A 5C Commander is being printed that works exceptionally well with Eggs and not just a creature you are largely just running as a Placeholder for all 5 colors, the Pilgrim has arrived.
Meh. I think Yidris is much better for that role. Golos seems totally wasted for an egg archetype. It's like Narset. Huge potential for huge spells.
Narset is limited to number of times you can swing so I agree she only makes sense for big splash or synergistic spells, Golos ain't limited like that.
Also there are so many amazing white cards or cards that require white in this list.
M20 is doing something I never thought would happen.
A 5C Commander is being printed that works exceptionally well with Eggs and not just a creature you are largely just running as a Placeholder for all 5 colors, the Pilgrim has arrived.
I have made 4 color and 3 color eggs of various varieties but it always felt bad because of how the egg colors are spread out. And I never went into build a janky Atog deck just to run all the eggs around a Commander who isn't really relevant to anything.
Golos on the other hand is a good place to put all the eggcelent mana that this deck makes, and his ETB is just gravy that find what is needed even an EGG!
Now making this kind of deck 5 colors especially with all the newer printed toys that really make this kind of deck really accelerate out of control.
Bomberman
In terms of MTG Bomberman refers to the interaction between Auriok Salvagers and Lion's Eye Diamond and any artifact that costs 1 mana or less and sacrifices to draw card (your proverbial egg). You make infinite Mana with the LED and then draw until you find a win with your egg, sometimes the kill is also the egg in the case of Pyrite Spellbomb, not running Walking Ballista here because it is a bad egg that does not draw cards.
Citadel Bolas's Citadel is one of the spiciest cards printed in recent sets and it pairs really nicely with a deck full to the brim with 1 - 2 drops mostly. Combine it with Aetherflux Reservoir and it most likely is lethal, combine that with Sensei's Divining Top and it is a guarantee, Children of Korlis further smooths that out if the Reservoir is far away and new storm card Weather the Storm is one I have wanted to see how effective it will be for a while and now a Five Color deck has arrived.
Both of these groups (except for Mentor) work very well with Ghirapur AEther Grid which can grind out some games.
Protection
This deck is a mess of 1 drops that draw cards that make mana, tutor effects, draw effects and win conditions how do I possibly survive you might ask.
Silence Orim's Chant Abeyance
Silence is the ultimate one of these, the other two require a bit more finesse and knowledge about your opponents and their decks to utilize correctly, but when properly utilized can free the game up on the turn where it counts the most.
Defense Grid
The classic Artifact to defend artifact combo and your storm against their removal and counters also does wonders here.
Teferi, Time Raveler
No one can do anything on your turn, he can remove problematic things like Stony Silence for example, and he can plus and allow the casting of wheels and other things on end step, all for 3 mana.
Padeem, Consul of Innovation
Now Padeem can't stop counterspells, however what he can do is protect things like Citadels so that if they counter a spell, the spells continue to flow. Getting a draw out of him isn't completely out of the realms of possibility.
Mass Draw
This deck empties its hand quickly so it needs ways to fill it back up, thankfully effects like this exist to do just that.
A lot of these cards have other interesting synergies, from untapping lands to being a permanent that can be recurred and searched for like any egg, to Echo which plays so nicely with LED, I am missing the big mass draw effect but that price tag is a big no thank you from me.
Anyway that is the deck largely, I don't like the expensive mass reanimate of artifacts in a deck like this because so much of the artifacts in it are junk that those spells always seem very win-more.
The trickiest balance is the lands and I hope to get to play this list soon to see how the balance I have here does.
This thread was made exactly a month after the card was printed and it has been doing more or less the same thing every since then, I just don't see it an also I rarely see people groan when it gets cast.
It is weird but for cards like this the longer they stay unbanned the less I want them banned because of how price fluctuates irt to Commander and cards that are largely only played in this format.
Especially in the case of Engine because it was doing this same ***** since the day it was printed, I have valiantly whenever I have built it designed the deck to go very smoothly once it resolves, mostly work.
It is also worth pointing out that the 2 cards that get things out of exile easily are in these colors and Pull from Eternity even just puts it right back in the graveyard.
Reanimate would resolve and drain you before the Demon is in play I am pretty sure.
You resolve cards in the order it reads. Thus the creature is put in play then you pay the life. I’m no rules expert but I think it works. I smell 2 mana draw 8.
Oh yeah *****
12/7/2018 You lose life after the creature is already on the battlefield. Any abilities it has that interact with loss of life, such as that of Platinum Emperion, apply to that loss of life.
I have gotten rid of my praetors over the years they are good but they feel win-more to me especially with how most of them are costed there is just so much more I would rather do for 7, 8 or 10 mana.
Narset is limited to number of times you can swing so I agree she only makes sense for big splash or synergistic spells, Golos ain't limited like that.
Also there are so many amazing white cards or cards that require white in this list.
A 5C Commander is being printed that works exceptionally well with Eggs and not just a creature you are largely just running as a Placeholder for all 5 colors, the Pilgrim has arrived.
I have made 4 color and 3 color eggs of various varieties but it always felt bad because of how the egg colors are spread out. And I never went into build a janky Atog deck just to run all the eggs around a Commander who isn't really relevant to anything.
Golos on the other hand is a good place to put all the eggcelent mana that this deck makes, and his ETB is just gravy that find what is needed even an EGG!
Here is the List:
1x Golos, Tireless Pilgrim
Artifact (37)
1x Aether Spellbomb
1x Aetherflux Reservoir
1x Bolas's Citadel
1x Chromatic Sphere
1x Chromatic Star
1x Crucible of Worlds
1x Darkwater Egg
1x Defense Grid
1x Grim Monolith
1x Guild Globe
1x Helm of Awakening
1x Implement of Combustion
1x Implement of Improvement
1x Kaleidostone
1x Krark-Clan Ironworks
1x Lion's Eye Diamond
1x Lotus Bloom
1x Lotus Petal
1x Mana Crypt
1x Mana Vault
1x Memory Jar
1x Metalspinner's Puzzleknot
1x Mossfire Egg
1x Mox Diamond
1x Nihil Spellbomb
1x Paradox Engine
1x Pyrite Spellbomb
1x Sensei's Divining Top
1x Shadowblood Egg
1x Skycloud Egg
1x Sol Ring
1x Sunbeam Spellbomb
1x Sungrass Egg
1x Sword of the Meek
1x Terrarion
1x Thopter Foundry
1x Voltaic Key
1x Academy Ruins
1x Ancient Tomb
1x Arid Mesa
1x Blood Crypt
1x Bloodstained Mire
1x Bojuka Bog
1x Cascading Cataracts
1x Command Tower
1x Fiery Islet
1x Flooded Strand
1x Godless Shrine
1x Hallowed Fountain
1x Inventors' Fair
1x Mana Confluence
1x Marsh Flats
1x Misty Rainforest
1x Plateau
1x Polluted Delta
1x Sacred Foundry
1x Scalding Tarn
1x Scrubland
1x Silent Clearing
1x Steam Vents
1x Sunbaked Canyon
1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1x Volcanic Island
1x Watery Grave
1x Windswept Heath
Sorcery (9)
1x Demonic Tutor
1x Echo of Eons
1x Fabricate
1x Reshape
1x Time Spiral
1x Trash for Treasure
1x Wheel of Fortune
1x Windfall
1x Yawgmoth's Will
1x Abeyance
1x Enlightened Tutor
1x Intuition
1x Orim's Chant
1x Paradoxical Outcome
1x Second Sunrise
1x Silence
1x Vampiric Tutor
1x Weather the Storm
1x Whir of Invention
Creature (10)
1x Auriok Salvagers
1x Children of Korlis
1x Copper Gnomes
1x Goblin Engineer
1x Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain
1x Monastery Mentor
1x Padeem, Consul of Innovation
1x Sai, Master Thopterist
1x Scrap Trawler
1x Trinket Mage
Planeswalker (4)
1x Narset, Parter of Veils
1x Saheeli, Sublime Artificer
1x Teferi, Time Raveler
1x Ugin, the Ineffable
Enchantment (1)
1x Ghirapur AEther Grid
Now making this kind of deck 5 colors especially with all the newer printed toys that really make this kind of deck really accelerate out of control.
Bomberman
In terms of MTG Bomberman refers to the interaction between Auriok Salvagers and Lion's Eye Diamond and any artifact that costs 1 mana or less and sacrifices to draw card (your proverbial egg). You make infinite Mana with the LED and then draw until you find a win with your egg, sometimes the kill is also the egg in the case of Pyrite Spellbomb, not running Walking Ballista here because it is a bad egg that does not draw cards.
Citadel
Bolas's Citadel is one of the spiciest cards printed in recent sets and it pairs really nicely with a deck full to the brim with 1 - 2 drops mostly. Combine it with Aetherflux Reservoir and it most likely is lethal, combine that with Sensei's Divining Top and it is a guarantee, Children of Korlis further smooths that out if the Reservoir is far away and new storm card Weather the Storm is one I have wanted to see how effective it will be for a while and now a Five Color deck has arrived.
Tokens
Sai, Master Thopterist
Monastery Mentor
Saheeli, Sublime Artificer
Make casting eggs into an army.
Sword of the Meek
Thopter Foundry
and
Krark-Clan Ironworks
Make an army and a lot of life in a box.
Both of these groups (except for Mentor) work very well with Ghirapur AEther Grid which can grind out some games.
Protection
This deck is a mess of 1 drops that draw cards that make mana, tutor effects, draw effects and win conditions how do I possibly survive you might ask.
Silence
Orim's Chant
Abeyance
Silence is the ultimate one of these, the other two require a bit more finesse and knowledge about your opponents and their decks to utilize correctly, but when properly utilized can free the game up on the turn where it counts the most.
Defense Grid
The classic Artifact to defend artifact combo and your storm against their removal and counters also does wonders here.
Teferi, Time Raveler
No one can do anything on your turn, he can remove problematic things like Stony Silence for example, and he can plus and allow the casting of wheels and other things on end step, all for 3 mana.
Padeem, Consul of Innovation
Now Padeem can't stop counterspells, however what he can do is protect things like Citadels so that if they counter a spell, the spells continue to flow. Getting a draw out of him isn't completely out of the realms of possibility.
Mass Draw
This deck empties its hand quickly so it needs ways to fill it back up, thankfully effects like this exist to do just that.
Wheel of Fortune
Windfall
Time Spiral
Memory Jar
Echo of Eons
A lot of these cards have other interesting synergies, from untapping lands to being a permanent that can be recurred and searched for like any egg, to Echo which plays so nicely with LED, I am missing the big mass draw effect but that price tag is a big no thank you from me.
Anyway that is the deck largely, I don't like the expensive mass reanimate of artifacts in a deck like this because so much of the artifacts in it are junk that those spells always seem very win-more.
The trickiest balance is the lands and I hope to get to play this list soon to see how the balance I have here does.
Thanks for taking a look.
Especially in the case of Engine because it was doing this same ***** since the day it was printed, I have valiantly whenever I have built it designed the deck to go very smoothly once it resolves, mostly work.
Both Thalia's, Gaddock, Saffi, Anafenza, Kalitas etc etc.
As for land stuff Journey To Eternity usually does work, Kaya, Ghost Assassin seems good for 3 mana, all the Oaths are Legendary too.
Also Fastbond is way banned in this format.
Oh yeah *****
LOL + Sylvan Library