Aluren

Enchantment

Any player may play creature cards with converted mana cost 3 or less without paying their mana cost and as though they had flash.

Discussion (51)

Mitchelljoneill on Shadowborn Apostles - Korvold, Fae-Cursed King

1 week ago

May I suggest the card Aluren so you can cast them for free!

Goretast on Derevi, Queen of the Hated

1 week ago

Obvious power upgrades would be Mana Crypt, Gaea's Cradle, or Mox Diamond with a big emphases on Cradle with this commander. I think you might like Deafening Silence because you are so creature heavy. I would also consider adding the Yisan line with Wirewood Symbiote, Bloom Tender, and Mirror Entity to generate infinite mana with only 3 Yisan verses. Aluren and Cloudstone Curio are also essential if you're wanting to take this to the next level because it opens up so many combos. If you decide to go this route to open up more infinite mana combos, Walking Ballista would be a strong finisher that you can tutor with a strong stax/tutor like Ranger-Captain of Eos.

zephyr6066 on Uro, Titan of Self Mill

1 week ago

@Jonny994: Thanks so much for the feedback! Yea, I was very dissatisfied with the landfall decks I saw because I saw so much more potential with Uro than just simic landfall.

As for Aluren, as I understand it, Aluren only gets around the mana cost of the card, not any additional costs like commander tax. Which makes it not too useful for casting Uro from the command zone. Also, it wouldn't work for his escape cost either because you can only use one alternate cost when casting a spell, meaning we can't cast Uro for free from your graveyard - we would have to use escape because that's the cost for being able to cast it from the graveyard. So I ruled out aluren for those reasons.

Jonny994 on Uro, Titan of Self Mill

1 week ago

Now this is a Uro EDH! +1 from me

I was considering to make a Uro deck too and after many checkes I can assume this is by far the smartest list on the net. Simply beautyful

What about Aluren for an istant win? Cast Uro for free, draw and ramp, sac him and put him in your Commander zone, then do it again ad nauseam for a self deck mill

Spirits on Arahbo, Xenagos... for Cats EDH

2 weeks ago

SynergyBuild,

Used your suggestion (Felidar Guardian + Restoration Angel) but instead of Healer of the Pride went with The Great Henge. I'm not sure what it is I'm drawing into yet (mana and infect maybe, or infinite damage combo that is cmc9 wtf). Thinking of adding Aluren and Whitemane Lion which also work with The Great Henge. Wish Oketra's Monument was haste not vigilance, but no way to tutor artifacts so better to find enchantments or creatures that this works with.

Domermac on OMG KITTIES!

3 weeks ago

Might want to consider Aluren since the deck is so close to the ground.

Spirits on Arahbo, Xenagos... for Cats EDH

3 weeks ago

Ok, so lost to Tolsimir, Friend to Wolves, not awesome, he really matches well with the fight though. I did manage to win all the other rounds, but seeded low right off the start, so didn't face too many difficult decks.

New strategy:

Switch Spike Feeder to Heliod, Sun-Crowned + Walking Ballista line that has a win-con instead of just infinite life, which is useless. This combo is CMC9 so it's not functional without further rework of the mana ramping. Can break it up, CMC3 for Heliod, Sun-Crowned and then CMC4 + CMC2 for Walking Ballista and Lifelink, but thats still CMC6.

Infect will still be line 1, refine some synergy around that.

Add more fast mana like Lotus Petal. Add Swiftfoot Boots or Lightning Greaves back to have some synergy with Puresteel Paladin. Figure out something there. Have to ramp more.

Synergize the tutors with Walking Ballista. Finale of Devastation is probably wrong now. Green Sun's Zenith still is CMC1 ramp for Dryad Arbor. Re-audit each cat.

Add infinite draw combos with The Great Henge and cats, likely Whitemane Lion + Aluren but there must be others. Fleetfoot Panther isn't too exciting, but we'll see, there are a few other cats like Fleetfoot Panther, only take on cats that don't suck as well.

Have to find a way to build combos with a cat, need a T1 solution? in selesnya? I don't want to take it Stax, would rather figure out how to stay combo.

I can't see any equipment changes other than the boots coming back in. Greater Good might come out if no combos with it, but I do like it for the draw, so maybe not. I've been looking at Rafiq of the Many and Uril, the Miststalker but don't see that as the right way to go, think the equipment package is correct. Sword of Feast and Famine still presents the challenge with Pro-green, but none of the other swords give me pro-black without pro-white/pro-green that are any good.

Need to get creative, might start a Arahbo, Roar of the World discord, hmm, need to brainstorm. We need some good white cards in commander, and some really high powered cats. Mirri, Weatherlight Duelist and Leonin Relic-Warder the only really functionally played cats.

Thats the plan, lots of thinking and building synergies to work through. I'm playing it as is again (no Heliod and Ballista) this weekend again to try and get an evaluation of what is working. Strengthen the infect a bit too.

Xephon_ on Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath (w/Primer)

1 month ago

Why be overly complicated when you can just play Aluren ? Once Aluren is on the battlefield, cast Uro, let his ETB resolve, let his sacrifice trigger resolve, put him back to the command zone, and repeat. You get to draw your whole deck, gain a bunch of life, and put all (or nearly all) of your lands onto the battlefield. Not only that, but it's at instant speed!

Good deck though, just swap out one card for this for redundancy.