Luminarch Ascension
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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
Highlander Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Planar Constructed Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Luminarch Ascension

Enchantment

At the beginning of each opponent's end step, if you didn't lose life this turn, you may put a quest counter on Luminarch Ascension. (Damage causes loss of life.)

{{1,W}}: Put a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying onto the battlefield. Activate this ability only if Luminarch Ascension has four or more quest counters on it.

KayneMarco on Rainbow Angels

2 months ago

Will offer a small list of possible additions based on what I’m not seeing to begin with.

Just a few cards that add to the Angel theme.

DreadKhan on

4 months ago

I love fiddling with Zur, such a cool Commander!

Since it got reprinted I think Estrid's Invocation is worth a look, it's not only a combo piece, it's also capable of being fetched as a copy of All That Glitters. It's ability to change what it's copying each of your upkeeps means it can also wipe out a type of token with Detention Sphere. I think once you try out Invocation you'll be surprised how useful it can be.

I love using Luminarch Ascension in Zur lists, it's often a great play whenever you draw into it, and it's a good fetch if you can't be attacked (stuff like your Propaganda, Ghostly Prison, but also Solitary Confinement are all good ways to protect yourself, Solitary is protection plus a ton of upside, but you'll need a card draw source, fortunately Zur can find many!). Getting a 4/4 flyer for only 1W is insane value IMHO, so maybe Greater Auramancy to protect it? It's a TON cheaper than it used to be, and it's great with Copy Enchantment.

zigkid3 on Zenith Seeker

11 months ago

Archon of Cruelty is an Archon, not a demon, fyi. Baleful Strix does not match your commander's color identity. Ophiomancer Why? Just for blockers? Maybe try Luminarch Ascension instead Yarok, the Desecrated Doesn't match your commander's color identity

I like the Ephemerate I feel like its an underrated card so bonus points for that.

Anatak on Defender Lifegain... Lets get political

1 year ago

Hello, thank you for listing this very interesting deck. I've been thinking about a similar idea, combining Defenders and Lifegain.

I really like the Angelic theme with Angelic Accord, Luminarch Ascension and Angelic Wall. Very flavourful! I see Seraph Sanctuary in your Maybeboard and think it would only add to this strong flavour.

The Pride Guardian and Wall of Essence haven't turned out to be strong cards in my experience, because they rely on your opponent attacking you to proc the lifegain. Although I suppose that does work very well with Luminarch Ascension, since it discourages your foes to attack you.
Perimeter Captain is a strong enough card on its own and is exempt from this, and may even encourage you to run other good defenders which don't gain life, such as: Wall of Omens and Jeskai Barricade, the later of which by the way is a much needed combat trick, which the deck is currently light on.

A card you may wish to consider is Archangel of Thune, although its expensive! Another is Dawn of Hope.

In any case I wish you luck with the deck and thank you for inspiring some changes in my own build.

Icbrgr on Eriette of the Charmed Apple

1 year ago

Maze of Ith and Porphyry Nodes might also be solid.... maybe Deification with Gideon of the Trials and Serra the Benevolent, Worship... Luminarch Ascension?

Azoth2099 on [KFC] Kaalia Friended Chickens

1 year ago

jameswarlord

Just followed you on Moxfield. To add me as a co-brewer go into the deck settings and select "Change Author", my username is "Azoth"!

As far as pet cards go, over the years I've learned that it's always best to find appropriate Commanders for them that fully synergize with them than to shoehorn them in where they don't necessarily belong, but it looks like most of your keepers are bangers anyway I wouldn't worry about it too much. Definitely a few cards that I'd opt to cut but things like Necropotence & Smothering Tithe are not on that list, more like Anger & Luminarch Ascension.

jameswarlord on [KFC] Kaalia Friended Chickens

1 year ago

Azoth2099 I've never tried Moxfield! I pre-emptively imported the deck in there (www.moxfield.com/decks/_LTrrj5RfUKsBLkk0pXm4g) just in case but no idea how to go about co-brewing it :)

For a list of cards I wouldn't really like to part with from playing as I enjoy them quite a lot and always play I made this little list:

jameswarlord on [KFC] Kaalia Friended Chickens

1 year ago

Hi there! Thank you both Azoth2099 and lhetrick13 so much for the feedback! I agree that this deck right now isn't going many places as its trying to do too many things at once so your conversation is very insightful for me!

To clarify on lhetrick13 first comment (which I really appreciate!), Liliana's Contract is really there just for the card draw as I don't like her win con. I should probably replace it with something else as you point out. Maybe some of the ramp cards Azoth2099 suggested.

If anything, one of my goals with the deck was to be as versatile as I could to be able to exist in most games. The reasoning for my lifegain additions were that sometimes the demons (and other cards) giving me card draw outright leave with single digit health (looking at you Diabolic Intent) so I wanted things to soak damage and allow me to cancel out the life drain I was having. I do find fun however to gain a lot of life, but I have seen in many decks focused on lifegain that they go for wincons with Aetherflux Reservoir and I don't feel that's fun for me, so not sure how would I go about that rooute.

On the other side, I'm also very hesitant to go the aristocrat/reanimator route as all I feel all it takes is a cheap instant with graveyard hate to ruin the whole thing. I might be wrong here, but that's what I've seen from friends playing with half their deck in the graveyard. I've seen a lot of Kaalia of the Vast lists, however, that use just 2-3 cards that bring things back from the graveyard and I think that might be okay? But I might just be increasing the amount of things the deck can do without giving it more direction. What cards would you cut for more graveyard play?

As an aside, cards like Luminarch Ascension and Valkyrie Harbinger I've found to enjoy quite a lot as they give me more board presence over time and serve as a backup plan in case Kaalia is costing me 12 mana. I have no idea what type of deck that would lean into (probably army/tokens) but then I don't think I would be using Kaalia properly.

All that to just say, I'm very happy that you both are willing to share knowledge and help me here :D I would really like to add Azoth2099's suggestions, such as the Saw in Half combo but I am very lost with what cards should I cut as I would like to keep synergies with Dragon Tempest and synergies with Aurelia, the Warleader. I would assume that my intention with the deck is to go ful aggro? Honestly no idea, I welcome any thoughts.

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