Dogwalker on So apparently Ashiok is Jace?
9 minutes ago
My theory is that Jace is after tibalt and all of WoE was getting Kellan out of eldraine. Does he need a fairy and a big squirrel for his next masterpiece?
Coward_Token on Modern Horizons 3
2 hours ago
No actual leaks in the thread, people!
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/the-modern-horizons-3-leaks-nulldrifters-and-you
Kudo, King Among Bears seems pretty fun, although I hope there's going to be more bear kindred support. Since he affects all creatures, stuff like Alpha Status and OG Norn works. And They Shall Know No Fear is Heroic Intervention at home, and Roaming Throne works for all of your creatures. Go-wide tokens seems like it would work, as would 0/0 creatures like Kalonian Hydra. Might be worth looking into the EDHREC cards for the two selesnya cat legends from Lost Caverns of Ixalan?
Herigast, Erupting Nullkite: Kinda feel like an Emerge commander would be black and/or green instead? IDK how to abuse this either, red doesn't have that many good "overcosted" creatures like Avatar of Fury.
Null Elemental Blast: yeah this is really good in EDH, where every random utility land taps for .
Final Act: playable experience counter hate in EDH.
Rhadamanthus on If I control Zada, can …
3 hours ago
You can make different choices. Choices like modes, targets, and a specific distribution of something, like the damage from Arc Lightning for example, are made when the spell is first cast and are locked in for all copies. Any other choices are made as the spell resolves, so that means the decisions get made separately for the original and each of the copies.
wallisface on Genesis Surge
4 hours ago
So, some thoughts:
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you’re at 62 cards, which is 2 more than you should have - i’d just ditch the two Nylea's Disciple as they’re doing absolutely nothing for you.
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Raking Canopy should never be in the mainboard of a deck as it’ll just be useless far too often. It would be dubious even in a sideboard. Nissa, Genesis Mage is too much mana for too little profit also. I would swap both for two copies of Garruk Wildspeaker, which offers you quicker ramp and some plan-b options.
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you only have 3 cards to hit off your genesis effects, which is faar too low a ratio to ever be reliable. Added to that, your description mentions Spawnsire but that card’s not in the deck.
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Unbound Flourishing doesn’t seem very good here. It would be better served as more payoff cards from your genesis effects.
lil_cheez on If I control Zada, can …
5 hours ago
Good evening everyone,
Zada, Hedron Grinder is an all star in my Feather, the Redeemed deck. I've been playtesting it and found a RW interaction I could not have a clear answer. Please help me if you can.
When I target Zada with a "protection from color" granting spell, like Shelter and Stave Off, the spell will be copied to each other creature I control.
Question: do I get to pick a color for each creature?
Zada's rulling says the following:
If the spell that's copied is modal (that is, it says "Choose one —" or the like), the copies will have the same mode. You can't choose a different one.
But these spells are not modal, as far as I know, so I'd like to know if they are the "or the like" or if they work diffently.
Thanks in advance and have a good one.
Gandolfini on Tiamat: The Three Hunters
5 hours ago
tazorface6, You can! For casual games, what I do is buy a Land Station from Amazon, and affix proxies printed from a site like mtgprint.net that will let you print the deck list from an ink jet. If you are looking for official budget replacements for cards, anything should work fine as long as the core shell cards for the combo are in place. It would definitely take some thinking through which cards you'd want to cut.
xscoobtasticx on Burn The World Just Cause …
6 hours ago
That is great feedback! I have been wondering that myself actually. I am currently waiting on some protection equipment to come in from the mail to add to the deck this way she doesn't immediately get removed. BUT i can definitely try and work on taking less copies and more damage. Again, I appreciate the advice! Anything else you'd recommend?
Caerwyn on Help improve my deck pls
6 hours ago
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tazorface6 on Tiamat: The Three Hunters
6 hours ago
can i build this deck without the 100 dollar cards and still smack my friends with it?
broitsjustagame on On the Verge of Death
8 hours ago
I appreciate the upvote Balaam__! Stay tuned while miniman0070 and I finish up this deck. I'll also include a detailed description of the card choices once finished.
In the meantime check out my latest work:
Cloning Gruul
Modern
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KayneMarco on Lands Don’t Matter…They Kill
10 hours ago
Esparza93: Waste Not only works when opponents discard. The Bone Miser works when I discard lands to deal damage or to draw cards or gain life with windgraces abilities. And the combo idea isn’t bad but I only want the deck to win through discarding or playing lands.
DreadKhan on Sisay- CEDH Build
10 hours ago
I'm not sure if you should be running that many guild Signets, why not just run more Green ramp that is better at fixing your mana? Artifacts do better in cEDH than more casual games, but you'll be feeding Dockside. I'd even run Talismans over Signets if you feel desperate for 2 mana rocks, Talisman of Indulgence is a more useful card in most situations than Rakdos Signet. Also Fellwar Stone exists fwiw.
Similarly, I'm not sure if you should run ETB tapped Fetches in a cEDH deck, but I will admit the fixing is nice. Stuff like Rocky Tar Pit belong in more casual games, at least in my experience.
I can see you have tons of combos in here, but I can't help but mention Selvala, Heart of the Wilds, she synergizes incredibly well with Sisay, Emiel and a Haste source (like Samut), usually netting you infinite mana and as many cards as you want (by flickering your Sisay, who should be the strongest creature). I only mention it because I think you've got everything Selvala needs to work, and she's a Legendary mana dork that can make any colours of mana.
If you're hoping to play cEDH I would recommend you run at least a couple Counters, some relatively affordable ones (that still hit relevant stuff reliably) are Swan Song, An Offer You Can't Refuse, and maybe Pact of Negation or even Flusterstorm. If these are too pricey you can also try Arcane Denial or Dispel. I would definitely run Dispel over Lightning Greaves in a deck like this, people don't run Sorcery speed answers very often in cEDH, so they'll just wait until you're going to equip the Greaves and then Swords you.
Do you have a plan for Opposition Agent? I feel like if people resolve one you're going to be having a very bad time, unless I'm missing a bunch of removal, and people love Oppo in cEDH. You might consider some of the more versatile removal options, stuff like Generous Gift, Stroke of Midnight, and Beast Within can hit pretty near anything you need gone.
Esparza93 on Lands Don’t Matter…They Kill
11 hours ago
I would replace bone miser with waste not does the same thing but cheaper cmc which is always good not sure if you want infinites in here or not but since you have a lot of life loss stuff you could put bloodchief ascension and mind crank it goes infinite fast especially with all the life loss you have going on in this build.
Rhadamanthus on Cyclops Gladiator and Khârn
11 hours ago
This is a bit difficult to figure out, but my interpretation is that Khârn will still deal damage back to the Cyclops. The way I'm reading the rules about resolving spells and abilities (608, specifically 608.2b), they seem to indicate the last check on a target's legality is right before the spell/ability starts resolving.
There aren't any specific comments addressing what to do if one instruction in the resolving spell/ability somehow manages to change an object's characteristics in a way that seems to make it an "illegal" target before other instructions are carried out. But if the legality determination can't change during resolution then the resolving spell/ability can still continue acting on anything that was a legal target when it started. This might be something worth taking to an MtG Judge Reddit/Discord, and I'd be interested to see what their answers and reasoning are.
hachigi2 on Octavia or: how I learned …
12 hours ago
Hi! Found your deck in looking to tweak my own Octavia. Good stuff! Definitely adding the Windrider to mine, so thank you!
You mentioned boardwipes being a weakness. I highly suggest Cyclonic Rift, Engulf the Shore, and Displacement Wave. All three will likely "miss" Octavia while wiping the rest of the board, and as most of our creatures cost so little, repopulating after Engulf or Wave is much easier than most other metas.
UltimateRoxas40 on Suggestions for a precon commander …
12 hours ago
I use some pieces from the Necron deck in my Glissa, the Traitor deck. It has a lot of artifacts going in and out of the graveyard, so those Necron cards were an easy slot in.
If you want to lean into a more staxy/control version, there are several additional cards that can work well with her (Torpor Orb, Smokestack, Tangle Wire, Grave Pact, etc)
I've got some of those in my version of Glissa. Shameless plug for my deck haha. Glissa, Traitor of Mirrodin [Artifact Primer]
NTakamura on Cyclops Gladiator and Khârn
12 hours ago
So if I use Cyclops Gladiator ability to target Khârn the Betrayer would kharn still deal his power to the cyclops since he is changing control? Or does khârn changing control after resolving the cyclops?
KongMing on CTRL+ALT+DeLAND
12 hours ago
There are some slight differences KayneMarco. In CanLander you have no Commander, start with 20 life, and share a banlist with Vintage. This deck can use Windgrace as a Commamder, but I think Fastbond is banned in that format.
plakjekaas on Are Free Spells Becoming Too …
12 hours ago
As for your sidenote, the whole idea of free spells is that the spell will cost you something different than mana. All previous free spells in MH sets required you to exile a card from your hand, and only is able to Pull from Eternity. That never limited their usefulness. Especially because you would need the additional card to be in hand, to actually pay for the spell, which has no bearing on your ability to reimburse the costs.
Every color has playable creatures, though not every deck will want to play creatures to enable a free Cultivate or a free Cancel. I want to see what the other effects are before complaining that black will have an easier time to get their cost refunded, for what possibly could still be a free Alms of the Vein at the cost of a creature.
wallisface on Help improve my deck pls
12 hours ago
Two things that might help people better evaluate this:
1) what format is this for? I assume Modern??
2) make this as a deck on the site and put the link to it here. It’s a bit hard reading the list as a wall-of-text.
Just from looking at what’s there at the moment, a bunch of cards don’t seem very good/helpful - namely Nylea's Disciple (doesn’t advance your boardstate therefore doesn’t do anything), Nissa, Genesis Mage (and excessively high mana cost and basically only provides even more mana), Gelatinous Genesis (there’s just better things to be doing than this).
I’m worried you’re investing a lot of energy to maybe be cheating out some kindof-ok (but a bit meh) creatures, when you could instead just be Tooth and Nailing out an Emrakul, the Aeons Torn and Xenagos, God of Revels to win the game on the spot.
sergiodelrio on Are Free Spells Becoming Too …
15 hours ago
omg dat Nethergoyf tho
(apologies for the off-topic post, but the OP made me check spoilers and I went ermagherd)
Yasushi on Out From Boneville
16 hours ago
you did not have to go above and beyond by altering every single card but boi am i glad you did this is am
sergiodelrio on Looking for a way to …
16 hours ago
That's a 200 IQ analysis you got there, well put ;)
junkerking1 on Official missing/incorrect card/token thread
18 hours ago
Seems to be there now. Whem I added it earlier it didn't have the option. It does now, so I selected it. Thank you
TypicalTimmy on Card creation challenge
18 hours ago
Myzocom, Renewal of Decay
Legendary Creature - Fungus Shaman
You may cast creature spells and enchantment spells from your graveyard by paying life equal to their mana value in addition to their other casting costs.
Whenever you cast a spell from your graveyard, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token. If the spell you cast is legendary, create three of these tokens instead.
3/3
Want to know why this guy is insanely broken and would never be printed as is? Ornithopter exists, as does Phyrexian Altar or any other sac outlets. Enjoy infinite mana with infinite tokens, which can cause infinite triggers from all of your creature and enchantment based ETB effects.
To make him "playable", it would have to limit to 1 cast per turn. That way you break super easy infinite loops. Of course you literally have the same loop anyway with Gravecrawler and a zombie online, so it doesn't really matter. The difference is, this is your Commander - meaning you always have access to him which makes it significantly harder to actually stop your unending gameplay.
Although, give it some time and I'm sure WOTC will print something like him just because of the nature of power creep.
Speaking of which, that's your next challenge. Let's see an Aura called "Power Creep".
10,000 bonus points if the card feels like it would belong in a new D&D set.
Renegadespider on Help improve my deck pls
20 hours ago
https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/genesis-surge-1/?cb=1714747746
So I'm trying to make the ulimate Genesis Deck that focuses on cheating out Creatures and producing lots of mana to activate Spawnsire, Avacyn, Angel of Hope is for boardwipe protection Archetype of Endurance is for targeting Exile protection, Nylea's Disciple is for life gain from using The One Ring for draw and all the Genesis Cards to cheat my Board state out, except Gelatinous Genesis which for an alt win con. I've managed to get everything out by turn 4 before...but it just doesn't feel fast enough, I brick way too often, by either drawing way too much mana or not drawing enough mana, any advice?
CrimsonKing on Disco Inferno (Burn, Baby, Burn)
21 hours ago
Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance couldn’t hurt?
sonalexander on Yahenni, The One Punch Partisan
21 hours ago
Hey there, thanks for the upvote and questions.
Truth be told, I don’t really worry about enchantments or artifacts, as there are plenty of ways to kill in this death, attacking tends to be the last form I use.
The deck is really only meant to play in semi casual environments, so im not super worried about having answers for everything as Grave Pact effects are enough for people to hate playing against this.
All of those suggestions are solid, but 9/10 times Yahenni is actually just an indestructible sac outlet. So, saving counters is meh. I used to have more sad outlets in the deck but since Yahenni is cheap and hard to remove, I removed a lot of the extra in favor of more support.
CrimsonKing on Token Legion
21 hours ago
I really like your version of this deck. A good card draw engine that’s been helping me out a lot has been Tymna the Weaver. With all the creatures we can produce, you can easily get 3 plus cards.
You could always add War Room (pip), but I only run that for flavor lol.
herb on Bonny & Beau, Multiplied
21 hours ago
Thank you! I do paper and online MTG, but mostly just theorycraft dumb ideas nowadays. This deck is the product of that nonsense. It's by no means a 'good' deck, it's just there for funsies. Glad you enjoy it =D
seshiro_of_the_orochi on Card creation challenge
22 hours ago
Saheeli and Huatli, Artists
Legendary Planeswalker - Saheeli Huatli
Vehicle spells and dinosaur spells you cast cost less.
+1 Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control, except that token isn't legendary and is a vehicle artifact with crew 2.
0 Put X loyalty counters on ~, where is the number of creatures you control.
-12 You get an emblem with "vehicles you control are creatures". Until your next turn, creatures you control get +3/+3 and gain Double Strike, Lifelink, and Vigilance.
~ can be your commander.
4
Create a golgari enchantress.
austintayshus on Card creation challenge
22 hours ago
Carmela, Warden of Souls
Legendary Creature - Dryad Shaman
Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, a creature leaves the battlefield under your control, and/or a creature card is exiled from your graveyard, you gain 1 life.
, Exile 2 card from a single graveyard: Draw a card.
1/3
The and/or is there to trigger only once for escape cards like Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath and other such effects. I would love to put this in my trostani deck. Also i've been watching the Sopranos again :)
Challenge: Make a planeswalker card that represents two planswalkers in mtg lore.
Niko9 on Are Free Spells Becoming Too …
23 hours ago
wallisface For sure, in 60 card the flares seem like they won't be a problem, that's a great point! I don't even think the flares will be very good in cEDH or anything, I just think it's a big problem in casual commander where sometimes it feels like they prey on player's want to optimize decks little by little. I mean, I don't think that Esper Sentinel has ever, ever actually won me a game of edh, but just the fact that it makes so many decks slightly better has sold so many copies. I don't know, it's just a different feeling when you find some cool new tech card that fits your deck perfectly rather than wizards just printing something slightly different or slightly better in the color you're playing.
And yep, I agree that card draw is getting a little out of hand, or at least card splashable card draw. Draw in blue never felt too bad, even if Brainstorm was very good, the cards blue had to play used to be objectively less powerful 1 for 1, so it evened out. With things like The One Ring it adds powerful draw into every color, and that's pretty broken. I think the London Mulligan also plays a part in it. Players being able to just mulligan with little cost because if they hit their draw engine it didn't really matter how deep they went, that's unhealthy gameplay on a pretty big scale.
I get that draw is maybe a good overall feature because it evens out mana floods/bricks, but for a format with a large and older card pool like modern, most of those cards are not balanced for games that have that much draw. Tron almost never whiffs now, and that absolutely blows my mind. Hitting a brick on Tron was like the one downside it always had and now it's just, well, I guess you can't cast a Ragavan off of Tron, so...mid...
Ultimately I do wonder if The One Ring will get banned in modern though. The way it plays with cascade is one of those things where I feel like neither player really has fun in that match. Protection plus card draw really shores up the random aspect of cascade way too well. The one ring really feels like something that should have been in commander only. Even if it's rough in edh, at least it's not, one ring drew me a new one ring, rough.
Femme_Fatale on Official missing/incorrect card/token thread
23 hours ago
junkerking1 Floodhound *list* It was already in. Did you mistype the code for it?
[[Floodhound (MH2) *List*]]
Femme_Fatale on How do I properly fill …
23 hours ago
Each custom card page will tell you what the markdown syntax is for that custom card :p
It's underneath the rules text of the card.
wallisface on Are Free Spells Becoming Too …
1 day ago
Just following on from what Niko9 posted, I get that having more free spells in what is supposed to be a casual format would be a problem. The large deck-size and singleton rule means players can easily run one-of-each copy, and in a format where you have 3 opponents that will certainly make it a lot harder to assess the boardstate.
However, my commentary above was based on Modern… I couldn’t care less about edh (as many people will already know), so i’m not as worried with that formats direction (any format Wotc actively pays attention to inevitably gets warped into a mess imo, and there’s numerous larger issues with Wotc focusing on edh than just the free-spells).
From a 1-v-1 60-card format perspective, these so far feel pretty safe. There’s a limit on the density of free spells you can realistically put into a deck (for example, Merfolk likely remove Force to fit blue-Flare into it) - and generally the number of lines a deck could play are predictable (provided you know the meta), so it’s a lot easier to grasp the current state-of-play, and what an opponent is likely representing even when tapped out.
The bigger global issue with free spells is Wotcs recent push towards having lots of efficient card draw. In the past free spells were kept in-check by card drawing generally costing a premium, and so forcing card-disadvantage to use them. With cards like The One Ring concepts like card-disadvantage can quickly cease to be an issue - powering up free spells immeasurably. HOWEVER, unlike the previous iterations of MH free spells, these still require you pay something (i.e cast a creature), so they’re a bit less-free, and less abusable than other cycles, imo.