Whirlpool Rider

Creature — Merfolk

When Whirlpool Rider enters the battlefield, shuffle the cards from your hand into your library, then draw that many cards.

Discussion (50)

firerif on Aluren Shimmer Storm

4 weeks ago

Now that I have time

Filigree Familiar Seems off plan. I don't think it does what you think.

Same with Wirewood Savage

Cantrip/Tutor Creatures not in the deck

Spellseeker

Recruiter of the Guard

Dusk Legion Zealot

Bonded Fetch

Champion of Wits

Phyrexian Rager

Rogue Refiner

Generous Stray

Whirlpool Rider

Coiling Oracle

Carven Caryatid

Shardless Agent

I particularly Recommend Recruiter since it is an instant win with aluren if you run like 1 more piece.

multimedia on

1 month ago

Hey, nice start, but The Locust God is fueled by mass draw spells and I don't see very many here.

Archivist is good and his ability is called a wheel. You'll hear this term a lot in Commander and what it means is all players or just you shuffle some number of cards from hands and/or graveyard into library and then draw cards. This effect is very good with Locust because he triggers for each single draw therefore if you draw seven cards you make seven 1/1 Insects. Drawing seven of more cards from casting one card is very good.

Budget cards ($4 or less each) to consider adding:

• Shivan Reef
• Desolate Lighthouse
• Windfall : wheel for all players.
• Whirlpool Warrior : two wheels, one for you and one for all players.
• Skullclamp : with Locust depending on how much mana you have is a lot of draw and 1/1 Insects. By equipping a 1/1 Insect this kill it, but as a result you draw two cards and make two more Insects.
• Pull from Tomorrow
• Blue Sun's Zenith : reusable mass draw.
• Brainstorm : draw three for one mana.
• Magus of the Wheel : wheel for all players.
• Whirlpool Rider : wheel for you.
• Bident of Thassa : draw cards when 1/1 Insects hit an opponent which makes more insects.
• Coastal Piracy : same as Bident.
• Mystic Remora : one of the best sources of repeatable draw in multiplayer Commander.
• Library of Leng : another effect of no maximum hand size. You already have Tower that does this, but some redundancy is helpful for this effect since it's pretty important to have when drawing a lot of cards.
• Psychosis Crawler : make your opponents lose life when you draw cards and it can get very big.
• Impact Tremors : whenever a 1/1 Insect token is created this does 1 damage to each opponent.
• Expedition Map : tutor for Reliquary Tower.

Cards to consider cutting:

• Expedite
• Browbeat
• Flame Fusillade
• Renegade Tactics
• Rile
• Slip Through Space
• Warlord's Fury
• Dual Casting
• Curiosity
• Jalira, Master Polymorphist
• Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer
• Rummaging Goblin
• Epic Experiment
• Mechanized Production

Good luck with your deck.

simplebricks on $10 Deckbuilding Challenge - Storm

2 months ago

Whelming Wave is a cheap board wipe but was just a few cents too expensive to replace aetherize.

Vapor Snag and Shock are also cheap removal that might be able to replace some other card in the deck. Flame Slash is usually better as removal but can't be used as an instant-speed finisher.

Counterspells can be easily customized to hit creatures, instants or noncreatures within the budget. Choose what you want for your meta.

As for draw spells, Tormenting Voice is probably better than Whirlpool Rider against non-blue decks. Treasure Cruise is also within budget but needs an enabler. Anticipate is also cheap but I initially cut it in favour of the whirlpools based on the reasoning that they can draw you into anything if you have the combo set up (infinite mana means infinite displaces on archaeomancer+any other creature).

One final word on finishers, fireball has the same problem as grapeshot. They are sorceries. I would recommend switching it with Fall of the Titans or with Volcanic Geyser . Fireball is iconic but it sadly is not as good as other budget replacements.

simplebricks on Deckbuilding Challenge - Starcity pricing

2 months ago

Drake-storm:

A blink deck that makes infinite mana and storm and then can grapeshot to death, for $9,49

2x AEtherize 3x Archaeomancer 3x Compulsive Research 2x Dispel 3x Ghostly Flicker 2x Goblin Instigator 3x Grapeshot 3x Into the Roil 16x Island 8x Mountain 2x Negate 4x Peregrine Drake 4x Sea Gate Oracle 3x Whirlpool Rider 2x Willbender

oliveoilonyaasscureshemorrhoid on Pir and Toothy spell slinger

3 months ago

There's a couple more flicker effects that I don't see in your main or sideboard like Nephalia Smuggler / Displace / Illusionist's Stratagem / Deadeye Navigator and weird ones like Baral's Expertise and Supplant Form . And creatures that counter spells work well with blink like Frilled Mystic / Mystic Snake / Draining Whelk .

There's also Everflowing Chalice / Astral Cornucopia that work with Pir, and Thrummingbird / Skyship Plunderer that are basically magpies (with Toothy) and help the counter themes. Tel-Jilad Stylus / Crystal Shard / Lord of the Unreal helps with protecting Toothy. What do you think about Whirlpool Drake / Whirlpool Rider / Forgotten Creation / Teferi's Puzzle Box as an additional Alhammarret's Archive? Turbulent Dreams is a nice additional Cyclonic Rift. And why do you run no planeswalkers like Kiora, the Crashing Wave / Nissa, Vital Force / Garruk, Primal Hunter (they enter the battlefield and activate with an additional counter with Pir.

What do you think of Empyrial Plate / Thassa, God of the Sea / Words of Wilding / Sphinx's Tutelage / Psychic Corrosion / Key to the City as an extra wincon? I have my own deck (here)[http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/22-07-18-pirtoothy/?cat=type&sort=cost] and I'm considering if these are suboptimal.

oliveoilonyaasscureshemorrhoid on Pir and Toothy spell slinger

3 months ago

There's a couple more flicker effects that I don't see in your main or sideboard like Nephalia Smuggler / Displace / Illusionist's Stratagem / Deadeye Navigator and weird ones like Baral's Expertise and Supplant Form .

There's also Everflowing Chalice / Astral Cornucopia that work with Pir, and Thrummingbird / Skyship Plunderer that are basically magpies (with Toothy) and help the counter themes. Tel-Jilad Stylus / Crystal Shard / Lord of the Unreal helps with protecting Toothy. What do you think about Whirlpool Drake / Whirlpool Rider / Forgotten Creation / Teferi's Puzzle Box as an additional Alhammarret's Archive? Turbulent Dreams is a nice additional Cyclonic Rift. And why do you run no planeswalkers like Kiora, the Crashing Wave / Nissa, Vital Force / Garruk, Primal Hunter that enter the battlefield and activate with an additional counter with Pir?

What do you think of Empyrial Plate / Thassa, God of the Sea / Words of Wilding / Sphinx's Tutelage / Psychic Corrosion / Key to the City as an extra wincon? I have my own deck (here)[http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/22-07-18-pirtoothy/?cat=type&sort=cost] and I'm considering if these are suboptimal.

multimedia on It's a Draw - You Lose

4 months ago

Hey, looks good, but in my opinion you're not taking enough advantage of low mana cost card draw with blue in Commander. Wheels are great, but you also want spells that can help to draw into or find wheels. There's a limit on the amount of high CMC creatures/spells you want to play because Locust God is your six drop you already have your high end card to play and it's in the Command Zone. Consider cutting a large amount of high CMC cards for low CMC draw/tutors?

Cards to consider adding:

• Ponder
• Preordain
• Serum Visions
• Mystical Tutor: great with Reforge the Soul.
• Gamble
• Whirlpool Rider
• Spellseeker
• Trinket Mage: tutor for Ring, Top or Elixir
• Laboratory Maniac: win condition when you draw your entire deck
• Commander's Sphere
• Consecrated Sphinx: other than Locust God the second best six drop you could play
• Treasure Cruise: delve is good with wheels
• Dig Through Time

Lands:

• Shivan Reef
• Desolate Lighthouse
• Geier Reach Sanitarium
• Temple of Epiphany

Good luck with your deck.

TheSurgeon on Better Bigger Bluerer Eraserer

4 months ago

shirouu- First, thank you for the uovote and thanks for considering my deck for a comeback!

Yeah, the "No" factor of this deck makes it pretty aggravating to play.
The real wallet sluggers here are:
Mesmeric Orb- These are nearly 40% of the deck's cost. Unfortunately, also nearly indespensible to the deck's mechanics. Doing so much of the heavy lifting, I'm afraid there isn't any comparable replacement for their long-game potency.

You may be able to replace these with some hard milling cards like Mind Sculpt, Tome Scour, Sanity Grinding, or Memory Erosion. All much cheaper than Orb, but will ultimately do less in the long run.

Oboro, Palace in the Clouds- this isn't necessary to the deck. In fact, it's in this list, but I don't actually have one for it in paper. My one copy is in my Esper Salt Mill. This list does quite well without it. You could use Halimar Depths for some deck fixing, and it would work with Deprive and Hedron Crab in a defensive position but still add fuel to your wincon.

Thing in the Ice  ^Flip- This is still in testing. With only 2 in the deck, it's not a crucial card. More of a backup wincon should I face a go-wide token or weenie deck. You could do AEtherize, or fill in with one more of each Unsummon and Vapor Snag. I've even been considering Boomerang, so I can return their lands as well.

On the low end of pricing, these cards are over 50% of the deck's cost. I'm not sure how competitive your meta is, but this will still be annoying in any capacity. If you're playing more casually, you can always do a casual mill like Bigger Bluer Eraserer, this deck features 2 cards, not legal in Modern: Whirlpool Rider and Accumulated Knowledge.

The other option to making this more effective with a budget, would be to add some more tempo. Mana Leaks, or other cheap disruption spells would simply buy you time to finish the job without the Orbs.

Hope this helps!! And I sincerely hope you get to use this and win with it. It's a lot of fun if you really like being the troll at the table!

Any more questions, or I can help, let me know!!
Go! Conquer!