Makes sense. I have NOT tried Stubborn Denial with Varina yet. I still plan to anyway. NOTE: Stubborn Denial counters ANY spell if you have a creature with power 4 or greater...not just noncreature spells. Crap I've been reading it wrong the whole time. You're right...it's non-creature spells. Doh!!...

In that vein, I've been thinking of replacing my Reconnaissance with Stubborn Denial. It's especially good with Varina on the board.

Just a quick chime in, I've been running Sunken Ruins and Fetid Heath for quite some time and I've been very happy with them. I pretty much run filter lands in all my multicolored decks and have rarely had issues. I'm not sure why some folks are so down on them. And, they're a decent price now with ...

What are your thoughts on adding Duelist's Heritage to pump up the Voltron damage? I realize that a few of you don't like auras because of potential 2-for-1's, but I'm wondering what you think of those that provide evasion in the form of flying or even better unblockability such as: Cartouche of Kno...

How often do you guys find you have to mulligan your opening hands due to not enough mana considering you only have 31/32 lands in there? I'm considering bumping back up to 33 or 34 as I've noticed I have to mulligan a fair bit even with 14 - 16 ramp cards in there depending upon the day.

Thanks for explaining some of the cEDH meta to me Ben! I definitely have no clue, but it's interesting to hear the variation within EDH and why. Much appreciated. I've been making most of my decks to play fast. (I guess that's how I generally like to play). As such, my overall CMC tends to be betwee...

This means that, for Arcades especially, the chance to overwhelm the battlefield with heavy hitting Defender creatures is a legit way to close out games, so we would rather control the stack to keep a favorable gamestate for ourselves while hitting in for chunks of damage. Games in cEDH, contrary t...

Those are great ideas Ben!! I commented awhile back about adding Chulane into the deck, but I hadn't tried it. I like Resolute Watchdog too and I have a Collector Ouphe, so I may add a few of those in. I used to run Smothering Tithe in here, but decided another paper deck of mine could use it more. ...

Well, not much has changed on my front. I did add in the Flash-Hulk package a couple months ago and only got to use it once. Then last week I noticed that Archidekt had a HUGE red halo around Flash with an error message saying that it wasn't legal in Commander. Verified! So, I dropped that package a...

Suggestion: Add a legend for Player # to each chart. It'll be easier for readers to digest the information and you won't have to write it out in text form anymore, which player number is what color on the chart.

Vault of the Archangel?

How has your deck been playing?

Glad to help. I hope those cards work out. Nice call on adding the mana-Myr!! Great idea. I think I'll add them as well and lower my mana count down from 36 to maybe 33 or 34 to add them in.

Sorry, got another one for you. What do you think of Idol of Oblivion for this deck? It would be even better with a way to untap it. With Alela on the board you could use it right way, and most likely, once per turn.

Also, what do you think about adding Ornithopter to the deck? I haven't tried it out, but you seem to have a serious grasp of the meta in general; something I do not have. I'm not sure how much extra value you get from it, but it's worth a free token with Alela and you can either sack it for card dr...

Yeah, I've been playing it and it's done me well in general. Too bad that it's attached to a creature, such that you don't get haste on the turn it comes into play. But, it's still been decent. I'm enjoying the deck. I really liked your ideas, so I borrowed some of them. My deck is still a work in p...

What do you think of adding Crashing Drawbridge to your deck? Seems like it might help speed up your combat damage.

Oh damn! I hadn't seen the price of Nykthos lately. I purchased one maybe a year ago for 7 USD and now it's basically tripled. Holy crap!! Well, I think I'll hold off until the price inevitably falls back to say less than 10 USD. In the meantime, I plan to pay attention to my black devotion levels p...

Thanks for that assessment! It does help to break it down ability by ability. I wouldn't say I'm a great MTG player, even though I LOVE to play. And, honestly, my clarity of thought isn't great compared to many of you that write here at Nexus (you, Ben, darrenhabib, etc), so firstly I'll say that I ...

I've been tweaking my deck to be more thematic and efficient lately and have been contemplating removing Zombie Apocalypse in favor of Liliana, Death's Majesty . While you won't get a wholesale graveyard recursion, you'll be able recur one creature right away, potentially more later, or create a zom...

Oh wait. Your deck is more Dimir than Orhzov. Stormscape may not work so well for you and certainly not to cast Dark Prophecy. I count 17 cards that it would help with. Probably not worth it then.

Dohhh!! Well, darn. I didn't read that Alela says "cast" and that artifact lands don't come into play being cast. LOL!! I guess we both helped each other out. Now I need to rejig my mana base slightly. What do you think about adding Stormscape Familiar as a source for mana ramp? It also he...

Dark Prophecy would fit that sub-theme as well.

Well, you'd get a free token with each artifact land off of Alela. Is that too risky to your mana base if someone plays artifact removal on your land? As for Teysa Karlov, I was thinking if you're using Sorin to give your tokens Lifelink and the +1 buff and/or Odric with Alela to give them Lifelink ...

Another thought. How about Teysa Karlov for the deck?

Thanks for posting your decklist! Very crafty! I like the low overall CMC and the idea of minimizing a playstyle to maximize the effectiveness against it (not using recursion to minimize others use of it). You definitely have some very expensive cards in there which I won't try to obtain, but there'...