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| Casual | Legal |
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Pale Recluse
Creature — Spider
Reach (This can block creatures with flying.)
Forestcycling {{2}}, plainscycling {{2}} ({{2}}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Forest or Plains card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.)
BlackoutX on
Kathril, Aspect of Nightmares
2 years ago
Stitcher's Supplier instead of Crystalline Giant , It's cheaper to play and doesn't care about being removed, chances are you will dump something with a keyword immediately making it better.
Valentin, Dean of the Vein  Flip instead of Nullpriest of Oblivion , cheaper to play with the same keywords while also stopping creatures from staying in the graveyard and potentially making your blockers. You may even play the flip side in this deck so that's added value.
Gurmag Swiftwing is worth considering since you don't have many first strikers.
Tortured Existence is amazing in this deck especially if you decide to run cards with cycling like Pale Recluse or Archfiend of Ifnir
Unearth is just good
sabisia on
Cyclatron
3 years ago
7/23: Took out: 1 of each basic. Added in: Canyon Slough, Fetid Pools, Irrigated Farmland, Scattered Groves, Sheltered Thicket.
Looking into doing some weird thing with my manabase, going possibly basic free, using 8/10 of the Ravnica Guild bounce lands, switching my basic land cyclers into the Alara Reborn land type cyclers cycle (like Pale Recluse). The bounce lands would let me keep fewer lands while keeping a normal mana/turn, and bounce the cycling lands back to my hand to cycle out.
Considering putting in Land Grant and Dryad of the Ilysian Grove for consistency.
Ziusdra on Card creation challenge
4 years ago
Here is a card I've been wanting for a while. Not necessarily on a god, but at least on a legendary creature.
Yu Ren Szi, the Power of Thought
Legendary Creature - God
Flying, haste, prowess
Cycling noncreature spells from your hand triggers Prowess abilities on your creatures.
Whenever you cycle a card, you may Scry 1.
4 / 5
I have wanted a commander for Cycling effects for a long time, and keying it to Prowess also gives it some power and flexibility, but it doesn't deliver you that win-con unless you go wide, which isn't easy to do with prowess, since those bodies aren't cheap and don't always replenish themselves.
Other prospects for cycling commanders that I can imagine would be rakdos (who likes it when you discard) and abzan (who will reanimate the creatures you cycle). Let me show you this Abzan commander I've been sitting on for a while (it's been ages since I've seen a wildcard so indulge me ;) )
Azranath, Master of Life's Cycle
Legendary Creature - Demon Angel Avatar
Vigilance
Creatures with cycling you control enter the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on them.
Whenever you cycle a creature card on your turn, until end of turn you may cast another creature card from your graveyard by paying its cycling cost and paying 3 life.
2 / 4
Not only is it card advantage, but it's a very cheap reanimator recursion of Abzan flavor that keeps it solidly in a cycling theme. (You can't break it with the big green or white creatures that you want to; instead you're limited to the ones that have cycling, like Krosan Tusker , Barkhide Mauler , Elvish Aberration , Greater Sandwurm , Jungle Weaver , Shefet Monitor , Pale Recluse , Horror of the Broken Lands , Archfiend of Ifnir , and Street Wraith ) ( Ruthless Sniper also goes in that deck, though it can't be reanimated or cycled). Access to white and green means you can remove those artifacts that keep you from accessing your graveyard.
Looking at Cycling as a commander theme thus far untapped, what would you do? Rakdos seems the other obvious choice for its wide discard mechanic applicability, but maybe you have another idea with bant, boros, orzhov... show me!
JuQ on
6 years ago
I love the idea of the Spider tribal, but there are so many weak cards you would have to use... You could add Arachnogenesis and Spider Spawning for completion.
You could consider changing commander to Doran, the Siege Tower as honorific spider lord to capitalize on the spiders' high tougness, you would have access to two additional not too bad spiders (Ancient Spider, Pale Recluse) and stuff like Wave of Reckoning and Trostani, Selesnya's Voice
Arachnus Spinner (+Arachnus Web) is a badass spider I always wanted to run.
Four of your cards create tokens and another for of your cards place +1/+1 counters on your dudes (not counting Reyhan), Doubling Season and Hardened Scales are underused in this deck. Those cards are amazing when the whole deck is built around counters or tokens.
YamishiTheWickedOne on
The End is only the Beginning
6 years ago
I used to run 4 Pale Recluse and 1 Godless Shrine for sided Sin Collector. As of Amonket we have better options though. Interesting thing is this deck can run Maelstrom Pulse and Kolaghan's Command. I feel like sided Anger of the Gods is a good fit here.
DragonHaiku on
4 Color Cascade Exhume
6 years ago
I think Pale Recluse deserves a playset in decks like these. Reach is super helpful in pauper.
Snap157 on
The End is just the middle
6 years ago
Have you thought about Greater Sandwurm instead of Jungle Weaver/Pale Recluse? Also, Desert Cerodon would be fantastic replacement for Twisted Abomination and some other cycling creatures. Hope this helps!
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