MTG Salvation

I build Ruric Thar after he was spoiled. He's super fun. My first thoughts on him was about his triggered ability saying he deals the damage. Since I don't want to play the all creature deck, I want to give him Lifelink to counter his own damage when I cast my own non-creature spells and gain life when other do. Searched for Lifelink cards in GR and the only ones are Equipments: Basilisk Collar, Batterskull and Loxodon Warhammer. What is the best way to tutor them, Stoneforge Mystic. Since Misty is out of our colors we just have to deal with using Godo, Bandit Warlord. He tutors the equipment, puts it into play going around hurting yourself. And I generally don't play Godo without Grafted Exoskeleton. Adding Infect makes 2 spells lethal. Kessig Wolf Run and Rogue's Passage are lands to help him punch through blockers.

My build is like a mono green deck. Ramp spells and big green dudes. I have it where 7 out of 10 games I've cast him on turn 4.

I built this deck after the announcement. First cards I added gives him lifelink. Only cards in RG are Basilisk Collar, Loxodon Warhammer and Batterskull. All 3 are equipments, which means you can play Godo, Bandit Warlord. Godo is a creature (+) who tutors any equipment (++) and puts it into play (+++). Godo's second combat trigger works well too since Ruric Thar has vigilance. If you also want to play "Down and Dirty", you can also run Grafted Exoskeleton :thumbsup:.

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Then theres people that say that they use them for shuffle effects, to help out with stuff like top and Mirri's Guile

What do you guys think? i have 3 mono edh decks, and each one has 2 fetchs just cause. Should i just replace them with basics? or other ultility?

Am i better off just having them in my trade binder?

Fetch lands in mono colored decks. Shuffle away cards from SDT or Scroll Rack. Life from the Loam and Crucible or Worlds lets you play them from your graveyard and keeps your hand full of cards (to bluff counters or something).

If you aren't abusing them with Life from the Loam or Crucible of Worlds you should drop them from the deck. You should replace them with good utility and not basics.

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should Skullclamp be in every edh deck ever? 3/5 of mine have it, should i throw it in all of them, is it "stapley" enough?

Are you using Skullclamp on creatures that die? If yes keep it. If you Skullclamp your general and put him in your command zone you're doing it wrong. If you have Skullclamp in your deck just because it's Skullclamp, you might want to think about replacing it.

I'm Matt Raivio from Top&GoProductions. I am (more or less) going to be in San Antonio in May. I don't want to go without Magic for my week vacation and will swing by. Hopefully we can get a gameplay video made for the channel.

Omnath, locus of mana
Ashling the Pilgrim
Child of Alara
Lord of Tresserhorn
Kemba

My friend runs 5 color planeswalker/toolbox control reaper king. he picked reaper king because it's the easiest to cast of the 5 color generals. it's :symu::symg::symb::symrw: with red being the least important and white for removal. does a lot of nothing and grinds you out of the long game. the best thing about the deck, it's mindslaver "proof", meaning you don't scoop when mindslaver takes your turn. the mana base is not like normal 5 color decks. it doesn't run the full suit of duels/shocks/fetches. it runs filters, a ton of utility lands and about 8 basics to get around moons and wastelands. fun to play with and against this deck no matter who's piloting it.

note: you can't get heap doll back using salvaging station since it's a creature.

Yeva, Nature's hearld, ranger's path and ring of kalonia for omnath.
magmaquake, and ring of valkas for ashling.
nothing else interest me to add to group hug and the legends are not that interesting to build mono color decks.

Yes you are. I was like that too. My mentality for it was if I wanted to make a new deck, I already had most if not all the cards for it. Nothing wrong with that except I wasnt making decks. I evenually condensed what I had into a trade binder and foiled out a deck I use.

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If you're paying scg prices on things like that, you're probably doing something wrong.

i don't buy from scg unless i have to. i just got the prices for my foils from them.

Ashling the Pilgrim: $750 (no foils)
most expensive card: Gauntlet of Might $95
Omnath, Locus of Mana: $1606 (missing 17 foils and 1 beta)
most expensive card: Judge Gaea's Cradle $200
one of a kind card: misprint Natural Order (double printed)

i can see many ppl are fine with the way the rule is. i was just voicing my opinion to the internet.

thax gurst for reminding me that there's house rules i can put in my playgroup. we've already banned stasis in my group unless you spend $100 on one or get a beta one.

i do play 1v1 edh more the group game. my two main edh decks are ashling the pilgrim and omnath. both are light on good targeted removal, but both have their fair share of colorless removal spells.

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There's also Serra Avatar and Ajani Goldmane's Avatar token.

Those creatures are different then the cards I'm talking about. Im referring to the cards that say "when you have X amount of life, this happens". Yes I am complaining more on Serra ascendant more then any other card of it's type. I could go on about the number of time I run across a bad player online who beat me from an early game ascendant and won with it alone when I couldn't draw an answer for it.


I can't find the rune tail errata, maybe it got removed and I didn't noticed. I remember it was modified to 60 instead of 30 since most of the time it'll always flip after it's cast.

this is the only issue i have with edh atm. there's only a few of them in edh where they are truly busted (examples: Serra Ascendant, Felidar Sovereign and Divinity of Pride, just to name a few). i'm not the only one on the receiving end of a turn one ascendent on the play and can't get out of it. it always bothered me that Rune-tail, Kitsune ascendant was the only one errated for edh. after DKA was released, chalice of life was released and gave me hope for new errata on these kind of cards. i was hoping the rules committee would take into consideration about applying "X amount more then your starting life total" instead of the set life totals printed on the card.

my friend has a reaper king deck. he made it into a 5 color toolbox deck. lots of synergies and recursion and lots of answers to everything. he told me he using reaper king as the general solely on the fact that it's the easiest 5 color legend to cast.