Increasing Ambition

Sorcery

Search your library for a card and put that card into your hand. If Increasing Ambition was cast from a graveyard, instead search your library for two cards and put those cards into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Flashback {{7}}{{B}} (You may cast this spell from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

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Increasing Ambition Discussion

xbreakdownxdrummerx on Damia EDH, Fun with Counters

10 hours ago

Ha, that's funny, I basically had the same core idea a few days ago and didn't know where to take it. Vorel of the Hull Clade inspired me personally.

Aaanyway... let's try to help you make up your mind by throwing some things out there:

Increasing Ambition is a tutor that you can also cast from the Graveyard (and gets even better in that case).

Jarad's Orders tutors while throwing something into the grave... dunno if that's an option.

On that note, Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord might be a consideration.

Also, more revival stuff, I guess? A la Rise from the Grave etc.

Dread Return is flashbackable, but at a significant price.Grave Betrayal could be fun.

Sheoldred, Whispering One obviously rocks.

Stitch Together is cheap and easy to pull off with Deadbridge Chant .

Moldgraf Monstrosity may be too random for your taste.

Profane Command is versatile, but not overwhelming in my opinion.

Stir the Grave is just too bad, I guess.

Reanimate could backfire quite a lot, but is cheap.

Other graveyard-related cards:

Think Twice is too underwhelming, I guess?

Spider Spawning is sweet though. Depends on how much creatures you want to run.

Splinterfright , Forbidden Alchemy and Bonehoard work well with the Graveyard, but are not that powerful.

Some removal you could think about that came into my mind:

Abrupt Decay : Not too versatile, but uncounterability(?) is pretty nice, and it's cheap in terms of mana.

Acidic Slime : Not much to say here.

Creeping Corrosion : Obviously dependent on how much Artifacts you'll play... also sadly restricted on Artifacts.

Damnation , Black Sun's Zenith : Sweeping. The latter I find to be fitting since it's a versatile board sweeper that works via counters. Although I guess it doesn't really matter because you want to kill everything on the spot anyway. Mutilate kinda falls flat here since there won't be that many Swamps. Gaze of Granite is versatile, but also potentially very expensive/ineffective in this format. Plague Wind is expensive, but a blowout.

Doom Blade , Go for the Throat , Murder , Victim of Night : Spot removal... does it really pay off in EDH though? Same for Winged Coatl . Putrefy is one of the better spot removals, I guess.

Evil Twin : Removal on a Clone. Sweet.

Vraska the Unseen as a Planeswalker?

Concerning counters:

If you want to work with counters, maybe Proliferation is something to consider? Is Infect something you'd try to go with?

Bred for the Hunt seems interesting with +1/+1 counters, for example.

Crumbling Ashes could be interesting if you want to work with -1/-1 counters. Although I don't know how effective that would be. Necroskitter falls into the same category.

Death's Presence works with counters and keeps power on the board.

Increasing Savagery has the Graveyard and counter thing going.

Deadbridge Goliath : Scavenge seems to be one possible strategy in here due to the self-milling with Deadbridge Chant ?

Undying could also be interesting if you want to move counters around. Some Simic cards also support that strategy of course, such as Fathom Mage .

Anyway, I still personally have no idea of where this deck is going, so I'll stop here, finally - I hope my ramblings at least help you make up your mind, even if you'll add none of the cards I just sorta discussed.

Hope I could help at least a bit as an unexperienced player.

Regards

BossLeiser on SinfulDrug

3 days ago

Alright, how about this:

Me:

1x Godless Shrine $9.95

Total: $9.95

You:

1x Woodland Cemetery $7.49

1x Boros Battleshaper $0.25

1x Increasing Ambition $0.84

1x Trench Gorger $0.44

1x Vorel of the Hull Clade $1.01

Total: $10.03

I feel really bad making an offer that makes the value of your side higher than mine, even if it's only by eight cents, so I'd be willing to throw in a D20 or some premium card sleeves to make up the value. If that's all good with you, my email address is bossleiser@gmail.com so that we can exchange mailing addresses. I'm always open to haggling, though, so send me a counteroffer if you'd like.

Alonzo on Hello Sweetie

3 days ago

Thanks for your feedback! Always excited to see other decks like mine appear so i can compare/contrast.

I'm still testing out the enchantment-heavy control, It's a nice left field build, but with limited playtesting I can't tell if it's too gimmicky/janky yet. Using proxies I did manage to pull the Aura Thief /Enchanted Evening combo! My fall-back plan is straight-up control with Memnarch /March of the Machines /Mycosynth Lattice and Master of Etherium to protect my lands (as obviously when they turn into creatures they'd die from being 0/0's, means I keep mine and the enemy looses theirs.I'll definitely look into more tutors too. Demonic Tutor isn't as expensive as I thought, (despite working, I don't have 150 British Pounds for a Mana Drain ! haha) and I wasn't aware of Increasing Ambition . I don't have much time to devote to this with a weekday 9-5 either, so as yours evolves, I'd be VERY keen to see any playtest updates.

Any recommendations you can make for my deck to cut it down too would be welcome! lastly! Someone already suggested Control Magic , but I really think it could be great here, since you already have Isochron Scepter

gheridarigaaz on Beatstick

4 days ago

I'm considering running Bioshift shennanigans and Take in mine though I haven't built it yet, it should be fun, well for me at least...

some ideas on cards to include... Halimar Depths , Tainted Wood and some land destruction-lands like Ghost Quarter and Tectonic Edge we all know a voltron commander's worst enemy is a maze, Mystifying Maze as a stand-in for Maze of Ith

i'd definitely say yes to Trailblazer's Boots . I'd also consider some form of boardwipe... you've got the Lure /Engulfing Slagwurm combo though I'd suggest Tangle Asp ... no lifegain but a whole lot cheaper and quicker to pull off. though i'd definitely include some form of official wrath like Life's Finale just in case the boardstate gets too out of hand

I'd also strongly recommend the use of the shrines from kamigawa. ideally you could tutor for the 3 you'd need which all provide some form of card advantage that could most likely help out. Honden of Seeing Winds + Honden of Night's Reach + Honden of Life's Web = 3 cards gained, 3 cards your most threatening opponent loses, and 3 tokens.

I'd also swap Diabolic Tutor for Increasing Ambition ... i've often found the double black mana cost restrictive of what I plan to do with the card I tutor up, and the ambition allows you to fetch up two more cards after that

I'd definitely cut down on the one-time draw spells and throw in things like Staff of Nin . also pretty surprised at the amount of ramp/mana fixing and Regrowth effects you don't have... how hard is it to get the deck's mana right early on in the game?

Korozda Gorgon and Korozda Guildmage would also fit in here nicely

Magmonix on Axebane to Nothingness

4 days ago

Do you have the Increasing Ambition to mainly pull Door to Nothingness ? I just feel that 4x Door to Nothingness is overkill if so. Also, this is an amazing deck for Ral Zarek to shine in. His +1 on an Axebane Guardian is VERY strong. Idk how many times I've hit my Door win con just by Axebaning twice due to Ral's +1.