Delif's Cone

Artifact

Tap, Sacrifice Delif's Cone: This turn, when target creature you control attacks and isn't blocked, you may gain life equal to its power. If you do, it deals no combat damage this turn.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (6)

kpres on Richard Garfield Ph.D

3 years ago

Hi Friends,

I built an EDH deck a couple of years ago with Richard Garfield, Ph.D. as the commander. My deckbuilding challenge was to use the worst blue cards and artifacts -- cards as irrelevant as Balduvian Shaman and Delif's Cone. The idea is that when he is not in play, the deck is completely useless, but as soon as you get him onto the battlefield, suddenly your Dark Sphere becomes Pact of Negation and your Air Elemental becomes Dream Halls.

In theory, the deck was absolutely nuts, but I ended up playing it once, getting frustrated, and taking it apart. The reason was that I wasted too much time during the game on looking up cards in Gatherer and writing things down on sticky notes. It was terrible! No fun for anyone.

Just recently, I had an idea that I could prepare for any game by printing proxies on cards I planned to play. I could have little slips of paper that go in front of the card so that everyone knows my Ornithopter has become a Black Lotus.

Has anyone else built a deck with Richard Garfield and has some thoughts to share? I'm looking forward to putting it back together and getting a proxy-board together.

Thank you,

kpres

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By the way, I recently learned how to search Gatherer for specific mana costs. This is highly relevant for deck building with this commander. In the "Mana Cost" field, you can type m/3uu/ to search for ; e.g. https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?action=advanced&mana=+=[m/3uu/]

triproberts12 on Is there any card that …

4 years ago

Aetherflux Reservoir , Aethersphere Harvester , Prism Ring , Umezawa's Jitte , Dragon's Claw , Tablet of the Guilds , Staff of the Flame Magus , Batterskull , Loxodon Warhammer , Wurmcoil Engine , Delif's Cone , Soul Net , Sylvok Lifestaff , Basilisk Collar , Bubbling Cauldron , and Profane Memento are probably about as close as you'll get.

In other words, it doesn't seem like a great plan, but I would go with Umezawa's Jitte , Wurmcoil Engine , Loxodon Warhammer , Aethersphere Harvester , Batterskull in that order of priority.

Forestxavier20 on Muldrotha: no combos

5 years ago

may I recommend Delif's Cone? Gaining life could be an interesting side board idea

WhatIsThisFor on Manaless Pauper

7 years ago

Phyrexia108 i guess its a better filler than Delif's Cone thanks for the advice

WhatIsThisFor on Manaless Pauper

7 years ago

Phyrexia108 i guess its a better filler than Delif's Cone thanks for the advice

ReticleMouse on 0 Mana Deck (Turn 3 kill)

7 years ago

I would add Delif's Cone, you might not get as much damage through but you get life back, and from what I saw while play testing you loose it rather fast.