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Blood Knight
Creature — Human Knight
First strike, protection from white
multimedia on Dragon riders
2 years ago
Hey, well done, nice update especially the cutting of Knights for more Dragons. Nice upgrades of cards that care about Dragons, but you could expand on this further. You've doubled your budget by adding only three Dragons.
Streamlining is the process of cutting out filler cards leaving you with cards that matter more for your deck. Blood Knight and Silver Knight are vanilla Knights who don't really help gameplay thus my advice is avoid these types of Knights. You're still playing too many Knights that are not helping gameplay.
My advice is don't include a Knight because it's a Knight, being a Knight is a bonus. Instead include it because it has other good abilities that can help Dragons or efficiently make Sylvia better. Taurean Mauler is an exception, it's just a three drop Dragon that's also a Knight. It's both types of creatures as well as can grow big in multiplayer Commander when have many opponents which is good with double strike. Instead of playing many four drop Knights play four drop Dragons?
You also use streamlining to better the mana curve which helps gameplay by reducing the curve which happens when you cut out unnecessary high CMC cards such as Rowan's Stalwarts, Worldgorger Dragon, Ancestor Dragon, Caged Sun. Worldgorger Dragon is only good in decks that want to combo with Animate Dead to make infinite mana and infinite ETB triggers of creatures. You can't combo with Worldgorger, all it's doing here is exiling all your permanents including all your lands until it leaves the battlefield which would hurt gameplay more than help it. Rowan's Stalwarts tutoring for Rowan, Fearless Sparkmage is not worth it since Stalwarts is a really bad card for five mana and Rowan is subpar for five mana too.
Example of a streamlined midrange creature base with Dragons and some Knights (sorted by CMC):
- Slumbering Dragon
- Puresteel Paladin: good with equipment for Sylvia.
- Knight of the White Orchid: ramp for Dragons, it can search for Sacred Foundry.
- Taurean Mauler: is a Dragon and a Knight.
- Dragonspeaker Shaman: ramp for Dragons.
- Chaos Dragon
- Acclaimed Contender
- Bloodsworn Steward: anthem for Sylvia and Khorvath.
- Vengeful Ancestor
- Opportunistic Dragon
- Thunderbreak Regent
- Terror of the Peaks
- Nesting Dragon
- Scalelord Reckoner
- Lathliss, Dragon Queen
- Scourge of the Throne
- Balefire Dragon
The few Knights in this example give you more than just being a Knight and the emphasis is even more on Dragons not Knights. More four and five drop Dragons to take more advantage of early game ramp and Sylvia's double strike.
In the example the high CMC Dragons have been reduced to the best ones you have. Khorvath is also a high CMC Dragon who you want to cast. Worldgorger Dragon, Ancestor Dragon, Demanding Dragon, Eternal Dragon, Sunscorch Regent, Runehorn Hellkite, Skyline Despot are subpar compared to the other high CMC Dragons here thus you don't need them. In the place of one of these Dragons consider adding Sarkhan's Triumph? It's an instant tutor to search for any Dragon letting you choose the best Dragon at that point of the game.
Shall I continue in another comment about how to streamline other areas of your deck?
Jack-Frost on The Wheel
4 years ago
My recommendations:
Cut- Lands:
Coral Atoll
Forgotten Cave
Gateway Plaza
Great Furnace
Lonely Sandbar
Seat of the Synod
Skyline Cascade
Temple of the False God
Add- Lands:
4x
Island
4x
Mountain
Cut- creatures:
Bloodlust Inciter
Cinder Wall
Dragonmaster Outcast
Dwarven Grunt
Monastery Swiftspear
Akki Underling
Akoum Stonewaker
Blood Knight
Electrostatic Field
Stigma Lasher
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
Adamaro, First to Desire
Chasm Skulker
Add- Creatures:
Baral, Chief of Compliance
Clever Impersonator
Consecrated Sphinx
Magus of the Jar
Cut- Instant:
Brainstorm
Swan Song
Izzet Charm
Tolarian Winds
Fateful Showdown
Commence the Endgame
Commit / Memory
Add- Instant:
Counterflux
Counterspell
Disallow
Overwhelming Denial
Pact of Negation
Cut- Sorcery:
Bond of Insight
Clear the Mind
Invade the City
Add- Sorcery:
Echo of Eons
Incendiary Command
Khorvath's Fury
Minds Aglow
Mizzix's Mastery
Time Reversal
Cut- Enchantment:
Stranglehold
Add- Enchantment:
Archmage Ascension
Mystic Remora
Cut- Artifact:
Skullclamp
Add- Artifact:
Chromatic Lantern
Crawlspace
Geth's Grimoire
Memory Jar
Mindcrank
Teferi's Puzzle Box
Trepanation Blade
Cut- Planeswalker:
Chandra, Novice Pyromancer
Snap157 on Azorius on a Horse
6 years ago
Oh man you could absolutly do Orzhov, Boros and Rakdos! Think along the lines of Knight of Infamy, Black Knight, Knight of Dusk, Stromgald Crusader, Ashenmoor Liege, Order of Yawgmoth, Blood Knight, Hanweir Lancer and Hero of Oxid Ridge.
Snap157 on Azorius on a Horse
6 years ago
Oh man you could absolutly do Orzhov, Boros and Rakdos! Think along the lines of Knight of Infamy, Black Knight, Knight of Dusk, Stromgald Crusader, Ashenmoor Liege, Order of Yawgmoth, Blood Knight, Hanweir Lancer and Hero of Oxid Ridge.
PhotogenicParasympathetic on Saskia Tribal EDH??
7 years ago
Accursed Witch
Flip
Adriana, Captain of the Guard
Agrus Kos, Wojek Veteran
Akroan Hoplite
Alesha, Who Smiles at Death
Anafenza, the Foremost
Archetype of Aggression
Archetype of Courage
Ash Zealot
Asmira, Holy Avenger
Auriok Champion
Avacyn's Pilgrim
Banisher Priest
Thalia's Lieutenant
Thalia's Lancers
Thalia, Heretic Cathar
Bastion Protector
Beloved Chaplain
Black Knight
White Knight
Blood Knight
Boros Elite
Briarbridge Patrol
Bruse Tarl, Boorish Herder
Caller of the Hunt
Chainer, Dementia Master
Champion of Lambholt
Champion of the Parish
Citadel Castellan
Commander Greven il-Vec
Consul's Lieutenant
Courageous Outrider
Crimson Mage
Crusader of Odric
Darien, King of Kjeldor
Den Protector
Deranged Outcast
Descendant of Masumaro
Dragonscale General
and about a million more. Also I have no idea what you mean when you say Saskia's not the greatest commander. She's pretty freakin' terrifying.
lagotripha on
7 years ago
I like this a lot. I'd reccomend Pithing Needle and Ratchet Bomb for sb- it deals with a lot of stuff that red doesn't have much by way of answers to. I'd feel more confident with something like Bonfire of the Damned instead of Banefire- I expect to bypass most counterspells by kicking out more spells than they can answer- thats my style. Vexing Shusher sb if necc. I'm not a fan of demigod of revenge compared to some more 1/2 drops like Heartlash Cinder Ash Zealot, Blood Knight, Eidolon of the Great Revel, Stigma Lasher and Dragon Whisperer. Alternately, a few Lightning Bolts and Lava Spike with a Howl of the Horde?You could replace the mountains with Snow Mountains and run Skred. Avalanche Riders and Goblin Ruinblaster could be fun in the sideboard. Geosurge is an interesting alternative ramp to play big creatures if you run it that way. Hellkite Charger is my preferred hasty dragon. Stormbreath Dragon is also good, because of path.
Darkleus31 on
7 years ago
Alaborn Cavalier, Angelfire Crusader, Attended Knight, Aysen Crusader, Benalish Knight, Benalish Lancer, Blood Knight, Bogardan Lancer.
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