I've been championing Azorius Chancery in the phelddagrif thread for years now. Bounce lands are already borderline playable, a cantripping land would be busted and the bounce lands are the closest we've ever gotten to that. I do believe you need to be playing a slower, grindier deck, but if you are...

Old magic cards feel like a %$#% post. Kind of wish I was playing the game back then.

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So I've thought some more on Coram, the Undertaker and I think I'll make the switch, there's a couple of small details about him that I had missed earlier: 1: you get to play a land AND a spell, for some reason I thought you only got one, that makes him closer to a draw 2 each turn. Lands are often ...

How about Rivaz of the Claw ? Losing the double strike dragons and Jarad's Orders sucks, but you get ramp and recursion in the command zone. Exiling is a huge bummer when your gameplan is centered on mass recursion but it's not something you're forced to use, though I'm sure it will be handy in a p...

Played a bunch of gold fish games and I'm amazed how smoothly everything goes, this deck might actually be half decent. Stay turned for some real game testing.

I would not recommend Scion of the Ur-Dragon or any card that searches the library for a new player.

I will add that we've had a Edric, Spymaster of Trest in my playgroup since we started more than ten years ago. It plays out similar in that the deck has dozens upon dozens of one mana creatures and if Edric, Spymaster of Trest stays on the board, the game is basically over with card advantage. If ...

I've never ever seen Tower of the Magistrate, lol

Note that the cards you listed as comboing with Hellkite Charger don't really--you have to pay the 7 mana during attacks, while ACD and OG make their mana on damage, and SV only makes 6 of the 7 needed (although, that can often be functionally the same thing, and you don't actually need infinite co...

With that many dragons you don't need Hoof, Scourge of Valkas triggers should murder the table, especially if you hit Lathliss as well. Dragonlover Yup, I think it's fine, but I do think it would still be "optimal" With how many "everyone gets all of their stuff back" mass reani...

The other card that's overperforming initial estimations is Nadu, Winged Wisdom . It's being played in both Modern and Legacy, and apparently there was a recent cEDH tournament where 3 of the 4 seats of the final were on Nadu. Good in eternal formats + good in (c)EDH is a good recipe for the top ra...

Oh yeah, Craterhoof Behemoth should almost certainly be in the deck, even if it misses out on all the tribal synergies, but I kind of like the theme rn.

How is Feast of Succession? Seems to me like Languish would be better, but I haven't actually played feast.

In general I'm concerned you don't have enough material to protect the monarchy.

This deck has been stuck in development hell for literal years. I keep dropping it when I get stuck, then returning to the idea later, which sounds silly for such a simple concept, but it just hasn't been as straightforward as I thought it would be when I started it. The original draft was a Bladewi...

Not sure I've ever seen this cast. Does seem a bit too narrow and too pricy to do anything but combo with though.
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Old news at this point, but it sounds like some people still haven't been fully converted: surveil lands are the real deal, often better than even triomes.

I've been keeping this deck together and pulling it out whenever I want to turn my brain off for a game. Make all your decisions during mulligans, then let the deck play itself. It continues to surprise me, I'm not keeping track or anything, but it feels like it's punching above the expected 25% win...

OG Garruk is one of the best planeswalkers printed, in terms of efficiency, the simplicity of design, the power level of it. Make mana, make dudes, win game, all for four mana without requiring a lot of ancillary math or thought into how it is. It just does the thing and does it well. God I love OG...

I ran this card for a long time before forking over the money for Crater hoof behemoth, and honestly it's pretty terrible XD there are a number of anthems I would recommend before this one, it does have the advantage of being tutorable off creature tutors if crater hoof is out of your price range. 👎...

isn't it only +1 mana, and you get to take out a loan to pay that +1 mana next turn? I haven't played with Arena of Glory yet, but it seems pretty nutty in the decks that are looking for stuff like this. Slam dunk in most Kalia lists surely. Hmm. I think it's actually +0 mana! You're using two land...

isn't it only +1 mana, and you get to take out a loan to pay that +1 mana next turn?

I haven't played with Arena of Glory yet, but it seems pretty nutty in the decks that are looking for stuff like this. Slam dunk in most Kalia lists surely.

also great in Zirilan of the Claw.

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I've definitely had plenty of conversations about magic where I quickly realized the other person wasn't NEARLY as invested in the game as I am. See, when this happens to me, I get embarrassed, I feel like I have to engage in the conversation while being careful not to let on that the other person ...

Haven't posted a new deck in a while, so I figured I'd just throw this out. Eris, Roar of the Storm puts out a lot of pressure, and once you polymorph into Niv-Mizzet, Parun / Nezahal, Primal Tide you are VERY well equipped to protect it, and each time your opponents try to answer it, you counter it...

I don't think it holds up at all as a generic boardwipe, but you can do funny things with it and artifact recursion.

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