Ever have a card you never draw?
Commander (EDH) forum
Posted on Dec. 12, 2016, 3:18 p.m. by Sloanan
So I've got a "fun" Captain Sisay hatebear deck. In said deck, I have the promo version Survival of the Fittest. It's shiny and chrome (spared no expense) and can in theory win me the game very quickly after using it.
Thing is, I've had the deck for over a year now and not ONCE have I ever drawn into it or tutored for it. I've let friends use the deck and they've gone to town with it, but every time I've had a chance to get it, I usually go instead for a Living Plane for the win or something and am somehow just incapable of drawing it. Every time I think I might take it out, I realize that there's juuuuust too much combo potential to it (I'm still looking to use the Loyal Retainers into Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite combo).
So, just to commiserate, dear readers, are there any cards you've got that you're proud of having in your deck but the heart of the cards makes it so that you just can't ever use in a game? Vent away!
Cavern of Souls has done mean things to me before in my Narset, Enlightened Master deck. Since she's the only creature spell in the deck; it's essential that I play her. Do you think I ever draw cavern against blue decks? No. It's always against decks with zero Counterspells lmao
Seedtime is a funny one I was running in my Rashmi, Eternities Crafter for a while. My friend and I both picked one up for the lolz and he's won multiple games with it. Not me though. It's evaded me time and time again haha
December 12, 2016 3:41 p.m.
Trading Post in my sharuum deck. I guess post isn't critical to the deck nor remotely close to the best card I could draw, but it's still real good. After about a year of this I just took the thing out for a nihil spellbomb to combat graveyard decks. At least the spellbomb is easier to tutor.
December 12, 2016 3:45 p.m.
My expedition Windswept Heath its by far one of my most prozed foils and although i draw it a lot I always just sacrifice it like a normal fetch land so no one gets to see it on the battlefield
December 12, 2016 4:22 p.m.
In a version of Saskia the Unyielding I built, I not once drew into my secret tech, Sorin, Lord of Innistrad. No biggie but I feel like playing him. Maybe Dune-Brood Superfriends?
December 12, 2016 4:48 p.m.
Oh yeah. Several, actually. I'm also the king of drawing Rhystic Study. On top of that, the RNG gods love me. I lead maybe half of all games in a 4 man pod.
December 12, 2016 5:24 p.m.
Will361405 says... #8
Mines not expensive but it is one of my favorites, I hardly ever cast it, but it is so fun especially with token doublers out Crush of Wurms
December 12, 2016 7:30 p.m.
joshuaizac says... #9
Not so much "A CARD," per say, but I'm quite convinced they'res a mythical pocket of 8-12 cards in EVERY Commander Deck (that's not capable of drawing/self-milling the whole deck) wherein 6 or 7 lands and a handful of cards live. This "Black Hole" I'm certain is responsible for numerous cases of being mana screwed, not getting the removal you need in time and a plethora of other issues. This Black Hole also happens to be user specific, and never applies to a deck when you loan it to someone else for a game. This Black Hole is also immune to any form of shuffling, aside from sorting the entire deck out into the smallest form of each category within, then replacing a few cards. Note This doesn't actually remove said Black Hole, but rather realigns its form, substance and shape, causing it to eat an alternate set of 8-12 cards.
December 12, 2016 8:44 p.m.
joshuaizac is a doctor so what he said must be true!
December 12, 2016 8:59 p.m.
Come to think of it with this black hole talk, I never draw Trading Post, Muzzio, Visionary Architect, Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas, Azorius Chancery, or Dimir Aqueduct in my sharuum deck... I guess my black hole is nice to me, since none of those cards are critical to my deck...
December 12, 2016 9:11 p.m.
RazortoothMtg says... #13
So, kind of different, but in the last month or so, I've played a ton of commander, and cast Gamble 37 times. Every time I've had 7 cards in hand and discarded what I tutored for.
For something closer to the topic, it's a less used deck, but I NEVER draw into my Ashnod's Altar in my Karador deck.
December 12, 2016 10:27 p.m.
joshuaizac says... #14
I can relate with that too RazortoothMtg, for two and a half months straight, EVERY GAME with my Izzet Durdles (Mizzix of the Izmagnus casual quasi-storm deck) gave me Fog Bank, Guard Gomazoa, Rite of Replication and Clone Legion within my first 10 cards, no matter how I (Partial-Paris) mulligan'd or whatever.
I didn't mind too much but aggro deck players hated me (more).
December 12, 2016 10:48 p.m.
I only ever draw Blade of Selves in 1v1. I hear all these crazy stories about the card from other people but I've never gotten to use it myself:(.
December 13, 2016 12:41 a.m.
Lightpulsar9 says... #16
Damnation in my Sidisi, Brood Tyrant deck. And Birthing Pod in my Selvala, Explorer Returned deck. I swear I havn't even seen the pod in months. I had to just now go check the deck list to make sure it's still in the deck...
December 13, 2016 7:40 a.m.
god_dammit_nappa says... #17
Ironically, it's Sol Ring in my mono green Jolrael Empress of Angry Lands deck.
Wolfsbane706 says... #2
My Planeswalkers. Both versions of Kiora and they never EVER hit the field during a match. They'd work wonders if they did, but I can never seen to draw them, even during playtesting.
December 12, 2016 3:28 p.m.