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)

BlackoutX on Catmander

2 weeks 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

4 weeks 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

1 month 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

1 month 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

multimedia on Gishath, Sun's Avatar

2 months ago

Hey, good casual version of Gishath.

Even on a budget you can improve the manabase especially by adding some other lands that have interaction with the land ramp spells. Farseek and Skyshroud Claim are unique because they can search for a dual land with two or more different land types.

• Cinder Glade
• Canopy Vista
• Sheltered Thicket
• Scattered Groves

Glade and Vista are called Battle lands and are the better budget options because they have interaction with a lot of basic lands, only needing two of them for these lands to ETB untapped. These two lands could replace lands that always ETB tapped such as Blossoming Sands. Sheltered and Scattered are called Cycle lands and are simply upgrades for other lands that will always ETB tapped such as Kazandu Refuge.

Some other budget lands to consider adding:

• Command Tower
• Exotic Orchard
• Battlefield Forge
• Ash Barrens

Tower and Orchard are called Rainbow lands and are two of the best budget lands for mulitcolored Commander decks especially Tower it's a powerful land.

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You're right ramp is very important with Gishath and one of the best budget mana dorks for ramp is Faeburrow Elder. It can tap for two mana (green and white) which is already good for a mana dork, but it can be better if you control a red permanent then it can tap for three mana (green, white and red). That's it for your deck, since it's only three colors, but for other decks especially five color if you also controlled a blue and a black permanent then Elder can tap for up to five mana (one of each color).

Dinos are fun and there's a new budget Dino in Ikoria who's powerful fun. Quartzwood Crasher is a five drop 6/6 with trample which are already good stats, but what makes it even better is it can repeatedly create huge Dino tokens. It creates a Dino token who has trample therefore Crasher along with the token makes each other Dino token that much more powerful. Since the more trample power you have on the battlefield the bigger the Dino token could be. Crasher triggers when any creature you control with trample does combat damage to a player meaning that itself doesn't have to attack to create a token.

Crasher's power level increases a lot when it has haste such as from Alpha, Huntmaster or Rhythm of the Wild. With haste as long as you do combat damage to a player with Crasher then you create at least a 6/6 Dino token which is potentially 12 trample power of Dinos for five mana. Many of the best Dinos have trample including Gishath and Ghalta as well as Regal and Carnage, etc.

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Congregation at Dawn is a budget instant creature tutor that can get three different Dinos to setup the top of your library for when Gishath attacks. Which then lets you cheat those Dinos of your choice onto the battlefield. Fierce Empath is a not a Dino, but it can tutor for a six CMC or higher Dino and put it into your hand. It's good with Regal as another tutor that can get Regal. With Regal and minimum six lands on the battlefield you could cast Dawn before you cast Gishath and end up with a massive battlefield of Dinos of your choice.

Good luck with your deck.

BRG24 on Selesnya Pioneer Bogles

2 months ago

Nice deck, but I have a few suggestions. Using Alseid of Life's Bounty for protecting your key creatures could be quite risky, since the protection can potentially cause your auras to fall off the creature. Instead, maybe try a creature with hexproof like Gladecover Scout? I know it isn’t an enchantment so won’t trigger constellation, but having a second creature to load auras onto might be a good idea. With all of your auras, Season of Growth might also be a nice include, as it will draw for every aura you play, and the scry can also be really useful. As an enchantment, it will even trigger constellation. Also, with regards to the mana base, while shock lands may be too expensive, maybe slightly cheaper options could be viable? I’d recommend either Fortified Village, Canopy Vista or Sunpetal Grove to replace the Blossoming Sands and maybe the Temple of Plenty, since the ability to play out on curve is quite important. Hopefully this is helpful to you and I wish you luck with the deck.

CrimsonWings3689 on My Walden

2 months ago

Ditch:

Blossoming Sands, Holdout Settlement, Meteor Crater, Selesnya Guildgate, Tranquil Expanse

Add:

Bountiful Promenade, Wooded Bastion, Temple Garden, Command Tower, Forest

multimedia on Ghired: All Tokens Welcome!

3 months ago

Hey, nice budget version of Ghired.

Dolmen Gate and Mother of Runes were just reprinted in the Mystery Card Booster set. Gate is good with Ghired letting you safely attack with him to populate. As long as Ghired is attacking in combat any creature that blocks him will not do damage to him. Reconnaissance is the more expensive price card that also does this and it has the bonus of being able to untap your creatures to use them as blockers.

Mother of Runes can be repeatable protection for Ghired from targeted removal or in combat or make him unblockable. Gate and Mother could replace Colossal Majesty and Parhelion II.

Breath of Fury is a budget card that's deceptively powerful with tokens especially with Ghired. Fury is a infinite attack combo with Ghired and one Rhino token as long as Ghired is safe to attack and the Rhino token will do combat damage to a player. Enchant the Rhino token with Fury, attack with Ghired and Rhino. Enchanted Rhino does combat damage to a player, sac it and then enchant the newly created Rhino token. Untap your creatures and attack again. This is infinite attacks as long as Ghired can popluate the Rhino each attack. Fury could replace Soul Foundry.

When playing heavy green then take more advantage of green mana dorks. Mana dorks are some of the strongest cards in green. They're better in green for ramp than mana rocks and land ramp spells.

• Birds of Paradise
• Avacyn's Pilgrim
• Elvish Mystic
• Faeburrow Elder

These mana dorks could replace Circuitous Route, Explosive Vegetation, Selesnya Guildgate, Gruul Guildgate. Eladamri's Call, Idyllic Tutor and Open the Armory are three budget tutors to consider adding. Each one gets a different card, but it's still helpful to have tutors. These tutors could replace Commander's Sphere, Selesnya Signet and Desolation Twin.

Exotic Orchard, Battlefield Forge, Fortified Village and Ash Barrens are budget lands to consider adding. They could replace Kazandu Refuge, Rugged Highlands, Blossoming Sands, Graypelt Refuge.

Good luck with your deck.