Legality
| Format | Legality |
| Pre-release | Legal |
| Tiny Leaders | Legal |
| Magic Duels | Legal |
| Canadian Highlander | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
| Standard | Legal |
| Leviathan | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Frontier | Legal |
| 1v1 Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Unformat | Legal |
| Casual | Legal |
| Commander / EDH | Legal |
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| Set | Rarity |
| Kaladesh (KLD) | Uncommon |
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Armorcraft Judge
Creature — Elf Artificer
When Armorcraft Judge enters the battlefield, draw a card for each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it.
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Armorcraft Judge Discussion
TheMadRocketeer on
Ghave in progress
2 weeks ago
I like this deck. I need to revisit my Ghave deck, I Ghave Until It Hurts, and I see some nice ideas here that I may try.
Anafenza, the Foremost could serve as an alternate commander against decks that rely on their graveyards.
Armorcraft Judge could let one go deep for a win condition.
Tendershoot Dryad makes going wide with saprolings so much more effective.
I could go on. Good stuff here. A lot that could help my A Token of Our Affection deck, for that matter.
HexproofHarry on
Anafenza, the Foremost
3 weeks ago
Contagion Clasp , Armorcraft Judge , Cultivator of Blades , Cytoplast Root-Kin , Feral Hydra , Forgotten Ancient , Genesis Hydra , Heroes' Bane , Renegade Krasis , Ridgescale Tusker , Increasing Savagery , Overwhelming Stampede , Animation Module , Contagion Clasp , Ring of Kalonia , Inspiring Call , Magistrate's Scepter all could be good.
Schlit on
The Mother of All Elf Decks
4 weeks ago
Nice deck, I love the Cavern of Souls...if i played tournaments i'd buy in rl.
In mine, i saw that synergy with heritage druid with nettle and paradox engine made the win condition way faster. Your deck, however has more protection than mine does though.
Am also looking at Marwyn and Armorcraft Judge as it would synergize with warcaller.
Fynzmirs on
Master Biomancy
1 month ago
Ok, so I replaced Armorcraft Judge with Inspiring Call. It serves mostly the same purpose, but is 1 mana cheaper (yay) and doesn't give you a 3/3 creature (nah, it doesn't actually change much in this deck). I also replaced Cloudfin Raptor (an ok counter generator thanks to Simic Guildmage) with Hardened Scales.
Avatar of the Resolute is nice, but I wouldn't replace anything other with this card.
Servant of the Scale IMO doesn't really fit into this deck. If cast before Master Biomancer it doesn't do much, and otherwise I generally don't want my creatures buffed with 4 or so +1/+1 tokens to die.
Added two general "perfect scenarios"
SynergyBuild on
Atraxa - +1/+1 counters
1 month ago
Okay, I would suggest you try to make the deck as consistent as possible, while also having a lot of interaction. Given your manabase being split between four colors, effects such as Counterspell are a bit hard to cast. Countermagic though should be run. Arcane Denial is a card I recommend, as it generally doesn't draw too much hate, doesn't cost double , and replaces itself as a card.
This is the type of logic I implore you to use when deciding the power level of cards. I assume you have the same dilemma most have when deck building of card attachment. Because of this, I will give you a list of cards I would drop in the list, for more powerful interaction, ramp, and card draw.
Here we go:
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Citadel Siege - This is a +1/+1 counter deck, and this puts +1/+1 counters on your creatures, it makes sense why it is run, but you have so many effects in this nature, that this card I don't think makes the cut. This deck has a lot of creatures, and this card doesn't put a +1/+1 on up to two creatures, both of which could be proliferated later, instead it only puts two on one creature. I don't hink it is worth 5 mana.
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Brave the Elements - Vigilance is a good ability, but for a 2 mana enchantment, this would have to do much more than this to be worth it in my opinion. Dropping it for more ramp allows you to be more aggressive, and get your opponents on the defensive, rather than you having to defend yourself.
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Duneblast - Cool card, yes, but in this deck I don't think saving one of your creatures is worth a whopping 3 more mana and an extra color symbol than Day of Judgment or a similar effect. I personally would rather see Languish in this deck, as it can kill most creatures, while your generally are larger, or Black Sun's Zenith, which puts -1/-1 counters on your opponents' creatures you can proliferate over time.
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Disdainful Stroke - Okay, this next part might get into a bit of math, but here is why Disdainful Stroke is nearly strictly worse than Arcane Denial, and it has to do with card advantage. If Disdainful Stroke was a Counterspell for just a , I would still run Arcane Denial over it. An effect like Disdainful Stroke leaves you down a card, and your opponent down a card, with two other opponents up a card. Since Arcane Denial replaces itself, and give two card to an opponent, at the cost of one, you are only down a card to one opponent, instead of two.
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2-4 lands - A deck of this CMC normally needs only 35-37 lands to get all of their spells cast on time. I don't have the statistics on me right now, so trust me or not, but that has been my experience and the experience of many others.
Okay, so what should you add in? I would run more counterspells, like Delay, Mana Leak, Swan Song, or anything you want to run for versatility like Unsubstantiate or Supreme Will. Removal like Swords to Plowshares, Chain of Vapor, Beast Within, or Aura of Silence can also be useful, as well as card draw like Windfall, Brainstorm, Ponder, or Preordain. The creature base seems fine, I suggest a Sunscorch Regent because it is insanely fun, but otherwise keep it up!
Oh yeah, you wonder what to do against Inalla, Archmage Ritualist? Torpor Orb, Tocatli Honor Guard, and Hushwing Gryff shut them down efficiently, also they only hurt 6 of your cards, being Prime Speaker Zegana's draw ability, Juniper Order Ranger, Elite Scaleguard's bolster ability, Armorcraft Judge, and a couple creature's evolve ability. The reason effects such as Fertilid's enter the battlefield with two +1/+1 counter ability or similar abilities across your deck is due to them not being triggered abilities. They happen 'as' the creature enters, instead of immediately after. It is a little weird.
Against graveyard decks, consider Relic of Progenitus, Leyline of the Void, Rest in Peace, Grafdigger's Cage, and Ground Seal. They are pretty self explanatory, but run the ones you want to, all have ups and downs. For instance, though you may know that tokens disappear if they leave the battlefield, they still go to the graveyard when they die, immediately after they disappear, which is why effects like Deathgreeter trigger when 3 tokens die. This means Leyline of the Void won't stop Deathgreeter gaining life when tokens die, but Rest in Peace will. Differences like this are minor, but may make you decide between different forms of graveyard hate.
Containment Priest is a creature that can stop Kaalia of the Vast, but not Muldrotha, the Gravetide or The Mimeoplasm, but you might want to consider it too, despite it's price tag.
Good luck!
Pal00ka on
Shalai's Budget Army
1 month ago
I'd highly suggest adding in Cultivate, etc. for ramp; Inspiring Call for card draw and protection; Armorcraft Judge for card draw; Bristling Hydra nice body and makes a +1/+1 counter; Fairgrounds Trumpeter could get big easily; Retreat to Kazandu +1/+1 counters just for playing lands; Durable Handicraft for more +1/+1 counter generation; Abzan Battle Priest, Abzan Falconer, Ainok Bond-Kin, Tuskguard Captain, and Longshot Squad for great keywords; Regna, the Redeemer because you have a bunch of life-gain effects for her to make an army all on her own; and ways to close out the game like Overwhelming Stampede, etc.
As for a few cuts: Danitha Capashen, Paragon does very little work with only 6 relevant spells; Resolute Archangel is expensive for her effect and has no synergy with +1/+1 counters; Surrak, the Hunt Caller I do not see haste for one creature being a huge deal, this seems to be a more slow build-up strategy; and cut it down to 36 lands plus ~10 sources of ramp (that is what I do at least).
Fun looking budget build, good job!
garruk3 on
+1+1 Maddness
2 months ago
I like the concept of this deck a lot (it seems the more decks I look into the more I like the game in general but there are some things with it that I would change. The first one is the splashing of the blue mana. Having one island and a couple other lands to call that one island for one card isn't the best thing. If you were to splash blue, then I would look into Birds of Paradise, a really good card for this scenario. I would also throw in a couple green-blue or black- blue duel lands as well for Hadana's Climb Flip, and just more duel lands in general instead of things like Aether Hub and Evolving Wilds (you can still have those cards in there, but don't have 4 of each). Gonti, Lord of Luxury feels a little out of place in terms of this deck. There are a ton of potential cards that could go with this deck, so I would recommend trying some of the others out and playtesting them before buying the deck with paper (which is what I am assuming you are going to do). Armorcraft Judge looks pretty cool within the potential cards you could add into the deck.
One last thing: This deck is not standard legal, so switch it to either casual or modern. If you want to make it a standard legal deck, then look at which cards are illegal for standard down below on the right hand side of the screen.
tl;dr: Take out the island a, put in more blue-black/green-blue/black-green duel lands, and test out this deck with other cards as well before finalizing the deck, and look at the legality.