Font of Mythos

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Legality

Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Archenemy Legal
Block Constructed Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander / EDH Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Highlander Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Planar Constructed Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Font of Mythos

Artifact

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws two additional cards.

DemonDragonJ on The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Raze

1 month ago

I have replaced Font of Mythos with Razorkin Needlehead, which reduced the average converted mana cost of this deck from 3.58 to 3.55, which is good, because this deck had more than enough ways to help my opponents draw cards, but not enough ways to punish them for doing so.

DemonDragonJ on Should I Keep Font of …

1 month ago

Caerwyn, I appreciate your suggestions, but I specifically avoided the cards that you mentioned in your second paragraph, because they do not fit my play style, and this deck also does not have sufficient recursion to recover the cards that I would discard.

Also, since when is an average mana cost of 3.58 high? When I first built this deck, its average CMC was 3.70, so I believe that I have done a fairly good job of reducing its mana curve, thus far, and replacing Font of Mythos with a less expensive card would further contribute toward that goal.

DrukenReaps, those cards that you mentioned are very nice cards, but they have no synergy, at all, with this deck, unfortunately, so I cannot pout them into it.

Caerwyn on Should I Keep Font of …

1 month ago

I would cut Font of Mythos, Howling Mine, Master of the Feast and Temple Bell - not one of those cards does enough to win you the game. Forced Fruition is a trap also - it usually reads "let them combo off by giving them every card they need to win on a single turn, without being able to do enough damage to stop them."

Nekusar works best when he is hyper explosive, tossing mass damage on the field through wheels. Instead of wasting your time with these small, incremental damage, you really should be looking to add Dark Deal, Windfall, Winds of Changefoil. Whispering Madness, etc. Teferi's Puzzle Box is another high impact card that should be a must-include. Phyresis, Glistening Oil, and other ways to confer Infect will drastically will increase your odds of winning. Cards like Curiosity add huge card advantage. And auras like Helm of the Ghastlord and Sigil of Sleep can use Nekusar to help lock out opponents.

Cut the lifegain cards like Ivory Tower and Elixir of Immortality, as well as combat-focused cards like Akroma's Memorial. None of those do anything for your actual gameplan.

You also could stand to get your average mana cost down. Seizan, Perverter of Truth, for example, is synergistic, but five mana is steep and the card slot would be better off as a wheel.

DemonDragonJ on Should I Keep Font of …

1 month ago

I have a copy of Font of Mythos in my Nekusar, the Mindrazer EDH deck, but I am wondering if I should keep it, in that deck, because that deck already has plenty of cards that force my opponents to draw cards, and my opponents shall receive that card's benefit before I do, unless I find a way to cast it on an opponent's turn, so I am contemplating replacing that card with another card that punishes my opponents for drawing cards, such as Razorkin Needlehead from the upcoming Duskmourn set, which would also have the additional benefit of lowering my deck's mana curve. Alternatively, I could replace the font with Cutthroat Negotiator, as I have been hoping to put that card into at least one of my decks.

What does everyone else say about this matter? Should I keep Font of Mythos in my Nekusar, the Mindrazer deck, or replace that card with another one?

DemonDragonJ on The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Raze

1 month ago

Should I keep Font of Mythos in this deck? I already have plenty of cards in this deck that force my opponents to draw cards, so I wonder if I instead should have another card in this deck that punishes my opponents for drawing cards.

StopShot on Is Staff of Completion a …

3 months ago

I'm a bit late to the discussion, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say cards like Temple Bell and by extension Horn of Greed are not bad cards and they're perfectly fine to run in non-group-hug // non-wheel decks.

I see the argument that one card for you is collectively three cards for your opponents, but last I checked, hardly ever do all three of those cards get aimed at you to begin with unless you're running a tier 0 meta-deck against a group of casuals who already see you as the archenemy. Do you want to know what is also one card for you, three for your opponents? The draw steps taken by you and all your opponents, so by the same logic it would imply you already start off with a massive disadvantage the moment you start any game which is just silly. Like, how could a seven-card hand ever beat a collective 21-card hand that is your opponents'?

Let me put it another way, if my opponent plays a Temple Bell by the same logic for every one card that Temple Bell gives me, it's collectively giving three cards to my opponents. When applied by that perspective doesn't that not make Temple Bell sound like a serious threat of a card to my game plan? Well, it's not. The logic just doesn't hold when put to practice.

Now look, if there was another card with the same CMC that had "{T}: Draw a card." Then yes, that would be serious leagues better than Temple Bell. If something like that exists for you to slot in definitely make the cut or hell, why not run both? Both is fine in my opinion.

My analysis on Temple Bell is that it is mostly good, not amazing, but definitely serviceable. Its only con is that you're using up a card to effectively double the number of draw steps for everyone. If this was a 1v1 format having a one-card disadvantage just to alter the flow of the game is just gimping yourself for a loss unless you have some serious payoff tied to both you and your opponent drawing extra cards. In a multiplayer format where wins and losses can be heavily dictated by how much the table wants to gang up on someone Temple Bell's drawback is incredibly negligible when compared to the forces that are beyond your control. (Though if you wanted to, you could argue giving your opponent's extra cards can have some political sway over how much they would be willing to team against you which can be a pro in of itself, but I digress.)

Temple Bell has two pro's that I'd argue make it worth it over its one con, but the trade-off is very debatable so let your preferences be the deciding factor here.

(1) One pro to consider is, if you play a game of EDH and in this scenario everyone's decks were perfectly balanced such that those decks could consistently win by turn 8 always, then the player with the best chance of winning in that scenario would likely be whoever started the first turn of the game as that player would reach their 8th turn before everyone else could take their own 8th turn. Your odds of being the first player is not favorable and if the probability of drawing something game changing is what your deck is banking on for a win, then Temple Bell changes the dynamic almost as if you were the player that had started first. That is to say if it is turn 7 and you're going last you can tap Temple Bell to draw your eighth card on turn 7 and while this will also give your opponents their eighth card at the same time, it will be during your main phase while everyone else will have to wait for their main phase after yours before they can use any sorcery speed card they may have drawn. Keep in mind this only impacts effective turn order where card draw is concerned as it doesn't affect other aspects such as additional land drops and additional combat steps. Also keep in mind Temple Bell benefits you only every other card drawn such as in this scenario your opponents will still draw their 9th card before you, but you'll still be able to effectively draw and use your 10th card before them and so on. Do note this is still much better than having your opponents always drawing and using their Xth card before you do without Temple Bell in the same scenario. And in scenarios where you're the player who goes first where your draw step always comes before everyone else's draw step, having Temple Bell effectively double up on your draw step which only furthers the advantage of going first. These are advantages you wouldn't get with Howling Mine and Font of Mythos and is why Temple Bell and Horn of Greed should be seen as a serious upgrades from those cards.

(2) The other pro is that giving your opponents more cards in situations where one of your opponents is in the lead makes it much easier for the table to gang up on them and set them back, and in situations where you're in the lead you can simply choose not to ring the bell just to maintain your advantage. You can make the counterargument of what good is a card if it has no use under a given scenario, but the only scenario where it doesn't have a use is if you already happen to be winning. Would you really scrap a card that could save a game you would have lost if it can't be counted as a win-more type card? At worse it will definitely prolong games, but I'd hardly ever say it hands a win to an opponent on a silver platter. If an opponent was able to power through three opponents that had extra card fodder to throw at them then it likely wasn't a game you were going to win without the Temple Bell anyway. This is one advantage I'd give Temple Bell over Horn of Greed, but if your deck has a means of removing the horn easily when you're ahead then they'll both work great especially if you're operating a deck that can easily fly under the radar of your opponents.

To conclude this massive word wall I want to restate, Temple Bell is a serviceable card. Not amazing and not bad either. As always, if you can find a similar replacement that gives only you card draw with negligible drawback, that should always be the better pick, but again there's also nothing wrong with running both. If a card isn't breaking anything in your deck, then why make an excuse to fix it?

fluffyeel on The apocalypse (Sheoldred)

4 months ago

Yay, darkness. Here are some thoughts that might synergize with your deck:

Caerwyn on Should I Put Cutthroat Negotiator …

1 year ago

I cannot speak for K&T, but I think this is a bad card for Nekusar, for the same reason I suggested Font of Mythos was on your prior thread.

Yes, it gives you some value in terms of mana and a card, but you are also giving your opponents a lot of value (a single card) with a very low cost (a small bit of damage, if and only if you have other damage enablers fielded). On its own, it does little for you; even with other cards, it only provides incremental gains rather than the more explosive burns you want in order to win.

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