Invert the Skies

Instant

Creatures your opponents control lose flying until end of turn if (Green) was spent to play Invert the Skies, and creatures you control gain flying until end of turn if (Blue) was spent to play it. (Do both if (Green)(Blue) was spent.)

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
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
PreDH	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (7)

Cannonhead on Card creation challenge

4 years ago

Phage the Inexorable

Legendary Creature - Avatar

Deathtouch, Defender

Whenever a creature an opponent controls deals damage to you, you may have Phage fight that creature. If a creature is destroyed this way, exile it.

At the beginning of your end step, if there are five of more creatures owned by the same player exiled by Phage, that player loses the game.

Sacrifice two creature or discard two cards: return Phage from your graveyard to the battlefield.

2/6

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Make a modal card in the vein of Invert the Skies or Moonhold that care about the colors being used to cast them.

Sambo3975 on Big Bois

5 years ago

The way this deck works is pretty simple. Get out Vorel of the Hull Clade and one other creature. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature (using one of many possible methods) and start using Vorel's ability to make it huge. You can equip Illusionist's Bracers to Vorel to quadruple the +1/+1 counters instead of doubling them. You can also use Gilder Bairn or Hydra's Growth for even more counter doubling. I considered adding a Doubling Season, but it's too expensive. You can use Seedborn Muse or Bear Umbra + Murkfiend Liege to enable you to activate Vorel's ability during your opponents' turns.

Once the creature gets huge enough to one-shot another player, you can use Crowned Ceratok or Trollbred Guardian to give it trample, or you can use Skatewing Spy, Archetype of Imagination, or Invert the Skies (which has the same effect as Archetype, but temporarily) to give the creature flying. You could also use Rogue's Passage to make the creature unblockable. I'm considering more tech (like Herald of Secret Streams) to make creatures unblockable. Use your giant creature to finish your opponents off, one-by-one, or, for a quicker finish, use Pathbreaker Ibex or Overwhelming Stampede to make all your creatures huge and kill everyone at once.

There are a couple alternate win conditions in the deck. Simic Ascendancy will get 20 growth counters on it pretty quickly, and its hexproof-ness makes it hard to remove before your next upkeep. Using Vorel's ability a few times on Darksteel Reactor is another option.

KibaAlpha on Ezuri, claw of progress

6 years ago

AEther Mutation , Altered Ego , Cold-Eyed Selkie , Fable of Wolf and Owl , Growth Spiral , Invert the Skies , Kiora's Follower , Kumena, Tyrant of Orazca , Kiora, the Crashing Wave , Master Biomancer , Merfolk Mistbinder , Momir Vig, Simic Visionary , Prime Speaker Zegana , Shapers of Nature , Tatyova, Benthic Druid , Thrasios, Triton Hero , Tishana, Voice of Thunder , Urban Evolution , Vorel of the Hull Clade , Vedalken Orrery , Leyline of Anticipation , Surgespanner

Cryptolith Rite + Surgespanner + Kiora's Follower

J-pants on

7 years ago

Another pretty major tuning pass. The main thing I found after playing this deck a few times was that it wasn't interactive enough with other players. Especially those that had any Flying creatures (I had ZERO answers to flying, other than Constant Mists!). So, in the interest of upping this interaction, I have trimmed out a good amount of the "Awaken" theme to make room for better cards, and more removal, more answers.

REMOVED

• Animist's Awakening
• Awakener Druid
• Boiling Earth
• Coastal Discovery
• Khalni Heart Expedition
• Kiora, Master of the Depths
• Selvala, Explorer Returned
• Tunneling Geopede
• Waker of the Wilds
• Wall of Resurgence

• Zendikar Resurgent

ADDED

Emeria Shepherd

Crossbow Ambush

Invert the Skies

Knight of the Reliquary

Nissa, Vastwood Seer  ^Flip

Roil Elemental

Spidersilk Armor

Supreme Verdict

Sylvan Reclamation

Tower Defense

Uyo, Silent Prophet

These cuts aren't easy to decide on... I'd really love to find a way to fit in 4-6 more lands and really lean into the Landfall theme even harder, but I'm hesitant. I have really come to love the Rude Awakening+Teleportal(overloaded) combo!

michael921 on Krazy, Krazy, Kruphix

7 years ago

So this is both a decent start and has a long way to go. While I don't have many specific card cuts to recommend to you, I can point you in a general direction for you to go, as well as a bunch of cards that might help you...

Lands and Mana Sources Show

This looks pretty good! Some recommendations:

• Mind Stone over Simic Cluestone
• Finding a way to add in Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip

Some issues I see with the deck Show

• Not enough Evasion. While your creatures might be large, very few of them have trample, flying, unblockable, landwalk, etc. This means that against any deck that makes tokens (Which is a LOT of them), you will have a VERY hard time actually killing them.
• Not enough removal. I know that UG tends to be very light in removal, but it is still VERY important. While you have a couple removal spells, mass removal is still very useful.
• Not enough protection. Similar to your removal spells, you have very few ways to protect your own creatures. Being able to protect your own beefy creatures is important in commander when there are so many opponents and having a large number of cards in your hand paints a large target upon your back.

Evasion Recommendations Show

Archetype of Imagination, Consecrated Sphinx, Diluvian Primordial, Favor of the Overbeing, Frostwind Invoker, Glyph Keeper, Guardian of Tazeem, Hangarback Walker, Horizon Chimera, Jugan, the Rising Star, Kefnet the Mindful, Decimator of the Provinces, Invert the Skies, Overrun, Overwhelming Stampede, Pathbreaker Ibex and so on and so forth. There's a LOT of options here, so just find whichever are both budget and fun for you to play. Like there's SO many I don't want to spend the time to list them all for you :P. Seriously take a look at a lot of the creatures with emerge as they're VERY on theme for this deck.

Removal Recommendations Show

Crush of Tentacles, Cyclonic Rift, Coastal Breach, Displacement Wave, Kederekt Leviathan, River's Rebuke, and Ezuri's Predation. And that's JUST for mass removal. Green also has a bunch of fight spells that you could consider adding. While all of these are obviously a bit much, I feel that some of these should be added.

Protection Recommendations Show

Simic Charm, Heroic Intervention, Swiftfoot Boots, Blossoming Defense, Vines of Vastwood, Plaxmanta, and other cards similar to these. You do NOT need very many of these, but a few more would be VERY useful.

Potential Cuts Show

These are just some expensive or not quite on theme cards that I would recommend cutting. If you want me to elaborate on any of these, please let me know!Shapers of Nature, Lorthos, the Tidemaker, Selvala, Heart of the Wilds, Green Sun's Zenith, Imprisoned in the Moon, Kiora, the Crashing Wave, Rites of Flourishing, Thaumatic Compass  ^Flip, Overbeing of Myth, Mistcutter Hydra,

In general, these cards are either too clunky, too expensive (cost wise), have strictly better versions, or don't push your game plan forward.

Hopefully some amount of this will help! You're allready at the deck being only $90 so you're pretty close! Good luck!

Ranman on pile o cards

8 years ago

Can't edit Tappedout comments...

If you want different/ bigger/ more draw, perhaps consider Rishkar's Expertise, Life's Legacy, Momentous Fall, Soul's Majesty, Overbeing of Myth, and/ or Urban Evolution.

For some added protection, consider Asceticism, Archetype of Endurance, Heroic Intervention, Lightning Greaves, and/ or Whispersilk Cloak.

And for that final push to victory, consider Stonehoof Chieftain, Decimator of the Provinces, Pathbreaker Ibex, Craterhoof Behemoth, Archetype of Imagination, and/ or Invert the Skies.

You will get hit by boardwipes and removal, so to combat this, consider Wildest Dreams, Eternal Witness, Evolution Charm, Greenwarden of Murasa, and/ or Seasons Past.

Rzepkanut on The Eternal Reign of Rashmi (Budget)

8 years ago

Hey you should look at my Simic deck for inspiration. I use a different commander, but the ways you said you wanted your deck to be, described my deck pretty well. I have some higher impact ways to distribute counters and lots more ways to use them. Too many ideas to make specific card suggestions to try out. My deck list is sorted by custom categories for ease of reading.

As far as cuts a few of your cards seem low impact like Vigean Hydropon, Nulltread Gargantuan, Geist of the Archives, Invert the Skies, Lens of Clarity, and Skill Borrower. Also you could find more space for +1/+1 counter synergy cards if you cut some or all of the pump spells that only work until end of turn. Cheers.

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