Orange+ on Horobi, Death's Targeter
2 weeks ago
Hey my dude. I think Toshiro Umezawa would be absolutely killer in this deck. Sincerely, Orange+
legendofa on To What Mechanic is Mark …
2 weeks ago
I'm going to take a guess and say that someone on the design team doesn't really like moving counters around. The Spikes don't specifically use the word "move", but it's functionally the same most of the time. If you treat the Spikes as moving counters, they make up almost a quarter of all counter-moving cards. No other set has more than two (although Ikoria + Commander 2020 has three, and those introduced keyword counters). I can find only two other cards with an ability similar to the Spikes, in Benevolent Hydra and Salt Road Quartermasters.
While it's not a bad mechanic, and it's simple enough in a vacuum, it gets more complicated with Hardened Scales/Branching Evolution/whatever, and those kind of effects have been on the rise. So my guess is that's the source of the tension with Spikes.
Epicurus on Card creation challenge
2 weeks ago
Ethereal Guardian
Enchantment Creature - Elemental Avatar
Defender, Reach
Whenever an opponent casts an Instant, discard a card, then draw a card.
Whenever an opponent casts a Sorcery, draw a card, then discard a card.
Whenever an opponent casts a spell during another player's turn, Scry 1, then draw a card. Then, that opponent discards a card.
0/5
Make creature that has the same activated ability of Blinking Spirit, but is universally good while not being broken.
Goretast on [Primer] Karametra's Short-Term Memory | …
2 weeks ago
No worries!
I've playtested the deck quite a bit and there is a good amount of card advantage from playing from the top of the library or focusing creature tutors on cards like Regal Force, Nissa, Resurgent Animist, Esper Sentinel, etc. If you count tutors, playing creatures from the top effects (easier with 41 total creatures and lands being pulled), and draw spells then there are 19 total refill cards.
No defense for the removal comment though lol. I will look to make some cuts for 4-5 more interactive cards. This deck is made for mid-high bracket 3, so I am purposely keeping the power a bit lower. Thanks for checking it out- it's been fun remaking the deck!
seshiro_of_the_orochi on Card creation challenge
2 weeks ago
Descendant's Awe
Enchantment
Whenever the creature with the highest power or tied for the highest power you control attacks, each other creature you control that shares a creature type with it gets +1/+1 and gains Double Strike and lifelink until end of turn.
"My dad is much stronger than yours!"
Create a card that has three different triggered abilities, each of which draws a card.
FadingReality on volt
2 weeks ago
Equipment
volt
by ohnomyshoes
DemonDragonJ on To What Mechanic is Mark …
2 weeks ago
berryjon, yes, I do know that, but I do not understand what is wrong with that, as that seems to be a perfectly fair mechanic, to me, since I believe that removing a counter from a creature to pay for an ability cost is a nice alternative (or additional cost) to paying mana.
mmkstarr on Pauper Rat Scraps
2 weeks ago
Yeah I will try to fit it into my budget/schedule some time! It's not too pricey which is great.
PauperPower on Pauper Madness
2 weeks ago
jonjonhholt oh dang, that seems like a solid swap over the 2 Highway Robbery currently in the list. I probably should run 4 copies, but the instant speed of Demand Answers is hard to pass up and not sure if I want to cut any Faithless Looting.
Thanks for the awesome suggestion!
FadingReality on volt
2 weeks ago
Extra Land Options
volt
by ohnomyshoes
legendofa on Mesmerize and Hypnotize: the 20th …
2 weeks ago
I got back into System of a Down a couple years ago. Learning about Armenian history and culture made songs like Holy Mountains and the two new songs (Protect the Land and Genocidal Humanoidz) have a lot more meaning. Cigaro and Vicinity of Obscenity are straightforward (heavily NSFW, whether or not they actually mean anything) fun.
berryjon on To What Mechanic is Mark …
2 weeks ago
They were a Green Creature Type with a single black example, that had and moved +1/+1 counters around as activated abilities.
DemonDragonJ on Life Springs Eternal
2 weeks ago
I have replaced Thought Vessel, Decanter of Endless Water, Chromatic Lantern, and Shared Summons with Steward of Valeron, Faeburrow Elder, Dryad of the Ilysian Grove, and Elder Gargaroth, because this deck has a strong emphasis on creatures, and, while it is unfortunate to have one less tutor effect in this deck, I am certain that the newer cards will better suit this deck's theme, and this deck does still contain a tutor in the form of Chord of Calling, as that card is too awesome to remove from this deck.
DemonDragonJ on Mesmerize and Hypnotize: the 20th …
2 weeks ago
This year is the 20th anniversary of Mesmerize and Hypnotize, the fourth and fifth albums by American alternative metal band System of a Down, and, to date, their most recent two albums.
Mesmerize and Hypnotize were recorded during the same studio sessions, but released several months apart, akin to how Metallica recorded Load and Reload during the same sessions, or how Guns 'n' Roses recorded Use Your Illusion I and II during the same sessions, and these albums demonstrated an evolution of the band's sound. While SoaD's previous three albums all followed a very similar formula, these two albums saw the band experimenting and exploring new styles and ideas. The anger and defiance of their previous albums are still very much present in these two, but Mesmerize and Hypnotize also contained numerous songs with quieter, more melodic passages, including Soldier Side, Old School Hollywood, Hypnotize, and Lonely Day. Also, Daron Malakian had a much greater role as secondary vocalist to Serj Tankian; on the previous albums, Malakian only occasionally provided vocals, but, on these albums, Malakian sang backing vocals on nearly every song, and was even the lead vocalist on several songs, such as Lonely Day and She's Like Heroin. An even further example of the band expanding their horizons was with their lyrics; Tankian wrote the majority of the lyrics their previous albums, but Malakian was much more strongly involved with the writing of the lyrics on these albums, as made evident with the nature of the lyrics; while the band still spoke against social and political injustices, these two albums contained numerous songs that had more personal and introspective lyrics, reflecting upon internal matters and their own personal conflicts.
Mesmerize and Hypnotize are, to date, System of a Down's final two albums, as the members disbanded shortly after releasing them, but the band has reformed, and is still touring, at the present time, but they have not yet released a new album, which is very disappointing, but they did recently release two new songs, which both were amazing, so I am maintaining hope that they shall eventually produce a new studio album, at some point.
What does everyone else say, about this? How do you feel about this year being the 20th anniversary of Mesmerize and Hypnotize? I certainly am eager to hear your thoughts, on this subject?
DemonDragonJ on To What Mechanic is Mark …
2 weeks ago
In this post, a user asked about the return of spike as a creature type, and Mark Rosewater responded by saying that spikes use a mechanic that he is skeptical about using, again, so to what mechanic is Rosewater referring, and why is he skeptical, about it?
compacta_d on Pattern Recognition #370 - Dredge
2 weeks ago
Restricted in Vintage. It's unbanned and unrestricted in Legacy (Legacy does not typically get restricted).
and yeah Dredge probably has enough gas to last forever in any format it's legal in. Any further cards made would just get used the same way, increasing the effect by running the highest available numbers.
Fun read!
legendofa on Army of Goblins *please comment*
2 weeks ago
What's your expected budget for this deck? Marking it as Legacy format isn't necessarily wrong, but it would be a good idea to also add the Budget and/or Casual hub. Legacy decks have a certain expectation of being the kind of high-powered, win-on-turn-3 decks you're trying to avoid, and $1000 would be considered extremely budget.
Outside of that, I would suggest adding some permanent removal. If your Goblin hordes can't get through Ensnaring Bridge, Fog, or other combat-controlling effect, this deck pretty much shuts down. Another option would be something like Goblin Bombardment or Goblin Grenade, turning creatures directly into damage. Burn spells like Lightning Bolt or Skewer the Critics would work, too.
legendofa on Amalia & Raise the Past …
2 weeks ago
Corpse Knight, Cruel Celebrant, and Zulaport Cutthroat might be better options than Blood Artist, in case someone has shroud or hexproof or protection or whatever.
Or, for the jank option, Thieves' Guild Enforcer and a giant pile of random Rogues. It'll be really good the first time. Throw in Dauthi Voidwalker to steal the biggest creature.
Ogrecorps on "Unbeatable" card combo, or so …
2 weeks ago
legendofa Yeah, he said that the idea evolved a bit from when he first told me about it. I was a little worried that he'd also throw an Enduring Angel Flip in a layer of protection but I didn't even know about the existence of Restricted Office / Lecture Hall. He's promised to show no mercy next time in retaliation but he usually wins anyway so I'm not scared. :P
jonjonhholt on Pauper Madness
2 weeks ago
Grab the Prize is in my opinion a must run in this deck. Especially because this deck often wants to discard non-land cards which just makes it free burn as well
legendofa on Grrr
3 weeks ago
What's the intent of Wall of Vines and Corpse Blockade? I know that having a direct win condition isn't the main priority of this deck, but I strongly recommend putting one in anyway. If you're trying to be the last one standing in free-for-all matches, you can't always rely on your opponents to 100% cooperate. The defenders are less proactive than other cards here.
Next thought is that the Liquimetal Coating + Splinter is cute, but the Coatings have nothing to do without the Splinters. This can be switched out for some other control options, or if you want to keep the style points, use Glissa Sunseeker. There's probably enough deck removal as-is.
I'm a big fan of discard, so I'm going to suggest the 1-mana options there. Anything from Duress to Inquisition of Kozilek to Thoughtseize will be a good turn 1 option. Right now, your 1-drops are all either reactive or passive, and this deck wants to start shredding fast, not wait for the opponent to build up resources.
Normally, I'd suggest Abrupt Decay here for general-use removal, but it sounds like your group leans toward the higher end of the mana curve. Assassin's Trophy is a similar option, if you can deal with helping your opponent ramp.
I'm a little more cautious about this next suggestion, since it's going to be very gimmicky, but a copy of Chancellor of the Spires can kickstart your Surgical Extractions and Extirpates.
K4nkato on Amalia & Raise the Past …
3 weeks ago
This is what I was looking for, ty!
She’s her own mill engine. You just gain life & bin all of your cards!
legendofa on "Unbeatable" card combo, or so …
3 weeks ago
Ogrecorps Nice work!
This sounds like a pretty fun casual group--big mana, lots of interaction, and plenty of trash talk. My interpretation of the two-card "can't lose" combo is the Herald of Eternal Dawn + Restricted Office / Lecture Hall, supported by Virtue of Persistence. Does that sound right? The "card in a graveyard that grants protection" is kind of a stretch to interpret as VoP, but if it was "a card that protects from the graveyard" i.e. a card that protects other cards from staying in the graveyard, that makes more sense.
Rhadamanthus on Does shadow of the second …
3 weeks ago
Supersaulty: An answer to your question has been up for a while. Since there don't seem to be any follow-ups or corrections that need to be made, I marked it as the "Accepted answer" so this topic can move out of the list of unanswered questions. In the future, remember to use the "Mark as Answer" button on the response that you feel is the most helpful answer if you feel your question has been resolved and you don't have any more follow-ups.
Rhadamanthus on Just double checking
3 weeks ago
It depends on what type of Commander format you're asking about. In the official Commander format, there is no separate "banned as commander" list (there used to be, but that was changed several years ago), and Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary is just banned. However, in the unofficial "Duel Commander" format, Rofellos is only on the "banned as commander" list but is otherwise allowed (link).
Ogrecorps on "Unbeatable" card combo, or so …
3 weeks ago
UPDATE: VICTORY!!
Here's the deck I used (warning, it is not great and I'm open to suggestions to improve it as a more general-purpose meme deck that strips out important things and leaves someone else to actually kill people in free-for-all format.) https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/18-06-25-SkD-grrr/?cb=1750236034
The story: 3 players, me with the meme deck, work friend with the "you cannot lose the game" mystery deck, and a third with a deck specifically filled with legendaries of as many types as he can make work.
My starting hand had Leyline of the Void and I kicked off hostilities with Bitter Ordeal and got to peruse through the "cannot lose" deck to see how it works. Key cards found: Herald of Eternal Dawn, Negate, Three Steps Ahead, Restricted Office / Lecture Hall, Virtue of Persistence. I took out one of the 4 Heralds. The legendaries deck built up nicely with about 6 or 7 big creatures with deathtouch (All-Out Assault) and flying and vigilance and lifelink and other such nonsense. This player normally likes to be fair (i.e. spread the damage around, not pick on anyone) when he feels like he's winning so I had to warn him off with the strongest arguments I could that I was absolutely not a threat to him, that I had built the deck specifically to counter the other player. Cannot Lose had no creatures out so Legendaries swung at him fully with enough to put him to -9 life. Looked like it was over already and then pop! Cannot Lose flashed out Herald of Eternal Dawn before combat damage was dealt, keeping him alive despite negative life.
Cannot Lose then quickly got out two lecture halls from Restricted Office / Lecture Hall, giving the herald and both lecture halls hexproof. Around here I realized a major weakness in my deck: it largely has to target something in the opponent's graveyard, making Leyline of the Void super not helpful. Happily, Cannot Lose Get Lostd it. Because nothing much was going to graveyards that I wanted to strip out, I built up a little supply of Extirpate and Surgical Extraction - this will be important later... Legendaries took about 6 turns and smashed Cannot Lose to about -30 life while enjoying all the lifelink that gave him.
It was at this point that Cannot Lose messaged me privately to say that he'd won, it was just going to take an hour. The next turn, he used Loran's Escape on his Herald and then used one of his Restricted Offices for a boardwipe. My defenses being so pathetic, were fine. Legendaries, however, got cleaned out, 7 or 8 big beasts in the graveyard... This left Cannot Lose as the only one on the table with any attacking power and a pair of Fountainports to slowly grow an army of fish with.
Somewhere in the excitement I'd stripped out all of his Get Lost, and Stock Up. I knew from searching his hand that he had a Negate still ready for something that might kill his Herald, the only thing keeping him alive. Then came the exchange I'm going to be hearing about all day today at work from Cannot Lose, the part where he's kicking himself for doing what he did: Legendaries brought out a planeswalker; Cannot Lose used Three Steps Ahead to counter it, putting a copy of one of his 2 counter spells in his graveyard. I targeted it with Surgical Extraction. He Negated. I surgical extracted his Three Steps and then Extirpated his Negate, successfully exiling all of his counterspells! He has already told me that he shouldn't have countered the planeswalker, that he should have just used fish from Fountainport to neutralize it.
And then Legendaries Ruinous Ultimatumd. Herald, hexproofs, and my two Wall of Vines all gone! Cannot Lose was at -30 something life and evaporated in a long silence followed by a drawn out frustrated groan. He'd nearly fought his way back and if only he could have had another Herald in hand to flash out or I hadn't stripped out his counterspells... He was also intimately familiar with Legendaries' deck because the two of them worked on it closely together so knew exactly how little strength he had left after all of those creatures got wiped with no serious options for bringing any back. Either way though, I still had 3 Sudden Spoilings in my library somewhere so chances were decent I'd get him killed for being in negative life sooner or later.
Thus began the long, slow final phase of the battle wherein I had only defensive creatures, and Legendaries had 40-something life but only one or two offensive options left in his deck which was down to about 27 cards to my 35ish. I used Liquimetal Coating and Splinter on one of his Plains, a generally useless move and one I probably should have saved for an actual threat but I was just happy Cannot Lose had lose'd. The end came when I fired off a kicked Sadistic Sacrament, ensuring that there wasn't going to be anything left to hurt me. Before I searched his deck, however, Legendaries capitulated and we called it there, official cause of death: inevitable milling out.
Femme_Fatale on Unable to read cards because …
3 weeks ago
Also turns out I had this bug logged but without knowing why it was happening so this was fruitful.
Femme_Fatale on Unable to read cards because …
3 weeks ago
Looks like it is indeed a bug with skipping latest on a set but not skipping the listed treatments for printings within that set only if that set has partial reprints (like 40k warhammer or mystery booster 2 specifically for Fabricate and Titania.)
Brimstone on Unable to read cards because …
3 weeks ago
Thank you so much Femme_Fatale! The "---" looks like it's exactly what I need!
I am still seeing the foreign Force of Negation so if you are too it may just be missing the 'skip as latest' label in the database.
What you said about the foils also makes perfect sense with cards that only have a foil printings, but I was still noticing some cards that were being incorrectly marked as foil so I poked around for a bit.
I found that on "---" Fabricate is Planechase foil, which I don't think exists, but I do know a non-foil version exist and so does a printing in a newer set (Foundations) that should be shown for both "---" and "Newest".
I also noticed that, when set to "Newest" all of the shocklands correctly show the new Clue foil cards, however when switched to "---" they revert back to their previous printings in Guilds of Ravnica and Ravnica Allegiance, but they are still marked as foil. The source of that might be a bit harder to dig out because it works properly again when set to "Lowest Price" even when showing the same printings for both "---" and "Lowest" (ex. Godless Shrine). This is also true with Titania, Protector of Argoth so it's most likely that the logic that checks if it should be marked as foil, is not properly checking the 'skip as latest' flag.
I don't know if you all actually have a todo list but if you do, maybe you can throws this in as a note next to foil tags so that whoever gets stuck working on that someday has a little head start! :P
Thanks for all of your help!
Femme_Fatale on Unable to read cards because …
3 weeks ago
Specifically for your P.S. message, check to make sure your deck's default is the "----" dotted lines. That is the newest set but ignoring sets marked as skip as latest (this is standard procedure that is used in comments and forums). Your decks may be defaulting to "newest printing" which ignores this. This lets me know that I need to figure out a better name for that preset and to make sure it's the default.
Femme_Fatale on Unable to read cards because …
3 weeks ago
Interestingly you shouldn't be able to see the FCA stuff as that set is marked as skip as latest. Perhaps that is bugged? Are the other stuff you are seeing (exception for the FIN Force of Negation) all secret lair stuff? There may be a bug there.
The foiling of stuff is frequently commander products as they frequently have foil only cards, or the lowest card number non-m15border frame type only has foil treatment. We don't show what doesn't exist, so if you can find commander product face legendary cards that have non-foil treatments we'll mark them but until then foil is the only thing available.
MLS91 on Just double checking
3 weeks ago
Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary is banned as a commander but playable in a deck? Double checking before I drop some cash
Femme_Fatale on Unable to read cards because …
3 weeks ago
Yeah it's been on the to do list for a while but there's a lot on that list and everyone's really busy.
Brimstone on Unable to read cards because …
3 weeks ago
Thanks Femme_Fatale, Using that setting does work, however it also means that sometimes I need to look up oracle text for older cards that have since been reprinted, and I would also like to see cards coming out in new sets with their new art. I just find the alternate art to be inconsistent, and frustrating.
I understand I am just being picky! and what you suggest does solve my problem :)
I guess I would just like to request that someday there be an option to opt out of alternate art.
Brimstone on Unable to read cards because …
3 weeks ago
I do not have a complete list, and it changes as new sets are put out, but currently Force of Negation is by default displayed in Japanese, Glistener Elf is in Phyrexian eventhough Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite seems to be normal, Estrid, the Masked is in Poster foil, and a whole mess of cards Akroma's Will, Dovin's Veto, Mangara, the Diplomat are in the new FF full art which I feel is somehow harder to read than the Phyrexian. I am also not sure why the site chooses to randomly make some cards foil. I have never designated a card as foil but on many of my decks cards are randomly assigned as foil, however this is not consistent. Fabricate is foil in some of my decks but not others, Passionate Archaeologist, Prosper, Tome-Bound etc seem to be foil in all new decks I make. (Unwanted foils not only throw off the general value of the cards/decks but they also ass foil to the end if copied from the main list, so It's necessary to either delete that from every randomly foiled card, or go into the editing screen before copying the list. Below is an example deck I have made. If while viewing the sample deck you are not seeing the same style as me, I can provide screen shots instead.
https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/image-test-1/?cb=1750221600
Is there an option to opt out of cards defaulting to alternate art or foil?
P.S. In previewing my post I can already see that most of the examples above are displaying differently in this post than they are in the decks I am making.
Femme_Fatale on Unable to read cards because …
3 weeks ago
There's a setting in your deck edit that lets you default to oldest printing on your decks. That should accomplish what you are looking for.
EscapingBurger on A Target-Rich Environment
3 weeks ago
Thanks! I did get a Vivi at the FF prerelease, and I'll probably put him in next time I work on this deck.
