Paradox Engine
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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Archenemy Legal
Arena Legal
Block Constructed Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Freeform Legal
Gladiator Legal
Highlander Legal
Historic Legal
Historic Brawl Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Pioneer Legal
Planar Constructed Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Paradox Engine

Legendary Artifact

Whenever you cast a spell, untap all nonland permanents you control.

Mortlocke on The Queen's Egg

4 weeks ago

Bishoprage,

I'm going to be honest with you, I haven't broken out my deck in months. Mostly because I didn't have the desire to swap out my Mana Cryptfoil. But today I decided to finally do it - and I swapped out the cards to make the deck match the decklist. I'm almost considering setting up a Break in Case of Unban! shadowbox or display frame in my office.

Those bans made me unhappy and impacted my vision for some of my decks. I am strongly resisting the urge to just go into a full blown rant about just how deeply out of touch the rules committee was with the community they supposedly represented despite never being voted in or even interacting with said community. So you only get a semi-rant. LOL. Anyways, I plan on taking my Slivers to my next FNM this upcoming Friday. I'll do my best to try and get Thrumming Hivepool into play as often as I can and i'll let you know my thoughts.

Also free Paradox Enginefoil! Just kidding I know that card is degeneracy of the highest order - but I still love it. It's my favorite card after Sliver Queen. What's yours?

Mortlocke on The Queen's Egg

4 weeks ago

Bishoprage,

I'm going to be honest with you, I haven't broken out my deck in months. Mostly because I didn't have the desire to swap out my Mana Cryptfoil. But today I decided to finally do it - and I swapped out the cards to make the deck match the decklist. I'm almost considering setting up a:

Break in Case of Unban! Show

Just because those bans made me unhappy and impacted my vision for some of my decks. I am strongly resisting the urge to just go into a full blown rant about just how deeply out of touch the rules committee was with the community they supposedly represented despite never being voted in or even interacting with said community. So you only get a semi-rant. LOL. Anyways, I plan on taking my Slivers to my next FNM this upcoming Friday. I'll do my best to try and get it into play as often as I can to try and get a feel for how much of an impact it has on the battlefield.

Also free Paradox Engine! Just kidding I know that card is degeneracy of the highest order - but I still love it. It's my favorite card after Sliver Queen. What's yours?

Coward_Token on Perpetual Patterns of Proliferated Prosperity

2 months ago

Spitballing untaping effects

On opponent's turns;

Casting:

Misc. :

Unbanned lol:

Mortlocke on The Well-Oiled Machine

1 year ago

" Maybe the Rules Committee is clearing the way for a less powerful meta for Paradox Engine's insider trading related return."

I'll admit that in my degenerate heart I do have a special place for Paradox Engine. But that card goes infinite with a ham sandwich minus the bread. I love that card dearly, it wont be unbanned. The RC said it themselves: "The philosophy of Commander prioritizes creativity, and one of the ways we have historically reflected that in the rules and banlist is to encourage a slower pace of game than traditional formats." Slower games is the direction we are heading i'm afraid.

Also separately, +1 - those are some solid changes for the deck.

Mortlocke on New Commander Bans :(

1 year ago

No Mana Crypts or Jeweled Lotuses for anyone! oh, and no Dockside Extortionists as well. I'm an enfranchised player, so I don't like this announcement. I just lost hundreds of dollars in value for each of my decks. Also, it slows down games considerably. When I sit down at a table, I communicate - I tell everyone what i'm running so we can have a collective experience we all want. But when a rules committee comes down from on high and decides to restrict strong and viable pieces that is very worrying. What next? Fetchlands? Original dual lands? Sol Ring? I just want to know when will all of their meddling end? I can understand banning something that is outright format warping like Paradox Engine - but Mana Crypt? It's as though the committee expects the other 3 players at the table are only playing battle cruiser decks with 0 interaction. What's worst though is Jeweled Lotus. Banning the card that was made specifically for Commander and is only a blank card in other formats. That's a very short sighted ban that I don't understand. I have rarely seen Jeweled Lotus in the wild but when I do I don't see it getting used more than once a game. I think the rules committee is blinded by their short sighted vision for commander in that it should be reduced to players stuck in forever long games using decks that have 0 interaction waiting for their battlecruiser to finally be online.

Mortlocke on The Glorious Hive

1 year ago

Looking at these comments I can only feel nostalgic. My dear Paradox Engine will likely be forever banned. Sure, it goes infinite with a ham sandwich, but still I love it. This deck feels very much like "the usual suspects" when it comes to Sliver decks in EDH but with the notable exclusion of Mana Echoes - why is that? Also, I wouldn't recommend the inclusion of Wild Pair, it's a very inefficient card. Might I suggest the inclusion of some interaction? Outside of a select few slivers you don't really have much in the way of board interaction. Spot removal stuff like Swords to Plowshares, Beast Within, Get Lost, or Strix Serenade just to name a few. You're in all 5 colors so i'd like to know what your color preference is as a player - that would help guide future suggestions.

Always happy to see a Sliver deck. +1 from me.

legendofa on When you feel rusty and …

2 years ago

Trivia time! There were 1,930 new Commander/Vintage-legal cards released in 2022, representing four Standard-legal sets, six Commander sets, and three additional products. In 2017, that number was 915 across four Standard sets and one Commander set. (Paradox Engine got banned in Commander.) In 2012, the number was 729, representing five products, with Griselbrand getting banned in Commander. From 2012 to 2017, the number of new unique cards per year increased by 186. From 2017 to 2022, the rate increased by 1,015 new cards per year.

It's not so much the number of new mechanics per year that concerns me. It's the number of new cards. Each year now produces more than twice as many new cards than even five years ago. Product fatigue is real.

Mortlocke on The Queen's Egg

2 years ago

Hello Votecat, thanks for commenting on my page. Just as a side note, you can tag the cards you reference by using: 

[[card:Sliver Overlord]]

I have thoughts on every card suggestion you made, and i'll address them individually. Root Sliver is on permanent standby for me. Depending on the nature of my meta (Rather, when I actually get one - RL has its challenges) i'd find a way to work it in, but I'm uncertain on what i'd cut - what would you cut from my list to make room? Rhythm of the Wild is a great card, however it's unnecessary as Slivers do all of the things this Enchantment can do - but better. Why be confined by Riot? Having to choose Haste or a +1/+1 counter? Besides, dedicating so many resources to countering one form of interaction is just unnecessary with the inclusion of Cavern of Souls and the potential inclusion of Root Sliver.

Intruder Alarm I have my own issues with - namely that it's a dead card in hand until you have all the combo pieces on board to fully take advantage of it before an opponent does. The effect can very easily backfire - and has backfired on me personally - and has forever soured my take on the card. Also, keep in mind if you are ever in a mirror match, there is always a chance the opponent can out maneuver you with the exact same pieces. This simply makes me miss Paradox Engine that much more. The printing of Urza, Lord High Artificer made the banning of Paradox Engine essential if players were going to use him - so I forever hate on Urza, who personally ruined my fun with one of my favorite cards.

The comparison of Dregscape Sliver and Yawgmoth's Will is like a 9MM vs. a Nuclear Bomb. YawgWill is leagues beyond the potential of what Dregscape has to offer - you can play a land, any spell that isn't a Sliver, oh and a Sliver, until the end of turn out of your graveyard. The best part is that said Sliver doesn't get exiled at the end of turn. There is a very good reason why this card is on the reserved list. I'm not going to be swapping out YawgWill anytime soon.

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth and Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth are both good cards - within context. Urborg is kind of meh outside of a monoblack or 2 color deck that also utilizes Cabal Coffers - and doesn't have access to Green. Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth on the otherhand is uh...meh? Slivers aren't a Lands matter deck and there aren't any Slivers that gain +X/+X for each Forest I control - though that would be sweet. Honestly, these lands would do more harm than good as fixing the manabases of my opponents is something I generally want to avoid.

Ashnod's Altar is not the most optimal choice unless the commander is Sliver Queen herself. Without the other combo pieces on board, Altar just kind of sits there as an optional sac outlet that could potentially ramp you - but to take full advantage you would absolutely need Quick Sliver on board. Again, it's a good card for Sliver Queen the commander, but in a Sliver Tribal deck i'm just not convinced.

Crowd Lands - first time i've heard Bondlands being referred to as that. Cool. I don't always play this deck in a pod so having lands that always come in tapped is simply not ideal. I lean more toward the Shadowmoor/Eventide Filterlands e.g. Flooded Grove, Cascade Bluffs, etc. if I were to swap out my Revised Dual Lands.

Thanks for commenting by the way, please leave a +1 if you like as I will be doing the same on your deckpage.

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