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- 1 year ago
- Forum: Commander
- Topic: Unreleased and New Card Discussion
- Replies: 9558
- Views: 649446
Re: Unreleased and New Card Discussion
I love the name and artwork for Sheoldred, the Apocalypse ; it's imposing and grand, much like Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite . The mana cost and abilities are a bit of a let down though. The 'Apocalypse' is opponents losing nibbles of life when they draw cards? That enormous centipedal body is only a 4...
- 1 year ago
- Forum: Commander
- Topic: Unreleased and New Card Discussion
- Replies: 9558
- Views: 649446
Re: Unreleased and New Card Discussion
Neither would Maro; he'd mean "five mana-value creature" rather than "five mana value-creature".
Regardless, it'll probably be something relatively Stompy and not concerning.
Regardless, it'll probably be something relatively Stompy and not concerning.
- 1 year ago
- Forum: Decklists
- Topic: Tymna and Kamahl: Hate Hate Hate
- Replies: 3
- Views: 565
Re: Tymna and Kamahl: Hate Hate Hate
I'll second Gaddock Teeg . He shuts down a lot of the higher CMC interaction that becomes more common as you move away from cEDH, providing a measure of protection to your board. Speaking of protection, running either Shalai, Voice of Plenty or Saryth, the Viper's Fang can shut down a lot of spot re...
- 1 year ago
- Forum: Commander
- Topic: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread
- Replies: 7852
- Views: 505093
Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread
I vastly prefer 5 to 3; a good number of my favourite games were 5-player. In my experience, more players allows for more opportunity to have answers when they are needed and this contributes to games with more of the back-and-forth that I love.
- 1 year ago
- Forum: Commander
- Topic: The Community Deck Build Project v2.0
- Replies: 309
- Views: 7766
Re: The Community Deck Build Project v2.0
Of these three commanders, I would find Kathril the most interesting to build. I'd lean into a Hatebears-Midrange build; the bears to provide the interaction to stop players going for combo wins and the midrange creatures for the beatdown and to provide keywords to soup up Kathril. While some incide...
- 1 year ago
- Forum: Commander
- Topic: The Community Deck Build Project!
- Replies: 271
- Views: 9015
Re: The Community Deck Build Project!
You'd pretty much need to start over to make Obosh work; practically half the deck (32 cards) is incompatible with using it as a companion. Not saying you can't do that, but it's a lot of work.
- 1 year ago
- Forum: Commander
- Topic: Which do you like more?
- Replies: 508
- Views: 46568
- 1 year ago
- Forum: Commander
- Topic: Your deck sucks (review request thread)
- Replies: 89
- Views: 6540
Re: Your deck sucks (review request thread)
And I'm so glad I did; that was amazing. Thank you 😁
This had me howling! What a good start to a Friday.
- 1 year ago
- Forum: Commander
- Topic: Your deck sucks (review request thread)
- Replies: 89
- Views: 6540
- 1 year ago
- Forum: Commander
- Topic: Which do you like more?
- Replies: 508
- Views: 46568
Re: Which do you like more?
Faeburrow! Was so happy when it came out; a budget replacement for Bloom Tender was sorely needed at the time. BoP is an exorbitant mana dork.
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- 1 year ago
- Forum: Commander
- Topic: The Community Deck Build Project!
- Replies: 271
- Views: 9015
Re: The Community Deck Build Project!
I'll vote yay for Backdraft Hellkite and Tibalt's Trickery (confirming them) and nay to Fast//Furious and Ogre Arsonist (nix'ing them). I'll vote yay for Birgi, although with reservation. I think she leads us down a pseudo-storm route with wheels, rituals and Underworld Breach , which would be an in...
- 1 year ago
- Forum: Commander
- Topic: [mtgnexus] Random Card of the Day - Archfiend of Depravity
- Replies: 16835
- Views: 1058950
Re: [mtgnexus] Random Card of the Day - Marisi, Breaker of the Coil
To make the most use of his goad ability, you want to lean into creatures that are pseudo-unblockable (i.e. Shadow and the like), which never excited me. I tried building him as a more generic Naya beatdown deck but didn't find it satisfying. May include him in a Naya hatebears deck I'm brewing thou...
- 1 year ago
- Forum: Commander
- Topic: With the way the commander economy is blown up, is the new optimal strategy in deck building to find the "2nd in class"?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 2208
Re: With the way the commander economy is blown up, is the new optimal strategy in deck building to find the "2nd in cla
Alternatively, get so fed up with prices that we just start to proxy everything. Which, you know, with kitchen table being as much of a thing as it is, is a real risk if prices just don't ever drop to a reasonable level. This is pretty much where I'm headed, in the longer term. In the short term I'...
- 1 year ago
- Forum: Commander
- Topic: [mtgnexus] Random Card of the Day - Archfiend of Depravity
- Replies: 16835
- Views: 1058950
Re: [mtgnexus] Random Card of the Day - False Prophet
Hawk hit on the reason I no longer run it in Ayli: I specifically want to avoid mass exile so I can recur creatures. I did run False Prophet early on, where clever stacking of triggers can partially get you around this, but it's simpler to just avoid it altogether. Not to mention that repeatable ma...
- 2 years ago
- Forum: Commander
- Topic: Is White getting better?
- Replies: 164
- Views: 11228
Re: Is White getting better?
The hard part with white hatebears is that white weenie exists as an archetype in other formats. True, but you can control that. Drip feed some effects through Standard releases and provide others through supplemental sets, so those ones don't impact Standard or Modern. It's alright to have new car...
- 2 years ago
- Forum: Commander
- Topic: Is White getting better?
- Replies: 164
- Views: 11228
Re: Is White getting better?
If they're ever going to make mistakes in White's favour, I'd love to see some obscene hatebears get printed with heavily-pipped costs. Like maybe an asymmetric Archon of Valor's Reach for 1WWW and it's a 1/2, or a fixed Hullbreacher that doesn't give you treasures (possibly also symmetric). Leaning...
- 2 years ago
- Forum: Commander
- Topic: [mtgnexus] Random Card of the Day - Archfiend of Depravity
- Replies: 16835
- Views: 1058950
Re: [mtgnexus] Random Card of the Day - Wilderness Reclamation
It's no Seedborn Muse, but it does do a big thing the Muse does.l, gets around Winter Orb amd friends. To my understanding, Static Orb and Winter Orb only affect players during their own untap steps, so Seedborn Muse gets around them by minimal tapping on the turn before yours, while still allowing...
- 2 years ago
- Forum: Commander
- Topic: Companion Mechanic
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3019
Re: Companion Mechanic
Amongst the two groups I play with, I haven't seen a single companion used in maybe 40+ decks. Certainly a lot of those decks predate companions - so the investment needed to adjust the deck to fit a companion would be a hurdle - but it doesn't seem to register when discussing new decks either. Ther...
- 2 years ago
- Forum: Commander
- Topic: Current state of mono white and Azorius
- Replies: 34
- Views: 4686
Re: Your dream mono white or Azorius commander?
When I examine what White and Blue contribute over my roster of decks, I get the following breakdown. White: Removal, recursion and hatebears. Blue: Counterspells, draw and clones. Removal and counterspells are necessary but are not things to build around, unless you're trying to create extroardinar...
- 2 years ago
- Forum: Commander
- Topic: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread
- Replies: 7852
- Views: 505093
- 2 years ago
- Forum: Rules and Philosophy
- Topic: [MCD] Wishes
- Replies: 518
- Views: 55387
Re: [MCD] Wishes
Well there's no way I'm searching back through 450 posts on a 2 year old topic... Anyway, I'm pretty sure I've said before that I think the 2-3 increased mana cost that most wishes impart to effectively turn what would have been one card into a three-mode spell (i.e. three card wishboards) appears r...
- 2 years ago
- Forum: Commander
- Topic: the negative connotation of the term cEDH
- Replies: 112
- Views: 9165
Re: the negative connotation of the term cEDH
Not sure where I'm going with that but I do think there is blame to go around for some things. I think where you're going is "Some people are dicks. More at 11." 😜 Really though, I don't think there's any significant animosity borne towards cEDH that isn't rooted in another issue or is pe...
- 2 years ago
- Forum: Commander
- Topic: [mtgnexus] Random Card of the Day - Archfiend of Depravity
- Replies: 16835
- Views: 1058950
Re: [mtgnexus] Random Card of the Day - Sygg, River Cutthroat
He's a great piece for Curious Control-style decks, where he's often another Curiosity effect for your Vial Smasher the Fierce triggers and can help amass significant card advantage. Getting incidental advantage when opponents fetch into shock, get hit by others, have Bob out, etc. is just gravy. Hi...
- 2 years ago
- Forum: Rules and Philosophy
- Topic: SCD: Gifts Ungiven
- Replies: 36
- Views: 4953
Re: SCD: Gifts Ungiven
With a card like Gifts or Intuition you had better have shortcuts because the complexity involved in those packages is very high sometimes. There's certainly a lot of complexity in these cards. If you're using it reactively to deal with a threat, then the political play (a la Tasigur ) is there to ...
- 2 years ago
- Forum: Rules and Philosophy
- Topic: Commanders with built in methods of avoiding tax
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3746
Re: Commanders with built in methods of avoiding tax
I guess you'd modify Rule 6 to something like, 6. Commanders begin the game in the Command Zone. While a commander is in the command zone, it may be cast, subject to the normal timing restrictions for casting creatures. Its owner must pay 2 for each time it was previously cast from the command zone;...