I initially considered just swapping in Kenrith for Golos as well. I even snap bought a copy thinking they would spike as other Golos players scrambled to replace their commander. But after thinking it over a bit, I decided against it for a few reasons. Other than a couple WUBRG mana sources to acti...

For the most part, those are the ones that have caught my eye as well. I'm definitely slotting in Endurance in over Loaming Shaman in my Yeva, Nature's Herald deck, but I think I still slightly prefer Callous Bloodmage here. If I were to include Damn , it would probably be in a sweeper slot rather t...

benjameenbear Thanks for the suggestions! And I think you're right about Rushed Rebirth being a solid card and possibly the sleeper of the set. I almost mentioned it in my previous post, I hope once we're able to play more in person Magic some folks will have some experience/feedback to share on th...

Not a lot of discussion here lately. Are there any new cards from Strixhaven folks are excited about? There are clearly some new powerful removal options in Fracture , Vanishing Verse , and Baleful Mastery . Whether or not they edge out any of our current ones is questionable. Culling Ritual is defi...

I typically haven't had issues playing any one given card in my hand with my mana base. Where I've run into problems is when I want to paly 2 or 3 cards on my turn but haven't had enough or the right combination of colored pips to do so. If there are opportunities to reduce my color requirements wit...

It's been quiet here! I've been having a bunch of fun and learning a LOT playing my 4 color version lately. One thing I've discovered is that, despite only being a 4 color version, this deck is HUNGREY for colored mana. My mana base is definitely not perfect but it's pretty darn close to as good as ...

I've been toying around with both a Bant and Bant+black (there's just not enough red cards that I care to find slots for) version of the deck to keep the mana a bit more consistent and the deck more focused. I'm leaning toward the 4 color iteration and was curious to hear your collective thoughts on...

I'm curious about the choice of Beast Within over Anguished Unmaking . Both you and benjameenbear opted for it. Is the extra color restriction of unmaking too inconvenient? Or is it really that much more valuable to be able to target lands? In most circumstances I'd personally rather lose 3 life tha...

It's been a while since I chimed in, but I'm super excited for some of these ZNR cards to make their ways into my decks! Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore is probably the one card I know I want to find room for here, but Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary is also interesting. It reminds me of ...

I do think Skyclave Apparition is interesting. I'm excited to try it out in my Emiel the Blessed blink deck for sure! Not sure if I can speculate about it's overall power in this deck, though. One thing I find myself considering (especially during spoiler seasons) is what I consider to be the deck's...

I'm glad to hear Kogla, the Titan Ape is working out for you! I haven't gotten to play since adding him in (my last 2 EDH nights have fallen through :( ), but prior to adding him, I'd seen him perform really well in my friend's Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy deck. I've had similar experiences to you with Ca...

I recently upped my count of board wipes for meta reasons. I also swapped out Austere Command for Winds of Abandon after seeing it do work in a number of decks. I really liked that Austere Command sometimes let you wipe the board of 4 cmc creatures only (choosing artifacts or enchantments for the ot...

What are all your thoughts on Thrasios, Triton Hero as a mana sink for card advantage/potential ramp? I often find myself wanting an instant speed mana sink, especially while untapping Bloom Tender or Faeburrow Elder during combat. The price tag is a little prohibitive, but I'm thinking about proxyi...

I suppose this is heavily meta-dependent, but what is everyone's suite of counterspells? I currently run Fierce Guardianship and Tale's End alongside the obvious Counterspell and Mana Drain . And Venser, Shaper Savant if you want to count him. At different points in time I've included Pact of Negati...

Thoughts on any of the new cards from M21 and Jumpstart? There are quite a few interesting/powerful cards that might find homes in my other decks, but there doesn't seem to be many that are obvious includes for Derevi. I've got a few that I'll be considering and at least 1 that I'm actively testing:...

I thought it might be cool to talk about some of the cards from your (and ISBPathfinder 's) old Jenara list and your original Derevi list that haven't made the transition to this iteration of Value Town. I'm especially interested because a number of these are cards I'm trying to still run in my vers...

So since adding the painlands, would you say Eldrazi Displacer has been more consistent with you? I'm asking because I'm debating whether to add him to my list or not. I feel like I have enough colorless to make use of him, I just find it hard to leave up 3 mana all the time to make use of him. One...

I'm considering Canopy Vista, but I think I'd run some of the fetches that can get duals before I ran Prismatic Vista.

Good point about the enchantments. I think I like that a lot better honestly. I don't play the full suite of fetchlands, just the 3 on-color, but I do have shocks and original duals along with a slightly higher count of basic forests (4). Should I be too worried about not having a forest for Utopia ...

How instrumental would you say Mana Crypt has been? Same question for Noble Hierarch . I also run Hierarch and it's powered some fast starts, but haven't gotten my hands on a Crypt. I currently run 36 lands but I'm considering cutting one and another card to include Crypt and an Avacyn's Pilgrim . T...

Really good discussion lately. A lot of great points ZenN . Last weekend I decided to take the plunge and begin transitioning from Jenara to Derevi. I sorta did it on the fly so the only changes I had time to make were taking out Springbloom Druid , Oracle of Mul Daya , and a basic land for Bloom Te...

@pokken I'd be interested to see your current list, too. Do you have a link?

I've been on the fence lately about converting my Jenara, Asura of War list to Derevi, Empyrial Tactician . Not counting land choice the two lists are about 80% the same. I would certainly make some inclusions such as Bloom Tender and Faeburrow Elder , but even so I'd probably only move to about 90%...

Glad to see you're having good results with the new cards! I got a few games in this weekend as well. Unfortunately the new cards didn't come up as often as I'd have liked. Saw Yorion, Sky Nomad once and it more or less immediately ended a game I was probably going to win anyway, so not much feedbac...

Charming Prince has only actually come up a couple of times since I included him, but the few times he has been solid. None of his modes are supremely powerful or anything, but I really like his versatility. Mostly he has flickered something more relevant for me, and then served either as a chump b...