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.

: Gain .

Discussion (51)

Blue_Flame on Pauper: Orzhov Knights

2 weeks ago

I think Irregular Cohort is better than Sunspire Gatekeepers in a deck like this, as you don't need to run Orzhov Guildgate any more to produce the 2/2 it creates. You could probably just run a mix of Scoured Barrens and Orzhov Basilica to replace them.

Also, you kind of need a sideboard, so I'll provide some suggestions for that:

Castigate and Duress : useful for Tron, combo decks, any deck in which you need to tear a card out of your opponent's hand

Crypt Incursion / Relic of Progenitus : Graveyard hate.

Disenchant / Fragmentize : Artifacts. Enchantments.

multimedia on Budget Blackblade

1 month ago

Hey, this is a good start for budget. Consider upgrading the manabase with many budget lands from C19?

• Command Tower
• Exotic Orchard
• Ash Barrens
• Sunken Hollow
• Prairie Stream
• Caves of Koilos
• Irrigated Farmland
• Dimir Aqueduct
• Azorius Chancery
• Orzhov Basilica

Lands to consider cutting:

• Azorius Guildgate
• Dimir Guildgate
• Orzhov Guildgate
• Dismal Backwater
• Tranquil Cove
• Scoured Barrens
• 2x Island
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Plains

KabsBUB on

1 month ago

Here are some tips:

1) Try to keep deck size down to 60

2) Similar to #1, increase the number of four-ofs to increase consistency between games. (Generally, singles are for decks with tutors/heavy card draw. Your deck has neither so it relies the most on your starting hand). I'd consider cards like Cruel Celebrant , Blood Artist , Cordial Vampire

3) Cards like Call to the Feast shouldn't be 4-ofs because of the mana cost. 4-ofs should be cards that are great both early game and late game, and are part of your core strategy. Remember that high CMC cost cards don't need as many copies. For example, a 5 mana card can only be cast as early as turn 5 (fair decks). Therefore by then you'd have gone through 7+5 (Starting hand+5 draws) cards in your deck to have found it.

5) Your deck has a sort of "you kill my creatures, I drain you" sort of thing. So drop the protection on creatures ( Emerge Unscathed / Adanto Vanguard ). You already have deterrence.

6) Increase the number of Champion of Dusk . This is because card draw in black/white is very rare and as a 5-mana cost creature, very good to your mana curve. By the time you amass 5 mana you can cast it, hopefully with quite a few vampires on the field. I'd use 3 of them.

6) Drop Ashes of the Abhorrent , it's not good enough. Enchantments/Artifacts here should buff up your creatures or generate creature tokens. (Creature-focused deck)

7) Remove Cliffhaven Vampire . This is because it's a "win-more" card. Here, it requires you to have a certain board state (aka ability to gain life) for it to be useful. As a general rule, higher mana cost investments should be able to turn around a bad situation (board wipe/etc) or require no boardstate when you cast it (aka "good on its own")

8) Remove Kambal, Consul of Allocation . This is because you don't want your strategy to be dependent on your opponent's (unless this is in your sideboard). What if the opponent is playing a creature deck? It'd be pretty useless.

9) Sanguine Bond 's effect is a little redundant here, we already have enough of this effect on the board

10) I'd consider removing Orzhov Basilica because most of the time you're going to need mana on turn two. I'd hate for your lands to be tapped when they come into play.

TwinStags on Blk/Wht

4 months ago

Land

-esper: weak, better if you’re running expensive shock lands

-2 mana confluence? You mean one?

-nephalia: unless mill/discard is popular in our group

-guildgate: I don’t like slowlands in two color decks. I’d legit just replace these with basic lands

Bojuka Bog : graveyard hate

Caves of Koilos :

Command Tower

Concealed Courtyard

Isolated Chapel

Mistveil Plains : super good recursion

Orzhov Basilica : cool cuz you can use the land you’re gonna return, then play this

Temple of Silence

Vault of the Archangel : great long game and surprise

Westvale Abbey  ^Flip: totes could see this pulling off

Windbrisk Heights

Dezan on Cubo do Dezan

4 months ago

24/05/2019

• -1 Barren Moor +1 Azorius Signet
• -1 Lonely Sandbar +1 Dimir Signet
• -1 Tranquil Thicket +1 Gruul Signet
• -1 Forgotten Cave +1 Simic Signet
• -1 Secluded Steppe +1 Boros Signet
• -1 Azorius Chancery +1 Coalition Relic
• -1 Boros Garrison +1 Thran Dynamo
• -1 Dimir Aqueduct +1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• -1 Golgari Rot Farm +1 Wandering Fumarole
• -1 Gruul Turf +1 Raging Ravine
• -1 Izzet Boilerworks +1 Celestial Colonnade
• -1 Orzhov Basilica +1 Creeping Tar Pit
• -1 Rakdos Carnarium +1 Hissing Quagmire
• -1 Selesnya Sanctuary +1 Pentad Prism
• -1 Simic Growth Chamber +1 Riftwing Cloudskate
• -1 Mantis Rider +1 Duplicant
• -1 Psychatog +1 Thought Erasure
• -1 Drooling Groodion +1 Vraska, Relic Seeker
• -1 Ancestral Mask +1 Inferno Titan
• -1 Twisted Abomination +1 Exhume
• -1 Sengir Vampire +1 Animate Dead
• -1 Ravenous Rats +1 Unburial Rites
• -1 Spirit Mantle +1 Angel of Invention
• -1 Brood Butcher +1 Cloudgoat Ranger
• -1 Elephant Guide +1 Verdurous Gearhulk
• -1 Gladecover Scout +1 Terastodon

Dezan on Cubo do Dezan

4 months ago

17/05/2019

• -1 Windswept Heath +1 Selesnya Sanctuary

• -1 Bloodstained Mire +1 Rakdos Carnarium

• -1 Marsh Flats +1 Orzhov Basilica

• -1 Scalding Tarn +1 Izzet Boilerworks

• -1 Wooded Foothills +1 Gruul Turf

• -1 Verdant Catacombs +1 Golgari Rot Farm

• -1 Polluted Delta +1 Dimir Aqueduct

• -1 Arid Mesa +1 Boros Garrison

• -1 Flooded Strand +1 Azorius Chancery

• -1 Misty Rainforest +1 Simic Growth Chamber

• -1 Tropical Island +1 Evolving Wilds

• -1 Savannah +1 Terramorphic Expanse

• -1 Badlands +1 Golgari Signet

• -1 Scrubland +1 Mishra's Factory

• -1 Volcanic Island +1 Everflowing Chalice

• -1 Taiga +1 Needle Spires

• -1 Bayou +1 Lumbering Falls

• -1 Underground Sea +1 Shambling Vent

• -1 Plateau +1 Stirring Wildwood

• -1 Tundra +1 Lavaclaw Reaches

eatmygender on Leave a Message After the Beep

5 months ago

Time Wipe , Dromar's Cavern , Esper Panorama , Tainted Field , Tainted Isle , Dimir Aqueduct , Orzhov Basilica , Zur's Weirding , Mana Vault , Chromatic Lantern , Mana Geode , Rhystic Study , Emeria Shepherd , Hanna, Ship's Navigator , Scrap Trawler , Codex Shredder . There ya go. And these are almost exclusively odd. Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre might also be fun. I'm not really sure what you're going for with the Teferi's Protection lock. Are you looking to lock yourself/your opponents out? If so, using an Instant is kinda difficult to recur consistently each turn, it would probably be easier to just run a big ass protection package and find a combo that keeps you safe indefinitely. Sucks that the person didn't help you out, might wanna flag that the thread mods. Anyways, feel free to give me a better idea of your gameplan so I can make some more tailored suggestions!

drpeppercan on Ur dragon

6 months ago

Out: - Citadel Siege - Crucible of Fire - Dragon Breath - Dragon Fangs - Dragon Scales - Dragon Shadow - Fervent Charge - Mighty Emergence - Sarkhan's Unsealing - Triumph of Ferocity - Atarka Monument - Dragon's Hoard - Dromoka Monument - Kolaghan Monument - Ojutai Monument - Silumgar Monument - Response / Resurgence - Akoum Hellkite - Bone Dragon - Dromoka, the Eternal - Flameblast Dragon - Foe-Razer Regent - Furyborn Hellkite - Hoarding Dragon - Jugan, the Rising Star - Mana-Charged Dragon - Nicol Bolas - Shieldhide Dragon - Azorius Chancery - Gruul Turf - Izzet Boilerworks - Orzhov Basilica - Rakdos Carnarium - Simic Growth Chamber

Replacement Options - Atarka, World Render - Boneyard Scourge - Broodmate Dragon - Darigaaz Reincarnated - Dragonlord Kolaghan - Harbinger of the Hunt - Hellkite Tyrant - Karrthus, Tyrant of Jund - Kokusho, the Evening Star - Nesting Dragon - Rith, the Awakener - Ryusei, the Falling Star - Scourge of the Throne - Utvara Hellkite - Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire - Skyshroud Claim - Nissa's Pilgrimage - Farseek - Sol Ring - Smothering Tithe - Dragonspeaker Shaman - Earthquake - Commander's Sphere - Chromatic Lantern - Darksteel Ingot - Wayfarer's Bauble - Fellwar Stone - Armillary Sphere - Burnished Hart - Mirari's Wake - Curse of Opulence - Unclaimed Territory - Exotic Orchard - Mountain s, Swamp s, Forest s, Island s, Plains