The Song of Phyresis
Commander / EDH
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Behold blessed perfection//Happy Birthday to me! —Dec. 9, 2019
The previous Sunday (08 December) was a particularly special day for me as it was my Birthday! The icing on the cake however, was not only did I receive an awesome gift from my playgroup, but Secret Lair - was dropping it's ultra premium reprint of one of my all time favorite commanders Sliver Overlord on that day. This was the first time I've been really excited for my birthday in a awhile. As for my gift, my playgroup got me an altered Sol Ring from Scourge Alters:
My Awesome Birthday Present! Show
On an additional note, there's an alter in this deck I never got around to talking about so I figured now is as good a time as any. For my Birthday last year I commissioned an altered Skyshroud Claim from Revelen's Light:
Phyrexian Skyshroud Claim Show
Personally, I feel the alter to be underwhelming, but at least it's in the spirit of the deck. I think I paid way too much for it though. The lesson I learned here is never buy an alter sight unseen. Also, to ask my wife first before I pursue an any piece of custom art...because she has far better taste than I do.
TheHallberg says... #2
Wow, extremely cool deck!
I have a question regarding the visuals of the deck - how did you make the wallpaper custom? I can't figure out how to do it, LVL_666. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
October 2, 2019 5:27 a.m.
TheHallberg, PepsiAddicted, thank you both for the compliments - I pride myself on making deck pages as nice as the decks themselves. TheHallberg, curious about customizing your wallpaper? The short answer is that I used a CSS stylesheet - check out FancyTuesday's guides on CSS programming:
Those three guides should get your started, I forgot the name of the element you need to target to change your background. When I remember it, i'll make another post.
October 4, 2019 4:11 p.m.
Poly_raptor says... #5
Awesome deck! I can not think of anything to structurally improve it.
I Love the flavour. You could add in Caves of Koilos for even more flavour.
In the lore, The Caves of Koilos were inhabited by the untouchables, a group of people who were ill from working on the mana rig and being exposed to power stones in Dominaria. It was the location that Dyfed opened a portal between Dominaria and Phyrexia and at the end of the war Yawgmoth took the remaining sick inhabitants through the portal to phyrexia, where they became the first phyrexians.
October 17, 2019 12:03 p.m.
ShadowedLucifer says... #6
October 19, 2019 2:11 a.m.
Poly_raptor, thank you for the awesome card suggestion - I had no idea Caves of Koilos had so much story behind it. I actually remember opening this card with the old border back in high school. That foil would run me about $20 :( Including it would be more of a question of Flavor vs. Function. It'd have to jockey for Godless Shrine 's slot. For now, i'm going to just keep it on the back burner as I have a long-term plan for the manabase - get Revised Duals for the deck. So far, i'm well on my way. Speaking of mana...
ShadowedLucifer, for Bayou 's slot, i'd use Woodland Cemetery . That was the card in that slot previously. For Scrubland however I'd slot in ether Saltcrusted Steppe (that was the card previously in that slot) or Isolated Chapel . Hope those suggestions help - by the way, are you building a deck of similar design? I'd love to see your ideas.
October 20, 2019 8:13 p.m.
ShadowedLucifer says... #8
LVL_666 I'm trying to build one similar to it, but at the moment my budget doesn't allow for it sadly. Student loans got me like.
October 24, 2019 9:40 p.m.
ShadowedLucifer, I graduated back in 2009 - dem loans still got me. I swear college feels like a scam at times. If you need any swap suggestions, let me know!
October 25, 2019 8:28 a.m. Edited.
ShadowedLucifer says... #10
LVL_666 jeez. im only 2 years into college and im like 40k in debt or something. STEM majors be like >.>. but as soon as i can start building a deck similar to this i'll be sure to let you know lol
Mortlocke says... #1
PHATJER, so I know this is kind of well...late but another creature you should include in your build is anything with Undying such as Geralf's Messenger or Butcher Ghoul to accompany Yawgmoth, Thran Physician instead of Reassembling Skeleton .
September 17, 2019 8:18 p.m.