Surveyor's Scope

Artifact

{T}, Exile Surveyor's Scope: Search your library for up to X basic land cards, where X is the number of players who control at least two more lands than you. Put those cards onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	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
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (50)

Idoneity on List of Bugs and Feature …

3 months ago

Hello! A few quick things:

1. When setting the default piechart to "Type," counting lands, MDFC lands, and cards that transform into a land, it always conveys one more land than is actually in the Commander decklist. However, this is only the case for commander decks. The piecharts for my Modern decks convey the correct number of lands. (If relevant, the default sorting on my Commander decks is "Custom.")

2. Additionally, if the piechart only counted lands and MDFC lands when conveying the number of lands present in a decklist, that would be superb. If it was designed like this specifically, then a toggle would be excellent.

3. The image for Surveyor's Scope is not showing up during the deck playtesting feature. (If relevant, I am using the Commander 2013 printing on my decklists.)

Thank you much!

Exoflo on Zedruu budget

3 years ago

Hi HandsomeCowboy !

This is one of the most qualitative budget Zedruu deck I ever see. Many cards are good, even excellent. I think Shifting Loyalties are really too expensive, and maybe Switcheroo too.

Good budget cards I can recommend you are :

• Teferi's Ageless Insight
• Surveyor's Scope
• Perplexing Chimera

And for 2$ more:

• Tragic Arrogance
• Gift of Immortality
• Ghost Quarter
• Austere Command
• Wild Research

Wild Research is my favorite card, it just allow you to access to 1/3 of your deck So, whatever your deck is just very effective for a budget deck, I am really impressed

Best of luck to you and spray joy with our MotherGoat

jakeyuki12 on Feather, Redeemed and Rebooted

3 years ago

Hiya! Long time Boros player, got a lot of suggestions.

1) Two new cards, Goldspan Dragon and Birgi, God of Storytelling  ^Flip are made for Feather. These cards synergize suuuuper well with what the deck already wants to do. I highly suggest running them.

2) Some of your ramp seems rather strange. It doesn't seem like it would be very consistent, or there are much better options. I would cut Kor Cartographer and Solemn Simulacrum for speed reasons- the deck wants to ramp earlier rather than later since Feather wants to be able to come down and get the deck going earlier rather than later. I would also cut Boreas Charger and Surveyor's Scope as they're also slow, but possibly unreliable/inconsistent. The two new cards from Kaldheim work well as ramp. I would also recommend (if possible) to pick up the medallions as they're going to save you a lot of mana ( Pearl Medallion , Ruby Medallion ). If not plausible in the near future, just find some other cheap mana rock.

3) A few cuts to suggest. First and foremost, cut Lightning Greaves right away. That card will make it so that you can't target your own creatures either, so it is a hard non-bo with your deck. I would also replace any removal in your deck that isn't an instant, that way you can fetch it all with Sunforger (as a side note, Magnetic Theft is great in a Feather deck with Sunforger ). I would personally cut the recursion cards. I understand wanting to get back some of your really good instants and sorceries if they get stuck in the graveyard, but I find Feather to be enough recursion. If you really want to run recursion, I suggest something cheaper (and more powerful) like Underworld Breach .

4) Finally, I would up the land count in the deck. Feather is a VERY mana hungry commander. Thus, you want to be super sure you make your land drop every single turn. 34 lands will make that difficult, even with all your cantrips. 38 is the sweet spot I've found for the typical Feather deck.

SufferFromEDHD on Sevinne, the Chronoclasm Acid Flashback

4 years ago

Damn, dongerlord. Thanks for the thourough analysis. You are clearly going very competitive with your list (don't forget Extract!) where I'm trying to build ... an on theme 75%? I don't know what my list is but I like it. It's fun.

Underworld Breach fits under Sun Titan and grants massive utility. In.

Narset of the Ancient Way look at my list again and look at all three abilities. Fits the theme.

Scroll Rack is tech with Land Tax.

Whirlwind of Thought In.

I'm a huge fan of Surveyor's Scope but that exile clause... Needs Karn to make it viable.

Narset, Parter of Veils and Alms Collector interesting and brutal. I'm going to chew on this.

The rest of the stuff was for a different style of play and direction of control.

dongerlord on Sevinne, the Chronoclasm Acid Flashback

4 years ago

It seems like you're running burn as your wincon.

Here are some cards that might help.

Static burn: Harsh Mentor, Zo-Zu the Punisher, Ankh of Mishra, Manabarbs

Finishers: Acidic Soil, Price of Progress. Molten Disaster is a decent finisher you can consider with split-second and also acts as a board clear (you might try replacing Devil's Play with this)

Since these are symmetrical burn, you could also run Glacial Chasm and stall it out. This is also the most important land card to run with these mono red sorcery finishers. Your Pariah is also a god level card with this setup. You might also consider Heartless Hidetsugu as a combo with these 2 cards.

For more drastic changes, you can fix around your landbase to cut a lot of nonbasics and add basics with a load of fetchlands, such as Fabled Passage, Prismatic Vista, , Ash Barrens, Terramorphic Expanse, Evolving Wilds, Myriad Landscape, Warped Landscape, some Panorama fetches, and keeping Flooded Strand + Scalding Tarn + Arid Mesa. I have this landbase in another of my burn decks and its fully sufficient for tri-colour commanders. In white, you get access to Land Tax as well so it helps further fix your mana - although in my experience with this landbase I would say its not even necessary.

With a basic land landbase, it opens you up to more burn, such as Price of Progress, Burning Earth. It also opens you up to hard stax cards if you have a vendetta against someone: Magus of the Moon, Blood Moon, Back to Basics.

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An alternative package you can consider with your wheels is Narset, Parter of Veils and Alms Collector to discard their entire hand. You already have Smothering Tithe as well. Psychic Possession is also insane with wheels as it lets you draw 14 off a single wheel.

I would also just add Underworld Breach because its straight up insane.

You can also try Mana Geyser for a super explosive turn by recasting it from the graveyard again.

Dack Fayden is both a ramp card and a way to dump cards into your graveyard.

Good old Blasphemous Act and Chain Reaction are 2 of the best board clears you can pair with Sevinne.

Jace, Vryn's Prodigy  ^Flip Baby Jace is a VERY good card with Sevinne. Helps cycle into lands/ramp early and lets you cast spells from your graveyard once it transforms into Jace, Telepath Unbound.

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Some cards I see that you could also try cutting/changing are:

Land Tax - you can run ramp artifacts instead, such as Surveyor's Scope. Surveyor's Scope is an excellent card with many fetchlands as you can tap them to sac as a cost, then activate Surveyor's Scope for up to 3 basics untapped since your fetchland is no longer on the field. Or basically any other 2 mana rock will do.

Mirage Mirror and Scroll Rack - these cards are a bit clunky to use and you can do more with mana rocks instead.

I would consider Ral, Izzet Viceroy a bit too slow.

You should swap Jeskai Ascendancy for the new Whirlwind of Thought

You have a lot of single target protection - Momentary Blink, Lightning Greaves, Diplomatic Immunity. I would suggest cutting one or two because you can still tutor for it.

Narset of the Ancient Way SEEMS a bit slow (but I have't seen this card in action yet), so you could replace it with Narset, Parter of Veils

Ray of Distortion is pretty omega slow. You might want to try Aura of Silence or a simple Disenchant

Personally I'm trying to build a cEDH Sevinne burn deck haha! Thinking of also trying Thought Lash with Thassa's Oracle

Long live our Overlord Sevinne

Halflingz on Queen Marchesa

4 years ago

Board wipes that seem "on theme" and white "ramp" to consider. Kaya's Wrath Fumigate Retaliate Austere Command Decree of Pain Martial Coup Merciless Eviction Descent of Dragons Angel of the Dire Hour Magister of Worth Sunblast Angel Boreas Charger Oreskos Explorer Surveyor's Scope Solemn Simulacrum Sword of the Animist Verge Rangers Smothering Tithe Sword of Feast and Famine Dowsing Dagger  ^Flip

Queen Marchesa doesn't have a clear single way to build so you have lots of options. However, I feel like said you want to play her like the Kween she is and create a royal court full of politicin' and group interaction to make all the boys whine. I don't think you want to discourgage people from taking the monarch from you, more encourage them to swing others IE: NO Ghostly Prisons, YES Teysa effects. Punish the ones who swing you only after the fact and reward the ones who swing others. There is a lot listed!

Politic theme links to Scryfall searches Monarch, Will of the Council, Council's Dilemma, Join Forces, Curses, Tempting offer, Goad

You will also want to get retake the throne each turn and lets face it, the Assasin's won't always get through Dauthi Embrace Dauthi Trapper Nether Shadow Nether Traitor Soltari Visionary Changeling Outcast Tormented Soul Break Through the Line Ferropede Gingerbrute Key to the City Whispersilk Cloak Trailblazer's Boots Zhang He, Wei General Yellow Scarves Cavalry Wei Night Raiders Wei Scout Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed Lu Bu, Master-at-Arms Guan Yu, Sainted Warrior Shadow Alley Denizen

Finally here are some other fun interactions befitting the royal court. Crown of Doom Kor Haven Cathars' Crusade Electropotence + Pandemonium (Nasty with deathtouch) Field of the Dead Mentor of the Meek In the Web of War Mace of the Valiant Ogre Battledriver Orc Sureshot Mathas, Fiend Seeker Master of Cruelties Anya, Merciless Angel Tree of Perdition Alesha, Who Smiles at Death Ashling, the Extinguisher Azra Oddsmaker Aurification Bloodforged Battle-Axe Contested War Zone Thaumatic Compass  ^Flip Dread Elbrus, the Binding Blade  ^Flip Iroas, God of Victory Aurelia, the Warleader Gisela, Blade of Goldnight Five-Alarm Fire Hellrider Hixus, Prison Warden Larceny Necropolis Regent No Mercy Phage the Untouchable Quietus Spike Skeleton Key Throat Slitter Varchild, Betrayer of Kjeldor Vraska, Scheming Gorgon Scourge of the Throne Akroan Horse Captive Audience Goblin Spymaster Forbidden Orchard Clackbridge Troll Hunted Dragon Hunted Lammasu Hunted Horror

Theme directions to explore? Lifegain to stay above the swings? Angelic Chorus Answered Prayers Anointer Priest Authority of the Consuls Ayara, First of Locthwain Daxos, Blessed by the Sun Healer of the Pride Impassioned Orator Pious Evangel  ^Flip Soul's Attendant Soul Warden Archangel of Thune Suture Priest Ajani's Welcome Dawn of Hope Deathgreeter Exquisite Blood Epicure of Blood Falkenrath Noble Karlov of the Ghost Council Noble Purpose Righteous Cause Sanguine Bond Searing Meditation Seraph Sanctuary Serene Steward Shattered Angel Spirit Loop Sun Droplet Vizkopa Guildmage Well of Lost Dreams Alhammarret's Archive Licia, Sanguine Tribune Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim Eternity Vessel Chalice of Life  ^Flip Resolute Archangel Storm Herd Felidar Sovereign Divinity of Pride Serra Ascendant

Aristocrats of the Court (slow life drain strategy)? Bastion of Remembrance Corpse Knight Impact Tremors Purphoros, God of the Forge Blood Artist Zulaport Cutthroat Outpost Siege Bontu's Monument Brutal Hordechief Campaign of Vengeance Cliffhaven Vampire Cruel Celebrant Kambal, Consul of Allocation Polluted Bonds Retreat to Hagra Vindictive Vampire revenge Sorin, Grim Nemesis Judith, the Scourge Diva Stalking Vengeance Syr Konrad, the Grim

king-saproling on Loon on the moon

4 years ago

Cool deck! Thoughts on these? Ward of Bones, Opposition, Distant Melody, Coastal Piracy, Kindred Discovery, Roil Elemental, Illusionist's Bracers, Surveyor's Scope, Quicksilver Fountain, Coat of Arms, Aetherworks Marvel, Call to the Kindred, High Tide, Caged Sun

Monitor on Grixis Control

4 years ago

So the first big choice will be Superfriends vs Discard, and either can be used with your subpackage of flicker effects.

Suggestions for initial cuts I think have to be made after that distinction is called, because most of what you have would fit in one or the other without much issue...just not both.

These cards are the land-based ramp I found: Wayfarer's Bauble, Solemn Simulacrum, Burnished Hart, Dreamscape Artist, Gem of Becoming and Myriad Landscape. Other ones are oddly situational, or just suck. Can supplement those with artifact mana like Gilded Lotus or Chromatic Lantern. Surveyor's Scope might be cute, but probably just bad. Sword of the Animist is a thing. Druidic Satchel is neat. More form this search: https://scryfall.com/search?q=%28o%3Aland+o%3Aonto+o%3Abattlefield%29+commander%3AUBR&order=cmc&as=grid&unique=cards