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Cryptolith Rite
Enchantment
Creatures you control have ": Add one mana of any colour.
hyalopterouslemur on Thinking about how we evaluate …
1 month ago
So, I've been thinking a lot about how cards are evaluated. Specifically it comes down to two cards: Regrowth and Eternal Witness.
I've also been watching a lot of Magic YouTUbe, and there's a hipster movement to hate on Eternal Witness, among other EDH mainstays. Supposedly Regrowth is better, and I want to talk about that, and the two ways to evaluate cards.
First, Regrowth. In a vacuum, Regrowth is better. It costs , in contrast to Eternal Witness's . That's one mana less. The 2/1 body is unimpressive in combat. This is all true.
But then you look at Eternal Witness. She's a creature, meaning Cryptolith Rite or Earthcraft turns her into a mana dork. Meaning you get two cards back with Panharmonicon. Meaning you get to trigger Cathars' Crusade or Aura Shards. Meaning her death triggers Dictate of Erebos. Meaning she can be blinked or bounced. Meaning cards that count creatures (e.g., Shamanic Revelation, Pennon Blade, Gaea's Cradle) count her. Meaning she can attack, triggering Hellrider, even if she's likely to just be blocked and killed. Meaning her entering triggers Purphoros, God of the Forge and Warleader's Call and related cards. Meaning Yeva, Nature's Herald gives her flash, which opens up other forms of abuse. (Seedborn Muse, anyone?) Meaning you can bring her 2/1 self back with Smile at Death. And no one's playing either card on turn 2 anyway.
Which one you pick says a lot about your personality, though neither choice takes away your Spike card, and there is no wrong answer. I tend to favor instants over creatures where applicable, for instance. And this doesn't make, e.g., Silverglade Elemental, good in most decks; mana cost still matters.
In reality, both are good cards, and you should probably play both if you can. but it depends on what you're trying to do. But which card you choose if you must choose one is far more complicated than simple rox/sux arguments.
Makin.Bacon.Pancakes on
Atraxa, GWUB, Counters of All Types
1 month ago
- Cut Aether Hub for Command Tower; I might be missing something but I don't see any energy in the deck. If you do need Aether Hub I would drop another land somewhere else for Command Tower it would help with color fixing.
- Cut Obelisk of Bant for Arcane Signet; If you have a signet laying around it would be strictly better here.
- Cut Retreat to Kazandu for Cultivate; Cultivate would help with color fixing at the cost of one less counter generator.
- Cut Cryptolith Rite for Farseek or equivalent; This one I would wait on till we play a non 1v1 game, just something to consider.
Last_Laugh on
Marchesa Forced Discard
5 months ago
DreadKhan It doesn't really apply here, but convoke (and similar effects) with that would be a good option. Fallaji Wayfarer, We Ride at Dawn, Dazzling Theater / Prop Room, Peri Brown, Earthcraft, Cryptolith Rite, and Relic of Legends come to mind.
salzstange on
Adrix Nev - upgrade precon - go wide&fat with food
7 months ago
Deck needs more lands / less CMC, as it is too slow
Might remove the following cards for being to slow / high cmc
In favor of less CMC / more lands:
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2x Forest or Rejuvenating Springs and Hedge Maze if you got budget
Poly_raptor on Advice for a Green/White EDH …
1 year ago
DemonDragonJ it depends how powerful you want it to be. Chord of Calling is much more powerful than Shared Summons in my opinion. It depends on how powerful you want the deck to be.
Shared summons is 5 mana for sorcery speed creatures into hand, wheres as CoC allows you to cheat mana with convoke, gets you an ETB and is instant speed, essentially meaning it can give sudo haste as it can be cast on an opponent’s endstep. Avenger of Zendikar along with your Cathars' Crusade just before you get to untap could be a game ender.
Enduring Vitality is good ramp, i like effects like that. Cryptolith Rite is another good option, or Elven Chorus from Lotr.
capwner on
1 year ago
Neat build! First card I see is Acidic Slime, that's a +1. My only thoughts are to include some channel cards like Boseiju, Who Endures and Shigeki, Jukai Visionary, maybe even Twinshot Sniper (depending on how many Kinnans there are in your meta :)). Also some creature ramp options you might consider are Orcish Lumberjack and Tinder Wall, as well as the Spirit Guides, these are all fast mana which will help power out Ruric Thar early, which means damage triggers online during crucial development turns and potentially a lot of extra damage. Cryptolith Rite could be good as well, it's noncreature but hopefully this comes down before Ruric and can even net mana immediately like a rit. Last recs would be Dosan the Falling Leaf to provide additional counterspell protection, and Vorinclex Flip I think is just an amazing value card/body/finisher that I think would make a lot of sense in here.
DemonDragonJ on How Good is Atalan Jackal?
1 year ago
Bookrook, that is one additional creature that can attack or block, and Cryptolith Rite is useless if I have no creatures on the battlefield, whereas Enduring Vitality actually does something, on its own.
DemonDragonJ on How Good is Atalan Jackal?
1 year ago
wallisface, there are two reasons for which I would choose Enduring Vitality over Cryptolith Rite: first, it is a creature itself, which gives it excellent synergy with my creature-focused Ghried deck, and, second, it has self-recursion, which I feel makes it easily worth 1 additional mana over the non-creature enchantment; does that not make sense?
