Guardian of the Ages

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

Guardian of the Ages

Artifact Creature — Golem

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

When a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, if Guardian of the Ages has defender, it loses defender and gains trample.

foxboy1000 on Ahivian red

4 years ago

If you are new to Magic first things first, congrats on joining the game hopefully you enjoy it.

On to some deck advice, you need to cut Bonethorn Valesk , Goblin Hero , Rock Jockey , Goblin War Strike , Chaos Charm , and Seething Song . These cards aren't legal in the modern format, which I'm assuming is what you are building for. Cutting these also makes your deck a 60 card deck, which is the correct size.

I don't know how familiar you are with Magic so far, but there are a couple different formats. I would suggest asking the friend who gave you cards more about it, or read up on them.

You have quite a few cards, but mostly goblins. A popular goblin deck you could play might be 8 Whack. Look into it if you ever have a desire to play competitive magic.

If you are just looking to play casual Magic however, here is my advice.

Swap out 2x Tremor , 1x Volcanic Hammer , and 1x Lava Axe , for 4x Skewer the Critics .

I would also swap 1x Sokenzan Bruiser , 1x Endbringer , 1x Shivan Dragon , and 1x Guardian of the Ages , for 4x Goblin Grenade .

Swap 2x Mountain for 2x Devastating Summons

Lastly I would swap 1x Myr Moonvessel , 1x Chainwhip Cyclops , 1x Vulshok Berserker , 1x Canyon Wildcat , for 4x Bomat Courier .

This is what that deck would look like,Ahivian red Updated, hopefully this is helpful.

I think that is a good place to start, if you would like any more help other than that, just ask.

Gadianten on Rakdos Walls

5 years ago

Some creature changes you might consider are Guardian of the Ages , Colossus of Akros and Golden Guardian  Flip. I feel your main way of winning via Vent Sentinel is not enough on its own but I will have to think of some ways to enhance it.

MagicalHacker on Belltower Lurker

5 years ago

I don't think this makes sense regarding flavor in my opinion. By saying "a giant bat that's harmlessly sleeping in a belltower but can be woken up to be a very dangerous raptor" it makes me think that you are trying to go for a design that makes the creature able to attack and block if you wake it up by attacking its controller, like Slumbering Dragon or Guardian of the Ages.

If your flavor instead is that it is a strong creature that you don't want to attack into except the process of wanting to attack makes it weaker, but it can be rejuvenated with your blood... Then your design would be a great flavor fit.

But I don't think that is what you were intending here, right?

chirz2792 on Iron Giants

7 years ago

Artisan of Kozilek doesn't really do anything in this deck. Also Colossus of Akros, Colossus of Sardia, Guardian of the Ages, Phyrexian Colossus, and Teeka's Dragon are not very good cards. You could probably get rid of some of your equipments and add Grafted Exoskeleton(reduces the amount of damage bosh has to do). I would also drop Mirrorworks, by my count you only have 5 artifacts with enter the battlefield triggers so it doesn't seem to do anything in here. I would also add Semblance Anvil and everything that was suggested in the thread you posted. Hope this helped.

Lanzo493 on

8 years ago

Your mana curve is... it needs work. I know Mayael is all about cheating in big creatures into play, but you need to play the creatures in your hand as well. With a mana curve this high, you're going to need a lot of ramp to play cards in your hand and activate Mayael.

Skyshroud Claim can get you your shock lands.

Worn Powerstone and Hedron Archive are great mana rocks.

Mirari's Wake is great ramp for any deck it can go into.

Genesis Wave is ramp, and a card you ramp into. It's even better than Mayael's ability once you ramp enough.

Animist's Awakening is another good ramp card.

True Conviction is an auto-include it white decks with big creatures.

I've suggested a lot of cards. Now here's some cards I think you can live without in this deck. Most of them will be the large converted mana cost cards that aren't really very necessary. Brood Monitor, Eyeless Watcher, Guardian of the Ages, Juggernaut, Pilgrim of the Fires, Phyrexian Juggernaut, and Hedron Matrix. Another thing to mention is that Warstorm Surge is a better version of Where Ancients Tread and Primal Surge is not going to do much in your deck because you have a good number of non-permanents, so Genesis Wave would be a good replacement of it.