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Jhoira of the Suspends
I would suggest Mana acceleration;- Sol Ring - Gilded Lotus - Dreamstone Hedron - Thran Dynamo - Worn Powerstone - Chromatic Lantern - Coalition Relic - Izzet Cluestone - Izzet Keyrune - Izzet Signet - Mind Stone
Card draw...- Time Spiral - Recurring Insight - Time Reversal - Memory Jar - Reforge the Soul - Wheel of Fortune - Windfall - Wheel of Fate
and then all the expensive good stuff you can find...- Darksteel Colossus ?- Omniscience ?- Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur ?- Tidespout Tyrant ?- Dragonstorm ? (+More Dragons)- Kederekt Leviathan ?- Magmatic Force ?- Vicious Shadows ?- Rite of Ruin ?
Just fill the deck with brainless mighty badass big spells you want to suspend...
EDH, Radix
So, In continuation of my previous post...
You're also using Thunderous Wrath , Skullcrack and Searing Blaze , I know Lightning Bolt is viable removal, but in my opinion it's always too small an effect for EDH.
Then remaining are Breath of Darigaaz , Moonveil Dragon and Archwing Dragon .
Breath of Darigaaz is again, too small an effect in my opinion, it might be flavorful but Mizzium Mortars is a better card and still not good enough for EDH.
Moonveil Dragon is not that good, it's not very special and you're not going to have hordes of dragons at any time.
Archwing Dragon , I don't think you want to invest 4 mana in it each turn you might want to use it.
Then the main set of cards I would add to the deck,
The main card is Sol Ring , it might be an investment to have a Sol Ring for every deck but it will pay off in ultra-acceleration.In addition to Sol Ring I think you should add Mind Stone , Dreamstone Hedron and Worn Powerstone , these three should fit into any budget and are good accelerators.
You should also add Gauntlet of Power , it will help you (Monocolored) more than the majority of your opponents, and is a really good accelerator.
Back to my food, more later.
EDH, Radix
Hey,
I've been looking into your deck, as promised and have seen some things that need attention. At first, I want to compliment you on the amount of graveyard removal in your deck, the deck is really built around your general and it should stay this way.
The main thing the deck is missing is mana acceleration and card advantage, the last one is dificult, and I know you're on a budget, but still, I'm going to give you some suggestions.
First, I want to talk about what to take out of the deck, I think you have some cards in there that are either random or have too small an effect for your deck. I mean, you're playing dragond, you don't want to cast Shock s around...
The most random cards I've found are Panic Spellbomb , Voltaic Key , Traitorous Blood and Increasing Vengeance exept for the spell bomb these are all reasonable cards, but they all don't really add anything to your deck to make it more consistent.
Then you have Summoner's Egg and possibly even Belbe's Portal (yes, I'm more of a Quicksilver Amulet fan due to CMC). it's nice to sneak in a dragon or two, but general mana acceleration like Sol Ring (or worse) would benefit your deck more, since Sol Ring not only helps your Dragons come into play but it also helps in the growth of your Earthquake s.
Then you have Urza's Mine , Urza's Power Plant and Urza's Tower in your deck, three of the best acceleration lands available, but you only have one card to search for them in a 99-card deck. I think they should go and trade for more Mountain s.
Then there's the flavorful part, you're running Dragonspeaker Shaman and Dragonmaster Outcast , both flavorful creatures that will be bombarded by any of your Earthquake effects in addition to your opponents Wrath of God effects. The plus side for your budget is that Dragonmaster Outcast is quite valuable at the moment, and it shouldn't be a big problem to trade it for a Urza's Incubator .
I'll continue later with my comments but have to go to work for now, the remaining list will be founf below, I'll tell later how what and why...
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I would play against your deck if you took out the four Sol Ring . Everything else is Legacy and VIntage legal. It would be Vintage legal if you dropped the number of Sol Ring s down to one. I think the guy at the shop was being a little harsh. Just looking at your deck, it's obviously meant to be played with friends at the kitchen table where you have your own ban list.
Sol Ring is a horribly broken card when you start using it with cards like Lotus Petal , Tolarian Academy , or Mox Ruby . Seeing as you're not using any of those, your friends probably don't mind you playing with four of them. Myself, however, wouldn't be able to keep up since I'm using stuff like Mind Stone and Grim Monolith in my Legacy deck, even without you using some of the more powerful artifact mana to go with Sol Ring .
Joraga Treespeaker
is too slow to really do what I need it to do.
Lotus Petal
is ok, but it isn't as powerful as Dark Ritual
or Mana Vault
.
Krosan Wayfarer
is underwhelming.
Mind Stone
is slower and less viable in this deck.
Culling the Weak
is an interesting card, but I don't know if I should play it. It doesn't seem awful, but I'm not sure how it would turn out in practice.
I think that you have all of the more explosive early ramp that is available to your deck. Assuming that you want any additional ramp to be kept to a casting cost of 2 or less, all that's left is mana dorks and mana rocks. There's Joraga Treespeaker , which can get you to 5 mana on turn 3 plus any other ramp you drop on the second turn. Lotus Petal for a small one-shot boost. Krosan Wayfarer is useful early (I like to use it to keep the opponent guessing as to whether or not I actually do have enough mana for counterspells) but it's usually a dead draw later on. Mind Stone can be cracked for a card if necessary. I don't know what other ramp I could suggest. Culling the Weak would only be useful if you drop a creature early.
Obzedat-Dead and Loving it.
A little spot removal is necessary, but generally stuff that hits multiple targets is where you want to be. Return to Dust is a staple and the kind of effect you're looking for. I see you've included StP and PtE and I'm pretty happy about that decision.
Extort Bear, Kingpin's Pet , and Aegis Angel aren't quite up to snuff. Hex is a little tricky to find targets for sometimes.
Another 2 cmc mana rock or two would do you some good work. Fellwar Stone and Mind Stone are among what I generally run.
Sun Titan is a fantastic tool. It buys back Necro, it can draw a card every turn with Mind Stone, and when you eventually get a Marsh Flats it can find a land every turn.
To get Urborg/Coffers online more often, I highly recommend running Expedition Map . You'll also want a Fetid Heath eventually, but you probably already knew that. Caves of Koilos , Windbrisk Heights , Scrubland , and Vesuva are all obvious includes, budget allowing.
Martyr's Bond and Karmic Justice are two of my favorite enchantments.
Jor Kadeen's army of dragon-angels
I would take out Darksteel Forge Elbrus, the Binding Blade Flip Grimoire of the Dead and drop Otherworld Atlas for Temple Bell if you really want that effect. It's a boring suggestion, but I wouldn't stop at just the boros signet and keystone, I would play more mana rocks because your curve is really high, but I do really like your choices btw. There's Mind Stone and Worn Powerstone . If you're playing multiplayer you might like Angelic Arbiter , maybe you could drop Thopter Assembly for it. And finally, do you ever think you could use a Day of Judgement effect? It seems like a good play would be ramp, equipment, boardwipe, fat creature. Peace +1
| Low | Avg | High |
|---|---|---|
| $0.39 | $0.76 | $1.34 |
| Cost | 2 |
| Converted cost | 2 |
| Avg. draft pick | 3.05 |
| Avg. cube pick | 7.74 |
| Format | Legality |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander / EDH | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Pauper | Legal |
| Set | Rarity |
| Tenth Edition | Uncommon |
| Weatherlight | Common |
| Duel Decks: Jace vs. Chandra | Uncommon |
