Genesis

Creature — Incarnation

At the beginning of your upkeep, if Genesis is in your graveyard, you may pay {2}{G}. If you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Big Apple Highlander	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
PreDH	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (44)

KongMing on Shapes in the Fog

1 month ago

A lot of these suggestions are cool, but like capwner said, they might be better in a version of this deck with slightly different themes. For Argothian Elder, the deck is already light on Instants, and doesn't have many many sinks. If it had more, might be worth it, but right now something like Llanowar Tribe is better in all cases except a few synergies that require a manasink to work.

Kamahl, Fist of Krosa is really expensive to get on the field. There might be cheaper manasinks that give +/+ and Trample. Same for Genesis, the deck would really struggle to get it into the grave, and then you're counting on a retrievable instance of fog to make it useful, and still paying 3 mana for it! Another fog or draw power would be better, requires less steps and mana to use.

I don't like the one-sidedness of Glacial ChasmGC unless I'm playing a dedicated control deck. There are so many annoying/useful abilities opponents can use that are triggered by attacking, that won't even care if 0 damage is dealt. Plus, who is going to be dumb enough to attack me and kill their field once they see the setup? I want my opponents to be taking the risk, not closing off any and all attempts. I feel like it's an instance of fog with a nonbo caveat of being unable to attack. It's just hobbling without enough real payoff.

capwner on Shapes in the Fog

1 month ago

Awesome, I don't know if I've ever come up against a tribal fog edh deck actually which is surprising considering how beloved the mechanic is! You might consider adding Argothian Elder which is an alright ramp piece, buuuuttt Argothian + Maze of Ith gives you infinite mana/land untaps inside combat. This is one of my favorite sleeper combos in green since each card is pretty good on its own. Helps if you have something like Kamahl, Fist of Krosa to sink the mana into since you lose it all after combat, but your Lair of the Hydra works pretty well here. The only other thing that comes to mind is Genesis+Spore Frog as a classic fog lock but I get omitting these to focus on the more land-based fogs and the aggro plan, plus Genesis would reaaally want you to jam a bunch of additional discard outlets like SoF. Speaking of land-based fog you know there's Glacial ChasmGC sure it's not as synergistic with Questing Beast's quirk, though I think it's still strong enough and worth an include for redundancy and it is good/basically 1-sided with all your crucible effects (or if excluded bc playgroup/strength reasons that's also legit).

Tippycat on Mimeograph? Xerox?

8 months ago

Thanks again for the help, hyalopterouslemur! You're right - Reliquary Tower is a mistake here. Also totally agree Genesis, Wonder etc. make sense. I didn't know Kami of Whispered Hopes - that's a good one and Living Death - great alternate wincon for sure. Will think of what to cut to include these - maybe focusing more on filling my GY as opposed to opponents. Also, probably need some other protection against GY hate in addition to Stifle and Louisoix's Sacrifice. My playgroup can have significant GY removal.

hyalopterouslemur on Mimeograph? Xerox?

8 months ago

Why are you running Reliquary Tower? Graveyard-based strategies don't want Reliquary Tower; if you have 8 or more cards, dumping a few of them in the graveyard is great.

Okay, that out of the way. Some suggestions for cards you could use:

Life from the Loam and cycling lands. This is a simple loop: Cast LFTL getting a cycling land out of your graveyard, cycle that land, dredge LFTL instead of drawing a card, repeat. Not infinite. (You still need a minimum of 3 mana each run through.) Speaking of dredge, you might want Golgari Grave-Troll.

Kami of Whispered Hopes A mana dork that also acts as a Hardened Scales. Nice.

Brawn, Wonder, and Genesis These you should know. They have abilities in the graveyard which may be useful to you.

Living Death Just...try it. That's all I can say.

Mulch Another one to fill your graveyard.

ToastedBagl on The Necrobloom

2 years ago

I see you too are a man of class!

Things I recommend in this archetype/color combo (since you're dredging!):

Genesis, Unburial Rites, Perennial Behemoth, Reap and Sow, Filth + Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth , Cabal Coffers, Dryad of the Ilysian Grove, Brawn, Field of Ruin and/or Wasteland and/or GhostQuarter, Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar, Riftstone Portal, Wrenn and Seven, Zask, Skittering Swarmlord, Lotus Field

SufferFromEDHD on "Greenbeans"

2 years ago

Pendelhaven efficient pump

The Seedcore efficient pump

Blinkmoth Nexus pump for inkmoth

Deserted Temple you have some good utility

Dust Bowl useful in the late game in a deck full of basic lands

Genesis strong alongside Survival

Squee_Spirit_Guide on Bouncy Frog

4 years ago

Looks like a fun idea! Lifeline or Genesis could be cool to be able to recycle the Spore Frog.

legendofa on Grave Infestation

4 years ago

Welcome to the club, CaptainGuppy! As I see it, the plan is to use Squee, Goblin Nabob, Master of Death, Genesis, and Stinkweed Imp to fuel Zombie Infestation and Cryptbreaker. If this is right, I'm not sure Bastion of Remembrance and Feaster of Fools are quite right for this deck.

Since your return-from-graveyard-to-hand creatures can only recur themselves at your upkeep/draw step, and since Cryptbreaker is a mana+tap effect, I expect this deck to be putting out maybe 2-3 Zombie tokens each turn, at best. I would suggest focusing on making those tokens bigger and better. Diregraf Captain would be a replacement for Bastion, and something like Corpse Cobble for Feaster. Corpse Cobble also has flashback, so it can be discarded to Infestation and still be used. Cemetery Reaper is another source of Zombies that can eat your opponents' graveyard.

Genesis feels a little redundant; its most worthwhile target is the Cryptbreaker. If you like the effect, maybe try Wonder.