I hate that this is the de facto best werewolf commander with the day/night mechanic baked inside when werewolves are very definitively Gruul. Having built at least six different Werewolf/"Werewolf and wolf" builds since they first debuted in INN, I have to disagree heavily. For Werewolf ...

I have this in my Shapeshifter Tribal ( Halfdane ) on MTGO, sinc eit is all about making my own copies of other people's tech. Funniest use was copying the Stax player's Blind Obedience , who rage-quit "because my stuff should not enter tapped - only your stuff should. . . " Then again, it...

What's the best mana base I can build without any fetches? I built an excel sheet that calculates color percentage and helps classify how many lands need to produce each color. If I'm not running any fetches, then I prefer looking at non-typed "duals" - preferably starting with a 10-card ...

The (Jank) Dream: Kothophed in the 99, fielded with Aether Flash and Varchild's War-Riders . . . oh, and any of the aristocats death=life triggers.

I feel like this just wants something like Venser's Journal , if you ahev already gained the requisite life on Upkeep, then you can play out the attack/sacrifice/return however needed during the turn. Not sure it would make the cut in my Garza Vampire deck though, since that cares more about counter...

Ephemerate doesn't need two targets. I think he meant the first target and the rebound target. If you only have one creature and thet creature is removed before rebound, you have lost your second activation. Momentary Blink lets you chose when to recast (at the cost of possibly having it removed fr...

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Tell me you have an emblem without saying you have an emblem.

Wasn't the fallout from this card (and Elspeth, Knight-Errant ) the reason they created the Emblem mechanic? Starting with DarkAscension Sorin?

Colorless: Coldsteel Heart, Arcum's Astrolabe, Replicating Ring You seem to have missed the most common Snow-support artifact - Extraplanar Lens . . . You don't need to play Lens anymore. I know that "it costs 3 " but realistically no, it doesn't. You really have to play it as a 4 so you ...

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Colorless: Coldsteel Heart, Arcum's Astrolabe, Replicating Ring

You seem to have missed the most common Snow-support artifact - Extraplanar Lens . . .

It's too bad the tokens were not named Powerstone Shard (and really weird that a Shard is more powerful than a full powerstone?).

Probably not a factor, but if your two lands tap for at least , it combos off with Aggravated Assault.

Sunday, March 24th 2024; Back to Basics Back to Basics|usg This, like so many other purported "anti-ramp"/"anti-greed" cards tends to fail at it's intended task. At least, in my experience, the rampant Ramper and 1k Manabase barely notice the interference and the tap-lands-budge...

I don't think Bog and crypt work to flip him. The targeted card has to still be in the graveyard, or the ability is countered, right? I thought the technique of the day was to empty the yard, then use his ability on the first binned card after it was empty. . . That said,., I have this in my Mono-B...

so which commanders have you found make your hands do a lot of work? I'm confused. Do you want to know which Generals make too much work, or which we enjoyed that were less "needy"? I'll just classify examples of each. . . Lots of game actions: Ghave, Guru of Spores Fungus Tribal - Spore ...

It takes quite a bit of doing to get enough creatures in your bin to outdraw all your opponents, and then you're stuck thinking about wanting to run graveyard hate to prevent them from getting advantage, all for one stupid card. This^ The only time I have seen this perform well was in a Golgari Ley...

I always read it as needing to exile itself from the yard to reanimate, and dismissed it, but it all being one trigger means you can move.it somewhere else in response and still get the reanimate. What do people use to abuse this? The most common I saw in EDH of yesteryear was in Dimir with Body Sn...

The thing that annoys me about Trouble in Pairs is that the flavor makes no sense to me. Okay, there's a troublesome pair of people, presumably the opposition given that the card triggers off opponents doing things "in pairs"...so why do we benefit from that? If it was, like, "double...

I have this in my Garza Zol, Plague Queen Proliferating Vampires deck. Thanks to my policy of the last 12 years that "anything staplish or combo-ey" must match theme (e. g. Craterhoof is only allowed in Beast Tribal) this slots in Damage Triggers decks and Sanguine Bond I only allow in &qu...

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Works best with it's 1.0 version - Wurmcoil Engine. . .

Alternate Ruhan

what level of jank will you accept? First, please define what you mean by "jank" - is that what you would call this (admittedly old) example deck? (Labelled "example" at the bottom of the post) do you actually seek to build in a level of jank? Depends on the answer above. I seek...

I used to buy all of the Commander Precons (2011-2018), stopped when they changed to follow Standard sets.
I also used to buy a fat pack a few times per year, just to support the LGS.

I have not purchased sealed product in any form since WotC Announced SL:TWD.

Uril, the Miststalker and especially Mayael the Anima were never good exactly. We just didn't know better. Uril and Mayael are part of the old guard of a bygone era. I miss that time. I can recall (in the pre- Gahiji days) when my Beast Tribal was always Target #1 because Uril was the only Legendar...

[*] A cantrip instant version of Ghost Quarter (which suffers from losing a land to remove a trouble non-basic) Field of Ruin and Demolition Field are basically Ghost Quarter cantrips. I wish they didn't cost 2 mana to activate, but they're pretty reasonable. Demo is obviously better, since it isn'...

As I've said before, what I would really like to start seeing is cards that are not symmetrical. The problem with cards like Blood Moon and Back to Basics is that they hurt the casual deck/mana screwed player far more than the rampant ramper. (tm) Whereas something like: An enchant player curse vers...