Fetid Pools

Land — Island Swamp

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Fetid Pools enters the battlefield tapped.

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Discussion (51)

xaarvaxus on Muldrotha Rats Commander

2 weeks ago

If you have access to Disallow, I would definitely sub it in for Dismiss, stifling triggers will come in very handy in a lot of cases.

While your commander can recycle lands, without enough outlets to get them into your graveyard, ones like Dismal Backwater are pretty subpar. Fetid Pools is probably a better dual for Muldrotha and Bad River could go fetch it if needed and be a target itself to recur.

Seal of Primordium is more removal on a stick that is a different card type to be recurred each turn so you could conceivably fire off Caterpillar and Seal each turn and really keep the field clear of opposing artifacts and enchantments.

Some more lands that can recur for effect may be good too; Blast Zone, Ghost Quarter or Glacial Chasm could provide extra value.

multimedia on Zombie Deck 1.1

3 weeks ago

Hey, nice start, welcome to Commander and TappedOut :)

You can't play 2x Plague Wight in a Commander deck. Can only play 1x of every card except basic lands. The Scarab God is a powerful card as Commander General and at $30 it's not a budget card so it's great that you have it to make your first deck with.

Commander's Quarters has good overall ideas for decks, but best to not use the manabases they provide as good examples of manabases. Quarters makes budget decks, but it's deceiving because the manabases that they use are terrible since they don't allocate any of the budget for lands. Manabases are an afterthought in decks Quarters makes which is not good when the majority of people that view their content are new players who need guidance in how to best play Commander on a budget. Manabases are just as important in Commander then what creatures or other spells you play because you can't cast those cards if you don't have the right mana.

29x basic lands is fine for a one color deck, but when you're playing a second color you need more dual lands that make both colors that way you don't get color screwed having only one color of lands, but cards in your hand are the other color. As you play more Commander you will see that the majority of expense of a deck comes from the manabase because good lands in Magic are damn expensive. Most lands are expensive price, but there's still budget lands that are good such as Command Tower which is $1 and is one of the best, if not the best land, for multicolored decks in Commander.

Lands to consider adding:

• Command Tower
• Sunken Hollow
• Fetid Pools
• Tainted Isle
• Choked Estuary
• Darkwater Catacombs
• Esper Panorama
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• Dimir Aqueduct
• Temple of Deceit
• Evolving Wilds

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Other budget cards to consider adding (ordered by importance/price lowest ($1 or less) to highest ($3)):

• Diregraf Captain
• Lord of the Accursed
• Undead Augur
• Dreadhorde Invasion
• Mausoleum Secrets
• Carrion Feeder
• Dark Ritual
• Countersquall
• Wonder
• Gleaming Overseer
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• Rooftop Storm
• Dimir Signet
• Death Baron
• Cemetery Reaper
• Midnight Reaper
• Graveborn Muse
• Negate
• Dread Wanderer
• Buried Alive
• Fleshbag Marauder
• Ransack the Lab
• Final Parting
• Defile
• Mutilate

Other than Scarab God you only need a few budget blue Zombies and a few other budget blue cards, you don't need very much blue because the majority of Zombies are all black. Budget blue Zombies that are worth including are Diregraf Captain and Gleaming Overseer, that's it. Other budget blue cards that are worth including are Rooftop Storm, Countersquall, Negate and Wonder.

Because of the land situation not being ideal then consider cutting all cards with double blue mana costs? Cards with single blue and double black are fine, but double blue is too difficult to make with so many Swamps. Cards such as Pondering Mage, Curse of the Swine, Didn't Say Please could be cut.

Lords help to make your Zombies bigger by increasing their power/toughness (anthem) or giving them all other abilities. The four budget Lords (Captain, Accursed, Baron and Cemetery) are a good place to start to make upgrades. Captain and Lord are each $1 or less making them excellent first upgrades on a budget. Captain, Undead and Midnight are Zombies who give you value when your Zombies die and your Zombies are going to die especially from board wipes.

Buried, Ransack and Parting help to put creatures into your graveyard to use Scarab's activated ability with. Buried and Parting can tutor for and put Wonder into your graveyard which can be a win condition with Zombies giving them all flying. Parting can do both for Wonder, putting it into your graveyard and tutoring for an Island if you need it to activate it.

I offer more advice. Good luck with your deck.

nascentbodhi on Yuriko... because who needs friends anyway?

1 month ago

Since $500 isn't reasonable for everyone, I thought it may be good to include some substitutions to allow a lower budget. See below for a few changes to consider that will decrease the cost while maintaining the basic strategy the deck. Please note that prices are current and will likely change.

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Creatures:

Remove: (~$57.00) Brazen Borrower , Sakashima the Impostor

Substitute: (~$0.34) Universal Automaton , Wingcrafter

Lands:

Remove: (~$110.00) Drowned Catacomb , Morphic Pool , Mutavault , Polluted Delta , Shizo, Death's Storehouse , Watery Grave

Substitute: (~$5.50) Ash Barrens , Dismal Backwater , Exotic Orchard , Fetid Pools , Mystic Sanctuary , Rogue's Passage , Salt Marsh

Enchantments:

Remove: (~$38.25) Bitterblossom

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These changes will reduce the cost by $200... for deeper cuts, things to look at would be:

Remove: (~$85.00) Lotus Petal , Mox Amber and Scroll Rack

Substitute: (~$14.00) Arcane Signet , Dimir Signet , Ponder

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Cost with all changes: $230

ThePerilousRealm on Sen Triplets

1 month ago

Update

OUT

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth , Irrigated Farmland , Prairie Stream , Fetid Pools , Sunken Hollow , Shimmer Myr , Chief of the Foundry , & Master Transmuter

IN

Meteor Crater , Sunken Ruins , Fetid Heath Mystic Gate , Champion's Helm , Talisman of Hierarchy , Talisman of Progress , & Talisman of Dominance

droslag on Cycle deck mtg

2 months ago

there are cycling lands too Barren Moor Lonely Sandbar Fetid Pools

also good cards to consider

Ancient Excavation Choking Tethers Countervailing Winds Decree of Pain Expunge Fade from Memory

ManaEhMano on “Were it so easy...”

3 months ago

-1 Fetid Pools and -1 Irrigated Farmland for +2 Field of Ruin to deal with Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx and devotion strategies. Looks good otherwise

lagotripha on Budget Vengecrab

4 months ago

Needs more Shriekhorn . Land wise, you can still do a lot- I'm not talking hedron and fetches, I'm talking River of Tears Sunken Hollow Drowned Catacomb Fetid Pools Shelldock Isle Temple of Deceit , and Ipnu Rivulet / Scavenger Grounds .

cptcampo on Valar Morghulis

4 months ago

Hey dude, looking great so far. However, I think there should be a bit more card draw, and since you are self milling, getting the land drops you need could make your mid to late game difficult. Here are some suggestions:

Phyrexian Arena - this is a great engine for card draw (2 cards every turn is huge) Esper Charm - Great versatility, card draw when needed. Diabolic Intent - Great tutor for your deck that fits theme and can sac small zombies. Phyrexian Altar - Works well with the effects of other zombie triggers and creates mana fixing/ramp when needed Crucible of Worlds - This is a great card as you can tutor it, cheap cost, and play ALL discarded/milled lands from your graveyard. Graf Harvest - One drop that gives all zombies menace and creation of zombies mid game. Crypt of Agadeem -This land is super OP in your deck as most creatures you have are black. Terramorphic Expanse - land tutors are good for 3 colors IMO. Fetid Pools - card draw through cycling and mana base. Dark Salvation - awesome effect and single target creature removal as well.