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multimedia on Akiri and Bruse *EDH Testing*

1 week ago

Hey, saw your forum topic asking for help. This is a good start, you have the right idea if you want to make this a cEDH deck then stax is a direction to consider, but there's only three stax cards here.

Consider more stax and hatebears?

• Tangle Wire
• Static Orb
• Smokestack
• Ethersworn Canonist
• Blood Moon
• Armageddon
• Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
• Hokori, Dust Drinker
• Phyrexian Revoker
• Pithing Needle
• Sphere of Resistance
• Magus of the Moon
• Stranglehold
• Linvala, Keeper of Silence
• Smoke
• Spirit of the Labyrinth
• Rule of Law
• Containment Priest
• Rampaging Ferocidon
• Torpor Orb
• Harsh Mentor

Priest, Ferocidon and Mentor depend on the meta you play in, but each can stop combos. Priest prevents reanimation combos, Ferocidon prevents infinite creature combos and Mentor prevents infinite nonmana activated abilities combos.

Red does a good job of hating on blue.

• Pyroblast
• Red Elemental Blast
• Boil

All these can be cast with Sunforger.

Extra turn spells can let you hit another player with Akiri potentially killing two players or more with Commander damage.

• Angel's Grace
• Last Chance
• Final Fortune
• Chance for Glory

Grace can prevent you from losing the game after casting these extra turn spells and Grace can be cast with Sunforger.

Other cards to consider adding:

• Gamble
• Mana Vault
• Grand Abolisher
• Faithless Looting
• Chaos Warp
• Vandalblast

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Out of all these suggestions consider this expanded stax package and additional cards to consider adding:

• Tangle Wire
• Static Orb
• Ethersworn Canonist
• Blood Moon
• Armageddon
• Phyrexian Revoker
• Pithing Needle
• Smoke
• Spirit of the Labyrinth
• Rule of Law
• Gamble
• Mana Vault
• Grand Abolisher
• Pyroblast
• Vandalblast
• Angel's Grace
• Last Chance
• Final Fortune
• Chance for Glory

Good luck with your deck.

Massacar on Gone With the Windgrace

3 weeks ago

DrkNinja Thanks for the reply, I've only ever done LD as a sub-theme in my Muldrotha so this was my first take on the meta.

Thanks for calling out Seismic Assault as that was a card I vaguely remembered playing against but couldn't seem to find for this list.

Doesn't Prismatic Omen only target myself though and not opponents? Because that makes Carpet of Flowers and Boil less effective.

I honestly only included Chainer, Nightmare Adept as a stable form of creature recursion, so I will play around with having it in or not.

DrkNinja on Gone With the Windgrace

3 weeks ago

Ok... So lets start with the obvious... You are a lands matters deck and you only have 36 lands... That's a problem. 39 at the bare minimum.

Next you have a lot of creatures and creatures aren't the best way to do land destruction or win in a lands matters deck.

Lastly I don't feel like you have a clear win con. I mean sure you can beat face with Terravore and Multani but against anyone with a decent deck that'll never connect. Might I suggest something like this? The Gitrog Monster + Seismic Assault + Dakmor Salvage and one eldrazi titan or Gaea's Blessing in the deck. You infinitely discard to SA and machine gun all players to death.

Anyways here are some cards I'd suggest cutting

• Centaur Vinecrasher
• Chainer, Nightmare Adept
• Charnelhoard Wurm
• Ob Nixilis, the fallen
• Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar/Terravore
• Turntimber Sower
• Victimize
• Wake Of Destruction
• Rhythym of the Wild
• Scute Mob

And not nessecarily a cut but an alternative, instead of Chromatic Lantern I'd suggest Prismatic Omen as you can do a lot of fun things with that like Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle , Carpet of Flowers , and lastly the 3 different types of Boil .

Any who let me know if you have any questions for why I suggested the cuts!

smackjack on Help beating the s**t out ...

1 month ago

Choke and Boil could be good sideboard options?

SideBae on Chainer - Necrotic Ooze and Worldgorger Dragon

1 month ago

This list looks really good. I have a few thoughts:

With regard to combo packages, you generally want to use pieces that can be valuable on their own, while taking as few card-slots as possible. I highly suggest only leaving in the Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker and the Worldgorger Dragon combos. I say this because the other combos require more cards that are dead on their own and/or cost too much mana. Leaving in just two combos, which have some interchangeable parts, means you have more slots for disruption, the deck is more consistent, and the average power of each top-deck you get increases.

You may want to consider haste-enabling reanimation magic, since you can use it to combo off without needing your general on the table. In general, the more you can combo off independent of your commander, the more frequently you'll win; people know 'kill on sight' generals, and can generally keep them off the table. Some spells to consider are: Corpse Dance (stacking the creatures you Buried Alive so Necrotic Ooze is on top of your 'yard), Shallow Grave (same stack) and Torrent of Souls . Obviously, this is a secondary method, but it's worth considering running one of these spells.

Your opponents are going to hate on you pretty hard (as people hate on all combo decks), so counter-disruption is going to be necessary. By Force is a powerful way to knock out Grafdigger's Cage , Nihil Spellbomb and similar stuff. Enchantment-based hate is a lot more difficult to deal with in Rakdos; I suggest using Engineered Explosives and/or Blast Zone to deal with cards like Leyline of the Void or Rest in Peace .

Your manabase is good, but I see some room for improvement. I think High Market is probably better than Miren, the Moaning Well as a sac-outlet, simply because it costs a bunch of mana to activate Miren, the Moaning Well . I may be missing something, but I don't think Piranha Marsh and Sunscorched Desert are very good here. I suggest running basic Mountain s and Swamp s instead.

If you craft your manabase carefully, you can run some pretty disruptive nonbasic land hate. Magus of the Moon and Blood Moon are both big hosers in EDH, and Ruination ain't bad either.

I think you're also running two to three too many lands. You're running the best two-mana rocks, but running some of the slightly-less-awesome ones instead of a few lands can let you ramp to cast your general turn three. Mind Stone , Fellwar Stone and Coldsteel Heart are all good in addition to your Sol Ring , Talisman of Indulgence , etc.

Finally, red has some pretty great hate cards. Pretty much every deck searches at some point, so Stranglehold is a great card (that also occasionally hoses Narset, Enlightened Master decks). Price of Glory is good as a deterrent to countermagic. Depending on your meta, Flashfires , Boil and Omen of Fire can all end games -- I'm not sure what dork at R and D make Boil and Omen of Fire instants, but he deserves a high five.

Right. That's all I got. Good luck man! Hope this helps.

SideBae on No Victory Without Sacrifice

2 months ago

Phyrexian Dreadnought is about $30-odd dollars these days, but it'd be kinda busted here. It's like Force of Savagery , but +12/+12.

If you run self-recurring creatures like Bloodghast or Bloodsoaked Champion with sac-outlets like Carrion Feeder and Viscera Seer , you get self-recurring ways to pump Kresh the Bloodbraided .

City of Brass , Mana Confluence and Reflecting Pool are good ETB-untapped lands you may want to consider including.

Dorks are the main advantage of playing green. Llanowar Elves , Elvish Mystic , Elves of Deep Shadow , Fyndhorn Elves , Orcish Lumberjack , Birds of Paradise and Bloom Tender are all worth at least strongly considering. If your meta is blue-heavy, Carpet of Flowers is a great card.

Innocent Blood is a good symmetrical sac-spell. Grave Pact or Dictate of Erebos are also worth considering.

Running Natural Order with Craterhoof Behemoth is a good win condition if the commander-damage plan doesn't work out -- it's especially good if you spam out the aforementioned dorks. Triumph of the Hordes is a similar green finisher.

Rancor is a good way to give your general trample that also recurs itself if he dies.

A reanimator package with Animate Dead , Necromancy , Dance of the Dead , Reanimate , Buried Alive , Entomb , and targets like Sire Of Insanity or Grave Titan can end the game real fast without your general needing to come down at all.

The Grove of the Burnwillows + Punishing Fire combo is a lot of fun in EDH, at least as far as I've had experience with it.

Card draw/selection is at a premium in EDH. Faithless Looting , Painful Truths , Night's Whisper and Read the Bones are all worth considering. Phyrexian Arena and Twilight Prophet are both really powerful cards. Commune with Lava is another great source of card advantage.

If you craft your mana-base carefully, you could likely run Blood Moon or Magus of the Moon shenanigans. Omen of Fire is GREAT if your meta is control-heavy, and is (for some god-forsaken reason) an instant. Boil and Choke are also good.

Casualties of War and Windgrace's Judgment are great multi-for-ones in EDH.

Fireshrieker ...? Kinda self-explanatory.

For cuts:

• I don't think Butcher of Malakir is very good. Seven mana is a lot to pay for a creature that does not protect itself, and Grave Pact is likely a LOT better.

• Chromatic Lantern is a card I've always thought is overrated in EDH. Just running a one-drop dork like Birds of Paradise is likely a lot better, mainly because coming down turn one is way better than coming down turn three.

• Death's Presence is a card I suspect is not as good as it seems; it strikes me as a 'Win More' type card. It costs a lot to get down, and you're probably better off investing the mana and card in getting your general fatter in the usual fashion. Of course, play testing is fully capable of proving me wrong.

• Essence Harvest strikes me as having too little effect. Running just one Fling -type effect is likely good enough.

• Grave Betrayal is likely not as good as reanimation cards like Animate Dead or Reanimate , mainly because Grave Betrayal is way more mana-intensive.

• If you put in the dorks I suggested, you likely don't need thirty-four lands. Cutting one or two is probably OK.

• I think running either Swiftfoot Boots or Lightning Greaves is good enough; both may be overkill. Lightning Greaves is likely better, as it is free to equip.

• Garna, the Bloodflame doesn't seem powerful enough. Another point to watch during playtesting.

bryanedds on Godo for Shodo

4 months ago

Let's replace Boil and Boiling Seas with Chaos Warp and Fork .

SideBae on Gas Powered Stick (Complete)

4 months ago

Yo! RG decks are interesting. Here's what I think -- feel free to disregard it:

The main attraction of running green is having access to one-mana mana-dorks. Llanowar Elves , Birds of Paradise , Fyndhorn Elves , Elvish Mystic and Orcish Lumberjack will all speed up your deck tremendously, while giving you bodies for Overwhelming Stampede or similar finishers. Exploration is a good accelerator, though it can be expensive; search for tomorrow is similar. There are some two- or three-mana dorks you might also want to consider, like Priest of Titania , Shaman of Forgotten Ways and Somberwald Sage . Having dorks ramps green faster than any other color is capable of.

Overwhelming Stampede is an excellent card; in that vein, Overrun and Triumph of the Hordes are both good finishers. If you want to put money into the deck, Craterhoof Behemoth is a great card in Legacy Elves that also works here. Grabbing Craterhoof with something like Natural Order can produce a really fast win. Green Sun's Zenith is another good tutor-spell, which can also fetch Dryad Arbor turn one.

I see you're running Nature's Lore . Farseek is a great card to fetch a mountain, especially if you choose to run Stomping Ground , Sheltered Thicket and/or Cinder Glade . Taiga is good, too, but that's pushing $200 these days... effing OG duals.

Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip is a good card, and an affordable version of Gaea's Cradle . Similarly, Slate of Ancestry is a very underrated EDH card that would be a powerhouse in this deck. In the line of card-draw, Beast Whisperer and Harmonize are worth considering.

Karplusan Forest , Spire Garden , Command Tower and Grove of the Burnwillows are four excellent non-basic, ETB-untapped lands for your colors. You should run these, if at all possible. I think they're better than Jund Panorama and Naya Panorama , as well as Rogue's Passage . You should consider Kessig Wolf Run , as well as cutting one or two lands from the final list.

Depending on how sadistic you are, you may also want to consider running some stax pieces. Thorn of Amethyst is an excellent card in most green decks, as these decks tend to produce oodles of mana and not cast too many non-creature spells. Pyrostatic Pillar and Eidolon of the Great Revel are excellent ways to keep low-curved decks in check. Harsh Mentor varies with meta calls, though it can be very strong. Stranglehold can ruin some strategies, and Price of Glory can nuke counter-heavy decks. Similarly, Vexing Shusher is useful to avoid getting countered, especially since you don't have to activate it until after an opponent casts a counterspell. Scab-Clan Berserker is worth considering.

I suggest Gamble . It's the best tutor in your colors. Eternal Witness is another pretty good card you may want to consider to get you back in the game after a board-wipe. I suggest running Grim Flowering or Nature's Resurgence for the same reason.

Your spot removal will be dependent on how hard you want to lean into Ruric Thar, the Unbowed . If you want to keep him, Reclamation Sage and similar effects are the way to go. Without him, or while thinking of him as a secondary creature, you should run Nature's Claim and/or Krosan Grip . Chain of Acid is an interesting card I've been wondering about recently, so you may be interested in experimenting with it. Hull Breach is similar to Decimate , and is often a two-for-one. Shattering Spree , By Force , Ancient Grudge , Vandalblast and Fiery Confluence are good as well.

Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion is an efficient, powerful creature that helps cycle away dead cards in your hand, all while generating mana. Huntmaster of the Fells  ^Flip is another super-efficient creature. Boartusk Liege is valuable for its anthem effect and not-insignificant body. Siege Behemoth is another recommendation, for obvious reasons.

Depending on your meta, Sunder Shaman , Choke , Carpet of Flowers , Flashfires and Boil are options. If you keep your mana-base with only a few non-basics, Blood Moon , Magus of the Moon and Ruination are good cards. If your meta is super aggressive, you should consider Loxodon Warhammer or Basilisk Collar in order to recoup life points. Runic Armasaur is another good consideration if your meta has a lot of fetch lands and the like.

Using Sylvan Tutor can let you stack your deck for Lurking Predators , and you can cast Worldly Tutor in response to it triggering to just fetch whatever creature you want from your deck for .

Strionic Resonator is a way to copy your general's trigger, and may be tremendously helpful. Resolving them in succession on the same creature results in quadrupled power.

From Modern Horizons, Collector Ouphe and Throes of Chaos are worth considering.

Alright, that's all I got for now. I hope you found these suggestions at least a little helpful. Good luck with deck building!