Orzhov Basilica

Land

Orzhov Basilica enters the battlefield tapped.

When Orzhov Basilica enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

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Discussion (51)

Balaam__ on The Graveyard: Only a Vacation

2 months ago

Great build! I usually like to play either B/U or B/G graveyard themed decks, but I may try this one out.

I’m guessing some of your card selections are to help keep this more budget friendly, but I’d definitely replace both Orzhov Basilica, 1x Swamp and 1x Plains with a playset of Marsh Flats. Since lifegain is easily doable I’d swap a Diabolic Tutor for a Vampiric Tutor too.

multimedia on Blink it ! esper test

2 months ago

Hey, nice budget version of Aminatou.

One of the best budget cards with Aminatou is Wishclaw Talisman. Activate it for one mana, tutor for any card. An opponent then gains control of it, but that opponent doesn't own Wishclaw you do. Your opponent will gain control of Wishclaw tapped, but they can't use it because they gain control of it tapped it's not their turn. Blink Wishclaw with Aminatou's -1, it returns to your control untapped with three new counters on it. Scheming Symmetry is another powerful budget tutor with Aminatou since the card you tutor for is put on top of your library. +1 Aminatou to draw that card.

Budget lands to consider adding:

• Command Tower
• Exotic Orchard
• Caves of Koilos
• Sunken Hollow
• Prairie Stream
• Tainted Field
• Azorius Chancery
• Dimir Aqueduct
• Orzhov Basilica
• Esper Panorama
• Ash Barrens

Good luck with your deck.

Sauluz on Orzhov Vampire Tribal

2 months ago

Alright, so i have some spare time currently and will try to give you some more advice.

Possible Cuts:

Dead Man's Chest - Funny card, but not really on theme with your deck as far as i can see

Path of Bravery - Does to little imo, but i have never seen it in play, so it may overperform

Skymarcher Aspirant - Even if you have ascent, its only a 2/1 flyer for one mana

Paladin of Atonement - Same reasoning as for Path of Bravery

Bloodcrazed Paladin - The fact that it does not have trample makes it a lot worse than one might think

Queen's Commission - Not a bad card, but one of the weaker ones imo

Lands:

Exchange Forsaken Sanctuary with Orzhov Basilica Exchange a Plains with Castle Ardenvale If you can, insert more dual lands that can enter the battlefield untapped, e.g. Caves of Koilos

Suggestions

I think you are running too few sacrifice outlets, especially since you are a vampire tribal and need creatures to die for your commander. You already have Yahenni, Undying Partisan, but there are also Viscera Seer, Ashnod's Altar, Phyrexian Altar, Altar of Dementia, Blood Bairn, Anowon, the Ruin Sage, Gatekeeper of Malakir, Indulgent Aristocrat, Voldaren Pariah  ^Flip and Bloodthrone Vampire (No particular oder, but free sac outlets like Viscera Seer are great!)

Now that stuff is dying, Butcher of Malakir and Dictate of Erebos are really great.

Outline

I really like your deck idea and think that you already are on a great way. If i were you i would abondon the life gain theme and focus more on being an aristocrat deck since your commander heavily suggest you to do so (and also because it is really powerful), but i guess lifegain is more flavourfull with Vampires :)

Good luck with your deck!

Scallywallwest on Rathreos, God of the Colony

2 months ago

An important part of any deck is a mana base, so you can never be too wary of the cards you put there. I see you have Godless Shrine in your Maybeboard. Add that! Shocklands are great! I'd say to take out the Scoured Barrens for better taplands. Some good mana fixers/utility lands are Orzhov Basilica, Shambling Vent, Fetid Heath, Silent Clearing, or Bojuka Bog (For other reanimator decks). Fetchlands are definitely useful, so you could toss in a Marsh Flats or Terramorphic Expanse.

If your really going for that reanimator thing, Sorin, Vengeful Bloodlord could be useful. Coat of Arms would also be very powerful here. It's an interesting thing you've got going on here, and I'm all for it. I can't wait to see it at its full power.

enpc on Your death is not in the stars today

2 months ago

I would also look at cutting Orzhov Basilica, it's too slow, especially with how many tapped lands you already run. Just swap it for a basic for now. I would also find space for Talisman of Hierarchy. More cheap ramp is good.

multimedia on Cromation ($50 Mutate Voltron)

3 months ago

Hey, nice budget version. Interesting deck, bizarre deck description.

You can put Jegantha next to Cromat in the deck list by adding the CMDR tag to Jegantha in the deck editor.

1x Jegantha, the Wellspring *CMDR*

Doing it this way clearly shows that Jegantha is the companion of your deck.

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Because of Jegantha's tap ability consider adding cards that can untap a creature to get more activations?

• Retreat to Coralhelm: good with Panoramas, Wilds/Expanse and Guild Bounce lands.
• Kiora's Follower
• Seeker of Skybreak
• Instill Energy

Faeburrow Elder is a very good mana dork for five colors and is also a creature you want to untap. With Cromat in your control Elder is another Jegantha. Jodah, Archmage Eternal in combination with Jegantha makes it easier to cast spells because then generic mana costs don't matter and the mana made by Jegantha lets you cast any spell. Conflux is busted with the ramp from Jegantha tutoring for five creatures with mutate.

$40 total price is below precon total prices and the manabase here is worse then a lot of precons. With 20 Forest in the manabase you're counting on Jegantha to cast spells. I know this is low budget, but you want to at least make the manabase playable without Jegantha. For low cost the Guild Bounce lands can help the manabase and have fine interaction with lots of basic lands.

• Exotic Orchard
• Simic Growth Chamber
• Golgari Rot Farm
• Gruul Turf
• Selesnya Sanctuary
• Azorius Chancery
• Dimir Aqueduct
• Izzet Boilerworks
• Rakdos Carnarium
• Orzhov Basilica
• Boros Garrison

Good luck with your deck.

mandrua on Hyper Markov

3 months ago

I will build your build and see how it suits me, I wanted to build a casual but optimized creature based build and I think this list is pretty much ok, I have made some small changes: I replaced : gone : Guul Draz Vampire Quag Vampires Martyr of Dusk Bloodhusk Ritualist Pulse Tracker Kheru Bloodsucker added : Metallic Mimic Skullclamp Adaptive Automaton Rakish Heir Tithe Drinker Etchings of the Chosen

and changes in the manabase :

Dragonskull Summitit by Luxury Suite as this one will never enter tapped Nomad Outpost by Scrubland As I dislike enter tapped lands in an agressive build and I think your red sources are a bit high. Orzhov Basilica by Godless Shrine again because I dislike enter tapped lands Mountain by Badlands These last 3 changes also change the amount of swamp/plains cards in your deck from 12 to 15 making your isolated chapel less likely to enter tapped. I have also descided to play snowcovered basics because that gives more options that your opponents can assume you have.

so this leaves the following enter tapped lands in your deck: Path of Ancestry this one I completely understand and agree Mortuary Mire I wonder if this one is good enough, can you elaborate on why this is good enough in this deck Windbrisk Heights again the same question, is this card good enough?

Now finaly some lands that might be worth looking into: bojuka bog. I know, it enters tapped, but will probably be a good replacement for mortuary mire blood crypt plateau prismatic vista if you think this deck can handle with 1 less land that effectivly gives mana

multimedia on Teysa Orzhov EDH

4 months ago

Hey, this is a very cheap deck. Are you not able to spend a little more? A $20 upgrade could really help your deck.

Even though have a low budget to work with there's still several upgrades you could make. Some upgrades to consider are to take more advantage of Teysa's ability to give you additional die triggers when a creature dies.

Good budget cards, $1 or less each, to consider adding:

• Command Tower: one of the best lands to multicolored decks in Commander.
• Caves of Koilos
• Tainted Field
• Orzhov Basilica
• Ash Barrens
• Doomed Traveler: Spirit token.
• Ministrant of Obligation: Spirit tokens.
• Tithe Taker: Spirit token.
• Requiem Angel: repeatable Spirit tokens.
• Reassembling Skeleton: good creature to sac since it can reanimate itself.
• Woe Strider: sac outlet and repeatable scry.
• Cartel Aristocrat: sac outlet.
• Grim Haruspex: draw when a nontoken creature you control dies.
• Mentor of the Meek: draw when a 1/1 Spirit token is created.
• Archon of Justice: exile permanent.
• Plaguecrafter: all players sac a creature/Planeswalker or discard a card. Can sac Plaguecrafter to itself.
• Fleshbag Marauder
• Reliquary Monk: destroy opponent artifact or enchantment.
• Dutiful Attendant: creature recursion.
• Soul Warden: gain life when Spirits are created and when other creatures including your opponents ETB.
• Soul's Attendant: same as Warden.
• Dreadhorde Invasion: with a sac outlet is a repeatable source of token or a token that grows in power/toughness.
• Diabolic Tutor: budget unconditional tutor.
• Read the Bones
• Talisman of Hierarchy: two drop mana rock.
• Orzhov Signet: two drop mana rock.
• Kaya's Guile
• Crush Contraband
• Dusk / Dawn

I offer more advice, good luck with your deck.