Academy Rector

Creature — Human Cleric

When Academy Rector is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may exile it. If you do, search your library for an enchantment card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.

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
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (49)

capwner on Azorius Timesifter Prison

2 months ago

Thanks for the suggestions SufferFromEDHD and Bookrook, these are all great ideas and I have in fact considered the hourglass pendant, but all of these have lower mana cost which is a big consideration for this build. I'm trying to focus on high cost cards that can be cast cheaply like Commandeer or cheated out like Academy Rector > Omniscience. Thanks for the suggestions though! If you like the concept perhaps consider leaving an upvote? :D

Sliverguy420 on Best color for this type …

3 months ago

if you wanna play "burn" in commander, i'd recommend just playing every color if you can. Unbound Flourishing with cards like Red Sun's Zenith and Torment of Hailfire, plus white for Idyllic Tutor and Academy Rector as well as removal.

SufferFromEDHD on Yosei Stasis

5 months ago

Karmic Guide is very special. Skullclamp is gravy with echo. This isn't a flicker deck so how can I get more gas out of it?

Loyal Retainers is for discard outlets like Survival of the Fittest. Sacrificing puts cards in the same place. I'm going to goldfish some more and get familiar with how Yosei moves around. Interesting suggestion.

Academy Rector ouch... Huge fail on my part. Running a mono white sacrifice deck and missing the quintessential sacrifice tutor.

Continuous artifacts + Blinkmoth Well is my new favorite synergy. Glad you are noticing that. Stumbled on it last year.

Any hate bears that I missed that fit the sacrifice theme?

Profet93 on Yosei Stasis

5 months ago

All good points. Here are some other cards to throw your way.

Karmic Guide - Nothing special but worth mentioning. Bonus points with skullclamp.

Smothering Tithe - White good stuff, which can get repetitive so I understand why it likely isn't included.

Loyal Retainers - Fun little guy, gets thalia as well for what it's worth. Probably not the best card but thought it might be something.

Academy Rector - Can get your 2, 6 mana enchantments, an effective blocker and easy to sac in this deck.

I really like how you built this staxy version.

KongMing on Ertairlessly Countering

1 year ago

Allow me to be of assistance.

Pemmin's Aura, Freed from the Real, Ophiomancer, Academy Rector, Galecaster Colossus, Telepathy, Knight-Captain of Eos, Unbender Tine, Morbid Opportunist, Boromir, Warden of the Tower.

FourDoughnut on Blood Bending - Awaken the Avatar

1 year ago

Nice deck! I started brewing AtBA almost immediately after seeing it spoiled and have been working on the deck making improvements/changes over time, and it is easily my favourite deck at the moment. One thing that I do differently with mine is focus more on low cost creatures that make tokens on ETB, things like Weaponcraft Enthusiast & Sengir Autocrat ideally as they make 2-3 tokens to get that first or second Blood Avatar cast, You're Confronted by Robbers is great also because it's an instant, Waylay is the cheapest way to make 3 tokens on your turn. Because of this I also run all the good reanimator spells, and since that includes Animate Dead I also run Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward, which on it's own is also good, especially if you run a lot of mana rocks. I chose not to run Worldgorger Dragon for the infinite mana combo as it isn't good on its own, where Abdel Adrian is. Since you run Fury Storm I would consider running Storm-Kiln Artist for the combo potential, as he is also good for ramping off of instants/sorceries and synergizes with the toke doublers (get Mondrak out of the sideboard and into the 99). It also combos with Chain of Smog for infinite mana if you're into that (I'm not). Academy Rector is awesome for cheating in Anointed Procession if you're about to make tokens or City on Fire if you already have Blood Avatar(s). Roaming Throne from Lost Caverns of Ixilan is also good for the same reasons Isshin is, but it has Ward 2 and is colourless. I also run most of the lower cost extra combat cards to try to maximize the attack triggers, Goblin Goliath has been an (expensive) all-star. Any planeswalker with + ability that make tokens are also great.

There are so many different things you could focus on with this deck I find it hard just to narrow it down to the gameplan you're after, which is one of the things I love about it. The one thing my deck is lacking now is Lifelink, I'm looking at Teysa Karlov because vigilance is great too, but I don't focus too much on death triggers, so Whip of Erebos may take the spot.

Excited to see future updates on this! Will post my decklist eventually and link it here, interested to see your comments.

NV_1980 on Go-Shintai Shrines and Enchantments

1 year ago

In a deck featuring this many enchantments, I'd definitely recommend adding Sphere of Safety to protect yourself from attacks. Daxos the Returned could also prove fun in this deck, seeing as you're focussing on enchantments and getting tokens from them. So far, your deck seems to be relatively budget-oriented but in case that ever changes options like Replenish, Academy Rector and Greater Auramancy would all fit wonderfully in here. Have fun with the build.

DreadKhan on Rafiq, The One Hit Wonder

2 years ago

If the BW deck uses lots of enchantments, Ancestral Mask is pretty strong. It's also a card that's a great payoff for using lots of enchantments yourself. For the record, I suspect Enchantments as a theme is much more supported than Equipment is, there are incredibly borked cards like Serra's Sanctum (Tolarian Academy is banned), Academy Rector, and Replenish (the best of it's kind, but there are assorted other cheap versions), while stuff like Hall of Heliod's Generosity and many various Enchantresses (there aren't as many for Equipment I think) including Verduran Enchantress and Kor Spiritdancer are also very good. I have a Boros deck that uses creatures that draw cards off of enchantments being cast and stuff like Flickering Ward that I can recast over and over, I think Green has a bunch of other solid Enchantress cards, stuff like Setessan Champion. I think you can definitely run both and do fine, but if you wanted to go all in on one, Enchantments is really well supported in Bant.

If your Commander will usually have Double Strike, you probably could run Inquisitor's Flail, it's a really strong equipment with First Strike damage.

Not sure if you've got enough creatures to make it a viable alternative, but something like Pathbreaker Ibex could be an amusing backup Commander if you lose Rafiq somehow, maybe an Oubliette. The neat thing about Pathbreaker is that it can also double it's power (and get trample) after you buff it up, so it can be a very fast clock as well, and it has the not insubstantial upside that if you have a few creatures out with Rafiq you can just clobber people with a big Ibex swing.