I will not go deep into analysis for that list, I'll just mention two important things in my opinion : every creatures attacks & 95% of my lands are plains or conduct to a plain
Stephan, very good card but in my opinion it helps like veil of summer and other leyline of sanctity for another period of competitive modern. I mean, i'm not playing full competitive at the moment because i just play on untap / xmage dont have time to do some tournaments, so i don't realise exactly how the new powers decks works, but i taking a look and keeping an eye on mtg top 8. So i'm quite sur that the metagame has change since modern horizon 2 and midnight hunt and i'm not convinced on the utility of that good card at the moment
Since one year we have mooved in contryside in the department of "allier" France, and just after we get married with my wife on august 2020, we adopted a dog too, recently
Work ans relationships takes me a lot of time but i still find time for play and improve by a permanently brainstorm our beautiful emeria deck.
I post you here my last decklist with experimentations and comments
Lands : seems quite classic, Idyllic Grange is the only surprise, it's not hard to say that everybody here regularly loose a match against planeswalkers cards like Teferi, hero of dominaria or Jace, the mind sculptor for example. I mean, this land cannot beat that planeswalkers alone but it still help very much when you are in a construction like me with a lot of creatures and except wall of omen they ALL attacks.
And sometimes it is just a surprise when somebody tries to ping out you're 1 toughness creatures or more generally to win a fight by a fetch land
i try severals configurations with lands like slayers' stronghold for example or Miren, the moaning well and it seems that our favorite deck doesn't accept easily that experimentations.
Spells : Exit path to exile that make ramp your opponents too quick in the game sometimes, now we have access to cards i dream about since a long time --> fateful absence ; prismatic ending and it's a big big improvements in my opinion because being able to threat or deal with early or roots planeswalkers like wrenn and six or baby teferi, time raveler it's huge and we can deal with amulet of vigor or just a monastery swiftspear and we can mention too cards like Gravecrawler
About ephemerate this is my deck orientation and thanks to prismatic we do not concede because a torpor orb now ! I mean that card is veeeeeery powerful for one white mana spend. Combine at choice with Titan, Drifter, Solitude, Watcher, Wall, Prince, Yorion, Farmhand, deputy, Geist monk etc enjoy. Necessarily in the other hand it's abysmal if you draw just spells... but war is risky
About hour of revelation it's just to finish the work and complete the others spells ; even if it's not a good synergie with deputy of detention i admit. I play just two because this my new game plan : flood a lil bit more than usually the board with creatures to survive #geist-monk
Creatures :
about ambitious farmhand it's a revolution for us. Outperform pilgrim's eye. I transform it regularly and it makes easier the main plan, activating emeria <3
about geist-honored monk, the first time i see a gerrant dephare's list i was amaze by that creature totally out of my radars. I mean in a blink plan like my list it could be monstruous. The bad point is the mana cost sure but you can make a difference to chumpblok or attack with it, try it !
about mulldrifter, this is amazing if you combine on tour 4 with ephemerate. I let you imagine with another beautiful new gift from mtg creators team Solitude --> one plains untap could open a big situation… Flash solitude for free, ephemerate it… And you have exile two creatures and 3/2 lifelink on board… and maybe a third one next turn… Do you realize !
about Niambi, esteemed speaker this card is beautiful to save you creat and earn time, the possibility to dig in your deck discarding legend cards is not so bad but not always interesting in my opinion but could be "ok" with yorion
Sideboard
Am not very sure of every option I show here but I try to find a balance considering the metagame
About Cathar Commando Help beating cards like Shark typhoon ; Blood moon or in response to pay 3 ability of batterskull for example. The one mana to pay to sacrifice it is not too harsh but a lil bit annoying yes. On the other hand, as you can see it, my sideboard is a « hate bear nest » and hate bear plan is good against several decks so a 3/1 Flash could be very good. Play 2 or 3 copy side or main in my opinion
i do not have enought time to answer and to put my analyse on my games but i reaaaally enjoy these discussions and my list is really improved now i think, because my curve and because every cards in my pack answering correctly to the 3 essential questions you find for us ! Congrats to you, we see the difference between pro player and amateurs like us
As a mad builder i am, it'm trying a full value version with the following idea :
All my crea dont need a titan to come again on board and they all have to give me value and/or time !
So
Solemn Simulacrum --> You really have to try mates it helps a lot for a quicker active emeria situation / help Against blood moon to find you're blue / I remember you that exile removals it's not very current actually in modern metagame, so it appears that he always make me draw and if he is path to exile he has gave us two plains card
3 hour of revelation could be exagerated but it's one of the only solution against urza and can help as a normal but wipe too or punish decks abusing too much of planewalkers / artifact / enchantment / SPELL QUELLER lol
2 Mulldrifter is about the tricks with Ephemerate and evoke ability, in the early you can just evoke it too look for solution
In the SB
Rest in Peace is because the graveyard is a little bit agitated at the moment, never forget that you can just playing it and destroy it with generous gift, hour of revelation, or bounce it with teferi. A split with remorseful cleric seems ok
Leyline of sanctity presence in my sb is because burn / scapeshift / grindstone strategies and help a lot against mardu pyro / jund with the famous TURN 1 Thoughtseize or Killing by Lightning bolt in midrange battle…
Lavinia, Azorius Renegade help a lot against tron / ramp strategies / counter all « without paying mana cost » very interesting card, but difficult to use well
knowledge pool is a combo option in midrange battle with teferi and lavinia too —> Player can’t cast anything and you can use spell of the opponent to kill him
I'm coming back to let you know my improvements about several slot choices :
Realmwright
Is very good in late game even if sometimes this is a bad topdeck... The turn he arrives he can bring a "surprise" emeria, the sky ruin situation the opponent can't deal with. Most of the times in my games especially versus tempo deck using Lightning bolt,Fatal push, Kolaghan's Command and snapcaster mage, the opponent was forced to kill him afraid by an active emeria and a lockdown with kami of false hope and Ranger-Captain of Eos.
—> like all your ccm 1 you can putting it on the bottom of your library with a Mistveil Plains to putting it into your hand with ranger afterward
In the same turn i attack a 5 counter oko with my ranger at a serious moment putting it to 2 counters… Hexparasite comes with four mana untapped… I kill oko and wren in the same time ! The hand of my opponent (checked by surgical a beaten oko) was assassin trophy / wren (again) / kolagan's command. He use all gasoline he had to kill ranger and parasite and titan comes to close that hard game
Gift of estates in the game I played it was always useful even if it’s a bad top deck and even if sometimes you already have enough lands... you could assure you can play titan or teferi, hero of dominaria in mid game
Gideon of the trials is amazing against burn / infect and the possibility he could be resurrected with titan is a real threat for some decks. But it appears that I frequently put it in sideboard especially against deck who flooded the board with creatures
Elspeth tirel is a good card helping you to survive, combine with a kami and you can completely clean the board of enchant / artifact and planewalker the second turn she arrives could be your only out against Urza, Lord High Artificerthopter foundry strategys
Sorcerous spyglass is really important to complete the action of hex parasite / Elspeth tirel / hour of revelation to beat planewalkers, the plus he gives you comparing needle is to have informations on the opponent’s hand as surgical extraction. can be bounce by teferi to use it again or resurrected by titan if destroyed
Thanks for your encouragement! It’s my pleasure to look for weird card nobody think about and bring here for this “community”
Another card I’m trying is hex parasite because ranger too. It help for planewalker in mid and late game by pull off all counters of a permanent or just one or two... you can too lower your own blast zone. The turn he arrive.
Yeah I understand your interrogations about these slots.
Gift of estates is really efficient with ghostquarter / blast zone / path to exile / wind of abandon, you just have to be careful with fetch lands of your oppo, he can choose to not giving your lands by not find anything in the library. You have also to take your non basics plains before in case you need another land and you have to path your own beasts or ghost quarter your own double emeria for example
I realise that the deck needs 6 lands to be strong not less so it's easy to understand that you need that spell considering that
And it could help you just to fill your hand against liliana / rack strategys
Hour of revelation is really useful in my opinion.
Remember that the main strategy is to force opponent to overextend et then wipe.
The application of that card is big and complete very well blast zone to beat planewalkers like oko / wren&six / Liliana or urza's thopter foundry strategy.
Also useful against elf deck, ensnaring bridge, bloodmoon...
I'm a kind of mad builder and i try every single card which can have any interest with Emeria Titan, and hour of revelation works
I'm trying in that moment a ballzy build with 4 emeria and just a realmwright very synergic with ranger / tefeiri to protect him the turn he arrive by sacrifice ranger at opponent upkeep. After that you have got with just 7 lands and a emeria a lockdown about non crea spell every turn...
We also have to consider in my opinion gift of immortality impressive with kami but also useful with ranger or titan...
Hey guy, long time i just consult that forum for improve my Emeria Titan. This deck was recommend by a friend of mine, I take soooo much pleasure to play it even this a ***** tier sometimes but in my sensibility this deck is the reason why i'm loving MTG
Here is my deck list, i'm not a big level player, however i play a lot on Xmage (rating 1550 approximately) when i have time to doing it. I think the list is performant, tell me your opinion about it
But i try timeless dragon at the moment and i'm quite satisfied by the result
I try angel of invention too
2 Ephemerate
3 Fateful Absence
Sorcery 8
4 Devastating Mastery
4 Prismatic Ending
Creatures 34
2 Deputy of Detention
2 Soulherder
4 Solitude
3 Mulldrifter
4 Watcher for Tomorrow
3 Professor of symbology
4 Ambitious Farmhand
4 Imperial Recruiter
4 Niambi, Esteemed Speaker
2 Angel of Invention
2 Sun Titan
2 Idyllic Grange
1 Sacred Foundry
4 Raugrin Triome
4 Hallowed Fountain
1 Prairie Stream
1 Arid Mesa
4 Flooded Strand
4 Field of Ruin
7 Plains
1 Island
4 Emeria, the Sky Ruin
1 Yorion, Sky Nomad
2 Environmental sciences
1 Tomik, Distinguished Advokist
1 Containment Priest
1 Drannith Magistrate
1 Embereth Shieldbreaker
1 Dawnbringer Cleric
1 Hushbringer
1 Kataki, War's Wage
1 Remorseful Cleric
1 Ethersworn Canonist
1 Kor Firewalker
1 Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
1 Sanctifier en-Vec
I will not go deep into analysis for that list, I'll just mention two important things in my opinion : every creatures attacks & 95% of my lands are plains or conduct to a plain
Since one year we have mooved in contryside in the department of "allier" France, and just after we get married with my wife on august 2020, we adopted a dog too, recently
Work ans relationships takes me a lot of time but i still find time for play and improve by a permanently brainstorm our beautiful emeria deck.
I post you here my last decklist with experimentations and comments
hope you're all ok in your lifes
take care xx
Lands (33)
Instants (6)
Sorceries (5)
Creatures (36)
Réserve (15)
Lands : seems quite classic, Idyllic Grange is the only surprise, it's not hard to say that everybody here regularly loose a match against planeswalkers cards like Teferi, hero of dominaria or Jace, the mind sculptor for example. I mean, this land cannot beat that planeswalkers alone but it still help very much when you are in a construction like me with a lot of creatures and except wall of omen they ALL attacks.
And sometimes it is just a surprise when somebody tries to ping out you're 1 toughness creatures or more generally to win a fight by a fetch land
i try severals configurations with lands like slayers' stronghold for example or Miren, the moaning well and it seems that our favorite deck doesn't accept easily that experimentations.
Spells : Exit path to exile that make ramp your opponents too quick in the game sometimes, now we have access to cards i dream about since a long time --> fateful absence ; prismatic ending and it's a big big improvements in my opinion because being able to threat or deal with early or roots planeswalkers like wrenn and six or baby teferi, time raveler it's huge and we can deal with amulet of vigor or just a monastery swiftspear and we can mention too cards like Gravecrawler
About ephemerate this is my deck orientation and thanks to prismatic we do not concede because a torpor orb now ! I mean that card is veeeeeery powerful for one white mana spend. Combine at choice with Titan, Drifter, Solitude, Watcher, Wall, Prince, Yorion, Farmhand, deputy, Geist monk etc enjoy. Necessarily in the other hand it's abysmal if you draw just spells... but war is risky
About hour of revelation it's just to finish the work and complete the others spells ; even if it's not a good synergie with deputy of detention i admit. I play just two because this my new game plan : flood a lil bit more than usually the board with creatures to survive #geist-monk
Creatures :
about ambitious farmhand it's a revolution for us. Outperform pilgrim's eye. I transform it regularly and it makes easier the main plan, activating emeria <3
about geist-honored monk, the first time i see a gerrant dephare's list i was amaze by that creature totally out of my radars. I mean in a blink plan like my list it could be monstruous. The bad point is the mana cost sure but you can make a difference to chumpblok or attack with it, try it !
about mulldrifter, this is amazing if you combine on tour 4 with ephemerate. I let you imagine with another beautiful new gift from mtg creators team Solitude --> one plains untap could open a big situation… Flash solitude for free, ephemerate it… And you have exile two creatures and 3/2 lifelink on board… and maybe a third one next turn… Do you realize !
about Niambi, esteemed speaker this card is beautiful to save you creat and earn time, the possibility to dig in your deck discarding legend cards is not so bad but not always interesting in my opinion but could be "ok" with yorion
Sideboard
Am not very sure of every option I show here but I try to find a balance considering the metagame
About Cathar Commando Help beating cards like Shark typhoon ; Blood moon or in response to pay 3 ability of batterskull for example. The one mana to pay to sacrifice it is not too harsh but a lil bit annoying yes. On the other hand, as you can see it, my sideboard is a « hate bear nest » and hate bear plan is good against several decks so a 3/1 Flash could be very good. Play 2 or 3 copy side or main in my opinion
Is Yorion will change our point of view with Emeria Titan and try a arrogant multicolor build ?
Personnaly i think there is a big big potential with it.
I try this brew, let me know what do you think about it :
4 Arcum's Astrolabe
Instants = 5
4 Path to Exile
1 Settle the Wreckage
Sorcery = 5
2 Winds of Abandon
3 Supreme Verdict
Planeswalker = 8
3 Teferi, Time Raveler
2 Elspeth, Sun's Nemesis
2 Serra the Benevolent
1 Elspeth Tirel
Creatures = 25
1 Kami of False Hope
1 Dragonmaster Outcast
3 Thraben Inspector
4 Charming Prince
3 Ranger-Captain of Eos
3 Knight of Autumn
3 Eternal Witness
2 Thragtusk
1 Yorion, Sky Nomad
1 Golos, Tireless Pilgrim
3 Sun Titan
3 Emeria, the Sky Ruin
2 Windswept Heath
2 Flooded Strand
2 Prismatic Vista
3 Field of Ruin
1 Raugrin Triome
2 Temple Garden
1 Hallowed Fountain
1 Prairie Stream
1 Canopy Vista
7 Snow-Covered Plains
2 Snow-Covered Forest
1 Snow-Covered Island
1 Mistveil Plains
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Blast Zone
1 Slayers' Stronghold
1 Cavern of Souls
1 Yorion, Sky Nomad
3 Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
2 Celestial Purge
4 Veil of Summer
2 Rest in Peace
3 Stony Silence
TURN 5 YORION !
Dont laught, it works !!
Emeria will survive the modern !!!
<3
i do not have enought time to answer and to put my analyse on my games but i reaaaally enjoy these discussions and my list is really improved now i think, because my curve and because every cards in my pack answering correctly to the 3 essential questions you find for us ! Congrats to you, we see the difference between pro player and amateurs like us
Be blessed !
are you french or canadian ?
Merci à toi Stéphane ! Je m'appelle Thomas j'ai 33ans et je vis à Clermont-fd
Very nice list ! I want to play a similar one if i had enough money to put in stoneforge / swords / batterskull
Here is my list at the current time
3 Sun Titan
4 Wall of Omens
3 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Elite Guardmage
2 Mulldrifter
3 Filigree Familiar
4 Charming Prince
NON CREA 16
3 Hour of Revelation
2 Ephemerate
4 Path to Exile
2 Generous Gift
2 Supreme Verdict
3 Teferi, Time Raveler
3 Ghost quarter
1 Mystic Sanctuary
2 Hallowed Fountain
3 Irrigated Farmland
1 Island
4 Flooded Strand
3 Emeria, the Sky Ruin
7 Plains
3 Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
2 Remorseful Cleric
1 Knowledge Pool
3 Leyline of Sanctity
1 Generous Gift
2 Rest in Peace
2 Damping Sphere
1 Stony Silence
As a mad builder i am, it'm trying a full value version with the following idea :
All my crea dont need a titan to come again on board and they all have to give me value and/or time !
So
Solemn Simulacrum --> You really have to try mates it helps a lot for a quicker active emeria situation / help Against blood moon to find you're blue / I remember you that exile removals it's not very current actually in modern metagame, so it appears that he always make me draw and if he is path to exile he has gave us two plains card
Same idea for Elite Guardmage and Filigree Familiar…
3 hour of revelation could be exagerated but it's one of the only solution against urza and can help as a normal but wipe too or punish decks abusing too much of planewalkers / artifact / enchantment /
SPELL QUELLER lol
2 Mulldrifter is about the tricks with Ephemerate and evoke ability, in the early you can just evoke it too look for solution
In the SB
Rest in Peace is because the graveyard is a little bit agitated at the moment, never forget that you can just playing it and destroy it with generous gift, hour of revelation, or bounce it with teferi. A split with remorseful cleric seems ok
Leyline of sanctity presence in my sb is because burn / scapeshift / grindstone strategies and help a lot against mardu pyro / jund with the famous TURN 1 Thoughtseize or Killing by Lightning bolt in midrange battle…
Lavinia, Azorius Renegade help a lot against tron / ramp strategies / counter all « without paying mana cost » very interesting card, but difficult to use well
knowledge pool is a combo option in midrange battle with teferi and lavinia too —> Player can’t cast anything and you can use spell of the opponent to kill him
xx
1 Realmwright
2 Thraben inspector
4 Charming Prince
4 Ranger-Captain of Eos
2 Kami of False Hope
3 Sun Titan
NON CREA 20
4 Path to Exile
3 Teferi, Time Raveler
2 Supreme Verdict
1 Settle the wreckage
3 Winds of Abandon
2 Gideon of the Trials
2 Gift of Estates
2 Teferi, hero of dominaria
1 Elspeth tirel
6 Plains
3 Emeria, the Sky Ruin
4 Flooded Strand
2 Hallowed Fountain
1 Mistveil Plains
3 Field of ruin
2 Celestial Colonnade
2 Blast Zone
1 Island
2 Damping Sphere
1 Hex parasite
1 Sorcerous spyglass
3 Circle of Protection: Red
3 Surgical Extraction
2 Rest in Peace
2 Hour of Revelation
1 Supreme verdict
I'm coming back to let you know my improvements about several slot choices :
Realmwright
Is very good in late game even if sometimes this is a bad topdeck... The turn he arrives he can bring a "surprise" emeria, the sky ruin situation the opponent can't deal with. Most of the times in my games especially versus tempo deck using Lightning bolt,Fatal push, Kolaghan's Command and snapcaster mage, the opponent was forced to kill him afraid by an active emeria and a lockdown with kami of false hope and Ranger-Captain of Eos.
—> like all your ccm 1 you can putting it on the bottom of your library with a Mistveil Plains to putting it into your hand with ranger afterward
Teferi, hero of dominaria makes sense with Thraben inspector (clues) / Field Of Ruin blast zone path to exile, defensive celestial colonnade and it’s an alternative kill if opponent have no answer
hex parasite is very powerful against deck abusing of planewalkers, i just won against an Oko, Thief of Crowns deck playing Wrenn and Six and Liliana of the Veil
In the same turn i attack a 5 counter oko with my ranger at a serious moment putting it to 2 counters… Hexparasite comes with four mana untapped… I kill oko and wren in the same time ! The hand of my opponent (checked by surgical a beaten oko) was assassin trophy / wren (again) / kolagan's command. He use all gasoline he had to kill ranger and parasite and titan comes to close that hard game
Gift of estates in the game I played it was always useful even if it’s a bad top deck and even if sometimes you already have enough lands... you could assure you can play titan or teferi, hero of dominaria in mid game
Gideon of the trials is amazing against burn / infect and the possibility he could be resurrected with titan is a real threat for some decks. But it appears that I frequently put it in sideboard especially against deck who flooded the board with creatures
Elspeth tirel is a good card helping you to survive, combine with a kami and you can completely clean the board of enchant / artifact and planewalker the second turn she arrives could be your only out against Urza, Lord High Artificer thopter foundry strategys
Sorcerous spyglass is really important to complete the action of hex parasite / Elspeth tirel / hour of revelation to beat planewalkers, the plus he gives you comparing needle is to have informations on the opponent’s hand as surgical extraction. can be bounce by teferi to use it again or resurrected by titan if destroyed
Try 1 Settle the wreckage in your list to beat the deck that use lot of man lands as creeping tar pit / raging ravine mutavault or inkmoth nexus
tell me your opinions
Another card I’m trying is hex parasite because ranger too. It help for planewalker in mid and late game by pull off all counters of a permanent or just one or two... you can too lower your own blast zone. The turn he arrive.
Try it and tell me so
Gift of estates is really efficient with ghostquarter / blast zone / path to exile / wind of abandon, you just have to be careful with fetch lands of your oppo, he can choose to not giving your lands by not find anything in the library. You have also to take your non basics plains before in case you need another land and you have to path your own beasts or ghost quarter your own double emeria for example
I realise that the deck needs 6 lands to be strong not less so it's easy to understand that you need that spell considering that
And it could help you just to fill your hand against liliana / rack strategys
Hour of revelation is really useful in my opinion.
Remember that the main strategy is to force opponent to overextend et then wipe.
The application of that card is big and complete very well blast zone to beat planewalkers like oko / wren&six / Liliana or urza's thopter foundry strategy.
Also useful against elf deck, ensnaring bridge, bloodmoon...
I'm a kind of mad builder and i try every single card which can have any interest with Emeria Titan, and hour of revelation works
For example in that moment my list is like this
1 Realmwright
4 Charming Prince
4 Ranger-Captain of Eos
2 Kami of False Hope
4 Sun Titan
NON CREA
4 Path to Exile
4 Teferi, Time Raveler
2 Supreme Verdict
4 Winds of Abandon
3 Gideon of the Trials
1 Hour of Revelation
2 Gift of Estates
1 Gift of Immortality
5 Plains
4 Emeria, the Sky Ruin
4 Flooded Strand
2 Hallowed Fountain
1 Mistveil Plains
3 Ghost Quarter
2 Castle Ardenvale
2 Blast Zone
1 Island
3 Damping Sphere
3 Circle of Protection: Red
3 Surgical Extraction
2 Rest in Peace
2 Hour of Revelation
2 Stony Silence
I'm trying in that moment a ballzy build with 4 emeria and just a realmwright very synergic with ranger / tefeiri to protect him the turn he arrive by sacrifice ranger at opponent upkeep. After that you have got with just 7 lands and a emeria a lockdown about non crea spell every turn...
We also have to consider in my opinion gift of immortality impressive with kami but also useful with ranger or titan...
tell me you opinions bros
Here is my deck list, i'm not a big level player, however i play a lot on Xmage (rating 1550 approximately) when i have time to doing it. I think the list is performant, tell me your opinion about it
xx Azorius bros <3
4 Sun Titan
4 Charming Prince
4 Ranger-Captain of Eos
2 Kami of False Hope
Non CREA 21
3 Gideon of the Trials
4 Teferi, Time Raveler
1 Gideon Jura
1 Hour of Revelation
2 Gift of Estates
4 Path to Exile
2 Supreme Verdict
4 Winds of Abandon
6 Plains
3 Emeria, the Sky Ruin
1 Island
4 Flooded Strand
2 Hallowed Fountain
1 Mistveil Plains
2 Blast Zone
3 Ghost Quarter
1 Castle Ardenvale
2 Celestial Colonnade
3 Damping Sphere
3 Circle of Protection: Red
1 Kami of False Hope
3 Surgical Extraction
2 Rest in Peace
1 Hour of Revelation
2 Runed Halo