Unclaimed Territory

Land

As Unclaimed Territory enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

: Add to your mana pool.

: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type.

Discussion (48)

multimedia on You got two coconuts and you're bangin'em together

23 hours ago

Hey, saw that you're looking for help.

In my opinion the Vampiric Bloodlust precon doesn't showcase Edgar's best ability which is eminence from the Command Zone. You want to take advantage of this with low mana cost Vampires, mostly one/two/three drops. With eminence you want to swarm the board fast with Vampires because each low mana cost Vamp you cast gives you 1/1 Vamp token. Eminence lets you establish an army of Vamps much faster if you're casting one and two drop Vamps.

I'm suggesting for you to consider completely changing the strategy of your deck? Reduce the avg. CMC which is currently high at 3.7, make it so you can play a lot more Vamps faster. Use Sanctum Seeker , Malakir Bloodwitch and Edgar as the top end Vampires and cut most of the rest. These three benefit a lot, can do a ton of damage with big armies of Vamps. For upgrades to the precon consider starting by add all the good one drop and two drop budget Vamps?

Budget Vamps ($2 or less each) to consider adding:

• Indulgent Aristocrat
• Vicious Conquistador
• Pulse Tracker
• Shadow Alley Denizen : eminence Vamp tokens are black.
• Vampire Lacerator
• Viscera Seer
• Vampire Cutthroat
• Skymarcher Aspirant
• Falkenrath Gorger
• Legion Lieutenant
• Dusk Legion Zealot
• Gifted Aetherborn
• Vampire Hexmage
• Olivia's Bloodsworn
• Asylum Visitor
• Bloodthrone Vampire
• Forerunner of the Legion
• Mirror Entity : is a Vampire.
• Yahenni, Undying Partisan

Can add all these cards for about $11.

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In all Commander deck builds lands that can ETB (enter the battlefield) untapped should be priority. Don't be afraid of including more basic lands instead of lands that ETB tapped. Budget lands to consider:

• Unclaimed Territory
• Caves of Koilos
• Battlefield Forge
• Tainted Field
• Exotic Orchard
• Concealed Courtyard
• Inspiring Vantage
• Foreboding Ruins
• Graven Cairns
• Smoldering Marsh
• Tainted Peak

Can add all these lands for about $17.

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Other budget upgrades to consider:

• Price of Progress
• Impact Tremors
• Boros Charm
• By Force
• Fire Covenant
• Read the Bones
• Sign in Blood
• Painful Truths
• Shared Triumph
• Dusk / Dawn
• Living Death

Can add the rest of these cards for about $12. Total price of suggested upgrades is about $40.

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I'm suggesting to make a lot of changes by cutting a large number of high mana cost cards replacing them with low mana cost cards especially Vampires. Except the lands most of the cards I'm suggesting to cut are good cards, but most have high mana costs. Cards to consider cutting:

• Rakdos Guildgate
• Orzhov Guildgate
• Boros Guildgate
• Akoum Refuge
• Bloodfell Caves
• Wind-Scarred Crag
• Stone Quarry
• Scoured Barrens
• Kabira Crossroads
• Forsaken Sanctuary
• Cinder Barrens
• Anowon, the Ruin Sage
• Blood Baron of Vizkopa
• Bloodline Necromancer
• Bloodsworn Steward
• Butcher of Malakir
• Crimson Honor Guard
• Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief
• Heir of Falkenrath
• Licia, Sanguine Tribune
• Mathas, Fiend Seeker
• Olivia Voldaren
• Patron of the Vein
• Sangromancer
• Skeletal Vampire
• Skymarch Bloodletter
• Vein Drinker
• Black Market
• Kindred Boon
• Alms of the Vein
• Ambition's Cost
• Blood Divination
• Consuming Vapors
• Kindred Charge
• Syphon Mind
• Fell the Mighty
• Well of Lost Dreams
• Worn Powerstone

If you like these suggestions, or have any questions I offer more advice.

Good luck with your deck.

hkhssweiss on Sliver mind

4 days ago

You can add in Cryptolith Rite for another way to have your slivers to tap for mana. Other than that, 5 color mana base is pretty hard. I would say since you are going for a budget land base, you can replace all your guildgates with the tri-color lands like Arcane Sanctum , Seaside Citadel , Jungle Shrine , Crumbling Necropolis , Savage Lands , Mystic Monastery , Nomad Outpost , Sandsteppe Citadel , Opulent Palace , and Frontier Bivouac . At least they will add an additional color in comparison with the guild gates. For budget multi-color lands there are lands like Exotic Orchard and Forbidden Orchard that are decent. Unclaimed Territory , Path of Ancestry , Cascading Cataracts , Sliver Hive , Ancient Ziggurat , and Mirrodin's Core can be some options for a decent 5 color mana base.

Hope that helps!

DRmagic2017 on Rise of the Lich Queen

6 days ago

Hi! Zombie tribal is one of my favorite decks too. I think Dark Salvation is a must. The same about Endless Ranks of the Dead . I also like Grimoire of the Dead . Oath of Liliana is another fun card but you'd better find at least a couple of Planeswalkers. For example Jace, Unraveler of Secrets (card advantage and control) and Liliana, Death's Majesty or Liliana, Untouched By Death . Zombie lords: Death Baron , Cemetery Reaper , Lord of the Undead . Board wipe is strongly recommended (at least one of these): Wrath of God Day of Judgment , Cleansing Nova , Damnation , Cyclonic Rift . Useful creatures: Diregraf Colossus , Metallic Mimic . Mana stabilization: Unclaimed Territory , Mana Confluence , Path of Ancestry . Good luck in brewing!

NuMetal on Vampire Commander Deck

2 weeks ago

A bunch more cards worth considering:
Dictate of Heliod
Adaptive Automaton
Door of Destinies
Obelisk of Urd
Metallic Mimic
Vanquisher's Banner
Phyrexian Arena
True Conviction
Mirror Entity

Also add Unclaimed Territory to the lands.

multimedia on Edgar's Puddin Party

2 weeks ago

Hey, this is a good start, but consider being even more aggressive with Vamps and eminence?

One drop Vamps are pretty important to the strategy with eminence, but the manabase here can't support them very well. Consider more lands that can ETB untapped turn one especially to make black mana for Vamps?

• Unclaimed Territory
• Caves of Koilos
• Sulfurous Springs
• Battlefield Forge
• Concealed Courtyard
• Inspiring Vantage
• Sacred Foundry
• Blood Crypt
• Luxury Suite
• City of Brass
• Mana Confluence
• Bloodstained Mire

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Consider more one drop Vamps?

• Shadow Alley Denizen : eminence Vamp tokens are black.
• Viscera Seer
• Vampire Cutthroat
• Skymarcher Aspirant
• Falkenrath Gorger
• Stromkirk Noble
• Insolent Neonate

Consider more two drop Vamps?

• Dusk Legion Zealot
• Olivia's Bloodsworn
• Vampire Interloper
• Bloodthrone Vampire
• Stromkirk Condemned
• Zulaport Cutthroat : not a Vamp, but very good when Vamp tokens are dieing.

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Other cards to consider:

• Sanctum Seeker and Brutal Hordechief : add to the aggression give a lot of opponent life lose reach with attacking Vamps.
• Shared Animosity : very powerful anthem effect with attacking tokens.
• Dark Prophecy : triggers when tokens die.
• Mass Hysteria
• Boros Charm : protection from most board wipes.
• Price of Progress : great burn in Commander, gives a lot of damage reach for two mana.
• Anguished Unmaking
• Swords to Plowshares

If you like some of these suggestions then I can help you to make cuts.

Good luck with your deck.

PhoenixNest on True Blood [Modern R/B Vampires]

2 weeks ago

Unclaimed Territory ?

multimedia on Mardu Aggro Sac

3 weeks ago

Hey, if you want to be aggressive with Judith on a budget then consider primary Boros colors and splash black for Judith? Hero of Precinct One , Boros Challenger , Venerated Loxodon and Heroic Reinforcements are good aggressive cards who can benefit from Judith. Go with a Human creature type sub-theme so you can use Unclaimed Territory as a rainbow land to help to consistently make , and Human casting costs.

You said it yourself in the description without a free sac outlet you'll have to make due with Pontiff and Artist. The problem is both these sac outlets aren't good enough to build around a strategy of sacrifice. Judith is good enough to build an aggressive strategy around her and there's plenty of good aggressive creatures in Standard especially in white. In my opinion that's the direction to expand on and cut down on the sac theme.

Good luck with your deck.

Skippyeights on Budget Pirate Aggro

3 weeks ago

Tonight I played in my first FNM since returning to the game. I have assembled some decks of my own and played a few casual games, but for my first constructed competition, I wanted something that I felt would not lead to abject failure. I ran a clone of your deck. Wow.

There were only six people so we played a causal structure with just three matches. Your beautiful deck went 2 and 1.

I was totally clueless to the meta, so I used the original build that included the Fiery Cannonade . Unfortunately, I would have been better off with the Duress package.

The first opponent was a very experienced player (it was his card shop) using a Dimir control/midrange that relied heavily on surveil for card advantage and to fuel some 2nd and 3rd turn Dimir Spybug s in the first game. Unfortunately I had to mulligan having drawn only one land. The next hand had two but I failed to draw another until the fifth turn. By then, one of the bugs was 4/4, the other was 3/3, and we had traded blows with the smaller pirates I had been able cast. Luckily, my third land let me launch a Fiery Cannonade that took out the smaller bug (alas, the heroic Rigging Runner it had blocked didn't make it) as well as the two Nightveil Sprite s that had pumped the bugs. Next turn I was able to cast a Kitesail Freebooter and when I sent a full charge the next turn, he blocked with his big (now 6/6) bug only to find a flash-cast Dire Fleet Poisoner helping out the Freebooter. Hurrah. I was able to drop in a Dire Fleet Neckbreaker and the game was quickly over. For the second game, I sideboarded in the Duress package as well as the Cast Down s and Price of Fame s. I used two of the Duress to great effect snagging countermagic both times, and the Cast Down s were useful against a wide variety of Dimir nasties like Dream Eater , Nightveil Predator , and Thief of Sanity . It took a bit of time, but I finally defeated my opponent after dropping two Neckbreakers for a big charge.

My second opponent was another recent returnee to Magic--we both tend to play with out land in front on the battlefield as was illustrated in the original MTG instruction pamphlet. He was playing an unmodified Ral Planeswalker deck. The speed of the pirate deck made short work of him in about ten minutes. For the remaining time, we swapped decks and played again. He wasn't familiar with the cards or mechanics so it was drawn out, but he was winning when the other matches ended. He also sends you compliments on the pirates...Arg.

Third match was against the winner from the other bracket. The player is the local judge, and she lives and breathes the game. She was playing a Teferi control deck. The deck was four colors (no green) and the manabase cost enough to feed a small goblin tribe for a decade--there were no basic lands. The first game I was able to get a decent start and was able to do significant damage before she cleared the board with a Deafening Clarion . She then dropped a Lyra which I was unable to answer and that game was soon over.

I almost swapped in the entire sideboard, leaving out only one of the March of the Drowned . I had a decent draw, but unfortunately, the three lands--two swamps and an Unclaimed Territory were the only land cards I drew for at least six turns. I was able to cast some pirates and did draw both Sorcerous Spyglass s and used them both against Teferi (the first was destroyed). Unfortunately, she cast a Rekindling Phoenix and without any regular red mana sources, the only way I could get rid of it was to use two Cast Down s, first during her turn, then during mine. The next turn, she cast another. After finally dropping a mountain, I was able to Lava Coil the buzzard and got in a few decent hits before the bitch Lyra hit the board again. Luckily, I drew into a Price of Fame and got rid of it, only to have her cast another. I did try to use a Dire Fleet Daredevil to borrow one of her creature kills, but she counterspelled him. My demise was as quick as it was inevitable.

Overall, the deck did well. I don't know enough about the Teferi deck to figure out what else I could have done against it, but the second round would have been much closer if I had not been mana hosed.

Having successfully used the deck, I have two questions. First, when you sideboard, what cards do you tend to pull to make room? I figure it is rather situational based on what the opponent's deck looked like in the first game, but what are the most likely cards you pull. Against the Teferi, I stripped out the Rigging Runner s and the Fiery Cannonade s. I also dropped two Ruin Raider (which may have been a mistake because she quickly burned the one I was able to cast in game 2) and all four of the Dire Fleet Poisoner s--the Deathtouch would be worthless against Lyra and I don't think she would have fallen for the same attacking Freebooter trick I pulled against my first opponent to get rid of the phoenix.

Second, what plans do you have to include cards from Allegiance? The creature cards don't fit the pirate theme, but with the possibly diminishing payoff of the Fiery Cannonade (which may change if the is a resurgence of aggro from Rakdos or Orzhov via the Allegiance cards) would it be worth it to include some non pirate creatures?

Aside from creatures, I think both Light Up the Stage and Theater of Horrors could be viable ways to get additional card advantage. With Spectacle, Light Up the Stage is a cheap way to access two more cards and you have until the end of your next turn to use them.. I saw the card used to great effect in the prerelease.

Theater of Horrors ? Don't know..your opponents see all cards as they build up, but that could be to your advantage if they focus on the potentials of the exiled cards and may not anticipate cards in hand. Plus basically drawing two card every turn without worrying about hand size? Only fear is removal that kills your enchantment andthus permanently exiling everything.

Anyway, thanks again for your deck. I am more confident about trying my decks, but I may still the sirens call to go sailing some Friday night with those scurvy seadogs. :)