Birgi, God of Storytelling

Legendary Creature — God

Whenever you cast a spell, gain {R}. Until end of turn, you don't lose this mana as steps and phases end.

Creatures you control can boast twice during each of your turns rather than once.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Brawl	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Pre-release	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Standard	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (46)

Crow-Umbra on Salty Commanders!

1 week ago

Hi grumbledore, I've noticed that quite a few of the following cards are uncategorized, and figured they could fit into some of the following categories you have on site:

• Arcane Lighthouse - Removal or Stax, since it removes protective keywords?

• Adeline, Resplendent Cathar - Aggro since she triggers on attacks.

• Birgi, God of Storytelling  ^Flip - Ramp for front, Draw for back side

• Blightstep Pathway  ^Flip - Mana fixing, not sure if all Pathway lands are uncategorized.

• Braid of Fire - Ramp?

• Den of the Bugbear - Mana Fixing and/or Aggro because of its activated ability.

• Fable of the Mirror-Breaker  ^Flip - Ramp from the Goblin Shaman token, Draw/Discard from the 2nd chapter.

• Grave Pact - Removal or Stax, since it's an edict effect

• Great Furnace and Seat of the Synod - Mana Fixing?

• Inquisitorial Rosette - Aggro for its attack trigger and Menace anthem.

• Mishra, Claimed by Gix  ^Meld - Aggro, since it's attack based

• Needleverge Pathway  ^Flip - Mana fixing

• Ogre Battledriver - Aggro since it's a haste anthem.

• Scheming Symmetry - Tutor

• Signal Pest - Should be Aggro because of Battle Cry, and similar cards with Battle Cry are listed in Aggro.

• Skullclamp - This is categorized as Aggro, but not in Draw

• Teferi, Master of Time - Draw, Removal for phasing

• Wandering Archaic  ^Flip - Stax for front, or ramp/draw for back?

This is not an exhaustive list, but some of the ones I noticed from looking at my own deck categories.

Lhunthane on Birgi

1 week ago

Hey here is some thoughts I have on the deck. The comments are through the lens of trying to be very competitive.

With Birgi, the strongest win condition is storming out and clapping all of your opponent's cheeks in one fell swoop. The best way to achieve this is comboing out as opposed to going for a lot of chip damage. Chip damage by its very nature takes time and is hard to make work in a competitive meta (maybe in some form of stax it could work). Your deck list appears to have its foot in both doors which is fun and cool, but ultimately reduces the overall lethality of the deck.

The problem with mono-red as a top-tier EDH colour is that it is very limited in tutors, which makes it difficult to find your win conditions consistently. To overcome this, a player needs to put in a few win conditions and the ability to dig for them in the deck. You really are on the right track I think with all the cantrip and impulse draw spells. Dragon's Rage Channeler filters like a champ in this deck, and synergizes very well with Past in Flames and Underworld Breach

You have Grapeshot which is great, but if you were to also throw in an Aetherflux Reservoir and Manaform Hellkite you would be set up. Grinning Ignus with Birgi, God of Storytelling  ^Flip gives you infinite storm. Add a Ruby Medallion to turn this into infinite mana, and a Impact Tremors or Altar of the Brood for an additional win con. Also quite funny with Sunbird's Invocation. You can tutor for the Ingus pretty reliably with Imperial Recruiter and Flamekin Harbinger.

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So I realize this is turning into a small essay so I'll try to keep it a little briefer.

If you take the path of trying to combo, some cuts I'd make because they either are clunky, work towards a different win con, or just don't generate a ton of value are: Insurrection Captain Lannery Storm Quakebringer Toralf, God of Fury  ^Flip Blindblast Traitorous Blood Experimental Frenzy

If you are going to all-in commit to just combing off with ingus (which I think you should) also consider cutting: Sulfuric Vortex Stigma Lasher Solphim, Mayhem Dominus Torbran, Thane of Red Fell Mechanized Warfare

I can talk on and on and on about theory for this deck so just hit me up if you want more insight. You know what you're doing, so obviously ignore me if this "deck primer" doesn't suit you at all!

Spoosky on Purphoros, God of the ETB Triggers [cEDH PRIMER]

1 month ago

Birgi, God of Storytelling  ^Flip ??

myden on Turn 5 - Darth Vadrik strikes back

1 month ago

Thats a sick list dude! A fellow Vadrik enthusiast, i see! I think you need more ways to buff his attack though, and Searing Touch is an insta-win if vadrik has 4+ power and you have Storm-Kiln Artist, Birgi, God of Storytelling  ^Flip or Runaway Steam-Kin

jamochawoke on Fire Dancing

3 months ago

That's a really good one!

One other you can do since you've already got it built into your deck with Mana Geyser, Runaway Steam-Kin, Birgi, God of Storytelling  ^Flip and Battle Hymn if you get any of those to go off and get you 10+ mana you really want an X spell to dump all that mana and end your worst opponent (or the game if you're close).

My suggestions would be these:

• Banefire - This is the most consistent one for ending someone and is best to copy.

• Fall of the Titans - This one is great if you're certain it's not going to be countered and if you can cast it for its surge cost and then copy it as needed to take out everyone.

• Crackle with Power - The biggest boom you can get with X iirc

• Red Sun's Zenith - If you are certain you can dig into it again with all the card draw this is a good option

• Jaya's Immolating Inferno - Decent like Fall of the Titans but not as good as Crackle

Also, since your deck relies on copying creatures so much you could add in more of that like Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker

Guerric on [Primer] Casting the Mythal

3 months ago

DonaldFuck

Birgi, God of Storytelling  ^Flip is a great card which is a powerhouse in my Feather, the Redeemed deck. She certainly isn't bad here because, as you say, she basically makes Inalla's ability free. My main objection to her that I can't really think of something I'd cut to put her in. She isn't a wizard and doesn't really further any of our other gameplans aside from mana discount, and I wouldn't really want to tinker with the deck's other engines, which work well, just to try to slot her in.

The only real card at the moment that I definitely would like to put in is Patron Wizard, which you suggested some time ago. I think it would be better than Voidmage Prodigy and a real pita for our opponents, I just have never gotten around to ordering him because I am busy and always forget when ordering. It might be for the best because there is that new secret lair foil that looks quite cool, and with that printing the price is the lowest ever. There's probably also some tinkering with the mana base that I could do as well, but in general I'm mostly happy with the deck given those exceptions.

DonaldFuck on [Primer] Casting the Mythal

4 months ago

How do we feel about Birgi, God of Storytelling  ^Flip> let's say we cast a wizard, she triggers and gives us a red mana. Inalla's eminence ability triggers when the wizard we cast enters the field, we pay our floating red mana and create a token of the wizard...

QuirkyQU33FER on Busan

5 months ago

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