Optimator on Obligatory Settlement Joke

1 hour ago

I love it! Brilliant deck name, too.

Seuchenschutz on Defiler Wombo Combo

2 hours ago

I can see more or less how your combo works, but how does it finish? I see how you can put almost all green creatures in your deck out and put many +1+1 counters on them, but without Concordant Crossroads you wont be able to finish and the next board wipe will be your demise. You also get a lot of damage from defiler.

Optimator on Ubangi Stomp

2 hours ago

Stump Stomp  ^Flip

Bridgeworks Battle  ^Flip

Disciple of Freyalise  ^Flip

Sundering Eruption  ^Flip

Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip

TypicalTimmy on Card creation challenge

3 hours ago

"Create a card that shows a feeling of relief."

Sweet Release of Death

Instant

Sacrifice a creature you control. You gain life equal to its power plus it's mana value. Exile your graveyard.

"Unlike the others," Edgar growled with a sort of twisted-delight, "your death will mean something."

Make a new keyworded mechanic.

Avacyn1986 on Phyrexia

4 hours ago

Update: It's devastating...

Gidgetimer on Why is WotC Reducing the …

6 hours ago

"I hope this doesn't seem too disagreeable, but I don't know how you can argue Commander doesn't have some fairly strict rules about decks..."

My comment was in direct response to someone using the format philosophy to try and backup that Tutors are antithetical to the format and quoting "promote an environment where players are not pressured to conform to any specific method of deckbuilding" to me. I realize that the social contract imposes deck building restrictions. As a matter of fact I specified "You just have to make sure that everyone's expectations are the same within a pod".

If you don't want to include tutors, that is fine. If you don't want to play against tutors, let me know. If you want to act like you are somehow playing a more "pure" version of commander or that commander isn't for me because I run tutors, get out of here with that.

zn.tportlock on My spells are your spells

7 hours ago

Rev, tithe extractor is great

ProspectiveGIS on Make Everything Hurt

8 hours ago

TheForsakenOne Thank you.

I removed Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath and Gonti's Machinations, and added back in Peer into the Abyss, good suggestions. Made a fair amount of changes as well, mostly to help ramp mana and lands.

x3n05had3 updated (5) Guide Snakes For The …

9 hours ago

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TheVectornaut on Rise of the Griffins

9 hours ago

While I like the idea of the current enchantment combo, I don't know that it's really necessary. Privileged Position already protects your stuff without the need to get out 2 cards. Further, turning all of your lands into enchantments opens you up to instantly losing the game to something like Spring Cleaning, although players are more likely to play mass wipes that will also destroy or exile their permanents due to Enchanted Evening's symmetry. Speaking of, you can try to take advanatge of that symmetry in other ways like playing Azorius First-Wing as an unblockable griffin, assuming you don't mind going into blue. Otherwise, I'd still try to upgrade the griffins here to be a little faster and more impactful. Diving Griffin and Resplendent Griffin have the potential to be better than Sunspire Griffin, depending on the final build. Fearless Fledgling and Griffin Rider are both aggressive options to shore up the 2 slot in a way I think would be more impactful than Crashing Drawbridge or the currently underwhelming Pearl Medallion. Finally, Wanted Griffin may be better than Senate Griffin at 4, again depending on what your game plan ends up being. Mutavault and Metallic Mimic are some less budget friendly options that could help the tribe's limited card pool.

As for anthems, I usually prefer the 2 cost options to the 3, although I do like Always Watching. Honor of the Pure is the vanilla option while Rally the Ranks or even Obelisk of Urd could fit in a tribal shell. One thing I thought of while looking at the high number of white pips making the Medallion worse was that you could lean into that and go for a mono-white devotion build. Some anthems like Flowering of the White Tree and Benalish Marshal already fit well in such a deck. You'd definitely want a playset of Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx and some sort of payoff for the extra mana like Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite, Walking Ballista, or whatever other bomb you prefer. You'd also want something to play on 1 for that strategy. War Falcon has some synergy with Griffin Rider, Esper Sentinel is a generically powerful draw engine, and Weathered Wayfarer is a classic way to find Nykthos. War Falcon also brings to mind the idea of leaning more into broad flying support like Sephara, Sky's Blade and Rally of Wings, although I acknowledge going down that path could severely dilute the tribal identity of the deck. One final approach I can think of is pivoting to focus on lifegain to use the Griffin Aerie in your maybeboard. You'd definitely need cheaper ways to gain life than True Conviction, especially since I think it's already one of the weaker cards in the deck. The reality is that you'd probably be nudged towards splitting the griffins with angels to take advanatge of Angelic Accord, Bishop of Wings, Speaker of the Heavens, and even Archangel of Thune. Outside of that, the options are more limited. Maybe mass lifelink could be made cheaper with Metallic Mimic plus Envoy of the Ancestors or Abzan Battle Priest. This is the only route where I actually see Path of Bravery being worth it.

Craeter on Our Lord and Master Gitrog

9 hours ago

Is Conduit of Worlds on your radar? Could provide some redundancy for Crucible if it's not drawn or destroyed.

KongMing on Reyhan and the Dargo Nauts

10 hours ago

How about Revel in Riches for that sweet alt-wincon? Old Gnawbone could get some mileage in for you too.