Flagstones of Trokair

Legendary Land

: Gain .

When Flagstones of Trokair is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may search your library for a Plains card and put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.

Discussion (51)

morgud on Elusive Mono-White

1 week ago

Not sure I understand "doesn't give mana ramp" since Winds of Abandon says "its controller searches their library for a basic land card". Flagstones of Trokair does thin the deck and is a good suggestion but personally I'd rather have an untapped plains because I find I often need 4 mana with a scepter out. Thanks for the suggestions, though!

Andromedus on Elusive Mono-White

1 week ago

Fair enough. I didn't realize you were playing with a sideboard. I personally find "destroy" boardwipes to be too unreliably (indestructibility is so common) and Winds of Abandon is rarely a dead draw if you need to use it early (doesn't give mana ramp so at 2 cmc it's not strictly worse than Path). By the time you sideboard it in you've likely lost game 1. But it does all come down to preference and play-style.

You might also consider subbing 4x Plains with 4x Flagstones of Trokair. 75% of your deck is 2 cmc or less and your highest cmc is 3. Drawing multiple Flagstones allows you to search out plains (due to the legends rule) and deck-thin for free to help avoid dead land draws later (in addition to being land destruction insurance).

epartica on Angels Brought The Apocalypse

1 month ago

Amun: The point of Darksteel Citadel , Flagstones of Trokair , and Cascading Cataracts is because I run Armageddon . Having Crucible of Worlds would be really good for this deck but I don't have anything that can search for it expect Enlightened Tutor . So the odds of getting those cards and then Armageddon is to much chance so I'd rather just chance it with lands, besides card like Land Tax , Luminarch Ascension , and Smothering Tithe can still work really well with no lands.

If this deck gets ahead I can easily go over 7 cards with Well of Lost Dreams , Mind's Eye , The Immortal Sun , and Alhammarret's Archive so Reliquary Tower can help. However, if you have any land suggestions to swap those out please let me know!

Thanks again for checking out my deck!

Amun on Angels Brought The Apocalypse

1 month ago

I appreciate your input; in reviewing your, I am not understanding your land choices. Darksteel Citadel , Flagstones of Trokair and Reliquary Tower . You must play against people that target your lands. There is not enough draw power for the tower to even have a place.

Magnanimous on What Are Some Of Your ...

1 month ago

In rough order of how much I like them:

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth and Spreading Algae

Flagstones of Trokair and any sacrifice effect, like Smallpox , Elvish Reclaimer , and Crop Rotation .

In a similar vein, Brought Back and evoke spells like Shriekmaw and Mulldrifter .

Sundial of the Infinite + Glorious End or Pact of Negation effects. The Sundial can end the turn and counter the ability that would make you lose the game.

I recently saw a deck based around Haunted Dead that played Prized Amalgam + other graveyard shenanigans, Fiery Temper , and Elder Deep-Fiend in Pioneer, so that was pretty cool and synergistic although not a standard two card combo.

Young Pyromancer / Monastery Mentor / Goblinslide + Blood Funnel .

hungry000 on Making White great again

2 months ago

If you want to take inspiration from existing decks, the best purely mono w deck in modern is Martyr Proc ( Martyr of Sands + Proclamation of Rebirth + Squad Hawk). Another decent white deck to look at is Death & Taxes, especially since they unbanned Stoneforge Mystic and printed Giver of Runes .

Looking at that list of cards, a Martyr Soul Sisters deck comes to mind. You would use the token makers in conjunction with the soul sisters to gain life, then grind them out with Sky Hussar. This idea does not seem to be very competitive, but it would use a bunch of those cards.

If I had to try and build a decent mono white deck that wasn't just a copy/paste, I'd make one with the Celestial Kirin and Ugin's Conjurant combo and back it up with some D&T cards like Giver of Runes . Incidentally, a deck like that would like Flagstones of Trokair very much.

Funkydiscogod on Making White great again

2 months ago

Obviously, not all of those belong in the same deck.

Restore Balance and Generous Gift are probably most useful in a deck full of cascade spells and borderposts .

Flagstones of Trokair and Porphyry Nodes are often used in Enduring Ideal prison decks: Flagstones tutors out Mistveil Plains to put Nodes on the bottom of the library to be found again.

Sky Hussar is best friends with Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker and could be a win condition of America control, or as a stepping stone for Prime Speaker Vannifar .

You can make white tokens using Legion's Landing  ^Flip and Recruit the Worthy with Intangible Virtue and other anthem effects.

You can make flying tribal with Squadron Hawk and Battle Screech with Sephara, Sky's Blade and other flying support cards.

Magnanimous on Making White great again

2 months ago

So white is a pretty under-powered color in both modern and pioneer and I want to build a deck focusing on white cards for either of those formats, likely modern, and would like card and/or strategy suggestions.

Here's a list of cards I'm thinking about to get started, I just really don't know how to fit them together: Porphyry Nodes , Flagstones of Trokair , Recruit the Worthy , Sky Hussar , Squadron Hawk , Battle Screech , Legion's Landing  ^Flip, Gift of Estates , Restore Balance , Generous Gift

Edit: I know the meta decks for white (D&T, Soul Sisters, Martyr Proc) and want to find a new W or Wx deck that uses weird mechanics and synergies specific to white in a semi-competitive way.

I feel like I should mention that I was working on a deck with Porphyry Nodes , Generous Gift , Flagstones of Trokair , Greater Gargadon , Restore Balance , and Electrodominance before I posted this.