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Deserted Temple
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Beespair on
Rule the Galaxy [Kaervek, the Punisher]
2 weeks ago
Isochron Scepter is great, can make an instant occur way more times than I normally could and the instant imprinted can change depending on the playgroup.
I agree with what you said about Cabal Ritual, never really had the chance to play it in the games I played with the deck, but the graveyard does not often stay with 7 cards in it. Switched it for Sign in Blood, as you've mentioned, more draw could help and at the same time I like cards that can do more than one thing in EDH.
Vampiric Tutor is not really a budget issue, as I'm proxying the deck, but I have friends in my playgroup that don't and I try to keep it to cards they would normally have. I'm already justifying Imperial Seal because of its name and Word of Command because it's a fun card to use and it's mostly the lack of printing that justify it's high price.
I removed these cards from the deck:
Agatha's Soul Cauldron: Although fun and a cheap crime, I rarely get useful activated abilities, the +1 to toughness was it's biggest use IMO.
Cabal Ritual: As you've mentioned, the threshold wouldn't really happen often.
Languish: Yahenni's Expertise is just more fun, same CMC and the 4 to 3 difference doesn't change much of the purpose behind the card.
Ulcerate: Cheap removal, but I already have a lot and this one was the weakest IMO.
Cabal Stronghold: As you've mentioned, 17 basics is too little.
Swamp: Removed one swamp to fit an additional non-basic land. Cabal Stronghold is gone, no need to keep that many basics.
I then added these cards:
Isochron Scepter: So many cool options, just neglected it when deck-building because I've been too tainted by the Dramatic Reversal combo and I only think about it in this situation.
Sign in Blood: One more card draw, can also burn enemies and with this deck's recursion can be re-used.
Yahenni's Expertise: Just a cooler Languish.
Buried Ruin: Nice recursion on stuff I can't normally recur because it's colorless.
Deserted Temple: As you've mentioned, crime, politics, ramp with Cabal Coffers.
Sudden Spoiling: Cool tech against control and protected creatures.
I did not add Helm of Obedience, felt like the 4 CMC is a bit too high. I will try it in the deck to see if I want to change something for it.
I did not add both flash cards because I can cast stuff from the graveyard at instant speed if needed with a crime. There's also not much I'm thinking of that I would really want to get that is not an instant. I might be missing some situations though.
Profet93 on
Rule the Galaxy [Kaervek, the Punisher]
2 weeks ago
Sorry for the double comment
Helm of Obedience = Combo with voidwalker, is a crime and messes up top decks.
Buried Ruin - Recur aetherflux or bolas citadel
Deserted Temple - Not needed but useful for coffers + political cool.
Winding Canyons/Emergence Zone - Flash is helpful to protect combos and force opponents into bad actions
SufferFromEDHD on
Competitive Shadow Tribal [Primer]
4 weeks ago
Deserted Temple would have so many juicy targets in this deck
Heraldic Banner aggro rock
Corpse Dance mentioned this along time ago with Unearth. Haste is so spicy with shadow and buyback IMO is the best keyword in EDH.
Undercity Plague > your weakest removal spell
DreadKhan on
Modified Unbazi Deck
2 months ago
It's vulnerable to interaction, but Scorched Ruins is very good with Deserted Temple. I feel like War Room
is pretty good in colourless decks. With more than 30 artifacts maybe Inventors' Fair?
Obviously your call, but I'd switch Scour from Existence from the maybeboard to the main deck, replacing Titan's Presence, mostly because I think you'll want the consistency way more (needing a high power creature in hand seems like it'll be a problem sometimes), and it even triggers your Commander's ability.
Hope something here will work for you!
Profet93 on
Speedy Eldrazi EDH
4 months ago
Basalt + Forsaken = mana
Doubling Cube + Rings + Voltaic Key = mana. - Personally, I would remove doubling cube as it's winmore.
Basalt + rings + Sensei's Divining Top = draw and cast your entire deck.
Everflowing chalice (4x) + voltaic key + rings = mana
Metal worker + voltaic + rings = mana
Mystic forge + top + artifact cost reducer/ugin ineffeable/Cloud Key/Semblance Anvil = Draw ur entire deck
Sanctum of Ugin - Tutor
Replace half ur wastes with snow-covered wastes to more easily trigger field of the dead.
Speaking of lands, I would swap out a lot of wastes for additional nobasic lands given you are colorless. I understand the need for wastes given path to exiles, and other effects but you have a lot of room for additional utility. Something like Scorched Ruins + rings + Deserted Temple + rings could work. Not an entirely serious suggestion but just noting potential future utility. If you wanted to go more into the lands route, Crucible of Worlds could be helpful, especially with buried ruin.
Loxodon Warhammer - Nice to have but not necessary, your creatures are already threatening enough
Doubling Cube - Winmore IMO, how has it been for you?
Quicksilvert Amulet/B Portal - Nice to have, maybe keep 1, not both. Some of your eldrazi have cast triggers which get lost when utilizing these.
Mana Vault + Grim Monolith - Nice to have to help you ramp early. Even better with voltaic key, helps key become more useful outside of your current rocks + combo potential.
I notice you mention stealing creatures is an issue for u and miren moaning well is in maybeboard. I would put Miren in, as well as High Market - Can be useful to stop stealing + game life. Bonus points for using on ur shuffle eldrazi in response to grave hate.
Not a serious suggestion, but Hall of the Bandit Lord could be fun with eldrazi.
Lastly, idk all the new eldrazi cards but there was like a 6 mana (tribal?) enchantment that seems helpful 2 ur deck. Moreover, having an enchantment type in the deck helps fuel turn stealing emrkarul. Furthermore, enchantments are harder to wipe that artifacts.
I hope these suggestions help or at least provide you with an alternate viewpoint. Looking forward 2 ur response.
Hybrow on
Heart of Black Coal - Ayara ETB trigger EDH
4 months ago
Hey Profet93, thanks so much for the view and suggestions
Jet Medallion I originally had in deck, but found that the ramp didn’t help in my commander, and quite a few of the spells I play over and over don’t have any colorless costs, so I swapped it out for Bontu's Monument, which had the bonus of doubling my commanders ability.
Bubbling Muck – I don’t love the one-time use of it. Would take the space of something that I can use again and again in this deck.
Cabal Stronghold – I think this is a carryover from before I had a coffers. I could easily swap it out for Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth. I actually have one sitting in a binder not getting used.
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx – Of all the lands, this is the one I like the most. I checked and there isn’t one in my binder, but I do have sitting in a for-fun The Colossal Dreadmaw deck. Would probably swap out Castle Locthwain. The draw is nice but find I don’t generally need it.
Deserted Temple is ok, but I don’t have mana doublers and other than coffers (and I guess now Nythos there isn’t really anything I need to untap.
Thespian's Stage and Vesuva – I am not a huge fan of the copy lands, V in particular enters tapped, which I hate. And they are both dependent on me having something that is worth copying, which isn’t always the case.
Contamination – If I had a different playgroup, this would be an automatic add, but my friend group doesn’t love playing mass land hate. A Strip Mine is fine, but something that shuts down another player completely, we generally don’t play just to keep everyone having fun. Infernal Darkness is kinda the same thing, so going to pass.
Imp's Mischief I just checked, and I do not own one, but am going to have to add it to my next buy list. Mono-coloured decks have some real blind spots and having a quazi-counter available would be great.
Skullclamp is going to go on a sidelist for this deck for a while. My mono-red Purphy relies on it for draw, but so far with Ayara hasn’t really needed the extra draw very much.
Carnival of Souls – I did have this one in an early build of this deck, but with my wincon being Plague of Vermin this wouldn’t work, and I feel like in a 4-player game I am going to lose more life than I can afford.
Thanks again for the suggestions. I have already added the two lands.
Profet93 on
Heart of Black Coal - Ayara ETB trigger EDH
4 months ago
Hybrow +1, great description.
Jet Medallion - Ramp
Bubbling Muck - Ramp. Given you're not running Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth, this ramp will most liklely be onesided
Im unsure if you have enough basics to warrant cabal stronghold. Best case scenario: Turn 5 you have 4 basic swamps and stronghold to break even. While it's nice to have in the later game, I wonder how impactful it really is at that point. Would you not be better served by another utility land such as Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx, Thespian's Stage, Deserted Temple or even a Vesuva? Nykthos seems like an easy ramp choice, stage/vesuva can copy coffer or other utility land, temple can untap coffers or be a political tool. I feel that rather than spreading your "land ramp" between coffers and stronghold, you should just go all in on coffers. It's easier to chase one rabbit than two if you get what I'm saying. How has stronghold been playing for you? I've found it more impactful in primarily budget decks with an overwhelming amount of basic lands.
Contamination - Mild stax (they can use dorks or rocks to bypass it) that shuts off their land mana production, including both sides mass mana producing lands (cradle, nykthos, lake of the dead, serra sanctum, etc...). With all your token generation, it seems like a shoe in. Not to mention it's synergy with reassembling skeleton and other cards that u can recur from ur grave easily. Should contamination be too much/rude, Infernal Darkness is a similar effect that doesn't shut off mass mana producing lands and can be easily kept for 1-2 turns while you get your set up. Both can be probably used to make the blue player float all their mana in an attempt to cast a counterspell during the current phase - aka, counterbait.
Regarding Problem 1/protecting your commander, I would go with the versatile tool, Imp's Mischief - It redirects targeted removal, draw, extra turns and can "counter" counterspells. Most spot removal in EDH is cheap so you probably wont lose much life and with all your lifegain, this potential concern appears heavily mitigated.
You have a lot of token generation, so perhaps Skullclamp might be worth considering. It is nice to use on ur commander as well given it's the lynchpin of your deck.
Not a serious suggestion, but I wonder how Carnival of Souls would work with this deck, do note it activates on any creature, not just yours.
theNeroTurtle on
NevisCF's Mono-Green Mana Ramp
4 months ago
I’m not going to go too crazy, because I don’t know what the budget is. But, Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth would allow you to open up to having quite a few more utility lands.
Other Cool Lands:
Deserted Temple – this would let you be able to double either Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx or Gaea's Cradle
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