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

Braids, Arisen Nightmare

Legendary Creature — Nightmare

At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice an artifact, creature, enchantment, land or planeswalker. If you do, each opponent may sacrifice a permanent that shares a card type with it. For each opponent who doesn't, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.

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clayperce on The Black Deck

1 week ago

ALostWanderer -
Saw your help tag so thought I'd reach out. As a disclaimer though: I've never played Tergrid (vs or myself) and I'm still working on my first Bracket 4 deck myself. So please take all this as "brainstorming", not as "recommendations" ! :-D

FIRST THOUGHTS: MANA BASE AND MANA CURVE

  • I love Salubrious Snail's manabase tool for analysing my lands, mana rocks, and rituals as I tweak a deck. If we plug your decklist in, it reports "your manabase is struggling, playing your spells 0.99 turns late on average" (with Tergid over 1.3 turns late). For Bracket 4, you'll probably want to aim for something like "... strong playing your spells [~0.2] turns late on average."
  • As you tweak the deck, I rec' taking an especially hard look at your 5-drops (which compete directly with Tergrid) and your 7-drops (which compete directly with her re-cast).

MORE B4 STAPLES? Some options to help find the cards we need and play them quickly …

MORE DISCARD EFFECTS, MAYBE?

MORE PROTECTION, MAYBE? If you find yourself needing just a touch more protection for your Bracket 4 meta: Cavern of Souls, Imp's Mischief, and oc Lightning Greaves and Swiftfoot Boots.

MORE COMBO PIECES, MAYBE?

  • As far as I can tell, you only have 2x combos in the deck (any lifegain effect + Exquisite Blood + either Sanguine Bond or Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose) ... increasing the combo potential (and Tutor effects, to find the pieces) is definitely solid approach to make the deck more competitive in Bracket 4.
  • The Find my Combos page over at Commander Spellbook is a great tool, if you want to lean into combos more.

MORE STAX EFFECTS, MAYBE?

  • It’s hard to go wrong with the namesake card (Smokestack) in a Stax deck :-)
  • If you wanted to lean into Mass Land Denial a little more, I like both Contamination and Desolation.

A FEW FINAL THOUGHTS:

  • You might consider adding Feed the Swarm and/or Withering Torment ... they're IMO the best tools we have to deal with enchantments in Mono-B.
  • Braids, Arisen Nightmare maybe? I play Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER and she's amazing there ... I don’t get that many sacs from her (so she may not be as good in your deck), but her card draw is always superb.
  • I'm a fan of Malakir Rebirth, as protection when I need it and a Land when I don't.
  • I don't see anything that benefits from Reliquary Tower ... it would honestly be my first drop.
  • It's a totally small thing, but if you don't already have very distinct deck sleeves, you might consider getting some ... the last time I played vs a steal-your-things Commander everyone at the table had blue matte sleeves, and sorting out the cards afterwards was a bit of a pain :-D

Anyways, I really hope something in there ^^ proves useful, and I’m very sorry for the spam if it doesn't!

Good luck (and good skill) with the deck!
Cheers!

NV_1980 on Get Rich Quick!

1 month ago

Looks great! Have you considered more non-creature haste-enablers? Rising of the Day could be good. You could even consider enchantments that give every creature haste, like Concordant Crossroads or Mass Hysteria. It just ensures more of your creatures will more easily create treasure while Ognis is around. Academy Manufactor brings insane value in this deck, considering all the treasure it will generate. I also really like Braids, Arisen Nightmare in a deck like this, because you're likely outgunning most other decks in terms of (artifact) tokem-generation.

Belfore on Meren, the Algebra Professor

4 months ago

not sure what your price cap is per card but Yawgmoth, Thran Physician, Braids, Arisen Nightmare, Oriq Loremage, no Fleshbag Marauder iterations. Just to name a few things you could be looking at

UltimateRoxas40 on The Worldseed: Exogenesis [Grave Land Primer]

4 months ago

Venum Thanks for taking a look! I liked Szarel, Genesis Shepherd when it was spoiled, but I really wanted another Lands deck, and this one was a ton of fun to build.

I thought about Juri, Master of the Revue, but I like the feeling of repeatedly cycling through my lands, and she feels more like a one-time bomb if she gets built up correctly.

Mayhem Devil is on my short-list if/when I make further changes.

I'm already running Braids, Arisen Nightmare, and that kinda fills a similar niche to Braids, Cabal Minion. Plus, I like the potential card draw from Braids, Arisen Nightmare. I'm finding that I run through cards in my hand real quick with this deck, since I can usually dump all my lands onto the field by turn 3.

I've been slowly building a Goad deck, and Baeloth Barrityl, Entertainerfoil is already one of the big pieces in that one. I don't think it would have a ton of synergy in this deck, but I'll definitely consider this.

DarkKiridon on Edgar Markov: Lord of the Eternal Horde [EDH]

4 months ago

Some more recent-ish vampire options:

Clavileno, First of the Blessed (Was a precon around him, which I bought and upgraded). Charismatic Conqueror, Bloodletter of Aclazotz, Preacher of the Schism, Master of Dark Rites, Qarsi Revenant, Edgar, Charmed Groom  Flip, Welcoming Vampire, Vein Ripper,

If you want to be mean you could also run Braids, Arisen Nightmare.

If you want some more damage effects you could run cards like Impact Tremorsfoil, and there's more recent versions like Warleader's Call.

I also really like Plumb the Forbidden.

Some other cool options: Black Market Connections, March of the Canonized, Invasion of New Capenna  Flip

Ash_Karath on Meren Sacrifice Shenanigans

6 months ago

Hi! Thanks for the comments! :)

Got some new cards yesterday, updated the deck accordingly. Removed these cards: Izoni, Thousand-Eyed The Gitrog Monster Smothering Abomination Unearth

I put in these: Spore Frog Viscera Seer Braids, Arisen Nightmare Animate Dead

Birthing Pod and Attrition is under consideration.

My budget? Well, I can't really spend more than 50 Euros for a single card... Total direction? Hmm. Not really sure what you mean. Do you think the deck theme is too spread out? And yes, I'll gladly discuss more! :)

legendofa on Mark Rosewater's Statements About Enchantment …

9 months ago

Shatter the Oath and Early Winter are 5 mana, not a drawback but inefficient enchantment removal. Vile Mutilator is 7 mana plus a sacrifice. Withering Torment's been covered pretty well in this thread.

I also didn't really count Braids, Arisen Nightmare, which needs a sacrifice and let's the opponent choose the outcome.

Crow_Umbra on

1 year ago

I think it's too surprising Goldberserkerdragon lol. Skittles has been around like 15 years at this point, so it's not super surprising to have some homogeneity across decks, especially being limited to one color.

I know this isn't an aristocrats deck, but would you consider Braids, Arisen Nightmare as a draw/removal piece? You have plenty of non-creature permanents to feed her.

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