Fortified Village

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As this enters the battlefield, you may reveal a Forest or Plains card from your hand. If you don't, this enters the battlefield tapped.

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Discussion (51)

nathanielhebert on

2 months ago

The efficient land cards are what make this set more expensive, but the sturdy defender deck can afford to slow things down with cheaper mana alternatives. On the plus side, the guild-gates at our disposal look like we're building up more walls, and the scry from the various Temple of Mystery 's helps to put the combo pieces we need into our hands.

A slimmer version:

1x Botanical Sanctum , 3x Temple of Mystery

1x Fortified Village , 3x Temple of Plenty

1x Glacial Fortress , 2x Temple of Enlightenment

1x Hallowed Fountain , 3x Azorius Guildgate

1x Wooded Bastion , 3x Selesnya Guildgate

1x Island 1x Forest

DemMeowsephs on Stray Cat Strut

10 months ago

Now about your mana-base! I would eventually consider adding some of the following lands/ramp cards!

• Windswept Heath
• Temple Garden
• Razorverge Thicket
• Wooded Bastion
• Sunpetal Grove
• Fortified Village
• Canopy Vista
• Brushland
• Horizon Canopy
• Bountiful Promenade
• Sungrass Prairie
• MAYBE City of Brass and Mana Confluence
• Ancient Tomb
• Prismatic Vista
• Strip Mine
• Exotic Orchard
• Reflecting Pool
• Nature's Lore
• Farseek
• Exploration
• Burgeoning
• Selesnya Signet
• Kodama's Reach
• Birds of Paradise
• Sylvan Caryatid
• Emerald Medallion/Pearl Medallion
• Lotus Petal

DemMeowsephs on Flying Tanks

10 months ago

Windswept Heath, Razorverge Thicket, Wooded Bastion, Fortified Village, Brushland, Horizon Canopy, Bountiful Promenade, Sungrass Prairie, and Ancient Tomb would all make fine additions.

multimedia on Kinder Surprise

10 months ago

Hey, interesting version of Atla, that's a lot of creatures.

Consider cutting a few of the least good creatures for more early game ramp?

• Arcane Signet, Fellwar Stone, Wild Growth could replace Gruul Ragebeast, Thromok the Insatiable, Autochthon Wurm

Could also replace a few other big creatures for some enablers.

• Mirror Entity, Imperial Recruiter, Samut, Voice of Dissent could replace God-Eternal Rhonas, Archetype of Endurance, Impervious Greatwurm.

Nature's Lore and Farseek are land ramp spell upgrades for Explosive Vegetation and Cultivate because you have Savannah/Taiga/Garden/Ground and Farseek can get Plateau/Foundry. These two drop land ramp spells can be quicker ramp and they ramp with a dual land.

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I don't think I've ever seen a manabase with Savannah/Taiga/Plateau, but also Guildgates... You could improve the manabase a lot. Some changes to consider:

• City of Brass and Exotic Orchard could replace Arctic Flats and Highland Weald.
• Fire-Lit Thicket, Rugged Prairie, Wooded Bastion could replace the three Guildgates.
• Brushland, Battlefield Forge, Karplusan Forest could replace Blossoming Sands, Graypelt Refuge, Shivan Oasis.
• Windswept Heath, Wooded Foothills could replace Game Trail and Fortified Village.

Good luck with your deck.

DemMeowsephs on Captain Sisay's Legends

11 months ago

Oi there! You might like some of these lands!

• Temple Garden
• Sunpetal Grove
• Fortified Village
• Windswept Heath (Budget: Grasslands)
• Sungrass Prairie
• Bountiful Promenade
• Brushland
• Razorverge Thicket
• Wooded Bastion
• Horizon Canopy
• Ancient Tomb
• Prismatic Vista
• Fabled Passage
• City of Brass
• Mana Confluence
• Reflecting Pool
• Exotic Orchard
• Strip Mine/Wasteland
• Forbidden Orchard
• Gemstone Mine
• Gemstone Caverns

In the end I would consider all of these land choices, they can make the deck run much more smoothly! If this helps, be sure to check out some of my decks, (Double Trouble EDH, A Deal With the Devil EDH) both of which I recently decked out with CSS and huge descriptions! Anyways though, I hope this helps, good luck on your deck, and have a great day! Happy tapping!

DemMeowsephs on Unicorny Power

11 months ago

Ah nice deck! I have a couple of suggestions you might appreciate. The first one revolves around your lands and ramp. Personally, I believe the following should have a spot in your deck.

• Wooded Bastion
• Windswept Heath
• Fortified Village
• Horizon Canopy
• Brushland
• Razorverge Thicket

• Bountiful Promenade

• I also like to run some multi lands, and if you want to try that out too, I would consider the following

• City of Brass

• Exotic Orchard
• Ancient Tomb
• Mana Confluence
• Fabled Passage
• Yavimaya Hollow
• Reflecting Pool
• Prismatic Vista
• Forbidden Orchard
• Gemstone Mine
• Gemstone Caverns
• Wasteland

• Strip Mine

• There is also the concept of ramp! Some ramp I always love to run are

• Birds of Paradise
• Burgeoning
• Exploration
• Nature's Lore
• Lotus Petal
• Oracle of Mul Daya

• Land Tax

• Now usually lands are ramp are my expertise, but I happen to be building an emiel deck as well! Because of that I have some suggestions that you might find interesting. So first off, Brood Monitor goes infinite with emiel! When it enters, you get three eldrazi tokens which you can sacrifice for . You use that three to flicker the brood monitor with emiel, and get another three tokens which you can use to flicker it again. This gives you infinite enter the battlefield triggers. If you have your Soul Warden or something better, this can gain you infinite life. Another thing that can go infinite is if you use Ashnod's Altar. Any creature that creates 2+ tokens, with the Altar, and Emiel gets you infinite as well! If the creature creates three or more tokens when it enters, you also get infinite tokens. The possibilities here are limitless! If you have Aura Shards you destroy all your opponents artifacts and enchantments, if you have something that makes them lose life, or mill, that's also infinite. You can just go crazy and win fast. Some cards that create 2+ are....

• Avenger of Zendikar

• Regal Caracal
• Hornet Queen
• Geist-Honored Monk
• Deep Forest Hermit
• and many others!

Anyway, there are many ways to go infinite with Emiel, and I recommend checking them out if your into that sort of thing. Also do consider the land and ramp options, they could help you out a ton! If this does help you out be sure to check out some of my decks, (Double Trouble EDH), upvote them if you like them, and give me feedback if you want! Anyways, I hope this helps you out, good luck on your deck, (unicorns are amazing!) and have a great day!

9-lives on Felidae Cult

11 months ago

I also don't want Fortified Village as it depends on my land draw. If I don't have enough land cards to have them in my starting hand, something is wrong, but I don't plan on having too many land cards including that card in my hand.

BRG24 on Felidae Cult

11 months ago

If your deck is 68 cards, then I’d say 24 lands is probably how much you want, since we don’t have the biggest curve in the world. At 60 cards, this deck would probably want to have 21 lands, and I then say that 1/3 of all cards over 60 should be lands, to make sure that I keep ratios about right, hence the 24. Maybe consider taking out Animal Sanctuary, the effect is very slow and that impactful in the long run. If you feel you’re running enough cats, then Unclaimed Territory seems quite good, and Fortified Village is my favourite budget dual land.

However, I’d recommend trying to set a limit to how big you want the deck to be, be that 60 cards (as most people will tell you that having more is strictly wrong to do, since having more cards is less optimal), or 65, or just any other number you decide (I tend to use multiples of 5, but it’s up to you). By imposing this limit, it will force you to have a look at the cards you’re adding and make you think whether they are better than what you already have, or whether they do something new that you need. With all the cards you have access to in the format, it is easy to just keep adding cards and then your initial deck idea and game plan gets kinda lost (this is perfectly normal, by the way, it took me ages to work this out, but it really helped when I did).

Hopefully this makes sense.