The problem with this card vs similar cards like Etherium Sculptor and Foundry Inspector is that not having any colorless symbols in his own mana cost means he can't benefit from the reduction of additional copies of this effect. Like if you drop Inspector first, Sculptor then costs only 1, but Mech...

I don't really like cutting off resources from my own graveyard, especially in a white deck where I'm running Sun Titan, Emeria Shepherd, Emeria, the Sky Ruin etc most likely, but this is an otherwise efficient and solid token generator.

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2 years ago

At least it isn't a durdly win condition.

You can pry my durdly win condition from my cold, dead hands.

Tuesday, April 5th, 2022; Enter the Infinite Enter the Infinite Ah Enter the Infinite, a card from Gatecrash, the set where they did an Xzibit on EDH cards and just jammed infinite value on top of infinite value. Drawing your entire deck, at any cost, is honestly pretty snore-worthy. Like yeah, you...

Four mana gets you Ritual of Soot , which does the most important thing this card does: kills 3mv and lower creatures. The added mana lets you hit the occasional planeswalker, exiles instead of destroys, and gets everything in the graveyard too. There's some cases where that will be backbreaking, bu...

It's part of an interesting, quirky cycle of Conspiracy cards: Custodi Soulbinders , Academy Elite , Drakestown Forgotten , Ignition Team , Realm Seekers . I'm most fond of Realm Seekers since it's often huge, especially in UG type decks where you have tons of draw, and it can find any type of land ...

I like death trigger dudes that come with their own sac fodder, and double especially when that sac fodder has a built-in way to sac itself for value. Like, this isn't a 10/10 staple windmill slam in every BGx deck, but it's an extremely solid self-contained package and likely more overlooked than i...

The best use case for this seems to be reanimating a bunch of Blood Artist type effects that can see everyone's creatures dying, and having a ton of things die on resolution due to the -1/-1 counters. Unfortunately most of these type of effects only count your own creatures dying, and the ones that ...

It's an interesting hate piece that turns off a number of combos and makes a lot of regular things like fetchlands and planeswalker activations hurt. It just seems a little too low impact overall.

I've always liked this Command in a vacuum. There's a lot of good 2mv creatures you can return like Snapcaster Mage , Jace, Vryn's Prodigy // Jace, Telepath Unbound , Baleful Strix , Dockside Extortionist , Esper Sentinel , Thassa's Oracle , Charming Prince , Sakura-Tribe Elder , Selfless Spirit , e...

I was always a fan of this planeswalker, because it has a lot of flexibility. You can immediately untap stuff and play out something to protect him. He functions as a +2 mana ramp effect for 4, similar to Explosive Vegetations and company, though his survival isn't guaranteed. His ult is easily atta...

Hey, here's one for you: Suspend. The spells you can only cast with suspend? You can cast them with this. Yeah, I had that deck together for a little while. Even there, Dreadhorde lags a little bit because he doesn't help you cast the spell the first time. You either need another way to cast the sp...

I've run it in my cascade + no-cost suspend cards list as a way to cast the no-cost suspend cards from the graveyard for additional value. Even there it was okay at best. There's a few places where it's a snap-include. Feather, the Redeemed is like the ideal home for it as you run a bunch of 1 mana ...

Yeah even back in the day this wasn't great due to the symmetrical nature. Like, I guess if you're playing That Deck that wants to give your opponents things to kill to make them lose other resources or to trigger your own Oath of Druids Defense of the Heart type effects, it could do some work, but ...

I've got a copy in my Garth odd tokens deck, but it might get replaced by a Phyrexian Rebirth which does something similar but is much better against a big board of opposing tokens.

I've run Oppression a few times in Discard tribal. Make your Commander Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern or Tinybones, Trinket Thief or even Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger and it seems like it could be a good idea. But in practice it just draws warranted hate. Painful Quandary is a much st...

Banefire - As far as X spells go, it's certainly not awful. Being immune to being countered and bypassing damage prevention (at least, when cast in a meaningful mode) is about all you could ask for from your X spell... except even with all that, it's rarely worth the slot. If you're dumping a huge ...

This is one of those cards that seemed okay on paper when I first saw it but then I never really thought about it again. A 4/5 menace for 4 is solid and 20 power worth of menace bodies for 10 is actually pretty decent return, and both it and the tokens have good typing in Zombie + Knight, it just do...

In general, this is what I would like to see from wizards in the coming years: 1. A white commander that is powerful, fun, and exciting to build around, preferably several Mono white has been sitting at the bottom of the popularity list for quite some time. I think wizards failure to create a suita...

We're having Infinitoken's creator on the stream this coming week, so I'm gonna build a deck with a bunch of goofy and weird tokens (with Garth One-Eye at the head). So suggest me your favorite stupid token generator!

"Activate only as an instant" means that you cannot use the ability "as a mana source" during the casting of a spell. This rider was added to LED and brought back with Diamond-Eye Lion because otherwise it becomes a lot easier to use this as an actual Black Lotus because you can ...

tbh I feel legacy has way too much community support to actually die, despite the rising cost of RL staples and lack of big events. There are 2 stores within a 90 minute drive from me that run legacy fnm every week. There are also a few stores within that same distance willing to also run weekend e...

Interesting note: Lion's Eye Diamond doesn't actually have a tap symbol on it. If this followed suit it might have been worth considering. As it stands, this is pretty well hot garbage. I've got a deck that's running LED and is focused on artifact creatures, has ways to cast things out of the gravey...

Ranger-Captain of Eos has largely outclassed this by coming down one mana cheaper (in Sun Titan range) with a better body and an emergency Silence button for when you want to combo off or stop someone from comboing off. Sure, it only finds one card instead of two, but it's rare that you really need...

I'm a huge fan of Sun Titan type effects, but being in two colors (especially with the second color being green, which doesn't need this kind of help nearly as much as mono-white does) definitely restricts the usefulness of it. I can't even remember the last time I built a deck with both white and g...