Which do you like more?

[toctheyounger]

PS: can I ask how you guys manage to make your image at normal size? I was doing from scryfall

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That's the code you're after. Just type in the card name and you're good.

[Lucifer, Sapere Aude]

Ok thank you fixed XD

[Feyd_Ruin]

Balefire Liege vs Firesong and Sunspeaker

Balefire Liege.
Although Firesong and Sunspeaker can be your commander, when comes down to which I'd rather have on the field, Leige wins. I've seen it win games again and again back in Lorwyn era.

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[ISBPathfinder]

Absorb because when facing minor lifegain / life loss its much better to gain a few than have one of multiple opponents lose a few.

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[Skello496]

Nova!

[JovialJovian]

(Tragic Arrogance lets you dismantle everyone's boards. It's possible that you'll be unable to hit a permanent that you need to with it, but there are so often little incidental artifacts and creatures on people's fields, that more often than not you'll hit the spot. Plus, sacrifice is much more powerful. Frankly, Tragic Arrogance is tragically underplayed.)
[mention]Skello496[/mention] You snuck in there with a one word response! Reasons why you like one more than the other are the most interesting part!

Blightsteel and Triumph both attempt to one-shot with poison. I feel like Triumph is more reliable and carries virtually no danger of being turned back on you. When I play Blightsteel, it gets stolen and used to kill me

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[Lucifer, Sapere Aude]

Cornucopia, but honestly, just because I didnt tried the Autogenerator yet XD

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[toctheyounger]

Death. Drops earlier, deals with indestructibles, and hopefully your ETB triggers end the game. Either way it's more fun.

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[Lucifer, Sapere Aude]

Myr Battlesphere! You don't have to wait a turn for the tokens, and is just more aggressive most of times.
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(sorry, had to include 3 this time lol)

[JovialJovian]

Asceticism. Im currently running it in a Selesnya deck over Privileged Position. The regenerate just puts it over the top for me.
Edit: Oh, I suppose there's a pig there too, he seems nice.

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[Skello496]

[mention]JovialJovian[/mention] haha, reason is that arrogance is only better in Voltron. If I play feather, it's great because I leave Feather, but otherwise everyone still gets to keep something.

Ablaze! Because I don't like PW decks.

[Mookie]

Vorthos-wise, I would say Nylea, because Heliod is a jerk (Elspeth ;_;). Gameplay-wise, Heliod - I value token production and vigilance over pump and trample. Tokens being enchantment creatures also enables some interesting things.

Going off a new card that no one will have played with yet:

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[Lucifer, Sapere Aude]

For starters, they are both terrible chandras, but the former has no excuse because it's not from a Planeswalker deck LOL. At least the art is pretty, and if it was legal as commander, I would definitely play her in that role, but in a vacuum the Bold Pyromancer is just straight more playable versatile in all decks regardless your strategies (not for competitive use, but that's another matter), while the Ablaze is just narrow in 2 or her 3 abilities.

EDIT: damn it, not even the time to type and already new choices coming. Anyway Whip of Erebos

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[JovialJovian]

Basalt Monolith, it's the only one that feels usable and fair in a deck that's not just going to abuse it for infinite mana, they're basically identical if you are planning to combo with them.

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[toctheyounger]

Abbey, purely on account of Depths being grossly overpriced. Also, easier to flip.

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[Gashnaw]

Capsize with the buyback still costs less than a creature that usually will not even make a full rotation (At least not in my games)

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[Cow31337Killer]

Mizzix for sure. Let's you cast ridicuolously huge X spells back to back.



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[Yatsufusa]

Stingerfling Spider. On paper Silklash is more powerful as a mass wipe, but usually in actual games ETB is more practical compared to the mana-intensive activated ability.

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[JovialJovian]

Desertion.
Desertion more reliably gives you a creature, and you get to keep it. Additionally, while both steal an opponent's creature for 5, with Desertion your opponent has also paid to cast the creature, depriving them of additional mana.

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[Myllior]

Zealous Conscripts, even when it's not applied as a combo piece; the utility of being able to borrow any permanent, such as that Glacial Chasm that's been holding you off, is pretty respectable. Though I'd favour the Primordial in a very go-tall, battlecruiser meta.

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[Skello496]

Gerrard, I just like him as a Boros Legend.

[ISBPathfinder]

Purpheros, he just does sooooooooooooo much work for red and is played in the 99 of a LOT more decks than Athreos tends to be.

I guess I will continue the god idea.

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[Skello496]

Rhonas, he's just easier to use. Another creature of 4 or greater is totally easy in green.

[Lucifer, Sapere Aude]

Keranos, absolutely. Just more value overall, drawing and dealing damage to anybody every turn is miles better than tutoring lands in a conditional way.

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[Hawk]

Ad Nauseum in almost all decks; Necrologia if you are paying good ol' fashioned Magic and have an average CMC of 4+.

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(assume the deck already runs Go for the Throat, Doom Blade, Tragic Slip, Hero's Downfall, and Snuff Out)