What happens when they do have the board wipe, or the spot removal for Ghired, and your field/hand is full of 1-drops and a couple french vanilla 4/4's? EDH brain has evolved to care about resiliency and more long term advantage at the expense of raw speed and power. That is kinda part of the spirit...

Also, I saw Oversold Cemetery early game and threw it out there before it was active. I had a spare 2 mana so why not. After (8) turns it never triggered once! I was doing so much looping of the same 3 creatures and didn't hit much actual draw, just looting and recycling. I was relevant the entire g...

You got any thoughts on the right approach to getting a couple bodies out before Raffine, Scheming Seer ? Hopefully something cooler than "Play 10 1 drops" :D I did an open ended search for some options. Here are some that might be interesting. These are outside the typical Raise the Alar...

I got a game in with Sefris this weekend and it did hilarious Sefris things. Good top deck had me curve into Sefris on 3 (go budget mana base), and a turn 4 Tortured Existence that didn't get answered for ~5 turns. So that set me up pretty good. Sefris stayed in play for much of the game as well. I ...

I am a sucker for reanimator builds. There is a Sefris of the Hidden Ways thread that plays the reanimator theme with lots of looting. Might be worth a look for some inspiration on that strategy in esper. I mean, if your not cheating the mana cost on an 8-drop, what are you even doing with your life...

Game Review Game 1, 4 player game: Zurzoth, Pantlaza, Sun-Favored , Teysa Karlov , and Frodo, Sauron's Bane I had a slow start only getting Zurzoth in play on turn 3. Turn 4 Pantlaza casts a dino that does the banishing light thing for each opponent hitting both Zurzoth and Frodo. I just do some set...

Agreed, it already seems to work wonders for my ability to react and keeps opponents on their toes. I still want to get Tamiyo's Safekeeping back in to add another piece of Indestructible protection in. I only have 2 ways outside countering to defend against wraths. We will see if Legolas's Quick Re...

I updated the previous post with the changes I ended up making and will give my thoughts on the cards and the changes it made to how the deck played. The main focus of this list of changes was to make it easier for me to dig for answers with my draw spells. Many times I'm casting Fact or Fiction loo...

I am looking intently for some spicy instants to come from the instant and sorcery deck, but so far all that have been spoiled are sorcerys, artifacts and creatures with flash, but no instants . Hope still remains, but it just seems odd.

One of the better copy spells we have gotten in a while. But as history has shown us with copy and redirect spells, unless they cost [sym=0], holding mana open waiting for your opponents to do something spicy is only good when you are ahead and don't need to commit more to the board, or are playing ...

I think I'm going to do a small shake up on this deck to see how far I can push the tempo aspect without dying to midrange decks all the time. My creature base is designed as a plan-B so when Kalamax cost 8 I can drop a 6-drop instead and get some work done. The primary issue is when Kalamax is in p...

You can cast artifact spells and activate any type of ability. Probably playable in a deck with a commander with an activated ability with some artifact themes. Various Urza decks or perhaps Geth, Lord of the Vault.

Yuma is correct (though you only had to guess on a 1 in 3 lol) I bounced back and forth between good and bad while brainstorming him…playing him fair seems fairly weak, he incentivises MLD, he's really easy to make cheap, he's great with loam, but it's really hard to tutor loam in naya, etc…but the...

Outcaster Trailblazer, wow we are getting a lot of this type of effect. I think after this one I'll have enough of this in Titania, Protector of Argoth that next iteration displaces Garruk's Packleader. Vaultborn Tyrant does this in the same set even.

Everything yeti1069 said about the cards I mentioned as potentially good includes are exactly what I was thinking, so I will just give his post a big :+1: Also to note that adding two or three of those cards individually is good, but adding 10-12 of those as part of a creature-based interaction suit...

Insatiable Avaric — That is going in every black related deck in existence period! The the 2 Spree cost makes it a budget Imperial Seal and if you got a additional bb your throwing in Ancient Craving I'm a little lower on this card. I think the main draw is the cheaper Ancient Craving . Cruel Tutor...

I'm not sure you need a 1 drop to get the value off Pip-Boy anyway. It takes 3 mana to play and equip, even spread out over 2 turns unless you have a [sym=0] cost creature you cannot get it equipped until turn 3. So a 1 or 2 drop creature would suffice to get immediate value. And then you need anoth...

Few updates with new cards. Nothing profound here lately. IN Aftermath Analyst >> OUT Tilling Treefolk . I'll take more Splendid Reclamation type effects, and Treefolk was a bit weak. Solid swap in my opinion. IN Song of the Dryads >> OUT Kenrith's Transformation . More permanent answer here over K....

I use Phyrexian Reclamation , but I'm wondering if the Oversold Cemetery might be a better choice. I've recently started playing Sefris, have loved it so far. Would appreciate any feedback anyone has on my list. My current deck. Edited to add: My playgroup doesn't really do infinites, so I've left ...

How has Mindleech Mass been? I've been debating picking it up for my Captain N'ghathrod deck, but 8 mana is a lot, and 6/6 trample isn't an inspiring stat line for that cost, even if the effect is cool. I put Mass in because I had one from the battlecruiser days, but I don't think I have gotten to ...

Couple changes that I am excited about. These are cards I have been watching and their prices have about hit their floor. IN Brazen Cannonade >> OUT Raid Bombardment . Similar cards, but Cannonade adds some impulse draw and makes my creatures less attractive to block. IN Spiteful Banditry >> OUT Cha...

Good looking list. Is Reshape the Earth really all that? I see it in several lands lists but gosh the mana cost seems high. Is it mainly for Filed of the Dead or Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle triggers? I'm playing Titania, Protector of Argoth without Field of the Dead so I am not seeing the appeal ou...

Couple of oldies popping up this week. Nice to see. I think there are some good arguments for why we don't see graverobber any more. The reanimation payoff it a bit expensive, and so is the grave hate. Generally if you hitting cards 1-for-1 you only want to be paying 1 mana each, or get some additio...

Made a couple changes to my decklist. IN Oversold Cemetery >> OUT Faithful Mending . Mending not netting any cards didn't do much when I have several repeatable looters. IN Seasoned Dungeoneer >> OUT Tomb of Horrors Adventurer . Never saw it in action, but I'm a little heavy on the 6+ creatures and ...

pokken thanks for the comment, great stuff. Deck exposition incoming... I'm really trying to walk a fine line between full spell slinger and more mundane tempo-control deck, which is why I'm trying to keep the creature count up to ~20. Dropping to 10 creatures means I have to replace at least 5-8 w...