

Reasonable in Zacama, Primal Calamity, maybe?
Personal Sanctuary, Glacial Chasm and the like seem like good tools for negating the damage on your part.

cheonice wrote: ↑

4 years ago

Pokedex is a fun card I use in Selvala, Explorer Returned.

Gosh, at this rate, I'll really end up with a pokemon-themed EDH deck. xD

I still think there are some interesting 6-drops creatures to play that don't have ETB effects, like Etali, Primal Storm or Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire. The trigger on Treasury Thrull is just too low impact but that doesn't mean every 6-drop in your deck has to have immediate board impact.

We all have some outlandish stories about the Dugtrio of Magic (I'm dating myself on that reference, surely 😂). Well, now I kinda want a Dugtrio alter of this card ... and I'm not even playing it. I'll add it to my pokemon alter wishlist alongside a Charizard alter of Territorial Hellkite . I'm up ...

3drinks wrote: ↑

4 years ago

We all have some outlandish stories about the Dugtrio of Magic (I'm dating myself on that reference, surely 😂).

Well, now I kinda want a Dugtrio alter of this card ... and I'm not even playing it. I'll add it to my pokemon alter wishlist alongside a Charizard alter of Territorial Hellkite.

If you just go 37 +/- 2 you won't be far off, but you'll also be missing the experience of playing 45-50 lands with Exploration effects, which is itself a pretty unique thing. I love the consistency of my 40+ land decks...at one point I had 55 in Gitrog and it was perfectly playable. The biggest th...

Slap it on an Invisible Stalker and call it a day.

My main issue with it is that there are a lot of decks that don't use the attack step, or only attack with their commander (or another single large creature), in which case you're effectively playing a fancy time-constrained Unsummon . One thing to note is that Aetherize doesn't target, so it could...

Interestingly I think Lurrus, Keruga and Gyruda are all vulnerable to the same thing just in a different power band; Lurrus-Ayli is a deck that doesn't really have a home anywhere I don't think. Casting Gatekeeper of Malakir over and over again is something that can be overwhelming. I feel like Lur...

I honestly think that is gonna be a problem for most companion decks. They're all kinda like maelstrom wanderer...overpower casual games but too weak for competitive. I feel like Zirda and Jegantha are the only ones susceptible to cause problems (and I'm still not convinced of that :P ). The others...

I was thinking about Zirda last night as I was building Breya (yes, THAT Breya, aiming for 8-9 power level). It made sense to add the fox because I've got Basalt and Grim in there already. But what I noticed was that I had to cut out a good number of cards just to get the consistency of having it a...

My first thought was that "jank" doesn't necessarily mean "cheap". Sometimes people want to play things a little lower powered and end up playing duals and a few more expensive cards because they are fun. Duals don't necessarily increase the power of a deck but they increase the...

I made a deck with Zirda and Kenrith that played 46 lands, a stoneforge package (stoneforge, greaves, jitta, dowsing dagger, sofaf) 30ish ramp spells, and 20 removal spells - basically nothing else. It was absurd. Basically able to play archenemy against two very decent decks. I didn't play a singl...

What irks me about Companions is that they are a hidden consistency system, targeted at casual. I don't even like tutors, but you still have to draw the tutor, and thus expend some deckbuilding cost for doing so, and it's clear what is. No-one looks at Imperial Seal and thinks it's casual. Plenty o...

I tried to build it politically but getting the balance right between the "forced" political cards (where you have to help an opponent) and the battlebond-style cards was tricky. Next time, I'll probably try a full activated abilities deck with Zirda, the Dawnwaker , Training Grounds , Hea...

Of course, that's only true in a winner-takes-all system. Once second place gets anything, all bets are off. That's exactly the system I was considering. I've never seen winner-takes-all in those EDH tournaments yet. My store had those kind of problems at first and since then, it's random prizing f...

With many of these discussions I've wondered how EDH would have ended up had it been created originally as an experiment in making a competitively balanced multiplayer format, which then trickled down to casual play. My main concern with EDH tournaments would be how to deal with collusion. I feel l...

Wow, what a wave of vitriol. Sorry, I'm not a native english speaker and I feel like there are some cultural differences which make me not understand some parts of your post. "True" Casual Players? Oh more 'No True Scotsman' getting wafted in here. I don't know what that "True Scotsma...

AND the MTGNexus and MTGSalvation boards are basically ghost towns which is why the contrarians try to stay here and not go to places like Reddit or Twitter as they barely get any support and are actually seen as the minority on many topics regarding EDH. Just jumping in but you do realize that eve...

Even in casual there is a cost to drawing dead bricks. CV is a boat anchor most of the time. Every time I draw my cephalid illusionist in flash hulk it feels very bad. Playing Zozu is a specific deckbuilding decision. And I really don't know why anyone is so mad about zozu winning a game occasional...

Even if we count Fetches/Duals as substantially less deliberate than say, protean hulk, they still aren't exactly common, and even a fetch/shock manabase is hundreds of dollars in 5c. Add to that the fact that without more land searching, a fetch/shock manabase will require deliberate sequencing to...