Arcane Sanctum

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multimedia on Alela, Artful Provocateur for EDH

3 days ago

Hey, with so much equipment consider Puresteel Paladin and Sigarda's Aid to free equip? Grand Architect lets you tap himself and other blue creatures to pay for equip costs or to cast artifacts. Alela and the Faeries she creates are blue. Shimmer Myr lets you cast artifacts at instant speed. Cranial Plating can make Alela because she has flying an attacking threat to do lethal Commander damage.

Grand Architect is good ramp for the Thopter Assembly + Time Sieve extra turn combo. With Alela this combo is lots of Faeries equal to the amount of extra turns you want to take. The win condition is attacking with Faeries at each opponent at each extra turn.

Tap Architect + Alela + 1 Faerie for 6 colorless mana to cast Assembly. Each extra turn Assembly is bounced back to your hand to create 5 artifact Thopters, you then have to cast Assembly again and next you sac those 5 Thopters with Sieve to take an extra turn to repeat. Casting Assembly at each extra turn is what creates the Faeries.

If attacking with Alela and Faerie tokens is something you want to do then because of flying consider Bident of Thassa and Reconnaissance Mission ? These are for repeatable draw which lets you draw for each creature who does combat damage to a player.

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Some land upgrades to consider:

• Exotic Orchard --> Archway Commons
• Spire of Industry --> Transguild Promenade
• Arcane Sanctum --> Boreal Shelf
• Vault of Champions --> Frost Marsh
• Caves of Koilos --> Orzhov Guildgate
• Prairie Stream --> Azorius Guildgate
• Sunken Hollow --> Dimir Guildgate
• Shineshadow Snarl --> Scoured Barrens
• Port Town --> Tranquil Cove
• Seat of the Synod --> Dismal Backwater

Good luck with your deck.

multimedia on Subjective Reality Upgrade

2 weeks ago

Hey, you're welcome.

40 lands is a lot of lands and you also have ramp sources to help to make mana. You would be fine cutting 2-4 lands and filling those spots with low CMC budget cards that draw such as Omen of the Sea , Wall of Omens and Brainstorm . The idea is more draw that also has interaction with Aminatou could replace some lands because overall these cards are better for gameplay and the draw can potentially help to draw lands. You have a good number of basic lands for budget and the ratio is also on point. With 16 basic lands then budget dual lands that have interaction with basic lands help for them to ETB untapped.

• Exotic Orchard : staple budget land for three or more colored decks in multiplayer Commander.
• Path of Ancestry : can make one color of the three Esper colors.
• Caves of Koilos
• Prairie Stream : is an Island.
• Sunken Hollow : is an Island.
• Shineshadow Snarl
• Ash Barrens : nice as a potential turn one play to landcycle to get a basic land of your choice for your second turn land for color fixing that you need to cast Aminatou.
• Temple of Enlightenment
• Temple of Deceit
• Mystic Sanctuary
• Bojuka Bog

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Ideally, you want most if not all the lands in the manabase to ETB untapped to help gameplay. Since then you can tap the land for mana the turn you play it, but that's impossible when on such a low budget unless playing 30+ basic lands which is not recommended with three colors. The lands that you play that will always ETB tapped should have other uses or be able to make one of any three colors you need. An example is Arcane Sanctum is good, Dimir Guildgate isn't good. If you have to play many lands that always ETB tapped then might as well play the ones that also have bonus interaction with your Commander.

The Scry lands ( Temple of Silence ) and Halimar Depths ETB tapped, but they have interaction with the Aminatou + Guardian + Oath combo. Aminatou can blink a Scry land as the first permanent which lets you scry through the rest of your library to find Strix or another permanent draw source to cast to then draw a win condition to cast. The Gain lands ( Tranquil Cove ) also can be blinked and blinking one of them with the combo gives you infinite life. Consider three of each of Scry lands and Gain lands?

Utility lands such as Mystic Sanctuary give you something when it ETB, can be blinked by Aminatou and be part of the combo. Sanctuary when blinked if you control three other Islands can be a repeatable way to recur an instant or sorcery. It can setup a card with miracle since you recur the card to the top of your library to draw on your next turn or even on an opponent's turn if card with miracle is the first card you draw on opponent's turn.

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Example of an upgraded budget manabase:

• 6x Plains, 6x Island, 4x Swamp
• Command Tower , Exotic Orchard , Path of Ancestry , Arcane Sanctum
• Esper Panorama , Ash Barrens , Evolving Wilds
• Halimar Depths , Temple of Enlightenment , Temple of Silence , Temple of Deceit
• Caves of Koilos , Shineshadow Snarl
• Prairie Stream , Sunken Hollow
• Mystic Sanctuary , Bojuka Bog
• Tranquil Cove , Dismal Backwater , Scoured Barrens

bdobinski on Brad's Commander Cube (v2): Non Basic Mana List

1 month ago

Update 6/14/2021 - Kaldheim + Strixhaven Changes

Barkchannel Pathway  ^Flip replacing Arcane Sanctum
Blightstep Pathway  ^Flip replacing Crumbling Necropolis
Branchloft Pathway  ^Flip replacing Frontier Bivouac
Brightclimb Pathway  ^Flip replacing Jungle Shrine
Clearwater Pathway  ^Flip replacing Mystic Monastery
Cragcrown Pathway  ^Flip replacing Nomad Outpost
Darkbore Pathway  ^Flip replacing Opulent Palace
Hengegate Pathway  ^Flip replacing Sandsteppe Citadel
Needleverge Pathway  ^Flip replacing Savage Lands
Riverglide Pathway  ^Flip replacing Seaside Citadel

bdobinski on Brad's Commander Cube (v2): Full List

1 month ago

Update 6/14/2021 - Kaldheim - Strixhaven Changes

Aggravated Assault replacing Dragon Mantle
Omnath, Locus of Creation replacing Hope of Ghirapur
Cosima, God of the Voyage  ^Flip replacing Jalira, Master Polymorphist
Maja, Bretagard Protector replacing Emmara, Soul of the Accord
Sign in Blood replacing Read the Bones
Wandering Archaic  ^Flip replacing Brass Squire
Barkchannel Pathway  ^Flip replacing Arcane Sanctum
Blightstep Pathway  ^Flip replacing Crumbling Necropolis
Branchloft Pathway  ^Flip replacing Frontier Bivouac
Brightclimb Pathway  ^Flip replacing Jungle Shrine
Clearwater Pathway  ^Flip replacing Mystic Monastery
Cragcrown Pathway  ^Flip replacing Nomad Outpost
Darkbore Pathway  ^Flip replacing Opulent Palace
Hengegate Pathway  ^Flip replacing Sandsteppe Citadel
Needleverge Pathway  ^Flip replacing Savage Lands
Riverglide Pathway  ^Flip replacing Seaside Citadel

multimedia on Varina

6 months ago

Hey, have more confidence in your deck building because this is a fine start on a low budget if it's your second deck.

You already have Wonder which is good since it's the card I suggest the most that players add with Varina. My advice is focus more on Zombies and cards that can support Zombie tribal. More Zombies, less nonZombie creatures.

Budget cards all less than $1 each to consider adding:

• Lord of the Accursed
• Wayward Servant
• Etchings of the Chosen
• Midnight Reaper
• Carrion Feeder
• Silversmote Ghoul
• Changeling Outcast: Changelings are Zombies.
• Nevinyrral, Urborg Tyrant
• Tormod, the Desecrator
• Eternal Taskmaster
• Tomebound Lich
• Binding Mummy
• Corpse Knight

Amass is an effect that creates a Zombie token.

• Gleaming Overseer
• Dreadhorde Invasion
• Vizier of the Scorpion
• Lazotep Plating
• Lazotep Reaver

Consider more cards that require you use life because Varina is a life gaining engine with Zombies.

• Caves of Koilos
• Talisman of Hierarchy
• Command the Dreadhorde
• Feed the Swarm
• Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip
• Read the Bones
• Dire Tactics

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Next step is to add 35 more lands to have a manabase to playtest. Get a temporary manabase in place with basic lands to see how many spots you have left to fill with nonland cards or how many nonland cards to cut. Make sure that basic Swamps are the most lands because you need black mana the most with Zombies.

Some budget lands $1-$2 or less each to consider adding:

• Command Tower
• Unclaimed Territory
• Path of Ancestry
• Exotic Orchard
• Arcane Sanctum
• Caves of Koilos
• Sunken Hollow: Island for Wonder.
• Prairie Stream: Island for Wonder.
• Ice Tunnel: Island for Wonder.
• Irrigated Farmland: Island for Wonder.
• Tainted Field
• Esper Panorama
• Ash Barrens
• Evolving Wilds
• Witch's Cottage

Good luck with your deck.

GenericToaster on Staples?

8 months ago

Part of my personal thoughts on what a staple is, is that it would be good on practically any budget. This means cards like Cabal Coffers belong in every mono black deck that can afford it, but the fact that its so out of price range for many makes it not so much a staple in my view. there isn't really a hard budget limit on what that is, but its usually less than $10

This list isn't exhaustive, but some of my staples are Command Tower, Exotic Orchard, any tri-tap from Alara block (Arcane Sanctum), Arcane Signet, any guild signet (Azorius Signet), Gilded Lotus, Everflowing Chalice, Astral Cornucopia

I might get flack for the last two, but they're perfect for the speed of my playgroup at least, but I imagine they'd scale in to cEDH quite poorly

stellarnear on Atraxa

10 months ago

Post reland slivo fetch and shock

Primordial Hydra > Farseek
Reyhan, Last of the Abzan > Nature's Lore
Arcane Sanctum > Arid Mesa
Darkwater Catacombs > Bloodstained Mire
Opulent Palace > Breeding Pool
Sandsteppe Citadel > Flooded Strand
Skycloud Expanse > Godless Shrine
Sungrass Prairie > Marsh Flats
Vivid Creek > Overgrown Tomb
Vivid Grove > Temple Garden
Vivid Marsh > Watery Grave
Vivid Meadow > Windswept Heath

fmastrome2008 on yarrow

11 months ago

Your mana base won't work here. Opulent Palace is the only one that's legal out of all your tapped tri-lands. You need to switch out Arcane Sanctum, Crumbling Necropolis, Nomad Outpost, Sandsteppe Citadel, and Seaside Citadel.

Also, with a curve at 4.00 and 28 lands, you're going to be mana screwed more often than not. This needs to increase to the 36-37 range for consistency.