Hmm... I have one more support left, but I'm torn between Dissipate and Windfall. I think I want Dissipate on the list a little more since it's now basically better in every way than Hinder and Spell Crumple, but Windfall only needs one more support to make it to next week. Decisions, decisions.
I'm not sure I like the Greenwarden. He seems a little too mana intensive for my liking, and I frequently recur my Eternal Witness for value, which you can't do with this guy if you want to get the second card back, since you have to exile him. The fact that he works with Mikaeus though is very nice since that has always frustrated me with E-Wit. He's at least worth trying out but I think his mana cost is too high for you to want to hardcast him, which cuts into his overall usefulness a lot.
I don't like them in EDH. I have played Returned Centaur as a 23rd card or sideboard card in limited but that's about it. If you have Rooftop Storm in play there are much better Zombies that you want to play, and there are better ways to fill up your graveyard as well.
The card that got me into thinking about about making a Jarad deck was Death's Presence. What do you think of the possible interactions with the rest of the deck? It seems really powerful but maybe just too slow for a quick combo variant.
Definitely too slow at 6 mana and it's only good if you're already sacrificing huge creatures.
I think BFZ may have given us out first potential card for this deck:
Seems like getting this thing out on turns 1-3 absolutely shuts down a lot of combo decks, turns off a lot of answers from control decks, and just generally hampers everyone's development except for yours. I definitely want to try him out as I feel my deck has been lacking in creatures to reanimate early which have a massive impact.
It's one of those cards where "If you have it, play it" applies, and because of that, I'm not a fan. Same with Sol Ring. It makes a 99 card format just that little bit less diverse when one slot is almost predetermined.
You mean like Divining top, stripmine, Wasteland, Ugin, Karn Liberated, Jace the Mindsculptor, All is Dust, Oblivion stone, and Crucible of Worlds? It's amazing how the more pricey and competitive the deck is, the more it looks like every other deck in its price range. I will say that I completely agree on All is dust and O-stone though.
I wasn't willing to buy Mana Crypt at $80 and I'm certainly never going to buy it at the $140+ it is now. I'l stick with my Sol Rings and Mana Vaults, and even then only in decks that need the acceleration(*cough*Maelstrom Wanderer*cough*).
Karn, All is Dust, and Oblivion Stone? I wouldn't run those cards unless I had strong artifact / colorless synergies or I was in colors that otherwise couldn't deal with artifacts and / or enchantments. Those cards are far from auto includes. I have several decks and don't run any of them, despite owning or having owned all of them multiple times.
I do imagine a lot of true blue players looking forward to kicking a Rite of Replication on it though....
Uh, it's legendary and the exile trigger is on casting, so Rite of Replicating it doesn't really do anything.
@razz: I just skimmed over the updated list but I see that you've included Kothoped and Deathreap Ritual. Have these proven themselves in testing? They seem like the kind of cards that wouldn't be very good in a deck that wants to combo out quickly since they mostly provide value over time. Kothoped seems pretty weak as reanimator target and Ritual is both slow and inconsistent considering we don't have a lot of tokens and sacrifice effects to continually trigger it.
He said as a replacement for Genesis. The good thing about Genesis and Cemetery is they don't help your opponents. Genesis is a little bit mana intensive though. Another option would be Phyrexian Reclamation, though we already lose a ton of life.
Terminus
Wrath Of God will always be the iconic white wrath, yet... I've always found Terminus to be the more rewarding one to cast. Either you cast it for full, wiping the board of all the ( often indestructible ) creatures, or it rewards you for top-deck manipulation to get the miracle cost.
I had a game where I blind Miracle'd a Terminus on the last possible turn before I would have died, then ended up coming back to win the game. That was one of the best games of EDH I've had in a white.
Who else here uses Windows 7? It always comes up with these automatic updates that it has to restart itself to do with a 10 minute timer until it goes off, and I usually just postpone them for 4 hours. However, lately when I postpone it, it pops back up again in 5 minutes, only with the postpone button grayed out so I just have to let it go. Has anyone else had this issue?
I think BFZ may have given us out first potential card for this deck:
Seems like getting this thing out on turns 1-3 absolutely shuts down a lot of combo decks, turns off a lot of answers from control decks, and just generally hampers everyone's development except for yours. I definitely want to try him out as I feel my deck has been lacking in creatures to reanimate early which have a massive impact.
@razz: I just skimmed over the updated list but I see that you've included Kothoped and Deathreap Ritual. Have these proven themselves in testing? They seem like the kind of cards that wouldn't be very good in a deck that wants to combo out quickly since they mostly provide value over time. Kothoped seems pretty weak as reanimator target and Ritual is both slow and inconsistent considering we don't have a lot of tokens and sacrifice effects to continually trigger it.
I had a game where I blind Miracle'd a Terminus on the last possible turn before I would have died, then ended up coming back to win the game. That was one of the best games of EDH I've had in a white.
Also hi Donald, haven't seen you around in forever.