City of Brass

Land

Whenever City of Brass becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.

: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

Discussion (48)

multimedia on Copysaurus

1 month ago

Hey, you're missing one of the best cards with Kalamax and magecraft, Narset's Reversal . Use Kalamax copy of Reversal to send the original Reversal back to your hand and resolve the copies. With Kalamax it becomes a repeatable Fork that can be major disruption for your opponents. Reversal also combos with Twinning Staff to make infinite copies of Reversal.

Chord of Calling is very good if you want to play big creatures with Kalamax. For nine mana you can tutor for and cheat two 6 CMC or less creatures onto the battlefield. This interaction is popular with the Kiki + Pestermite combo as a win condition. You would be better off playing a few big creatures and instant Chord that has interaction with Kalamax then eight big creatures which is a lot.

Mystical Tutor is an instant tutor to get any two instant or sorceries. Worldly Tutor can get any two creatures. Solve the Equation can also get any instant or sorcery. Merchant Scroll can get any blue instant. Long-Term Plans can tutor for any two cards and with so much draw with Kalamax Plans has less of a drawback. Noxious Revival and/or Reclaim can recur any two cards.

If wanting to make lots of mana than Storm-Kiln Artist can help. His magecraft is excellent with Kalamax and a Fork which creates infinite treasures for infinite mana. Comet Storm becomes a win condition with infinite treasures. Artist is really good with the strategy of repeatedly casting/copying instants by making treasures which is better than just making mana especially with Narset's Reversal . Creating two treasures just by casting Reversal and then if copying an instant you make more treasures as Reversal copies the spell on the stack. Roiling Regrowth is another Harrow for more basic land ramp.

Nature's Claim and/or Force of Vigor is powerful removal with Kalamax. City of Brass , Mana Confluence , Reflecting Pool , Forbidden Orchard , Exotic Orchard are some rainbow land upgrades.

Good luck with your deck.

Beginner-Budget-Builder on Five Color Dragons

2 months ago

Really nice deck! The mana base does indeed look pretty nice, lots of great lands. I recommend 5 color lands if you can afford them, Mana Confluence , Reflecting Pool , Unclaimed Territory , Exotic Orchard (depending on group meta), and City of Brass are good untap lands that can replace Rupture Spire s or shocklands.

For acceleration and even more ways to make dragons cheap, try adding Urza's Incubator , as well as any other artifacts like Coalition Relic and Chromatic Lantern .

You have a lot of high cmc creatures, so consider replacing some of them with mana ramp, card draw, and other generally good stuff. Consider taking on a gimmick or extra theme, even if it is just abusing the "Whenever a Dragon Creature you control attacks..." trigger. This will help you get a lot of value out of your deck.

Let me know if you want suggestions or help!

DemMeowsephs on Scarlet Witch and Quick Silver

2 months ago

Hey there! Spellslinging is a super popular theme in commander (assuming that's what you're going for), and I have a few options you might want to look into! On a side note, if you like getting suggestions I recommend marking your deck as "help" under its edit settings so people are more inclined to comment on it. Additionally, you can specify which printing when inputting a card, but for Rowan it would be "1x Rowan, Scholar of Sparks (STX:278)".

Commanders:

Will and Rowan are GREAT, but if you'd like, here are a few instant/sorcery matters commanders in ! Most of these are also great cards just in the deck whether you use them as commanders or not: - Veyran, Voice of Duality - Mizzix of the Izmagnus - Niv-Mizzet, Parun (goes infinite with multiple cards such as Ophidian Eye , Tandem Lookout , Curiosity , and more. Especially with something like Laboratory Maniac out) - Melek, Izzet Paragon - Zaffai, Thunder Conductor

Lands/Ramp: Since this would be a spellslinger deck, I'll stay away from too many artifacts, but here are a few ramp cards and good lands to consider!

• Sol Ring
• Arcane Signet
• Sapphire Medallion / Ruby Medallion
• Lotus Petal
• High Tide
• Mind Stone (if you plan on running a lot of card draw)
• Thought Vessel
• Commander's Sphere
• Treasonous Ogre
• Dockside Extortionist
• Geosurge
• Irencrag Feat
• Jeska's Will

• Extraplanar Lens (if you plan on running a lot of basics)

• Steam Vents

• Scalding Tarn
• Riverglide Pathway  ^Flip
• Temple of Epiphany
• Sulfur Falls
• Frostboil Snarl
• Training Center
• Command Tower
• Ancient Tomb
• City of Brass / Mana Confluence
• Prismatic Vista
• Shivan Reef
• Cascade Bluffs
• Fiery Islet
• Spirebluff Canal

Some good Instants/Sorceries There's obviously tons upon tons upon tons of these, but here are a few that I enjoy using.

• Swan Song
• Fierce Guardianship
• Cyclonic Rift
• Mystical Tutor
• Temporal Mastery (good with the tutor above)
• Preordain
• Faithless Looting
• Ponder
• Narset's Reversal (lot of infinite combos I believe)
• Deflecting Swat
• Thrill of Possibility
• Rapid Hybridization

Instants/Sorceries Matter: There are also tons of these, but just to name a few:

• Baral, Chief of Compliance
• Young Pyromancer
• Docent of Perfection  ^Flip
• Spellseeker
• Thermo-Alchemist
• Wee Dragonauts
• Snapcaster Mage
• Sprite Dragon
• Any card with magecraft from strixhaven

I hope this helps! Some suggestions may be out of budget and others may not be, and on the other hand you might have already known about most of these cards, but either way I hope this is of use to you! Be sure to check out some of my decks like Double Trouble EDH ⫸PRIMER⫷, but most of all, good luck on your deck! Have a fantastic day, and happy tapping.

RezzyRed on Manabase for Ur-Dragon

2 months ago

I'm not so sure about my manabase for my The Ur-Dragon deck (it's my first 5-color deck). Currently, I'm using the full cycles of shocks and fetches, a few Rainbow lands like Command Tower , City of Brass , and the dragon lands from Tarkir block. I'm also using the triome cycle from Ikoria. Is this a pretty good mana base? (I'm also using signet, sol ring, and lantern)

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multimedia on golgari elves

4 months ago

Hey, consider Sol Ring ? It's a staple mana rock in Commander. Consider less Swamps and more Golgari dual lands? Green mana is much more important than black. 11 Swamps really reduces the consistency of having a green source turn one for a green one drop mana dork. You don't want to draw all Swamps and no Forests.

You can speed up game play and help color fixing by adding more dual lands that can ETB untapped:

• Llanowar Wastes
• Undergrowth Stadium
• Overgrown Tomb
• Nurturing Peatland
• City of Brass
• Mana Confluence
• Verdant Catacombs : gets Overgrown Tomb .
• Windswept Heath : gets Overgrown Tomb .
• Darkbore Pathway  ^Flip
• Unclaimed Territory

Others:

• Twilight Mire
• Woodland Cemetery
• Reflecting Pool
• Blooming Marsh
• Tainted Wood

Several of these lands could replace lands that always ETB tapped: Foul Orchard , Golgari Guildgate , Jungle Hollow , Golgari Rot Farm . Elves of Deep Shadow is very helpful since can make black mana. Deathrite Shaman if playing multiplayer since can exile lands from opponents graveyards.

Good luck with your deck.

Spaz696969 on Dark Deal

5 months ago

You do still take the damage, but your life total doesn’t change. That’s actually why I’m using City of Brass instead of Mana Confluence even though Mana Confluence is better with Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth . Platinum Emperion doesn’t let me pay life. I also had to pull out some lands like River of Tears and Sunken Ruins so I could cut back on the fetch / shock.

Grind on Budget Edgar Markov Deck

5 months ago

Check out mtglands.com. The pain lands and the "manaless filters" as well as "filter duals" tend to be cheaper than shocks and fetches.
If you want to invest and have ability to use them in any commander deck in the future, City of Brass , Mana Confluence , and Reflecting Pool are staples.
Another strategy if you want to save $ and avoid etb tapped lands is going to two colors. You dont run that many red or white cards. You can still build a solid vampire deck and keep edgar at the helm but just go rakdos or orzhov. Makes your mana base simpler and cheaper, can still keep multicolor rocks and a few lands like nomad outpost and command tower so you can play him eventually. Just an idea. Maybe something to think about as you playtest the deck.

Grind on Ororo Ageless ASsetic Real deck

5 months ago

Nice deck!!
Personally i like Reality Shift over pongify bc it can deal w indestructible creatures like eldrazi. But Swords to Plowshares is the best!
Also i would consider Arcane Denial or Dovin's Veto over redirect.
Luminarch Ascension is an upgrade for griffin aerie.
I would consider Grasp of Fate over act of authority as its a 3-for-1.
I like Vampire Nighthawk over gifted aetherborn.
Also if you want to spend that budget, Serra Ascendant and City of Brass are good cards. But there are probably other cheaper choices to improve your deck if you want also. I really like Phyrexian Arena .
Just some ideas cheers and have fun!!!