Blossoming Sands

Land

Blossoming Sands enters the battlefield tapped.

When Blossoming Sands enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.

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Discussion (51)

multimedia on Budget Emmara Selesnya Tokens

5 days ago

Hey, nice budget version, less than $50 is impressive.

Command Tower is now less than $1 and is one of the best lands in Commander. Selesnya Sanctuary is another upgrade for a dual land. Quest for Renewal good with Emmara letting you create Soldiers or tap your tokens for other effects during each opponent's turn. Good repeatable draw with Mentor of the Meek. Glare of Subdual goes well with Renewal as opponent creature lockdown using tokens. Nullmage Shepherd can wreck opponents artifact or enchantment strategies.

Felidar Retreat is a new enchantment in Zendikar Rising for tokens. It's repeatable no mana cost Township effect or create a Cat token just by playing a land. Worth adding Evolving Wilds, Terramorphic Expanse and Myriad Landscape it adding Retreat. Champion of Lambholt can make your token army unblockable since she grows each time a token is created.

Jiang Yanggu, Wildcrafter combines well with Good-Fortune Unicorn to make each token created a mana dork. Jiang can put a counter on Emmara making it easier to tap her while also making mana. If going the Vehicle route for crew then Aethersphere Harvester and Untethered Express are some budget upgrades.

Rootborn Defenses and Sundering Growth are good instant spells with populate included. Camaraderie is an upgraded for Collective Unconscious and it's less than $0.50.

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Cards to consider cutting:

• 2x Forest
• 2x Plains
• Blossoming Sands
• Anointer Priest
• Crusader of Odric
• Attended Healer
• Infiltration Lens
• Curse of Bounty
• Renegade Freighter
• Ovalchase Dragster
• Fleetwheel Cruiser
• Abundance
• Krosan Grip
• Entrapment Maneuver
• Collective Unconscious

Good luck with your deck.

multimedia on Welcome to Gishathic Park

3 weeks ago

Hey, nice Scroll Rack Invention :)

Some budget cards to consider adding:

• Sol Ring
• Command Tower
• Congregation at Dawn
• Forerunner of the Empire
• Quartzwood Crasher
• Ripjaw Raptor
• Garruk's Uprising
• Rhythm of the Wild
• Elemental Bond
• Orcish Lumberjack
• Faeburrow Elder
• Farseek
• Canopy Vista
• Cinder Glade
• Exotic Orchard
• Naya Panorama

Sol Ring and Command Tower are some staple budget cards in Commander. At TCGPlayer you can find Sol for less than $3 and Tower for less than $1. Congregation at Dawn is a good budget creature tutor with Gishath. Cast it the same turn you want play Gishath or the turn before to tutor for and arrange the top of your library with any three Dinos to cheat onto the battlefield. Forerunner of the Empire is a Dino tutor (puts the Dino on top of your library) and a repeatable enrage enabler when a Dino you control ETB.

Quartzwood Crasher is one of the better budget Dinos since it can be a repeatable source of Dino tokens since many other Dinos have trample especially with Ghalta. Crasher combines well with Garruk's Uprising which can be a repeatable draw source and can give all creatures you control trample. Ripjaw Raptor has a powerful enrage ability to draw a card when it takes damage. Rhythm of the Wild makes all creatures you cast uncounterable and it gives nontoken creatures when they ETB the option of haste or make it bigger with a +1/+1 counter.

With Orcish Lumberjack sacing a Forest you control can make four mana since you can tap the Forest for mana before you sac it which can be a quick way to ramp into Gishath or other Dinos. Farseek is two drop land ramp that can search for a dual land such as Stomping Ground, Canopy Vista, Cinder Glade. At TCGPlayer can get Vista and Glade for less than $2 each.

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Cards to consider cutting:

• Timber Gorge
• Tranquil Expanse
• Gruul Guildgate
• Selesnya Guildgate
• Blossoming Sands
• Nissa's Pilgrimage
• Font of Fertility
• Hunt the Weak
• Pounce
• Insult / Injury
• Gruul Keyrune
• Burnished Hart
• Ravenous Daggertooth
• Raging Regisaur
• Radiant Destiny
• Overgrown Armasaur
• Kinjalli's Caller
• Zhur-Taa Druid

Good luck with your deck.

multimedia on Kinder Surprise

1 month ago

Hey, interesting version of Atla, that's a lot of creatures.

Consider cutting a few of the least good creatures for more early game ramp?

• Arcane Signet, Fellwar Stone, Wild Growth could replace Gruul Ragebeast, Thromok the Insatiable, Autochthon Wurm

Could also replace a few other big creatures for some enablers.

• Mirror Entity, Imperial Recruiter, Samut, Voice of Dissent could replace God-Eternal Rhonas, Archetype of Endurance, Impervious Greatwurm.

Nature's Lore and Farseek are land ramp spell upgrades for Explosive Vegetation and Cultivate because you have Savannah/Taiga/Garden/Ground and Farseek can get Plateau/Foundry. These two drop land ramp spells can be quicker ramp and they ramp with a dual land.

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I don't think I've ever seen a manabase with Savannah/Taiga/Plateau, but also Guildgates... You could improve the manabase a lot. Some changes to consider:

• City of Brass and Exotic Orchard could replace Arctic Flats and Highland Weald.
• Fire-Lit Thicket, Rugged Prairie, Wooded Bastion could replace the three Guildgates.
• Brushland, Battlefield Forge, Karplusan Forest could replace Blossoming Sands, Graypelt Refuge, Shivan Oasis.
• Windswept Heath, Wooded Foothills could replace Game Trail and Fortified Village.

Good luck with your deck.

Peoni on Siona Budget swarm

1 month ago

Just as a starting point I would definitely run some more mana rocks, especially Sol Ring. It's almost always worth the $2-3. Also if you're willing to drop $4-5 Arcane Signet is worth it as well. You have a good amount of lands for what you're trying to do, but I would replace Mosswort Bridge and Secluded Steppe with basic lands. I think it'd be better to just have basics that come in untapped. I would also replace Naya Panorama with Myriad Landscape if you want a good budget fetch that gives you more value, and finally if you can swing it, I'd swap out either Blossoming Sands or Graypelt Refuge with a Sunpetal Grove for better value, and the other you could take out for Canopy Vista or just another basic. Basics aren't bad.

Also with all the 1/1's you're making, Skullclamp would give you a lot of value.

Those are just a few changes I'd make. Good deck. Hope this helps. (:

BlackoutX on Catmander

2 months ago

You have to many tap lands, Graypelt Refuge, Tranquil Expanse, Temple of Plenty, Selesnya Guildgate, Saltcrusted Steppe, Evolving Wilds, and Blossoming Sands just shouldn't be run. Use basics or use expensive duels that can enter untapped. I'd personally remove Scattered Groves, Opal Palace, Gavony Township, and Animal Sanctuary I find them to be slow and often don't return the value spent.

Just a note, one for one trades like Beast Within tend to be bad in commander. You also will probably want to run more one to two mana ramp cards like Avacyn's Pilgrim and Wild Growth.

multimedia on Naya Tokens

3 months ago

Hey, nice budget upgrade of the precon. Good upgrade of Kiki.

Budget cards to consider adding:

• Breath of Fury: combos with Ghired + Rhino token for infinite combat steps.
• Zealous Conscripts: combos with Kiki for infinite Conscript tokens.
• Quartzwood Crasher: repeatable huge Dino tokens with trample, very good with Garruk's Uprising.
• Ogre Battledriver: repeatable haste and pump.
• Congregation at Dawn: instant creature tutor for three different creatures.
• Shared Summons: instant creature tutor for two different creatures.
• Shield of the Oversoul: enchant Ghired to give him +2/+2 flying and indestructible allowing him to freely attack each turn.
• Farseek: two drop land ramp that can search for a dual land such as Cinder Glade or Canopy Vista.
• Canopy Vista
• Exotic Orchard
• Jungle Shrine
• Naya Panorama
• Battlefield Forge

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Cards to consider cutting:

• Jungle Hollow
• Blossoming Sands
• Temple of the False God
• Great Furnace
• 1x Plains
• Release the Ants
• Root Snare
• Loxodon Smiter
• Burning Anger
• Desolation Twin
• Vivien's Invocation
• Samut, Tyrant Smasher
• Magewright's Stone

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Examples of some changes to consider:

• Jungle Shrine > Jungle Hollow
  I'm guessing you meant to type Shrine instead of Hollow since Hollow is not a legal card in Naya colors.

• Breath of Fury or Zealous Conscripts > Burning Anger
  Fury or Conscripts are win condition combos with either Ghired or Kiki, they will have a lot more impact than Burning.

• Quartzwood Crasher > Desolation Twin
  Crasher at five mana can be repeatable Dino tokens that can be 10/10s or higher that have trample. The 10/10 Eldrazi that Twin creates is not good enough for 10 mana.

• Ogre Battledriver > Samut, Tyrant Smasher
  

• Congregation at Dawn or Shared Summons > Vivien's Invocation
  Invocation at seven mana can miss in the top seven and not reveal a creature. Dawn at three mana or Summons at five don't miss.

Good luck with your deck.

Balaam__ on Auratog Modern

3 months ago

Nice build. You have the Utopia Sprawls, which somewhat mitigates what I’m about to suggest, but I think an adjustment to the mana base could help improve consistency.

Depending on the budget you’ve assigned to this deck, either Windswept Heath or Temple Garden would be ideal. If not, then maybe a simple ETB:Tapped+bonus dual land like Blossoming Sands would work. Whichever you prefer, you’d simply remove 4 basic lands to slot them in. Either way, you’re just an inch closer to always having exactly the mana you need on the turn you need it.

multimedia on EDH Ur Dragon Tribal

4 months ago

Hey, good start.

Sol Ring, Command Tower and Arcane Signet are three staples in Commander that are within the budget here. Scion of the Ur-Dragon, Utvara Hellkite and Lathliss, Dragon Queen are Dragon upgrades. Dragon Tempest has powerful effects with Dragons. Elemental Bond is good repeatable draw with Dragons.

Ketria Triome and Raugrin Triome are the other two Triomes and Ketria is good in combination with Indatha Triome with Skyshroud Claim which can give you all five colors from two Triomes. Nature's Lore is another land ramp spell that can search for a Forest Triome or Forest Shock land. Crop Rotation is a land tutor for any land and puts the land onto the battlefield. Haven of the Spirit Dragon is another Rainbow land for Dragons.

Cards to consider cutting:

• Bloodfell Caves
• Blossoming Sands
• Gateway Plaza
• Rupture Spire
• Prismatic Geoscope
• Cast Down
• Dissipation Field
• Sarkhan the Masterless
• Merciless Eviction
• Darigaaz Reincarnated
• Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
• Tyrant's Familiar
• Vanquisher's Banner