High Tide

Instant

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps an Island for mana, that player adds an additional {U}.

Combos

• High Tide + Palinchron

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
PreDH	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (50)

Andramalech on Grimoire of the Second Sun

1 month ago

It's actually quite simple, Balaam__. You're playing a Draw - go deck meant to win the game by way of phase changes. If you over draw the deck without hitting the win condition you find in the second sun archetype cards, which both add a second upkeep phase and that includes the extra draw, you can easily hit that necessary card amount. you use something like Thassa's OracleGC. For when you can't outpace burn tactics, the Grimoire and the Venser's Journal both provide some utility. But, I digress- the intent is to use draw spells and untap mechanics in tow with High Tide to generate an explosive amount of mana. The rearranging of the turn structure so that hit another upkeep phase is for Triskaidekaphile. Hope that helps.

IQuarent on The Friendmaker | Talrand, Sky Summoner [PRIMER]

2 months ago

Coming back to this deck, I can't help but feel like Invasion of Segovia  ^Flip would be absolute gas in here. The bodies it makes aren't of zero consequence, and flipping it will be easy because you can just hit it with drakes. I noticed you didn't add any of the cards that have convoke intrinsically, but giving ALL your spells convoke would be absolutely monstrous. Not only can you use drakes to cast things when you would otherwise have zero mana, but every spell you cast with your commander out puts you up mana because you can use it to convoke out the next spell. You might even be able to go mana neutral on spells. The best part though is that it's not a creature itself (until it flips) so it doesn't mess with the Polymorph strat.

I assume you must really not like looting because Careful Study and Frantic Search are rather glaring omissions. Not only that, but for a deck you yourself say is mana hungry, High Tide seems like it would also be incredible. For your consideration.

legendofa on sultai elves

5 months ago

Would you consider other options for the commander? The partners don't really have any interaction with each other, and they interact with just 15 cards in the deck, assuming your artifacts get destroyed regularly.

The deck feels like it needs some focus. There's not really any unifying theme. Revel in Riches doesn't have much support in either killing creatures or making treasures, and there's only nine Islands for High Tide.

There's nothing strictly wrong with the deck. Each piece can be independently useful. But if you develop the Elf theme, or a big trampler theme with Aggressive Mammoth + Jumbo Cactuar as the core, it'll flow better. As it stands now, the deck doesn't have much interaction with itself, and that usually makes the deck feel slow and inconsistent.

Of course, if you're happy with the deck as it is, or want it to grow and develop more organically, or go with something more thematic than competitive, that's all completely fair. The most important thing is that the deck is what you want it to be.

DryadArborGoesInCreaturePile on Pauper Splice Tide

6 months ago

Hello Adversarial, that is incorrect. Winning involves either meticulously milling your opponent via Jace's Erasure or Sphinx's Tutelage with a lock in place, or with infinite mana and a spell to use it on. As shown here with Stream of Thought, Snap, Archaeomancer, and a few copies of High Tide. Door to Nothingness is acceptable as well

leovolt884_ on Dead Metal II: Rage

10 months ago

legendofa Saw this ban today and immediately thought of you lmao. Time to play dimir reanimator control with self mill + High Tide and just hard cast 5 cost reanimation spells

Profet93 on I Scry with my Mill'll eye...

11 months ago

KibaAlpha

High Tide - Ramp

Reliquary Tower - Redundancy

Mystic Remora - Draw

Fatespinner - A weird suggestion but I enjoy the card. They have to sacrifice something. Most sacrifice combat. Given you have a defensive card like sunstone, this might be a potential swap.

Regarding protection, I feel Lightning Greaves are reliable for your wincons. More versatile options are counterspells of course.

How has your deck been playing?

kamarupa on Balaam__'s Challenge: Get Twisted

11 months ago

I know High Tide is a bit, let's say, "conditional" but I like that it only costs 1 to cast, which allows it to be [marginally] useful to cast counterspells in a pinch. Which I know Extraplanar Lens would too, except on the turn I cast Extraplanar Lens, which would presumably be as early as possible, but that's also often the most critical time to have mana available to counterspell. Does that make sense?

I'm certainly not in love with Ponder and Fabricate - so maybe it makes sense to drop at least a copy or two of those in favor of something like Blue Sun's Zenith? Do you have other draw card/tutor spells that would help me get Eon Hub + Reality Twist + Back to Basics into play?

Perhaps it makes sense to have 1-2 copies of High Tide and 1-3 copies of Extraplanar Lens?

kamarupa on Balaam__'s Challenge: Get Twisted

11 months ago

Thanks for the advice, psionictemplar! I'm a bit hesitant to add too many non-basic lands because of Back to Basics, but i might switch Academy Ruins for Mystic Sanctuary.

I'm fairly married to keeping High Tide because it not only helps get Eon Hub out, it also combos with Rewind and helps Overload Cyclonic Rift. With Rift, we can eliminate opponent's creatures, which enables us to actually hit opponents with one or two Phyrexian Soulgorgers.

I did consider Snapcaster Mage - any thoughts on that?