Here is my Rafiq deck. The pictures were taken with my cell phone, so they are not of the highest quality.
I obviously still have some cards to go (foil Misty Rainforest, Savannah, Tundra, foil Mystic Gate in lands alone). If you have any of this stuff, PM me.
runtru1: I am not sure why you have Candelabra in your deck. You have no real way to abuse it from what I can see.
It works well with Maze of Ith, Cradle, getting Iona out, Okina, Eiganjo etc...it's definitely on the cusp.
Now I just picked up an Foil Sword of Mind and Body. Switch it with the Whispersilk or the Candelabra? Thoughts?
BTW, thanks Gaka...
Just got my foil Mox Diamond...will repost pics soon!
It works well with Maze of Ith, Cradle, getting Iona out, Okina, Eiganjo etc...it's definitely on the cusp.
Now I just picked up an Foil Sword of Mind and Body. Switch it with the Whispersilk or the Candelabra? Thoughts?
BTW, thanks Gaka...
Just got my foil Mox Diamond...will repost pics soon!
Honestly Sword of Body and Mind seems like it will be a hinderance most of the time. A lot of decks want a bigger graveyard. I think candelabra and cloak are better all around than sword.
Now I just picked up an Foil Sword of Mind and Body. Switch it with the Whispersilk or the Candelabra? Thoughts?
i don't think the sword is that good in edh. i love the 2/2 generator but the mil 10 is just bad. it would have been better if it said target player mills ten or return a creature to the owners hand. unless you need the pro green and blue take out something. cloak and your general is nuts and candelabra the way you use it is amazing.
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:symu:Lord of Tressurehorn:symbr: Grixis Control
:symbr:Olivia Voldaren:rakdos: Almost mono black Control
:symbu::symbg::symgu:Progenitus:symwr: 5 Color Stompy Toolbox
My foil Reaper King deck. I've collected the cards for this deck and no other deck for over a year now, and this is where I am. There is still one proxy left, (Scrubland) because I gave away a bunch of cards for tournament prizes. Anyway, here it is:
Good deck, I guess great minds think alike. I run a Reaper King deck I've had for almost 2 years now, I run a lot of similar cards. However, I do run a lot more of the Zendikar manlands and more fast card draw like Wheel of Furtune/Twister effects, clamp, mystic remora, etc. and quite a lot more "Kodama's Reach"/Solemn cards for accellerating my mana base.
Be careful about all the artifact accel, from my experience... Sol Ring & Crypt; that's pretty much the only artifact acceleration you need. When I see a lot of :symu::symu::symu: and :symg::symg: mana costs I'd get a little nervous.
Tortured existence isn't very good, I'd scrap it. I'd suggest running Squee & Anger with your survival engine as well, Anger is a life saver. I agree the deck doesn't need to play around Scarecrows, and shouldn't, but Mirror Entity, Taurean Mauler, Scarecrone & Heap Doll should all be in the deck. Especially Scarecrone, since he gives you crazy card draw ability and card draw protection when people choose to target your scarecrows. With enough mana you can keep bringing crows back with geneis/stronghold, vindicating and returgning them to play, then sac'ing to draw more cards. I run Imperial Recruiter, not that I'd expect people to, but he works amazing for tutoring for a Duplicant, Oracle of Mul Daya, Spike Weaver, Solemn, Trinket-->Heap Doll, Royal Assassin, or just about 90% of the creatures in my deck.
Oh yeah, I forget if I saw, but make sure you have good gy hate as well, I'd lose many games in the past to decks with good recursion. Good to see another Reaper deck
Good deck, I guess great minds think alike. I run a Reaper King deck I've had for almost 2 years now, I run a lot of similar cards. However, I do run a lot more of the Zendikar manlands and more fast card draw like Wheel of Furtune/Twister effects, clamp, mystic remora, etc. and quite a lot more "Kodama's Reach"/Solemn cards for accellerating my mana base.
Be careful about all the artifact accel, from my experience... Sol Ring & Crypt; that's pretty much the only artifact acceleration you need. When I see a lot of :symu::symu::symu: and :symg::symg: mana costs I'd get a little nervous.
Tortured existence isn't very good, I'd scrap it. I'd suggest running Squee & Anger with your survival engine as well, Anger is a life saver. I agree the deck doesn't need to play around Scarecrows, and shouldn't, but Mirror Entity, Taurean Mauler, Scarecrone & Heap Doll should all be in the deck. Especially Scarecrone, since he gives you crazy card draw ability and card draw protection when people choose to target your scarecrows. With enough mana you can keep bringing crows back with geneis/stronghold, vindicating and returgning them to play, then sac'ing to draw more cards. I run Imperial Recruiter, not that I'd expect people to, but he works amazing for tutoring for a Duplicant, Oracle of Mul Daya, Spike Weaver, Solemn, Trinket-->Heap Doll, Royal Assassin, or just about 90% of the creatures in my deck.
Oh yeah, I forget if I saw, but make sure you have good gy hate as well, I'd lose many games in the past to decks with good recursion. Good to see another Reaper deck
i'm play against this reaper king deck. ive played with and against it many times to disagree with a few of your suggestions. Manlands come into play tapped, not good at any point of the game. Wheel/twister helps the opponent and removes the recursion cards (genisis, loam). there's a total of 6 basic so kodama's reach/cultivate don't have enough targets. sol ring/crypt are cheap mana that accel into higher cost cards sooner. the :symu::symu::symu: :symg::symg: cards are easier to get with filters along with duels. Scarecrows are weak creatures, the only scarecrow it needs is Chameleon Colossus. with enough mana, this deck can do alot more then recur creatures that just die, it can control the board. theres little graveyard hate because theres little recursion in the playgroup at the time the deck was made. all in all, it's a 5 color toolbox control deck. it survives to late game where it recovers spells every turn and takes your cards or alpha strikes with a 40/40 chameleon colossus with a clear board from the abyss.
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Your decklist is among the best I've seen for Kresh.
Once you have a sac outlet and Kresh online, Saproling Burst is pretty nice tech popping Kresh up +21/+21. Even without Kresh online, the burst gives you 6 creatures for your sac outlet-
Other suggestions:
Gate to Phyrexia
Dragon Broodmother
Volrath's Stronghold
Barter in Blood
Malfaegor
Greater Good
My EDH deck. 99% done. I just need to get a Beta Mana Vault to replace the Collector's Edition one. Sorry about the crappy photos, but I have no scanner. I've provided a link to my list below. It explains the lack of Top, as well as what may appear to be awkward choices such as Pelakka Wurm.
Awesome thread. I'll take pictures of, and post, Karona once she'scloser to done (not that any EDH deck is ever truly done). Currently 26% foil, 8% are too old to be foiled. Everything is, at minimum black-bordered and from core sets or premium foils (FtV, judge foils, etc.).
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Currently running in EDH: WUBRG: Karona - Chaos towards Divine Intervention ** WUBRG: Karona - God Tribal ** WB: Teysa - Angels, Wrath, and Return from GY ** UB: Szadek - Control and Mill ** RWU: Zedruu - Everyone Draws Cards ** BUG: Damia - Gorgon Voltron Ramp ** URG: Animar - ETB effects and Beatdown ** WUB: Sharuum - Lots of Artifacts UG: Edric - Tribal Rogues ** W: Odric - Tribal Soldiers ** B: Shirei - Shadowborn Apostle Deck ** RB: Tymaret - Kill all the things!
amppyou- Your deck looks gorgeous I must say, but as i was looking through your list I noticed you weren't running momentus fall. This card is ridiculous for your deck. You run plenty of big dudes. Green can always use more draw spells, also its a great response to a wrath affect of someone trying to steal your dude.
This thread used to be stickied in the multiplayer EDH forum (I think). Is there anyway to get it stickied in the main EDH forum? Also I have several cards being modified as I type this and as soon as I get them back then I will post my sliver queen deck on here. She isn't as gorgeous as I want her to be yet, but I am working on it..
Yeah that Omnath is gorgeous. That's on an actual copy of Omnath, right (first time seeing this type of altered art is in this thread)? What do the artists use to do it?
Seeing all your decks makes me jealous, heh. Playgroup is pretty much shriveled and dead, but even when I can get a game going my EDH decks are pretty crappy looking comparatively. Mostly basic lands, not many of the expensive old cards (everything is made from what I already have, nothing purchased online yet).
If I could convince some people to play consistently, I would love to focus on one EDH deck. Tuning it perfectly and pimping it out is one of the attractions of EDH. Your deck never gets "old", you never have to pick it apart for something new; it becomes your magic avatar. You only do slight alterations and upgrades until it's perfect (plus new set additions). If I end up with something looking half as good as the ones in here, I'd be happy.
We used to take cards and put them in the thick, harder plastic cases and use them as avatars. They did nothing and we picked them for one of two reasons: the art was amazing or the card is funny. Instead of having something like Giant Slug or Clam-I-Am or Evil Eye of Orms-By-Gore sit there as your mascot, your general takes over.
Here is my Vorosh, the Hunter deck. Still working on it. I thought I only had thirteen foils that I needed to acquire for this, but when laying out my cards, I discovered my foil Top to be missing so now I have 14 left to get. There are several cards just not available in foil.
There are four non foil basic lands, one is an Unhinged Island that I'm looking for in foil, and the others are a set of Masters basics, an Island, Swamp, and a Forest. I just like the borders and the artwork of these ones, and like having the set of three in there.
"I will flay the skin from your flesh and the flesh from your bones and scrape your bones dry. And still you will not have suffered enough." -Greven il-Vec, to Gerrard
Here's my two pimped decks. I have a last one, but it isn't quite finished yet, but i t contains alot of altered art, when i finish it, i'll post it :).
Sorry for the blurry pictures, i SUCK as an photographer :p.
I’ve taken some photos of my Karrthus deck. It might be difficult to tell from the photos but every card in the deck printed after Scourge is foil. I miss the foil star. It made identifying foils much easier.
My Ashling EDH deck is fully pimped. Admittedly around 60 of the cards are foil land which isn't that hard to come by, I'll post a link to a list sometime tomorrow, and if anyones interested in pics, they're on the MtG Facebook group in the picture section.
EDH, on the other hand, is more like a monster truck rally. It's more about the spectacle than the race, the games go long, and it's not usually clear who's in the lead until there's only one truck left.*
Single player EDH is like two guys smacking each other with pillows... until one of them pulls out a shotgun.
I obviously still have some cards to go (foil Misty Rainforest, Savannah, Tundra, foil Mystic Gate in lands alone). If you have any of this stuff, PM me.
PS: there's no way I could get that Imperial Seal altered. It's practically NM!
One-Eyed Black | Orzhov Combo | Ooze Reanimator | Mindwheeling Pain
I also want to get my hands on a foil linvala, i envy you =/
EDH:
RNorin the WaryR <-Link! (Primer - Mono Red Control)
GUEdric, Spymaster of TrestUG <- Link! (Mini-Primer - Dredge)
Duel Commander:
WUGeist of Saint TraftUW <- Link! (Aggro-Control)
BGSkullbriar, the Walking GraveGB <- Link! (Aggro)
BUGDamia, Sage of StoneGUB <- Link! (Extinction Control)
Church of the Wary
It works well with Maze of Ith, Cradle, getting Iona out, Okina, Eiganjo etc...it's definitely on the cusp.
Now I just picked up an Foil Sword of Mind and Body. Switch it with the Whispersilk or the Candelabra? Thoughts?
BTW, thanks Gaka...
Just got my foil Mox Diamond...will repost pics soon!
Honestly Sword of Body and Mind seems like it will be a hinderance most of the time. A lot of decks want a bigger graveyard. I think candelabra and cloak are better all around than sword.
i don't think the sword is that good in edh. i love the 2/2 generator but the mil 10 is just bad. it would have been better if it said target player mills ten or return a creature to the owners hand. unless you need the pro green and blue take out something. cloak and your general is nuts and candelabra the way you use it is amazing.
:symr::symg:Burning Elf Ball:symg::symr:
EDH
:symg:Omnath, The big green mana machine:snow:
:symr:Ashling:snow: 1v1 non-french
:symuw::symru::symrb::symgb::symgw:Pauper Child:symwr::symbw::symub::symgu::symrg:
:symg:Ruric Thar, 6 TO THE FACE!!:gruul:
Under Construction
:symu:Lord of Tressurehorn:symbr: Grixis Control
:symbr:Olivia Voldaren:rakdos: Almost mono black Control
:symbu::symbg::symgu:Progenitus:symwr: 5 Color Stompy Toolbox
Ok, so no Sword of Body & Mind. Got it. My thinking was for Pro-green...but I guess it's not that important.
That Vess is awesome!
It's awesome to play, too!
Creatures:
Instant and Sorcery:
Artifact and Enchantment:
Land:
Basic Land:
Good deck, I guess great minds think alike. I run a Reaper King deck I've had for almost 2 years now, I run a lot of similar cards. However, I do run a lot more of the Zendikar manlands and more fast card draw like Wheel of Furtune/Twister effects, clamp, mystic remora, etc. and quite a lot more "Kodama's Reach"/Solemn cards for accellerating my mana base.
Be careful about all the artifact accel, from my experience... Sol Ring & Crypt; that's pretty much the only artifact acceleration you need. When I see a lot of :symu::symu::symu: and :symg::symg: mana costs I'd get a little nervous.
Tortured existence isn't very good, I'd scrap it. I'd suggest running Squee & Anger with your survival engine as well, Anger is a life saver. I agree the deck doesn't need to play around Scarecrows, and shouldn't, but Mirror Entity, Taurean Mauler, Scarecrone & Heap Doll should all be in the deck. Especially Scarecrone, since he gives you crazy card draw ability and card draw protection when people choose to target your scarecrows. With enough mana you can keep bringing crows back with geneis/stronghold, vindicating and returgning them to play, then sac'ing to draw more cards. I run Imperial Recruiter, not that I'd expect people to, but he works amazing for tutoring for a Duplicant, Oracle of Mul Daya, Spike Weaver, Solemn, Trinket-->Heap Doll, Royal Assassin, or just about 90% of the creatures in my deck.
Oh yeah, I forget if I saw, but make sure you have good gy hate as well, I'd lose many games in the past to decks with good recursion. Good to see another Reaper deck
GWRUB[EDH] Reaper KingGWRUB
GW[Legacy] BEARS (#1 Threat in America)GW
UR[Legacy] Arcane MeleeUR
i'm play against this reaper king deck. ive played with and against it many times to disagree with a few of your suggestions. Manlands come into play tapped, not good at any point of the game. Wheel/twister helps the opponent and removes the recursion cards (genisis, loam). there's a total of 6 basic so kodama's reach/cultivate don't have enough targets. sol ring/crypt are cheap mana that accel into higher cost cards sooner. the :symu::symu::symu: :symg::symg: cards are easier to get with filters along with duels. Scarecrows are weak creatures, the only scarecrow it needs is Chameleon Colossus. with enough mana, this deck can do alot more then recur creatures that just die, it can control the board. theres little graveyard hate because theres little recursion in the playgroup at the time the deck was made. all in all, it's a 5 color toolbox control deck. it survives to late game where it recovers spells every turn and takes your cards or alpha strikes with a 40/40 chameleon colossus with a clear board from the abyss.
:symr::symg:Burning Elf Ball:symg::symr:
EDH
:symg:Omnath, The big green mana machine:snow:
:symr:Ashling:snow: 1v1 non-french
:symuw::symru::symrb::symgb::symgw:Pauper Child:symwr::symbw::symub::symgu::symrg:
:symg:Ruric Thar, 6 TO THE FACE!!:gruul:
Under Construction
:symu:Lord of Tressurehorn:symbr: Grixis Control
:symbr:Olivia Voldaren:rakdos: Almost mono black Control
:symbu::symbg::symgu:Progenitus:symwr: 5 Color Stompy Toolbox
Yeva (88/92 foils)
Raff
Scarab
Rakdos
Wort ($50 budget, 94/97 foils)
Trostani
1x Kresh the Bloodbraided
Creatures
[CARDS]
1x Terrastadon
1x Woodfall Primus
1x Eternal Witness
1x Butcher of Malicur
1x Dread
1x Fleshbag Marauder
1x It that Betrays
1x Avenger Zendicar
1x Kiki Jiki, Mirrorbreaker
1x Wurmcoil Engine
1x Anger
1x Genesis
1x Braids, Cabal Minion
1x Vigor
1x Caldera Hellion
1x Mitotic Slime
1x Primeval Titan
1x Grave Titan
1x Regal Force
1x Solemn Simulacrum
Planeswalkers
1x Sarkhan Vol
Enchantments
[CARDS]
1x Grave Pact
1x Fires of Yavimaya
1x Mana Reflection
1x Doubling Season
1x Bear Umbra
1x Pestilence
1x Fallen Ideal
1x Attrition
1x Vicious Shadows
[CARDS]
1x Decree of Pain
1x Demonic Tutor
1x Living Death
1x Diabolic Intent
1x Tooth and Nail
1x Savage Beating
1x Genesis Wave
1x Wheel of Fortune
1x All is Dust
1x Skyshroud Claim
1x Explosive Vegetation
1x Cultivate
1x Kadamas Reach
Instant
[CARDS]
1x Realms Uncharted
1x Artifact Mutation
1x Vampiric Tutor
1x Momentous Fall
1x Grab the Reigns
1x Chord of calling
Artifacts
[CARDS]
1x Crucible of worlds
1x Senseis Divining Top
1x Akroma's Memorial
1x Loxodon Warhammer
1x Lightning Greaves
1x Whispersilk Cloak
1x Ashnod's Altar
1x Cauldron of Souls
1x Shield of Kaldra
1x Oblivion Stone
1x Mage Slayer
1x Skullclamp
1x Sol Ring
1x Coalition Relic
[CARDS]
1x Mountain Valley
1x Stomping Grounds
1x Blood Crypt
1x Overgrown Tomb
1x Rocky Tar Pit
1x Terramorphic Expanse
1x Evolving Wilds
1x Skarrg, Rage Pits
1x Gea's Cradle
1x Reliquary Tower
1x Vesuva
1x Bajuka Bog
1x Spinerock Knoll
1x Mosswort Bridge
1x Strip Mine
1x Temple of the False Gods
1x Deserted Temple
1x High Market
1x Yavimaya Hollow
1x Kher Keep
1x Tectonic Edge
36 lands total, i have more nonbasics, but these are the necessary ones
Its my 4th or 5th rebuild
Once you have a sac outlet and Kresh online, Saproling Burst is pretty nice tech popping Kresh up +21/+21. Even without Kresh online, the burst gives you 6 creatures for your sac outlet-
Other suggestions:
Gate to Phyrexia
Dragon Broodmother
Volrath's Stronghold
Barter in Blood
Malfaegor
Greater Good
http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?p=5666781#pos
Omnath:
Creatures:
Artifacts:
Enchantments:
Instants and Sorceries:
Non-Basic Lands:
Lumber:
WUBRG: Karona - Chaos towards Divine Intervention ** WUBRG: Karona - God Tribal ** WB: Teysa - Angels, Wrath, and Return from GY ** UB: Szadek - Control and Mill ** RWU: Zedruu - Everyone Draws Cards ** BUG: Damia - Gorgon Voltron Ramp ** URG: Animar - ETB effects and Beatdown ** WUB: Sharuum - Lots of Artifacts UG: Edric - Tribal Rogues ** W: Odric - Tribal Soldiers ** B: Shirei - Shadowborn Apostle Deck ** RB: Tymaret - Kill all the things!
This thread fell victim to my purge of the stickies. However, it's now linked to in the resources thread, so hopefully it will still get some use.
Seeing all your decks makes me jealous, heh. Playgroup is pretty much shriveled and dead, but even when I can get a game going my EDH decks are pretty crappy looking comparatively. Mostly basic lands, not many of the expensive old cards (everything is made from what I already have, nothing purchased online yet).
If I could convince some people to play consistently, I would love to focus on one EDH deck. Tuning it perfectly and pimping it out is one of the attractions of EDH. Your deck never gets "old", you never have to pick it apart for something new; it becomes your magic avatar. You only do slight alterations and upgrades until it's perfect (plus new set additions). If I end up with something looking half as good as the ones in here, I'd be happy.
We used to take cards and put them in the thick, harder plastic cases and use them as avatars. They did nothing and we picked them for one of two reasons: the art was amazing or the card is funny. Instead of having something like Giant Slug or Clam-I-Am or Evil Eye of Orms-By-Gore sit there as your mascot, your general takes over.
There are four non foil basic lands, one is an Unhinged Island that I'm looking for in foil, and the others are a set of Masters basics, an Island, Swamp, and a Forest. I just like the borders and the artwork of these ones, and like having the set of three in there.
The cards that you cannot really see are Flooded Grove and Breeding Pool. Still need Reflecting Pool, Polluted Delta, and Misty Rainforest
Here I still need Mystical Tutor and Vampiric Tutor. The ones that you cannot see are Mindbreak Trap, Krosan Grip, and Treacherous Urge.
I wish Gilded Drake came in foil. Seedborn Muse is glarey.
Still need to get a Rhystic Study and a Future Sight.
EDH
GUBVorosh, the HunterGUB
BRGKarrthus, Tyrant of JundBRG
GMolimo, Maro-SorcererG
UThada Adel, AcquisitorU list soon
BEndrek Sahr, Master BreederB
Sorry for the blurry pictures, i SUCK as an photographer :p.
BRGKarrthus, Tyrant of Jund
UTeferi, Mage of Zhalfir
UBWZur the Enchanter
WUBRGChild of Alara
WUBRGSliver Queen
On building a Celestial Kirin Stax EDH:
Such a pretty deck, bravo. The only thing I don't like in it, aesthetics wise, is the Damnation.