Cryptolith Rite

Enchantment

Creatures you control have ": Add one mana of any colour to your mana pool."

Discussion (51)

Steelspike on What personal values do you ...

5 days ago

1) I firmly adhere to the "live and let live" philosophy. Translated as let people play their decks. I refuse to run a Cyclonic Rift because it destroys gameplay. I also hate Gonti, Lord of Luxury and that kind of "Imma play YOUR deck" style.

2) If people aren't having fun, it's not a commander game. Period. I build decks with wacky interactions because I like to see folks' reactions.

3) Counterspells need to be limited to verified threats, not for a minor combo piece like a Chromatic Lantern or Cryptolith Rite.

4) Infinite combos need to win. The. Game. Not durdle until everyone ragequits.

5) Turn 3 "kill the table" combos need to die. Ok. Great. You win. Now you gotta sit there until the rest of us finish OUR game. If you complain, your deck will be banned from whatever game I'm playing and I'll intentionally slowplay just to piss you off.

6) Non-interactive decks need to die as well. If you don't want to play commander with other people, just stay home and goldfish.

Lanzo493 on saproleenie edh

1 week ago

With Gaea's Cradle, you definitely need to run Crop Rotation. I organized your deck by converted mana cost and noticed you have quite a number of cards at 5 mana. 16 of them. But you don't have very much ramp to support it. Considering your commander cost 6, and his triggered ability costs 3, you really need to ramp hard in order to have the most successful turns. Plus, landing a big dragon on turn 4 is nothing to scoff at. You've got Selesnya Signet, Gruul Signet, and Boros Signet are good in general. Thran Dynamo and Worn Powerstone are favorites of mine if you're okay with colorless mana. For a token deck, Cryptolith Rite works wonders. I would cut down on the number of 5 mana cards. Mogg Infestation can be detrimental. Juniper Order Ranger has little impact and doesn't have great impact as time goes on. Conqueror's Pledge is just slow for your deck.

Haima13 on Korvold, Aristocracy

1 week ago

My spoilers in the comment above arnt working for me so im trying something different. "If you want to sift through some cards you can look at each section, but I would recommend just looking at the first grouping to start with, as I went a bit too far with the other lists. Those lists are fine to just look at ideas or "good cards" but there are far too many to call them suggestions.

: The short list

token things

|Cryptolith Rite|

goblin things

|Skirk Prospector| |Vexing Shusher| |Sling-Gang Lieutenant| |Boggart Harbinger| |Goblin Assault| |Goblin Chirurgeon| |Goblin Engineer| |Goblin Recruiter| |Goblin Trashmaster| |Kuldotha Rebirth|

lands

|Jund Panorama| |Blighted Woodland| |Mountain Valley| |Myriad Landscape| |Field of Ruin|

other

|Primal Growth| |Quest for Renewal| |Signal the Clans|

Headtext for first 3 entries. Show

I recommend these cards like this. Especially if you can work into your life an Amulet of Vigor. Some of these cards will search for land types you do not possess, but that is pretty much ok. Its within the rules of the format (though some people get bunched up about it anyway) and the benefits should otherwise be pretty plain to see.

Enters tapped but sac's for free Show

|Bad River| |Grasslands| |Mountain Valley|

Doesn't enter tapped, cost mana to sac Show

|Bant Panorama| |Naya Panorama| |Jund Panorama| |Grixis Panorama| |Esper Panorama| |Myriad Landscape| |Blighted Woodlands| |Field of Ruin (good for other things too)| |Krosan Verge| |Warped Landscape|

The expensive ones Show

|Obviously this list includes what people usually call fetchlands awa Fabled Passage and Prismatic Vista.

Cards that do similar but arnt lands Show

|Elvish Reclaimer| |Expedition Map| |Growth Spasm| |Pir's Whim(it came up in my search)| |Primal Growth| |Scapeshift(expensive)| |Springbloom Druid| |Wave of Vitriol(I keep forgetting that this card exists)| |Wayfarer's Bauble| |Yavimaya Elder| |Khalni Heart Expedition| |Burnished Hart|

Adding to the goboi theme Show

|Boggart Shenanigans| |Boggart Birth Rite| |Boggart Harbinger| |Brightstone Ritual| |Cheering Fanatic| |Chancellor of the Forge| |Goblin Assault| |Goblin Chirurgeon| |Goblin Engineer| |Goblin Kaboomist| |Goblin Offensive| |Goblin Recruiter| |Goblinslide| |Goblin Trashmaster| |Goblin Warchief| |Goblin War Strike| |Goblin Warrens| |Goblin Welder| |Kuldotha Rebirth*| |Shattergang Brothers| |Skirk Prospector| |Sling-Gang Lieutenant| |Tin Street Hooligan| |Treasure Nabber| |Vexing Shusher**| |Warren Instigator| |Wily Goblin| |Wort, Boggart Auntie|

Because creature tokens Show

|Cryptolith Rite| |Beastmaster Ascension| |Bower Passage| |Shaman of Forgotten Ways| |Throne of the God-Pharaoh|

Haima13 on Korvold, Aristocracy

1 week ago

If you want to sift through some cards you can look at each section, but I would recommend just looking at "The short list" to start with, as I went a bit too far with the other lists. Those lists are fine to just look at ideas or "good cards" but there are far too many to call them suggestions.

The short list Show

|I realized that this list of lists is too long and the lists are too long.|

token things

|Cryptolith Rite|

goblin things

|Skirk Prospector| |Vexing Shusher| |Sling-Gang Lieutenant| |Boggart Harbinger| |Goblin Assault| |Goblin Chirurgeon| |Goblin Engineer| |Goblin Recruiter| |Goblin Trashmaster| |Kuldotha Rebirth|

lands

|Jund Panorama| |Blighted Woodland| |Mountain Valley| |Myriad Landscape| |Field of Ruin|

other

|Primal Growth| |Quest for Renewal| |Signal the Clans|

Headtext for first 3 entries. Show

I recommend these cards like this. Especially if you can work into your life an Amulet of Vigor. Some of these cards will search for land types you do not possess, but that is pretty much ok. Its within the rules of the format (though some people get bunched up about it anyway) and the benefits should otherwise be pretty plain to see.

Enters tapped but sac's for free Show

|Bad River| |Grasslands| |Mountain Valley|

Doesn't enter tapped, cost mana to sac Show

|Bant Panorama| |Naya Panorama| |Jund Panorama| |Grixis Panorama| |Esper Panorama| |Myriad Landscape| |Blighted Woodlands| |Field of Ruin (good for other things too)| |Krosan Verge| |Warped Landscape|

The expensive ones Show

|Obviously this list includes what people usually call fetchlands awa Fabled Passage and Prismatic Vista.

Cards that do similar but arnt lands Show

|Elvish Reclaimer| |Expedition Map| |Growth Spasm| |Pir's Whim(it came up in my search)| |Primal Growth| |Scapeshift(expensive)| |Springbloom Druid| |Wave of Vitriol(I keep forgetting that this card exists)| |Wayfarer's Bauble| |Yavimaya Elder| |Khalni Heart Expedition| |Burnished Hart|

Adding to the goboi theme Show

|Boggart Shenanigans| |Boggart Birth Rite| |Boggart Harbinger| |Brightstone Ritual| |Cheering Fanatic| |Chancellor of the Forge| |Goblin Assault| |Goblin Chirurgeon| |Goblin Engineer| |Goblin Kaboomist| |Goblin Offensive| |Goblin Recruiter| |Goblinslide| |Goblin Trashmaster| |Goblin Warchief| |Goblin War Strike| |Goblin Warrens| |Goblin Welder| |Kuldotha Rebirth*| |Shattergang Brothers| |Skirk Prospector| |Sling-Gang Lieutenant| |Tin Street Hooligan| |Treasure Nabber| |Vexing Shusher**| |Warren Instigator| |Wily Goblin| |Wort, Boggart Auntie|

Because creature tokens Show

|Cryptolith Rite| |Beastmaster Ascension| |Bower Passage| |Shaman of Forgotten Ways| |Throne of the God-Pharaoh|

BMHKain on Sparky-chan's Undiluted Hatred to WotC

1 week ago

UPDATE: After making an alternate option for a cEDH Boros Deck, the Gauntlet is on for what cEDH Boros Deck is worth making more; & how to build it outside of just Stax/Prison; maybe I should do Value Town? You can check both my WIP cEDH Boros Decks to see is more worth the effort, & what to cut for to 100 cards.

For now, I still need ideas for the following:

3: Incorporate an Artifact Matters Engine by using either Daretti, Ingenious Iconoclast or Saheeli, Sublime Artificer. (or Rowan Kenrith; she's cool too.)

4: A creatureless 2 card(?) combo that creates Infinite Mana of any color with no Land Untap. (Should I put in Cryptolith Rite?

5: A Creatureless 2 card (??) Infinite Draw combo.

6: Any noncreature card that protects Me as the Player & My Walkers (They are now different Targets to choose.)

9: Mystic Barrier + A way to copy this spell (& maybe other similar stuff?).

So what are your opinions/ideas on these? These are vital for a deck variant like this one...

That said, any ideas? Remember, NO CREATURES.

king-saproling on Bruse Tana, Boorish Bloodsower

2 weeks ago

Hey Jabberjaw46! Ha nice guy colors. Never thought of Naya that way but you're totally right, these colors usually don't draw much hate. So Craterhoof certainly wouldn't be bad in a deck like this, but at 8 mana he is relatively slow for this optimized version. This list usually closes the game out on turn 6, sometimes even turn 5 with some luck, so Craterhoof would hang out in our hand most games. I do see the logic behind considering him though. If we had a mass ramp piece like Cryptolith Rite but no draw, additional combat, or damage-spread (e.g. Impact Tremors) cards in hand, then Craterhoof would be useful there.

Tzefick on Ability challenge

2 weeks ago

Response to Boza

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Ignoring blocking restrictions is actually very thematic for the mechanic. If you hunt a target, it doesn't matter if that target is exhausted (tapped), a coward (can't block), or wouldn't normally be able to block an evasive attacker (like flying or unblockable - yes that is still the word in my book).

Take for instance the Provoke creature Swooping Talon. An evasive flier with provoke that you can pay mana for to make worse, just to make provoke function. All discussion about stats for CMC we push aside and merely focus on the mechanic that actively works against a normally positive characteristic of the creature. To fix it you can pay mana to remove this beneficial characteristic to make the mechanic function. That's either poor design or a very deliberate nonbo that makes the mechanic worse - and illogical.

Having provoke untap the targeted creature is a downside to the mechanic. I don't think Provoke was a very well received mechanic and it only appears on 9 creatures. MaRo stated that after Fight's introduction he rates Provoke a 7 on the Storm Scale (Unlikely to return in a Standard legal set, unless the setting is just right) and a couple of years later when Fight was declared evergreen, a 9 (basically it ain't gonna happen). But where Fight is usually an active or an ETB, Provoke (and now Hunt) is an easily triggered ability. Fight is more here and now as removal, while Hunt is a passive grind tool. One benefit of Hunt is that you can actually allow it on a large number of smaller creatures, without making it ridiculous nor bad. Fight is usually best in combination with a large creature.

Under my suggestion for hunt, that combination between evasion and Hunt serves to protect the hunter, against any other blocker who cannot block the evasive creature.

I don't see any reason why the mechanic cannot ignore restrictions on blocking from a rules perspective. And from a gameplay perspective, I figure this version is a lot more intuitive for a player who doesn't carry baggage from Provoke they try to cram down over this mechanic. In principle, instead of attacking a player, a hunter attacks a creature the defending player controls. The mechanic is self-contained within the combat phase and if the hunted creature leaves the battlefield, it doesn't carry over characteristics like being hunted - so you cannot get into situations where a creature ignores restrictions and suddenly blocks from the graveyard, exile or hand or whatever.

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Just some rule discussion about the suggested revision Show

Your suggestion for a revised mechanic has a couple of holes in it as far as I can see.

(When ~ attacks, you may have it hunt target creature defending player controls. Hunted creatures untap and can block any number of Hunters this turn. You choose how hunted creatures block.)

"You choose how hunted creatures block", is usually pointless unless you can also choose which creatures DO block. Can be fixed by saying the hunted creature must block if able.

"Hunted creatures untap and can block any number of Hunters this turn." This would normally lead me to believe Hunters were a creature type and not a derivative term for a creature who has Hunt. Should be fixable by changing it to "can block any number of creatures with Hunt".

This is a triggered ability that targets and resolves individually. If you include an untap all clause in each trigger, it could lead to some weird interactions, where activated tap abilities could be utilized for some unintended scenarios. Imagine an opponent having Cryptolith Rite out. If you attack and hunt 5 of his creatures, the first creature in order can tap for 1 mana, but stays hunted. The next trigger will untap the first and the second... and so forth - I think you can see the problem.

I would think your revised version could be something like:

(When ~ attacks, you may have it hunt target creature defending player controls. Untap that creature, until end of combat it must block if able and it can block any number of creatures with Hunt. You choose how it blocks.)

Then again I don't actually want the same weaknesses that apply to Provoke, apply to Hunt as well.

king-saproling on Rhys the redeemed elf token deck

3 weeks ago

Looks good. These might interest you: Mimic Vat, Soul Foundry, Bramble Sovereign, Minion Reflector, Second Harvest, Parallel Evolution, Requiem Angel, Cryptolith Rite, Song of Freyalise, Priest of Titania, Elvish Guidance, Wirewood Channeler, Cathars' Crusade, Goldnight Commander, Valor in Akros, Fanatical Devotion