Mana Crypt

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, this deals 3 damage to you.

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (41)

Mortlocke on The Queen's Egg

2 weeks ago

Hey Venum,

I think the new slivers incoming? was for sure 90% of the hype behind Thrumming Hivepool. In addition, I do think that there is a desperate need for more new slivers that open up new avenues of play for Sliver decks. When Llorywn Eclipsed was leaked Chronicle of Victory definitely caught my eye as it was much closer to what I wanted Thrumming Hivepool to be.

I run Trouble in Pairs in my Edgar Markov Deck The Nobility Are Athirst and from my experience it can be hit or miss, much better than it's predecessor Smuggler's Share. In this deck, I probably wouldn't run it though. I'm honestly waiting for when Mana Crypt finally gets unbanned. I've said it many times before, and i'll say it again - the old Rules Committee were deeply out of touch with the community they supposedly represented.

Your Fist of Suns + Morophon, the Boundless + Yawgmoth's Will sounds fun as long as you have a perfect target to recur from the graveyard to secure the win.

I have a question for you - do you think Slivers will make an appearance in the future Reality Fracture set? OR will they show up in Star Trek? Or both?

clayperce on Dragon Toolbox

1 month ago

You might want to pull the banned cards.

(As I type this, Jeweled Lotus, Mana Crypt, and Dockside Extortionist are all banned in Commander) ...

RiotRunner789 on Commander bans, a year later

4 months ago

Still haven't updated my cEDH deck and remove the lotus and only took out Dockside from another deck 3 weeks ago (hadn't played it in a while).

I've been fine with the bans (even with about $600 worth of cards turning to $0). For 2-3 months I'd say before games that if I played Mana Crypt, pretend it's a basic Plains.

Still iffy on the bracket system and still believe WOTC taking over commander is worse for the format over time. But it could have been worse at this point. My real worry is knowing it takes 2.5 years for cards/sets to make it to print. I'm convinced terrible things are in the pipeline that will hit 1.5 years from now. As usual, I hope I'm wrong.

legendofa on Commander bans, a year later

4 months ago

In a few days, it will be one year since Jeweled Lotus, Mana Crypt, and Dockside Extortionist were banned in Commander. I'm not here to discuss the immediate results of that, I think I made my feelings clear when it happened. But I do want to put a couple thoughts out there, now that some time has passed.

First, and more specifically, some content creators were theorizing that WotC would immediately unban these cards, or print something at or even above their power and efficiency level. I think it's safe to say that that didn't happen. Have those creators revisited this topic at all? I don't really follow a lot of this sort of content, so I'm interested in hearing their thoughts now.

Second, and more generally, have you and your group adapted, stopped playing, or just ignored the bans? In the spirit of EDH, I'm going to say that all of these are valid responses, as long as it makes the most fun for you and doesn't hurt anyone else's experience. Or did the bans just not affect you and nothing changed for you? Any other thoughts?

Mortlocke on The Queen's Egg

4 months ago

Bishoprage,

I'm going to be honest with you, I haven't broken out my deck in months. Mostly because I didn't have the desire to swap out my Mana Crypt. But today I decided to finally do it - and I swapped out the cards to make the deck match the decklist. I'm almost considering setting up a Break in Case of Unban! shadowbox or display frame in my office.

Those bans made me unhappy and impacted my vision for some of my decks. I am strongly resisting the urge to just go into a full blown rant about just how deeply out of touch the rules committee was with the community they supposedly represented despite never being voted in or even interacting with said community. So you only get a semi-rant. LOL. Anyways, I plan on taking my Slivers to my next FNM this upcoming Friday. I'll do my best to try and get Thrumming Hivepool into play as often as I can and i'll let you know my thoughts.

Also free Paradox Engine! Just kidding I know that card is degeneracy of the highest order - but I still love it. It's my favorite card after Sliver Queen. What's yours?

Mortlocke on The Queen's Egg

4 months ago

Bishoprage,

I'm going to be honest with you, I haven't broken out my deck in months. Mostly because I didn't have the desire to swap out my Mana Crypt. But today I decided to finally do it - and I swapped out the cards to make the deck match the decklist. I'm almost considering setting up a:

Break in Case of Unban! Show

Just because those bans made me unhappy and impacted my vision for some of my decks. I am strongly resisting the urge to just go into a full blown rant about just how deeply out of touch the rules committee was with the community they supposedly represented despite never being voted in or even interacting with said community. So you only get a semi-rant. LOL. Anyways, I plan on taking my Slivers to my next FNM this upcoming Friday. I'll do my best to try and get it into play as often as I can to try and get a feel for how much of an impact it has on the battlefield.

Also free Paradox Engine! Just kidding I know that card is degeneracy of the highest order - but I still love it. It's my favorite card after Sliver Queen. What's yours?

NV_1980 on The Ur-timate Dragon Tribal

8 months ago

This looks pretty good Snekattack. Not sure if you're aware, but Mana Crypt was recently banned from the format, so maybe replace it with another cheap mana rock or a Birds of Paradise. It could also be replaced with Amulet of Vigor, to ensure even your triomes enter untapped. Or just leave Crypt in; not all metas care about the cards banned for EDH.

Considering the budget for this deck, I wonder why none of the ancient dragons made it in. Ancient Copper Dragon and Ancient Silver Dragon are insanely good; especially when you're copying their effects with cards like Roaming Throne. Ancient Copper also synergizes well with Hellkite Charger (just like Old Gnawbone; providing potential fuel for each new attack with each attack.

The new 'dragon storm' cards from the new Tarkir set, also have great potential in Dragon-tribal. They allow for great (often repeatable) benefit, for very fair mana costs. Interested to know what you think of these and whether they would fit your deck.

Have fun with the deck!

fuster on Mana flooding is a good thing?!?!?!

8 months ago

Craeter Sorry for the late reply; I actually took a bit of hiatus from the game. The problem with Druid Class and Ovinomancer is that they're both a bit too slow for the deck. For 3 mana, I'd rather run Beast Within and have extra versatility to remove non-creature permanents.

Lifegift isn't really something I'd benefit from. The lifegain of my commander is just incidental and my deck doesn't revolve around lifegain. This card doesn't actually do anything to help me further advance my gameplan.

I did try playing Conduit of Worlds in the deck when it first came out, but I actually cut the card for Ancient Greenwarden because Reach and double triggers are more useful abilities for me. Conduit is further hampered by the fact that I can't use it to recur instants or sorceries, which is what I find myself recurring most often with this deck.

I think my top priority now is figuring out replacements for Mana Crypt and Jeweled Lotus, since apparently they both got banned while I was taking my hiatus.