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Crystal Rod
Artifact
Whenever a player casts a blue spell, you may pay . If you do, you gain 1 life.
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2 years ago
I almost want to recommend Leviathan even though it is just so trash...nice deck name. Thoughts on something like Serrated Arrows. Could really hit the nail on the head with options like Basalt Monolith, Crystal Rod, Null Rod, Rod of Absorption, Detection Tower, or Phyrexian Tower.
Caerwyn on Spark Reflector
3 years ago
That is the way these type of effects have been worded for years.
"Whenever . . . . If you do" effects were originally styled like an activated ability, but that was not in-line with how the effect played. See Alpha Crystal Rod printing. Around the time of Sixth Edition, they changed it to the two sentence system used today. See Sixth Edition Crystal Rod printing.
Grammatically, this makes sense--they are two different clauses. The first creates a conditional triggered effect "Whenever X, you may Y." The second creates a second condition "If Y, then Z." They are different effects and different types of conditional phrases, so really belong in different sentences.
Splitting the copy and "new targets" language into two sentences has been a part of this game from the very beginning. Fork's Alpha printing, for example, uses slightly different wording, but still splits "Any sorcery or instant spell just cast is doubled" and "Copy and original may have different targets" into two sentences. This has been the case with all subsequent copy effects.
Again, this is a grammatical point for clarifying the rules. The first sentence creates the copy effect. The second sentence then instructs you that you are permitted to modify a pure copy effect by changing the targets. Different clauses dealing with different parts of the spell; therefore given different sentences in text boxes.
Lhurgyof on
5 years ago
I would look at first expanding your mana base. Get some nonbasics in. Checklands are cheap (such as Glacial Fortress), as are the ravnica bounce lands (such as Azorius Chancery).
Some more win-cons would be pretty good. Storm Herd, Laboratory Maniac, Felidar Sovereign, Test of Endurance, and Exquisite Blood + Sanguine Bond are all usual suspects for Oloro.
As far as what to cut, I would probably first look at cards that offer relatively little value, such as Crystal Rod and Epicure of Blood. What they do are weak compared to other cards in the deck, and cost a lot of mana.
If you're looking for a more control-style decklist, I had an Oloro deck:
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