MTG Salvation

With today's ban of Prophet of Kruphix, many players are digging through their collections trying to find replacements for PoK. So I ask, in which deck(s) were you running Prophet, and what is/will be your replacement card?

For me, she was in The Mimeoplasm, and has been replaced by Puppeteer Clique. She almost became Lazav, Dimir Mastermind, but P.C. seems the better card to find answers in the cards Ive made my opponents mill.

seedborn muse $$$ :/... I might settle for Murkfiend liege but I am just considering forgetting about that part of my deck it wasn't super important,just doing broken things with Azami, lady of scrolls or crookclaw elder or keeper of the nine gales.. bird wizards are cool...

Or I can just find another birds of paradise that I removed because I badly wanted cards for modern and needed it to trade for serum visions, birds is rather important for the deck because turn 2 Deveri is terrifying, basically replacing Prophet with Celestial gatekeeper in two steps.

Since the mulligan rule changed, a basic land.

From my Intet deck, I took out Prophet of Kruphix and put back in Descendant of Soramaro.

I only played her in Maelstrom Wanderer, which is hugely impacted by the mulligan change. My plan is to open Dack Fayden in one of the 18 remaining conspiracy packs I own, as I think the deck will need more looting effects to get rid of fatties and draw ramp early.

Seedborn Muse is interesting. PoK helped me recast Maelstrom Wanderer during each player's turn. I still have Alchemist's Refuge. The deck can't play Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir because of Clone effects, but I may consider Leyline of Anticipation.

Well, I took PoK out of my decks some time ago, but I replaced it with Spitting Image (which then became Mystic Confluence) in Maelstrom Wanderer. It was mostly something I threw in there to fill a flex spot before I realized how I just took over the game, so the replacement was just card # 101 that I wanted to play.


I think I replaced it with Cadaverous Bloom in Tasigur, the Golden Fang. Its purpose here was to ensure more Tasigur activations; Cadaverous Bloom helps with that and also acts as a win condition with Training Grounds.

Murkfiend Liege fits in nicely where PK was. It's more of a sea monster anyways, and also provides a valuable anthem effect to all the big squids and fish swimming about.

I swapped it for Ugin's Insight in Scion because it was what I had on hand. No idea what I'll put in its place in the long-term. Maybe Leyline of Anticipation?

Surrak is very likely getting Zendikar Resurgent in place of PoK. Murkfiend would be the likely alternative but I run a fair number of mono red creatures so it's not so 'face' in my build.

I keep my edh cube in line with the overall commander ban list. Prophet got replaced by fathom mage in my simic section. I think the pack foil from gatecrash is one of the coolest looking cards in the game.

Bring to Light is now significantly better in most UG decks (probably after minor mana tweaks), and at the same cost.

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I keep my edh cube in line with the overall commander ban list. Prophet got replaced by fathom mage in my simic section. I think the pack foil from gatecrash is one of the coolest looking cards in the game.

I made that exact same change about 9 months ago. It's a good move.

Same as when we had a similar discussion for Prime Time, there's no real direct swap that's nearly as good (if it wasn't on a whole other level it wouldn't be gone), so I don't really feel like slotting in Murkfiend or Seedborn Muse. I was playing it in Derevi. The deck might sit on the back burner for a moment, which will give me a chance to settle on something I want for the slot. Mostly, I think I'll just look for a weak spot in my Pod chain and fill it up with something. 5s are already really strong, actually, so I don't think it'll even be a direct swap for mana cost. I might need to remove Azami as well, though, as she's much worse without Prophet. Maybe I'll put Arcanis in that slot as he's better with Derevi and not-as-less-good without Prophet.

Maybe I'll just add Ponder + Preordain as smoothing out iffy hands seems better with the new mulligan rule and I don't really want to jam more lands.

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Same as when we had a similar discussion for Prime Time, there's no real direct swap that's nearly as good (if it wasn't on a whole other level it wouldn't be gone), so I don't really feel like slotting in Murkfiend or Seedborn Muse.

Part of it is really that if that effect was absolutely needed in your deck you'd already have those two.

Already had Seedborn Muse and Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir in Momir Vig for redundancy, so Kiora, Master of the Depths went in her place.

I too already run teferi and seedborn, so maybe murkfiend and/or patron of the orochi just to be different. Also sorry for no tags this tabket is an utter pain.

Time Warp made the cut for me in Jenara, the only list I ran her in. I feel like the extra turn spell is able to be abused in my list and while I don't think PoK was actually an extra turn, the effect is in the same vein. I just did not feel like Seedborn was quite what I was looking for in my list because I don't have that many mana rocks and that is where it gives the biggest benefit instead of PoK, although having Alchemist's Refuge and a Seedborn creates roughly the same effect and getting that land in my list isn't difficult. Ultimately it came down to the Time Warp being more valuable to me and the Seedborn being far more situational (few mana rocks and mana dumps with limited creature flash).

Other top picks for me were:

Seedborn Muse
Bring to Light
Kiora, Master of the Depths
Linvala, the Preserver (actually went in for DEN, who I feel got much weaker with PoK gone and Linvala seems to be a great value card that is able to be abused off recursion and blinking)

My only deck with Prophet (Vorel of the Hull Clade) already had Murkfiend Liege, Seedborn Muse, Teferi, Alchemist's Refuge, Leyline of Anticipation, and Vedalken Orrery (and Teferi Planeswalker, if I hit his ultimate). Flipping through the blue section of my trade binder, I realized: Prophet essentially gives me an extra turn at the end of each of my opponents' turns. So I'll replace it with Lighthouse Chronologist!

Same toughness as Prophet, tougher than Prophet or Muse at max level, and fairly easy to max out in my deck, thanks to things like Astral Cornucopia and my commander.

I ran it in Roon of the Hidden Realm and Sliver Overlord. Overlord is getting Seedborn Muse, which basically does the exact same thing in that deck (untap, tutor and cast Quick Sliver? Thank you!), so an already weak deck did not get weaker.

Roon is going to miss Prophet a little bit, but I already ran Seedborn and Teferi, so I'm probably shoving Defense of the Heart in its slot and Forbidden Orchard over one of my other lands. Problem solved, as far as that deck goes (we play big multiplayer games, so its rare there's no one with 3 creatures. There's a Ghave, Krenko, Animar, Kemba, and Ezuri deck around here, so, you know. I don't fear not being able to trigger Defense of the Heart).

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Bring to Light

I hadn't noticed this card before. It's actually pretty interesting now considering the rule change about mana.

A profound sense of satisfaction and happiness with the world.

Well, that and Seedborn Muse.

Thassa, God of the Sea in Intet because ive been meaning to put her in for ages and haven't found what to take out. In Rafiq I have no idea and U/G Ezuri is easily Murkfiend Liege as the creatures do most of the mana producing anyway.

Either way, it needed to go and im happy about the change.

Nature's Will in Edric Stax. I have been wanting to add it for a while but there just hasn't been anything I've wanted to take out, so losing Prophet to the ban actually feels like a positive change in the sense that I get to play around with a card I've been curious about for a while.

Still undecided for Momir Vig.

with her gone, the replacement is Bring to Light in Ezuri 2.0, since it can get up to 5 now.

She was replaced with Mirari's Wake in Scion - I've been agonizing over what to cut and the ban made the decision for me.

In Riku, she'll probably become a Bring to Light, since that one just got MUCH better.