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| Format | Legality |
| 1v1 Commander | Legal |
| Archenemy | Legal |
| Arena | Legal |
| Block Constructed | 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 |
| Quest Magic | Legal |
| Tiny Leaders | Legal |
| Vanguard | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
Unquenchable Thirst
Enchantment — Aura
When Unquenchable Thirst enters the battlefield, if you control a Desert or there is a Desert card in your graveyard, tap enchanted creature.
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
Argy on
The Pioneer Blues
2 years ago
Due to you taking so much time to comment on this deck, TriusMalarky I'll explain why I didn't like these other card suggestions.
Runner's Bane - being able to pin down larger creatures is sometimes essential. I've found this to be so against Enchantment decks, for example.
For this reason Bind the Monster is also not a good way to go. I often win games by only one or two points, so every bit of life loss counts. It's one of the reasons why this deck is Mono Blue.
Unquenchable Thirst - I don't wish to add any Deserts to the deck, as that will dilute my mana base too much. It's stretched as is. I also can't afford to have an opponent creature with Vigilance, that I can't lock down.
That leaves our friend, Singing Bell Strike
TriusMalarky on
The Pioneer Blues
2 years ago
Fair. On Claustrophobia, I feel like you could consider Runner's Bane or Singing Bell Strike over it, or even Bind the Monster or Unquenchable Thirst , but that's debatable.
griffstick on Need help finding cards to …
3 years ago
Control Magic, Chamber of Manipulation, Parasitic Impetus, Abduction, Confiscate, corrupted conscious, Dream Leash, incase in ice, Enslave, Faith Unbroken, In Bolas's Clutches, Infinite Reflection, Lay Claim, Leaden Fists, Mind Control, Persuasion, Prison Term, Spectral Grasp, Spirit Away, take posession, Treachery, Vow of Duty, Vow of Flight, Vow of Lightning, vow of malace, Vow of Wildness, Weight of Conscience, Winter's Rest, Yavimaya's Embrace, Arrest, Bonds of Faith, Bound by Moonsilver, Bound in Silence, Cage of Hands, Cagemail, Captured by the Consulate, Caught in the Brights, Cessation, Choking Restraints, Crystallization, Demonic Torment, Desert's Hold, Dreadful Apathy, Faith's Fetters, Forced Worship, Hobble, Ice Cage, Kirtar's Desire, Krasis Incubation, Lawmage's Binding, Luminous Bonds, One Thousand Lashes, Pacifism, Pillory of the Sleepless, Recumbent Bliss, Revoke Privileges, Capture Sphere, Castaway's Despair, Charmed Sleep, Claustrophobia, Encrust, Malfunction, Mystic Restraints, Numbing Dose, Shackles, Sleep Paralysis, Stasis Cell, Unquenchable Thirst, Waterknot, Martial Impetus, Predatory Impetus, Psychic Impetus, shinny impetus, Darksteel Mutation, Deep Freeze, Frogify, Ichthyomorphosis, Imprisoned in the Moon, Kasmina's Transmutation, kenrith's transmutation, Lignify, One with the Stars, Reprobation, Song of the Dryads
and that's just auras
atomazoid on
Merfolk return
5 years ago
This might just be me, but I'd take Unquenchable Thirst out of your sideboard. Unless I missed something, you only have four deserts, Hashep Oasis, so even if you slotted then in your main board, there's still a low chance of that happening. I'd replace it with a more versatile card removal card.
BlaineTog on
Can't Touch This -- $11 Mono-Blue Unblockable
6 years ago
The conclusion I've come to about Prying Blade is that it's win-more. If you're doing well and can go shields-down to equip it, then it'll help you snowball the game with a quicker City's Blessing, which is nice but you were in a good position to win anyway. If you're doing poorly, you often can't even equip it until it's too late to help. Honed Khopesh is never quite as strong as Prying Blade can be, but it's never as weak, either. It can even help you block reasonably well in a pinch. All in all, Khopesh's flatter power curve makes it more consistent, and consistency is key.
Warkite Marauder is such a spicy card but I don't see it doing much for us. We don't need it to shrink down blockers and since we don't have hard removal, we can't usually take advantage of its ability all that well either. Marauder would be an all-star in some UB or UR Flying Pirates deck but I'm just not seeing much use for it here. Rest assured, though, I hella want to make that Pirates deck. I'm just waiting for the prices to drop low enough.
I agree with you about heavy hitters being a problem. You basically have to rely on a combination of bounce and counterspells -- extremely precarious. Waterknot is very tempting, but 3 mana is just so much for this deck. I'd really like to be able to make Unquenchable Thirst work but we're severely pinched on Deserts that would work for us. We really need all our lands to produce Blue mana and to come into play untapped, so that sticks up with just Ipnu Rivulet, which I guess might be nice tech against Approach decks but is otherwise just a very painful Island.
I don't know. For now, I'm hoping Admiral's Order might be enough to deal with bigger dudes, or maybe Sea Legs or Aether Meltdown can slow them down enough for us to outrace them. Or better yet, maybe we'll get something neat from Dominaria.
TheOrakle on
U/G(Simic) Pioneer Merfolk
6 years ago
Great deck, I really want to play merfolk when RIX comes out! I didn't playtest or anything, but looking at the list, I would take out the Merfolk Branchwalker and Mimic, which is essentially a worse Deeproot Elite, for more protection (Swift Warden) and /or Tempest Caller as a finisher, which would also smooth out your mana-curve. Deeproot Elite is better than Mimic because a) you choose where the counter goes, it doesn't have to be on the creature that entered, b) relevant type outside the battlefield, too (for Silvergill Adept). You could, if it doesn't hurt too much, run playsets of Hashep Oasis and Ipnu Rivulet, which tap for the same mana as Forests and Islands, respectively, but ping you for it, but they have additional effects, and you could also run Unquenchable Thirst with them for removal that would be sided out against Energy decks.
+1, great deck, you see the power in Mist-Cloaked Heralds, love this brew and the idea behind it.
Toxicat on
Flying Sneks and Diles
6 years ago
Hey, thx for your interest. =D
I like some of your ideas, the deck is more consistent in your version.
Naga Vitalist / Attune with Aether > Ranging Raptors
dive down > Blossoming Defense =)
Pounce > Cartouche of Strength (or half/half because trample)
basics for duals
But I dont wanna lose Ramunap Hydra (reach + vigilance and in best case 5/5), Haze of Pollen (won me some games when racing) and reaction-controll-stuff like Unquenchable Thirst (because I am bad with open mana for instants. xD)
At first I wanted some flying to be more unblockable, but sometimes even the way through air is blocked, so unblockable may help.
And I added enchantment hate, since I always lost to Authority of the Consuls
FullmetalWes on
Bad Bogles -- $7 / 1.5 tix Hexproof creatures
6 years ago
Yeah I'd totally cut out Larger Than Life. Unquenchable Thirst is a great choice! Works well with the benefaction too!