Meletis Diplomacy

Commander / EDH* RyoToya

SCORE: 6 | 1984 VIEWS | IN 3 FOLDERS


Jan. 8, 2018

Just basic tweaking, making the enchantment theme more consistent and added some recovery, etc. First swapped Psychosis Crawler for Hanna, Ship's Navigator. One, I actually aesthetically dislike the Crawler and love Terese Nielsen's rendition of Hanna. Two, she allows for recovery of enchantments, including Starfield should the board be nuked. It does tone down the pinging nature of the card draw, but as that also paints a target on you, it helps you fly a bit more under the radar.

Next I took out Elspeth, Knight-Errant and put in Heliod, God of the Sun. The flavor of taking out Elspeth with Heliod not withstanding, he ties in better with the enchantment theme, allows for some stabilization with his tokens, as well as pinging with Purphoros, God of the Forge and Impact Tremors, card draw with Eidolon of Blossoms (note she, unlike enchantresses, says ETB, not cast), and puts a big indestructible body on the board pretty easily.

After that, keeping with enchantments, I swapped out two artifacts for their enchantment equivalents. Nothing to explain, just adding more enchantment targets and triggers. Vedalken Orrery becomes Leyline of Anticipation and Howling Mine becomes Dictate of Kruphix. There's a bit of an upgrade for both, with Leyline being able to start the game in play, and Dictate being flashed in so you get first draw while keeping mana open for responses just in case until then, but basically speaking they're the same thing, just in enchantment form.

Wargate becomes Growing Rites of Itlimoc  Flip. I just like Growing Rites, it permits many triggers of some spells, allows for crazy mana generation late game for Sylvan Offering and Sphinx's Revelation, and doesn't put your opponents SO on edge like a big Wargate would. Oh yeah, and with Kefnet the Mindful you're able to bounce it and use it over and over. Value!

Wave of Reckoning turns into Fumigate. The way my particular build goes, basically the Commander and the Theros gods are going to survive and everything else blows up with Wave, or we lose the Kings in the explosion but gain life from EVERYTHING that hits the bin. With us playing a war of attrition, I chose the lifegain over the chance to keep only a couple creatures on the board.