Apothecary Initiate

Creature — Kithkin Cleric

Whenever a player plays a white spell, you may pay (1). If you do, you gain 1 life.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (4)

SenatorSenpai on Karlov

1 year ago

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zachz on BW EDH

1 year ago

Silent Gravestone has a negative affect on 8 of your cards, another in sideboard. Does the usefulness offset the price?

I would add Batwing Brume, Unmake, or Celestial Flare to replace Kill Shot or Divine Verdict, as they are more flexible and can be used in different circumstances.

Having both Felidar Sovereign and Exquisite Archangel seems like aiming for two opposite possibilities on the board. You might remove Archangel if lifegain is your target win condition, or Felidar if outlasting your opponent is the endgame.

Apothecary Initiate could be useful here for lifegain. Spells with the Extort mechanic would be good as well.

Good luck!

Firebones675 on Test-ex

7 years ago

Deck looks pretty good, the biggest issue with it is the land count as you pointed out in the description. Most of my decks run around 36ish lands depending on the mana curve and how much ramp there is. I can make afew suggestions about cuts to make room for them. As a side note, when you are playing EDH your commander is technically supposed to be a legendary creature (like Brimaz, King of Oreskos. If your friends don't mind you using Elspeth, I wouldn't worry about changing it but wanted to let you know. Also since mox lotus is from unhinged, it isn't legal in commander (again if your friends don't mind you using it, don't worry about it.) Anyway here are some potential cuts:

Eldrazi Displacer: You don't have many sources of colorless mana for it's ability so more times than not you won't be able to use it. Unless you want to add more sources, i'd cut him.

Memnite: Yes he's free but short of odd combos, it's generally not worth it. It oftentimes cant attack due to the opponent just playing a slightly bigger creature and late game you should have enough mana anyway.

Lifegain cards: Unless you have strong synergy with gaining life, it's often times not worth it as if the reason you need to gain life is you are getting beat down by creatures, you would want to draw an answer to those creatures rather than just buying you time to draw that answer. I think you can cut Ajani's Pridemate, Apothecary Initiate, Angel's Feather, Graveyard Shovel

Soulfire Grand Master: While its a good card, you can't actually activate it's ability and even if you could you are not allowed to run this in your deck. Due to its ability it has a white/blue/red color identity whereas your commander is only white.

Eternal Scourge: Good in combo decks, not as much elsewhere

Conjurer's Closet dont think you have enough enter the battlefield abilities to take advantage of this card

Grinding Station If your plan is to win through damage this seems out of place. This card normally only fits into dedicated mill decks. You also don't use your own graveyard enough to want to target yourself

Perpetual Timepiece ditto

Call to Arms often times is situational

Celestial Dawn doesn't help you that much

Enduring Renewal okay in combo decks but here it might hurt you more than it helps

Quarantine Field You currently have it listed twice

Devout Lightcaster In a game without anyone playing black it doesnt do much.

Erase you already have a lot of ways to deal with enchantments

Deicide ditto

Ornithopter doesn't do a huge amount by itslef

Reciprocate not the best here since you have to have been dealt damage before you can use this card

Angelic Edict high mana cost for what it does

You already have enough graveyard hate.Might need to cut a few more after these but it should be most of the cuts you need. Hope this helps!

the5ervant on I'll just steal all the life!

8 years ago

Deathgreeter and Blood Artist are great, Apothecary Initiate is pretty good, but Sunscorch Regent is a fantastic late-game beater. Once it drops it'll change the board state.