Thank you all for your suggestions. I might have been confusing in my original post. I guess I'm not looking to make it a 100% burn deck, but rather a commander deck that makes use of burn spells and can cast them for free. It will probably be mostly creatureless, relying on instants and sorceries that either do direct damage or make tokens. I do however like the idea of including Soulfire Grand Master to give my burn spells lifelink, and then allow me to pay 4 mana to have those cards end up back in my hand rather than the grave, since hopefully Narset will allow me to cast them for free anyway the first time. I'm just not too familiar with red or burn spells in general. And like some of you have said, there may be a better way to go with this deck... haven't made up my mind yet
I'm in the very beginning phases of coming up with a new Narset commander deck. So far, all of my other decks are very heavily creature-based and do not play red. I want to challenge myself and try a different style of playing that is more spells-based than creature-based. I have somewhat of an idea forming of what I want the deck to do but am not sure on what my win-con will be. One option is giant red burn spells that I can cast for free with Narset's ability and then hopefully copy or retrieve from my graveyard to be cast again (perhaps with Soulfire Grand Master). I've done some gatherer and google searching but am having some trouble finding what I'm looking for. Google turns up the generic "top 10 burn spells" where lightning bolt is always #1 or near the top... however it's not the best for commander generally. I'm wondering if anybody could supply me with a list or a couple of suggestions for burn cards that do lots of damage but do NOT have X in their casting cost (so that I can cast them for free with Narset's ability). Probably the best example of this that I can think of that I'm looking for is Ignite Memories or Mizzix's Mastery. What other cool red stuff is out there? Thanks!
Some great suggestions. Maybe a bit more info would help. My commander is Karador, Ghost Chieftain. E-Witness was one example of a card I could use, but basically every creature in the deck has some ETB effect that I'd like to be able to do over and over. I have thought of conjurer's closet, but it won't quite work for me for one reason. I'd love to be able to blink Karador-- use him to cast a creature from my grave, blink him, then cast another creature from my grave. Since he's leaving the battlefield and entering, the game won't see the first creature cast from my grave that turn, allowing me to repeat the process indefinitely and cast whatever I wanted from my yard as long as I had the mana to do so. You're probably right that nothing like this exists in my colors, but I thought it was worth a shot. Maybe Restoration Angel is my best bet, but more of a one-time deal...
Not sure if anything like this exists, but if it does, I'd like to know the name of the card. I'm looking for something (probably an artifact/equipment or enchantment) that will give target creature an activated ability of another target creature. For example, Flickering Spirit has an ability that lets it exile itself and return it to the battlefield. Is there a way that I could somehow give an Eternal Witness this ability in order to abuse its ETB effect of returning stuff from my yard? This is for a commander deck, so I'm looking specifically in Abzan colors, or else Deadeye Navigator would be exactly what I'm looking for.
Two questions about this: in commander, if I kill an opponent's commander, do I gain control of the creature at the beginning of the end step? And if I have a continuous sacrifice outlet, each turn can I keep sacrificing said commander and regain control of it each end step?
Second, I'm playing against a Marchesa, the black rose. I kill an opponent's creature. At the beginning of the end step, my emblem tries to bring that creature back under my control while Marchesa tries to bring the creature back under my opponent's control (the creature had a +1/+1 counter on it) at the same time. What happens? Where does the creature go?
May I request a render for Omnath, Locus of Mana and/or Kruphix, God of Horizons? I did a search in this thread and no one has done Omnath yet. There was one result for Kruphix, but I'd like mine to look less human-like and more mysterious god that Kruphix is. I'm looking for something full-art or just awesome looking to replace my commander cards for both my EDH decks. Thanks so much!
Can you post a pic of the art you want, ill make it for you in no time.
Kruphix image from http://cornhalls.tumblr.com/search/kruphix, by cornn91. I made a slight edit and changed the blues to more purple. I'm not a great artist or PS/Gimp user and I was trying to get rid of the nose and mouth and make his face look more like the actual card- all dark, starry and nyx-y, but was unsuccessful. If you want to take a crack at it, be my guest. If not, I'd be fine with the art how it is.
May I request a render for Omnath, Locus of Mana and/or Kruphix, God of Horizons? I did a search in this thread and no one has done Omnath yet. There was one result for Kruphix, but I'd like mine to look less human-like and more mysterious god that Kruphix is. I'm looking for something full-art or just awesome looking to replace my commander cards for both my EDH decks. Thanks so much!
Thank you guys for all the responses! Those are some pretty good ideas. I'd love to have a Doubling Season, but at the moment it's a bit too pricey for me. I like the Ooze Garden and Scourge of Skola Vale cards paired with Omnath and those would be good for Tiny Leaders. Omnath, Feed the Pack, and Yeva might be the best normal EDH option for me.
I've also realized that I could use the Korozda Guildmage in my current Skullbriar Tiny Leaders deck. Sacrifice Skully, get the saprolings, then play Skully again without losing any power or toughness...
I'm new to the forums so I apologize if this isn't posted in the right place... anyway, onto the post. I had the beginnings of an idea for an Omnath, Locus of Mana either EDH or Tiny Leaders deck. I know there are tons of Omnath decks out there, but I prefer to come up with my own ideas as opposed to looking at other people's decks (still open to suggestions though). As I said, this idea is still in the very beginning stages and I don't know yet what all I'd put into it. I'm trying to make one specific combo work at this point.
I've seen cards like Mercy Killing (G/W) and Korozda Guildmage (G/B) that would allow me to sacrifice a creature and then put X tokens on the field where X is the creature's power. The only problem is that these cards would be unusable to me if Omnath is my commander since they are not mono-green. I'm wondering if there is a mono-green version of these cards or something with a very similar effect. It would be awesome to build up 20-30 green mana in my pool, sacrifice Omnath for 20-30 1/1 tokens, then use that green mana to play Omnath again before it empties from my pool. Does anyone know if a card like this exists? Thanks!
Second, I'm playing against a Marchesa, the black rose. I kill an opponent's creature. At the beginning of the end step, my emblem tries to bring that creature back under my control while Marchesa tries to bring the creature back under my opponent's control (the creature had a +1/+1 counter on it) at the same time. What happens? Where does the creature go?
Kruphix image from http://cornhalls.tumblr.com/search/kruphix, by cornn91. I made a slight edit and changed the blues to more purple. I'm not a great artist or PS/Gimp user and I was trying to get rid of the nose and mouth and make his face look more like the actual card- all dark, starry and nyx-y, but was unsuccessful. If you want to take a crack at it, be my guest. If not, I'd be fine with the art how it is.
Omnath image from http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/creativity/avatar-sig-shops/weekly-contest/516795-weekly-contest-285-labour-day-love, by Ace5301. It may be too small to do anything with without looking like crap. If you can use it, fantastic! If not, don't worry about it.
Thank you so much!
I've also realized that I could use the Korozda Guildmage in my current Skullbriar Tiny Leaders deck. Sacrifice Skully, get the saprolings, then play Skully again without losing any power or toughness...
I'm new to the forums so I apologize if this isn't posted in the right place... anyway, onto the post. I had the beginnings of an idea for an Omnath, Locus of Mana either EDH or Tiny Leaders deck. I know there are tons of Omnath decks out there, but I prefer to come up with my own ideas as opposed to looking at other people's decks (still open to suggestions though). As I said, this idea is still in the very beginning stages and I don't know yet what all I'd put into it. I'm trying to make one specific combo work at this point.
I've seen cards like Mercy Killing (G/W) and Korozda Guildmage (G/B) that would allow me to sacrifice a creature and then put X tokens on the field where X is the creature's power. The only problem is that these cards would be unusable to me if Omnath is my commander since they are not mono-green. I'm wondering if there is a mono-green version of these cards or something with a very similar effect. It would be awesome to build up 20-30 green mana in my pool, sacrifice Omnath for 20-30 1/1 tokens, then use that green mana to play Omnath again before it empties from my pool. Does anyone know if a card like this exists? Thanks!