Sculptor of Winter
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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Alchemy Legal
Archenemy Legal
Arena Legal
Block Constructed Legal
Brawl Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander / EDH Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Gladiator Legal
Highlander Legal
Historic Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Pauper Legal
Pauper Duel Commander Legal
Pauper EDH Legal
Pioneer Legal
Planechase Legal
Pre-release Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Standard Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Sculptor of Winter

Snow Creature — Elf Rogue

: Untap target snow land.

multimedia on Muldrotha Snow: The Frozen Forest

1 year ago

Hey, well done with such a low budget, The Undead Forest is a cool deck name. Interesting deck idea for your first Commander deck with Muldrotha, but why snow? Weathered Runestone completely shuts down Muldrotha.

Marit Lage's Slumber, Jorn, God of Winter  Flip, Priest of the Haunted Edge, Blood on the Snow, Ice-Fang Coatl these are some reasons to play snow with Muldrotha. Iceberg Cancrix can repeatable self-mill and that's a good effect with Muldrotha. Pilfering Hawk can be repeatable loot which gets cards into your graveyard. Unfortunately, this isn't many cards.

Draugr Necromancer is a good card with snow, but it doesn't have much interaction with Muldrotha. Dead of Winter is another good card with snow, but Muldrotha is not a snow creature. Narfi, Betrayer King is fine, able to reanimate itself with snow, but he's support for snow not really a reason to play snow.

Some advice to consider is to play nonsnow cards that can put snow-covered permanents (lands) onto the battlefield to meet the snow requirement for snow cards without playing lots of unnecessary snow creatures. The best way to get snow permanents is with snow-covered lands. You really don't need lots of other subpar snow creatures here.

All these creatures could be cut to improve your deck.

Instead of playing lots of lesser snow creatures, play just the better snow creatures here?

Use other deck slots for cards that can search for and get snow-covered lands onto the battlefield?

Consider adding some spells that are not permanents that can search for and put snow-covered lands onto the battlefield?

Cards that can get snow-covered lands into your hand as well as get cards into your graveyard can be helpful with Muldrotha.

Could also add some snow mana rocks and mana dorks?

Land ramp for snow-covered lands and mana from mana rocks is more ramp which also helps to cast 6 mana Muldrotha as well as having more mana to cast permanents from your graveyard when you control Muldrotha.

Example of a budget more refined creature base with snow.

Good luck with your deck.

TheVectornaut on Insane ramp idea - please help

2 years ago

Yeah, if you are running Fierce Empath , you do want most of your bombs to be at or above that 6 CMC threshold. For instance, that's why I run Greenwarden of Murasa over the usually far superior Eternal Witness and Cyclops of Eternal Fury over say Urabrask the Hidden or Fires of Yavimaya . Running both the Empath and Time of Need will require careful balancing so you don't end up in situations where you need to find one thing and the tutor you draw isn't the one that can search for it. Hypothetically, you can get around that by just running creatures that satisfy both conditions. It is true though that such creatures will often be quite pricey like the Eldrazi titans and Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger . If you do go the Eldrazi route, Artisan of Kozilek and It That Betrays would be some other guys to keep an eye out for, with one being obviously more budget than the other. As for the appropriate numbers of land untappers and land enchantments, you'll just have to goldfish and hopefully also get some real games in to test what ratio works for you. If there is a lot of enchantment destruction being played early, for example, I think running 12 Overgrowth effects would be more worthwhile. Or if creature removal is more of an issue, working in Hope Tender or Sculptor of Winter could be an option.

libraryjoy on Insane ramp idea - please help

2 years ago

Wondering about adding Sculptor of Winter and changing to snow lands?, Fertile Ground or Elvish Guidance . I now see a little better what you're doing with Time of Need , so I'll see what I can find in cheaper Legendary bombs. I still don't think Yisan or Kolvori are worth their slot.

Sorin_Markov_1947 on Kaldheim Golgari- Go Elf Yourself

3 years ago

Not a terrible list. There are some subpar cards in here though, although I'm sure some of them fit the "legendaries I like" bill and so that's just down to fun vs winning.

Forever Young is not usually great recursion. It seems good, but it messes with your draws. You'd rather just have other cards drawn or spells that bring creatures back onto the battlefield. The two runes are just kind of okay. There's no obvious downside, the power level is just a tiny bit shy of where cards should be in Constructed formats. Tajuru Blightblade is also low power. You want something with abilities that will benefit the rest of your deck, not something that trades with anything that blocks and leaves with no other value. Jaspera Sentinel is a little slow, and there are better elves to look at for an elf deck. Sarulf, Realm Eater is very slow for a sweeper and hits your own creatures as well, most of whom in the elf package are small. Sculptor of Winter is decent ramp, but you don't need it. An elf deck should be fast and aggressive, and in this one you can have your larger creatures as a backup plan later.

For elves you should be looking at, Skemfar Avenger , Elvish Warmaster , Wildborn Preserver , and possibly Canopy Tactician are all good.

Poison the Cup is subpar removal. Heartless Act and Bloodchief's Thirst are better.

DanMcSharp on Its Chill - Sultai Snow

3 years ago

Hello,

The deck looks pretty cool (pun intended), very thematic.

Personally I never saw Draugr Necromancer play a big role in any game so I'm not sure if it's really worth running 4, especially since it doesn't have an effect that stacks anyway.

If you struggle with your mana base, the first thing you could do is add more lands since 21 isn't much, you could easily remove a Draugr Necromancer and even a Sculptor of Winter for 2 extra land, pretty sure that would make things more consistent overall.

I'm glad to see you are already running 2 Binding the Old Gods but honestly, did you try running 4? I would be surprised if you found out that 4 is too many, it's such an amazing card. It can also fetch the triomes, so adding some Zagoth Triome to your mana base could help fix your mana quite a bit too.

Is there any reason you don't run any Frost Augur ? That card gives you so much card advantage over time it's crazy, certainly worth trying at least.

Cheers.

multimedia on Elves of Eldraine (Budget)

3 years ago

I completely forget that Lead the Stampede is in Standard from Ikoria. Lead is an engine with Elves to recover or go over the top. It lets me have much more freedom with nonElf creatures in the sideboard. With 32 creatures and only 22 lands I avg. about three creatures for each Lead which is great value.

Lead has replaced Canopy Tactician . Tactician four drop anthem and ramp after is not as good as of value as a three drop spell that right away can put Elves into my hand. With Lead Skemfar Shadowsage is a better four drop than Tactician. Tajuru Blightblade has replaced Blizzard Brawl for more Elves for Lead. Brawl is a good one drop fight spell for green and Snow. Ironic, it's actually very good with Blightblade's deathtouch, but I don't think I need Brawl.

I've finished the first version of the sideboard. It's not matchup specific since we don't know yet what the new Standard meta with Kaldheim will be. Right now there's something for when against aggro, midrange and control. There's some grave hate as well as some artifact/enchantment removal. I think it covers a lot of matchups and cards that Elves may have a problem with. Because of main deck Lead and Skemfar Avenger , I think Elves are well positioned against Doomskar .

Thorn Mammoth is tech for midrange matchups. Mammoth triggering when it ETB and repeatable whenever any creature I control ETB including an Elf token can wreck opponents creatures. It can fight fliers and 6/6 is higher than most of the other creatures who could give Elves trouble. There's still ramp with Jaspera Sentinel and Sculptor of Winter to help to cast a seven drop.

Toski, Bearer of Secrets is for midrange matchups, but also tech for control matchups. It's repeatable draw with an Elf swam, nice with Elves with deathtouch. Against control it's uncounterable as well as survives Doomskar. Liliana's Standard Bearer is tech against board wipes and it counts Elf tokens that die.

multimedia on Kaldheim Elves

3 years ago

Hey, nice start. I'm also excited for Elves again in Standard and Kaldheim has revived my 6 year old Standard Elf deck :)

You're limiting the effectiveness of 4x Realmwalker main deck when playing 21 noncreature spells and adding 19 lands more than half your deck aren't Elves. Vastwood Fortification  Flip taking the place of some lands is an interesting choice. Is Fortification really good enough though to warrant taking up 4x deck spots? I think you can do better with these spots if you don't want to play more lands.

Consider Sculptor of Winter and Snow-covered basic lands as well as Woodland Chasm? A turn two Sculptor and having one Snow land means a turn three four drop such as Tactician or Tyvar. Sculptor and Snow-covered lands opens up a lot of possibilities for all the excellent four drop options. Without Sculptor this same play requires turn one Sentinel + another Elf turn two which is also possible, but less consistent. With only 9x possible turn one green sources turn one Sentinel is much less consistent.

Another option to consider is Roots of Wisdom? Milling a land then lets you put that land into your hand or any Elf. Best of all if you don't put a card into your hand you draw a card. Roots can also be fuel for reanimation for Unites and Awakening.

Skemfar Avenger does something that Elves want which is getting value from them dying to help to recover. This effect also lets you more freely attack with nontoken Elves since if they die in combat then you draw and if they don't die then you're doing damage. This effect is also removal/board wipe insurance since if opponent wipes the board then as a result you could draw a lot of cards. Avenger in multiples on the battlefield is even better and really forces your opponent to make difficult choices if they want to destroy or even block a nontoken Elf.

Elves have a big problem now with so many playable four drop options. If choosing not to play Skemfar Shadowsage main then consider it in the sideboard? It can be a win condition especially with tokens from Ambush or a huge help in other aggro matchups by gaining life as well as having 5 toughness to block. In my opinion Warmaster and Tyvar being repeatable sources of Elf tokens is a good enough reason to main deck Shadowsage.

Oakhame Adversary is a good Elf, but only when you know that your opponent will have a green permanent to make him cost two mana instead of four. For this reason it's better in the sideboard not main deck.

8x main deck removal spells is a lot and I don't think you need as many since taking up valuable main deck spots for more Elves and both as 4 ofs is hindering Realmwalker. The sideboard a good place to add more removal for matchups where you might need it. Act is much better than Thirst therefore consider cutting Thirst?

Good luck with your deck.