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- 2 hours ago
- Forum: Commander
- Topic: [MCD] Typed Land Packages
- Replies: 11
- Views: 299
Re: [MCD] Typed Land Packages
Snow analysis: Lands: Of the utility snow lands, Dark Depths and Scrying Sheets are the clear standouts - a tutorable combo piece and an efficient draw engine (assuming you have topdeck manipulation or some other way to hit with the latter consistently) Faceless Haven and Frostwalk Bastion are fine ...
- 4 hours ago
- Forum: Commander
- Topic: [mtgnexus] Random Card of the Day - Runechanter's Pike
- Replies: 16843
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Re: [mtgnexus] Random Card of the Day - Runechanter's Pike
I once one-shotted an opponent after stealing their commander ( Horde of Notions ) and throwing a Runechanter's Pike on it. Good times. I'm not sure how I feel about Pike these days. I have been looking to run another win condition in Kess, and Pike is certainly capable of enabling a bunch of comman...
- 12 hours ago
- Forum: Commander
- Topic: [mtgnexus] Random Card of the Day - Runechanter's Pike
- Replies: 16843
- Views: 1059351
Re: [mtgnexus] Random Card of the Day - Archfiend of Depravity
Archfiend of Depravity is meh. It's in the 'technically playable because a big flyer is a decent baseline' bucket alongside stuff like Bloodgift Demon and Doom Whisperer . Scryfall says it's the second-most played 5 mana black flyer after Junji, the Midnight Sky , which sounds overplayed... but the...
- 2 days ago
- Forum: Commander
- Topic: [MCD] Typed Land Packages
- Replies: 11
- Views: 299
Re: [MCD] Typed Land Packages
Some more analysis for Deserts: Cactus Preserve , Scavenger Grounds , and Arid Archway look broadly applicable for most decks Creosote Heath and other fixing deserts enter tapped, but are otherwise reasonable fixing Ifnir Deadlands , Hashep Oasis , and the rest of that cycle let you sacrifice desert...
- 3 days ago
- Forum: Commander
- Topic: [MCD] Typed Land Packages
- Replies: 11
- Views: 299
Re: [MCD] Typed Land Packages
I use snow in mono Black to support cards like Dead of Winter and Blood on the Snow . The art on the Modern Horizons Snow-Covered Swamp is awesome as well. I used gates in 5c Shrines and it was really consistent. There is some cards that can make them enter untapped like Spelunking and Baldur's Gat...
- 3 days ago
- Forum: Decklists
- Topic: Sharuum: Trinkets and Treasures
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3974
Re: Sharuum: Trinkets and Treasures
Had an amusing (and durdley) game yesterday. Drew a bunch of cards, combo'd with Urza, Powerstone Prodigy + Artificer's Intuition to make a bunch of powerstones, and gained 40 life with Fumigate . Swapping around a few cards to try out some new tech. Sculpting Steel → Synth Infiltrator - not sure ab...
- 3 days ago
- Forum: Decklists
- Topic: Teysa: Sacrificing Tokens for Fun and Profit
- Replies: 122
- Views: 25791
Re: Teysa: Sacrificing Tokens for Fun and Profit
Swapping around a few cards to try out some new tech. I'm expecting the next update to be a bit larger - I'd like to try out all of the gold OTJ cards, plus I noticed Loyal Retainers is now a budget card, which has some interesting implications. Dictate of Erebos → Kaya, Spirits' Justice - Dictate i...
- 3 days ago
- Forum: Commander
- Topic: [MCD] Typed Land Packages
- Replies: 11
- Views: 299
[MCD] Typed Land Packages
I saw someone use Map the Frontier to fetch Arid Archway yesterday and was inspired to start this thread. I feel like conventional wisdom is to focus on untapped lands and lots of fixing when building a manabase, but we have received some interesting land types over the years that allow for more int...
- 4 days ago
- Forum: Decklists
- Topic: Tasigur: A Tale of Lands, Graveyards, and Forks
- Replies: 80
- Views: 24005
Re: Tasigur: A Tale of Lands, Graveyards, and Forks
and Simic Growth Chamber are my current top picks. I have been really warming to the karoos lately. The virtual card advantage plus extra landfall they provide is often really good. :D Indeed. They can sometimes feel a bit clunky, but they're a fantastic way to make up for a mulligan and avoid miss...
- 4 days ago
- Forum: Decklists
- Topic: Tasigur: A Tale of Lands, Graveyards, and Forks
- Replies: 80
- Views: 24005
Re: Tasigur: A Tale of Lands, Graveyards, and Forks
Got in two games yesterday. The first one went pretty terribly due to a mull to 5. I technically won, but it felt pretty undeserved - my opponents effectively ignored me and took each other out. The last opponent took out another player instead of me, but ended up at three life while I had a Creepin...
- 4 days ago
- Forum: Commander
- Topic: [mtgnexus] Random Card of the Day - Runechanter's Pike
- Replies: 16843
- Views: 1059351
Re: [mtgnexus] Random Card of the Day - Sliver Queen
Sliver Queen is alright, but too expensive for most people to consider running. The oversized version is technically cheaper, but still pretty expensive ($80 or so). Her token-producing ability is quite efficient and capable of churning out more slivers, especially if you have Manaweft Sliver or an...
- 5 days ago
- Forum: Commander
- Topic: [mtgnexus] Random Card of the Day - Runechanter's Pike
- Replies: 16843
- Views: 1059351
Re: [mtgnexus] Random Card of the Day - Galepowder Mage
There are a couple of creatures that can repeatedly blink stuff, and Galepowder Mage ... is one of them. In the context of uw blink decks, you have Brago, King Eternal , Meneldor, Swift Savior , and Soulherder as options, plus stuff like Thassa, Deep-Dwelling and Teleportation Circle . I think Galep...
- 5 days ago
- Forum: Commander
- Topic: SCD: Brainstorm
- Replies: 6
- Views: 160
Re: SCD: Brainstorm
Of the various one mana cantrips, I would say Brainstorm is pretty high-variance in terms of deck construction. It's hard to go wrong with Ponder or Preordain , and I love Thought Scour and Consider for graveyard-based decks (which is most of them). But Brainstorm? In a vacuum, I don't think it's ve...
- 6 days ago
- Forum: Rulings
- Topic: Gonti Question
- Replies: 2
- Views: 559
Re: Gonti Question
Yes, you can. 406.3. Exiled cards are, by default, kept face up and may be examined by any player at any time. Cards "exiled face down" can't be examined by any player except when instructions allow it. However, if a player is instructed to look at a card and then exile it face down, or on...
- 6 days ago
- Forum: Decklists
- Topic: Vaevictis Asmadi: Chaos Warps For Everyone!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 177
Re: Vaevictis Asmadi: Chaos Warps For Everyone!
Changes! I ordered a bunch of singles to spruce up the deck and replace some of the more questionable inclusions. Obnoxiously, half of my order was stolen (which included Vaevictis and all the cascade stuff. I got everything refunded, at least), which means I can't fully shift into the Glimpse of To...
- 1 week ago
- Forum: Commander
- Topic: [mtgnexus] Random Card of the Day - Runechanter's Pike
- Replies: 16843
- Views: 1059351
Re: [mtgnexus] Random Card of the Day - Flatline
This seems like a reasonable moment to acknowledge @3drinks dedication. On Salvation, there were 3 RCotD threads from November 2013 → July 2019, passing from Cryogen to LouCypher to me, 5 years and 8 months, a little less than 2 years per person. This thread has been going for 4 years and 9 months,...
- 1 week ago
- Forum: Cube Lists
- Topic: Historic Companion Cube
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1177
Re: Historic Companion Cube
Changes! The main highlights are: cutting some of the ur spellslinger cards in favor of more artifact support. adding a few more enchantments in bg mixing up the colorless options a bit, and trimming some of the draft-matters cards. I'm planning to add a little more enchantment support in black. Not...
- 1 week ago
- Forum: Commander
- Topic: [mtgnexus] Random Card of the Day - Runechanter's Pike
- Replies: 16843
- Views: 1059351
Re: [mtgnexus] Random Card of the Day - Flatline
- 1 week ago
- Forum: Rules and Philosophy
- Topic: SCD: Recurring Nightmare
- Replies: 3
- Views: 134
Re: SCD: Recurring Nightmare
Based on my analysis from a few months ago , I have Recurring Nightmare as 'might be unbanned someday'. My primary concerns are that it tends to lead to repetitive gameplay and that it is difficult to interact with outside countermagic. The fact that is an expensive RL card (and likely to explode in...
- 1 week ago
- Forum: Commander
- Topic: [mtgnexus] Random Card of the Day - Runechanter's Pike
- Replies: 16843
- Views: 1059351
Re: [mtgnexus] Random Card of the Day - Xenic Poltergeist
Xenic Poltergeist is theoretically black artifact removal - turn an artifact into a creature, then kill it with Doom Blade or whatever (but not Terror ). Not particularly efficient, but it works if you're desperate. I think black has better options these days though... not necessarily good options,...
- 1 week ago
- Forum: Decklists
- Topic: Tasigur: A Tale of Lands, Graveyards, and Forks
- Replies: 80
- Views: 24005
Re: Tasigur: A Tale of Lands, Graveyards, and Forks
Swapping around some stuff in the interest of testing new cards. I've recently felt like I have a little too much air in the deck - ramp is great, and Tasigur is a great mana sink, but four mana for a card can feel painful at times. I'm adding in a little more card draw to offset this. Adds: Up the ...
- 1 week ago
- Forum: Commander
- Topic: [mtgnexus] Random Card of the Day - Runechanter's Pike
- Replies: 16843
- Views: 1059351
Re: [mtgnexus] Random Card of the Day - Screeching Scorchbeast
Screeching Scorchbeast seems like one of the stronger support cards in its precon - even with a once per turn restriction preventing it from going infinite with Altar of Dementia , I could still see it generating 6+ tokens per turn cycle just off its attack trigger. It is six mana, and you probably...
- 1 week ago
- Forum: Decklists
- Topic: Mizzix: Magic as Richard Garfield Intended
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3147
Re: Mizzix: Magic as Richard Garfield Intended
Swapping around a few cards and improving the manabase a bit. Adds: Melek, Reforged Researcher Lórien Revealed Evacuation Restless Spire Fiery Islet Thundering Falls Cuts: Path of the Pyromancer Immolating Gyre Izzet Guildgate Swiftwater Cliffs Wandering Fumarole Evolving Wilds Path of the Pyromance...
- 1 week ago
- Forum: Decklists
- Topic: Thada Adel: Solar-Powered Beatdown
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7335
Re: Thada Adel: Solar-Powered Beatdown
Making two small swaps - one minor, one major. Hedron Archive → Fellwar Stone - the minor change. I lost a game recently due to having no off-color mana to activate a stolen Selvala, Heart of the Wilds , so adding another source. I think Hedron Archive is currently the most replaceable mana rock in ...
- 1 week ago
- Forum: Decklists
- Topic: Samut: Play Dudes, Turn Sideways
- Replies: 68
- Views: 22322
Re: Samut: Play Dudes, Turn Sideways
Swapping around a few cards. Perilous Forays → Elvish Piper - Perilous Forays has always had a bit of tension in this deck because I don't have a token or sacrifice theme. Sacrificing nontoken creatures is a pretty hefty cost. Indeed, I feel like the average cost of my creatures has crept up over ti...