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Burnished Hart
Artifact Creature — Elk
, Sacrifice this: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.
DreadKhan on
Rakdos' Captivating Carnival
1 month ago
I like what you're doing here!
Since he's riding a unicycle and throwing fireballs around maybe Mayhem Devil?
It won't help you get your Commander out, but Dream Devourer is a pretty nifty Demon, and it can help out as a back up Commander by letting you bank some mana for big effects. You could also take a look at stuff like Golden Guardian Flip, which is a weird card that has pretty good synergy with your Commander. You might also try Burnished Hart type stuff, it's nowhere near as busted as Guardian would be, but if you pay 3 to ramp out 2 lands you're able to recast your Commander.
If you want another big creature for your list, have you considered Kothophed, Soul Hoarder? It's not a great fit if people are all on sacrifice strategies, but it's a pretty impressive draw engine that's also a Demon.
While I'm not the only person who likes Allure of the Unknown (there are several of us!), it's the kind of card that deserves an asterisk, because while it's won me more than a few games, it does straight up cost you one sometimes. I like to offer the free card to someone who's behind, in some pods it can be possible to get them to not use the freebie vs you, but it's at it's worst when the game is 1v1. Drawing 5 cards for 5 mana is a very strong effect in my experience, and making a short term alliance can be it's own upside. It's up to you obviously, but I've been very happy with it in a deck that's a fairly strong 6, the only times I don't want to cast it are when I'm already ahead and don't want to give someone a free wipe (my deck uses a lot of wipes), it often generates decent advantage in practice.
I was going to suggest some Morph cards, but I looked and the only one really worth mentioning is Gift of Doom, which I think is a real gem. The two demons with Morph are some of the worst Morph cards I've ever seen, at least Gift is playable. The big feature to Gift is that using a Morph doesn't follow the same rules as other cards, meaning even if you can't activate a spell or ability you can still hold up Gift and attach it to something by sacrificing a creature.
With your relatively high MV I wonder if Protection Racket would help? It's a source of life loss if people don't want you to have free cards, and it happens during your upkeep, so you can play stuff during your main phase, to take advantage of Haste.
TheOfficialCreator on
Equip
1 month ago
You need Hammer of Nazahn, Grafted Exoskeleton, Shadowspear and Open the Armory. Mana Crypt, Mana Vault, and Mox Opal if possible.
Cuts:
Adaptive Automaton (clunky, what are you choosing??)
Benalish Marshal (too mana intensive for so little impact)
Bladegraft Aspirant (same)
Burnished Hart (too slow)
Chief of the Foundry (too much mana for so little impact)
Eivor, Battle-Ready (way too expensive)
Kassandra, Eagle Bearer (not really cost efficient since you don't have the spear)
Militia Bugler (not good)
Mother of Runes -> Giver of Runes
Novice Knight (not good)
Thraben Inspector (not really refined for your game plan)
Darksteel Plate -> Mithril Coat
Explorer's Scope (not good)
Haunted Plate Mail (not good)
Ring of Thune (not good)
Sword of Hours (not good)
Sword of the Paruns (not very good)
Hieromancer's Cage -> Borrowed Time
Pacifism (not good)
Council's Judgment (this card sucks)
Kagiyama on
Hold your colour
5 months ago
Profet93 thanks again for your advise! Yeah, Cloud Key and Semblance Anvil sound great, not sure if I heard about those.
Swapping wastes for non-basics is work in progress, although I should leave some to search with Burnished Hart and the like. I've also seen some spoilers for Modern Horizons 3 including Emrakul, the World Anew and It That Heralds the End. New Emrakul is... something. While flavorful, I think it's better for Modern tron kind of deck. I don't really have anything that synergizes with madness and gaining control of enemy creatures might be really situational. Probably worth proxying and trying out though. It That Heralds the End is great. Feels like it was made for Zhulodok. Definitely would want to get my hands on one. Matter Reshaper seems good enough for draw. Pathrazer of Ulamog is great I think. 11 mana is doable for this deck, Desolation Twin is also okay. I'll try getting those cards at my LGS!
king-saproling on
enchant me enchant you
5 months ago
It's not a bad list at all, but if you want to go with vampires plus lifegain subtheme there are better choices of commanders (Astarion, the Decadent, Amalia Benavides Aguirre, Vona, Butcher of Magan, Elenda, the Dusk Rose, and Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher are solid options. There are tons of other good options too).
If you're heart-set on Athreos, I would drop the vampire/lifegain themes and go with creatures that have sac effects (e.g. Westfold Rider, Cathar Commando, Bounty Agent, Priest of Fell Rites, Stronghold Assassin, Necrotic Sliver, Burnished Hart, Dauthi Voidwalker) plus cards with reanimation abilities (e.g. Bishop of Rebirth, Celestine, the Living Saint, Custodi Soulcaller, Redemption Choir, Sun Titan, Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher, Athreos, Shroud-Veiled, Breathkeeper Seraph, Court of Ardenvale, Gift of Immortality).
Profet93 on
Black Sheep of the Sawyer Clan [$30 Voltron]
7 months ago
Syphon Mind - Draw 3, each opponent discards 1
Burnished Hart - Ramp. Fuels defile, blackblade reforged, etc...
Solemn Simulacrum - Unsure of price, but potentially a consideration.
Bubbling Muck - Super ramp
Dark Ritual - Ramp
Deliver Unto Evil - Recursion, especially important for artifacts which are hard to recur
Extinction Event - Sometimes things need to be gone, forever
Feed the Swarm - Few ways to remove enchantments
Hero's Downfall/Murderous Rider - Walker removal
Mutilate - Gets around indestructible too
Oubliette - Commander hate
Nevinyrral's Disk - Artifact + Enchantment removal
NV_1980 on
The Horror ... THE HORROR! *PRIMER*
10 months ago
Thanks for your feedback Quicksilver.
Thus far I've not felt a great need for ramping resources in this deck. Usually my starting hand already contains enough mana to cast well over 50% of the deck's spells. I've used Burnished Hart in a few non-green decks but truthfully its ramping cost (six colorless in total) has always bothered me a bit. If I would consider adding ramp to the deck, Sword of the Animist would be on the top of my list though. It's pretty dependable and I have a few creatures in this deck which are at least hard-to-block.
Quicksilver on
The Horror ... THE HORROR! *PRIMER*
10 months ago
Burnished Hart will always be my go to for ramping in non green decks. Do you attack often? Sword of the Animist is also ideal for filtering out the lands in the deck.
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