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Baleful Force
Creature — Elemental
At the beginning of each upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
trippy_mcfly on
Cumly Cube
1 month ago
Introducing Cumly Cube 1.4! Two months ago, Cumly Cube was updated to Cumly Cube 1.3, which was touted as balanced and without any notable flaws. There is no more insidious poison than hubris! Many cards remained that were too strong, or close to unplayable. Many archetypes existed in the cube but had too little support to ever be worth drafting. Many cards failed to fit the ethos of Cumly Cube. With 89 more cuts and adds, I am now pleased to announce that, this time, Cumly Cube has reached a final form! Perhaps a few cards are still too strong, too weak, or out of place, but the vast majority of the draft pool is now in an acceptable state. Any further changes to Cumly Cube 1 will exist as minor updates, swapping out only a few cards at a time. This means that there will never be a Cumly Cube 1.5, only 1.4.1, 1.4.2, etc.
Here are the changes, provided with brief justifications:
REMOVED:
ARTIFACT
- Basilisk Collar: equipment is not part of Cumly Cube 1
- Hedron Archive
: cut to weaken the artifact archetype
- Mox Diamond: cut to weaken the artifact archetype
- Mox Opal: cut to weaken the artifact archetype
- Mox Tantalite: cut to weaken the artifact archetype
- Sensei's Divining Top:cut to weaken the artifact archetype
CREATURE
- Academy Manufactor: cut to weaken the artifact archetype
- Archfiend of Spite: madness is not part of Cumly Cube 1
- Arsenal Thresher: too weak
- Augmenting Automaton: too weak
- Autonomous Assembler: Assembly-Workers have been cut from Cumly Cube 1
- Baleful Force: too weak
- Battleground Geist: cut for a better Spirit card
- Belligerent Hatchling: too weak
- Bloodpyre Elemental: too generic of a red card
- Bloom Hulk: there are better proliferate engines available in Cumly Cube
- Copperhorn Scout: cut to weaken the Elf creature type
- Crosis, the Purger: too annoying to play against
- Deathrite Shaman: cut to weaken the Elf creature type
- Deus of Calamity: too weak
- Dutiful Replicator: Assembly-Workers have been cut from Cumly Cube 1
- Dwynen's Elite: cut to weaken the Elf creature type
- Emperor's Vanguard: cut to weaken green
- Farhaven Elf: cut to weaken the Elf creature type
- Fear of Exposure: cut to weaken green
- Fertilid: cut to weaken green
- Galazeth Prismari: cut to weaken the artifact archetype
- Geyserfield Stalker: too weak
- Greater Gargadon: suspend is not part of Cumly Cube 1
- Hallowed Priest: cut for an identical card to support the Cat creature type
- Heedless One: cut for a similar card to better support the Elf creature type
- Hematite Golem: too weak
- Hunted Horror: too weak
- Impetuous Devils: too generic of a red card
- Jeskai Student: too weak
- Junktroller: too weak
- Lashweed Lurker: emerge is not part of Cumly Cube 1
- Llanowar Visionary: cut to weaken the Elf creature type
- Lodestone Golem: we have seen enough of this card in other formats
- Lunar Avenger: too weak
- Maze Behemoth: cut to weaken green
- Mishra's Self-Replicator: Assembly-Workers have been cut from Cumly Cube 1
- Morselhoarder: too weak
- Night Incarnate: too generic of a black card
- Omnath, Locus of the Roil: cut to weaken the Elemental creature type
- Phantom Nishoba: too weak
- Quirion Ranger: cut to weaken the Elf creature type
- Scalding Devil: cut to make room for more interesting Devil creatures
- Self-Assembler: Assembly-Workers have been cut from Cumly Cube 1
- Seton, Krosan Protector: cut to weaken green
- Soul of Zendikar: cut to weaken green
- Teferi's Sentinel: too weak
- Thought Monitor: cut to weaken the artifact archetype
- Torbran, Thane of Red Fell: too generic of a red card
- Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre: cut to make room for more balanced Eldrazi creatures
- Walking Ballista: cut to remove an infinite combo payoff accessible from the Cumly Zone
ENCHANTMENT
- Aura Shards: too powerful
- Blood Moon: we have seen enough of this card in other formats
- Impending Disaster: too weak
- In Bolas's Clutches: cut for a similar but more expensive version of this effect
- Night Soil: cut due to the presence of two other very similar cards
- Revel in Riches: too powerful
- Urban Utopia: cut to weaken green
LAND
- Ancient Tomb: too powerful
- Flagstones of Trokair: too weak
- Mishra's Workshop: too powerful
- Urza's Saga: too powerful
INSTANT
- Accelerate: too generic of a red card
- Bedevil: spot removal has been removed in favor of removal found in commands, charms, and confluences
- Fading Hope: too generic of a blue card
- Fissure: spot removal has been removed in favor of removal found in commands, charms, and confluences
- Fracture: spot removal has been removed in favor of removal found in commands, charms, and confluences
- Frazzle: too generic of a blue card
- Inside Out: too weak
- Lens Flare: spot removal has been removed in favor of removal found in commands, charms, and confluences
- Schismotivate: too weak
- Seize the Initiative: too weak
- Volt Charge: spot removal has been removed in favor of removal found in commands, charms, and confluences
PLANESWALKER
- Karn Liberated: too generic and powerful of a draft pick
- Nissa of Shadowed Boughs: animating lands is not part of Cumly Cube 1
SORCERY
- Broken Bond: spot removal has been removed in favor of removal found in commands, charms, and confluences
- Chain Reaction: too generic of a red card
- False Dawn: too weak
- Grim Tutor: too powerful
- Ice Storm: spot removal has been removed in favor of removal found in commands, charms, and confluences
- Lava Flow: spot removal has been removed in favor of removal found in commands, charms, and confluences
- Sinkhole: spot removal has been removed in favor of removal found in commands, charms, and confluences
- Tezzeret's Gambit: too powerful
- Wildfire: too generic of a red card
ADDED:
ARTIFACT
- Banner of Kinship: encourages building around creature types
- Conduit of Worlds: supports graveyard synergies
- Pillar of Origins: encourages building around creature types
CREATURE
- Aetherjacket: supports the Thopter creature type
- Ajani's Pridemate: replaces Hallowed Priest to support the Cat creature type and lifegain synergies
- Akroan Conscriptor: supports spellslinger synergies
- Alibou, Ancient Witness: supports the Golem creature type and other artifact decks
- Ancient Cellarspawn: supports the Demon, Horror, and Nightmare creature types
- Angelic Aberration: supports the Angel and Eldrazi creature types
- Axgard Artisan: supports the Dwarf creature type
- Bloodwater Entity: supports spellslinger synergies
- Brass Herald: supports the Golem creature type and encourages building around creature types
- Campus Guide: supports the Golem creature type
- Chief of the Foundry: supports the Construct creature type and other artifact decks
- Chrome Courier: supports the Thopter creature type
- Cursed Wombat: supports the Nightmare creature type and +1/+1 counter decks
- Darksteel Colossus: supports the Golem creature type
- Duergar Hedge-Mage: supports the Dwarf creature type
- Eidolon of Blossoms: supports the enchantment archetype
- Endbringer: supports the Eldrazi creature type
- Essence Depleter: supports the Eldrazi creature type
- Gimli, Mournful Avenger: supports the Dwarf creature type
- Gishath, Sun's Avatar: supports the Dinosaur creature type
- Herald of Slaanesh: supports the Demon creature type
- Hunting Velociraptor: supports the Dinosaur creature type
- Immaculate Magistrate: replaces Heedless One to support the Elf creature type
- It That Heralds the End: supports the Eldrazi creature type
- Kozilek's Channeler: supports the Eldrazi creature type
- Mayhem Devil: supports the Devil creature type
- Patrician Geist: replaces Battleground Geist to support the Spirit creature type
- Petravark: supports the Beast creature type
- Pillardrop Warden: supports the Dwarf and Spirit creature types
- Precursor Golem: supports the Golem creature type
- Prosperous Pirates: supports the Pirate creature type
- Quandrix Pledgemage: supports the Merfolk creature type and spellslinger synergies
- Roaming Throne: supports the Golem creature type and encourages building around creature types
- Rootwater Hunter: supports the Merfolk creature type
- Shambling Suit: supports the Construct creature type and other artifact decks as well as enchantment decks
- Shantotto, Tactician Magician: supports the Dwarf creature type and spellslinger synergies
- Smokebraider: supports the Elemental creature type
- Solarion: supports the Construct creature type
- Species Specialist: encourages building around creature types
- Squealing Devil: supports the Devil creature type
- Tayam, Luminous Enigma: supports the Beast and Nightmare creature types
- The Balrog of Moria: supports the Demon creature type
- The Lady of Otaria: supports the Dwarf creature type
- Three Tree Mascot: adds mana fixing and encourages building around creature types
- Titans' Vanguard: supports the Eldrazi creature type
- Torch Fiend: supports the Devil creature type
- Ulamog's Dreadsire: supports the Eldrazi creature type
- Vengeful Devil: supports the Devil creature type
- Venomcrawler: supports the Demon creature type
- Wavecrash Triton: supports the Merfolk creature type and spellslinger synergies
- Zara, Renegade Recruiter: supports the Pirate creature type
ENCHANTMENT
- Destructive Flow: offers a land destruction engine that can provide a large advantage in some decks
- Efficient Construction: supports the Thopter creature type
- Keldon Twilight: offers a creature destruction engine for aggressive decks
- Lay Claim: replaces In Bolas's Clutches as a more expensive control spell
- Might Makes Right: encourages large creatures and can be used in conjunction with sacrifice synergies as a creature destruction engine
- Porphyry Nodes: offers a creature destruction engine for slower decks
- Retreat to Kazandu: supports landfall synergies
- Shivan Harvest: offers a land destruction engine and supports sacrifice synergies
- Sunken Hope: offers a creature bounce engine for slower decks
- Whirlwind of Thought: supports spellslinger synergies
LAND
- Foundry of the Consuls: supports the Thopter creature type
INSTANT
- Atarka's Command: commands have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
- Aura Mutation: quite similar to Artifact Mutation
- Brokers Confluence: confluences have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
- Cabaretti Confluence: confluences have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
- Dromoka's Command: commands have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
- Kolaghan's Command: commands have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
- Lorehold Command: commands have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
- Maestros Charm: rounding out the charms in Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
- Maestros Confluence: confluences have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
- Obscura Charm: rounding out the charms in Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
- Obscura Confluence: confluences have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
- Ojutai's Command: commands have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
- Pulse of the Fields: supports lifegain synergies
- Quandrix Command: commands have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
- Riveteers Charm: rounding out the charms in Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
- Silumgar's Command: commands have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
- Silverquill Command: commands have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
- Siren's Ruse: supports the Pirate creature type and blink synergies
PLANESWALKER
- Saheeli, Filigree Master: supports the Thopter creature type
- Vraska, Golgari Queen: supports sacrifice synergies
SORCERY
- Renegade Tactics: replaces Accelerate as a less typical red card
- Roar of the Crowd: encourages building around creature types
- Temporary Insanity: stealing creatures is a small but important part of Cumly Cube
- Witherbloom Command: commands have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
Jabber on
Liliana, Baby of Chaos
2 years ago
Cards id Consider adding:
Diabolic Tutor should be in the deck
Killing Wave should add this great finisher and liliana text
Command the Dreadhorde Liliana with great artwork and a nice finisher
Mutilate great board wipe with Liliana text
Liliana's Specter goes with the current theme
Oath of Liliana good removal and on theme
Liliana's Scrounger great for all the planeswalkers and removal
Liliana's Scorn bad removal but also works as a tutor
Liliana's Reaver fits into the discard theme
Liliana's Influence tutor and kind of a board wipe
Liliana's Indignation direct damage and fill graveyard
Liliana's Elite weak but gets stronger with graveyard
Liliana's Contract kind of bad draw but on theme
Liliana, Death Wielder old planeswalker but could be fun
Liliana, Death's Majesty token maker and is pretty good
Liliana's Shade Bad but kind of ramp
Entomb great card
Reanimate great card
Gravecrawler great card for combo but idk if it fits here
Settle the Score bad removal but helps with planeswalkers
Triumph of Cruelty on theme with discard
Demonic Tutor Liliana art work and quote
Finale of Eternity finisher and removal
Professor Onyx on theme and decent
Baleful Force bad top end but cool quote
Mind Rot Liliana quate and discard theme
Swap to these lands: https://scryfall.com/card/fjmp/22/liliana
BigBadE on Killing by giving opponents "positive" …
3 years ago
I found Baleful Force which works perfectly. The deck runs a lot of token doublers and myriad triggers to give me more stuff to give away and more ways to give it away, so anything like that is perfect.
seshiro_of_the_orochi on Satoru Umezawa Brainstorming
3 years ago
Each single blue or black evoke creature is pretty cool with Satoru: enter link description here
Pretty cool with Supreme Exemplar, btw.
More ideas:
Archon of Cruelty, Abhorrent Overlord, Archfiend of Despair, Archfiend of Sorrows, Baleful Beholder, Baleful Force, Chancellor of the Spires, Chromescale Drake, Goremand, Gyruda, Doom of Depths, Inspired Sphinx, Lord of the Void, Massacre Wurm, Polar Kraken, Quicksilver Gargantuan, Sanguine Praetor, Vampire Charmseeker,
Chained Throatseeker seems great.
Alhammarret, High Arbiter and Amugaba seem weirdly playable with Satoru.
Deepchannel Mentor maybe?
Denizen of the Deep could be some kind of boardwipe protection.
You could also do some pretty sick things with Armory Automaton, Grafted Exoskeleton and just a few more equipments.
Strangelove on
Big lifegain, big creatures - Willowdusk
4 years ago
Hey Walrighti, +1!
Congrats on your first deck! You have a lot of fun cards in here and it looks great! I imagine you want to tune and make it even more efficient so here are some ideas...
Add 3 categories: #Combo, #Lifegain, and #Evasion; and then sort your maybeboard the same way you've done your mainboard to easily rank your choices within a category (By "combo" I mean all your "if-then" cards like Trudge Garden that are slower and don't work by themselves). Remove #Creatures (most of them are #Combo).
Avoid most cards above 4 cmc... Willowdusk is fast and fragile, so play into that... Also, prioritize cards that can do 2 or more things or that give value on ETB... If you have pet cards that don't really fit and that hurt to cut, put them in a "I'll build that theme later" list.
-1 Pelakka Wurm
-1 Ezzaroot Channeler ... cut the fatties.
-1 Decree of Pain ... too slow
-1 Bow of Nylea ... meh
-1 Jarad's Orders < Diabolic Tutor
-1 Sangromancer ... amazing card but doesn't trigger when you need it to.
-1 Venser's Journal ... also amazing, but too conditional for this build
-1 Ranger's Path ... all your ramp should be on turn 2
-1 Temple of the False God ... this card is almost never good
+1 Devoted Druid ... this card is a beast
+1 Talisman of Resilience ... #Ramp
+1 Llanowar Elves ... #Ramp... the elves enable Willowdusk combos on turn 3.
+1 Viridian Joiner ... #Ramp... #Combo
+1 Boompile ... its a gem (hint: don't tap it on your turn) +1 Nightmare Unmaking
+1 Killing Wave
+1 Massacre Girl ... #Wipe
+1 Beast Within ... #Removal
+1 Golgari Charm ... #Evasion
~1 Rancor ... Trample and haste are important... #Evasion
~1 Destined ... the choices are really good.
+1 Soul Channeling ... #Combo with Willowbark and stick to the board...
~1 Phyrexian Processor ... fun?
~1 Lurking Evil ... maybe?
~1 Solidarity of Heroes ... #Combo
~1 Ooze Flux ... tokens at instant speed?
~1 Retribution of the Ancients ... removal?
+1 Thought Gorger ... (leaves)
+1 Return of the Wildspeaker ... #Draw
+1 Triskelion ... #Combo
+1 Nighthawk Scavenger ... #Fatty
...Always play at least 10 ramp spells under 3 cmc.
...Playtest and make sure Willowbark consistently makes a fatty (with evasion) before turn 6-7.
Here's another Willowdusk thread.
Happy building :)
Destroyerbirb on Sakashima, of a thousand faces …
4 years ago
Last_Laugh I see you did some quick math.
So, since you are playing Sultai, some reanimation strategies and their creatures are really useful. Reanimate and Exhume are the best in the game, alongside Animate Dead and friends. The reason why these are good is because if you manage to reanimate a big threat quickly and start cloning those threats, even if the threat is removed you probably have a million copies of it.
Grave Titan is powerful, with the potential to end games by itself if left unchecked. If you have lots of copies, however, you could win in 2-3 turns easy.
Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger's mill ability is very strong, even in commander. A few clones and you got the game in the bag.
Baleful Force and similar cards are very good, giving you lots of card advantage.
Sower of Temptation just gets really mean with clones. (At the same time, it gets impossible to track who stole what, or, more accurately, what stole what. Now, where's my hat?)
Cloning a Gray Merchant of Asphodel will close a game.
Avatar of Woe can prevent your opponents from playing magic, and good ol' Blightsteel Colossus is going to lose you all your friends plus one.
Gilder Bairn, Maulfist Revolutionary and proliferate cards are very good with counters, getting scary quick. Heroes' Bane is such a cool card, and it's always funny seeing someone grow their hydra into mega thicc mode. I did this, and ran out of dice. I borrowed the store's dice, but they ran out too.
Finally, Branching Evolution and Primal Vigor are must removes.
Based on the comments above, I'm sure the deck will turn out to be very good, and you might even lose a friend or two when playing magic!
_qwaserdf on
Jarad's Graveyard Midrange
5 years ago
Have you ever though about cutting Baleful Force? 8 mana is rough in a CEDH environment.
LastEdegy on
Jarad vod Savo
5 years ago
@Ironheart78 - those are good creatures for constant card draw! the Baleful Force and Indulgent Tormentor are the ones i'll most likely to include.. probably the Yavimaya Elder as well.. Thanks for the suggestions!
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