Now, this may be that I changed my phone over to iOS 7 recently (and no potshots about Apple products; I know, I know...), but the app "Orcish Librarian" has gone missing off my phone, as well as the App Store.
This may not be too suspicious...except for the fact that all official Apple webpages that deal with it has a blank page where it should be. Now, is it just me, or has Apple killed Orcish Librarian?
Weigh in; Is it there for you? Do you believe Apple "Vindicated" Orcish?
Speak your mind.
(To any Admins; if this is in the wrong location to start this, please shift it over please. Beacuse of the nature of this thread, I wasn't sure where it should go.)
Interesting. Have you tested this much? It seems good against control but I imagine combo and to a lesser extent aggro will be a harsh matchup for you. The main issue is that you are giving opponents fuel but you lack disruption other than a few counterspells. Your deck has a lower density of threats and ramp since it's devoting a lot of slots to draw, so your opponents will be able to cast more spells and more impactful spells than you.
Also, I understand not wanting to dilute your manabase because of your general but it feels like you could squeeze in a Reliquary Tower and Mikokoro, Center of the Sea.
Hey jayr, thanks for responding. Unfortuately, I am jobless at the moment due to age constraints (though that has changed recently, so hopefiully my job-state will soon follow), so I built this w/o testing. I figured I could post the concept, have the rough edges sanded down by the people who call this forum home, and then put it together and test.
Foil will be a good card for counters without having to use mana, once I get going. As for Meishin, the Mind Cage, that will be useful, since I don't plan to win via beatdown. Evacuation seems good. However, Stasis and Winter Orb don't seem useful in this deck, and would in fact draw hate. However, I may not be looking at it the way you are, so let me know.
I also posted a Kami of the Crescent Moon deck recently, maybe we can bounce ideas off each other.
Hey GravitonGamer, that sounds good to me. I saw your deck earlier, when I was putting this together, and took one or two pieces to use in my creation. However, you get ideas, send them on, and I'll do the same.
“It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it....”
― Nicole Richie
You May (Not) Want To Play This Deck If...
You May Like This Deck If...
You like to draw an insanely large number of cards per turn.
You want to be able to cycle through most of the cards of your deck in a game.
You like playing decks that are innocent...well, until you have the perfect moment.
You May Not Like This Deck If...
You are used to aggro decks.
You like finishing about turn 3 or 4.
You usually use combo decks.
The Origins, Up To This Point
This deck was something that has been "chewing" on my brain for the past week or so; a Kami deck that has everyone drawing about 1/10th of their deck in one turn, and getting fined for it. Working off that concept, I spent about two or three hours hitting the random button on Gatherer and Magiccards.Info, writing down the cards that looked good, and cutting down that into a (probably crappy) EDH deck.
Gifts of the Crescent Moon focuses off three win-cons:
You can ping your opponents to death via cards like Iron Maiden or Black Vise.
You can beat them to death Aggro-style via cards like Aeon Chronicler or Sturmgeist.
You can psuedo-mill them out via cards like Forced Fruition.
After joining my school's Entertainment Club, I was corrupted into MTG about a week after Return to Ravnica cycled into Standard. Staying mostly in Club and the local FNM, I slowly learned about EDH from listening to others.
Buying a box of cards off eBay {hint: check their rating before buying.} as well as a few cards from the story helped me grow my pool large enough to start my first EDH deck. The willingness to take the cards other people I play with write off as junk also helped accumulate a little collection pretty quick.
Those ideas slowly evolved into this monster here today: Savra's Everborn Horde, a storm of tokens beating your face in, or just being sacrificed to a greater cause.
After a few monthes of play-testing, as well as getting new cards, some revisions have been made to the deck. Land is the same, as well as the commander. Everything else may have had a redaction, or an addition.
This may not be too suspicious...except for the fact that all official Apple webpages that deal with it has a blank page where it should be. Now, is it just me, or has Apple killed Orcish Librarian?
Weigh in; Is it there for you? Do you believe Apple "Vindicated" Orcish?
Speak your mind.
(To any Admins; if this is in the wrong location to start this, please shift it over please. Beacuse of the nature of this thread, I wasn't sure where it should go.)
Hey jayr, thanks for responding. Unfortuately, I am jobless at the moment due to age constraints (though that has changed recently, so hopefiully my job-state will soon follow), so I built this w/o testing. I figured I could post the concept, have the rough edges sanded down by the people who call this forum home, and then put it together and test.
As for your reccomendations, they all seem good. Mikokoro, Center of the Sea allows me to draw and get mana out of it, while Tormod's Crypt will help me stop reanimation-based decks, as would Relic of Prognetius. As for Reliquary Tower, I can't believe I forgot about it.
Foil will be a good card for counters without having to use mana, once I get going. As for Meishin, the Mind Cage, that will be useful, since I don't plan to win via beatdown. Evacuation seems good. However, Stasis and Winter Orb don't seem useful in this deck, and would in fact draw hate. However, I may not be looking at it the way you are, so let me know.
Hey GravitonGamer, that sounds good to me. I saw your deck earlier, when I was putting this together, and took one or two pieces to use in my creation. However, you get ideas, send them on, and I'll do the same.
― Nicole Richie
You May (Not) Want To Play This Deck If...
This deck was something that has been "chewing" on my brain for the past week or so; a Kami deck that has everyone drawing about 1/10th of their deck in one turn, and getting fined for it. Working off that concept, I spent about two or three hours hitting the random button on Gatherer and Magiccards.Info, writing down the cards that looked good, and cutting down that into a (probably crappy) EDH deck.
Gifts of the Crescent Moon focuses off three win-cons:
Now, lets get into the deck itself.
01 Kami of the Crescent Moon
~ Draw-Based Damage Dealers ~
02 Psychosis Crawler
03 Aeon Chronicler
04 Sturmgeist
05 Viseling
06 Iron Maiden
07 Ebony Owl Netsuke
08 Misers' Cage
~ Thievery Cards ~
09 Control Magic
10 Commandeer
11 Dominating Licid
12 Cultural Exchange
13 Mind Control
~ "Well, Counter Says No." ~
14 Hisoka, Minamo Sensei
15 Hinder
16 Forbid
17 Dream Fracture
18 Arcane Denial
19 Dissipate
20 Put Away
21 Last Word
22 Time Reversal
23 Walk the Aeons
~ Bouncing Out ~
24 Dream Fighter
25 Capsize
26 Curfew
27 Into the Roil
~ The Card Drawers ~
28 Jushi Apprentice
29 Jace's Archivist
30 Tomorrow, Azami's Familiar
31 Howling Mine
32 Font of Mythos
33 Otherworld Atlas
34 Temple Bell
35 Library of Leng
36 Venser's Journal
37 Horn of Greed
38 Spellbook
39 Teferi's Puzzle Box
40 Skyscribing
41 Prosperity
42 Ponder
43 Thought Reflection
44 Windfall
45 Coastal Piracy
46 Covenant of Minds
47 Blue Sun's Zenith
48 Compulsion
49 Archmage Ascension
50 Mind Unbound
52 Sphinx Ambassador
53 Jace Beleren
54 Psychic Spiral
55 Mnemonic Nexus
56 Reminise
57 Exhaustion
58 Telepathy
59 Zur's Weirding
60 Quicksilver Fountain
61 Everflowing Chalice
62 Bosium Strip
~ Land ~
38 Island (63-100)
Any help or suggestions on the deck, be they card based or not, are wanted.
After joining my school's Entertainment Club, I was corrupted into MTG about a week after Return to Ravnica cycled into Standard. Staying mostly in Club and the local FNM, I slowly learned about EDH from listening to others.
Buying a box of cards off eBay {hint: check their rating before buying.} as well as a few cards from the story helped me grow my pool large enough to start my first EDH deck. The willingness to take the cards other people I play with write off as junk also helped accumulate a little collection pretty quick.
Those ideas slowly evolved into this monster here today: Savra's Everborn Horde, a storm of tokens beating your face in, or just being sacrificed to a greater cause.
00 Savra, Queen of the Golgari
-- Sacrifice Engines --
01 Gobbling Ooze
02 Plagued Rusalka
03 Golgari Rotwurm
04 Sadistic Hypnotist
05 Phyrexian Plaguelord
06 Carrion Feeder
07 Korozda Guildmage
08 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
09 Doomgape
10 Feed the Pack
11 Attrition
12 Jinxed Idol
13 Alter's Reap
14 Skulltap
-- Sacrifice Outlets --
15 Golgari Grave-Troll
16 Wight of Precinct Six
17 Ghoultree
18 Necromantic Ooze
19 Grave Pact
20 Golgari Germination
-- Token Production --
21 Mitotic Slime
22 Ant Queen
23 Kessig Cagebreakers
24 Giant Adephage
25 Ogre Slumlord
26 Spider Spawning
27 Scatter the Seeds
28 Awakening Zone
29 Mimic Vat
30 Eternal Witness
31 Vigor Mortis
32 Morbid Plunder
33 Call to the Netherworld
34 Revive the Fallen
35 Recollect
36 Gravestorm
37 Tortured Existence
-- Acceleration --
38 Llanowar Elves
39 Yavimaya Elder
40 Skyshroud Ranger
41 Primal Growth
42 Ranger's Path
--Misc. Creatures --
43 Golgari Thug
44 Reassembling Skeleton
45 Shambling Shell
46 Dawntreader Elk
47 Gleancrawler
48 Acidic Slime
49 Masked Admirers
50 Brutalizer Exarch
-- Misc. Other --
51 Druidic Sachel
52 Whispersilk Cloak
53 Nim Deathmantle
54 Putrefy
55 Life from the Loam
56 Increasing Ambition
57 Parallel Lives
58 Rites of Flourishing
59 Mortal Combat
60 Green Sun's Zenith
61 Genesis Wave
-- Land --
62 Vivid Grove
63 Barren Moor
64 Polluted Mire
65 Golgari Rot Farm
66 Golgari Guildgate
67 Overgrown Tomb
16 Forest [68 - 83]
16 Swamp [84 - 99]
After a few monthes of play-testing, as well as getting new cards, some revisions have been made to the deck. Land is the same, as well as the commander. Everything else may have had a redaction, or an addition.
00 Savra, Queen of the Golgari
- Sac Engines-
01 Phyrexian Plaguelord
02 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
03 Doomgape
04 Abhorrent Overlord
05 Slum Reaper
06 Shambling Shell
07 Primal Growth [ramp]
08 Skulltap
09 Attrition
10 Feed the Pack
- Sac Outlets -
11 Mortician Beetle
12 Grave Pact
13 Golgari Germination
- Graveyard Benefiters -
14 Necrotic Ooze
15 Wight of Precinct Six
16 Boneyard Wurm
17 Golgari Grave-Troll
18 Kessig Cagebreakers [tokens]
19 Avatar of Woe
20 Spider Spawning
21 Mimic Vat
- Savra's Token Makers -
22 Ant Queen
23 Mitotic Slime
24 Giant Adephage [win-con?]
25 Awakening Zone
26 Parallel Lives
27 Reassembling Skeleton
28 Chainer, Dementia Master
29 Eternal Witness
30 Gleancrawler
31 Doomed Necromancer [sac?]
32 Revive the Fallen
33 Rise of the Dark Realms [win-con]
34 Reanimate
35 Life from the Loam
36 Recollect
37 Deadbridge Chant
38 Tortured Existence
- Ramp/Acceleration -
39 Llanowar Elves
40 Yavimaya Elder
41 Dawntreader Elk
42 Realms Uncharted
43 Far Wanderings
44 Rites of Flourishing
- Possible Win-Cons -
45 Genesis Wave
46 Green Sun's Zenith
47 Mortal Combat
- Tutors -
48 Rune-Scarred Demon
49 Demonic Tutor
50 Increasing Ambition
51 Forgotten Ancient
52 Brutalizer Exarch
53 Soul of the Harvest
54 Golgari Thug
55 Putrefy
56 Grisly Salvage
57 Down // Dirty
58 Gravestorm
59 Primeval Bounty
60 Nim Deathmantle
61 Whispersilk Cloak
- Land -
62 Golgari Guildgate
63 Golgari Rot Farm
64 Overgrown Tomb
65 Tainted Wood
66 Vivid Grove
67 Polluted Mire
68 Barren Moor
15 Swamp [69-83]
16 Forest [84-99]
So, after trudging through my Savra-build, do you have any suggestions? Any help will do; thanks.