MTG Salvation

Here is a janky one I've been working on trying to pull off.

Dual Casting + any creature + Hidden Strings + Something that taps for R and more (Empowered Autogenerator, Izzet Boilerworks) + Something to do with the mana (Fireball) or copy triggers (Ral, Storm Conduit).

It's my understanding of the lore (having not read the book) that she was chosen (just like Kenrith) to go on a quest for all 5 knight hoods.

The fact she is black has little to do with any of that story, and really should it? Do we need to explain why King Kenrith was worthy of going on a quest for all 5 knighthoods? It seems like the latter is just accepted as plausible without pretext while the former is unfathomable.

I'm really liking Anje as well. As there are many ways to go.

I took mine in a more aristocrats load up the graveyard, get stuff back/enter from the graveyard sort of thing. Oversold Cemetery turns all creatures into a squee once you have 4 in the yard (which is pretty easy when rumaging). Gravecrawler is a cheap sac target once you have another zombie out. Desecrated Tomb gives you extra value for getting creatures out of the graveyard. Mikaeus, the Unhallowed gets them back twice, bit pricy but I had one looking for a deck. Throw in your favorite value sac effect and you can get a nice engine going.

Been impressed with Font of Agonies especially if you have k'rrik out, also probably want Whip of Erebos if you go heavy in the pay life thing.

You are entitled to your opinion, but I don't agree with putting words in others mouths or stifle/censor others who have a different opinion for also expressing it. I don't think anyone here is arguing for actual men to suffer, to make up for a history of oppression, nor are praising actual oppression of any kind regardless of the instigator or the victim. I think we can separate the reality from fantasy depictions, otherwise where is the outrage for a card called Murder and even if people can't there are plenty of depictions of males being dominant in Magic perhaps if not physically dominating women but dominant none the less. Hell the ruler of this plane is a King though I'm sure there will also be strong female characters as well which doesn't effect my self worth or make me feel minimized in anyway.

What are the chances of unset Masterpieces to help sell the set? They can go real crazy with the border on these.

My Rares were garbage for Limited (Harsh Mentor [no red support], Anointed Procession [seemed slow], Irrigated Farmland, Shadow of the Grave, Cut // Ribbons, Pyramid of the Pantheon) or in colors that I couldn't play but my white and green were deep in quality commons and uncommons and I was able to build a pretty crazy exert/trials/cartouche deck.



This went 2-0-2 (split final match for prizes, first match went a bit long as I was playing against control and I don't have much evasion but I was favored to win game 3)

Had the white cartouche and would side in the 3rd green one for some matchups.

Picking up the trials was a big game and the white trial giving vigilance is big game in the world of exert, and repeatedly getting a 4/2 was pretty good too.


Fan Barrer was pretty darn good and having 2 meant I had one almost every game. My removal was great. My opponent round 2 had a pool with 3 gods (WUB) and played them all. I was able to deal with all of them with my removal. While I had a decent amount of embalm I didn't use it too much. I was pleasantly surprised with Oketra's Monument. One game I held out till turn 3 and was able to play 3 white creatures and make 3 tokens on turn 4 with a trial of solidarity to follow.

Got an opponents evolving wilds by flashing in my promo Aven Mindsensor

my sample size is small (one draft) but my curve seemed loaded at 3 drops and topped out with 3x 5 drops. I started with 17 lands but would frequently add in a random 2 drop for a land post board and maybe cut a 5 drop for another trick or sideboard card, or some cheap equipment and it seemed to play better at 16 lands. Most of the 5 drops are not extremely better than some 3 drop wearing googles so they don't really stabilize you so going lower curve with 16 seems better.

I love that you can put a bunch of janky multi card combo's into the same deck since you can dig for all the pieces quite easily.

I was thinking about draw burn/control with all those card draws. Something like words of war or words of wind with a jace's archivist activation after bouncing all the opponents permanents to draw back up. Kind of mana intensive but sounds like fun.

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Jace has like... no help to get him to flip. Chandra has her burn spells of different kinds, Liliana had Flesh bag Marauder, Nissa has land lamp, Gideon has his weenies and the rare token generator. Jace had nothing... except maybe Days Undoing... at mythic.

Naw, Jace has Dreadwaters!

Anyways, Swift Retribution looks nice for a UW Control deck. Less color-intensive than Celestial Flare. Calculated Dismissal is also DEFINITELY going to get played.

Why would you want to flip Jace quickly? I think his creature side is better than the plainswalker side for limited. Free looting is practically drawing a card, plus getting 5 cards in the yard isn't that tough even without help.

Most future sets will be based around synergy than power, because powerful cards are boring. If they just print ridiculous cards then those become the only ones that get played, but if cards are only powerful in combination with other cards then it opens up deck variability and strategy.

If you want just outright power cards that are good on their own then you might as well just open a regular deck of cards and play war.

Edit: hit post by accident. I was not finished. I will keep editing and adding to this.

Thanks for the reply umtiger. While I do not agree with everything and do not have the energy to explain where and why, I do appriciate the feedback.

I do not know how to organized my thoughts and feeling about the Magic. I love the art, flavor text, mechanics, rules and how the card bend and break them. Theory crafting and evaluating cards is lots of fun as well.

Actually playing? Rock-paper-scissors gets old after while, and tutors accelerate that process.

If you are playing for prizes, then you want your deck to go off as quickly and consistantly as possoble. If we are playing for fun and just enjoying the interactions of decks and cards, then tutors get in the way of the random nature of the format.

Commander is a 40 life game with basically unlimited access to a free, usually powerful card beyond your starting hand. As such, players have a roster of resources that can be hard to circumvent. It's an engine/battlecruiser format at its core. This fundamentally pushes it towards massive combo advantages or wins. Luckily, decks are 100 card singleton, which should circumvent this.

But it doesn't. Tutors and deep or selective draw completely screws over the format's deckbuilding restrictions. It doesn't just counteract it or add diversity (like group slug does), but is a fundamental detriment to the format's core spirit: "I don't want to play a 100-card singleton deck, so I'll just add a load of tutors so I can win fast."

Of course, this isn't always the case when players add the tutors. But groups self-check both in the direction of relaxation and power. People passively empower their decks as time passes, depowering takes self control. The game shop I play at has a very interchangable and large roster of players, so combo and nasty kinds of control is rampant there.

Yes, battlecruiser is still legitimate, but I have been playing Magic since 10th edition, and boy has Commander seen an unhealthy crapload of battlecruiser power creep since then. Stuff like Omnath 2 has become necessary to countact infinite combos. Which is just sad.

EDIT Oh, and for the record, I hate to play battlecruiser myself - well, I do kind of like it, but I'm more enjoying it at the power of stuff like Pelakka Wurm; later, more ridiculously potent cards are not my thing. I tend to make engine builds of fair cards and durdle a lot for incremental gain instead, and my more powerful stuff has real weaknesses I refuse to fix in order, usually intentionally subpar win paths, to let other players beat me.

With the advent of Arjun, the Shifting Flame being spoiled, I really would like to come up with some way to make him work as a commander. The Mindmoil effect isn't something I've worked with before.

So far, the ideas are:
Cheap instants
Wheel effects
Extra draw effects + Lab maniac
Buyback
Flashback
Rewind effects


Cards of Note:

• Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
  
• Sphinx's Tutelage
  
• Alhammarret's Archive
  
• Psychosis Crawler
  
• Chasm Skulker
  
• Thought Reflection
  
• Archmage Ascension
  
• Laboratory Maniac
  
• Tomorrow, Azami's Familiar
  
• Dream Halls
  
• Teferi's Puzzle Box
  
• Shared Fate
  
• Brainstorm
  
• Obstinate Familiar
  
• Mystic Speculation
  
• Artful Dodge