New set! The main consideration is Reprieve . The most effective way to fight the deck is on the stack, and while red offers some element of counterplay via Pyroblast and the like, it's always nice to see more options for that. Reprieve can be used to pick up cantrips or other crucial spells in resp...

LTR Change The One Ring got itself spoiled months in advance, and I spent quite a while gestating on it. It immediately displaced Graveborn Muse in the draw queue. As Muse never really did anything wrong, this outperforming her this wildly out of the box meant I had to give it actual consideration....

MAT Change Thanks for the post, I somehow managed to largely blank on MAT, and missed this card! The suggestion is spot on, all I've got to do is execute it :P Out: 1 Hunting Wilds In: 1 Open the Way It's kind of funny how low on Explosive Vegetation s I've gotten over the years. Hunting Wilds was ...

Iroas did nothing wrong, mind you. He just gets outperformed by other options in the list. All the points you raise are valid, but I prefer Saryth at the same MV and the cheap stuff puts on a good enough emulation while sequencing easier. I remember when Mondrak came out, I was contemplating what t...

The Rhino Conservation Update Okay, I mulled on the recent stuff enough, time to do some swaps! Out: 1 Beastmaster Ascension 1 Blade of Selves 1 Greater Good 1 Iroas, God of Victory In: 1 Mondrak, Glory Dominus 1 Nesting Dovehawk 1 Tribute to the World Tree 1 Worldly Tutor Originally the swap list ...

29.05.2023 Changes Time to act on the various recent musings in the thread. Out: 1 Crucible of Worlds 1 Doom Whisperer 1 Extinguish All Hope 1 Generous Gift 1 Song of the Worldsoul In: 1 Arcane Signet 1 Blind Obedience 1 Excise the Imperfect 1 Mox Amber 1 Sevinne's Reclamation The deck got a bit to...

Time to follow up on the punch! Out: 1 Hunter's Insight 1 Hunter's Prowess 1 Mark of Sakiko In: 1 Portent Tracker 1 Rogue's Gloves 1 Strength-Testing Hammer While the tall draws are objectively stronger than the trickle draws, I tend to prefer the gameplay of the latter. I absent-mindedly picked up ...

This is probably the best argument for Dockside Extortionist yet. Both Eternal Witness and Twinflame / Cabaretti Confluence are not going anywhere, and this enables a pretty decent cheeser infinite. I haven't found myself crutching on Aurelia combos for game ending, so I can probably be trusted with...

Chandra's Ignition feels like a good fit here, rip it main two for increased cleanup potential. I don't remember if the primer runs it or not, but it should hopefully be good enough for now? Nice to see you explore timmytastic fat. I don't think I'm shifting away from Saryth myself, maybe she'd be ...

Here's an obvious card I missed because I was too busy looking at "double" and didn't realise "twice" was applicable. Out: 1 Invasion of Kaladesh In: 1 Branching Evolution This swap is actually rather representative of the direction the deck is likely to follow if development con...

Haven't piped up for a while as I'm still gestating the standard stuff. At one point I had the wild thought of switching the deck over to a 5-colour pile, as when a really good beefslab plus copier combination aligns it kinda feels like little else that happened before mattered. However, the number ...

Hour of Devastation comes to mind

Also I fully support venturing into the potato bracket. Matched lower power EDH is very fun.

Here's an update that's been brewing for quite a while. Out: 1 Mythic Proportions 1 Panglacial Wurm 1 Prodigious Growth 1 Spawnrithe 1 Thriss, Nantuko Primus In: 1 Brass Knuckles 1 Hedron Matrix 1 Lightning Greaves 1 Spare Dagger 1 Staff of Titania The seeds for this can be seen in the prior post's ...

I'd recommend against using Gimbal for this. That thing is balanced around the existence of Doubling Season s and Spark Double s, cards which are expensive yet still will not grant you particularly amazing performance. Your best bet may be to try to go for something goodstuffy. The deluge of product...

Oh hell yeah Body of Research . Love that card. Reyhan, Last of the Abzan feels like a good fit here, possibly even in the command zone (have the Piper provide blue). One less piece you have to dig out, but at the cost of losing some of the flexibility of Ozolith's application. Fate Transfer may be ...

Alright, let's work some of this stuff in! Out: 1 Arcane Signet 1 Double Major 1 Evolution Sage 1 Flux Channeler 1 Hard Evidence In: 1 Fractal Harness 1 Invasion of Kaladesh 1 Jaheira, Friend of the Forest 1 Kami of Celebration 1 Lonis, Cryptozoologist Arcane Signet becomes Jaheira, Friend of the Fo...

The Pokedex angle is partly motivated by mana efficiency (notice I'm not running Diamond Kaleidoscope tier stuff). There are only so many cheap cards to get the token types you specified, and coughing up more mana does not necessarily feel like it brings cards that are worth the investment. Thanks f...

Whoa, new card type! From Patron's perspective, sieges only have a front side. Flipping one isn't going to happen until that one combat where everybody dies. Invasion of Ikoria is a two mana overhead tutor, so seems like an auto shoe-in. Here's the thing though. MOM previews brought Surrak and Gorec...

Thanks for the various thoughts, sorry for not responding in a timely manner. I'm still gestating the rock-paper-scissors protection/pump piece dilemma and didn't really have anything smart to say. Stalwart Pathlighter is nearly superior to Frontline Medic due to not requiring a swing to confer the ...

New set! New card type! And Feather is actually quite well positioned to make use of it! Feather is by far the best equipped of my lists to run sieges. She comes out quickly, offers a decent bit of evasive power, and is happy to use it for this task most of the time - the only conflict of interest a...

New set! Par for the course! New card type! Less so! Daxos does not have a particularly good relationship with sieges, as it takes the deck quite a while to get in a position to start flipping them. And by then the game is largely decided. Early, opportunistic damage does not come naturally here. It...

https://i.imgur.com/08oUlCR.png Ah, to be easily amused by replacing the commander's name with random G words The question of what makes a commander click with someone is an interesting one. I had no reaction to Ruxa, Patient Professor , but was committed to building Saryth, the Viper's Fang the mo...

Hey, sorry for forgetting to respond to your initial message. Liquimetal Torque plus Explosive Entry is a pretty neat idea, though you'll have to see if your build is okay with the colourless. This deck is mightily coloured hungry. As for the latter concern, that matches an experience raised in the ...

I've been using Imgur in mine, and it's been fine. That said, it's also possible to head to the testing area here, upload the images, and link to them from the primer. Apparently I uploaded stuff there back in 2019, but then proceeded to keep Imgur links in the primers. Huh. https://www.mtgnexus.com...

[primer] should result in [primer] While reading through your post, I jotted down some cool kid black tech from back in the day. Maybe you'll like some of it :P Imp's Mischief is a unique effect in the colour. Redirects are neat, they give you game against countermagic and create beneficial outcome...