Ornithopter of Paradise

Artifact Creature — Thopter

Flying

: Gain one mana of any colour.

Discussion (7)

king-saproling on Pokemon EDH

2 days ago

Card list update:

OUT -> Cavern Harpy, Kheru Spellsnatcher, Temur War Shaman, Quirion Elves

IN -> Augur of Autumn, Sakashima of a Thousand Faces, Sakashima the Impostor, Ornithopter of Paradise

GolgariGravedigger on The Scarab God

3 weeks ago

Scarab God is tough to build competitively especially if you're on a budget, and the good zombies are not very cheap anymore. It looks like you have a lot cards from Amonket and Hour of Devastation. I really love those sets personally but most of the zombies in them are pretty lackluster in commander. I would cut a whole lot of these guys especially 4+ CMC zombies.

I recommend adding a lot more card draw, mana ramp, and single target removal. 10-12 draw spells, 10-12 ramp spells, and 5-10 removal spells are recommended for most EDH decks. The best draw, ramp, and removal spells are not really budget friendly anymore since pretty much everyone is playing them. But, there a few sleepers out there that, in my opinion, are really powerful budget cards.

Card draw spells:
Necrologia is like a budget Ad Nauseam but you can only play it at your end step.
Read the Bones is a classic that let's you dig into your library.
Stinging Study gets you 5 cards in this deck.
Underworld Connections is like a budget Phyrexian Arena, and it can draw you an extra card each turn.
Village Rites gets you 2 cards for 1 mana and it's a 1 time use sacrifice outlet.

For mana ramp generally you want to go with 1 or 2 CMC mana rocks that enter untapped if you aren't playing green: Sol Ring, Arcane Signet, Dimir Signet, Mind Stone, Liquimetal Torque, Thought Vessel, Prismatic Lens, and maybe an Ornithopter of Paradise, it's a decent mana dork. Add Talisman of Dominance if you want to pay $7 for one.

Outside of those I like Power Tap. Target The Scarab God and get 5 colorless mana. Power Tap is a sleeper budget card IMO. Don't cut Dark Ritual or Bontu's Monument.

For Single Target Removal you want to stick to 2-3 CMC instant speed removal spells that can target as many different types of permanents as possible. A few cards I like are: Feed the Swarm
Power Word Kill
Heartless Act
Go for the Throat
Personally, I really like Imprisoned in the Moon and Oubliette. They decomission your opponent's Commander. And both cards ate cheap since they were recently reprinted.

Also Counterspell cards can be very powerful.

A few inexpensive bombs you can add:
Gray Merchant of Asphodel is amazing.
Army of the Damned is an absolute beast in this deck. Both of those cards can you win you the game.

There are a lot more really great cards out there you can add, but I just wanted to list a few to get you started.

unstable_anomaly on Oswald's Combo Pain (cEDH)

1 month ago

Two mana artifacts that may have some additional use: Doubling Cube / Fellwar Stone / Gold Myr / Liquimetal Torque / Ornithopter of Paradise / Robe of Stars / Scroll Rack / Isochron Scepter .

You might also like: Aven Mindcensor / Mirage Mirror / Null Brooch / Geier Reach Sanitarium / Dispatch / Umbral Mantle .

Heliod, Sun-Crowned goes infinite with Walking Ballista . You can tutor for either with Recruiter of the Guard .

multimedia on The Ur-Dragon

1 month 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.

Kwhill on Derevi, Empyrial Tactician

2 months ago

I'd recommend cutting the following cards right away:
Tidal Force (Doesn't do much. Very expensive.)
Siege Behemoth (Good effect, but very expensive.)
Emmara Tandris (It doesn't look like you really have that many tokens. Not sure why this is here.)
Deepfathom Skulker (Good trigger, but expensive, and you can't activate its second ability easily.)
Archon of Coronation (Really easy to lose the monarch and it doesn't do much besides give you the monarch.)
Amareth, the Lustrous (Not really that good. Very rarely will draw you anything in general and the body is very meh.)
Inniaz, the Gale Force (I don't like this kind of effect. You are forced to give up something.)
God-Eternal Oketra (The tokens are okay, but it really doesn't do enough IMO)
Archon of Redemption (3/4 flyer for 5 with a situational life gain effect is pretty bad...)
Angel of Destiny (If it ever gets removed, all you did by attacking, possibly losing creatures in the process, possibly taking hits because your defense are down, was gain life. It just seems like the card really does nothing.)
Trostani, Selesnya's Voice (Not enough token synergy to matter. Life gain is not very good.)
Thassa, Deep-Dwelling (This doesn't do much in your deck. IMO)
Basri's Lieutenant (With almost no +1/+1 counter synergy in the deck, this really doesn't do anything for you.)
Adrix and Nev, Twincasters (Not enough token synergy.)
Niambi, Esteemed Speaker (Can save a creature, but other than that, the card pretty much does nothing.)
Ornithopter of Paradise (Can't trigger Derevi because it has 0 power. Pretty bad as a ramp card too.)
Rhys the Redeemed (Not being elf tribal or big on tokens means that he won't do much.)
Parhelion II (Way too expensive and really doesn't do that much for its cost.)
Righteous Authority (Very expensive and no way to abuse it in the deck currently.)
Cosmos Elixir (You have a ton of draw in the form of "when a creature deals combat damage, draw 1" type cards. You don't need this IMO.)
Sword of Vengeance , Sword of Body and Mind (Not really sure what they're supposed to do for you. Tiny pumps and trample aren't going to help you much IMO.)
Combine Chrysalis (Not enough tokens.)
Sol Talisman (Why is this not Sol Ring?)
Cloudshift , Ephemerate (Almost no abusable ETBs)
Griffin Aerie (Not enough life gain to make this work and not even a great effect.)
Garruk's Uprising (I feel like you should probably be focusing on smaller bodies, not bigger ones.)
Growing Ranks (Not enough tokens.)
Elspeth Conquers Death (Doesn't really do anything you're looking for IMO.)

That's just the ones I would cut right away for not being good in general or not fitting with your strategy.

The token subtheme is kind of unfitting IMO. There's only a few tokens here and there, and a lot of them are "big" tokens, not little ones that can trigger Derevi a lot, but then you also have lots of things to take advantage of tokens even though you don't have that many things that produce tokens (and a lot of times, they're too expensive). If you want to focus a deck on tokens, I think you should choose a different commander.

In general, I think you should probably focus more on having a bunch of smaller creatures so you can get lots of Derevi triggers rather than bigger creatures. This could be a way to work in tokens if you want to push it, because you could focus on smaller tokens that you can push out very cheap and early in the game.

In addition to this, you may also want to consider putting in more cards that you can abuse with Derevi. I love the inspire guy you have in there, Arbiter of the Ideal (don't know if you know, but you can stack tap/untap/tap/untap triggers on him and trigger inspire a bunch of times in one combat!). I think you should focus on this kind of effect more.

I think you should also try to put a little more ramp in there. Sol Ring, Simic Signet, Arcane Signet, and maybe a couple other mana rocks are noticeably missing.

That's pretty much all I have to say about it right now. Let me know what you think!

MobsterBubbles on Cube 1.0 SMB

2 months ago

6/21/21: Removed Integrity / Intervention and Mystical Teachings . Added Lightning Helix and Muse Vortex

6/29/21:1. Removed Magistrate's Scepter . Added Steel Dromedary

Removed Winota, Joiner of Forces . Added Venerable Warsinger

Removed Grakmaw, Skyclave Ravager . Added Ravenous Squirrel

Removed Triskelion . Added Myr Scrapling

Removed Prosperous Pirates . Added Etherium Spinner

Removed Loreseeker's Stone . Added Extruder

Removed Bloodline Pretender . Added Ornithopter of Paradise

Removed Paradise Plume . Added Bottle Golems

Removed Triumph of Gerrard . Added Unbounded Potential

Removed Venerated Loxodon . Added Constable of the Realm

Removed Blade Instructor . Added Knighted Myr

Romved Elite Scaleguard . Added Nykthos Paragon

Removed Approach of the Second Sun . Added Settle Beyond Reality

Removed Windrider Wizard . Added Murktide Regent

Removed Spark Harvest . Added Bone Shards

Removed Keskit, the Flesh Sculptor . Added Legion Vanguard

Removed Sengir Nosferatu . Added Loathsome Curator

Removed Volcanic Dragon . Added Goblin Traprunner

Removed Dragon Mage . Added Arcbound Slasher

Removed Demanding Dragon . Added Flametongue Yearling

Removed Smelt-Ward Minotaur . Added Harmonic Prodigy

Removed Kaya's Guile . Added Graceful Restoration

DevoMelvminster on Bounce and Ye Shall Be Healed

3 months ago

We’re also swapping Star Compass for Ornithopter of Paradise because; I pulled an old frame version and it’s pretty, and also because it seems like it is an upgrade just for being a creature, let alone the fact it doesn’t require me to have a basic land out to be effective. The deck runs quite a few non-basics so i think it’s an all around better choice.

Edit: at this point, maybe i should swap Gold Myr for Coldsteel Heart too?