Token spam, Gaea's Cradle surprises no one but is too brutal to not toy with.
Earthcraft is always good with tokens, and the synergy with Patron is kind of neat. Get a LOT of extra ramp with both out.
Storage Matrix, Tangle Wire, Smokestack and Hall of Gemstone could have a place in your hate toolbox. If you find you get your token engines running reliably, you shouldn't be too troubled by a Stax'd board.
Eternal Witness is never a bad thing, whether you want another use out of a spell or need to recover a piece that got hated out.
I feel like a pretty bonkers allstar card for Big Mana that people haven't given enough spotlight to is Genesis Hydra. Important note: whatever it hits will reach play first, the ability is an on-cast.
Possibly consider Dryad Arbor and Seeker of Skybreak. Dryad Arbor will every once in a while enable the surprisingly hardcore ramp start of T1 Forest -> GSZ for 0 -> Dryad Arbor. Seeker of Skybreak can give you more shots to use your commander on other turns, and combined with Illusionist's Bracers is an infinite supply of creature untaps - producing infinite mana if you have either Earthcraft or Dryad Arbor online.
Finally, in a similar vein to the above - Karametra's Acolyte could function as a weaker Gaea's Cradle that Patron can affect, which would make for some very substantial ramp.
The cards currently in the build that seem the least exciting and dependable to me right now are Night Soil, Vernal Bloom and Tower of Fortunes. Nothing outright wrong with 'em, but I personally feel iffy about the potential hiccups they can produce.
Just noticed that the DB scripts initially caught that I have two different Purphoros lists, but the front page now lists only one of them and the scripts have picked that one up on several sweeps in a row. The other list is here. If there's any sort of policy of one list per commander per pilot, I would like that one listed rather than the somewhat jokey mono-red blink one.
The answer to pretty much every question you asked is "Because I decided to stick with a monomaniacal focus on getting to one of a handful of infinite blink loops and save actually good strategies for my other, serious Purphoros list".
Yeah, that's covered - VERY luckily, my GF is a certified physical trainer, PT, and nutritionist. We've already started talking over what the rehab regimen is going to require and when we are likely to start on specific portions of it. If my tendons and ligaments come through undamaged, I'll be able to recover and rehab from this without even having to go into an office.
Man I would have been screwed if I had been home alone last night.
I planted my foot while getting ready to demonstrate a kick, and then all hell broke lose. It apparently can just happen - very rarely, but your muscles can all tense juuuust the wrong way while your weight shifts juuuust so and suddenly suffering is your lot. The likelihood is something 0.2 %
So much for locating and going to an EDH night anytime soon.
Dislocated my patella.
You forced me to use google.
I know what that is! Yeah, medical school applications, yeah!
Seriously though, are you okay? That's no small thing.
I'm about as okay could be hoped for, so far. My GF and I both have some martial experience and are used enough to seeing/experiencing injury that we kept our wits and reset the leg/cap within four minutes. I gather it would have been much worse if it had taken us longer or if I hadn't immediately grabbed at it and kept it from moving more - the patella can slip around behind the joint, under muscles, and the muscles can start seizing.
We're waiting now, spending this week mostly bedridden while we see if signs of ligament or tendon damage manifest. I have a knee brace and am starting to learn to use a quad-base cane, but for the most part I can't move on my own and I'm completely incapable of putting any weight whatsoever on the injured leg.
It was unequivocally the single most painful thing I have ever experienced. I've been reading up on caring for it and some women who have experienced it claim it's worse, if more brief, than childbirth.
In short it was absolute hell and I am eternally grateful that I was not alone in the house.
So much for locating and going to an EDH night anytime soon.
Dislocated my patella.
Misread as nutella and got confused. Reread and still confused because I don't know what that is and I'm too lazy to Google it. So I'll go with the generic "oh that sucks" response. Which I'm sure is still accurate, but I'm just smiling and nodding in ignorance.
You devotedly play Magic: the Gathering, a card game with a huge bluffing/manipulation/deception component based on psychological mind games and don't believe in psychology as a valid field of study?
My original group used to have/technically still has a Facebook network, but the aforementioned loss against scheduling logistics has left it pretty much dead.
I'll have to dig around and see if there are other local groups or a larger network on Facebook for my town. Hadn't thought of it, Facebook-hater that I am Xp
If you run one Nature's Lore, why not run two? Three Visits.
You're going wide with splashy token beats, the old Craterhoof Behemoth/Avenger of Zendikar standby is pretty much a given. Especially the Behemoth for your finisher kit. Similarly, Triumph of the Hordes ends games pretty well.
Token spam, Gaea's Cradle surprises no one but is too brutal to not toy with.
Earthcraft is always good with tokens, and the synergy with Patron is kind of neat. Get a LOT of extra ramp with both out.
Storage Matrix, Tangle Wire, Smokestack and Hall of Gemstone could have a place in your hate toolbox. If you find you get your token engines running reliably, you shouldn't be too troubled by a Stax'd board.
Food Chain, Phyrexian Altar and Ashnod's Altar would all give you some extra ways to turn those bodies into extra ramp when you need really big plays. Fecundity might go well with that.
If you're running Abundance, there's no reason to not run Sylvan Library.
Eternal Witness is never a bad thing, whether you want another use out of a spell or need to recover a piece that got hated out.
I feel like a pretty bonkers allstar card for Big Mana that people haven't given enough spotlight to is Genesis Hydra. Important note: whatever it hits will reach play first, the ability is an on-cast.
Possibly consider Dryad Arbor and Seeker of Skybreak. Dryad Arbor will every once in a while enable the surprisingly hardcore ramp start of T1 Forest -> GSZ for 0 -> Dryad Arbor. Seeker of Skybreak can give you more shots to use your commander on other turns, and combined with Illusionist's Bracers is an infinite supply of creature untaps - producing infinite mana if you have either Earthcraft or Dryad Arbor online.
Finally, in a similar vein to the above - Karametra's Acolyte could function as a weaker Gaea's Cradle that Patron can affect, which would make for some very substantial ramp.
The cards currently in the build that seem the least exciting and dependable to me right now are Night Soil, Vernal Bloom and Tower of Fortunes. Nothing outright wrong with 'em, but I personally feel iffy about the potential hiccups they can produce.
Templating probably needs work.
I use mine to practice alters or as proxy backing, and save any EDH staples in a seperate box (stuff like Gary, etc.).
Then again, I use proxies often enough that I deliberately buy large boxes of junk commons and land for extra backing.
Man I would have been screwed if I had been home alone last night.
I planted my foot while getting ready to demonstrate a kick, and then all hell broke lose. It apparently can just happen - very rarely, but your muscles can all tense juuuust the wrong way while your weight shifts juuuust so and suddenly suffering is your lot. The likelihood is something 0.2 %
I'm about as okay could be hoped for, so far. My GF and I both have some martial experience and are used enough to seeing/experiencing injury that we kept our wits and reset the leg/cap within four minutes. I gather it would have been much worse if it had taken us longer or if I hadn't immediately grabbed at it and kept it from moving more - the patella can slip around behind the joint, under muscles, and the muscles can start seizing.
We're waiting now, spending this week mostly bedridden while we see if signs of ligament or tendon damage manifest. I have a knee brace and am starting to learn to use a quad-base cane, but for the most part I can't move on my own and I'm completely incapable of putting any weight whatsoever on the injured leg.
In short it was absolute hell and I am eternally grateful that I was not alone in the house.
Imagine your kneecap.
Now imagine it on the side of your leg.
Dislocated my patella.
I'll have to dig around and see if there are other local groups or a larger network on Facebook for my town. Hadn't thought of it, Facebook-hater that I am Xp