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| Format | Legality |
| Tiny Leaders | Legal |
| Noble | Legal |
| Leviathan | Legal |
| Magic Duels | Legal |
| Canadian Highlander | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
| Vanguard | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Archenemy | Legal |
| Planechase | Legal |
| 1v1 Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Unformat | Legal |
| Casual | Legal |
| Commander / EDH | Legal |
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| Set | Rarity |
| Commander 2018 (C18) | Uncommon |
| Commander Anthology Vol. II (CM2) | Uncommon |
| Commander 2017 (C17) | Uncommon |
| Modern Masters 2017 Edition (MM3) | Uncommon |
| Commander 2016 (C16) | Uncommon |
| Commander 2013 (C13) | Uncommon |
| Shards of Alara (ALA) | Uncommon |
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Arcane Sanctum
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Arcane Sanctum enters the battlefield tapped.
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Arcane Sanctum Discussion
eliakimras on
Atraxa Counter Productive
1 week ago
Buddy, maybe you should try lands that tap for 3 or more colors to cast your colored spells properly. Vivid Grove, Vivid Meadow, Vivid Creek and Vivid Marsh all synergize with counters theme. Evolving Wilds and Terramorphic Expanse often find your missing colors. Seaside Citadel, Arcane Sanctum, Opulent Palace are also too good to pass. Opal Palace is also an all-star here, because it can give Atraxa +1/+1 counters, so she can proliferate herself and get huge right away. You also should be at 38 lands, because your deck has some high mana costs. You often will find yourself mana screwed with so few lands.
FLATSO99 on
Lich Queen's Coup D'etat
2 weeks ago
Arcane Sanctum and Path of Ancestry are good budget replacements for some of your land if you don't want to invest in the more expensive land:)
Coward_Token on
Rise of the Lich Queen
1 month ago
You've probably already considered but Sanguine Bond is worth thinking about when lifegain is involved; Wayward Servant provides extra incremental damage while Gary, Varina and the two lifelink sources would do it in bursts.
Really nitpicky but if you got the cash to burn then Path of Ancestry is an upgrade over Arcane Sanctum
Jaysterbaby on Need help with ZOMBIE EDH ...
1 month ago
I have 128 cards and trying to knock it down to 100, would like some help makes a good Zombie deck. Thank you for your time and help. Here are my cards
Commander - Oloro, Ageless Ascetic
[100 cards]
17x Swamp
Liliana, Heretical Healer Flip
[28 cards]
Boza on List of Bugs and Feature ...
1 month ago
The homage has a different background of a castle of some sorts. I think it is Arcane Sanctum - someone messed up their page code again.
DiscoMiniFridge on
The French Taunter, ft. Zur
1 month ago
Ayoooo, kind of drunk, bud.
Alright, so a couple things jump out; foremost, Cloudcrest Lake is really, really bad. I would replace it with Arcane Sanctum. Actually, with such a low curve, you could even drop down to 37 lands, dropping a basic land.
With the freed up slot, I would suggest running another wrath, or piece of spot removal. The following are staples: Utter End, Anguished Unmaking, Path to Exile, and Day of Judgment or Merciless Eviction. Cleansing Nova is a sweet, new card as well. However, for your theme, Seal of Doom may be more fitting.
Seal of Doom and Seal of Cleansing become even better with some recursion, which is markedly absent. I can suggest, at least, Sun Titan and Auramancer.
While only relevant to auras, Bruna, Light of Alabaster, Nomad Mythmaker, and Retether are great.
Additionally, you could run Phyresis if you're feeling degenerate.
Concerning the mana base, you could run fewer Islands for more Plains. Of course, the deck would really appreciate more premium dual lands, but I understand they're expensive and not particularly exciting purchases.
Other than those points, the deck has a solid strategy, and should be frustrating to play against. Good job.
Darkshadow327 on
The Apocalypse has Begun!!! (EDH Tribal Series #3)
1 month ago
I don't actually like Liliana, Untouched By Death she's just kind of a meh Planeswalker.
Aetherflux Reservoir is more for a dedicated lifegain deck, I'll think about it though.
I do have counterspells bud, I never make a blue deck without at least 2 counters (blue is my fav after all). Render Silent and Insidious Will are some of my favorites. A bit off topic, but funny story about Insidious Will. The last time I tested this deck an opponent was playing some red burn and totally loaded up a Banefire at my face. So I cast Insidious Will and he was like "Dude, X is over 5, it can't be countered". So I was like "I'm not countering it, I'm changing the target to you". Man was that a feel good moment, for me anyway.
Anyway, back to the topic at hand.
You underestimate the tap lands. Arcane Sanctum is good color fixing for me, and the Temples are always a nice drop. I never feel bad if I can Scry.
StopShot on Delta Commander Format
1 month ago
For those unaware of the Pokémon TCG, the term "delta" refers to delta species that debuted in 2005. Some of the card-concepts typically associated in one color were color shifted to a different color to shake-up well established color themes and provide unique gameplay experiences.
Delta Commander or Planar Chaos EDH in MTG terms is to establish a game experience that accomplishes the same style of play noted above. Many players over the years have expressed how they wish a certain commander had color x instead of color y or that a different general was missing a color keeping it from reaching it's full potential or other players have expressed interest in a commander's unique abilities yet disliked the color combination it was associated with. Delta commander rectifies these desires and greater customization freedoms while still maintaining the importance of color identity found in a standard commander game.
Delta Commander mirrors the rules of standard EDH with a few simple rule changes. Decks are still 100 card singleton, 40 life each, 21 command damage is lethal, etc. etc. To color shift a deck you use the general that interests you and then you pick only 1 of the 10 lands listed below.
The land selected will represent the "Domain" your general resides in. The domain is not restricted by your general's color identity and will represent the color shift of your deck. When starting a game the Domain and your General will both start in the command zone indicating to your opponents what colors you are restricted to and vice versa for knowing what colors your opponents are running.
Color identity will work a little different in games:
-The color identity of your General will restrict you on what lands you can play.
-The color identity of your Domain will restrict you on what nonland cards you can play.
As you may have surmised players will be able to play their Domain from the command zone in order to help cast spells outside of their General's color identity. This makes the domain special since your other lands will only produce the colors of your general's color identity, which adds more depth to deck building as players will have to compromise for the right balance of on-colored and off-colored spells used in their deck.
EXAMPLE: Say Baral, Chief of Compliance is your General and Frontier Bivouac is his Domain. The lands in your deck can not contain any mana symbol other than and the spells in your deck can not contain any symbol other than . Hence in order to cast the Red and Green spells in this deck you'll be limited to just the Frontier Bivouac in order to cast them.* (*Typically there would be other ways to cast those spells, but the Domain will be the primary source due to it's consistency of being readily available in your command zone.)
Now that you're familiar with how a deck is color-shifted there are only three more rules to keep in mind to accommodate these changes.
.) The Domain will share many of the same properties as your commander such as being a able to play it from the Command Zone and being able to place it back in the Command Zone if the land is to change zones. There are only two exceptions: 1.) you can not play your Domain if you played another land that turn, and 2.) your Domain will not have a command tax to pay since lands aren't ever cast. (The land enters tapped which makes up for the lack of taxation.)
.) Another key difference is if any source (be it a land or mana-rock-etc.) is to produce one or more mana of any color instead that source will only produce any color of mana in your commander's color identity. This applies to cards such as Mana Confluence, Mana Bloom, Gilded Lotus, etc. This rule is in place to put greater emphasis on your Domain being the chief hallmark to casting off-color spells with. Do note however since your domain restricts the color identity of your spells you are allowed to use signets and other mana-producers that fit into your domain's color identity even if they're outside of your general's color identity.
EXAMPLE: If my General is and my Domain is I could still run cards like Fire Diamond, Moss Diamond, Talisman of Impulse, Gruul Signet for color fixing, but cards like Mana Confluence and Darksteel Ingot would only generate blue mana. This is so the Domain retains some level of importance being used in the deck.
.) The last additional rule to this format is unlike all your other lands your Domain will have "Protection from lands." This means your Domain can never be the target of effects from the likes of Strip Mine, Wasteland, or Ghost Quarter due to their abusability with other cards such as Crucible of Worlds or Life from the Loam. Do note this does not stop the effects of cards like Sinkhole, Blood Moon, or Spreading Seas being used. (Hence the importance of running color-fixing mana rocks.)
You have now read up on the rules of Delta Commander or Planar Chaos EDH. Please keep in mind that when building in this format that your general determines the color identity of your lands and your domain determines the color identity of your spells. While it's possible to have a general and a domain that share no colors your deck will likely run a lot better if your domain shares at least one or two colors with your general.
Bonus: If you were to build a deck for this format what general and domain would you build your deck around? What off-color synergies would you include in your deck?