Etched Oracle

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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Archenemy Legal
Block Constructed Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander / EDH Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Highlander Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Etched Oracle

Artifact Creature — Wizard

Sunburst (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.)

, Remove four +1/+1 counters from Etched Oracle: Target player draws three cards.

Kudzuu on Don't be a Menace Jack

2 years ago

I removed Etched Oracle x 3 and replaced with Grakmaw, Skyclave Ravager x 3. I liked the etched oracle for draw power, however, I can only cast it with 2 colors. I feel I'm unable to use the card to it's fullest potential. This change also fixes the mana curve. I had too many 4 drops.

wallisface on Colorless Etched Tron 2021

2 years ago

PoisonLexy I had a look on MtgGoldfish to see what the other tron decks are running for lands. Green-Tron is running 17 lands, but they make up for it with over 1/3rd of their deck dedicated to digging for lands ( Ancient Stirrings , Sylvan Scrying , Chromatic Sphere , Chromatic Star , Expedition Map ). Eldrazi-Tron, on the other hand, runs 24 lands - and that archtype much more closely resembles your gameplan (they just run Expedition Map ).

The problem with the “Etched people” is that most of them do almost nothing unless you can generate 5 colors of mana, which your deck is going to really struggle to do. You can’t rely on Steel Overseer because the opponent will often kill it well before it gets a chance to tap. Also the only creature that needs the counters is Etched Oracle , so feels like its synergy is low.

It just really feels like the Etched creatures require a massive amount of setup for very little gain…

I think a strong potential avenue for you to go down would be a mono-blue tron-artifact build. That would let you still run Etched Champion , and actually make it threatening using Cranial Plating or Ghostfire Blade . You’d be able to grab whatever you needed with Whir of Invention which’d mean you could run a single copies of Blightsteel Colossus and Platinum Emperion . You’d keep the planeswalkers, but be better suited for providing a consistent creature-threat, with blue providing value cards like Sai, Master Thopterist , and Master of Etherium , while the tron lands can create large Hangarback Walker and Walking Ballista . You wouldn’t need to be messing around for 5 colors, and the deck can additionally function alright if you missed assembling tron

wallisface on Colorless Etched Tron 2021

2 years ago

I’m not sure what you’re gaining out of the etched creatures. It feels like it’s going to be really hard to generate 5 colors of mana here, cause you need Treasure Vault plus around 8-10 mana available, so most of the time Etched Oracle and Etched Monstrosity won’t be doing much. Also 19 lands seems super low.

I get you’re going for a gimmick with the artifact creatures, but when you play any of your planeswalkers, they’re likely to win the game on the spot by themselves, so what’s the point in all this other cute stuff?

plakjekaas on Win-Cons for Counters

3 years ago

Etched Oracle could do great things in a deck like this

Kudzuu on Don't be a Menace Jack

3 years ago

Thank you for telling me about Apostle's Blessing. I did not know about that card. I will add x 4 to sideboard for sure. What do you think about running 3 copies of Etched Oracle? I feel I need to cut it to 1 copy because this is only a two color deck and I feel it would balance the mana curve. Maybe two copies of Hardened Scales?

ManiacalPotato on Wait, what type of counter?!

3 years ago

Depending on how easy it is to get +1/+1 counters on things, you might want to consider Etched Oracle, at worst it's a 5 mana Harmonize on a 4/4 body but if you're able to stack counters it can draw a lot of cards

Cauldron of Souls is must-have protection in any deck that runs a lot of creatures imo, and it has the possibility of putting a counter on every creature on the battlefield in response to a boardwipe.

Also, Serra's Liturgy doesn't fit with the deck's color identity. Rip.

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