My brother cast this a couple times in a Zaffai, Thunder Conductor , now Magnus the Red deck and when it works, it's awesome. But when you cannot get attackers through, it is pretty much dead. So it is a high variance card. I don't remember what he copied, but it was a spell that was at least 6 cmc....

benjameenbear thank you for commenting. I will strongly consider Dig Through Time here. Originally it was left out because I wanted to keep my graveyard around, and the foil copy was expensive, so I played other cards. Without Underworld Breach , I have more cards in my graveyard like creatures and...

My wife will not play magic with me. I am a very competitive and strategic person. She is carefree, non-competitive, and anti-strategy, so she has the wisdom to foresee that playing this game together would not yield any beneficial outcomes to our relationship. She is just not a strategy gamer, she ...

I personally do not think there are enough good deserts for this card to really shine yet. It adds a touch of flexibility to be able to play the new fixing deserts + scavenger grounds, but the true "cost" of this card is diluting your utility lands or mana producing lands with mediocre des...

Found a Preston, the Vanisher so it comes in for Felidar Guardian closing the loop with that combo. Last time I played this deck some LGS stranger was CONVINCED that I was trying to combo him. He sais "Oh Rocco, the combo elf", and I responded "This is not a combo deck, it is a Wild P...

pokken yes getting 5 of something even generally mundane like a Frost Titan can become a powerful win condition. I do enjoy casting it. I was also looking at cutting Phantasmal Image , but a 2 mana clone can be so useful at times that I am almost never unhappy to see it. I need to get Bribery in a ...

Quick swap from a last minute trade with a buddy a couple weeks ago. IN Ledger Shredder >> OUT Errant, Street Artist I may regret this since Errant is a pretty cool little creature, and is one of the cheapest ways for me to get extra copies out of spells, but I only get the copies when Kalamax is ac...

Desert does seem to be getting the most goodies lately, having some cards are are generally playable outside any other desert synergies. Land types like these have a tendency to get better over time, as the next set we see caves or gates in could print something that makes a previously mediocre card...

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. The spellslinger precon let me down hard. The spells are 2...

Cactus Preserve is one of the best manlands we have seen in a while, but I'm not sure what it does for Karador's strategy. I guess it can do some post-wipe beats with hefty 8/8 stat line, but I am not sure that it worth the land slot here when there are so many other utility lands looking for homes...

Cactus Preserve is one of the best manlands we have seen in a while, but I'm not sure what it does for Karador's strategy. I guess it can do some post-wipe beats with hefty 8/8 stat line, but I am not sure that it worth the land slot here when there are so many other utility lands looking for homes.

I'm jamming Queen in my 5c slivers just to flex on the poors :rofl: ...Just kidding, but I am running Queen as the commander for the nostalgia. I didn't play during stronghold release, but it has that old magic feel. I had a bunch of sliver stuff so I finally decided to assemble the deck to keep eve...

Traded in some cards toward a Finale of Devastation|84584 , so that comes in to replace Chord of Calling . Chord is instant speed, but Finale is 1 mana cheaper, can tutor from the graveyard, and scales better in the late game. IN Finale of Devastation >> OUT Chord of Calling IN Scute Swarm >> OUT Te...

Enchantment sac outlets in BUG?
Attrition, Erebos, Bleak-Hearted , Vampiric Rites

Better sac outlets: Yawgmoth, Thran Physician, Spawning Pit, I've been liking Disciple of Griselbrand as a fair sac outlet.

Token makers
Curse of the Restless Dead, Chalk Outline

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...