In my case, this is the basic land ratio of my decks: Mono - About 70% basics, with highest # of fetches. If it's a white deck, first turn Land Tax almost always clear out half of my lands, which I think is rather significant in helping draws. 2c - I keep about 5~10 basics, more if playing green, wh...

Given that most spells/effects fetch basic lands, do people ever use more basics in their decks just so they could filter them out more efficiently? To clarify: Given our currently mana base, it's entirely possible to use only one basic land per color for your deck. However, using cards like Land Ta...

Boromir, warden of the Tower is nice, I'll slot at least into Karador, if not more decks It's hilarious to me that it incidentally shuts down Jeweled Lotus / Lion's Eye Diamond / Mana Crypt shenanigans :P I've always believed that since White as a color pie is least adaptive towards cEDH, they shou...

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1 year ago

Sunday, May 21st, 2023; Ancient Imperiosaur

I have a feeling this is sneaky good, sneaky low cost and sneaky high power with in-built protection.

Would probably be threatening if it's a legend, but 40 life really makes it hard to few shot an opponent otherwise.

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Thursday, May 18th, 2023; Koma, Cosmos Serpent

Downright nasty with cards like Opposition, Earthcraft, and Seedborn Muse.

I'm super tired of "do this → value" commanders, but I suppose that's the "aftermath" of printing so many legends in so little time. Rocco, Street Chef is my favorite, for the same reason you posted. Being able to group hug with fair payback, while open to other shenanigans like ...

Rule of law and suppression field are both gonna be insanely good. Stony silence too. I think reanimating stax effects as 3/3s with menace seems pretty grotesque and your commander breaks parity with eidolon of rhetoric and rule of law so that's nuts. Suppression Field is a great add, love it. Ooh ...

Crescendo of War is a card that had some interest to me in my mono-white creature deck. Note only YOUR blocking creatures get the buff, but everyone's attacking creatures get the buff. So that makes for an interesting dynamic for combat. If your stuff has vigilance, you are looking real good. True ...

Anikthea, Hand of Erebos I want to design an Anikthea deck with more token and/or tribal approach. Aside from Growing Ranks / Endless Ranks of the Dead which grow on their own, I'm looking for cards like Necromancer's Covenant , Liliana's Mastery , and Intangible Virtue to turn tokens into legitima...

Anikthea, Hand of Erebos is nice but I have mixed feelings about it. My issue is like...why is enchantress all graveyard or storm themed? Like can we not think of anything else? :P You can always pick Tatsunari, Toad Rider and go Words of Waste / Words of Wilding / Words of Wind . I suppose it's te...

Arena let you draw cards during upkeep, which suits strategies that negates your draw step. (Such as Necropotence, Taigam, Sidisi's Hand, etc.)

So far Anikthea, Hand of Erebos intrigues me the most. A lot of shenanigans to be had beyond enchantress, such as zombie, stax, etc. Token Contamination that populates itself via Growing Ranks/Song of the Worldsoul would be fun.

I'd collect Guff's deck because it's Guff.

My group plays "map" style. The table shares the same planes deck, each time a new plane comes into play the current player chooses which direction it connects to the old plane. Each player can only planeslwalk to a new plane or an old plane directly adjacent to current location. You need ...

Wouldn't you exile your entire library because it's not a may ability? It's roughly comparable to Niv-Mizzet, Dracogenius + Curiosity - your opponents will die if you have more cards in deck than their life total. Otherwise you can just target a creature with All Will Be One to stop the loop. I fin...

Sunday, April 9th, 2023; Inquisitor Eisenhorn Inquisitor Eisenhorn I like the card. Card draw and artifact generation is always a good thing, the demon is more like an added aggression than fodder. As Dunadain puts it, quantity is more important when it comes to saccing. I think Elsenhorn is leanin...

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1 year ago

if my strategy is so crappy it only works if I copy it 4 times then the deck is flawed

Or perhaps the strategy goes from strong to STRONGER because of extra copies. A flawed deck can improve, so can a strong deck. (Not talking about cEDH here, of course.)

Sakashima of a Thousand Faces / Sakashima the Impostor / Spark Double , and to less extent Helm of the Host . I've been experiencing temptation on including these for any commander with tap/once-per-turn activation/trigger abilities. I'm not strictly talking about broken stuff, even someone as jank...

I don't like Horsemanship very much at all. There are already too many characters on horses without it already (compare to flying). Why do some of them have Horsemanship and others not? Am I to believe Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale is merely an amateur equestrian? Maybe it simply means those previous h...

Has a mix of card draw and token production is a nice blend that allows a couple different strategies. Best part is that the tokens have lifelink! Skullclamp and Well of Lost Dreams will exponentially increase the production each turn. I gotta say though, precons aren't exceptionally interesting th...

Compare that to Shorikai, Genesis Engine and it's not really even close. Most commanders fall short when compare to Shorikai though. :3 That said, I notice ZaO also triggers on damaging a Battle, which means you can technically get multiple triggers against the same player by attacking Battles, in ...

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1 year ago

All the praetors seem ridiculous so far tbh.

Don't jinx Urabrask. XD

There's also Mana Severance if you want thin your deck quickly.

Zurgo and Ojutai , man things must be dire on Tarkir for Ojutai to let Zurgo ride him like that. Sadly I get the feeling the minute this alliance ends, Ojutai is going eat Zurgo to cleanse himself of this humiliation. Tarkir dragons can all burn in fire. Sarkhan can weep for the rest of his patheti...

She Who Grieves 2UR Legendary Creature - Spirit 2/4 Whenever one or more creature cards are put into a graveyard from a library, choose one of them. Its owner creates a token that is a copy of it, except it's 1/1, has flying and haste, and is goaded. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. 1...

Reprieve is effectively a white Remand . I assume that has some implications, given that the set is going to be Modern-legal. At the very least, it's a nice addition to white's toolbox, which is currently pretty light on stack interaction. (also: Sunforger ) Preventing your own spell from being cou...