Gruul Guildgate

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multimedia on The Big Bad Wolf Pack v1.5

2 weeks ago

You're welcome. No reason to remove your deck from the budget category since any Commander deck less than $200 really is consider budget. Your deck is still budget especially the manabase since you're playing Gruul Guildgate and Rugged Highlands, etc.

Adding the expensive price Gruul dual lands (Stomping, Spire, Karplusan, Burnwillows, Fire-Lit, Cragcrown, Rootbound, Rockfall) would help to take your deck away from budget. Honestly, adding a few of the better Gruul lands for the price of Door of Destinies and Metallic Mimic would improve your deck more than what these cards would do.

Some advice if on a budget is don't completely neglect the manabase in favor of adding other expensive price cards. That's a balancing act to make and a question to ask yourself; "What expensive price cards are not needed as much as the others that could be cut so I can improve the manabase?"

The only reason to not play Coat of Arms over Door is if you're expecting other tribal decks, not just Werewolves, any tribal since Coat counts all players tribal creatures. Coat is a vastly superior anthem effect for tribal than Door since the turn you drop Coat your creatures are getting a potentially major anthem effect. In Gruul Shared Animosity is the closest budget similar effect to Coat for tribal and it only affects your attacking creatures.

multimedia on Treasure Hungry Korvold

7 months ago

Hey, well planned out strategies on a budget. Nice Diabolic Intent :)

Consider Priest of Forgotten Gods and more repeatable token sources? If you can fuel Priest then she's over powered in multiplayer Commander and a great way to grow Korvold and draw. Priest makes insane value with Korvold since for no mana, just sacing two creatures, you make all opponents sac a creature and lose 2 life, you draw three cards, make two black mana and give Korvold two +1/+1 counters. Priest wants a robust package of cards that are repeatable token sources.

• Chandra, Acolyte of Flame
• Scute Swarm
• Nissa, Voice of Zendikar
• Awakening Zone
• From Beyond : can tutor for Betrays.
• Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin
• Dreadhorde Invasion
• Arasta of the Endless Web
• Tendershoot Dryad
• Wolverine Riders

Chandra's second 0 loyalty ability + Priest is a combo to be able to activate Priest repeatedly on your turn. The Elementals Chandra creates are saced at your end step meaning they will trigger Korvold and they don't have to attack.

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You can speed up game play by adding more one and two drops that have interaction with Korvold or can be reliable ramp to cast him quicker.

• Arcane Signet : staple mana rock.
• Sakura-Tribe Elder : ramp, can sac itself.
• Impulsive Pilferer : creates a treasure when saced or dies. Four sacs and four treasures with encore.
• Caustic Caterpillar : removal, can sac itself.
• Viscera Seer : sac outlet, can sac itself.
• Paradise Druid : ramp.
• Farseek : land ramp that can search for a dual land such as Cinder Glade .
• Village Rites : draw.
• Crop Rotation : land tutor.

Another way to speed up game play is the reduce the number of lands that will always ETB tapped such as Gruul Guildgate .

• Command Tower : staple land for multicolored decks.
• Exotic Orchard
• Savage Lands : Jund Tri land.
• Path of Ancestry
• Llanowar Wastes : Golgari Pain land.
• Cinder Glade : Gruul Battle land.
• Smoldering Marsh : Rakdos Battle land.
• Rootbound Crag
• Dragonskull Summit
• Blighted Woodland
• Tainted Wood

On a budget Savage and Ancestry are exceptions, but they can make one color of the three Jund colors, that's worth it.

I offer more advice, including cuts to consider. Good luck with your deck.

5colourchaos on Riku of Two Reflections - Wizard Duplication

8 months ago

Thank you both very much for you input! I went to my local card shop and made a few more changes to my deck. I had Neoform already, and took it out cause I didn't think it would gel, I appreciate you pointing that out to me.

These are all the changes I made:

Glimpse of Freedom ---> Brainstorm

Armory of Iroas ---> Solemn Simulacrum

Gruul Guildgate ---> Cragcrown Pathway  ^Flip

Khalni Garden ---> Riverglide Pathway  ^Flip

Rugged Highlands ---> Barkchannel Pathway  ^Flip

Hamletback Goliath ---> Mana Reflection

Temple of the False God ---> Glasspool Mimic  ^Flip

Seer's Lantern ---> Kodama's Reach

Wall of Runes ---> Llanowar Elves

Neoform ---> Burnished Hart

Replacing Burnished Hart is more so because it's a very curvy holo that sticks out in my deck too much, and drives me crazy lol.

multimedia on Dig Up Her Bones

10 months ago

Hey, good budget version of Gishath.

Congregation at Dawn ($2 at CardKingdom) and Mwonvuli Beast Tracker can search for Dinos/Dino and put them/it on top of your library before you attack with Gishath making sure that you cheat a Dino/Dinos onto the battlefield with the attack. Tracker can get any Dino who has trample and there's quite a few including Quartzwood. Shared Summons can get any two creatures into your hand which includes Forerunner and an enrage Dino.

Garruk's Uprising is a good repeatable draw and trample source with Dinos. Getting both these abilities from a three drop enchantment is helpful especially with Quartzwood. Rhythm of the Wild makes Gishath uncounterable as well as a haste enabler for other Dinos or a +1/+1 counter source to help against Marauding/Forerunner's damage to a creature. Jeska's Will can make ramp to cast a fast Gishath for as low as five mana. Make seven or more red mana with Will then add any one white mana and any one green mana.

Otepec Huntmaster as a ramp source is better than Kinjalli's Caller because Huntmaster is also a haste enabler for a Dino and rarely will you have white mana turn one to cast Caller. Apex Altisaur is a big Dino who's an upgrade for Burning Sun's Avatar repeatable fight with enrage and it fights an opponent's creature when it ETB.

Cinder Glade and Canopy Vista would help color fixing because then Farseek, Skyshroud Claim, Mountain Valley can search for a dual land and Battle lands have interaction with lots of basic lands. Path of Ancestry is a good budget Rainbow land for tribal since repeatable scry is helpful. Mosswort Bridge's hideaway can easily be triggered with Dinos. Some other budget lands are Battlefield Forge, Naya Panorama, Ash Barrens.

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Cards to consider cutting:

• Highland Weald
• Timber Gorge
• Tranquil Expanse
• Gruul Guildgate
• Vivid Crag
• Vivid Meadow
• Graypelt Refuge
• Shamanic Revelation
• Alpha Authority
• Kinjalli's Caller
• Burning Sun's Avatar
• Siegehorn Ceratops
• Whispersilk Cloak
• Raging Regisaur
• Gratuitous Violence

Good luck with your deck.

BonesawMcGraw13 on Illuna

11 months ago

11/18/2020

Replaced Genesis Ultimatum with Pir, Imaginative Rascal and a forest with Toothy, Imaginary Friend.

Replaced Ketria Crystal with Ilysian Caryatid

Replaced Gruul Signet with Incubation Druid

Swapped Gruul Guildgate for Spire Garden

swapped Simic Guildgate for Temple of Mystery

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1 year ago

Hey, very good upgrade of the precon while still keeping budget. Nice Doubling Season and Xenagos, God of Revels is some spicy tech with Obuun :)

My advice is consider cutting a few land ramp spells and adding some repeatable draw sources such as Valakut Exploration, Garruk's Uprising and Tireless Tracker. Exploration uses landfall to play cards from the top of your library including lands. It can also be graveyard fuel for Trove Warden, Sun Titan and Emeria Shepherd. Uprising is an amazing budget card in Commander with creature strategies especially with Omnath, Locus of Rage and Rampaging Baloths since it triggers when a token is created. Tracker, Mystery Booster version, creates clues with landfall and clues can sac to draw.

Crop Rotation can tutor for any land which is nice with Bounce lands, Fetch lands, Kessig Wolf Run and Gavony Township. Emeria Angel and Scute Swarm are build your own army with landfall which is very good with Doubling Season, Felidar Retreat, Township and Beastmaster Ascension.

Cinder Glade and Canopy Vista are some land upgrades for the manabase because they have good interaction with lots of basic lands and they're two different land types. Farseek, Nature's Lore, Grasslands, Mountain Valley can search for one of these dual lands. Krosan Verge and Skyshroud Claim can get both of them. These Battle lands are $2 or less each at TCGPlayer. Exotic Orchard is a budget Rainbow land that's quite good in multiplayer Commander.

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Cards to consider cutting:

• Gruul Guildgate
• Selesnya Guildgate
• Boros Guildgate
• 1x Forest
• Colossification
• Awakening of Vitu-Ghazi
• Beanstalk Giant
• Nissa's Renewal
• Far Wanderings
• Circuitous Route
• Rampant Growth
• Retreat to Kazandu

Good luck with your deck.

multimedia on Welcome to Gishathic Park

1 year ago

Hey, nice Scroll Rack Invention :)

Some budget cards to consider adding:

• Sol Ring
• Command Tower
• Congregation at Dawn
• Forerunner of the Empire
• Quartzwood Crasher
• Ripjaw Raptor
• Garruk's Uprising
• Rhythm of the Wild
• Elemental Bond
• Orcish Lumberjack
• Faeburrow Elder
• Farseek
• Canopy Vista
• Cinder Glade
• Exotic Orchard
• Naya Panorama

Sol Ring and Command Tower are some staple budget cards in Commander. At TCGPlayer you can find Sol for less than $3 and Tower for less than $1. Congregation at Dawn is a good budget creature tutor with Gishath. Cast it the same turn you want play Gishath or the turn before to tutor for and arrange the top of your library with any three Dinos to cheat onto the battlefield. Forerunner of the Empire is a Dino tutor (puts the Dino on top of your library) and a repeatable enrage enabler when a Dino you control ETB.

Quartzwood Crasher is one of the better budget Dinos since it can be a repeatable source of Dino tokens since many other Dinos have trample especially with Ghalta. Crasher combines well with Garruk's Uprising which can be a repeatable draw source and can give all creatures you control trample. Ripjaw Raptor has a powerful enrage ability to draw a card when it takes damage. Rhythm of the Wild makes all creatures you cast uncounterable and it gives nontoken creatures when they ETB the option of haste or make it bigger with a +1/+1 counter.

With Orcish Lumberjack sacing a Forest you control can make four mana since you can tap the Forest for mana before you sac it which can be a quick way to ramp into Gishath or other Dinos. Farseek is two drop land ramp that can search for a dual land such as Stomping Ground, Canopy Vista, Cinder Glade. At TCGPlayer can get Vista and Glade for less than $2 each.

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Cards to consider cutting:

• Timber Gorge
• Tranquil Expanse
• Gruul Guildgate
• Selesnya Guildgate
• Blossoming Sands
• Nissa's Pilgrimage
• Font of Fertility
• Hunt the Weak
• Pounce
• Insult / Injury
• Gruul Keyrune
• Burnished Hart
• Ravenous Daggertooth
• Raging Regisaur
• Radiant Destiny
• Overgrown Armasaur
• Kinjalli's Caller
• Zhur-Taa Druid

Good luck with your deck.

Stardragon on

1 year ago

Update 1

Took out Fiery Emancipation for God-Eternal Rhonas as it didn't help me do what i wanted and often time my me lose the game

Replaced Gruul Guildgate for Temple of Abandon for the extra value that the temples bring.

And took out one Ferocity of the Wilds for a second Beast Whisperer while i regret the damage loss the extra draw power should help the deck overall