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Agatha's Soul Cauldron
Legendary Artifact
You may spend mana as though it were mana of any colour to activate abilities of creatures you control.
Creatures you control with +1/+1 counters on them have all activated abilities of all creature cards exiled with Agatha's Soul Cauldron.
: Exile target card from a graveyard. When a creature card is exiled this way, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
Beespair on
Rule the Galaxy [Kaervek, the Punisher]
1 week ago
Isochron Scepter is great, can make an instant occur way more times than I normally could and the instant imprinted can change depending on the playgroup.
I agree with what you said about Cabal Ritual, never really had the chance to play it in the games I played with the deck, but the graveyard does not often stay with 7 cards in it. Switched it for Sign in Blood, as you've mentioned, more draw could help and at the same time I like cards that can do more than one thing in EDH.
Vampiric Tutor is not really a budget issue, as I'm proxying the deck, but I have friends in my playgroup that don't and I try to keep it to cards they would normally have. I'm already justifying Imperial Seal because of its name and Word of Command because it's a fun card to use and it's mostly the lack of printing that justify it's high price.
I removed these cards from the deck:
Agatha's Soul Cauldron: Although fun and a cheap crime, I rarely get useful activated abilities, the +1 to toughness was it's biggest use IMO.
Cabal Ritual: As you've mentioned, the threshold wouldn't really happen often.
Languish: Yahenni's Expertise is just more fun, same CMC and the 4 to 3 difference doesn't change much of the purpose behind the card.
Ulcerate: Cheap removal, but I already have a lot and this one was the weakest IMO.
Cabal Stronghold: As you've mentioned, 17 basics is too little.
Swamp: Removed one swamp to fit an additional non-basic land. Cabal Stronghold is gone, no need to keep that many basics.
I then added these cards:
Isochron Scepter: So many cool options, just neglected it when deck-building because I've been too tainted by the Dramatic Reversal combo and I only think about it in this situation.
Sign in Blood: One more card draw, can also burn enemies and with this deck's recursion can be re-used.
Yahenni's Expertise: Just a cooler Languish.
Buried Ruin: Nice recursion on stuff I can't normally recur because it's colorless.
Deserted Temple: As you've mentioned, crime, politics, ramp with Cabal Coffers.
Sudden Spoiling: Cool tech against control and protected creatures.
I did not add Helm of Obedience, felt like the 4 CMC is a bit too high. I will try it in the deck to see if I want to change something for it.
I did not add both flash cards because I can cast stuff from the graveyard at instant speed if needed with a crime. There's also not much I'm thinking of that I would really want to get that is not an instant. I might be missing some situations though.
bhst5019 on Need to address Agatha's Soul …
3 weeks ago
Have not approached this but I may want to build a deck around it. I use Agatha's Soul Cauldron to exile Leech Gauntlet which has reconfigure and put a plus +1/+1 counter on my commander (non artifact). Can I configure my commander to another creature?
DMFF on
Aerith Throws Infinite Chairs
6 months ago
slvstrChung of course!
Walking Ballista needs to be in the GY with Agatha's Soul Cauldron and Aerith Gainsborough on the field.
- Activate Soul Cauldron, exiling the Walking Ballista and putting the +1/+1 counter on Aerith.
- Aerith now has a +1/+1 counter and has Walking Ballista's activated abilities due to Soul Cauldron. Activate the Ballista's ability to remove a +1/+1 counter from Aerith to do 1 damage to any target.
- Aerith has lifelink. You will gain 1 life, which triggers her effect to give her another +1/+1 counter.
- Repeat steps 2 and 3 infinitely!
Hopefully this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions regarding the deck!
Gidgetimer on Make It Work
8 months ago
Relic of Progenitus doesn't draw 4 cards in a turn. Ketramose says "Whenever one or more cards are put into exile from graveyards..." since it is a single effect exiling from multiple graveyards it is 1 Ketramose trigger. If it said "...from a graveyard.." it would count each graveyard individually.
Still a great card for a Ketramose deck since it is 1 mana artifact that taps to draw a card with Ketramose on the battlefield. It is a draw engine though, not burst draw. I think that making some cuts to add in Relic of Progenitus and similar repeatable exiles as engines with Ketramose would go a long way to feeling like your deck is "doing the thing".
Depending on budget good repeatable draw engines with the commander could be:
Necropotence is a good draw engine as well and would let you get Ketramose online at will. And Triumph of Saint Katherine seems like a good value piece.
Mortlocke on Should I Keep Abzan Falconer …
1 year ago
"I do not believe that this deck has quite a sufficient number of creatures with activated abilities to justify including Agatha's Soul Cauldron in the deck."
I have one rebuttal: Agatha's Soul Cauldron doesn't limit you to your own graveyard. There's also the added bonus of possibly preventing some nasty graveyard recursion. But changing subjects, there was a card in MH3 that I had to have in my own Atraxa build - Metastatic Evangel. Your deck, much like mine has a emphasis on creatures, so why not take advantage of that? It functions similarly to Inexorable Tide but lower to the ground and easier to remove. I definitely think it's at least worth trying for my deck, what about yours?
DemonDragonJ on Should I Keep Abzan Falconer …
1 year ago
Mortlocke, all of those are excellent cards, but I am not certain about them, and I shall explain my reasons for feeling so about each one.
Mikaeus, the Lunarch has an ability that is very similar to Spike Weaver's first ability, and, while Spike Weaver's second ability is nice, I feel that it does not quite match the theme of the deck, and Spike Weaver also costs 4 mana, which would increase the mana curve of this deck.
I do not believe that this deck has quite a sufficient number of creatures with activated abilities to justify including Agatha's Soul Cauldron in the deck.
This deck does not have quite a sufficient focus on lands to justify including Felidar Retreat.
I feel that Hadana's Climb Flip does not quite have a sufficient impact for this deck.
Again, all of those cards were excellent, so please do not think that I did not appreciate your suggestions.
As for the cards that I previously mentioned, I already have a copy of Fertilid in another deck, so, between Shapers of Nature and Zameck Guildmage, the guildmage has both a lower casting cost and a lower cost for using its ability, so I believe that that is the card that I shall I put into my Atraxa deck, to replace Abzan Falconer.
Mortlocke on Should I Keep Abzan Falconer …
1 year ago
After looking at your deck there are a few ideas that cane to mind. I'd like to hear your takes on the following:
I apologize in advance if these are cards you've already omitted from your deck, or have previously considered. But these are just some cards that came to mind.
wallisface on What is the Difference Between …
1 year ago
Playing either Agatha's Soul Cauldron or using Grist, the Hunger Tides -2 ability on MTGO will both beautifully illustrate how ”when you do” effects interact with the stack.
