Ipnu Rivulet

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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
Historic Brawl Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Pioneer Legal
Planar Constructed Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Ipnu Rivulet

Land — Desert

: Add to your mana pool.

, pay 1 life: Add to your mana pool.

, , sacrifice a Desert: Target player puts the top four cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

SufferFromEDHD on Mindskinner Ability Loss

1 month ago

Ipnu Rivulet

Mind Bomb discard or mill

Black Vise and/or The Rack depending on your meta

Ankh of Mishra value

Crumbling Sanctuary commander #2

SufferFromEDHD on Bruvac's Millibuster

7 months ago

Ipnu Rivulet!

Retraced Image for all those basic islands and Petitioners.

SufferFromEDHD on Petulant Petitioners

8 months ago

Urza's Saga & Mox Opal if possible.

Expedition Map you are running quality utility lands.

Ipnu Rivulet on theme.

wilhuf on Shoot to Mill

1 year ago

Clearly needs better than just basic lands. For milling lands, how about:

Ipnu Rivulet

Nephalia Drownyard

Duskmantle, House of Shadow

keizerbuns on Sea of Attrition [Physical] [Beta]

1 year ago

This is a very cool concept, however it seems a little scattered. With lifegain, mill, tokens, tap/bounce control, stat manipulation, and creature stealing, it seems like your deck is being pulled in too many different directions without enough focus on any one thing in particular to give it a clear identity. Mill especially is kind of an all or nothing strategy that requires the entire deck to be built around it in order to work. Unless you have a really good mill/graveyard payoff to justify splashing in some mill spells, milling your opponent for just a few cards here and there won’t do anything except take up slots in your deck.

The best advice I think I could give you, and probably the same advice most other people will give you too, is to find your favourite element or two of the deck, and make that the focus. However, if you don’t want to do that, and you do want to keep the deck as a little bit of everything, I do have some suggestions that I think you might like.

My first suggestion would be to replace Dreadwaters with a lower CMC mill spell, because spending 4 mana to make one opponent mill for what I assume averages to be around 4-6 cards isn't a great rate. For just 2 mana you could use Maddening Cacophony and make each opponent mill 8 cards, and for an extra 4 you could make them mill half of their decks. You could also replace a couple of Islands with a couple copies of Ipnu Rivulet for some added milling consistency, although activating its mill ability would cause you to lose a land.

Talrand's Invocation also suffers from the same issue as Dreadwaters of just being too mana intensive for such a small effect. Paying 4 mana just to get 2 2/2 flyers is a little slow. I think Murmuring Mystic would suit you better as a long term token generator.

Ichthyomorphosis and Time of Ice both kind of get in the way of your plan to steal your opponent's creatures. Ichthyomorphosis turns your opponent's creatures into something not worth stealing and Time of Ice could potentially cause a creature you just stole from your opponent to be sent back to their hand. Instead of using Time of Ice to tap your opponents creatures, you could use an instant or a sorcery such as Downpour, Impede Momentum, Choking Tethers, or Sleep to achieve the same result. And instead of Ichthyomorphosis to permanently turn your opponents creatures into something small, you could use Turn to Frog which you can use to catch your opponents by surprise during the combat stage. Swapping both Ichthyomorphosis and Time of Ice for instants and sorceries would also synergize great with Murmuring Mystic to spam tokens.

You could replace Staff of the Mind Magus with Diamond Mare, which is admittedly a weaker life gain spell since it can't gain life off of your lands entering the battlefield, plus it's more susceptible to removal. However it is a cheaper CMC card and another creature to beat your opponents down with.

I think Niblis of Frost is better than Dragon Turtle at keeping your opponent's creatures tapped if you go with the previously mentioned replacements for Ichthyomorphosis and Time of Ice, plus with the Prowess ability, it can get pretty big with all of the instants and sorceries. And Sower of Temptation is a lower CMC version of Mind Flayer.

I also realized as I was looking back through my suggestions, that if you do end up going with all of them, then that would mean your deck would meet the deck requirements to add Gyruda, Doom of Depths as a companion, which would serve as a pretty good payoff for your mill cards!

Hopefully this was helpful!

Squirrelbacon on Jace's Mill

3 years ago

Fractured Sanity , Tome Scour , and Jace's Erasure would all be valuable options to run. You could also run Ipnu Rivulet as a 4 of in place of some islands for some resilient mill action!

HalbrechtHalbrecht on bruvac

3 years ago

Have you considered Helm of the Host? A little slow starting, but sure turns into a crazy snowball effect!

Also, I know you're focusing on the Petitioners, but I personally feel Hedron Crab and his buddy Ruin Crab belong in all mill decks. :)

Perhaps Ipnu Rivulet for just that little extra mill and something to do if you get flooded?

Love mill +1

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