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| Format | Legality |
| 1v1 Commander | Legal |
| Archenemy | Legal |
| Arena | Legal |
| Big Apple Highlander | Legal |
| Block Constructed | Legal |
| Canadian Highlander | Legal |
| Casual | Legal |
| Commander / EDH | Legal |
| Commander: Rule 0 | Legal |
| Custom | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Freeform | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Highlander | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Historic Brawl | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Leviathan | Legal |
| Limited | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Modern Beyond Horizons | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Pioneer | Legal |
| Planar Constructed | Legal |
| Planechase | Legal |
| PreDH | Legal |
| Premodern | Legal |
| Quest Magic | Legal |
| Vanguard | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
Explosive Vegetation
Sorcery
Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
hyalopterouslemur on
Ode to the Old Commanders: Ta-ta-ta Tokens!
2 weeks ago
I'll treat yours as a Bracket 2 with no tutors.
Okay, so replace Savra, Queen of the Golgari with Grave Pact or Dictate of Erebos. I'm assuming you want the card advantage, but this is better because 1) any of your creatures dying triggers it, and 2) it doesn't cost you life. At the same time, it won't gain you life either the way Savra will, but since lifegain is negligible...yeah.
Anguished Unmaking > Mortify Sure, you shock yourself, but you exile (which is permanent except for like, two cards that no one ever plays) any nonland permanent.
Morbid Opportunist is insane in Ghave. There is no reason you shouldn't be able to draw on each turn (not "each of your turns", each turn). The same goes for Welcoming Vampire.
Have you considered No Mercy? Ghave is kind of a KOS commander because of his potential for combos and Stax. No Mercy punishes players for attacking you.
Fertilid is just bad. I'd rather play Explosive Vegetation than Fertilid, and there are like, five strictly betters for Veggies.
Viscera Seer and Jar of Eyeballs are nice for consistency.
Blade of the Bloodchief gives you more +1/+1 counters.
Spike Weaver is another "just try and attack me" card. I like it more than Spike Feeder, which is only good in that it goes infinite with Archangel of Thune. Since you're trying to avoid infinite combos, I would avoid going that way.
Corpse Knight, Bastion of Remembrance, Cruel Celebrant, Zulaport Cutthroat, just pick a couple of these because they add a win condition in case an opponent uses Ghostly Prison and friends, or worse, Moat.
hyalopterouslemur on Overrated cards?
4 weeks ago
Third. Dark Confidant is second.
Another one I see a lot is Fertilid. Most of the time it's a slower Explosive Vegetation, admittedly for instead of , but you have to pay twice, so you're basically payingg over three turns. There are some typal benefits, and there are options for recursion, but that's about all I can see it in. All of that, and Veggies is kind of...There are like, 5 strictly better Veggies?
No, seriously, I looked it up.
Anyway, Fertilid is worse than Veggies, and definitely worse than Cultivate/Kodama's Reach, but I keep seeing it.
trippy_mcfly on
Cumly Cube
1 month ago
Introducing Cumly Cube 1.4.1! 4 months ago, Cumly Cube 1.4 was released. This was the final major update. As promised, minor tweaks would continue, both to fix any remaining imbalances and keep the card pool fresh. The following 19 swaps should help remove some dominant strategies, specifically by curtailing the power of the “green slop” archetype. The additions also add a lot of new excitement to the cube in only 19 cards; there are multiple cards that introduce the monarch into the game, making this a more central mechanic of Cumly Cube, and there is one card that can be used as a niche combo finish with a Cumly Cube staple.
Here are the changes, provided with brief justifications:
REMOVED:
- Artifact Mutation: too powerful
- Aura Mutation: too powerful
- Captain Sisay: too powerful
- Chromatic Lantern: mana fixing should not be this easy
- Druid of the Anima: too obvious a choice of Cumly
- Endbringer: too powerful in multiplayer
- Explosive Vegetation: mana fixing should not be this easy
- Firemind Vessel: mana fixing should not be this easy
- Gilded Goose: too obvious a choice of Cumly
- Gilded Lotus
: too much ramp
- Glissa Sunseeker: too hateful against artifact decks
- Growth Spasm: too much ramp
- Growth Spiral: too much ramp
- Jetmir, Nexus of Revels: too obvious a choice of Cumly
- Joiner Adept: too obvious a choice of Cumly
- Karakas: too powerful
- Library of Alexandria: too powerful
- Muldrotha, the Gravetide: too powerful
- Worldfire: an iconic Cumly Cube card, but sadly too unbalanced due to the ability to float mana and cast your Cumly after, almost certainly winning the game. This strategy still exists with Apocalypse, but is less of a guarantee now
ADDED:
- Afterlife Insurance: supports the Spirit creature type and instant synergies
- Arcane Encyclopedia: supports artifact decks
- Court of Ardenvale: the monarch is now supported more heavily in Cumly Cube
- Eldrazi Confluence: supports Eldrazi decks
- Fiend Hunter: supports the Human creature type
- Horizon of Progress: a utility land to help with mana fixing
- Moira, Urborg Haunt: supports the Spirit creature type and graveyard synergies
- Palace Sentinels: the monarch is now supported more heavily in Cumly Cube, and supports the Human creature type
- Papalymo Totolymo: supports the Dwarf creature type and noncreature synergies
- Refocus: supports instant synergies
- Rile: supports instant synergies and works well with Dinosaurs
- Sage of Hours: supports the Human creature type and +1/+1 counter decks
- Secluded Courtyard: encourages creature synergies
- Sigarda, Champion of Light: supports the Angel creature type and the Human creature type
- Staunch Throneguard: the monarch is now supported more heavily in Cumly Cube, and supports the Construct creature type
- Thassa's Ire: supports enchantment decks and can do some very powerful things with certain creatures
- The Golden Throne: supports sacrifice decks and facilitates possible great comebacks
- Three Tree City: encourages creature synergies
- Wizard's Rockets: a utility artifact to help with mana fixing
Snap157 on
shelob spiders
9 months ago
you are very light on lands for having a 6 mana commander. I would say 38 minimum. I would cut your mana artifacts to make room. You will also want to prioritize jumping from 4 to 6 mana. Think about Explosive Vegetation, Market Festival, or Circuitous Route
With shelob being such a high cmc I would recommend some Undying Evil-style cards. Maybe Not Dead After All, or Undying Malice.
I'm a huge Nyx Weaver fan and it could be cool to have some graveyard synergies as well since you're in the perfect colors for it. Your card draw package is a bit weak and I'm worried about you running out of gas so I would add something like Moonlight Bargain or Harmonize with some Regrowth effects. I also love Arachnus Spinner and Arachnus Web as a removal pair, and Halana, Kessig Ranger is the creme de la creme of pissing off your opponents with everything having deathtouch.
Gidgetimer on How Good is Atalan Jackal?
1 year ago
Explosive Vegetation isn't a staple ramp card in commander. It is possible ramp in the lowest power of battlecruiser metas or a trap to inexperienced deck builders in any other meta. Even in commander you want your ramp predominately to be 2 or less mana with limited 3 mana ramp. Even then ramp at 3 should either: ramp multiple mana; be ramping you into something specific at 5 mana; or provide exceptional fixing.
This isn't to say that I have never run Explosive Veggies. I have and have also ran Skyshroud Claim. But most of the time there is no reason to run Veggies and the use case for Claim is decks with a mana dump in the command zone.
On the topic of Wood Elves; it may not be a worse Cultivate, but unless you are abusing the ETB or have a creature cast or ETB trigger you are also getting it IS just a worse Nature's Lore/Three Visits
wallisface on How Good is Atalan Jackal?
1 year ago
DemonDragonJ I hadn't mentioned Explosive Vegetation because I'm not a commander player, so not aware of any staple ramp cards. Personally however, I'd rather be doing something much more impactful for 4 mana than just getting lands (most 4 mana cards in Modern either win you the game or create massive board-pressure, and I feel like you'd be wanting similarly big-impact cards for edh at this mana-cost).
On my off-hand comment of "Ramping for ramps-sake doesn't really solve anything." - that comment wasn't pointed at any specific ramp card, but the concept/effect as a whole. There's not a lot of point including ramp cards in a deck if it's not working towards some kind of massive payoff. Any card that is ramping you is one-less impactful card in your hand, as well as one-less turn creating presence on the board. There is for-sure a lot of decks that need ramp in order to pull of some kind of ridiculous winning-combo (i.e. Amulet-Titan, Tron), but there's also a lot of cases where people add ramp into their deck to try and solve a mana-curve problem, or some other deckbuilding issue. There's a lot of times I see people here ramping as a bandaid-to-a-bigger-problem, when they realistically should be addressing their mana-curve. I have no idea if this is the case with your deck, but a good question to ask a deck is whether the ramp is allowing you to do something obnoxious, or if its actually a juxtaposition to the decks goals.
^ off course, that entire last paragraph is veering us wildly off-topic for this thread, so feel free to ignore.
DemonDragonJ on How Good is Atalan Jackal?
1 year ago
wallisface, Kazierts, your points make sense, and, perhaps I can find a creature that is a better alternative than is Atalan Jackal, although I still think that it is a very interesting idea, and you also said that "ramping for the sake of ramping does not solve anything," but is that not what Cultivate does? Also, why has no one yet mentioned Explosive Vegetation? For one more mana over Cultivate, it can put two lands onto the battlefield, making it essentially a double version of Rampant Growth.
DreadKhan on Which is More Important: Total …
1 year ago
In my limited experience, most decks want it's 'key pieces' to be as low to the ground as possible, this is why Night's Whisper is a very good card, it works in hands where you are short of key resources (but not so short that you couldn't risk the hand), and it's still completely worth playing if you draw it fairly late in the game; drawing 2 cards is almost universally a good thing, and only paying 1B to do it means you can either play it early or play it late and follow it up with something you drew. In contrast a card like Tower of Fortunes is a trap in almost every list because you need to input a grand total of 12 mana to draw ANY cards, meaning it's a dead card until you can generate 8 mana in one turn. That makes the card a lot worse in practice, since every game has early turns and only some games go long enough for Tower to really shine.
The same is true about ramping, something like Utopia Sprawl (or Crop Rotation might fit better lol) is incredibly efficient, it can be played turn 1 in many games and if it's drawn late it's literally mana neutral, making it a 'free roll' in decks that can count on having a Forest early. In contrast Explosive Vegetation is unplayable turn 1 in almost any situation, ditto for turn 2, and you will need to have ramped to play it by turn 3. This means that if you're stuck on 2 lands something like Farseek could find you a key land but Explosive Veggies will just sit there making you feel stupid. This makes Explosive Veggies a relatively unimpressive card, and that's why you don't see as much ramp that costs more than 3 (and many Spikey players hate paying more than 2 for ramp), it plays a lot worse in hands that would otherwise be keeps, and they can actually cost you games.
In contrast though there are 'value cards' (usually MV 4-6), these aren't necessarily going to win the game by themselves but these are important in metas that don't expect anyone to win too early. These types of cards can cost more mana because they're doing a lot, but most deck builders quickly realize you can only include so many of this type of card, specifically because they WILL clog your early hands. These types of cards drive up your average MV, most people like something in the 2.5-3.5 range (most prefer lower fwiw). It's worth noting that spells that cost 7-10 mana are often WAY more powerful, but most of these aren't necessary to win games, and due to their sky high MV these are even worse about clogging your hand. People are generally fine with Expropriate from a power level perspective, even if many find it boring, but I think a plurality of decks that are power level 7 and up eschew big mana stuff because they don't need it, if you can win with Rite of the Raging Storm then you don't need Expropriate. In cEDH people actually skew even lower on MVs, especially Ad Nauseam lists, and it turns out it's very possible to win games using almost nothing but MV 2 and under stuff, and unsurprisingly these incredibly fast and low to the ground win cons are the most powerful.
Ultimately the less resources you need to put into an effect the better that effect. It's equally true that all things being equal doing the exact same thing a turn earlier is MUCH better, and it keeps getting better each turn sooner (in an exponential manner). The complication for me is that cards aren't very equal, and it's actually possible to build decks that assiduously ignore all of the conventions I mentioned here (my Pavel Maliki deck has 17 5 drops and an average MV of 4.20, while my Sunastian Falconer deck has a gobsmacking MV of 5.35, both are functional decks IMHO) if you simply run better cards that have relatively high MVs, and run enough of them that you will consistently have one or more to choose from. The Pavel deck happily runs some stuff like Omen of Fire that can be completely dead because the deck can usually afford to have dead cards and still be a threat, and the Sunastian deck runs some pretty derpy 'big' creatures, many aren't even cost effective, it just doesn't matter because if you have enough huge creatures it doesn't matter if you paid extra for them, they're still huge creatures that will stomp the opponent into gravy! In effect both decks win the games they win via scale, Pavel tends to have a lot of cards that trade for multiple cards, and Sunastian's effects are often so bulky that they just go right over other decks.
Even in 1v1 some of my weird Legacy decks sneak in some pretty high MV cards, and often these cards can steal games when I'm in topdeck mode (in Legacy anything over MV 2 is considered 'really high' fwiw), even if they cost me a few when I draw terribly and have 5 3 drops in my first 9 cards and I scoop. Ball Lightning is a really bad card by many metrics, but if you playtest a Burn deck in throw one or two in they WILL steal the odd game due to card efficiency (Burn's biggest problem has always been running out of Bolts).
