Opulent Palace

Land

Opulent Palace enters the battlefield tapped.

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Discussion (51)

multimedia on Alas Poor Yarok

2 weeks ago

Hey, nice version of Yarok.

My card suggestions for you to consider can help to improve the manabase. With a $700+ budget and having Underground Sea there's many even budget lands to consider adding.

• Exotic Orchard
• Breeding Pool
• Opulent Palace
• Yavimaya Coast
• Woodland Cemetery
• Waterlogged Grove
• Nurturing Peatland
• Underground River
• Ash Barrens
• Drowned Catacomb
• Hinterland Harbor

Lands to consider cutting:

• Temple of the False God
• Dismal Backwater
• Khalni Garden
• Skyline Cascade
• Golgari Rot Farm
• Memorial to Unity
• Memorial to Genius
• Terramorphic Expanse
• Barren Moor
• Temple of Malady
• Temple of Mystery

These are 10 lands that ETB tapped and even though some of these lands trigger Yarok it's not worth it. There's so many better land options that can ETB untapped.

multimedia on Sliver EDH v1.0

2 weeks ago

Hey, saw your forum topic asking for help. Nice $850+ budget, but the manabase doesn't look like you have this high of a budget. You have $130 Sliver Queen and are playing Vivid lands?

Lots of good advice here about Slivers, but no one has said anything about the manabase? You can improve the manabase even on a budget, but if you're willing to spend some then great, but either way you can make it better. The Vivid lands ( Vivid Grove ) are not good. Even if you were playing proliferate which you're not; there are much better land options. The ETB tapped Fetch lands ( Flood Plain ) are also not good unless you are able to fetch dual lands that can consistently ETB untapped which you don't have here.

The Battle lands ( Cinder Glade ) are good budget dual lands, but only if you're playing a lot of basic lands. There's only 10 basic lands here which means consistently a Battle land won't ETB untapped and when you fetch one it will also ETB tapped. When you need five colors these Fetch lands are too slow and are not helping enough if all they're fetching is a basic land or a Battle land. Consider the Shock lands ( Overgrown Tomb )? You can fetch a Shock land and have it ETB untapped for the cost of 2 life. They could replace the Vivid lands.

If not willing or can't afford to add the Shock lands then another option to consider is adding the Tri lands ( Jungle Shrine ) replacing the Vivid lands and ETB tapped Fetch lands. Tri lands also ETB tapped and are not ideal, but they can make one of three different colors the next turn. Unlike the Vivid lands they can be tapped each turn after to make a different color of mana. The Vivid lands will run out of counters and then they become really useless in a five color deck.

Manabase changes to consider.

Add the Shock lands, cut the Vivid lands:

• Overgrown Tomb
• Temple Garden
• Breeding Pool
• Watery Grave
• Hallowed Fountain
• Stomping Ground
• Blood Crypt

OR budget

Add the Tri lands, cut the Vivid lands and ETB tapped Fetch lands.

• Jungle Shrine
• Seaside Citadel
• Savage Lands
• Crumbling Necropolis
• Arcane Sanctum
• Opulent Palace
• Frontier Bivouac
• Sandsteppe Citadel
• Mystic Monastery

Consider land tutors: Crop Rotation and/or Sylvan Scrying ? There's several Rainbow lands ( Command Tower ) here that they can tutor for which can be helpful for color fixing. Fellwar Stone is a good two drop mana rock. Good luck with your deck.

Metia on Deck does not contain a lapdance *ding* Sliver EDH

3 weeks ago

Umm, well I can't offer my exact land selection to you as it involves revised duals I can say this:

Fetches are your friend, seriously. In a 5 color deck having fetches rarely make me sad, so I would run the full contingent:

Polluted Delta

Flooded Strand

Wooded Foothills

Bloodstained Mire

Arid Mesa

Marsh Flats

Scalding Tarn

Misty Rainforest

Verdant Catacombs

Options:

There are Mirage fetches as well, a whole friendly color cycle of them, they are 'slow' but they can still grab shock lands, and cost no life: Rocky Tar Pit , Bad River , Flood Plain , Grasslands , Mountain Valley These also have the benefit of being absurdly cheap. That being said, if you do not have access to these, I'll offer some other suggestions.

Go up to 42-44 lands. Sure the curve hits 3/4, but I don't think the ideal is to hit 4 lands and be pleased with life, so I would suggest adding lands, and increasing consistency by removing some of the etb tapped lands:


Here are some 'simple' 1:1 conversions for cards I think would suit the deck better.

Kindred Dominance -> Woodland Cemetery

Coat of Arms -> The Immortal Sun

Intruder Alarm -> Dreamstone Hedron

Armageddon -> Hour of Promise

Fellwar Stone -> Mutavault

Arcane Sanctum -> Sulfur Falls

Crumbling Necropolis -> Clifftop Retreat

Savage Lands -> Isolated Chapel

Seaside Citadel -> Hinterland Harbor

Frontier Bivouac -> Rootbound Crag

Mystic Monastery -> Sunpetal Grove

Nomad Outpost -> Drowned Catacomb

Opulent Palace -> Glacial Fortress

Sandsteppe Citadel -> Dragonskull Summit

Exotic Orchard -> Reflecting Pool

Door of Destinies -> Vanquisher's Banner

Aphetto Dredging -> Icon of Ancestry

Amoeboid Changeling -> Unsettled Mariner

Honestly I hate the Terminate and some of the other choices but I am exhausted so I thought I would offer some help as opposed to trying to offer more and simply not posting.

darkPrince010 on Multiple Cards Not Appearing

1 month ago

Weeeeeiiiird.

I refreshed my Volrath's Lil' Buddy, and now not only does Opulent Palace show up as a valid card, but it somehow fixed its hyperlinking too!

...anyone chance taoth31 could change his cube name(sol ring) to Sol Ring with the capitalization, so we can fix the hyperlink for all us poor EDH players?

multimedia on High Gravetide

1 month ago

Why use Yargle, Glutton of Urborg ? Sure he's flavorful, but it's not a good card. I know you can find a budget five drop ( Mulldrifter ) that gives you better value with Muldrotha than Yargle.

The rest of my suggestions are budget lands to help to improve the manabase:

• Command Tower
• Opulent Palace
• Llanowar Wastes
• Yavimaya Coast
• Exotic Orchard
• Ash Barrens
• Woodland Cemetery
• Sunken Hollow

Lands to consider cutting:

• Simic Guildgate
• Dismal Backwater
• Foul Orchard
• Thornwood Falls
• Vivid Grove
• Warped Landscape
• Skyline Cascade
• 1x Forest

EmoChicken42 on Field of dead

2 months ago

I recommend switching the Frontier Bivouac with Opulent Palace

xaarvaxus on Slimey boy commander.

2 months ago

Some lands to look at: Exotic Orchard , Fetid Pools , Sunken Hollow , Temple of Mystery [pairs well with the bounce lands for double the scrying opportunities], Opulent Palace [I'd replace Rupture Spire with this, at least it doesn't cost you mana and it gives you all 3 of your colors]. Obviously if you can afford or are willing to spend on shocklands they would be the best upgrades [within reason].

You can probably safely cut a land or two and add green ramp cards like Nature's Lore , Rampant Growth , Farseek and Cultivate / Kodama's Reach .

Please, please, please replace Manalith with literally any other mana rock. Commander's Sphere , Darksteel Ingot have the same cost and do something else or have an additional benefit. Fellwar Stone should be able to siphon at least 2 of your colors from the field. Or cut to fit in another green ramp spell listed above.

You're really logjammed at the 5 CMC slot. I'd swap out a few for some cheaper spells so you are reliably casting spells on turns 1-3. Gift of the Deity is one I'd cut as it is pretty expensive for what it does and like all auras, increases your risk of getting 2 for 1'd. I don't know if you're built around Dralnu enough to run him.

DemonDragonJ on Commander 2019...

2 months ago

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However, the new version of Volrath is awesome (although 5 mana for a 7/5 is definitely overpowered, in my mind), and I am excited that each deck shall contain a new incarnation of a character from the Weatherlight saga (I personally am hoping to see new incarnations of Barrin, Crovax, and/or Ertai for the final two). I personally believe that he should have been only black and blue, because I do not believe that either his personality or abilities are green, but I suppose that having three colors in his mana cost is what allows his overall cost to be so low.

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However, the reprint of Thran Dynamo is always appreciated, since its price is still high, even after all of its previous reprints (which is evidence of how amazing a card it is), and the same is true for Reliquary Tower , as well.

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