Academy Rector

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Legality

Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Archenemy Legal
Big Apple Highlander Legal
Block Constructed Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander / EDH Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Freeform Legal
Highlander Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Planar Constructed Legal
Planechase Legal
PreDH Legal
Premodern Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

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.

capwner on The Most Cursed EDH Deck I've Ever Made

7 months ago

king-saproling -- Yo thanks for the comment! Restore Balance is a really powerful effect that kinda plays with some of the deck's other angles, like we already want Greater Gargadon to enable Academy Rector/Arena Rector. It is also somewhat lower opportunity cost to run cascade/balance with Timesifter compared with other decks (can't run 1-2 cmc). At the least you can sweep go-wide decks or check ramp players, at most it just ends games thru total MLD+Mind Twist and we hopefully we have Smothering Tithe or Timesifter out or something. One example that comes up is we are taking Sifter turns but are in a position where we lose if we pass the turn, so here balance becomes an out. Afterwards we can rely on Sifter to recover even if we miss some turns. The biggest reason for balance though, is because I can :P

The plan with Selective Memory is to remove every card in your deck except Jace, Wielder of Mysteries. Or Maybe Jace+Chromatic Lantern for example. Mirror of Fate is our backup card both to exile the library and retrieve Jace if he ends up exiled himself so it's kind of a cool 2-way tech for that combo.

theNeroTurtle on test

7 months ago

hello

theNeroTurtle on test

7 months ago

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theNeroTurtle on Pillow Fort Shadow Tribal [Primer]

7 months ago

SufferFromEDHD, I love shadow. My mono black is my favorite deck. I like the Swiss army knife idea.

I am not a fan of repeats, so Quietus Spike is a no go. I play it elsewhere.

I have been thinking on Maze of Shadows a while actually. Great suggestion.

True-Name Nemesis fits the immunity theme, but not the theme happening among the creature section in my opinion.

Long-Term Plans is a great idea. I do feel however that Academy Rector fits the needs of a tutor and the unblockable theme since no one is going to want to kill it if they can help it. I will think on it a bit. Long-Term Plans can get anything... so, it is a hard choice.

SufferFromEDHD on Pillow Fort Shadow Tribal [Primer]

7 months ago

Cool concept! I went the Dimir direction for shadow to go all in on the gimmicky direction of "cipher tribal" Arcane Heist (swiss army knife), Hands of Binding (control) and Hidden Strings (untap your friends) are the only ones worth considering here.

Quietus Spike cute with shadow

Maze of Shadows narrow but tech against theft

True-Name Nemesis > Hunted Phantasm

I can't believe I'm about to suggest this but I don't like Academy Rector here. You run 0 sac outlets! Long-Term Plans instead?

capwner on Azorius Timesifter Prison

1 year 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

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