Fastbond

Enchantment

You may play any number of lands on each of your turns.

Whenever you play a land, if it wasn't the first land you played this turn, Fastbond deals 1 damage to you.

Combos

• Fastbond + Lifegift + Ramunap Excavator

Legality

Format	Legality
Archenemy	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Oldschool 93/94	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (50)

legendofa on Cast And You Shall Reap

1 month ago

As I understand the Commander banlist (and as a very casual Commander player), it's kind of the "default" rule 0 discussion, intended for people who may not play with the same groups regularly. Personally, I'd rather have a default banlist and play a match than spend an hour debating whether or not Fastbond is fair in a deck that's "about a 7" whenever someone new shows up.

Once you have a dedicated and reliable group, it's perfectly acceptable to make your own banlist. If your group's okay with a proxied Ancestral Recall into Erayo's Essence  ^Flip + Arcane Laboratory lock in an otherwise mid-power deck, go for it! Your group, your rules. But two groups' definition of what's reasonable and fair can be completely different (which means a whole new rule 0 discussion from scratch), there has to be some level of compatibility between groups (otherwise it's not a meaningful format), and organized Commander tournament settings shouldn't be purely pay-to-win. The ban list is there to give a little bit of standardization for a format that's notoriously hard to standardize.

Andramalech on Shifty Crabs!

1 year ago

lhetrick13 you make a good point. Scythe Leopard and Kazandu Mammoth  ^Flip struck a cord with me for the same reason, but that ended up with me building in Vintage (I'll tag the slug below) so I could include Fastbond and Manabond. I also really like how Dryad Arbor functions for a build like this.

The Vintage one: UG Crabs

Squee_Spirit_Guide on Shifty Crabs!

1 year ago

IXALAN_Crazy, I want to keep the deck modern legal, but it I were stretching to legacy I'd definitely run Exploration, and Fastbond as well for vintage. They would be great with this strategy!

CommanderNeyo, I've been hesitant to up the fetch count because the damage piles up and the deck can't defend itself very well (or at all), but I think you're right that the fetch count needs to be higher. I think I'll bump up to a playset of each and see what that looks like. The increased speed might offset the additional damage.

Squee_Spirit_Guide on UG Crabs

1 year ago

Hey Andramalech! This looks like a fun build! I think it could be a little stronger if you dropped some of the traditional mill cards like Fractured Sanity and Fraying Sanity to power up and protect the crabs a bit more.

I think adding in Fastbond and/or Exploration would be really helpful for the extra lands at a low mana cost. Since you can only play 1 Fastbond you won't get it all the time, but I feel like it would be crazy if you land it (especially with Crucible of Worlds).

I'd definitely run some more of the traditional blue vintage cards as well like Brainstorm, Mental Misstep, Gitaxian Probe, and (budget allowing) Force of Will.

You mentioned Back to Basics in your write-up and I think that's a great inclusion. I like that you added Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath as well, I can see that really helping out, especially if the game goes long!

IHATENAMES on Elesh Norn's Anthems & Taxes

2 years ago

Urza's Saga can grab 0 or 1 cmc cards so no esper sentinel. However it is versatile. I don't mainly because I don't have a copy and I don't think it adds enough unless I want the karnstucts

Grave hate Soul-Guide Lantern and there are other great options here.

Ramp Sol Ring the suspend sol ring Mana Crypt your power9 artifact ramp

Equipment/utility niche maybe maybe not like Shadowspear for alot of good effects

baubles/spellbomb for 1 off card draw and a maybe useful effect

Retrofitter Foundry token generation

Recursion Codex Shredder underrated gem

I'm sure there are some combos with it for example copying the ability and tutoring something or getting a combo piece that fits with it like Zuran Orb for Fastbond and Crucible of Worlds can grab Grind Stone for Painter's Servant combo

Bad parts Can't get artifact lands too sadly but still can be worth it. And nothing that is 1 color or no 0 in the mana cost part of the card. Hope this helps.

trippy_mcfly on

2 years ago

I don't think Fastbond is very good in this deck. It has 20 lands and only 9 green sources excluding Black Lotus. The only support you have for it is 1 Life from the Loam and 2 Wrenn and Six. I think if you want to go this angle, you need to lean into it more. Just my opinion though; I'm not very well-versed in vintage.

Starsky2814 on Omnath, A Song of Creation and Chaos

2 years ago

unwucht, I wish I could add Fastbond for sure.

Koeketroef, I personally enjoy cloning different creatures in the deck. Mainly I clone the commander, but I’ve cloned other things depending on the situation. I usually have fun enough shenanigans with the clones. I had Moraug, Fury of Akoum in the deck, I just cut it on my last update for Maelstrom Wanderer because I wanted to test out having a haste enabler on a body. Though there are cheaper options, I like the value I get from the cascade, cascade.

unwucht on Omnath, A Song of Creation and Chaos

2 years ago

Uhm... seems like no discussion is necessary. Fastbond is only legal in Vintage...