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| Format | Legality |
| 1v1 Commander | Legal |
| Alchemy | Legal |
| Arena | Legal |
| Block Constructed | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Canadian Highlander | Legal |
| Casual | Legal |
| Commander / EDH | Legal |
| Commander: Rule 0 | Legal |
| Custom | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Highlander | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Leviathan | Legal |
| Limited | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Pioneer | Legal |
| Pre-release | Legal |
| Standard | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
Leyline of the Guildpact
Enchantment
If Leyline of the Guildpact is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
Each nonland permanent you control is all colours.
Lands you control are every basic land type in addition to their other types.
legendofa on Tiers of card badness
1 month ago
Not all "bad" cards are created equal. As I see it, just like how there's build-around good cards, really good cards, and must-include cards, there's several tiers of cards that don't quite measure up.
At the top, there's the weird cards. These cards have unique effects. They're generally useful and/or interesting, but make lots of demands for deckbuilding and have no redundancy. Spellweaver Helix, Riku of Two Reflections, and Leyline of the Guildpact are some examples. Good for casual play and for "trying to make work".
Next is the draft fodder. Good if you don't have anything better, but easily replaceable. These cards get functionally reprinted a lot, and are usually pretty straightforward. I would put Cancel, Shock, and Alabaster Host Sanctifier as examples. You won't be ashamed to use them in Limited, and they work well as starters for a new collection, but they get outclassed quickly.
Next, and the first tier I would call truly bad cards, are the very inefficient cards and the cards that just don't do anything. They're significantly overcosted, or there's many better options. These cards might still be technically useful, or at least not actively harmful, but they can't compete with anything else. Mudhole, Razor Boomerang, and Aven Trooper go here.
Finally, there's the worst of the worst. The cards that actively hurt you and make it harder to play the game. If you put them in a deck, you're either trying to meme or you're going to Donate them. Alabaster Leech, Soldevi Steam Beast, and Goblin Elite Infantry fall into this group.
This is subjective and a continuum, so there's a lot of room to arrange individual cards. I've been reading Mark Rosewater's articles on bad cards, and designing Nihilist decks (example here), and there's been some forum discussion on what cards are worth using and which aren't. So it's been on my mind recently.
legendofa on
Domain Maelstrom Dragon
1 month ago
TFCamaro12 I agree that Leyline of the Guildpact isn't a "bad" card. The main problem is that it's such a build-around card. If you can hardcast it, you probably don't need it, and if it's not in your opening hand, you're stuck playing super slow until you get it out. It doesn't have any redundancy, so backing it up is hard. Basically, either you have it, or your deck chokes.
What exactly is the role of Leyline of the Guildpact in this deck? As I see it, the most efficient line is to set up the Urzatron, cast Morophon, the Boundless or Timeless Lotus, and cast Tiamat from there. The Leyline + Scion of Draco line is good long-game synergy, but it seems to me that dumping some big hasty smashy Dragons out might be a better payoff. There's no reason for the creature color spreading outside of Scion, and I'm not sure how much the basic land ability helps.
If I may suggest, try reworking this deck to focus more on the Morophon-Lotus-Tiamat line, and save the Guildpact for a different deck. Unless I'm missing something obvious, of course.
The More We Work Together is my shot at a Leyline of the Guildpact deck, if you're interested in seeing a different angle.
wallisface on
Domain Maelstrom Dragon
1 month ago
I still feel like the deck’s going to really struggle to function without Leyline of the Guildpact in your opening hand. I also think that the Tron lands are a nonbo with Leyline of the Guildpact, and having both in the deck feels very awkward - especially when a lot of your spells require coloured mana.
Tiamat looks impossible to cast unless you have Morophon out - which imo is too many steps to go through.
wallisface on
Domain Maelstrom Dragon
1 month ago
This deck doesn’t look like it’ll do anything without both Leyline of the Guildpact in your opening hand, and some way to assemble Tron.
This is a problem because you have no reliable way to assemble Tron at all, and your opening hand will be missing Leyline of the Guildpact 60% of the time.
legendofa on legendofa
2 months ago
sergiodelrio Thank you for the support!
Looking at the Leylines, it looks like they all play well with Nylea, Keen-Eyed. Maybe an Elfball Nylea deck? Start off with Leylines to protect and enhance your mana dorks and hit devotion quickly, then get big piles of mana to do stuff with. I don't know if there's a great way to take advantage of the colorfulness of Leyline of the Guildpact this way, but +4 green devotion might be worth it by itself. What format are you looking at?
Whatever direction you go in, it's going to be fun. Cheers!
sergiodelrio on legendofa
2 months ago
Hey legendofa, thanks for the upvote! I saw your Leyline of the Guildpact deck the other day (as you know) and thought the combo approach was quite crafty.
That card has been on my radar since it spoiled and I thought maybe something can be done based on devotion (Aspect of Hydra)? Imho green has some very solid leylines anyway (Leyline of Abundance, Leyline of Vitality) and with cards like Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx that might be able to get outta hand quickly.
I'd appreciate your opinion on the idea, since I know you're a fellow theorycrafter. What do you think would be a reasonable shell? Can not make up my mind between enchantment tribal, or mana dork tribal or sth else entirely.
Cheers!
legendofa on Murders at Karlov Manor
2 months ago
Leyline of the Guildpact -> Bloom Tender -> Coalition Victory? I'm sure there's dozen articles about this already, but I'm not going to look. I'm going to start brewing.
Coward_Token on Murders at Karlov Manor
2 months ago
Kinda funny that Leyline of the Guildpact is bad with Niv-Mizzet, Guildpact (OK with the other two though.)
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