Adarkar Wastes

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Discussion (51)

abierto on The Queen's Egg

4 months ago

Hi Mortlocke! Good to see you've added Carpet of Flowers , not that happy for Mystic Remora , which is a huge card. I was taking a look at your manabase, and I've noticed you're playing filter lands instead of pain lands. Why?

Adarkar Wastes - Underground River - Sulfurous Springs - Karplusan Forest - Brushland - Caves of Koilos - Shivan Reef - Llanowar Wastes - Battlefield Forge - Yavimaya Coast

Filter lands are really suboptimal compared to pain lands: pain lands always give you a color if you need it at the cost of 1 life, which is nothing in EDH. Filter lands might add you colorless if you don't have the right land or mana producer. You can also think about horizon lands since those make you also draw, those are even better.

Horizon Canopy - Silent Clearing - Fiery Islet - Nurturing Peatland - Sunbaked Canyon - Waterlogged Grove

I've also noticed that you're missing Gemstone Caverns : this land is so good when it's in your starting hand, you can be 1 turn ahead of your opponents.

RinceRaven on Brago

5 months ago

Landbase recommendations:

Port Town, Prairie Stream, Nimbus Maze, Skycloud Expanse

More expensive:

Mystic Gate, Adarkar Wastes, Seachrome Coast, Hallowed Fountain, Glacial Fortress

Cheap but not great:

Temple of Enlightenment, Tranquil Cove, Irrigated Farmland

Staples: (budget varies but doesn't go up too high)

Command Tower, Fabled Passage, Holdout Settlement, Thespian's Stage, Exotic Orchard, Glimmervoid, Path of Ancestry

Miraculeux on My little angel horror

8 months ago

So, here are my thoughts about the deck:

Manawise, your landbase should rather consist of lands that come into play untapped. It's important to have your mana available asap. I would suggest replacing karoo lands like Orzhov Basilica and also Opulent Palace with battlelands like Sea of Clouds and painlands Adarkar Wastes. The storage lands are also not ideal (e.g. Dreadship Reef), because they do not provide colored mana at start. And of course the more fetchlands you can add the better, missing Scalding Tarn, Arid Mesa, Verdant Catacombs, Windswept Heath, Wooded Foothills, Flooded Strand, Bloodstained Mire.

I would suggest you to cut even the three remaining creatures and add additional card advantage and lock pieces. Im missing Sylvan Library, Rhystic Study and Mystic Remora... all important ways to get extra cards.

Since your main wincon is the Consultation combos, I suggest you definitely run Thassa's Oracle as a main, cheap combo piece.

Lightning Greaves, boots and Helm are not necessary, since protecting Atraxa should not be such a priority to warrant extra cards for it. Also Mana Tithe, Mana Leak and Opt are not that relevant in a multiplayer format. I would advise to replace them with general, cheap countermagic, for better utility. Dovin's Veto, Delay, Swan Song, Tale's End can serve both to protect your cards and your combo, but also disrupt your opponents from winning.

From cheap, but relevant planeswalkers (besides Oko ofc), I would add Vraska, Golgari Queen and Kaya, Ghost Assassin. They generate a lot of card advantage over time.

Also with the amount of manarocks, you could play Winter Orb to stall and buy bit more time for your 'walkers.

Feiryn on Ojutai Voltron

8 months ago

I spot someone looking to play my favourite dragon!

First off, what's your budget like? You're running cards such as Mana Drain so I'm going to assume a high budget at least for this comment.

Starting with your lands, you generally want to avoid cards that always enter tapped. This especially goes for a more aggressive list like this where you don't want to be waiting until the next turn for your mana. I recommend dropping all of the lands you have that enter tapped including Temple of the False God, and instead look at picking up others like Adarkar Wastes, Prairie Stream, Seachrome Coast, Nimbus Maze, Skycloud Expanse, Port Town, or even just replacing them with basic Islands/Plains. If you have a lot of money to burn there's always cards like Ancient Tomb, Cavern of Souls, and of course fetchlands.

I highly recommend picking up a Stoneforge Mystic and Batterskull if you can afford them, they go extremely well together. Umezawa's Jitte is another really good piece of equipment but also is a bit more on the expensive side. I recommend cutting Whispersilk Cloak as Shroud makes you unable to equip Ojutai with anything, and Swiftfoot Boots is redundant due to Ojutai's natural hexproof. If you want another way to protect him, there's cheap options such as Sword of Vengeance which gives him a tonne of stuff.

For enchantments definitely look at Aqueous Form, cheap and fills the niche you were going for with Whispersilk Cloak. Battle Mastery and Daybreak Coronet are also fairly good Auras.

As for other cards there's Fabricate, Steelshaper's Gift, and Enlightened Tutor if you want to get pricy. I also recommend cutting Karn's Temporal Sundering, Time Warp, and Ojutai, Soul of Winter since they won't help you in your overall gameplan much.

Apologies for the wall of text, but I hope some of this helps!

DemMeowsephs on Mean girlfriend

9 months ago

Well I think one thing to help with CMC problems is to have a stronger mana base. If she has the budget, I would consider all of the lands below.

• Esper Panorama
• Watery Grave (I notice you already have this one)
• Hallowed Fountain
• Godless Shrine
• Drowned Catacomb
• Glacial Fortress
• Isolated Chapel
• Darkslick Shores
• Seachrome Coast
• Concealed Courtyard
• Underground River
• Adarkar Wastes
• Caves of Koilos (Silent Clearing?)
• Sunken Ruins
• Mystic Gate
• Twilight Mire
• Polluted Delta (Budget: Bad River)
• Flooded Strand (Budget: Flood Plain)
• Marsh Flats
• Sea of Clouds
• Morphic Pool
• Vault of Champions
• Ancient Tomb
• Prismatic Vista
• Fabled Passage
• City of Brass
• Mana Confluence
• Reflecting Pool
• Exotic Orchard
• Strip Mine/Wasteland
• Forbidden Orchard
• Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• Gemstone Mine

• Gemstone Caverns

• Ok sorry that was kind of a lot- but trust me, a good mana base makes a good commander deck and these kind of lands could help A TON. Arcane Signet is also really good and worth checking out! If this helps be sure to check out some of my decks, (Double Trouble EDH and A Deal With the Devil EDH, I would deeply appreciate it! Anyways though, good luck on your deck, hope this helps, and both of you have a great day! Happy tapping!

DemMeowsephs on Friends? Who needs them?

10 months ago

Howdy there! You might like some of these! They could help make it more competitive

• Seachrome Coast
• Hallowed Fountain
• Adarkar Wastes
• Mystic Gate
• Sea of Clouds
• Tundra
• Strip Mine or Wasteland
• Ancient Tomb
• City of Brass
• Mana Confluence
• Gemstone Mine
• Gemstone Caverns
• Prismatic Vista
• Fabled Passage
• Exotic Orchard
• Forbidden Orchard

• Reflecting Pool

• In the end, I would definitely consider all of these lands as they are very helpful and can help your journey go much much MUCH smoother, especially in commander! If this helps, be sure to check out some of my decks, (Double Trouble EDH) among others! Upvote them if you like them and be sure to give me suggestions if you have any, I would appreciate it. Anyways though, hope this helps, good luck on your deck, and have a great day! Happy tapping!

DemMeowsephs on Trump's Wet Dream

10 months ago

Howdy there and nice deck! Here are some suggestions you might appreciate! I notice you have the shock lands and the check lands but I think your deck would perform a lot better with some extra stuff. Consider some of thee following!

• Fast Lands
• Seachrome Coast
• Razorverge Thicket

• Botanical Sanctum

• Dual Fetch Lands

• Flooded Strand
• Windswept Heath

• Misty Rainforest

• Filter Lands

• Mystic Gate
• Wooded Bastion

• Flooded Grove

• Pain/Horizon Lands

• Adarkar Wastes
• Brushland or Horizon Canopy

• Yavimaya Coast or Waterlogged Grove

• That said I personally believe your deck would perform MUCH better with these additions. The following work in any deck and all deserve a slot in your deck (in my opinion)

• City of Brass

• Ancient Tomb
• Mana Confluence
• Forbidden Orchard
• Exotic Orchard
• Prismatic Vista
• Fabled Passage
• Reflecting Pool
• Wasteland or Strip Mine
• Gemstone Mine
• Gemstone Caverns
• Cavern of Souls
• Possibly Ancient Ziggurat? Maybe too risky
• Unclaimed Territory
• Yavimaya Hollow
• Dryad Arbor

In the end, I would definitely consider all of these lands as they are very helpful and can help your journey go much much MUCH smoother, especially in commander! If this helps, be sure to check out some of my decks, (Double Trouble EDH) among others! Upvote them if you like them and be sure to give me suggestions if you have any, I would appreciate it. Anyways though, hope this helps, good luck on your deck, and have a great day! Happy tapping!

DemMeowsephs on Flashing Monastery

10 months ago

Nice deck and huge maybeboard! You know what the maybeboard is missing though?

Lands!

I would recommend some of the following!

• Port Town
• Irrigated Farmland
• Seachrome Coast
• Adarkar Wastes
• Flooded Strand cheaper version: Flood Plain
• Mystic Gate
• Sea of Clouds
• Skycloud Expanse
• Fabled Passage
• Prismatic Vista
• Ancient Tomb
• Exotic Orchard
• Reflecting Pool
• Forbidden Orchard
• Gemstone Mine

• Gemstone Caverns

• Maybe also consider Pearl Medallion, Sapphire Medallion, Land Tax, Lotus Petal, etc! Ramp is always helpful and every deck should have at least ten ramp spells. Rhystic Study, Counterspell, Swan Song, and Fierce Guardianship.

So in the end, I definitely would consider all of these cards. I know you're looking for other things, but each and every one of them will help make the process a much smoother journey. If this helps, be sure to check out some of my decks, (Double Trouble EDH, Strictly Saprolings Please EDH, and many more! Anyways though, I hope this helps, good luck on your deck, and have a great day!