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| Block Constructed | Legal |
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| Casual | Legal |
| Commander / EDH | Legal |
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Culling Dais
Artifact
, Sacrifice a creature: Put a charge counter on Culling Dais.
, Sacrifice Culling Dais: Draw a card for each charge counter on Culling Dais.
zachz on
Orzhov Sacrifice
7 months ago
For budget sacrifice options, I would recommend Grafted Wargear and Culling Dais.
The Wargear allows you to attack with any of your creatures blindly, as they will either hurt your opponent, die getting blocked, or die after you re-equip the armor to someone else.
Culling Dais is slow but another cheap draw mechanic.
As options to maximize efficiency, cards in your graveyard could become fodder with Beckon Apparition or Rise from the Grave.
If you want to add more White to the deck, you could consider Soul Tithe and Celestial Flare. Both are protections while you decide what terms your creatures die on.
Some budget orzhov lands you could add are Temple of Silence, Scoured Barrens, and Orzhov Guildgate.
Ardees on
It's Just a Flesh Wound (Budget Meren)
11 months ago
Suggestions from someone who started from a total junk Meren deck in 2015, and through the years made it to a cEDH (check the playlist here if you want: Meren Surgical Toolbox [2K22]:
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Way too many lands. Never seen any budget deck running almost half the deck on lands only. Consider adding cheap staple cards like Kodama's Reach, Cultivate, or something like Emergent Sequence, Greenseeker (it also discards you a creature that you can pick up with meren at the end of turn), Primal Growth (good sac outlet too), Dawntreader Elk, Deathsprout, Diligent Farmhand, Rampant Growth, and notable Yavimaya Elder. Consider also adding all the 1-mana elves, all of which sit around 0.10$. If you include all these changes you can easily remove 10 lands, and sit at 35 lands total.
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Some cards you included are just downright bad, even for a budget deck. You can not only find cheaper but also better replacements for cards like Reprocess, Spider Spawning, Evincar's Justice, Zendikar's Roil. Some cards you have in your maybeboard, like Skullclamp or Buried Alive are much better options. Most definitely include Village Rites and Midnight Reaper for card draw, and Spore Frog for protection. Also Reclamation Sage
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Include Carrion Feeder as a sac outlet. You can also consider Spawning Pit and Culling Dais.
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Your deck has a very high CMC, 4.05. For a golgari deck this is way too high, considering reaching at least 3.00.
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Jarad's Orders and Diabolic Tutor are the cheapest tutors you can get. Definitely run them both.
More generally, have a look at EDHREC.com to see what cards best fit a budget Meren deck. No offense, but even as a budget your deck certainly needs much improvement. That is, assuming you don't run cards for their flavor or because you just like them. Then that's totally up to you.
DBCooper on
$50 Sack of Elementals
1 year ago
Great deck! Culling Dais may be an interesting consideration to replenish you hand and makes great use of sacrifice creatures. Great build!
Reynan on
Rarefied Atmosphere
1 year ago
Very cool deck, I always thought the new Linvala could give a nice azorius deck.
I would like to suggest Shabraz, the Skyshark, as you use Drogskol Reaver, you can make an infinite draw combo - but only if you are interested in that wincom, of course.
You use Emeria Angel and Azorius Chancery, so adding a Walking Atlas, you are able to put millions of tokens as you wish, and Walking Atlas work as a ramp in early game.
Boreas Charger, Cartographer's Hawk, Knight of the White Orchid and Loyal Warhound are nice possibilities of ramping defense. They can get Hallowed Fountain and Irrigated Farmland for you.
Another combo you can explore, and there's a lot of tutors for it in Azorius, is Archon of Sun's Grace + Enchanted Evening and there's endless tokens ETB(entering the battlefield). Anything to sacrifice a token or some ETB trigger to mill or deal damage to opponent do the trick, cards like High Market, Pyre of Heroes, Culling Dais, Altar of the Brood.
That's it buddy, nice deck.
Omniscience_is_life on
Alta Palani MonsterMother
2 years ago
Excellent deck you've got here, love the use of Culling Dais ! Criminally underplayed card.
My Atla deck is relatively similar your own, but you still might be able to take something from it--
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Optimator on
Yahenni Aristocrats
2 years ago
Your list is looking really good! You have pretty much most of the classic Aristocrats pieces in. Your creature list is spot-on IMO. I love how much removal you have.
A couple of suggestions here though. I am going to assume you're on at least something of a budget. If you're not, hit up EDHREC for more powerful suggestions, of course.
I would recommend a bit more ramp. You're sitting at four ramp pieces by my count, and Bontu's Monument and Ashnod's Altar are a bit questionable as true ramp. They're definitely good and worth their slots--don't get me wrong. I'd recommend at least eight ramp pieces in almost any deck. Some good includes would be Wayfarer's Bauble, Charcoal Diamond, Star Compass, Myriad Landscape, Prismatic Lens, Mind Stone, Worn Powerstone. With a bit of money you have Arcane Signet, Coldsteel Heart, Jet Medallion, Crypt Ghast, Magus of the Coffers and Sword of the Animist.
I wouldn't really recommend Altar of Dementia unless you can infinitely loop sacrifices and make it a win-con. If you just want free sac outlets; your commander, Ashnod's, Woe Strider, and Carrion Feeder should do the trick and give you value in return that you can actually use. Same with Ayara and stuff. Culling Dais and Spawning Pit are decent. One of Yehenni's biggest strengths is having a free sac outlet in the command zone.
Speaking of your commander, one of the reasons to run Yahenni over other mono-Black aristocrats commanders is the threat he/she turns into. I would recommend a few pieces of equipment to help end the game. Loxodon Warhammer, Blackblade Reforged, Lashwrithe, Trailblazer's Boots, Prowler's Helm, and of course Swiftfoot Boots are all good choices. Lots to choose from here but these are great for their price. Obviously there are all the Swords and Jitte and stuff if you have the cash or have them in your collection.
Apollo_Paladin on
X/X Artifact Creatures
2 years ago
Blasting Station, Culling Dais (at least the charge counters are worth something), and Phyrexian Altar are some other options you could consider for Mana-free creature sacrificing to activate your Myr.
In my opinion, you definitely don't want to have to pay mana AND sacrifice a creature for an effect; there's plenty out there that will let you just sacrifice one for free since being able to kill your own Myr is the primary goal here.
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