Game Trail

Land

As this enters, you may reveal a Mountain or Forest card from your hand. If you don't this enters tapped.

{T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Legality

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

Discussion (50)

slvstrChung on Tour de France

1 month ago

I just took this deck for a couple spins. I found that mana screw was my biggest problem: I often couldn't get my hands on enough of a specific color. For that reason, I tweaked your base, downsizing the Forgotten Caves and some basics, and subbing in full sets of Game Trail and Foreboding Ruins. (Smoldering Marsh and Cinder Glade would probably be equally as effective.) All in all, I love this deck: it's silly, it's effective, and it makes my opponent's eyes bug out. You can't ask for much more than that.

slvstrChung on Loam Go Boom

2 months ago

I've been messing with Seismic Assault since the 90s; my very first deck revolved around it. This was before Life from the Loam had been printed, so I used Land Tax. It was not a good deck because I lacked the land infrastructure: the deck desperately needed Plateau or Mox Ruby, which I couldn't afford, or Scabland, which I was too timid back then to use, despite having a full set of Zuran Orbs in the deck. (Battlefield Forge was several years from being printed.) The fundamental problem was that RRR in Seismic Assault's casting cost. So that's the first thing I'd advise you to keep an eye on: whether you can reliably have 3 red sources by Turn 3. Arboreal Grazer might be valuable in making up that gap, and you'll probably want a fourth Wooded Foothills and Stomping Ground.

I do a lot of budget deckbuilding, so I can mention that "slow" lands like Game Trail and Thornspire Verge are calibrated around two-color decks, and you'd have no problems getting them to work properly. That said, I'm fairly sure you don't need this option.

The last thing I'll mention, via personal observation in creating a Budget Loam Assault deck where the two central pieces are the only cards that cost more than $1, is that Countryside Crusher is an awesome alternate win condition.

DatShepTho on GO GO DINOSAUR!

9 months ago

This deck is quite the mix, the cards in here that are good are REALLY GOOD like Sylvan Library, Arid Mesa, True Conviction and Etali, Primal Conqueror  ^Flip

But the cards that aren't are complete rubbish, like Manalith, Mirri's Guile and Gigantosaurus (The green mana pips are hard to get reliably in three color and 10/10 with no evasion is rarely helpful in this deck)

And then there are some cards that are fine, but really don't belong in this deck, like Rancor and Almost Perfect

I would also recommend using tags to separate card functions, like your lands, ramp, dino, damage multipliers, card draw, and removal. This will make it easier to see what your deck is lacking. Use the # character in your card editor to tag cards ("# Ramp" for example)

You only have 30 lands, so I would try to get this to 36/38 rather than more ramp spells. The best budget ones you're missing are Sungrass Prairie, Mossfire Valley, Sunscorched Divide, Clifftop Retreat, Rootbound Crag, Sunpetal Grove, Rockfall Vale, Overgrown Farmland, Fortified Village, Game Trail, Fire-Lit Thicket and Furycalm Snarl. There are plenty more I may have missed too.

I think you should try adding a few ways to accrue card advantage, like Rishkar's Expertise, Season of Gathering, Secret Rendezvous, Inspired Tinkering, and Escape to the Wilds. These will help you find more cards once you're running out.

Majestic Genesis is also a cheeky card you might like...

Gidgetimer on Going beyond 40 lands if …

1 year ago

On topic of the thread:

Assuming that The Boulder Feels Conflicted... is the deck you are talking about the curve seems fine for a casual deck and your land+ramp total is about where I would run it. It seems that the major breakpoint you are trying to hit is 4 mana by turn 4 and with your current count you will have a mixture of at least 4 ramp/lands 88% of the time on turn 4. Some of the time that fourth source is going to be ramp drawn on turn 4 and you won't actually have the 4 mana available, so call it 75% success. With proper mulliganing you can bring that above 90%.

Personally I would actually cut back a few lands since I don't like running over 36, but replace them with ramp and it will keep the land+ramp total the same. Some of your lands are slow I would probably remove 4-5 lands replace them with 2 mana ramp. I would probably cut Game Trail, Riveteers Overlook, Rugged Highlands, Savage Lands, and Twisted Landscape. They would be replaced with Talismans (Talisman of Indulgence etc.) Three Visits and Nature's Lore. If you didn't want to go to 35 lands pick any 4 of the suggestions and put a Cinder Glade in would be my suggestion.

CickNason on Prosshy Prossh

2 years ago

I would add more mana dorks: Ignoble Hierarch adds Jund colors and gives exalted as a bonus Deathrite Shaman acts as graveyard hate and can drain/gain at instant speed on on top of exiling any lands from anyone's graveyard for mana of any color also at instant speed. Delighted Halfling adds colorless or any color for legendary creatures and makes them uncounterable.

I would also add more aristocrat/sacrifice effects: Korvold, Fae-Cursed King crazy draw engine with sac synergy and a potential one-shot kill if he gets big enough Mahadi, Emporium Master generates treasures EOT based on how many creatures died, setting you up for big plays in the coming turns Pitiless Plunderer generates treasures whenever another creature you control dies immediately Chatterfang, Squirrel General basically a 3 mana Parallel Lives. Goes infinite with Pitiless Plunderer 1.Activate Chatterfang by paying b and sacrificing two other Squirrels. 2.The Squirrels die, triggering Pitiless Plunderer twice, creating two Treasure tokens and two 1/1 Squirrel tokens. 3.Activate a Treasure token by tapping and sacrificing it, adding b. 4.Repeat. 5.Resolve all Chatterfang abilities, causing any number of target creatures to get +2/-2 until end of turn any number of times. This gives you: Infinite colored mana. Infinite death triggers. Infinite ETB. Infinite LTB. Infinite sacrifice triggers. Infinite Treasure tokens. Reduce all opponents' creatures to 0 toughness.

Some pay off for sacrificing Mirkwood Bats, Blood Artist, Garna, Bloodfist of Keld & Poison-Tip Archer are good win condition for infinite sac outlet effects

Some better tutor effects: You can replace Diabolic Tutor for some other options below Diabolic Intent Tutor for 2 mana for any card with an additional sac requirement for sac effect synergies Demonic Tutor The OG best tutor Diabolic Revelation You wanna be cheeky? If you have big mana you can dump it all to grab multiple pieces to win the game

Some ramp effects: Cultivate & Kodama's Reach puts one to hand one to battlefield Nature's Lore & Three Visits puts any forest card onto the battlefield Entish Restoration is a new card that is better than harrow because you sacrifice a land on the resolution of the spell rather than paying the additional cost upfront, which makes it more safe from a feels-bad counterspells which puts you down a land. If you have a big enough creature you get 3 basics to the field all at instant speed as well. Nissa, Vastwood Seer  ^Flip is a pet card of mine which allows you to search for a basic and when you have 7 lands she flips and generate lands and card draw for pretty much free. Oracle of Mul Daya Allows you to play an additonal land every turn and allows to play them off the top of your library. If you dont see a card you like you can shuffle it away with a fetch land to try to get another off the top.

Better Lands: Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth & Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth are must includes allowing all your lands tap for B/G respectively in addition to your other colors. The pain lands Llanowar Wastes, Karplusan Forest & Sulfurous Springs are cheap dual lands that give you all your colors The reveal lands Game Trail, Foreboding Ruins & Necroblossom Snarl are also good cheaper options which give you dual colors The shocklands Blood Crypt, Overgrown Tomb & Stomping Ground are fetchable and come into play untapped for a measley 2 life are some of the best lands in the game Verdant Catacombs is the last fetch of your color not included. I would include it if you could because it allows all three of your fetches to fetch any of your shocks or battlelands. You can also include other Fetchlands as well such as Arid Mesa, Misty Rainforest etc to fetch because they can fetch for one of the jund colors of lands at least, however, they aren't as efficient Ziatora's Proving Ground is a must include because you can fetch it out and it taps for jund as well as cycle if it comes too late. If you don't have a turn one play you can fetch it out as your best land with no plays.

Hopefully this helps

multimedia on Kalamax Instants

3 years ago

Hey, nice upgrades to the precon on a budget.

With Kalamax I find that instants that can give him evasion while also draw a card are excellent. It's the draw that's makes 1 mana and 2 mana spells like this busted with Kalamax. Kalamax is a great attacker to do real Commander damage if he has evasion.

• Shadow Rift --> Strength of the Tajuru
• Leap --> Lunar Frenzy
• Fists of Flame --> Trap Essence

Kalamax is a mana hungry Commander because to take advantage of his abilities you want to cast an instant on each player's turn and to do this consistently requires having a lot of mana. Consider more ramp?

• Relic of Legends --> Haldan, Avid Arcanist
• Storm-Kiln Artist --> Pako, Arcane Retriever
• Roiling Regrowth --> Essence Scatter
• Fellwar Stone --> Evolution Charm
• Joint Exploration --> Curse of Echoes

Relic of Legends is ramp and a source to tap Kalamax that makes mana. Storm-Kiln Artist is more magecraft, ramp with treasures. Roiling Regrowth is like Harrow except the basic lands ETB tapped. From the precon Haldan, Avid Arcanist + Pako, Arcane Retriever aren't needed, they belong in their own deck, with their own strategies.

Three, four or five color Precon manabases are subpar with too many basic lands which makes color fixing from lands quite poor. On a budget there's several land upgrades to consider, replacing not just some basic lands, but other lands that always ETB tapped for lands that don't?

• Holdout Settlement --> 1x Mountain
• Survivors' Encampment --> 1x Island
• Shivan Reef --> 1x Mountain
• Karplusan Forest --> 1x Island
• Rockfall Vale --> Rugged Highlands
• Vineglimmer Snarl --> Thornwood Falls
• Game Trail --> Gruul Turf
• Path of Ancestry --> Swiftwater Cliffs

Holdout Settlement and Survivors' Encampment can tap Kalamax to make mana. This is important since relying only on tapping Kalamax because you attacked can be problematic because what if Kalamax can't attack?

Good luck with your deck.

Balaam__ on Interactive poison (home ver.)

3 years ago

Well put together for a first deck. If possible, I’d recommend improving your mana base. If you don’t have access to fetch- and shocklands, there are still other ways to speed things up and provide better consistency. Vineglimmer Snarl or Game Trail might be something to look into.

Ziusdra on Thantis Spider Typal

3 years ago

Missing a few spider-themed cards... Llanowar Greenwidow is the newest spider to be printed (helpful for the self-mill subtheme of spiders). Don't forget about Ettercap and Drider if you're just trying to collect 'em all.

It's a little costly for a fun/jank deck, but Arachnogenesis kicks up the spider theme a notch. I put Eaten by Spiders and Curse of Clinging Webs in my spider deck since there are always creatures dying and always flying creatures to kill in 4-player games.

Assault Formation and Sight of the Scalelords can help close games, even if the art isn't specifically spider-themed. (I would pay money for alt-art proxies that had these with spider-themed art tho...)

Finally, you need some lands for consistency... since this is a budget deck, consider Jund Panorama, Savage Lands, Foreboding Ruins, and Game Trail.