Canopy Vista

Land — Forest Plains

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Canopy Vista enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Discussion (50)

multimedia on Dragons Galore

6 days ago

Hey, nice budget version of Ur-Dragon. Good job upgrading the precon by adding the Ventmaw + Assault combo.

Even if you have a higher budget to make upgrades with here's some budget cards (each $2 or less) to consider adding to replace some cards you have here:

• Temur Ascendancy > Monastery Siege
• Sarkhan's Triumph > Wardscale Dragon
• Drakuseth, Maw of Flames > Tyrant's Familiar
• Dragon's Hoard > Dreamstone Hedron
• Beast Within > Rain of Thorns
• Swords to Plowshares > Curse of Verbosity
• Dovin's Veto > Curse of Bounty
• Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip > Curse of Opulence
• Exotic Orchard > Orator of Ojutai
• Unclaimed Territory > Armillary Sphere
• Cinder Glade, Prairie Stream, Sunken Hollow, Smoldering Marsh, Canopy Vista > 5 Vivid lands

Understand that for most cards on this site the prices are displayed wrong and you need to do some browsing around TCGPlayer/Card Kingdom to get the best actual prices of cards. Having a creature tutor can be helpful to get Scion of the Ur-Dragon or any other Dragon. Drakuseth is a Dragon upgrade especially with the Ventmaw + Assault combo as a win condition with infinite attacks.

Hoard is a ramp upgrade since if not using it for ramp it can be a repeatable draw source. Wizards put zero instant speed removal in the precon and that's not good in Commander. You want to be able to remove a problematic card from an opponent or counter a spell that's going to wreck you.

The 5 Battle Lands could replace the 5 Vivid lands. There's lots of Tri lands here and these lands will always ETB tapped, but on a budget they're worth it for the color fixing. Vivid lands are not worth ETB tapped because you don't have a way to put more counters on them and when they run out of counters they're terrible. Battle lands have interaction with lots of basic lands and Farseek can search for one of them.

Good luck with your deck.

eliakimras on First 5 color

2 weeks ago

Your deck is almost all green-white, but I believe you should have more mana sources for your other colors:

5-color lands like Vivid Grove and Vivid Meadow won't hurt, neither will Jungle Shrine, Seaside Citadel, Sandsteppe Citadel and Murmuring Bosk. If you run at least 1 basic of each color, Evolving Wilds and Terramorphic Expanse can fetch any color for you.

If you prefer untapped lands, Exotic Orchard, the pain lands (e.g. Battlefield Forge) and the Odyssey filter lands (e.g. Sungrass Prairie) can be quite useful. Fellwar Stone also works as the Orchard.

You should be aware of these synergies: Krosan Verge, Farseek, Nature's Lore and Skyshroud Claim can fetch Murmuring Bosk, the triomes (e.g. Indatha Triome), the battle lands (e.g. Canopy Vista) and the bicycling lands (e.g. Scattered Groves).

If it helps, you can check my Kenrith deck. Its mana base is mostly green-blue-white, with black and red as splashes.

multimedia on Omnath, Locus of Creation (landfall theme)

2 weeks ago

Hey, good budget version of Omnath. Nice Sylvan Library :)

For around $25 you could make several budget improvements. Some budget staples in Commander for four colors to consider adding:

• Sol Ring: at TCGPlayer it's less than $3.
• Command Tower: it's less than $1.
• Arcane Signet: it's less than $3.
• Exotic Orchard
• Canopy Vista: it's less than $2.
• Cinder Glade: it's less than $1.
• Prairie Stream: it's less than $1.

Vista and Glade are lands that Wooded Foothills or Farseek can search for rather than a basic land. Farseek can search for Prairie.

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Some budget cards for landfall to consider adding:

• Zendikar's Roil: repeatable 2/2 Elementals.
• Felidar Retreat: repeatable counters on all creatures you control including Omnath or repeatable 2/2 Cats.
• Risen Reef: can put a land onto the battlefield tapped or any other card into your hand and has good repeatable interaction with Elementals especially Zendikar's Roil and Omnath, Locus of Rage.
• Harrow: search for and put two basic lands onto the battlefield untapped.
• Springbloom Druid: search for and put two basic lands onto the battlefield tapped.
• Llanowar Scout: can play any land from your hand.
• Knight of the Reliquary: repeatable land tutor to search for any land and put it onto the battlefield.
• Growth Spiral
• Simic Growth Chamber
• Gruul Turf
• Selesnya Sanctuary
• Izzet Boilerworks

Land ramp that puts two lands onto the battlefield at the same time to trigger Omnath twice is helpful. Chamber, Turf, Sanctuary and Boilerworks are called Bounce lands and they can give you more chances to have lands in your hand to play to trigger landfall. They can also bounce themselves back to your hand which gives you at least one land drop each turn for landfall.

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Omnath can benefit from some mana sinks to be able to consistently use the four mana he makes:

• Kessig Wolf Run: it's less than $1, repeatable trample and pump Omnath's power.
• Gavony Township: it's less than $1, repeatable counters for all creatures you control.
• Rogue's Passage: make Omnath unblockable to do Commander damage.
• Simic Ascendancy: repeatable counters and can be a win condition with counters only needing 20. Has very good interaction with Felidar Retreat and Gavony Township since these put a counter on each creature you control meaning each creature counts as putting one counter on Ascendancy.
• Wargate: Mystery Booster version is less than $2. Tutor for any permanent card and put it onto the battlefield.

If you're interested in these suggestions I offer more advice about cards to cut. Good luck with your deck.

TheOneDemon on Here there be DRAGONS!

2 weeks ago

Feiryn Ok thanks a lot! I Actually have a Path to Exile on the way (referring to your previous comment). I have an Arcane Signet on the way already too. I have a Coalition Relic on hand atm. Will likely get a Fellwar Stone and Nature's Lore too. Also actually have a Smoldering Marsh that I didn't realise I had coming. Also I'm in the process of updating the deck!

OK, now onto the meaty stuff... I'm about to spend more money LMAO. I want to get your opinion on which of these cards I should use in THIS deck, or which ones I shouldn't bother with in your opinion -

Blood Crypt, Breeding Pool, Canopy Vista, Demonic Tutor, Dromoka, the Eternal, Fellwar Stone, Future Sight, Hallowed Fountain, Herald's Horn, Kaalia of the Vast, Marsh Flats, Maze of Ith, Mirari's Wake, Nature's Lore, Nesting Dragon, Overgrown Tomb, Polluted Delta, Steam Vents, Stomping Ground, Temple Garden, Urza's Incubator, Windswept Heath,

multimedia on Omnath elementals mashup

2 weeks ago

Hey, good creation and nice Secret Lair Blightsteel :)

You should consider buying the new Zendikar Rising Commander Land's Wrath precon. In the $20 precon are several cards that can improve your deck:

• Omnath, Locus of Rage: finisher, repeatable Elemental tokens with landfall.
• Zendikar's Roil: repeatable Elemental tokens with landfall.
• Arcane Signet: two drop Rainbow mana rock.
• Mina and Denn, Wildborn: play an additional land on your turn and return a land to give Omnath trample.
• Admonition Angel: repeatable exile opponent permanents with landfall.
• Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor: repeatable +1/+1 counters with landfall.
• Waker of the Wilds: mana sink to turn lands into Elementals.
• Emeria Shepherd: recur or reanimate permanents with landfall.
• Evolution Sage: repeatable proliferate with landfall which is good with +1/+1 counters.
• Harrow: land ramp, puts two lands onto the battlefield to trigger Omnath and landfall.
• Kodama's Reach: land ramp.
• Return of the Wildspeaker: draw.
• Inspiring Call: protection and draw.
• Myriad Landscape
• Naya Panorama

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• Risen Reef + Omnath, Locus of Rage/Zendikar's Roil

This is a casual budget Elemental interaction, Risen triggers whenever any Elemental you control ETB which includes tokens. If you reveal a land with Risen then you put it onto the battlefield and create another Elemental which triggers Risen again. This can be a lot of card advantage with Elementals.

• Forgotten Ancient + Marath, Will of the Wild

Another budget Elemental interaction that uses +1/+1 counters. Ancient is a good card for counters in multiplayer Commander because it triggers whenever any player casts a spell. The mana that Omnath makes can be used to activate Marath and you can keep doing this as long as you can keep putting counters on Marath. Omnath, Locus of the Roil, Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor, Felidar Retreat, Evolution Sage can all be repeatable sources of counters onto Marath with landfall.

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Some budget lands to consider adding to improve the manabase:

• Exotic Orchard
• Jungle Shrine
• Mystic Monastery
• Kessig Wolf Run: it's less than $1, mana sink to give Omnath pump and trample.
• Yavimaya Coast
• Battlefield Forge
• Shivan Reef
• Cinder Glade
• Canopy Vista
• Prairie Stream

The Pain lands: Coast, Forge, Reef you pay 1 life to make colored mana, but that's fine in 40 life Commander and since Omnath is a life gaining engine with landfall. Can get these lands for less than $1 each. The Battle lands: Glade, Vista, Stream would help the manabase since they have good interaction with lots of basic lands and you can get them for less than $2 each.

Good luck with your deck.

Feiryn on Here there be DRAGONS!

3 weeks ago

Ah okay, I assumed the maybeboard were cards you were only looking at, my bad!

In that case you have a bunch of stuff that definitely could fit in the deck. For those three you mentioned Exploration is very good and can be slotted in over Rampant Growth, Canopy Vista/Smoldering Marsh can just be replaced by a Forest/Mountain, and definitely take a Sol Ring if you have a spare one.

As for others, here's the most notable you have on your maybeboard:

• Asceticism
- If it resolves your dragons are almost invulnerable outside of stuff like deathtouch/boardwipes
• Smothering Tithe
- Could help with ramp
• Dragonlord Ojutai
- Great card advantage with hexproof half of the time
• Glorybringer
- Might not be as strong as some other options but that exert can effectively be a removal spell every other turn
• Nicol Bolas, the Ravager  ^Flip
- Great value all around and if you manage to transform him you basically win
• Rishkar's Expertise
- Pricy but casting it will probably mean refilling your hand and getting a free dragon which covers its cost
• Cyclonic Rift
- EDH staple and one of the best boardwipes in the format, wipes all of your opponents' creatures, artifacts, walkers, etc
• Force of Vigor
- Pretty good removal that can be manaless
• Teferi's Protection
- Protects your entire side from boardwipes

For boardwipes you already have Crux of Fate and Balefire Dragon. Throwing in Cyclonic Rift would definitely be a good choice. The issue with boardwipes in decks like these is that you don't want to reset your own boardstate, but that's why the three I mentioned are so good because they only affect the opponents. Cyclonic Rift also dodges indestructable as it's a bounce effect rather than a destroy.

In my opinion, counters are generally not very effective in decks like these. It's generally more effective to run cards like Rhythm of the Wild and Asceticism as they're not one-shots, while also having the side-benefit of opponents using their counters on your other opponents instead. If you wanted to pick up additional effects like those if counters/removal are rampant in your group, I personally like Steely Resolve and Conqueror's Flail.

I actually recommending cutting Deflecting Swat as you'll only rarely have your commander out. If you want one-shot defensive utility, Veil of Summer and Autumn's Veil are amazing for that.

If you want more spot removal, I definitely recommend picking up a Path to Exile. With it, Swords to Plowshares, and Anguished Unmaking you should be good for spot removal unless you wanted to splurge on an Assassin's Trophy.

I'm unsure about Ramos, Dragon Engine. Since you're in a more casual environment they might be okay, but unless you have something like Descendants' Path down they're not really worthwhile. If you're wanting to go out and buy a fairly expensive creature, by far the best purchase you could make is Kaalia of the Vast IMO.

TheOneDemon on Here there be DRAGONS!

3 weeks ago

Feiryn Thanks for the suggestions! Just FYI, some of the cards in the sideboard I don't have/aren't coming because of stuff arounds etc. The maybeboard is all cards I own and have on hand atm. What would you recommend for field clears/counters? I think exile is good because I needed it multiple times in the games I played (artifact that gives indestructible to all creatures and another player made their commander indestructible (Or it was shrouded maybe) unblockable and huge.. Bonked two of us for commander damage for one hit lol.) Golos, Tireless Pilgrim should be on its way, same with Dromoka, the Eternal and Bladewing the Risen. Do you think Ramos, Dragon Engine would be a good addition?

I don't own Canopy Vista or Rampant Growth, but Sol Ring I can just take out of one of my pre con 18 commander decks I got recently.

Feiryn on Here there be DRAGONS!

3 weeks ago

Assuming you still would like help, here are my thoughts just going off what you already have (so your mainboard and sideboard).

First of all your land situation needs to be sorted out. You have an insanely high average cmc (4.74) so you're going to be looking at about 40 lands without the very pricy ramp cards. 30 lands is in the range that decks with an average of about 2cmc or lower run. Here's a quickly made list of your lands that I'd use:

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• Bloodstained Mire
• Canopy Vista
• Cavern of Souls
• Cinder Glade
• Command Tower
• Dragonskull Summit
• Drowned Catacomb
• Exotic Orchard
• Fabled Passage
• Flooded Strand
• Godless Shrine
• Haven of the Spirit Dragon
• Indatha Triome
• Ketria Triome
• Path of Ancestry
• Prairie Stream
• Reflecting Pool
• Sacred Foundry
• Savai Triome
• Scalding Tarn
• Smoldering Marsh
• Sunken Hollow
• Sunpetal Grove
• Unclaimed Territory
• Watery Grave
• Wooded Foothills
• Woodland Cemetery
• Zagoth Triome
• 1x Island
• 1x Plains
• 1x Swamp
• 3x Forest
• 6x Mountain

You almost always want to prioritise lands that can come in untapped over ones that always enter tapped. This is because auto-tapped lands basically set you back a turn, so it's often better to just run a basic over something like Sheltered Thicket. The exception here goes to the Triomes because they offer three colours and more importantly can be picked up by your fetchlands.

As for the rest of your cards, here's what I recommend cutting:

• Aether Vial
• Coat of Arms
• Crucible of Fire
• Deathbringer Regent
• Kilnmouth Dragon
• Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner
• Nicol Bolas
• Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God
• Ojutai, Soul of Winter
• Ryusei, the Falling Star
• Scapeshift
• Shared Animosity
• Supreme Verdict
• Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
• Utter End

And add in their places, assuming you're running 40 lands:

• Bladewing the Risen
• Dromoka, the Eternal
• Golos, Tireless Pilgrim
• Rampant Growth
• Sol Ring

Hopefully that helps, and let me know if you have any questions! These are just suggestions after a brief runthrough of course, so feel free to take them or leave them!