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Environmental Sciences
Sorcery — Lesson
Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library. You gain 2 life.
Profet93 on
Cosmic Horror
1 year ago
You could potentially swap out Arch of Orazca, Environmental Sciences and Doubling Cube for the urza lands and potentially an Expedition Map. Arch costs a lot. Environmental just gives you a basic land and some life, which isn't that great. Doubling cube is winmore, although helpful if you have 7+ mana.
I love the urza lands. You do have a land that can tutor for another land. Adding expedition map as well can help increase your chances. The question is, how much do you use the utility in the above mentioned (or other cards/lands)?
TheBestMagicCard on
Emrakul, the Promised End
1 year ago
I took out Traveler's Amulet, and Wanderer's Twig, even though I LOVE these cards in this deck (see reasons above)...
Kept in Expedition Map, and Environmental Sciences (same reasons as see above)...
Expedition map searches for any land, which is super utility in this deck, and it's a colorless tutor, even if it is conditional... It also supports Manascape Refractor, which I'm hyped on, and trying out...
Environmental sciences is the same idea as the Amulet and Twig and Map (see above), it helps you have a land drop, but it's also 1 of only 7 sorceries as of now, which count towards casting Emrakul, the Promised End when in the graveyard...
TheBestMagicCard on
Emrakul, the Promised End
2 years ago
There are other colorless instants and sorceries, which I haven't included here, because I think they're even worse than Environmental Sciences, which says something about those cards!
Are there better colorless instants or sorceries I should include over Environmental Sciences?
TheBestMagicCard on
Emrakul, the Promised End
2 years ago
Hehe, I just took out Wanderer's Twig, and Traveler's Amulet, for a sec, I think to try and fit in both Abstruse Archaic and Lithoform Engine, since Roaming Throne doesn't work like I first thought it did, but I got excited to copy abilities...
I was also able to fit Wayfarer's Bauble back in, which I think is ultimately better then the Twig and Amulet, but still isn't really that great, but same arguments to include it as the Twig and Amulet...
Yeah, um Environmental Sciences is a p BAD card, and I would probably never play it any other deck... but it happens to be a colorless Sorcery, which is kind of rare, so it's actually a hard-to-get-discount on Emrakul's casting cost... and it's cheap, and it gets a land... It's not a good card, but in this deck it kinda does a lot... Sojourner's Companion is similar to Environmental Sciences, in that it cost 2 to get a land into hand, and is also a p BAD card... But it can count as two card types in the graveyard for Emrakrul, and even though I think it will be done sparingly in the future, there will be better artifact lands that have yet to be printed...
I'm really trying to milk Emrakul's cost reduction in this deck, because I'm trying to ramp it out as soon as possible... I've won on turn 3 several times by casting Emy, because I had the ramp AND card types in the grave, to totally control the game state, mess everyones else up, and then just smash face... Getting infinite mana helps too... But yeah, the sooner you have the option to casy Emy the better, so that's why I'm still running bad colorless instants and sorceries...
I guess until there are more better colorless instants, sorceries, and tutors, I think I'm still going to run these jank cards, because they're still as good as it gets for now... But it does work! I rip face with this deck at the mall...
But heard! Thanks for the consideration and input!
Andramalech on
The Iron Giant (Retired)
2 years ago
Profet93 for each response!
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Expedition Map was already in the list and likely to return.
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Howling Mine will stay out of the list, it was just a colorless draw I could remember.
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The Kozilek suggestions are bomb dot com and I hadn't used them in favor of more artifact-specific body presence. However, pretending to be blue is a great comparison and both of those variants have a spot here.
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Land Fetching is great and all, and surprisingly Field of the Dead... might be useful. I mean you're right on the regard of Myriad Landscape and it's intention, but Environmental Sciences had a spot in the list. I think maybe I just need to trim the list.. somehow.
Feedback was super helpful and I think I'll need to shed some flavor from the list in favor of more function. Thanks again!
ArmchairRuler on What are the timing restrictions …
2 years ago
The specific interaction I am unsure about is between Narset, Enlightened Exile and Epistolary Librarian. If I attack with both, am I able to cast a spell (Ex: Environmental Sciences) for free with Epistolary Librarian, allow it to resolve, go to the graveyard, and then retarget that same spell in the graveyard with Narset, Enlightened Exile in the same attack step? I know I can layer the triggers however I choose, but I don't know when the spell technically resolves and goes to the graveyard.
Dylls on
Here, Hold This.
3 years ago
What about potentially cutting the Reassembling Skeletons and the Steel Wall for a playset of Eyetwitchs and some cards like Necrotic Fumes and Environmental Sciences in the sideboard?
TheoryCrafter on
Balan Voltron
4 years ago
For ramp, have you considered any combination of Ambitious Farmhand Flip, Environmental Sciences, Kor Cartographer and The Birth of Meletis if you need a way to to get lands onto the battlefield faster there's also Walking Atlas
Puresteel Paladin is also an option for you. Not only can you get some extra card draw, but once you have 3 artifacts on the battlefield, equipping Balan will be free. Though Maul of the Skyclaves can enter the battlefield equipped to a creature.
If you have cash to spare, don't forget Shadowspear.
Also, since you have a lot of artifacts, Have you considered Inspiring Statuary, Introduction to Annihilation and Scour from Existence as a means to protect yourself from the Karn, the Great Creator/Mycosynth Lattice Combo? If nothing else, Inspiring Statuary will at least help make your nonartifact spells cost less.
Other artifact lands to put in your deck are Ancient Den and Treasure Vault
Thank you for reading me out. I hope this helps. Happy Hunting!
