Inkmoth Nexus

Land

{T}: Add {C}.

{1}: Inkmoth Nexus becomes a 1/1 Blinkmoth artifact creature with flying and infect until end of turn. It's still a land. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Combos

• Inkmoth Nexus + Masterful Replication

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
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (50)

DreadKhan on My nadu

4 days ago

I have no idea if you want random input on this, so ignore this if you don't!

It might clog up your mana base, but you could sneak a few more creatures by throwing in a couple man-lands to replace other lands. With Nadu you'd put them directly into play, and even if they ETB tapped they can still become a creature and be targeted. There are a few that only use 1 mana to transform (such as Mishra's Factory and Inkmoth Nexus/Blinkmoth Nexus), but a few that turn on for 2 mana exist as well (Treetop Village, Faerie Conclave, Lair of the Hydra, and Mishra's Foundry), I feel like with all your 'free mana whenever a land ETBs' effects you'll easily be able to use them when you need them. The ETB tapped ones are worse (but usually offer colored mana), but as noted you'll usually see a given land when you're using Nadu (because you go through so many more cards with Nadu than you draw normally), so all that matters is they are creatures too, when I was testing this the issue was running out of creatures and not being able to continue, I often had gobs of mana I had no real use for (I will say the deck can easily hold up a hand full of interaction after using Nadu, even if you don't truly 'go off'). I took a quick look at your land list, and if I wanted to pull a couple lands I think Talon Gates of Madara has low synergy, I'd also consider Nesting Grounds, and since you have a few removal spells you might even switch out Homeward Path, depending on how theft-heavy your meta is.

Since you can generate a fair bit of mana in this deck when you're going off (and playing it for 4 or 5 mana in a slow game could also be a solid play) I think Awaken the Woods might do work in here.

It's pretty minor, but Whir of Invention costs one more (but has improvise fwiw), it doesn't require you to have an existing Artifact out, and it's an Instant so you can use it on an opponent's end step to get your Shuko out so you can go off on your turn. I think this is more than you can do with Reshape, ymmv.

It's a niche use, but if you switch out Amphibian Downpour (a card I legit love btw) for Curse of the Swine you'd have the option of targeting all of your disposable creatures and replacing them with brand spanking new piggies! These can be targeted anew, meaning if you draw into it at the right time it should win the game. It can also be used aggressively to excellent effect (and can do both at the same time), it sucks that it's a Sorcery though!

This is really splitting hairs a bit, but with your Commander I wonder if good old Sunder might be better at doing what Mana Vortex does? Sunder's an Instant (so you can play it on an opponent's endstep), and as long as you've already got Nadu and a free equip out you'll be fine on your turn, but it's also a much worse Blue Silence effect you can use during your combo to make it much harder to interact with you, and you just keep digging out new lands so it's all good? I love Mana Vortex and think it's doing a different enough thing that both could be fun. You could also try out Winter Orb and Static Orb if you're feeling, well, 'orbsy', both make it much harder to use lands, and you get to cheat a ton in untapped if all is going well.

Hope your testing is going well!

Oh, it looks like you have 99 cards, what a lovely problem to have!

leovolt884_ on Rotpriest Infection

1 week ago

Definitely Does not need as many pump spells. Keep the Vines of Vastwood for protection and maybe a Snakeskin Veil or two if you want to argue for that. Heroic Intervention is a good alternative as always but doesn't have pump capabilities. I think it would be decent as mass removal is pretty common especially with -x/-x to all creatures being a common effect on black cards and your deck is very susceptible to that kind of removal. Most mass removal doesn't target so you wont even get Venerated Rotpriest triggers so some board wide protection seems necessary. Might of the Masses seems like a good cut because only 16 creatures with very limited card draw won't end up pumping more than other spells too often. Groundswell and Might of Old Krosa seem pretty redundant so picking one or the other would be best.

Depending on how you feel about splashing, maybe consider red for something like Rhythm of the Wild for protection and better aggro. Something to provide trample can be found here as well. Temur Battle Rage is an okay option and can be deadly but requires an additional pump spell to be at full potential. Can't think of any other cards like it off the top of my head but they definitely exist. If staying in two colors, consider 3-4 Vexing Shusher to simulate Rhythm and serve as removal bait in which case Triumph of the Hordes can maybe be justified as a boardwide buff and trample enabler, also giving shusher infect. In terms of creatures, running a few more may perform well, possibly a few copies of Flensermite and I would highly recommend Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon to close out games if you can't take them early. It would be a good idea to at least sideboard it against control or burn. Some of your current sideboard cards should be run mainboard like Dismember, a Force of Despair, and some Thoughtseize to disable your opponent.

I understand running Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth especially with the Inkmoth Nexus but it feels a bit pricey and could be replaced with an Overgrown Tomb since your mana ratio is already pretty good. A few lands may also be cut, considering 1.4 average cmc is very low and with limited card draw you really don't want to get mana flooded.

The deck feels almost like a "one trick" kind of deal and would be pretty easy to work around. You have to play really well to force your opponent into numerous combat tricks so maybe take it easier on yourself by running more removal and card draw. Dumping your hand then drawing 1 to 2 combat tricks per turn may not work against control decks or even aggro decks that can afford to chump block. Unearth is a good idea, consider running 1 less in favor of a mass recursion effect or something that lets you access multiple cards from the graveyard later in the game when you've run out of resources.

Coward_Token on Modern Horizons 3

2 months ago

Omo, Queen of Vesuva + Inkmoth Nexus + Embiggen -> 21/21 flying infecter

Basshunter on Polymorphous Fun Time

8 months ago

Hi, what about Mutavault, Blinkmoth Nexus, Inkmoth Nexus or Mishra's Foundry? You can polymorph all of them...

VitsEco on Boros warrior Hammer

9 months ago

Cool take on HammerTime, Sigarda's Aid, Urza's Saga & Inkmoth Nexus would juice this list up.

VitsEco on BANT Hammer feat. Nadu

10 months ago

jdogz32 Thanks for the suggestions, however, I'm extremely reluctant to edit the mana base for this deck, with only 6 valid fetch targets dropping 2 further basics for the NEO lands is very risky due to being easy targets for Blood Moon etc, as for Blinkmoth Nexus I'd be more inclined for run a 4th copy of Inkmoth Nexus, but again this is already a risky mana base.

Icbrgr on Is WotC Being Cautious About …

11 months ago

@DemonDragonJ I am mainly thinking/speaking from a Modern format perspective games are decided earlier and earlier...

in yugioh there isnt such think as mana but more or less timing and number of times per turn an action/card can be played restrictions. In yugioh MANY (not all) games are decided in the first turn/who goes first... if you go first in yugioh playing a combo deck and your opponent doesn't interact with you then you will succeed in setting up a pretty much unbeatable board state which has very niche outs to. Yugiohs solution to this is hand traps cards that can be played at instant speed on the opponents turn because at the end of the day a good/competitive yugioh strategy is simply a deck that doesn't allow your opponent to play yugioh. sure the game isn't technically over on turn one and you can choose to play it out but its just a waste of everyones time... The flip side is essentially playing a deck that invalidates whatever the opponent does and kill them with a lightning quick response (think of it as an infect deck with Inkmoth Nexus and Colossus Hammer thats has haste and unblockable/indestructible/hexproof/trample/double strike blah blah blah) basically yugioh is where I see modern in {X} years in the future.

In Modern Decks are able to generate more early advantage through cards like Ragavan, Scamming, and Urzas Saga such that if you can't control it early then you will inevitably lose. This is why a combination of Aggro and Control (Midrange) describes all the dominant decks, they need the ability to control for the opponents' pieces while having the power to apply pressure when the opponent is out of gas and that combination of cards is primarily found in Modern Horizons sets like force of negation/solitude.

So when people complain that modern is fast, they don't inherently mean that the number of turns has gone down, more so that the number of turns before an unwinnable position has been reached has gone down. If a Grief Scams three cards from your hand with Ephemarate then it will still take a fair number of turns to get you dead, but your draws need to be good or you will die on turn 6/7 from just that.

also make no mistake i love modern and i also love yugioh i just feel frustrated with both at times.

Azoth2099 on Green/Black toxic/proliferate need recommendations

1 year ago

Balvron

One more thing!!

As far as cuts go, anything EXCEPT FOR the following should be cut in favor of a more streamlined strategy with some of the pieces that have been mentioned imo:

Blightbelly Rat Bloated Contaminator Cankerbloom Fynn, the Fangbearer Phyrexian Hydra Scheming Aspirant Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon Thalia and The Gitrog Monster Invasion of Ikoria  ^Flip Chromatic Lantern Grafted Exoskeleton Snake Cult Initiation Carnivorous Canopy Drown in Ichor Infectious Bite Putrefy Tainted Strike Command Tower Inkmoth Nexus Karn's Bastion

All of these are great picks that can easily slot into the deck's rework.