Opal Palace

Land

: Gain .

, : Gain one mana of any colour in your commander's color identity. If you spend this mana to cast your commander, it enters the battlefield with a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the number of times it's been cast from the command zone this game.

Discussion (51)

DemMeowsephs on Queen Marchesa - The One True Love

5 days ago

Hey there mate! From what I see, you have all three shock lands (Pay 2 on ETB), all the filter lands (Pay X/Y get combination) and the check lands (ETB tapped unless X/Y). These are all great lands, but I think almost everything else can get a nice sweet upgrade. Note some of my suggestions may not be in your budget

• Blackcleave Cliffs
• Concealed Courtyard
• Inspiring Vantage
• Bloodstained Mire (Budget: Rocky Tar Pit
• Marsh Flats
• Arid Mesa
• Sulfurous Springs
• Caves of Koilos/Silent Clearing
• Battlefield Forge/Sunbaked Canyon
• Luxury Suite
• Vault of Champions
• Spectator Seating
• Ancient Tomb
• Prismatic Vista (A better Evolving Wilds)
• City of Brass
• Mana Confluence
• Reflecting Pool
• Strip Mine/Wasteland (A better Ghost Quarter)
• Gemstone Caverns

• Glacial Chasm (For Pillowfort?)

• Now I know that is quite a lot, but don't worry- I have an idea. I personally believe all of the following could and should be cut for some of the suggestions below, as you progress with your deck. Akoum Refuge, Bloodfell Caves, Evolving Wilds, Ghost Quarter, Nomad Outpost (Maybe Savai Triome instead?), Opal Palace, Scoured Barrens, Smoldering Marsh (it's only good in decks heavy with basics), Wind-Scarred Crag, etc!

• For ramp, Lotus Petal, Land Tax, and Dark Ritual can be pretty fun too.

• Hope this helps! If you like my suggestions be sure to support some of my decks (Double Trouble EDH *PRIMER*). Anyways though, hope this helps, good luck on your deck, and have a great day! Happy tapping!

MtG-Crash on [PDH] Tatyova Combo

5 days ago

acman54321 its not worth a slot, no. I have played it of course from the very beginning but its not worth the slot. The entire deck already is shuffle-effects.deck so you dont need extra shuffle effects just for the shuffle. Ash Barrens is just not a good card in this deck, interestingly. The fixing is already so strong because of all the land search spells that you dont wanna have a colorless land. Evolving Wilds and Terramorphic Expanse are another case because they give you double landfall triggers :)

general advise: as this is a Mystical Sanctuary (and a High Tide) deck, you really wanna play a lot of islands and dont wanna play any unnecassary land without the island subtype. So after a lot of testing I ended up cutting all the "generic good lands" and stuff and this is correct to do so :) I ended up cutting the gaindland, the gate of course, Ash Barrens, even Opal Palace. The only lands that stayed were Command Tower, Halimar Depths, Growth Chamber and Evolving Wilds + Terramorphic Expanse. And thats enough Im quite sure :) But I really dont wanna play anymore non islands.

multimedia on Zagras EDH Deck

6 days ago

Hey, nice start on budget. Kyle_Winter gave you some good advice to help the party. My advice is to help the manabase, ramp and draw.

First, you don't need 42 lands, that's overkill for your deck. 36 lands should be fine. Consider cutting some lands for more ramp sources? Budget lands and ramp to consider adding:

• Dragonskull Summit
• Smoldering Marsh
• Rakdos Signet
• Dark Ritual
• Foreboding Ruins
• Opal Palace
• Rakdos Carnarium
• Ash Barrens
• Grixis Panorama
• Jund Panorama

Consider cutting some basic lands for these lands?

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Ramp can be a problem with Rakdos because these colors lack lots of options, but one way to help to not miss land drops is to play low mana cost draw. Cards like these can replace ramp because for a low mana cost they can help to draw into lands or party members who then act like ramp to cast Zagras.

• Read the Bones
• Night's Whisper
• Thrill of Possibility

Repeatable draw sources are best in Commander because they can potentially give you value throughout the entire game. With Zagras cards that give you value who are party creatures or when you attack/do combat damage are options:

• Azra Oddsmaker
• Magus of the Wheel
• Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion
• Mask of Memory
• Asylum Visitor
• Valakut Exploration
• Underworld Connections

Oddsmaker and Mask are nice with Zagras because he has flying.

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Some advice about game play. I would keep the mana curve very low because you want to assemble a party for Zagras as that's what makes Zagras a mana efficient and potentially good Commander. The lower the mana curve the easier it will be to have two or more party members on the battlefield to help to cast Zagras. In fact, for your deck I would end the curve at Dagger Caster and Drana, the Last Bloodchief as these are abilities and effects at the top that go well with Zagras. I would limit the four drops to very few.

Roving Keep is an example of a creature you don't need because it's high CMC and doesn't help the party or have interaction with Zagras. Zof Consumption is an example of a spell that you don't need even though if you want can play it as a tapped land. Consumption for six mana is not worth what it does.

I offer more advice about what cards to cut. Would you like more advice?

Good luck with your deck.

multimedia on Matriarch of the Orzhov Syndicate Teysa Karlov

2 weeks ago

Hey, nice budget version of Teysa.

Some budget card upgrades to consider:

• Open the Armory > Night's Whisper
  Armory can get Skullclamp. If it's not getting Clamp than Deathmantle or Greaves or Animate or Dance.
  
  

• Leonin Relic-Warder > Serrated Scorpion
  Warder makes a dies loop with Animate Dead, Dance of the Dead or Necromancy and since you have all these enchantments then it fits right in. If you would like me to explain the interaction I will.
  
  

• Mirror Entity > Burnished Hart
  Entity can be repeatable pump for all tokens and Teysa or it's activated ability for zero can be the sac outlet to combo with Reveillark + Karmic Guide.
  
  

• Priest of Forgotten Gods > Flesh Carver
• Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim > Cartel Aristocrat
• Tithe Taker > Hunted Witness
• Victimize > Unearth
• Generous Gift > Mortify

Some budget lands to consider adding: High Market, Ash Barrens, Esper Panorama, Opal Palace, Orzhov Basilica.

Good luck with your deck.

multimedia on Atla Palani, Nest Tender

2 weeks ago

Hey, nice budget version of Atla.

You have three of the best cards with Atla: Mirror Entity, Skullclamp and Goblin Bombardment. Eladamri's Call, Open the Armory and Idyllic Tutor are tutors for one of these cards. Crop Rotation can tutor for High Market or Opal Palace. Palace is actually an important card with Atla because if you cast her with Palace then she gets a +1/+1 counter. Atla having a counter means she doesn't die when you activate Mirror Entity for zero turning all creatures you control into 0/0 Eggs. This is how you can take real advantage of Entity.

Some budget lands to consider adding: Ash Barrens, Battlefield Forge, Canopy Vista

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Cards to consider cutting to add the tutors and lands: Rugged Highlands, Birthing Boughs, Dragon Egg, Crucible of Fire, Palladia-Mors, the Ruiner, Explosive Vegetation, Sunscorch Regent

Good luck with your deck.

MtG-Crash on [PDH] Tatyova Combo

3 weeks ago

Rhevohole yeah sure, but they aint islands, so they dont help. There is so many more lands I actually ended up cutting like Opal Palace and such. They aint worth it when you tryna combo with Mystic Sanctuary on turn6 :) And you dont need the fixing in the first place due to all the cardselection and ramping.

Regarding the land base this is definitely a case of "keep it simple" due to Mystic Sanctuary.

Greetings

dominionloser123 on Hapatra EDH

1 month ago

You could consider adding a Desert package (Desert of the Glorified, Desert of the Indomitable, Grasping Dunes, Endless Sands, and possibly a few of the more minor ones) in order to enable Ifnir Deadlands. If you do, I might consider cutting Opal Palace as your colorless landcount is perhaps a bit on the high side.

Nesting Grounds seems fun in this list.

Cut Golgari Guildgate, Foul Orchard, Jungle Hollow, and Vivid Grove. They're taplands with no upside, and there's plenty of better options out there.

Tectonic Edge doesn't really fit the current meta, since nobody's running any of the broken lands that would actually warrant getting destroyed.

Your swamp count is only at...9, if you count the budget fetchlands and Urborg. That's a bit low to make Tainted Wood work.

Generous Patron, Seshiro the Anointed, Yawgmoth, Thran Physician, Skullclamp, Moldervine Reclamation, and Driven / Despair are your only ways to accrue much in the way of card draw. It's over the minimum threshold I'd set to run Reliquary Tower, but I'd keep in mind that the Tower is rarely going to do much for you, so cutting it wouldn't be the worst.

BlackoutX on Catmander

1 month ago

You have to many tap lands, Graypelt Refuge, Tranquil Expanse, Temple of Plenty, Selesnya Guildgate, Saltcrusted Steppe, Evolving Wilds, and Blossoming Sands just shouldn't be run. Use basics or use expensive duels that can enter untapped. I'd personally remove Scattered Groves, Opal Palace, Gavony Township, and Animal Sanctuary I find them to be slow and often don't return the value spent.

Just a note, one for one trades like Beast Within tend to be bad in commander. You also will probably want to run more one to two mana ramp cards like Avacyn's Pilgrim and Wild Growth.