Divination
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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
Gladiator Legal
Highlander Legal
Historic Legal
Historic Brawl Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Pauper Legal
Pauper Duel Commander Legal
Pauper EDH Legal
Pioneer Legal
Planar Constructed Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Divination

Sorcery

Draw two cards.

hyalopterouslemur on Bantmare

1 month ago

Mulldrifter is interesting. Think of it as Divination with kicker , because 90% of the time, it will be a Divination. (This is true of all evoke creatures.) Still, it's nice to have evasion when you need it.

Shrieking Drake: "This baby can put so many combos in her."

And of course, Mystic Snake. I love this whole cycle (Absorb, Undermine, and Suffocating Blast are the others.) but Mystic Snake can be blinked making it a little bit better than the rest.

Who is your Commander? What are you trying to do?

kamarupa on Don't

3 months ago

While I don't recommend it, as it really puts a target on your dorks, if you have Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy in play, a Freed from the Real on a Birds of Paradise or Noble Hierarch would generate infinite mana. There's certainly enough protection with current Instants, though, if you wanted to go that route. Bloom Tender would another solid choice to include then, if you felt so inclined.

I definitely think the manabase could be improved on. It seems there's no budget for creatures, but lands are all budget? So I was hesitant earlier, and didn't have the time either then to make a case for improvements. That said, 1x Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth is, IMO, always worth whatever mana-fixing it provides opponents. After that, I tend to prefer Botanical Sanctum, Dreamroot Cascade and Barkchannel Pathway  Flip to the perennially desired Breeding Poolfoil and Misty Rainforest. I just can't stand the thought of burning 3 life to get one dual land. I usually also include Scavenger Grounds just on the off chance I face a deck that likes to bring stuff back from the graveyard.

I didn't see you asking for removal spells, but Beast Within is decent, IMO, and I wouldn't turn my nose up at any deck running Pongify or Rapid Hybridization, especially if the deck is also packing creatures that can block those 3/3 gift tokens.

While it's a bit gutsy to rely strictly on mana dorks for the white mana needed to cast Gods Willing, I rather like the idea of an unblockable swing thanks to its protection.

In my eyes, the biggest weaknesses are: Opt doesn't provide any card advantage. Divination would be better, and Harmonize better still. Hydroid Krasis, as I said before, seems to fit as well and comes with the bonus of a bit of lifegain which is never bad. And that leads to the next issue - the wincons are [almost] all legendary, and therefore rightly limited to less than 4 copies each. I do like that they come with their own means of preventing removal, though. And finally, that the mana base just isn't as premium as most the spells it supports.

kamarupa on Trample Tribal

3 months ago

Very solid deck. I playtested it a few times and it seems perfectly tuned.

The only suggestion I have is to cut Elven Farsight and add Harmonize in it's place. The only advantage Elven Farsight offers over Harmonize is when you have an opening hand without any ramp, as you can cast it on T1. To me, that's not enough to outweigh the drawback of not generating any card advantage. Since you have 11 ramp spells, the deck is more likely to be top-decking early than it is to not have mana to cast your trample creatures. Additionally, at only 2 copies, the likelihood that both conditions are met for it to be useful are low - you both have to have Elven Farsight in your opening hand AND need a mana dork. Alternatively, if you draw Elven Farsight mid-game with 5 mana available, it would have been cheaper mana-wise not to have drawn it and instead to have drawn a creature (admittedly, some gamble there, as there's no guarantee you draw a creature) and cast it. That is, Elven Farsight is at least sometimes just adding a 1MV tax to casting a card you'd have drawn anyway. On the other hand, with Harmonize, you actually gain card advantage when you need it. In fact, generally, in the modern format, Harmonize is one of the best single-instance draw card spells out there because it draws more cards and for less per card. IE the classic spell Divination works out to each drawn card costing 1.5MV where as with Harmonize, each card only costs 1.33MV.

Tribute to the World Tree would be a very good alternative to Harmonize. The only downside to Tribute to the World Tree, IMO, is that it's slower than Harmonize to replace cards in your hand and therefore incentivizes you to cast it before your trample creatures. After all, it won't help you if you top deck it, while Harmonize will. Along those same lines, while it's nice to add 2x +1/+1 counters to your Arbor Elves and Heirarchs, since you really don't want or need to swing with those creatures, that ability is not only moot, but incentivizes the bad play of waiting to cast them until after Tribute to the World Tree is in play. And finally, Tribute to the World Tree's triple green MV isn't ideal in any deck that's not mono-green. Still you could do worse.

kamarupa on The Passive Aggressive Aproach

4 months ago

Overall, I like the deck. I have a few thoughts that could be helpful. Feel free to disregard.

Mill is something a lot of players hate. I think defenders are decent way to counter some of that hate, but I'd expect very aggressive removal of your two mana dorks, Axebane Guardian and Overgrown Battlement in second games. I see you have 2xTurn Aside, which I'm sure helps, but I suspect something like Tamiyo's Safekeeping or Vines of Vastwood (there's a ton a green protection spells, really) would be more useful, as they could help with surviving blocking huge creatures in addition to foiling removal.

Banefire seems better than Bonfire of the Damned, since it can't be countered or prevented at a pretty low threshold.

Freed from the Real seems like a good fit here - lower casting cost than Sword of the Paruns and lower activation cost and no equip cost

63 is 3 too many. There are non-essential defenders that could easily be cut, and spells like Opt and Divination don't strike me as perfect fits for the deck, either. Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of draw card in Modern, but I also think it's always best if you can get that draw card to come with synergy. For example, you have Wall of Runes and Gatecreeper Vine already - these seem at least 'on-theme' in a helpful way that render Opt more like filler than utility. You might also consider Wall of Omens or Drift of Phantasms instead of Divination. I'd also even favor Harmonize over Divination, as 3 cards for 4MV is a better deal than 2 cards for 3MV and more card draw off a single spell is more effective and efficient.

TheMadRocketeer on Aww Rats!

7 months ago

I'm considering the fiollowing swaps. Too many of my current cards require me to make sacrifices, which can make it tough to get the rat count up as quickly as I need.

Swap Out:

Swap In:

BirdieGirlie on Fun Book/Library Theme Deck

1 year ago

HIIIII OMFG I LOVE THIS SO MUCH!! I've been thinking of trying to build an Animate Library meme deck for myself the past couple weeks, only to find this!!!! Everything looks pretty good to me! Just wondering why, if they're your main wincons, you don't have full playsets of Grimoire of the Dead or Animate Library in the deck. I would/will probably do that building my own version.

Oh also now that I'm thinking about it, I feel like the deck is quite costed, so the ideal cost of Compulsive Research, discarding a land, feels bad lolz! I might run Divination, as suggested by HalbrechtHalbrecht instead. Though I understand wanting to discard a lot, for the Grimoire. Idk. I'm still new to all this!

I love the tight deck theming going on, but I'm way too competitive a person to not abandon some of it if I could make the deck better! Perhaps instead of Walking Archive, a pretty new card: Auton Soldier? Myriad would be disgusting!

If you really go the copy route (which was my own first thought for an Animate Library deck), Mechanized Production could be a cool tertiary wincon for this deck. Actually, wouldn't you have to choose between Grimoire support and MP support for either to actually work? Too much going on otherwise. Anyway, The Mycosynth Gardens, I think would allow you to copy the library creature just by tapping it? It has a CMC condition, but the library itself doesn't cost any mana, only the enchantment that made it into a creature does! So it would be a free copy!

I could go on and on about all the spells I've researched that would allow you to copy the library creature, but I digress! Adding enough of them is gonna make this deck much, much less budget, too. So I will conclude with: thank you so much for this deck list!!!! Have you gotten the chance to play it since you made it?? I'd love to know your experience with the deck!!!!

Hi_diddly_ho_neighbor on Wilds of Eldraine

1 year ago

Good lord, the Commander Masters precons look even more abysmal when compared to these Eldraine precons. These precons are straight fire and have the same-if-not-better quality, yet are still reasonably costed.

I hadn't thought about this until Saffron Olive talked about it on the mtggoldfish podcast, but The Irencrag is the first 2 cmc mana rock printed into Standard in over a decade. Interesting to see how it fares.

Does 'Quick Study' not just become an auto include in most blue commander decks? Divination doesn't see much play but adding instant speed makes it much more powerful.

Court of Ardenvale might just make it into my Polukranos, Engine of Ruin  Flip deck as Lifeline #3.

Coward_Token, my guess is they were trying to be very careful with Throne of Eldraine. What you suggested would be a significantly powercrept Thran Dynamo or Gilded Lotus. I feel like they were conscientious of that exact problem when designing it. This card honestly strikes me as a Chromatic Orrery-light for mono-colored decks.

wallisface on

2 years ago

Some thoughts:

  • cards that only gain life are very weak/useless in magic. Lifegain is already one of the absolute weakest strategies, so including cards that only gain life us normally a bad idea. In that vein, i’d suggest ditching Diamond Mare (there’s a million better creatures to run instead) as well as Radiant Fountain (your deck requires a lot of blue-pips, and you’re better off running all-islands for Tempest Djinn).

  • Divination is going to trip you up because its sorcery speed means you won’t have the mana available to interact with your opponent during their turn. Think Twice would be better, or really just anything at instant-speed.

  • Mana Leak will serve you better those clumsy 3-mana counterspells

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