Izzet Boilerworks

Land

Izzet Boilerworks enters the battlefield tapped.

When Izzet Boilerworks enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

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Discussion (50)

Snips500 on Pauper EDH Commander Tier List

1 week ago

The reason for the Dimir Aqueduct and Izzet Boilerworks is so that if Cloud of Faeries is being used for the Ghostly Flicker combo then we can still net mana. For it to work there needs to be 2 lands each tapping for at least 2 mana and with the enchantments and the two off-color lands makes 6 options. Also, the extra bounce lands give me the option to replay other utility lands.

aholder7 on Temur midrange ramp

1 week ago

A few things to start off with. you have a lot of 1 ofs. you want to maximize your consistency, which means 4 ofs for your important cards. you can have a bunch of 1 ofs, but only if you have some way of searching for them. Fierce Empath does that, but you only have 1 of those.

next lets talk about a game plan. a deck usually wants 1 main plan to focus on, with some decks going for a back up plan if they have a strategy that tends to get some frequent hate. now the plan can be fairly broad and you can have multiple types of cards that help your plan but there should be a very clear plan. I think there is a plan in your deck, but you have lots of cards in it that do not fit the plan very well.

so lets talk about what things we see in the deck and where you can go from here. I see a lot of big creatures and ways to get them out quicker. this is generally called 'stompy' and tends to fit in GR/GRx lists as it allows for ramp and aggressive beaters. cards like Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma are great for this. blue is sometimes added to stall opponents out until you unleash your monsters.

when looking at your cards, you'll want to think "how does this help my plan?". for example, what does Elvish Reclaimer do for the deck? it doesn't ramp the deck unless you're grabbing bounce lands like Izzet Boilerworks but is vulnerable to your opponents removal unlike cards like Farseek. it can become a 3/4 but your goal isn't to play a few 3/4s and win via value cards, it's to get big scary things into play that end the game.

Since this is a deck revolving around winning with some big scary things, lets talk about big scary things. you have a lot of options. but you don't need that many. what you need is 1 or two very good ones and multiples of them to make sure that you get them when you need them. right now i'm not a huge fan of top end of your deck. mainly they are cards that are very expensive and either don't do much, or do it too slowly. Verdant Sun's Avatar is 7 mana 5/5 that gains a little bit of life. Roil Elemental requires triple blue which isn't always as easy, only has 3 power which is abysmal for a 6 mana card and you still need to play more land in order to get use out of it. Simic Sky Swallower at least can't be removed easily by an opponent where as most everything else in your deck loses to Terminate. you might want to consider cards like Carnage Tyrant, Terror of the Peaks, or Inferno Titan. these cards are harder/painful to remove or get some value when they come in so it's not a total loss if they are removed.

you have ramp in your deck which is good. that's something you want. the problem is that most of the ramp in your deck is too slow/expensive. Frontier Guide wont be able to ramp you unless you already have 4 mana. and if you have 4 mana Explosive Vegetation or goreclaw are better bets. the point of ramp is that you do it early, so that your big things come out faster than they normally would. so you want cheaper ramp cards. Sakura-Tribe Elder is a great card for this as it can be used as early as turn 2 and can provide a blocker if your opponent is being really aggressive against you in the early game.

counter spells can also help the plan. the reason people want to get big things out fast is mostly to get them out before your opponent has a chance to do something. so in a way, counter spells are almost like a form of ramp. so long as you play a land and counter your opponents spell for the turn, you've essentially just said that both players play a land. the problem with the counterspells you picked is that they are expensive. you need to be able to stop your opponents plays early on in order for the previous statement to work. and ideally you want to be able to do stuff on your turn besides just hold up mana to counterspells. for both these reasons you want less 4 mana counterspells and more 2 mana counterspells such as Mana Leak, or Remand.

you mention that you are playing burn. burn generally means using cards that deal damage directly to your opponent in order to get their life to 0. you play pretty much zero of those cards. i do see several cards that deal damage to creatures which is what i believe you were getting at.

theres a lot of work this deck needs in order to be ok. the ideas are there, but most of these cards would need to be switched out. i can try to put together a sample list of what i think you'd want this deck to look like but i'll have to do that tomorrow as it's 1:30AM here and i need sleep.

rdean14 on Card creation challenge

2 weeks ago

Teferi's Unwinding

Sorcery

Untap two target permanents.

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This would often be an infinite combo with it. as long as you have an Izzet Boilerworks, Worn Powerstone, Sol Ring, etc. then you can untap two permanents twice for a total of five mana and untap the Guildmage. This would need Grim Monolith, Basalt Monolith, or Mana Vaultto you yeild infinite mana, though.

It's like the Aminatou, the Fateshifter & Felidar Guardian combo.

I'd like to see a Clone of some kind.

carpecanum on Omnath Elemental Landfall

4 weeks ago

Easiest way to find out is play it a dozen times. That's a couple more lands than I personally like running. I would drop 5 forests and put in Path of Discovery maybe? Simic Growth Chamber, Gruul Turf and Izzet Boilerworks all let you pop a land back to your hand to play for another landfall trigger. Just for fun something like Boundless Realms, Collective Voyage or New Frontiers so you can have one round with a ton of landfall triggers.

multimedia on RRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

1 month ago

Hey, nice budget version of Brass.

Cards a $1 or less each to consider adding:

Lands

• Command Tower
• Exotic Orchard
• Unclaimed Territory
• Crumbling Necropolis
• Dimir Aqueduct
• Rakdos Carnarium
• Izzet Boilerworks
• Rogue's Passage
• Grixis Panorama

Pirates

• Spectral Sailor
• Changeling Outcast
• Warkite Marauder
• Kitesail Freebooter
• Departed Deckhand
• Ruin Raider

Repeatable Draw

• Bident of Thassa
• Reconnaissance Mission

Evasion

• Wonder
• Goblin War Drums

Command Tower is one of the best lands for multicolored decks in Commander and it's $1. Pirates have to do combat damage to a player to trigger Brass this makes Pirates who have flying/other evasion important because they can more easily attack and not be blocked thus do combat damage to a player. Wonder can give all your Pirates flying as long as it's in your graveyard and you control one Island. More Pirates with flying/other evasion makes Bident and Mission good repeatable draw since for each Pirate who does combat damage to a player you draw a card.

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Cards to consider cutting:

• Walk the Plank
• Cancel
• Heartless Pillage
• Thaumatic Compass
• Vance's Blasting Cannons
• Dusk Legion Dreadnought
• Lightning-Rig Crew
• Storm Fleet Swashbuckler
• Headstrong Brute
• Rigging Runner
• Storm Fleet Aerialist

Good luck with your deck.

Chandra585 on RU Mad V3

2 months ago

however, if you are dead set on blue, I recommend a list similar to this:

4x Insolent Neonate

4x Cunning Survivor

4x Reckless Wurm

2x Merfolk Looter

2x Sparkspitter

4x Faithless Looting

4x Lightning Axe

2x Radical Idea

4x Thrill of Possibility

4x Circular Logic

2x Fiery Temper

4x Swiftwater Cliffs

2x Izzet Boilerworks

4x Ash Barrens

7x Island

7x Mountain

multimedia on Pirates Live to Pillage and Plunder

2 months ago

Hey, good start, nice Dockside Extortionist and Vampiric Tutor :)

Consider more one/two drop Pirates especially ones with flying? More overall one/two drop Pirates helps to assemble a battlefield of Pirates to attack the turn you play Brass.

• Siren Stormtamer
• Spectral Sailor
• Warkite Marauder
• Kitesail Freebooter
• Dire Fleet Daredevil
• Dire Fleet Poisoner

Forerunner of the Coalition is a Pirate tutor and it can also be a repeatable source opponents' lose life when a Pirate ETB. Ruin Raider can be repeatable draw at your end step with attacking Pirates. Anger and Wonder are good with Pirates especially Wonder giving them flying evasion. Giving all your Pirates including Brass flying can be a win condition with attacking Pirates. Brass is much better when she has haste letting her attack the turn you cast her. Pirates who can attack the turn you play them can help to trigger Brass's gain control ability quicker.

Buried Alive can tutor for both Anger/Wonder as well as one other creature and put them all into your graveyard. Can also use Buried with Phyrexian Reclamation and/or March of the Drowned as a way to tutor for Pirates put them into your graveyard and then recur them to your hand. Reclamation can be helpful repeatable recursion for Pirates since Pirates are going to die over the course of a game.

Marchesa, the Black Rose is not a Pirate, but she can be a repeatable source of reanimating Pirates. Dethrone is an attacking ability where as if a Pirate attacks your opponent with the most amount of life then that Pirate gets a +1/+1 counter. With Marchesa if that Pirate dies then it will come back to the battlefield at your end step. Metallic Mimic is a Pirate when it ETB who interacts well with Marchesa since Mimic can put a +1/+1 counter on another Pirate when it ETB.

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Adding some more ramp can help game play:

• Arcane Signet
• Dimir Signet
• Izzet Signet
• Rakdos Signet

Some budget lands (each $5 or less) to consider adding:

• Exotic Orchard
• Unclaimed Territory
• Crumbling Necropolis
• Shivan Reef
• Underground River
• Sunken Hollow
• Smoldering Marsh
• Sulfur Falls
• Dragonskull Summit
• Grixis Panorama
• Ash Barrens
• Evolving Wilds
• Dimir Aqueduct
• Izzet Boilerworks
• Rakdos Carnarium

These are budget land options, but of course there's many other better options for lands that are more expensive.

Good luck with your deck.

multimedia on Cromation ($50 Mutate Voltron)

3 months ago

Hey, nice budget version. Interesting deck, bizarre deck description.

You can put Jegantha next to Cromat in the deck list by adding the CMDR tag to Jegantha in the deck editor.

1x Jegantha, the Wellspring *CMDR*

Doing it this way clearly shows that Jegantha is the companion of your deck.

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Because of Jegantha's tap ability consider adding cards that can untap a creature to get more activations?

• Retreat to Coralhelm: good with Panoramas, Wilds/Expanse and Guild Bounce lands.
• Kiora's Follower
• Seeker of Skybreak
• Instill Energy

Faeburrow Elder is a very good mana dork for five colors and is also a creature you want to untap. With Cromat in your control Elder is another Jegantha. Jodah, Archmage Eternal in combination with Jegantha makes it easier to cast spells because then generic mana costs don't matter and the mana made by Jegantha lets you cast any spell. Conflux is busted with the ramp from Jegantha tutoring for five creatures with mutate.

$40 total price is below precon total prices and the manabase here is worse then a lot of precons. With 20 Forest in the manabase you're counting on Jegantha to cast spells. I know this is low budget, but you want to at least make the manabase playable without Jegantha. For low cost the Guild Bounce lands can help the manabase and have fine interaction with lots of basic lands.

• Exotic Orchard
• Simic Growth Chamber
• Golgari Rot Farm
• Gruul Turf
• Selesnya Sanctuary
• Azorius Chancery
• Dimir Aqueduct
• Izzet Boilerworks
• Rakdos Carnarium
• Orzhov Basilica
• Boros Garrison

Good luck with your deck.