Snow-Covered Island

Basic Snow Land — Island

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Azeworai on Brago, Budget Eternal

1 week ago

I haven't delved upon the blink strategy myself for quite some time, though I may be of aid.

There is a budget constraint, wherethrough I shall keep all of my suggestions under two dollars.

So this should go in nearly every deck, and this one seems perfect, and— (okay I'm done jesting).

Upon actual suggestions are a couple categories worth bolstering.

Some flickering and blinking:

Yorion can do quite a bit, and it begins looping with effects such as Charming Prince. Ephemerate is an overperformer whiles Ghostly Flicker, though more to cast, gets the job done. Combined with a counterspell in the graveyard, it can be a soft-lock with Archaeomancer (run that, too). Flickerwisp is just potent. Soulherder is oft the very best card to resolve.

A multitude of card draw:

Arcanist's Owl just keeps digging. Augur of Bolas could be fun. Barrin, Tolarian Archmage is able to bounce your own utility creatures or pester the opponent's board. Elsewhere Flask does its job. Wall of Omens draws many cards and serves as defense for those pesky aggro decks. Champion of Wits loots through the deck until life's end. Fblthp, the Lost is just greater. Golden Egg cycles and draws more cards.

Some removal effects:

Angel of Finality is an efficient flyer with a relevant trigger. Every deck needs graveyard hate! Dream Eater goes through a lot of cards and bounces important targets. Elspeth Conquers Death is as powerful here as it is in Standard. Leonin Relic-Warder serves a similar purpose. Frost Titan locks down important threats.

Snow basics would be a nice addition for Arcum's Astrolabe. It cycles, fixes, and is banned in Modern so you know it's powerful.

And some cards that don't really fit in tother categories:

Angel of Serenity deals with threats and can recur creatures from your own graveyard. Angelic Chorus gains far too much life for the opponent's comfort. Annex is nice, for you can switch it around as better lands come into play. Nevermore can keep changing card names to prevent anyone from casting their commanders.

Fall of the Thran is really mean and I love it.

Now for a few non-budget options:

Cavalier of Gales is an absolute power house, Ephara draws a meiny of cards, and Solemn Simulacrum offers a lot of advantage.

Just on one to note, Conjurer's Closet is going to be reprinted in Double Masters, thus it may drop to within budget.

There are quite a few things I would recommend cutting.

AEther Adept is lacking, Archaeomender doesn't seem to be retrieving much of worth, Archon of the Triumvirate is overcosted, Aven Surveyor is as well, Artisan of Kozilek triggers off of cast and is thus useless to blink, Your artifact tutors do not search for much of relevance, Subjugator Angel is a worse Tempest Caller, Hoverguard Sweeper is EIGHT MANA (what?!), Dispel is too narrow, and Aether Tunnel is lacking in power.

Let me drive this one in. Eon Frolicker just loses you the game. Giving someone a turn is ceding far too much time for them to gather resources and defenses. The "protection from that player" really doesn't do that much.

I suppose that is to be all from me. Happy blinking!

FormOverFunction on What is your favorite combo ...

1 month ago

I can’t stop laughing, because I also just remembered another non-bo:

burning down a blinged-out Extraplanar Lens/Thawing Glaciers/Snow-Covered Island deck with a Cold Snap. Saved the day for the table.

I strongly recommend going through all of the old cards, everyone.

DudeMan1031 on The Many-Faced God

2 months ago

Thassa, Deep-Dwelling as a second copy of Conjurer's Closet. If you run Extraplanar Lens you should swap your islands to Snow-Covered Island so as not to give the other blue players a mana advantage as well. I'd recommended against running Dissipation Field as I find it has opposite the intended effect and incentivizes your opp's to attack you so they can re-cast/etb for value.

GoblinElectromancer on Card creation challenge

3 months ago

Ocean Diver

Snow Creature-Penguin

When ~ enters the battlefield if you control a Snow-Covered Island draw a card.

1/2

Another non legendary penguin

Ragdalf on HL_Bant_Flash

3 months ago

After some more playtesting I've decided that back to basics is to good and has to be played.

Added	Cutted
Back to Basics	Unexpectedly Absent
Shadowspear	Sword of Feast and Famine
Enlightened Tutor	Dromoka's Command
Mystical Dispute	Dovin's Veto
Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath	Restoration Angel
Gitaxian Probe	Ephemerate
Snow-Covered Island	Underground Sea
Snow-Covered Island	Bayou
Snow-Covered Forest	Temple Garden
Snow-Covered Forest	Rishadan Port

smilodex on Sir, That's the Recycling Bin

3 months ago

Cut the duplicates

• 1x Snow-Covered Forest
• 1x Snow-Covered Island
• 1x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Forest
• 1x Island
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Tainted Isle

If you can afford it, exchange Ghost Quarter vs Wasteland and Cabal Pit vs Ancient Tomb (or for Bojuka Bog)

Other good (utility) lands which are always good:

• Scavenger Grounds = mass graveyard-hate (exiles EVERY yard, which is including your own) on a land: because it's colorless you can... no you should play it everywhere (except in decks like muldrotha here which care a lot about the ohn graveyard)
• High Market/Miren, the Moaning Well = sac outlet on a land (I can highly recommend those lands
• Reliquary Tower = only worth the slot if you have TONS OF CARDDRAW I never found this card good outside of blue and black decka with wheel effects or cards like Ad Nauseam or Necropotence
• Geier Reach Sanitarium/Mikokoro, Center of the Sea = let's draw cards
• Haunted Fengraf/Buried Ruin = let's bring things back
• Rogue's Passage = make creatures unblockable

"Slow Lands" which sadly enter the battlefield tapped but, (in my opinion) are worth that downside:

• Bojuka Bog = graveyard-hate on a land: which is every of my black decks, because somebody is always playing graveyard strategies

• Halimar Depths or the SCRY-Temples (like Temple of Deceit, Temple of Mystery, Temple of Malady, ... = i personally play always a certain amount of slow lands in my decks, without causing me feel bads

• like Lonely Sandbar, Fetid Pools & Ash Barrens are also pretty useful, especially the dual cycling lands, because you can also fetch for them, which makes them aut includes for me.

• The Tri-lands = like Opulent Palace

• Slow Basic Fetches (like Evolving Wilds, Terramorphic Expanse AND my favorite Myriad Landscape), are really good for mana fixing and in landfall decks

I can also highly recommend visiting as a source of inspiration.

It would really appreciate it if you would visit some of my decks and leave comment there

MartinVanBuren on List of Bugs and Feature ...

4 months ago

yeaGO lol, IDK like 50 things all-in. An example of one change is that there should be 1 fewer Snow-Covered Island. That may be useless information depending on why you were asking :)

Is there a way to pull the deck list out of the live edit mode?

MartinVanBuren on List of Bugs and Feature ...

4 months ago

yeaGO lol, IDK like 50 things all-in. An example of one change is that there should be one less Snow-Covered Island. Not sure what you are after it for, so that may be useless information :)

Is there a way to pull a text list out of the live edit somehow?