Nature's Lore

Sorcery

Search your library for a Forest card and put that card onto the battlefield., then shuffle your library.

Discussion (50)

heinrichgraum on Planeswalkers Perfected

5 hours ago

I do think Damn is a quite suitable replacement, its v flexible and does just what you need it to do. As for ramp, if artifact hate is such a problem, there's plenty of very good green spells that work snagging lands. Burgeoning , Three Visits , Nature's Lore , Hour of Promise all come to mind. Weathered Wayfarer is also pretty solid, if a little more fragile.

Oldbear on Ruric TharrrrRRRRRRHHHHHH!

1 day ago

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Arcane Signet , Battle Mammoth Forest , Fumiko the Lowblood Goblin Goliath , Grand Warlord Radha , Migratory Greathorn , Rhonas's Monument , Sakura-Tribe Scout , Tectonic Giant , Vivien, Monsters' Advocate .

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Command Beacon , Nature's Lore , Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip, Helm of the Host , Slippery Bogbonder , Dragonborn Champion , Ghalta, Primal Hunger , Etali, Primal Storm , Guardian Augmenter , Gigantomancer , Goblin Anarchomancer , Terastodon , Scourge of the Throne .

multimedia on The Ur-Dragon

1 day ago

Hey, you're welcome.

Draconic Rage Upgraded to Scion (Budget) is a budget example I made of taking the Draconic Rage precon and adapting it to play five colors with Scion of the Ur-Dragon as Commander instead. Scion is not Ur-Dragon, but he's also a five color Dragon who cares about Dragons and he's not $40.00. The budget manabase in my version is built around a package of land ramp spells: Farseek , Nature's Lore , Three Visits , Into the North , Wood Elves and Skyshroud Claim that can search for a Tango land or Snow dual land to help with color fixing.

To further help with color fixing on a budget I've also included several 2 CMC mana sources that can make any color of mana: Arcane Signet , Paradise Druid , Ornithopter of Paradise and Fertile Ground . Because of the low budget I've dedicated quite a lot of deck spots to ramp, but I feel I need to do this for the deck to function with five colors. Low CMC ramp is what I want to be consistently casting in the early game to have mana for Dragons or Scion activations for the mid and late game.

multimedia on Aesi heavy

1 day ago

Hey, much improved version, good job.

Aesi looks like she belongs as the Commander of this version. You have several excellent cards, much more than the other version, but you forgot Sol Ring . What this version needs now is consider more low CMC ramp?

The creatures who can put a land from your hand onto the battlefield are good, but they're only ramp if you have lands in your hand making them some times inconsistent sources. You want reliable ramp sources to be able to consistently cast Aesi and other higher CMC cards as well as cards with X mana costs which you want to pay a lot of mana for them. Land ramp spells have interaction with Aesi because it puts a land onto the battlefield.

• Sol Ring --> Scute Mob
• Arcane Signet --> Eternity Vessel
• Farseek --> Beacon of Tomorrows
• Nature's Lore --> Path of Discovery
• Three Visits --> Mass Manipulation
• Lotus Cobra --> Hooded Hydra
• Sakura-Tribe Elder --> Gelatinous Genesis

In my last comment, at your other version, I suggested that low CMC ramp could replace little creatures to have more overall interaction with Aesi. These suggestions are examples, they're low CMC ramp sources that you can hopefully cast early. By adding Rimewood Falls then Farseek, Lore, Visits can search for a Simic dual land to help ramp and color fixing. Breeding Pool is the more expensive price Shock land that can also be searched for.

In the above suggestions I've also suggested cards that could be cut. The majority of the cards to cut are higher CMC than the ramp sources. Most of the suggested cuts are worse cards than other cards, they're redundancy that's not needed or have effects that are subpar.

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A process that should be a big part of deck building is streamlining. Streamlining is keeping all the best cards at each CMC and cutting the lesser cards. Another name for this process is "cutting the fat" meaning you're cutting out unnecessary cards because you have better cards that do the same thing or are just much more powerful no matter the CMC.

The process also is meant to help the mana curve by cutting redundancy, many high CMC cards which reduces the average CMC of the deck that will make gameplay better. At higher budgets it's easier to streamline because you have access to more cards, but at lower budget you sometimes need to use some lesser cards as filler. Filler is not needed when you have a $400+ budget.

An example of a streamlined creature base using cards already in your version and some cards I've suggested.

• Sakura-Tribe Scout
• Sylvan Safekeeper
• Genesis Hydra
• Llanowar Scout
• Lotus Cobra
• Sakura-Tribe Elder
• Steelbane Hydra
• Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• Courser of Kruphix
• Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
• Scute Swarm
• Altered Ego
• Tatyova, Benthic Druid
• Ancient Greenwarden
• Hydra Broodmaster
• Rampaging Baloths
• Roil Elemental
• Avenger of Zendikar

Example of streamlined enchantments.

• Burgeoning
• Exploration
• Manabond
• Druid Class
• Elfhame Sanctuary
• Overburden
• Mana Breach
• Propaganda
• Rhystic Study
• Teferi's Ageless Insight

Cards that were cut from these examples.

• Hooded Hydra
• Primordial Hydra
• Cosima, God of the Voyage
• Guardian of Tazeem
• Archetype of Endurance
• Liege of the Tangle
• Dissipation Field
• Path of Discovery
• Abundance
• Court of Bounty

Good luck with your deck.

multimedia on The Ur-Dragon

2 days ago

Hey, there's a new Commander product that just released called Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Commander and Draconic Rage is one of the four precons. It's two color Gruul with Dragon theme and in the precon are several cards that are upgrades for your deck.

• Arcane Signet --> Traveler's Amulet
• Nature's Lore --> Stream of Life
• Atarka, World Render --> Darigaaz Reincarnated
• Klauth, Unrivaled Ancient --> Palladia-Mors, the Ruiner
• Savage Ventmaw --> O-Kagachi, Vengeful Kami
• Vrondiss, Rage of Ancients --> Dragonlord Atarka
• Skyline Despot --> Broodmate Dragon
• Dragonborn Champion --> Verix Bladewing
• Chaos Dragon --> Boneyard Scourge
• Garruk's Uprising --> Crucible of Fire
• Return of the Wildspeaker --> You Come to the Gnoll Camp
• Beast Within --> Draconic Roar
• Haven of the Spirit Dragon --> Gateway Plaza
• Path of Ancestry --> Dimir Guildgate
• Game Trail --> Azorius Guildgate

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If you want to be more competitive than the number one area for improvements to consider is the manabase. Due to budget I don't expect to see Shock lands and Fetch lands, but you could improve the manabase a lot even without them. On a budget rely more on basic lands, more Forests than others and some dual lands that have interaction with basic lands. The reason for this is basic lands always ETB untapped to make mana.

Play more Forests than others because green mana helps the most to get the other colors with land ramp spells. Mountains should be next because red is the most important color to cast Dragons. Those two colors are overall the two most important with Dragons.

Currently there's 26 of the 37 lands that always ETB tapped which makes the manabase really slow. In my opinion you're better off having the land ETB untapped and make less colors then ETB tapped and make more colors. On a budget a don't expect you to play all lands that always ETB untapped, but limit the amount of lands that don't to much less than 26. If you're going to play lands that always ETB tapped then choose Rainbow lands ( Path of Ancestry ) or the Tri lands ( Savage Lands ) since these lands can make one of five colors or one of three colors which on a budget is worth it ETB tapped.

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Example of a budget five color manabase:

• 15 basic lands: more Forests and Mountains than others.
• Command Tower, Exotic Orchard, Unclaimed Territory , Haven of the Spirit Dragon , Path of Ancestry
• Ash Barrens, Evolving Wilds, Terramorphic Expanse
• The World Tree
• 4 Tri lands: Jungle Shrine, Savage Lands , Frontier Bivouac , Opulent Palace
• 5 Tango lands: Cinder Glade, Canopy Vista , Sunken Hollow , Prairie Stream , Smoldering Marsh
• 3 Pain lands: Murmuring Bosk , Yavimaya Coast , Llanowar Wastes

Tango lands can ETB tapped, but more basic lands help for them not to. By adding more Tango lands then Farseek could also be added as a land upgrade for Grow from the Ashes since Farseek can search for a Tango land.

If interested I offer more advice. Would you like more advice? Good luck with your deck.

ValiWolf on Pain-Harm-onicon Wulfar Value

2 days ago

Hey jamesmac42, thanks for the suggestions! I actually already have Nature's Lore and I've thought about Three Visits , and Three Visits is a good run over Rampant Growth for sure but, throughout my playtesting the ramp has actually gone quite well, but I'm still playtesting and curating the deck. I have looked at Lifecrafter's Bestiary but decided that generally my spells cost enough as is without big creatures like Klauth, Unrivaled Ancient , Grand Warlord Radha and Savage Ventmaw , but it is still worth considering! personally, given how giving everything Trample and Deathtouch works, I think I more highly value Bow of Nylea potentially giving all of the big creatures huge pumps, trample and deathtouch so that more damage tramples over. Shamanic Revelation is a card I had in the deck at one point, but it feels like a card that just gets you more ahead, instead of helping you come back from a board wipe or something, I think I would personally consider Harmonize instead of Shamanic Revelation for more consistent card draw and a slightly cheaper cost. Radha Heir to Keld is a card I have been moving back and forth on constantly and it's actually a card I put in the Budget list for this deck, maybe I'll keep it around. I'd love to look over your deck list and see if there's any kind of inspiration I could take! I think this could be my favorite deck if I can get it in paper

jamesmac42 on Pain-Harm-onicon Wulfar Value

3 days ago

ValiWolf Hey, that’s funny, we almost built the same deck!

If anything, I would recommend more ramp. You’re gonna want it, trust me. Radha, Heir to Keld is a great dork for this deck, with a helpful attack trigger to boot. Three Wishes and Nature's Lore can grab Cinder Glade and Stomping Ground .

Purely my preference, but given the choice, I would slot Lifecrafter's Bestiary over Bow of Nylea . I also kept the Shamanic Revelation from the pre-con – that’s one card that’s never disappointed me.

I’d encourage you to play around and see what works!

Coward_Token on Adventures in the Forgotten Realms …

2 weeks ago

Kinda disappointed about the dungeon support. No cool completion rewards for me.

Nature's Lore reprint is nice.

Quite surprised they didn't make an Elminister card or even referenced him, AFAIK he's only second to Drizzt in popularity?