Well, it's not a Staple, but more of a cheap budget replacement for Demonic Tutor and the like.
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Journeyer's Kite is fantastic. Its a land tutor AND it shuffles your deck. I love it because people don't seem threatened by it until you have a ton of land in play and you aren't missing any land drops.
Journeyer`s kite is a must have, a big EDH staple whether you run mono or multi colored. the best part is the land drop, and they flip side is thining the deck. Considering the land destruction or non-basic land destruction available, and with things like dust bowl, you can devastate your oponent very easily.
dissapointed by the lack of rhystic study stated. its the best draw card in the long game but can also cripple your opponents mana when he doesnt want you to play. its excellent in multiplayer
I find Farsight mask is very usefull here as well. In fact I have found this card to be good in almost any deck I build. (I think I have about a dozen copies now)
I think we can add Rupture Spire even though it isn't out yet. Seriously, it's T: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool." and it rarely has any drawback at all in EDH. Really how often do you not have 1 mana open even in the early game? The only way I can see not playing it is if you're mono color.
It is a card that would likely be more useful in a deck seeking to win through general damage, but it also boosts almost every relevant finisher in the format, because what creatures are you running as finishers that don't have 3 power?
Does that make it worth a slot? Maybe not on its own, but in an aggressive Blue deck, it can be a nice little equipment to include, and I think that makes it worth consideration for stapleness in a broader sense.
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O-Naginata is amazing in aggro EDH decks. Its cheap and most people don't have an answer for it. If I put it on Ink-Eyes or Tsabo(my general) its usually game over.
Are there any staple equipments for EDH besides Jitte?
O-Naginata is amazing in aggro EDH decks. Its cheap and most people don't have an answer for it. If I put it on Ink-Eyes or Tsabo(my general) its usually game over.
Are there any staple equipments for EDH besides Jitte?
Yeah I love Sword of Light and Shadow. The 3 life can buy you more time in multiplayer, and I get a lot of use out of the Raise Dead effect in my Sedris deck.
Another amazing equipment is Loxodon Warhammer (not sure if this was mentioned already; i'm sure it was). It can even be fetched by Drift of Phantasms!
Sigil of Distinction is another equipment that you can tutor with from Trinket Mage, but in the end, it just makes a guy beefy, so I'd only recommend it if you're playing something like Wizards with lots of weenies who could use the boost.
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A few cards I haven't noticed mentioned for Blue yet (sorry if I overlooked them or forgot that I've seen them) include: Back to Basics Opportunity Lu Xun, Scholar General Tinker Concentrate Treachery Drift of Phantasms
and even though it's an artifact, Vedalken shackles certianly counts as a blue card.
And that guy who's about to come out where you return an artifact you control to its owners hand and put an artifact from your hand into play for free seems like he's going to be really fun.
I'm surprised Tolarian Academy (and many of the cards from the old academy deck) and the pseudo-power lands have not been named yet.
Also ummmmm I want to talk about Lim-dul's Vault. I mean. I know we can run vamp tutor and imperial seal. However, if you don't have imperial seal, is vault going to do the job? And if liliana vess and lim-dul's vault were competing for a space in the same deck, which would you choose if you had no reanimation and had combos you want to tutor for?
I'm pretty new to EDH, so I may be way off base here. Shouldn't Reveillark (recursion) and Austere Command (another board sweeper) be considered staples?
I added Austere Command. This card is AWESOME considering It can save you and you may even still have board position.
Also added reveillark. Random recursion and CITP shenanigans are always fun with things like eternal witness and murderous redcap.
I present some tech that I found when I was pouring through my collection. Ladies and gentlemen, feast your eyes on Cateran Summons. It has recently been eratta'd to say "Search your library for a card with Changeling and put it into your hand. Shuffle your library."
Finds Chameleon Colossus basically, but if you are getting into EDH and don't have as old of a collection as most of us on here, this will find STP v.2, combat tricks (especially if you're using Doran as a general), Shapesharer, Taurean Mauler, and Doomed Necromancer.
Obviously more restrictive than the originals, but at 25 cents a pop, it can be rather useful.
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Pretty useless topdeck after a board sweep though, wouldn't you agree?
Yeah, I find Memorial is hardly a staple as it always gets cut for cards that are better on their own.
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It is a card that would likely be more useful in a deck seeking to win through general damage, but it also boosts almost every relevant finisher in the format, because what creatures are you running as finishers that don't have 3 power?
Does that make it worth a slot? Maybe not on its own, but in an aggressive Blue deck, it can be a nice little equipment to include, and I think that makes it worth consideration for stapleness in a broader sense.
O-Naginata is amazing in aggro EDH decks. Its cheap and most people don't have an answer for it. If I put it on Ink-Eyes or Tsabo(my general) its usually game over.
Are there any staple equipments for EDH besides Jitte?
Skullclamp, Sword of Fire and Ice and Sword of Light and Shadow - the last is debatable maybe but I'm a big fan.
Another amazing equipment is Loxodon Warhammer (not sure if this was mentioned already; i'm sure it was). It can even be fetched by Drift of Phantasms!
Sigil of Distinction is another equipment that you can tutor with from Trinket Mage, but in the end, it just makes a guy beefy, so I'd only recommend it if you're playing something like Wizards with lots of weenies who could use the boost.
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Lu Xun, Scholar General
Tinker
Concentrate
Treachery
Drift of Phantasms
and even though it's an artifact,
Vedalken shackles certianly counts as a blue card.
And that guy who's about to come out where you return an artifact you control to its owners hand and put an artifact from your hand into play for free seems like he's going to be really fun.
I'm surprised Tolarian Academy (and many of the cards from the old academy deck) and the pseudo-power lands have not been named yet.
I also think everyone plays the following artifacts within some variation:
Phyrexian Furnace
pithing needle
temporal aperature
Also ummmmm I want to talk about Lim-dul's Vault. I mean. I know we can run vamp tutor and imperial seal. However, if you don't have imperial seal, is vault going to do the job? And if liliana vess and lim-dul's vault were competing for a space in the same deck, which would you choose if you had no reanimation and had combos you want to tutor for?
also Hinder is listed twice in the 1st post.
I added Austere Command. This card is AWESOME considering It can save you and you may even still have board position.
Also added reveillark. Random recursion and CITP shenanigans are always fun with things like eternal witness and murderous redcap.
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