Ash Barrens

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Discussion (51)

multimedia on The People's Champion

19 hours ago

Hey, good version of Rafiq.

Consider expanding on the enchantment theme? Adding more enchantresses and more enchantments? I suggest this because I see Sovereigns of Lost Alara and it's good with auras with Raqif.

Cards within the budget to consider adding:

• Exotic Orchard
• Ash Barrens
• Yavimaya Coast
• Reliquary Tower
• Enchantress's Presence : enchantress.
• Kor Spiritdancer : aura enchantress.
• Satyr Enchanter : enchantress.
• Favor of the Overbeing : with Rafiq +2/+2 flying and vigilance.
• Eldrazi Conscription : combos with Sovereigns to make Rafiq as powerful as an Eldrazi.
• Ethereal Armor : one drop, lots of pump.
• Tajuru Preserver : protect Rafiq from sac.
• Wild Growth : one drop ramp.
• Fertile Ground : ramp.
• Snake Umbra : draw, double draw with double strike.
• Open the Armory : aura/equipment tutor.
• Alpha Authority : hexproof and evasion.
• Heliod's Pilgrim : aura tutor.
• Darksteel Mutation : removal.
• Beast Within : removal.

Cards to consider cutting:

• Temple of the False God
• Blossoming Sands
• Tranquil Cove
• Treva's Ruins
• Cultivate
• Frontline Sage
• Battlegrace Angel
• Grunn, the Lonely King
• Angelic Benediction
• Behemoth Sledge
• Asceticism
• Medomai the Ageless
• Hydra Omnivore
• Cold-Eyed Selkie
• Infiltration Lens
• Mirri, Weatherlight Duelist
• Stonehewer Giant

multimedia on Chulane, teller of tales

21 hours ago

Hey, well made for your first Commander deck. Nice Aluren :)

You forgot Plains in the manabase? I suggest cutting 3x Forest and 2x Island for 5x Plains. This will give you 15 white sources in the manabase which is my opinion the lowest amount of sources to have for a color. Another option is to add more lands that can Fetch or make white mana: Bant Panorama , Ash Barrens , Prairie Stream are other budget playable lands. Whatever you decide my advice is play at least 2x basic Plains.

Whitemane Lion is excellent with Chulane since it can bounce itself back to your hand. It has flash which lets you trigger Chulane on an your opponents turns. Cast Whitemane with Aluren for infinite creature casts which with Chulane results in infinite draw/putting all lands from your hand onto the battlefield.

Eladamri's Call is an excellent creature tutor, among the best in Commander. Neoform is another great tutor, sac a creature you control to tutor for another and put it onto the battlefield. Swords to Plowshares and Beast Within are staple instant removal spells in Commander. Exiling any creature for one mana is very good. Destroying any permanent, includes a land, is versatile in Commander.

Eternal Witness is a staple green card for recursion in Commander because it can recur any one card includes a land. Guardian Project and Beast Whisperer are other sources of repeatable draw with creatures. On cast with Whisperer and ETB with Project. These can be backup repeatable draw sources if Chulane gets disrupted.

Cards to consider cutting:

• Overbeing of Myth
• Karametra, God of Harvests
• Kruphix, God of Horizons
• Agent of Treachery
• Tishana, Voice of Thunder
• Avatar of Growth
• Angel of the Dire Hour
• Hour of Eternity
• Forgotten Creation
• Primordial Hydra

The majority of these suggested cuts are high CMC creatures who don't interact with Aluren and some of them are five drops. My advice is not to play a lot of five drops because you already have the four five drops you want to play more than others: Chulane, Tatyova, Crawler, Muse. These five drops are also better than all the six drops therefore you could, cut all the six drops too.

I offer more advice. Good luck with your deck.

multimedia on Meren Graveyard Reanimator

3 days ago

Hey, good budget version of Meren.

Some budget cards ($2 or less each) to consider adding:

• Llanowar Wastes : Golgari Pain land.
• Ash Barrens
• Jund Panorama
• Apprentice Necromancer : Apprentice is creature who can reanimate and self-sac which is good with Meren. Apprentice is good with Protean Hulk , can reanimate Hulk at instant speed and then at the next end step Hulk dies allowing you to tutor for creatures.
• Phyrexian Delver : Delver is another creature who can reanimate which is good with Meren. It can be part of a tutor chain with Hulk. Get Delver + Viscera Seer to then reanimate Hulk, sac Hulk with Seer and tutor for more creatures. This chain is the beginnings of a win condition combo with Mikaeus, the Unhallowed and Walking Ballista , but unfortunately these two cards are not budget options.
• Dark Ritual : staple budget instant ramp when playing black.
• Beast Within : staple budget instant permanent removal when playing green.
• Pattern of Rebirth : underrated budget card in green especially good when you can enchant a creature who can self-sac.
• Satyr Wayfinder
• Blood Pet
• Mausoleum Secrets : tutor for Buried Alive , good with dredge.
• Grisly Salvage

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Cards to consider cutting:

• Golgari Guildgate <-- Llanowar Wastes
• Jungle Hollow <-- Ash Barrens
• Foul Orchard <-- Jund Panorama
• Korozda Guildmage <-- Apprentice Necromancer
• Syr Konrad, the Grim <-- Phyrexian Delver
• Glowspore Shaman <-- Satyr Wayfinder
• Altar's Reap <-- Grisly Salvage
• Murder <-- Beast Within
• From Beyond <-- Pattern of Rebirth
• Izoni, Thousand-Eyed <-- Dark Ritual: reduces the avg. CMC.
• Mycoloth <-- Blood Pet: reduces the avg. CMC.
• Moldervine Reclamation <-- Mausoleum Secrets: reduces the avg. CMC.

Good luck with your deck.

multimedia on Rakdos' Crazy Demon Party

4 days ago

Hey, good start and nice budget Rakdos deck.

The flavor is neat with Rakdos as General, but overall this Rakdos is lackluster. Consider Chainer, Nightmare Adept as Commander General? Chainer is being displayed as $8, but it's a glitch. It's not that much, in fact it's less than $2 at TCGPlayer.

Chainer can be an enabler for reanimation by discarding Demons or can recast Apostles from your graveyard. With Chainer any Demon you cheat onto the battlefield with Apostles gets haste. Reanimation and cards that are enablers for reanimation is a good secondary strategy when playing lots of high mana cost Demons. Apostles are the first plan to cheat Demons onto the battlefield and traditional reanimation can be a backup plan to also cheat Demons on the battlefield.

Budget cards to consider adding:

• Command Tower
• Dragonskull Summit
• Ash Barrens
• Jund Panorama
• Dark Ritual
• Buried Alive
• Victimize
• Faithless Looting
• Doomed Necromancer
• Apprentice Necromancer
• Magus of the Wheel
• Thrill of Possibility
• Tormenting Voice
• Wake the Dead
• Mausoleum Secrets
• Chaos Warp
• Terminate
• Rakdos Charm

If you like these suggestions I offer help to make cuts. I also offer more advice if you like. Good luck with your deck.

multimedia on Shifting Tides

5 days ago

Hey, saw your forum topic asking for help. Nice start for your first five color Commander deck. If you have $120 to spend on your deck my advice is allocate at least $50 of that to the manabase and cards that can help with color fixing.

Budget cards to help the manabase to consider adding:

• Gemhide Sliver
• Faeburrow Elder
• Scuttlemutt

With all the Changlings consider Gemhide? It and any Changling can tap to make any color of mana. Consider Elder? It can by itself tap to make two colors of mana, but as you add to the battlefield different colored permanents it can tap for more colors.

I don't think the Maze's End/Gates strategy is worth it for your deck. This strategy needs more Gate themed cards to take more advantage of Gates. Gates are terrible lands unless you can get value from them other than just Maze. Golos, Tireless Pilgrim is the budget Maze's End/Gates Commander since he can search for and put Maze or a Gate onto the battlefield and if you bounce him he can repeat.

Currently the manabase here is in my opinion not playable because there's too many lands that ETB tapped and there's only five basic lands. The Tri lands ( Frontier Bivouac , etc.) are better for the manabase here then the Gates and I don't think you want to play both. Playing both means you have 25 lands of the 33 total lands that will always ETB tapped which is too many. Get this number down to 10 or less, ideally zero. For budget five colors my advice is play more basic lands and dual lands that have interaction with basic lands. The Tri lands/Wilds/Expanse should be the only lands that will always ETB tapped.

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Example of a structure for a 38 land five color $40 manabase for your deck (20 green sources, 15 white, 15 blue, 15 black, 15 red):

• 15x basic lands (6x Forest, 3x Plains, 2x Island, 2x Swamp, 2x Mountain)
• Command Tower/Exotic Orchard
• Cascading Cataracts
• Evolving Wilds/Terramorphic Expanse
• Unclaimed Territory
• Ash Barrens
• 5x Tri lands
• 5x Battle lands
• 5x less expensive Check lands
• 2x utility lands

For a five color manabase you want at least 15 sources of each color and 20 of the primary color. The Tri lands are worth ETB tapped because the next turn they can tap to make one mana of three different colors which is good budget color fixing. More Forests than any other basic land because a Forest helps to cast a green land ramp spell or a green mana dork which help with color fixing for the other colors. You want to be able to cast green land ramp spells/mana dorks in the early game and having more Forests helps to do this.

I offer more advice if you would like. Good luck with your deck.

Grubbernaut on Izzet pauper

1 week ago

I would hold off on Signets, since you don't really need acceleration/ramp. If you're not having mana issues, I wouldn't worry about it; otherwise, you could also consider a couple Ash Barrens , since you may be able to cycle them pretty freely when mana's available. Worst case, your threats still can be played off of the colorless it provides in a pinch, as well.

TheSimikBOat on "Nascent Delirium"

2 weeks ago

Here are my suggestions:

• Life from the Loam : To get delirium, but with some fetchlands (or Ash Barrens , that is less efective) also can help you to get the 5 lands you need for Ishkanah, because with 22 lands sometimes you won't be able to cast it.

• Nyx Weaver : Delirium enabler, and a good card for spider tribal.

• Obelisk Spider : Another effective spider.

Also I think that you can cut Jungle Weaver , because it feels bad here, and I think that as I mentioned above Nyx Weaver is a better option.

I hope this helped you :)

multimedia on Chulane, Leader of the Hordes

2 weeks ago

Hey, nice budget version of Chulane.

Exotic Orchard , Ash Barrens , Yavimaya Coast , Prairie Stream are other budget lands to consider adding. Mystic Remora is already among the best repeatable draw in multiplayer Commander, but with a huge amount of land drops that Chulane provides then it's even better since can pay it's Cumulative upkeep cost. Neoform is a very good budget creature tutor in Commander that also puts the creature you tutor for onto the battlefield.

If attacking with creatures is something you want to be doing then Champion of Lambholt is good to make your creatures unblockable; she can get a lot of counters quick. I see Protean Hulk and Flash is the combo card with Hulk to cheat it's die trigger. It's called Flash Hulk. With Hulk in your hand cast Flash and choose to put Hulk onto the battlefield. Don't pay it's cost which sacs Hulk triggering it. Cloud of Faeries is a good creature to be part of the creatures you get with Hulk. Cloud's ETB to untap two lands can give you more Chulane triggers.

Cards to consider cutting:

• 2x Island
• 1x Forest
• 1x Plains
• Serra Avatar
• Scion of the Wild
• Sunseed Nurturer
• Firemind Vessel
• Tishana, Voice of Thunder