Farseek

Sorcery

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.

Discussion (48)

Lord_Grimm on Big Stompy

1 day ago

Cultivate, Wilderness Reclamation, Augur of Autumn, Beast Whisperer, Destiny Spinner, Reclamation Sage, Beast Within, Return of the Wildspeaker, Heroic Intervention, Acidic Slime, Bane of Progress, Allosaurus Shepherd, Toski, Bearer of Secrets, Vigor, Kodama of the East Tree, Ohran Frostfang, Harrow, Rampant Growth, Nature's Lore, Three Visits, Search for Tomorrow, Farseek, Thunderfoot Baloth, Saryth, the Viper's Fang, Sakura-Tribe Elder, Wood Elves, Farhaven Elf, Force of Vigor, Wrap in Vigor

DawnsRayofLight on Rin and Seri, Unstoppable

6 days ago

Drops

Wheel of Fortune too expensive and doesn't need to be in every deck with red

adds

Lion Sash

needs a bit more ramp, would consider Farseek and Three Visits, maybe Cultivate and Kodama's Reach

I honestly might thing of going in a more tokens heavy direction rather than trying a cat, dog tribal. I have seen some crazy synergies with either Jetmir or Jinnie Fae as general and things like Academy Manufacturer, the enchantment that can turn them into angel tokens, Rabble Rousing, Grand Crescendo, and the like. It opens you up to running better tokens producing cards to overrun your opponents, also letting Triumph of the Hordes being a win con.

VileMaster47 on Shrines

1 week ago

Some alternatives, if you're interested:

Mana ramp: Dryad of the Ilysian Grove , Farseek , Herald of the Pantheon , Starfield Mystic , Jukai Naturalist , Sanctum Weaver

Card draw: Setessan Champion , Satyr Enchanter , Mesa Enchantress , Verduran Enchantress , Sythis, Harvest's Hand , Enchantress's Presence

Other enchant synergy: Destiny Spinner , Doomwake Giant , Weaver of Harmony

Best,

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Guerric on When using Nature's Lore and …

2 weeks ago

That's the beauty of those cards specifically, and one reason why they cost a bit more in real world $ than Farseek and Rampant Growth. Not only is it two mana, but like a mana rock that enters untapped you get another to spend that turn. Less known but also good is Skyshroud Claim. It costs four, but as long as you tutor forests they are both untapped, making if functionally a 2cmc spell the turn you cast it.

theinvincible333 on Niv value

1 month ago

• {GW} Aura Shards + Mirari's Wake + Faeburrow Elder + Knight of Autumn + Knight of New Alara Eladamri's Call + Wildfield Borderpost
• {RG} Bard Class + Cindervines + Huntmaster of the Fells  ^Flip + Klothys, God of Destiny + Radha, Heart of Keld + Xenagos, God of Revels + Decimate + Dire-Strain Rampage + Escape to the Wilds + Hull Breach + Firewild Borderpost
• {BG} Binding the Old Gods + Leyline Prowler + Windgrace's Judgment + Vraska, Golgari Queen + Culling Ritual + Maelstrom Pulse
• {BR} Hidetsugu Consumes All  ^Flip + Kardur, Doomscourge + Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger + Olivia, Crimson Bride + Orcus, Prince of Undeath + Kolaghan's Command + Rakdos Charm + Dreadbore + Veinfire Borderpost
• {UB} Baleful Strix + Hostage Taker + Mistvein Borderpost
• {GU} Coiling Oracle + Rootcoil Creeper + Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath + Growth Spiral + Tamiyo, Collector of Tales + Bring to Light + Croaking Counterpart
• {WU} Elite Guardmage + Niambi, Esteemed Speaker + Soulherder + Faithful Mending + Fieldmist Borderpost
• {RW} General Ferrous Rokiric + Aurelia's Fury + Wear / Tear + Deafening Clarion + Solar Blaze
• {UR} Izzet Staticaster + Prismari Command + Expressive Iteration
• {WB} Despark + Fracture + Inkshield + Kaya's Guile + Merciless Eviction
• {C} Fires of Invention + Ignoble Hierarch + Sylvan Caryatid + Blasphemous Act + Demonic Tutor + Farseek + Arcane Signet + Chromatic Lantern + Coalition Relic + Commander's Sphere + Panharmonicon + Tome of the Guildpact + Urza's Filter

LunchBox1211 on dragon tribal is glorious

1 month ago

Some more cards to consider (as per your request): Old Gnawbone. Read the card. That's a lot of treasure when all your creatures have a ton of power. | Karrthus, Tyrant of Jund. Gives your dragons haste, untaps them, and (in the odd case you are playing a Dragon ditto), steals your opponent's dragons. Forever. | Dragon's Hoard, if you want another mana rock that works well with dragons. I also like Component Pouch, especially in a deck where your commander in all 5 colours, but that's mostly just me. | Rishkar's Expertise. Refill your hand, cast something for free. Genesis Ultimatum allows you to cheat in more stuff, but doesn't allow you to refill your hand, and it costs more to cast. | Farseek, especially if you decide to run the Tri-cycle lands (which I recommend). I'm going to avoid talking about lands, but cards like Spara's Headquarters and Raugrin Triome are really nice, especially for 5-colour decks. And, yes, Farseek can find Spara's Headquarters. Headquarters is both a plains, and an island. Rampant Growth and Nature's Lore can also fill this "2-mana sorcery that ramps" slot, depending on what you can find (if this is paper). Three Visits is just Nature's Lore, but Lore's name communicates the mechanics of the card better. | Swords to Plowshares/Path to Exile. Exile a creature, for 1 mana, at instant speed. I like Swords better for commander because I find that life is less of an advantage than an extra land. Other removal options include - and are not limited to - (and I may have mentioned some of these already, so sorry if I did) Beast Within, Generous Gift, Anguished Unmaking, Assassin's Trophy, Despark, Chaos Warp, Wear / Tear, Hide / Seek, Bedevil, Vindicate, Baleful Mastery, and Vanishing Verse. | Patriarch's Bidding, if you want some mass reanimation. | I didn't see very many board wipes. Granted, you want more pin-point removal than board wipes, but you still might want a few. I'll recommend Farewell (6 mana to get around indestructible, and nuke many different target, AND act as graveyard hate), Merciless Eviction (for planeswalkers), Cleansing Nova (cheaper than Farewll, and probably easier to find, but less flexible), Cyclonic Rift (7 mana to get all of your opponents permanents off the board, and set them back a few turns as they reset), Supreme Verdict (only hits creatures, but uncounterable, and cheap to cast) and/or Vanquish the Horde (for token decks). You do have Ruinous Ultimatum and Descent of the Dragons (or Crux of Fate, if you happen to get it), and I like to run 3-4 total, so choose the ones that most effectively clear the table in your playgroup. Although I have seen and heard some people run as low as 2.

For both the removal and board wipe sections, choose whatever quantities and options are working best at removing the threats you frequently go up against. If you are building this in paper (specially if the deck is sleeved), I'd recommend asking your playgroup if it is OK for you to print out proxy copies of cards for playtesting, then (once you have decided what options you like) buying those cards. Ask your friends first, though, I know not everyone is OK with proxies.

These are all just suggestions to get your mind thinking. You don't have to run all of these, but they are here if you need inspiration or help.

If you want, I can link some of the dragon/tribal decks I've made on tappedout, just as a reference point for what I like.

Guerric on Ramos: Getting Pumped

1 month ago

Hi Calyptic! Have you thought about Evolution Sage or Flux Channeler? They are great at proliferating your +1/+1 counters. I'm also surprised you aren't playing more land based ramp in a 5-color deck. Cultivate, Kodama's Reach, Rampant Growth, Farseek, Nature's Lore, Three Visits, and Skyshroud Claim are great at getting your lands out, and lands are more resilient than rocks with removal. They also happen to be amazing in a deck like this with the above two creatures out. Hadana's Climb  ^Flip is also a nice counters card and while expensive, Doubling Season is another famous one.

LunchBox1211 on dragon tribal is glorious

1 month ago

I would like to say, before I say anything else, that the first few decks people build often have a bunch that could be fixed, so if it seems like I wrote an essay, I'm not trying to be overly critical. My first deck was a mono-white Angel Tribal Lifegain deck that had no real payoff for gaining life. Needless to say, it had a lot that could have been done, and my next deck was one of the Commander Pre-Cons from C18. I'd also like to say that these are just observations.

For cuts, I can see a few. Several of the planeswalkers seem only sort-of related, so you could get away with dropping some of them (like Gideon Blackblade and Ajani Steadfast). I'm not sure why Blackblade Reforged is in. It is great for go tall decks, where you want 1 really big creature (usually made big using equipments and/or auras), but in a go wide deck like this one, I'm not sure if you need it. Plus, dragons are fairly big on their own. | Chaplain's Blessing. I know gaining 5 life might seem good, but I've come to realize that gaining a bunch of life isn't very good without something like Aetherflux Reservoir. And at that point, I think a better option is to build around Aetherflux Reservoir, not dragons. | Not entirely sure what Bag of Holding is doing. | There are a few dragons that don't seem to be doing much, with the way your deck currently is. There doesn't seem to be a lot of instants/sorceries for Backdraft Hellkite get back. There aren't a lot of +1/+1 counter synergies, so Enduring Scalelord isn't doing a ton. There aren't a lot of artifacts, so Hellkite Igniter isn't getting the absurd amount of damage output that I've done with it, myself. It does have haste, but a 5/5 hasty flyer for 7 isn't super great. Unless you can give it deathtouch, most things in commander aren't bothered by Shockmaw Dragon's combat damage trigger. There aren't a lot of 2-colour spells for Niv-Mizzet Reborn to see off the top. | Dictate of Erebos can be brutal, but usually in aristocrat-style decks, where you want your own things to die.

Some other things I've noticed: Crux of Fate is a cheaper Descent of the Dragons that is also one sided. | About the Sarkhan question, I've always thought that Sarkhan the Masterless is kind of funny, and he can act as a deterrent for attacks (or a magnet, depending on board state). | 5 mana counterspells seems nice, but often end up being rather underwhelming, more often than not. | Fight effects (like Clash of Titans) are nice, but in a 5-colour deck, you also have cards like Path to Exile, Bedevil, Anguished Unmaking, Generous Gift, or Chaos Warp, that don't need you to have a big creature, and don't need you to put that creature at risk. | I feel like you could use a bit more ramp. I'd recommend a few of the guild signets from Ravnica, Arcane Signet and Farseek. | The Ur-Dragon was the out-of-the-box Commander for a 5-colour dragon tribal commander deck from C17. Usually he is the head of a dragon tribal deck, but he's still powerful in the 99.

All of this is just my opinion, with my own biases, and I'm still learning a fair bit myself, so take it with a grain of salt. Playtest it, see what works and what doesn't. See what you like, and what you don't. I will admit that I prefer more aggressive play as opposed to a slower, more control heavy style, so that may influence my choices, and I've also been (partially) traumatized by a few planeswalker decks before, so I don't really like them that much (although I do like the concept and design of them).

Lastly, I don't know if you have any pet cards or any cards that you are running because you like them (even if it may be not as good), so if a personal favorite is listed among the cuts, feel free to ignore that. Magic IS about having fun, at the end of the day. And, yes, Dragon Tribal is glorious!