Jeska's Will
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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Alchemy 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
Freeform Legal
Gladiator Legal
Highlander Legal
Historic Legal
Historic Brawl Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Planar Constructed Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Jeska's Will

Sorcery

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both modes.

  • Add for each card in target opponent's hand.
  • Exile the top three cards of your library. You may play them this turn.

Optimator on Roses of May -- (Marchesa Threaten)

1 week ago

Last_Laugh thank you for your comments. I am aware of how strong Danny Pink is in this deck. That's why he gets a 2x in the maybeboard and is listed in my "cards to add" spoiler. Just haven't gotten around to buying one or proxy-ing one. I just added a real one to my Piper Wright, Publick Reporter deck Truth is the First Casualty (Piper Clues). Great card. Will add one day.

I run Gary in three other decks, and one even loops him over and over already (Rooftop Experiments (Zombie Tribal)), so I didn't feel the need. I also was concerned about reliably having enough black pips. I just like the Kamigawa dragons too, so I wanted to run Kuuks. Better attacker than Gary, with the flying.

Satoru, the Infiltrator is on the shortlist of adds too; also in the "to add" spoiler. Just haven't gotten around to it. All the adds from the last update were from my existing collection. I'm thinking about proxy-ing an optimized mana-base for this deck and would maybe add more upgrades then. This isn't a deck I'm trying to truly optimize (hence the Threaten theme). I even took out Rhystic Study and Jeska's Will from the deck.

Up-votes on any of my decks are appreciated.

Worrad75 on Pia-tiful Impulse Control

2 months ago

The name of the game for this round of changes is simple: MORE EXILE.

Long-Range Sensor for Count on Luck: Let me just say, I have a soft spot for Loot as a character (so cute!), so this swap is difficult on a strictly art-based level. However, if we're comparing 3-mana long-term value pieces, its not even a competition. LRS is super slick; 4 mana (3 to cast + 1 to activate, 3 colorless) for your first discover 4 as compared to 3 mana (no colorless) for an impulse draw on upkeep is about equal, but then you factor that LRS can both store its counters and also activate more than once a turn. This would be useful if we have a dominant boardstate but are afraid of a board wipe, we could sandbag the activations. The impulse draw from Count on Luck is nice but 3 red pips is also just way too restrictive to consistently cast on turn 3, which is when youd like to cast it to get max value.

Warleader's Call for Painter's Studio / Defaced Gallery: Lets not get it twisted; Warleader's Call is a great card. But this deck needs more exile, and so more exile is what it'll get. Studio gives us the card advantage and access to exile we crave, while Defaced Gallery gives us that extra reach that we need to close out a game. Obviously, WC is better when all you need is damage, but this deck has a fail rate and we need to respect that by finding ways to deal damage while keeping the cards flowing. For what its worth, 3 mana -> 2 mana (and dropping a pip) isn't insignificant as a 'Im casting this from exile for as little as possible' metric, and the on-attack buff from Galleryrather than the constant one from Call can avoid anti-synergy with cards like The Battle of Bywater and Delney, Streetwise Lookout, which comes up more often than you would think.

Glimpse the Impossible for Reconstruct History: This is my hardest cut. I love Reconstruct History as a reload-and-do-it-again effect. It gives the deck its only recursion, and when it has its high points (like picking up Battle Hymn, Jeska's Will, Lantern of Insight, Connecting the Dots, and Quintorius Kand from your graveyard for 4 mana) it feels like the best card in the deck. However, that pendulum swings both ways; its not uncommon to impulse draw this early in the game and have nothing but an Infernal Plunge in your graveyard. Glimpse the Impossible is also card advantage, but it specifically circumvents the possibility of a wasting the spell by refunding you for un-used cards in the form of Scion tokens. Mondrak, Glory Dominus gets even happier with this swap, we go down in CMC and a color pip, and overall the deck should run a bit smoother with this. That said, There's a high chance I revert this change, as this deck has pretty close to the perfect card type distribution for a card like Reconstruct History to really shine.

And yes, I'm officially cutting Hidden Volcano and Cori Mountain Monastery for Mountains. Got burned in-game by the Volcano already, and we have cards like Clifftop Retreat to consider. The flavor win is there, but its time to be realistic; I've seen these cards a combined 15+ times in games and never activated their abilities.

Mortlocke on 100% Dinosaur Tribal

2 months ago

I still want to advocate for Roaming Throne, sure it's printed creature type is Golem, but once it ETBs, it becomes a Dinosaur. But I understand if you have a vision that you desire to keep to.

Also please reconsider Jeska's Will. It does provide a massive mid-late game payoff, but the card actually reads , add 7 red mana to your mana pool if you cast it early game. Players aren't really hellbound between turns 2 and 4.

indieinside on 100% Dinosaur Tribal

2 months ago

Hey Mortlocke, spam all you want!!!

To me Jeska's Will would be considered a late game card because I would already have it cast for free if my Commander is in play. Otherwise casting it to possibly only merit about two additional mana isn’t that big of a boost.

Kodama's Reach – no basic lands available. Maybe I should add some.

Rampant Growth – no basic lands available. Maybe I should add some.

Topiary Stomper – no basic lands available. Maybe I should add some.

Fellwar Stone – it is "okay", but weaker than people tend to realize.

I agree, I should probably cut a few dinosaurs to add in some basic lands. Even cutting down utility lands to and in basic lands and tutors.

I just can’t commit to Roaming Throne because he isn’t “actually” a dinosaur. It wouldn’t be 100% if I did that. Sure, you can choose a creature type. But he isn’t that creature type. He is a Golem. I am willing to lose strength to keep theme.

I love Arena, but you’re right. A basic would be much more helpful early game.

This is super helpful. Any other suggestions?

Mortlocke on 100% Dinosaur Tribal

2 months ago

As a fellow Dinosaur enthusiast, I am happy to take a look at your deck and toss in my two cents. From a glance at your deck and drawing a few first hands I've noted that your early game is rife with very high cmc spells and permanents with few opportunities to ramp and even fewer spells to keep the tempo going. You have an 8 cmc commander but not nearly enough ramp to get it out consistently. Please consider including:

As for what to cut to make room, is the difficult part. I'd look at the more redundant spells that make little difference once your board is established - shed the high cmc "win more" spells.

Also 35 lands is too few - bump them up to at least 37 maybe 38. You're a bit too greedy on Dinos, and should cut a few.

TotallyNotAMimic on List of EDH Ramp Cards

4 months ago

A little situational, but less often than not. I think Jeska's Will belongs here.

MTGBurgeoning on Magar the Horrible

5 months ago

Thanks for commenting! Soooo, no barriers??? Okay, if that's the case, we begin with Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth and Cabal Coffers. The burst black mana production can pay for multiple 1 and B activation costs of Magar. As long as we're upgrading the land base, other considerations include the less costly Fabled Passage, Raucous Theater and Blazemire Verge, the pricier Bloodstained Mire and Prismatic Vista, and the reach-for-the-sky Ancient Tomb and Badlands. As for spells, there aren't too many pricy Magar-friendly spells that I can recommend here, which is one of the great investment advantages of piloting a Magar build. A lot of the most impactful Magar-assisted spells are bulk rares and mythic rares. However, I'm sure it wouldn't hurt the overall synergy of the deck by including Jeska's Will and Demonic Tutor. Those two cards would make Magar very, very happy. One less costly spell that I want to add is Call Forth the Tempest, but a copy has not crossed my path yet. Another consideration, although I do not recommend it, is Wheel of Fortune. I do not recommend it because I prefer to NOT put so many additional cards in the hands of my opponents, regardless of how much it may wreck in-game and in-the-moment strategies by opponents. Aside from these Magar-friendly cards, the only other cards I would offer as considerations are support cards like Bone Miser, Deflecting Swat, and Deadly Rollick. Once you complete your build, I would LOVE to see what you have! Happy brewing!!

Liquidbeaver on Ib Halfheart, Goblin Sac-tician [PRIMER]

5 months ago

Ib is getting super cereal about winning, so....

Sunspine Lynx and Nahiri's Lithoforming

out for

Jeska's Will and Underworld Breach.

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