Courser of Kruphix

Enchantment Creature — Centaur

Play with the top card of your library revealed.

You may play the top card of your library if it's a land card.

Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.

Combos

• Courser of Kruphix + Dryad of the Ilysian Grove

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	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
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (48)

NV_1980 on Queen of the Crop

1 week ago

In the lower brackets, this is an excellent commander deck. If it would want to compete in the higher brackets, it would probably need to be a little faster though, as the deck's mana curve indicates.

I think Augur of Autumn is slightly better than Courser of Kruphix. Augur allows you to keep the top of your library hidden from your opponents, while Courser does not. She also grants you the ability to cast creatures from your library, once you have three different power scores on the field. The lifegain on Courser is nice, but I think your deck already does well at that to begin with, whereas one can never have enough card-advantage.

Another card worth considering could be Awaken the Woods. This generally does very well in a deck that benefits from landfall triggers, and it can quickly spiral out of control with your deck considering it already features many token-doublers.

Since you seem to have had this deck for a while, can you tell us how it's doing in your play-group? What were the best match-ups for you and which were less fun or extremely difficult to deal with? Cheers.

Balaam__ on Blue-Green Deck

2 months ago

Sure thing. The good news is that a typical landfall deck is on the cheap side if you ever wanted to gather the cards for real, and it’s pretty straightforward to play. For something basic, you’ll want to look at cards like Ruin Crab and Hedron Crab. They’ll be your Turn 1 plays. Lotus Cobra is good for mana fixing, and Courser of Kruphix helps keep you afloat. Something big like Rampaging Baloths is good to close out the game with.

Supporting spells look something like Groundswell and Ior Ruin Expedition, stuff that pumps your creatures or fills your hand etc. Countermagic is always viable too, to help shut down whatever your opponent’s strategy is.

Take these as examples of how to build toward a goal rather than someone telling you what cards to add. In the end, you’ll want to make something yourself that suits you. Figure out what works best in your playgroup and what doesn’t. If Landfall isn’t cutting it, try a different direction. There are tons of good sites and apps and such that allow you to search by keyword to help find cards you may not even know exist, cards that might be just what you’re looking for.

nbarry223 on Viga-BOOM! (Primer + SB Guide)

1 year ago

So as of right now, I am going to be doing these swaps with current spoilers:


Maindeck
+1 Disciple of Freyalise  ^Flip
+1 Urza's Cave
+1 Bojuka Bog
+1 Spelunking

-1 Courser of Kruphix
-1 Explore
-1 Golgari Rot Farm
-1 Arboreal Grazer


Sideboard
+1 Six
+1 Shifting Woodland

-1 Colossal Skyturtle
-1 Khalni Garden


I also really like the idea of having access to Vexing Bauble, so I will probably be trying to make room for that as well, at least to test out.

nbarry223 on Viga-BOOM! (Primer + SB Guide)

1 year ago

So as of right now, I am going to be doing these swaps with current spoilers:


Maindeck
+1 Disciple of Freyalise
+1 Urza's Cave
+1 Bojuka Bog
+1 Spelunking

-1 Courser of Kruphix
-2 Explore
-1 Arboreal Grazer


Sideboard
+1 Six
+1 Vexing Bauble

-1 Colossal Skyturtle
-1 Khalni Garden

nbarry223 on Viga-BOOM! (Primer + SB Guide)

1 year ago

So Six (MH3) is definitely going in to replace Courser of Kruphix once it is legal provided that is a legitimate spoiler.

fuster on Mana flooding is a good thing?!?!?!

1 year ago

Profet93 I find your analysis of Courser of Kruphix interesting though. You rank them as a tie in your mind, while I think the extra land drop alone makes me prefer Dryad of the Ilysian Grove a lot more and it's not even close for me. I'm pretty curious why you weigh Courser's effects the same as Dryad's.

Profet93 on Mana flooding is a good thing?!?!?!

1 year ago

fuster +1 It's hard to provide meaningful suggestions to a deck so tuned but I'll do my best.

Lands

Yavimaya Hollow - Protection

Maybe Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth - Or do you not need colorfixing/helping opponents?

Castle Garenbrig - Ramp, or is it considered a tap land?

Castle Vantress - Scry, or is it considered a tap land?

Deserted Temple - Untap cradle

Swap half your basic for snow-covered to more easily trigger field of the dead

Non-Lands

Maybe Abundance - Synergy with sylvan library and a decent filter.

Snapcaster Mage - Recursion

Maybe Splendid Reclamation - Although you might not have enough land saccing to justify it's cost/too narrow. Works well with scapeshift and all your fetchlands.

Finale of Devastation - Tutor/alt wincon, especially with avenger and cradle.

Horn of Greed - Or is it too symmetrical?

Tireless Tracker - Or is it too slow/not needed given you draw enough?

Courser of Kruphix > Dryad of the Ilysian Grove ? - Can you explain your thought process behind Dryad > Courser? On the one hand, dryad doesn't reveal your draws, provides an additional land drop and is slightly easier to cast. I don't see any significant benefit to it's other ability. On the other hand, Courser gains you additional life (while not needed), is harder to cast but allows you to cast from the top of your library. It does reveal your cards so perhaps that's the reason? I just assume when I'm against the blue player they always have a counterspell. Been thinking of swapping out Dryad for Courser in my azusa list.

Azoth2099 on Anikthea, Hand of Erebos is Graverobbing

2 years ago

zacktheprogamer

OK here we go lol

Creature cuts: Archon of Sun's Grace, Composer of Spring, Courser of Kruphix, Doomwake Giant, Dryad of the Ilysian Grove, Nessian Wanderer, Nyx Weaver

Artifact cuts: Mesmeric Orb, Whip of Erebos

Enchantment cuts: Battle for Bretagard, Boon of the Spirit Realm, Cast Out, Exploration, Familiar Ground

Sorcery cuts: Extinguish All Hope, Kodama's Reach, Rampant Growth, Skyshroud Claim

Instant cuts: None! Add things like Veil of Summer & Silence, though

I'd recommend that you replace all of those lands ramp spells that cost more than 2 with more mana rocks instead! Your guild signets (Selesnya Signet, Orzhov Signet & Golgari Signet) & talismans (Talisman of Hierarchy, Talisman of Resilience & Talisman of Unity) are all better options since this isn't a Landfall deck.