Emry, Lurker of the Loch

Legendary Creature — Merfolk Wizard

This spell casts less to cast for each artifact you control.

When this enters the battlefield, mill four cards. (Put the top four cards of your library into your graveyard.)

: Choose target artifact card in your graveyard. You may cast that card this turn. (You still pay its costs. Timing rules still apply.)

Discussion (48)

amicdeep on The Curse of Erayo

3 weeks ago

the problem i can foresee with this list is your not flipping eryo until turn 4 at earliest and that's to slow for modern. the deck needs some mana neutral cantrips of some powerfully and cheap recastable spells

cards the come to mind are Manamorphose,

Mishra's Bauble, Tormod's Crypt with Repeal,

Finale of Promise. with cantrips

Memnite Ornithopter + Hurkyl's Recall Retract with Emry, Lurker of the Loch

even Faerie Impostor, Greenbelt Rampager, Glint Hawk would all help

Necrosis24 on Commanders You Defend?

1 month ago

I don't run Mairsil, the Pretender but I feel like we get a handful of cards with activated abilities that are worth using assuming we aren't going for peak efficiency and casual fun.

From DnD alone I would consider these depending on how I built the deck:

• Inferno of the Star Mounts
• The Book of Vile Darkness (Not sure about the rulings on this but I think it works)
• Wizard's Spellbook
• The Deck of Many Things
• Treasure Chest

Some other sets:

• Emry, Lurker of the Loch
• The Cauldron of Eternity
• Kaza, Roil Chaser
• Lithoform Engine
• Rootha, Mercurial Artist (Actually think this has good synergy to recast for the triggered ability)

But also just because a commander doesn't get new cards worth putting in doesn't mean it can't be fun. There are tons of fringe commanders that are fun building just because they lack support.

Rodnilax on Memnarch EDH (Highly Competitive)

1 month ago

I would also like to see an update. Maybe Liquimetal Torque or Emry, Lurker of the Loch

Magic_Aids on INSANE!▷ Slag Fiend ◁【AFFINITY!】 NEW! from【AFR!】

2 months ago

zozozo

Thanks for being a dummy thicc fan! Grafdigger's Cage is in a lot if affinity builds, but sadly, it doesn't work well with Emry, Lurker of the Loch

battleooze on U/B Urza's Thopter sword combo

4 months ago

I have Considered Dispatch and its a good choice for the deck I think I prefer Path as It's safer to cast early game when you might not have metalcraft

Whir of Invention is a very good card which would normally be in the deck along with a copy of Ensnaring Bridge but having 8 lands that don't produce blue mana for non artefact spells can make this hard to cast in a timely fashion

Nihil Spellbomb and Tormod's Crypt is just personal preference if you prefer the card draw play the bomb if you prefer cheap recursion with Emry, Lurker of the Loch play crypt

Brainstone is great for the deck some other good cards would be Expedition Map Welding Jar Navigator's Compass And Shadowspear (which has actually made the deck just need to update the list). Due to the how large the toolbox is for Urza's Saga you should look to change piece's of the deck to adjust to the current metagame

multimedia on Upgraded Breya

4 months ago

Hey, nice budget upgrade so far of the precons.

It looks like you've mixed the Osgir precon with the Breya precon which is interesting. Osgir kind of has some negative synergy with Breya or Silas as Commander because Osgir's best ability is to exile an artifact from your graveyard. With Breya and Silas you want to take advantage of being able to reanimate/recur artifacts meaning you don't want to exile them from your graveyard. Akiri has nice interaction with Osgir because he makes token copies of artifacts that make Akiri bigger. In saying this if you want to better utilize Osgir then play Akiri/Silas as Commanders.

Osgir's exile ability is powerful, but it doesn't go with Breya therefore in my opinion Osgir is out of place. I play budget Breya and not Akiri/Silas thus I may have some bias, but these Commanders seem very different in gameplay. With Akiri/Silas attacking seems important, using Commander damage as a source of winning and value. Breya is less about attacking with her and more about using her ability sacing artifacts for modes for value to control the game. Breya's best strength as Commander is being a win condition combo piece with the two Thopters she creates.

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With Breya as Commander I would play Silas in the 99 because he's an artifact, but not Akiri. With Akiri/Silas I would play Breya in the 99 because she's an artifact who's three artifacts for four mana. Akiri/Silas want evasion to be able to do as much combat Commander damage therefore I would include more budget artifacts to give them evasion:

• Zephyr Boots
• Trailblazer's Boots
• Key to the City

You don't really want these with Breya instead budget combo pieces:

• Grand Architect + Pili-Pala
• Sword of the Meek + Thopter Foundry

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All these Commander choices are better with less creatures and more artifacts. Lots of creatures is not what you want unless they're artifact creatures because all these Commanders abilities are only good with artifacts. 40 creatures is a lot of creatures for any Commander deck that's not tribal like Elves. Consider cutting creatures for more artifacts?

There are some exceptions here for nonartifact creatures:

• Hellkite Tyrant : can be a win condition.
• Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain : powerful repeatable draw with more artifacts.
• Chief Engineer : with more artifacts ramp for artifacts.
• Digsite Engineer : repeatable source of creating artifacts.
• Emry, Lurker of the Loch : repeatable cast artifacts from your graveyard.
• Padeem, Consul of Innovation : protect artifacts and can be repeatable draw.

Whirler Rogue seems very good with Akiri/Silas to make either or both unblockable, but is subpar with Breya. You could cut all the others that I didn't name for artifacts or other cards.

Some cards to consider cutting to get to 99:

• Jor Kadeen, the Prevailer
• Hellkite Igniter
• Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge
• Losheel, Clockwork Scholar
• Sydri, Galvanic Genius
• Thopter Engineer
• Alibou, Ancient Witness
• Sun Titan
• Osgir, the Reconstructor if Breya is Commander.
• Akiri, Line-Slinger if Breya is Commander.
• Whirler Rogue if Breya is Commander.

I offer more advice. Would you like more advice? Good luck with deck.

macedragon3737 on Emry's Pool Party v0.9

4 months ago

This is a casual EDH deck featuring Emry, Lurker of the Loch as the commander.

This deck has good synergy but is lighter on direct destruction.

Feel free to take this deck and remove cards you don't like for potentially more interactive cards.

Add destruction, counterspells, and other removal as you see fit, but it's best that the deck start this way so that you can determine what it does, and then can start replacing cards appropriately.

wallisface on Thopter Sword whir

6 months ago

Some thoughts:

• Mana Drain is not modern legal, so you shouldn't be running that :)

• I would personally drop the large cmc cards, as modern is quite a fast format and they won't get a chance to see play a lot of the time - also they appear to be sucking up a lot of places in your deck by requiring you to run mana rocks. I'd ditch Darksteel Forge , Doubling Cube , Manalith , Vedalken Orrery , Mastermind's Acquisition and Master Transmuter here, as all of them are either too slow, or not doing enough (or both). You want to plan to have won the game on turn 5 or sooner (in a goldfish situation), and none of these cards help to make that dream consistent.

• I feel like Mirrormade is probably also not strong enough, as i'm not sure what you'd target with that that'd be worthwhile?

• As you're in blue and black, I would highly recommend some early game disruption to make sure that your pieces get to stay in play happily. Stuff like Thoughtseize and Inquisition of Kozilek would do wonders here.

• As far as strengthening your ability to grab cards and solidify your board, stuff like Whir of Invention and Emry, Lurker of the Loch both help you get everything going a lot faster. They also let you run more of a toolboxy build where you can run a bunch of 1-ofs in the deck and fish them up for any given situation (i'm thinking single copies of Ensnaring Bridge , Relic of Progenitus , Welding Jar ), as well as being able to recur stuff like a playset of Mishra's Bauble for constant gain with Emry.

• I think given the above suggestions, there is really strong odds that you can win faster without Time Sieve than with it (by just swinging with a bunch of thopters). Maybe drop down to a single copy of that card also, so you can toolbox for it in the rare times where it provides a faster clock.