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- Bonus Round + Mystic Retrieval
- Mystic Retrieval + Narset's Reversal + Time Warp
- Dramatic Reversal + Mystic Retrieval + Runic Repetition
Legality
| 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 |
| Planar Constructed | Legal |
| Planechase | Legal |
| Quest Magic | Legal |
| Vanguard | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
Mystic Retrieval
Sorcery
Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Balaam__ on Balaam__
4 months ago
@legendofa I’m back with some more from a few sets.
•Silent Dart might qualify. The angle is a bit strange, but technically possible.
•Carrion Imp could be feasible from that angle.
These I’m not sure about.
•Dawn Charm At first I thought yes, then realized the hand position is opposite what it needs to be. We should see the person to whom those hands belong, yet we don’t. Maybe they’re reaching high into the air or something.
•Gruesome Menagerie I don’t think the zombie’s head is above ground and looking at his hand, I think only the hand burst out.
•Sigiled Sword of Valeron I don’t think it’s from the viewpoint of the guy holding the sword.
•Naturalize same as above.
•Magistrate's Scepter again, same as above.
I forgot to check against your list, so please ignore duplicates.
I was wondering if you could do me a favor. I tried my hand at building my first Pioneer format deck, and ran into a confusing issue. Idk the cardpool so I’ve been relying on various sources to check legality. One app said Cavern of Souls is legal so I added it, but that flagged the deck as Illegal. I checked a different source and it said it was legal, then another said no, and so forth. Do you know for certain whether it’s legal or not?
Balaam__ on Balaam__
5 months ago
Back with another bunch of first person cards legendofa, mostly from the first Innistrad block. I compared lists and you already had some so I ignored those.
Definites:
•Mystic Retrieval (also the Avacyn version of the card)
Questionables:
•Frightful Delusion definitely FPP, but no hands from off screen.
•Night Terrors shadows are coming from the wrong direction, I don’t think this is from the perspective of the vampire
•Sharpened Pitchfork perspective correct shadows, but no hands
•Wooden Stake perspective too low I wager
•Chalice of Death Flip this could be a keeper
•Elbrus, the Binding Blade Flip might be from the viewpoint of the dying guy
•Exquisite Blood probably a severed arm, even if not it doesn’t look like the view could be from whoever the arm belongs to.
Apoptosis on
Wheel in the Sky
7 months ago
Updated!
Out are cards that help opponents or don't have ideal synergy or add to the major mechanics: Anvil of Bogardan, Horn of Greed, Dictate of Kruphix, Howling Mine, Temporal Mastery, Time Warp, Smoke, Sign in Blood, Mystic Retrieval, Dismal Backwater, Doom Blade, Damnable Pact.
In (reanimation theme and some targets for reanimation): Exhume
(not 100% on this one), Soul Exchange (idealy would want one that could target all graveyards), Dance of the Dead, Animate Dead, Liliana of the Veil, Necromancy, Sire Of Insanity (bomb that minimizes opponent's ability to profit from the wheel), Mangara's Tome (I love this as a way to stack all of my reanimation cards, or anything else that I want to protect from my own wheel effects. Curious to see how it plays. The sceptor is included for the same reason), Sepulchral Primordial, Diluvian Primordial, and Molten Primordial.
Need to get an Academy Ruins.
DemonDragonJ on
Pursuit of Happiness
1 year ago
I have, indeed, replaced Time Reversal with Mystic Retrieval, which reduced this deck's average converted mana cost from 3.48 to 3.47, because, while Time Reversal is a great card, I do not wish to assist my opponents, since this deck is not a group hug deck.
DemonDragonJ on
Pursuit of Happiness
1 year ago
Should I put Mystic Retrieval into this deck? That card could replace Time Reversal, since the latter card is nice, but is not essential to the theme of this deck.
Azoth2099 on
The Lonely Loner (Seems to free his mind at night)
1 year ago
Wuddup! Vadrik, Astral Archmage is so busted, man. Probably the best Commander p4p imo. I've been brewing him for a while now.
I see you're already running Seething Song, which is great. I'd highly recommend adding Desperate Ritual & Pyretic Ritual as well. Functionally having 2 copies of Dark Ritual in a deck is insane. Mana Geyser is pretty decent, but at Sorcery speed and at a minimum cost of , it's really not worth it compared to the others.
I would also recommend Mystic Retrieval & Mizzix's Mastery over Call to Mind & Finale of Promise respectively. As well as adding Past in Flames.
2 pieces of Equipment that I noticed shone very brightly with this Commander are Conqueror's Flail & Commander's Plate. The added bonus of cost reduction makes their power here difficult to overstate.
Buyback is a popular mechanic in typical Vadrik decks, but the only ones that are truly worth consideration are Capsize, Reiterate & Clockspinning. Haze of Rage & Seething Anger are obviously great, but they don't facilitate wins with the same frequency as those other ones. Sorcery speed sucks.
Never doubt that you need those Tutors, son! Solve the Equation, Reckless Handling, Merchant Scroll, Fabricate, Bribery & Acquire are all pretty much too good to pass up here. Reshape can also be great, depending on your Artifact list.
Free spells like Misdirection, Blazing Shoal & Commandeer can be pretty great here, given that they are likely still cheap to cast if you can't cast them for free.
Lastly, try to get yourself copies of Sea Gate Restoration Flip, Shatterskull Smashing Flip & Jeska's Will for this one if you can. Amazing!
Peace!
Azoth2099 on
Izzet Vadrik Fireball-slinger
1 year ago
Hey dude!
This Commander is so underrated, a strong contender for the best in Izzet imo, good choice.
Having built and playtested the crap out of this one already, I'd recommend running Firemind's Foresight! Even if you're not using it as a 1-card wincon - which I recommend - it's still great value. Recursion spells Past in Flames, Mystic Retrieval, Mizzix's Mastery & Finale of Promise also pull a lot of weight. Buyback cards like Capsize & Reiterate are very strong here as well. Other Buyback cards that normally see no play like Spell Burst, Clockspinning & Seething Anger suddenly become pretty decent!
Equipment like Conqueror's Flail & Commander's Plate are also even better than they usually are with this Commander. Clout of the Dominus too!
Baral, Chief of Compliance could reasonably join the party as well imo!
DemonDragonJ on
Pursuit of Happiness
2 years ago
Somehow, the average converted mana cost of this deck had increased to 3.64, and I do not recall what change that I made to the deck that caused it to increase, but it does not matter, since I have replaced Ring of Three Wishes with Sevinne's Reclamation, which reduced the average converted mana cost of this deck from 3.64 to 3.58, which is very nice. Some of the other cards that I considered were Mystical Tutor, Galvanic Iteration, Increasing Vengeance, and Winds of Abandon, but I ultimately chose the reclamation, since this deck does not have much recursion, otherwise. I admit that I am strongly tempted to instead put Mystic Retrieval in the deck, but I shall see how well the reclamation works, before I put a card into the deck that shall increased its prevalence of blue even further.
