Ash Barrens

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Discussion (50)

multimedia on Aesi

1 week ago

Hey, well done on a budget upgrading a precon for a first Commander deck.

There's some cards in the precon to consider adding:

• Meloku the Clouded Mirror : one of the better budget cards with Aesi because it can bounce lands you control. It can be a repeatable source of flying tokens, landfall triggers or best of all draw with Aesi.

• Spitting Image : can copy any creature on the battlefield including an opponents creature. Retrace is the reason to include this because by discarding a land you can cast it again from your graveyard and keep doing this as long as you have a land in your hand to discard.

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With Murkfiend Liege and Retreat to Coralhelm you can take advantage of Llanowar Scout and Zimone, Quandrix Prodigy who can tap to put a land onto the battlefield. This interaction if you have lands in your hand lets you trigger Aesi on your opponents turns. Can also abuse this interaction with Simic Growth Chamber or Guildless Commons because these lands can bounce themselves back to your hand. Either one lets you trigger Aesi and draw a card on each opponents turn.

Some other cards $1 or less each to consider adding:

• Sakura-Tribe Elder
• Talisman of Curiosity : another two drop Simic mana rock.
• Harrow : gets two basic lands at instant speed and they ETB untapped.
• Roiling Regrowth
• Brainstorm : staple blue card, draw three for one mana.
• Zephyr Boots : flying evasion for Aesi and repeatable draw.
• Decisive Denial

Some other budget lands $1 or less each to consider:

• Myriad Landscape
• Yavimaya Coast
• Ash Barrens
• Temple of Mystery

If interested I offer more advice including cuts to consider. Good luck with your deck.

multimedia on Izzet Prismari Copy Storm

1 week ago

Hey, well done on a budget for your first Commander deck. I'm having fun with Veyran with Kalamax, the Stormsire .

You have 111 cards which is too many. Cards to consider cutting to get to 100 cards:

• Temple of the False God : you don't have any land ramp, only relying on land drops to get five or more lands. This land will not be able to tap for mana until turn five or six at the earliest which is really bad.
• Sphinx-Bone Wand : it's too slow for the for payoff even with Veyran. It's seven mana and you then have to cast an instant or sorcery to put a counter on it.
• Siren of the Fanged Coast : five mana 4/4 flier is what this will be every time you cast it which is subpar.
• Brass's Bounty : not worth seven mana for treasures since you don't want to ramp into it. Need at least six lands in your control to make paying seven mana worth six treasures.
• Curator's Ward : you have better hexproof protection (Greaves/Boots) for Veyran.
• Selective Snare : narrow sorcery speed removal since only works on one creature type.
• Violent Impact
• Traitorous Blood
• Darksteel Ingot
• Jori En, Ruin Diver

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Some budget cards to consider adding:

• Reiterate : combos with Mana Geyser to make infinite red mana as long as opponents have seven or more tapped lands. Buyback is nice when you want to be casting instants since it lets you after resolving it put it back into your hand to cast again. Mana enablers Storm-Kiln Artist and Birgi, God of Storytelling  ^Flip are excellent with buyback.

Buyback is the reason that Reiterate can be a infinite combo with Geyser. After copying Geyser with Reiterate you resolve the copy of Geyser first and then resolve the original Reiterate which puts it back into your hand. While the original Geyser is still on the stack cast Reiterate again to copy the original Geyser and repeat. Can make infinite storm count for Grapeshot , infinite cast of instant for Guttersnipe / Ral, Storm Conduit or infinite mana for Jaya's Immolating Inferno as win conditions.

• Solve the Equation : tutor for any instant or sorcery.
• Saheeli, Sublime Artificer
• Frantic Search : goes well with High Tide since it can untap lands. Being able to cast an instant to draw and then untap lands lets you potentially cast another instant that you may of drawn to get more out of Veyran and magecraft.
• Brainstorm : staple blue draw spell, instant draw three for one mana.
• Increasing Vengeance : copy your own instant or sorcery. Has flashback which lets you cast it again from your graveyard and if you do copy your own instant or sorcery twice.
• Preordain : Scry 2 before you draw is nice. One mana spell that's a good target to copy.
• Wizard's Retort : Veyran is a Wizard.
• Shivan Reef
• Ash Barrens
• Grixis Panorama

If interested I offer more advice including cuts to consider. Good luck with your deck.

multimedia on WTH KAALIA!!!!

1 week ago

Hey, you're welcome.

My next advice is consider improving the manabase? More dual lands in place of some basic lands, Bloodfell Caves and Immersturm Skullcairn to help color fixing. 27 basic lands is a lot for a three color deck since you risk drawing all of one or two types of basic lands. On a budget there's several lands to consider adding:

• Exotic Orchard
• Caves of Koilos
• Battlefield Forge
• Path of Ancestry
• Nomad Outpost
• Tainted Field
• Smoldering Marsh
• Ash Barrens
• Evolving Wilds
• Orzhov Basilica
• Rakdos Carnarium

Lands that will always ETB untapped are better, but there aren't a lot of budget options. The next tiers of prices for some lands for future upgrades ($4 lowest to $10 highest):

• $4 Pathways: Needleverge Pathway  ^Flip, Brightclimb Pathway  ^Flip
• $5 Filter lands: Graven Cairns , Rugged Prairie , Fetid Heath
• $5-7: Bond lands: Spectator Seating , Vault of Champions
• $5-6 Check lands: Dragonskull Summit , Isolated Chapel
• $8-10 Shock lands: Godless Shrine

BrassLord on Spider Commander

2 weeks ago

Since your commander cares about card types in the graveyard, on a budget Evolving Wilds and Terramorphic Expanse both can put a land in the grave for you! To add to the additional cycle lands, Ash Barrens is another one that can color fix you in the early game! Whip of Erebos counts as both an enchantment and an artifact and can provide late game stability with lifegain and getting stuff back from the grave. Font of Fertility is another enchantment that you can get into the grave pretty easily.

If you want to keep the spider tribal theme, I'd recommend jamming as much card draw in your deck as possible! Maybe look into cutting some of the underwhelming (but cool) spiders like Sporecap Spider , Root Spider .

Also just some food for thought, your commander is an infinite mana sink in disguise, so any combo that gives you infinite mana turns into a win condition! Or flickering your commander is fun too, though in your current build, there is not a lot of value targets in the deck aside from your commander

multimedia on Swarm Storm

3 weeks ago

Hey, well done version of Kykar on a low budget.

Consider Retraction Helix and Everflowing Chalice ? These two cards combo with Jeskai Ascendancy for infinite storm count on a budget. With Kykar this combo is infinite Spirits and infinite red mana. Without a combo or repeatable ways to shuffle all cards in your graveyard back into your library such as Elixir of Immortality I think you're going to have trouble winning games with the current strategy. One idea is the chipping away at your opponents can help to setup a combo to finish and win the game.

With the strategy here Feather, the Redeemed pairs well with Kykar since cards that target a creature you control can then be repeatedly cast to create Spirits and/or draw cards. In multiplayer low mana cost instants that draw can be a lot of draw and are borderline busted with Feather. With Feather blue adds to what Boros doesn't have such as Retraction Helix , Shadow Rift and Leap . If attacking with Kykar and Spirits then Reconnaissance Mission and Mask of Memory can be consistent repeatable draw sources since flying creatures can consistently do combat damage to a player.

Some budget land upgrades to consider:

• Exotic Orchard
• Shivan Reef
• Mystic Monastery
• Mystic Sanctuary
• Prairie Stream
• Ash Barrens

Good luck with your deck.

BrassLord on Jolly Green Giant Deck Commander

3 weeks ago

• sorry wrong link... Evolving Wilds . Also, since your commander scales with lands on the field AND in the graveyard, it opens a lot of different options. Cycle lands like Ash Barrens Tranquil Thicket Slippery Karst and Desert of the Indomitable are all cards that can either be mana or a source of card draw later on. Terramorphic Expanse Prismatic Vista and Fabled Passage are all good ways to further the land in grave count AND synergize really well with your play from the graveyard effects like Ramunap Excavator , letting you get a land from your deck every turn.

And again, since your commander cares about lands in graveyards, Crop Rotation can fetch any needed utility lands/fetching lands. And Springbloom Druid is a Harrow with legs! Roiling Regrowth is a newer card that fetches you lands. And Nissa's Pilgrimage is an all star with the potential to give you 3 lands for 3 mana!

Hope that gives you some ideas!

multimedia on Rakdos Dragon actual

1 month ago

Hey, good job on a budget. Nice Demonic Tutor :)

Some $1-$2 cards to consider adding:

• Dark Ritual
• Seething Song
• Seize the Spoils
• Mana Geyser
• Exhume
• Final Parting
• Magus of the Wheel
• Mask of Memory
• Faithless Looting
• Dragon Breath
• Dragon Mage
• Glorybringer
• Azra Oddsmaker
• Victimize
• Chaos Warp

Some budget land upgrades to consider:

• Unclaimed Territory --> Looming Spires
• Smoldering Marsh --> Bloodfell Caves
• Jund Panorama --> 1x Mountain
• Path of Ancestry --> 1x Mountain
• Shadowblood Ridge --> 1x Mountain
• Ash Barrens --> 1x Mountain
• Temple of Malice --> 1x Swamp

If interested I offer more advice including cuts to consider. Good luck with your deck.

multimedia on Fear the Swarm

1 month ago

Hey, nice budget version of Edgar.

You have the right idea with wanting to cast Vamps quick to take advantage of eminence, but the manabase also needs to match this strategy. There's too many lands that will always ETB tapped which reduces the consistency of casting Vamps quick. More dual lands that can ETB untapped would speed up game play.

Some budget land upgrades to consider:

• Caves of Koilos --> Forsaken Sanctuary
• Unclaimed Territory --> Gateway Plaza
• Exotic Orchard --> Idyllic Grange
• Battlefield Forge --> Stone Quarry
• Tainted Field --> Boros Guildgate
• Smoldering Marsh --> Cinder Barrens
• Ash Barrens --> Evolving Wilds
• Temple of Silence --> Akoum Refuge
• Temple of Triumph --> Bloodfell Caves

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Some other budget cards to consider adding:

• Knight of the Ebon Legion
• Forerunner of the Legion : Vamp tutor and it can repeatable pump
• Pact of the Serpent : from Kaldheim Commander and it's a powerful draw spell with Vamp tokens.
• Shadow Alley Denizen : repeatable evasion
• Rakish Heir : grows each Vamp who does combat damage to a player including itself.
• Necropolis Regent
• Etchings of the Chosen : anthem and can be repeatable protection for Vamps from board wipes by sacing tokens to protect nontoken Vamps.
• Scapegoat can save all nontoken Vamps from a board wipe by sacing one token and you get to cast the Vamps again to recover as well as trigger more eminence.
• Bloodline Pretender : it can get huge because it triggers whenever a Vamp token is created.
• Raise the Draugr : can recur two Vamps for two mana at instant speed.

Higher CMC Vamps as less needed because you have Edgar who's the six drop you want to cast more than the others, but Necropolis Regent is a budget second. Like Edgar, Regent is also good with a Vamp swam as well as with Edgar and other flying Vamps.

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Some cards to consider cutting:

• Price of Knowledge
• Sengir, the Dark Baron
• Crimson Honor Guard
• Arvad the Cursed
• Bishop of Binding
• Bloodbond Vampire
• Malakir Cullblade
• Disentomb
• Bone Splinters
• Ambition's Cost

Good luck with your deck.