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| Arena | Legal |
| Block Constructed | Legal |
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| Casual | Legal |
| Commander / EDH | Legal |
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| Custom | Legal |
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| Legacy | Legal |
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| Limited | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Modern Beyond Horizons | Legal |
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| Planechase | Legal |
| Premodern | Legal |
| Quest Magic | Legal |
| Tiny Leaders | Legal |
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| Vintage | Legal |
Magistrate's Scepter
Artifact
, : Put a charge counter on Magistrate's Scepter.
, Remove three charge counters from Magistrate's Scepter: Take an extra turn after this one.
Balaam__ on Balaam__
5 days ago
@legendofa I’m back with some more from a few sets.
•Silent Dart might qualify. The angle is a bit strange, but technically possible.
•Carrion Imp could be feasible from that angle.
These I’m not sure about.
•Dawn Charm At first I thought yes, then realized the hand position is opposite what it needs to be. We should see the person to whom those hands belong, yet we don’t. Maybe they’re reaching high into the air or something.
•Gruesome Menagerie I don’t think the zombie’s head is above ground and looking at his hand, I think only the hand burst out.
•Sigiled Sword of Valeron I don’t think it’s from the viewpoint of the guy holding the sword.
•Naturalize same as above.
•Magistrate's Scepter again, same as above.
I forgot to check against your list, so please ignore duplicates.
I was wondering if you could do me a favor. I tried my hand at building my first Pioneer format deck, and ran into a confusing issue. Idk the cardpool so I’ve been relying on various sources to check legality. One app said Cavern of Souls is legal so I added it, but that flagged the deck as Illegal. I checked a different source and it said it was legal, then another said no, and so forth. Do you know for certain whether it’s legal or not?
Flarhoon13 on
Derevi, Empyrial Tactician. No stax!
1 month ago
Having completed my quest to play all 52 of my decks, I decided to try getting a win with all of my decks.
Sep 7
Derevi, Empyrial Tactician No stax! Win, turn 5 (not including one extra turn), infinite turns with Magistrate's Scepter. Turn 2, Bloom Tender; Turn 3: Derevi, Empyrial Tactician etb targeting Bloom Tender, generated 6 mana, (9 total turn 3) and cast Karn's Temporal Sundering. On my extra turn, created a Combat Calligrapher... Thanks for the tip, Nitpicking Nerds :-) My opponents never played a flyer, never even generated an Inkling. I drew like 7 cards with Azami, Lady of Scrolls. Record with my losers goes to 3-6
Balaam__ on Balaam__
1 month ago
Found some more for your FPP deck legendofa.
Definites:
Questionable:
•Arrest view might not be from the spearholder’s perspective. Tough call.
•Magistrate's Scepter hands coming from off screen, but separate perspective.
•Shoving Match might be from the viewpoint of the falling man; maybe not.
•Mind Swords definitely first person, but the hands aren’t coming in from out of frame.
•Seal of Cleansing, Seal of Fire, Seal of Removal and Seal of Strength all are a bit too far off center to be first person I think, but they’re all very similar to Seal of Doom which does feel FPP. Not sure if you want to add them for consistency’s sake.
•Angel of Mercy unsure if it’s the perspective of whatever’s getting killed or not.
•Urborg Emissary not sure if it’s the lizard’s perspective or not.
•Harsh Judgment I think this qualifies due to the sword in the bottom right clearly not belonging to the soldier with the shield on the same side. I think we’re seeing this from the viewpoint of whoever is holding that sword closest to the camera.
•Tigereye Cameo same deal as the seals mentioned above. The angle is off, but some of the other cameos do qualify.
•Magma Burst we might be seeing things from the point of view of that poor unfortunate dinosaur.
•Darigaaz's Charm, Crosis's Charm, Dromar's Charm, Rith's Charm and Treva's Charm are all ‘maybe but not quite’ perspectives.
Flarhoon13 on
Derevi, Empyrial Tactician. No stax!
1 month ago
May 3, 2024 I started a new quest. Having built 52 decks, I endeavoured to play them all, in roughly the same order as I created them.
May 31
Derevi, Empyrial Tactician. No stax! 8-9 Loss, Did get off Pyxis of Pandemonium (I love this card too much to take it out of the deck lol) for 15, possibly could've won but Jon Irenicus, Shattered One foiled my Dismiss into Dream, negating the forced sacrifice. Still, had a couple fetch lands with Retreat to Coralhelm but didn't think to use it--I could have fetched and used the landfall trigger to tap down the potential attacker--this only occurred to me after a Kemba, Kha Regent deck killed me with a massively equipped Archfiend of the Dross, which Jon Irenicus, Shattered One had so kindly donated . .471
Pyxis of Pandemonium won me a couple games. Once, it got me enough attackers to fuel infinite turns via a Magistrate's Scepter. Another game, it undid a Vampiric Tutor. Mike took a couple minutes for his search, too, not realizing that the Pyxis of Pandemonium would exile his card. Hilarious! I held on to win that one!
DemonDragonJ on What Card Should Replace Otherworld …
5 months ago
sergiodelrio, among those cards, Reckoner Bankbuster simply does not interest me; Darksteel Reactor is a very nice card, but is too slow, and does nothing until its ability triggers; Vraska, Betrayal's Sting would raise the mana curve of my deck too much; and I actually very much would like to put Magistrate's Scepter in that deck, but it costs 4 mana to put one charge counter on it, so it is too expensive.
Given that I just put Zameck Guildmage into that deck, providing both an additional mana sink and an additional source of card advantage, I think that Empowered Autogenerator is very appealing, but I would like to receive further feedback from other users, before I make a decision, on that matter.
sergiodelrio on What Card Should Replace Otherworld …
5 months ago
Disclaimer: I'm not an EDH player
1) Vraska, Betrayal's Sting really does it all for you imho, more proliferate, card draw (which I specifically looked for since the card you want to replace was a card advantage slot), removal AND alt-wincon
2) Reckoner Bankbuster was so busted they banned it in Standard, this card is more lean and relies on other proliferators to recharge it, but it will draw you some cards over time
3) Magistrate's Scepter looks like it could go pseudo-infinite if you can stick a couple of reliable permanent-proliferators
I don't know if any of the above cards would be considered too unfair in the context of a social game, if that's something you have to consider in your playgroup
DemonDragonJ on Kalonian Hydra or Bristly Bill?
8 months ago
Last_Laugh, I prefer Fathom Mage over Danny Pink, since her ability has no limit to the number of times that it can trigger, and I actually would very much like to put Magistrate's Scepter in place of Otherworld Atlas, but the first ability simply costs too much mana to activate.
SaberTech on
Atraxa Stax
1 year ago
I think that this deck list is still a bit unfocused. It is basically saying that it wants to stall things out and win with poison counters, and it has the Magistrate's Scepter + Coretapper + Atraxa, Praetors' Voice combo for infinite turns, but there are a number of cards included that will only do synergistic things some of the time that will water down your meaningful draws.
Some cards to consider to increase your potential to kill with poison counters include Evolution Sage, Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus, Inexorable Tide, and Phyresis Outbreak. I'm also kind of partial to Viral Drake. Tekuthal can act as an alternative to Coretapper for your Magistrate's Scepter combo.
I think that a lot of your STAX stuff will often feel lackluster since you aren't running any support to help you break parity on them. To get the most out of Winter Orb and Stasis it helps to have cards such as Nature's Will or Sword of Feast and Famine. There are also cards that tap down permanents/artifacts that you can use to tap down the Orbs at the end of your opponent's turn so that you can untap all your lands on your turn.
Cards that drain life like Scheming Aspirant and Bloodchief Ascension probably aren't worth it if you are trying to kill with poison counters. The life gain that you get off them is also pretty negligible. Although, if you had Mindcrank to combo with the Ascension it could function as a backup win condition.
You don't actually run that many cards that put counters on themselves or other cards you control, so Power Conduit and Soul Diviner look pretty lackluster on the basis of them not likely being consistent value when you draw into them.
I don't know what your commander meta is like, but in general there isn't a lot of targeted land destruction in casual games. Tomik, Distinguished Advokist will rarely be of any worth in most casual groups unless you regularly play against someone who uses cards like Crucible of Worlds to net value off of fetch lands and utility lands.
You have very few artifacts that send themselves to the graveyard. I think there is an argument to be made that you will rarely get much value out of Glissa, the Traitor's ability, even taking into consideration the possibility of getting back artifacts that opponents destroy. Still a decent blocker I guess. A more general effect like Eternal Witness in that slot may provide more consistent value though.
Those are just a few suggestions. I could think of more once I have a better idea of how you are looking to develop the deck further.
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