This was a near-staple alongside Mind's Eye in the dawn of Commander (I delineate here Commander from "EDH"), where it was a key way for non-green decks to hit their land drops every turn. It's not quite "strictly worse" than Thaumatic Compass // Spires of Orazca but close to it...

Any of you folks have a budget version of Varina? There's a weekly league that I am considering with a $150 budget cap. I was thinking Yuriko, but then thought Varina could probably get under that cap without giving up too much of the game plan. The biggest pain is losing a lot of untapped fixing, ...

I have never felt like spending 5 to get a land was worth putting Kite in a deck. I've been tempted by Thaumatic Compass a few times, but it has never made the cut. The only decks I'd ever want to be playing that are draw-go control decks that are hungry for land drops and even they typically have b...

Can't you cycle-dredge-cycle with a single cycling land? I don't think you need 2. Discarding the land is part of the cycling cost, so by the time you get to draw a card, the land is already in the yard to dredge back out. Exactly! Add a Bone Miser for large amount of B when cycling Barren Moor The...

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6 hours ago

I have found The Meathook Massacre to be an exceptional finisher-answer for a Field deck. You can just hook for x=2 and kill everyone after attacking usually.

I'll second this. On a few occasions I've played MM to kill my own army of zombie tokens from Field or Scute Swarms in my Smeagol deck.

Can't you cycle-dredge-cycle with a single cycling land? I don't think you need 2. Discarding the land is part of the cycling cost, so by the time you get to draw a card, the land is already in the yard to dredge back out.

Any of you folks have a budget version of Varina? There's a weekly league that I am considering with a $150 budget cap. I was thinking Yuriko, but then thought Varina could probably get under that cap without giving up too much of the game plan. The biggest pain is losing a lot of untapped fixing, w...

Day/night is the most tedious mechanic they've ever made and I hate, Hate, HATE it. I think they should errata the new wolves to work like the old ones. At least with the old ones I could sometimes squeeze more value out of Cult of the Waxing Moon during my opponents' turns. How is the old mechanic...

They should have errataed all the old werewolves to have Daybound instead of having 2 slightly different abilities that cover that same subset of cards across multiple sets. Anyway, I don't like this guy very much. It's very same-y: cast some buff spell, then cast a bunch of Ancestral Recalls, then ...

People play the Panoramas? They look awful and the list of better fetch lands is pretty deep..

Wouldn't it be better to drop your token producer before Ghired? It has haste and gives your other creatures the ability, so it doesn't need to sit around a turn to do something, and playing it without something to copy just seems.like you're begging for a single removal spell to wreck your tempo.

I'm just curious...what do you do to help the table keep track of Indominus' abilities? Cause I wonder if there are cool counters on Etsy or something that can help you keep track! I have a different deck that can get several types of counters and use a dry erase card l. I write out the types of co...

Here's my current list: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/lBNXw0EkvEOVsb8rdGmthg Had a close game with it last night vs Mothman, Loot, and some mono-white voltron enchantments commander--he scooped the turn he swung at Mothman for lethal, because he had a family issue. Would have been challenging deali...

was building Uyo, Silent Prophet intending to play and fork a single powerful spell each turn, but a lot of those powerful spells are either board wipes or theft spells which a) makes the deck fairly modal and b) all the theft makes it feel too reminiscent of the Callaphe deck, even if I'm using no...

I'm only seeing 6 ways to copy your creatures, and 2 of those are 1-shots, so you're pretty limited on how regularly you'll be copying stuff. The reason I suggested Dovehawk, Rionya, and Iteration was that Ghired can only copy tokens you've made that turn, which can make copying for value difficult ...

4 mana spot removal is not good. Sometimes this is also an exile 1-3 cards, but even that isn't great. Also needing a legendary on board makes this pretty terrible.

First glance, I feel like you have too many effects that want you to tap your creatures when you want them for Ghired's ability. I also think going in on treasure has the possibility of setting up a big turn, but you're not going to want to be tapping for treasure when you have valuable stuff to co...

First glance, I feel like you have too many effects that want you to tap your creatures when you want them for Ghired's ability. I also think going in on treasure has the possibility of setting up a big turn, but you're not going to want to be tapping for treasure when you have valuable stuff to copy.

I'm slotting in Trailblazer, new Ghired, Annie Joins Up, and the Extortionist to try out. Haven't played Ghired at all in a while, but will put it into the cycle of recently edited decks to try.

I was using this in my Korvolds lands deck, which could produce a ton of tokens out of nowhere and wanted the mass haste, but could also make use of yet another self-sacrificing permanent. The other mass haste options didn't really offer any more benefit, so this was great there. That said, it's rar...

Sometimes it really blows my mind that CA engines this strong aren't good enough for modern commander. I have a foil Russian one if anyone is interested btw xD I don't know that I'd say Kothophed isn't good enough--it's just inherently very risky. You have no control over what opponents have on the...

Most goblin decks are mono-red, but I could see running Wort, Boggart Auntie if you specifically want to do br goblins - she's the only legendary goblin in those colors that actually cares about goblins. Murderous Redcap , Munitions Expert , Sling-Gang Lieutenant ... there are plenty of good black ...

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2 weeks ago

Some new cards just dropped. Urza's Cave looks just absurdly strong

A sort of 4 mana colorless Crop Rotation that can provide mana until you want the land, and dodges most stack interaction.

In a world where Gisa, Glorious Resurrector does all the same things but for free, I can't imagine ever playing this card outside of a thematic dedication to Snow. There are zombie and cleric synergies to account for. Still, I have both a zombie deck and a cleric deck, but haven't felt inclined to ...

*Annihilator is an inherently brutally unfun mechanic. Values of 1 or 2 are painful, but manageable, but 4+ can be back-breaking, and a lot of the eldrazi that see play also come with indestructible, and are themselves huge threats, so not only are you getting set further and further behind, your o...