Emergent Sequence

Sorcery

Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle, That land becomes a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature that's still a land. Put a +1/+1 counter on it for each land you had enter the battlefield under your control this turn.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Brawl	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Pre-release	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Standard	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (13)

ArchWaltz on

1 year ago

Added the following

• Beneath the Sands
• Cultivate
• Emergent Sequence
• Explosive Vegetation
• Far Wanderings
• Farseek
• Beanstalk Giant
• Grow from the Ashes
• Growth Spasm
• Harrow
• Harvest Season
• Kodama's Reach
• Map the Wastes
• Migration Path
• Spring / Mind
• Natural Connection
• Nissa's Renewal
• Path to the Festival
• Primal Growth
• Rampant Growth
• Reshape the Earth
• Search for Tomorrow
• Spoils of Victory
• Terramorph
• Untamed Wilds

Ardees on It's Just a Flesh Wound ($100 Meren)

2 years ago

Suggestions from someone who started from a total junk Meren deck in 2015, and through the years made it to a cEDH (check the playlist here if you want: Meren Surgical Toolbox [2K22]:

• Way too many lands. Never seen any budget deck running almost half the deck on lands only. Consider adding cheap staple cards like Kodama's Reach, Cultivate, or something like Emergent Sequence, Greenseeker (it also discards you a creature that you can pick up with meren at the end of turn), Primal Growth (good sac outlet too), Dawntreader Elk, Deathsprout, Diligent Farmhand, Rampant Growth, and notable Yavimaya Elder. Consider also adding all the 1-mana elves, all of which sit around 0.10$. If you include all these changes you can easily remove 10 lands, and sit at 35 lands total.

• Some cards you included are just downright bad, even for a budget deck. You can not only find cheaper but also better replacements for cards like Reprocess, Spider Spawning, Evincar's Justice, Zendikar's Roil. Some cards you have in your maybeboard, like Skullclamp or Buried Alive are much better options. Most definitely include Village Rites and Midnight Reaper for card draw, and Spore Frog for protection. Also Reclamation Sage

• Include Carrion Feeder as a sac outlet. You can also consider Spawning Pit and Culling Dais.

• Your deck has a very high CMC, 4.05. For a golgari deck this is way too high, considering reaching at least 3.00.

• Jarad's Orders and Diabolic Tutor are the cheapest tutors you can get. Definitely run them both.

More generally, have a look at EDHREC.com to see what cards best fit a budget Meren deck. No offense, but even as a budget your deck certainly needs much improvement. That is, assuming you don't run cards for their flavor or because you just like them. Then that's totally up to you.

hiddengibbons on Card creation challenge

2 years ago

Early Spring

Sorcery

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Put a green 0/1 plant creature token onto the battlefield.

This would go great in my Poly Ramp deck along side Emergent Sequence as it fetches a land and gives me a token to Polymorph or Transmogrify. And it’s only 2MV.

Repeat

TheoryCrafter on Land animation Selesnya

2 years ago

Have you considered Emergent Sequence? It's essentially a [Rampant Growth] that turns the basic land into a creature.

Another card you may want to consider is Tomb of the Spirit Dragon. Since lands are colorless cards, once you turn them into creatures, TotSD allows for lifegain. Unless, of course, its like Forbidding Tower or Lair of the Hydra where the ability assigns it a color.

Since you have cards that interact with your graveyard other cards to consider are The Ozolith and Slippery Bogbonder to move around counters.

I hope this helps. Happy Hunting!

Caerwyn on Land creatures and their doom

2 years ago

The Land is still both a Land and a Creature. When you remove the +1/+1 counter, it becomes a 0/0 Land Creature and will die as a state based action due to having zero toughness.

As a note, the card cannot "go back to being a land" because it never was not a land. It gained the creature type, but Emergent Sequence specifically says that it is "still a land".

If the card does not specify it is "still a a land" then it would only be a creature. In such a situation it still would not go back to being a land if all counters are removed (assuming the animation spell worked the same way and made it a 0/0 with counters)--it would still die as a creature with zero toughness.

Hyato on None

2 years ago

Say I have a land that became a creature with +1/+1 counters (Emergent Sequence) and the opponent casts Heartless Act and removes those counters... Will the land go to the graveyard or go back to being a land?

Hyato on None

2 years ago

Say I have a land that became a creature with +1/+1 counters (Emergent Sequence) and the opponent casts Heartless Act and removes those counters... Will the land go to the graveyard or go back to being a land?

Hyato on None

2 years ago

Say I have a land that became a creature with +1/+1 counters (Emergent Sequence) and the opponent casts Heartless Act and removes those counters... Will the land go to the graveyard or go back to being a land?