Path of Ancestry

Land

Path of Ancestry enters the battlefield tapped.

: Gain one mana of any colour in your commander's colour identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1.

Discussion (48)

multimedia on Anowon rogues

1 week ago

Hey, nice version of Anowon. You have several good cards, but what's with the manabase? Compared to the rest of your deck the manabase with 29x basic lands looks like it's for a $100 Commander deck not a $400+ deck. It's the main area to consider upgrading with more Dimir dual lands.

• Watery Grave
• Underground River
• Darkslick Shores
• Sunken Ruins
• Drowned Catacomb
• Sunken Hollow
• Choked Estuary
• Path of Ancestry

Consider other Rogues?

• Ghostly Pilferer
• Thieves' Guild Enforcer
• Zareth San, the Trickster: can be a repeatable effect to reanimate your opponents permanents from their graveyards after they mill them.
• Nighthawk Scavenger
• Enigma Thief: consistently it's four mana for a 5/5 flying Rogue with a strong ETB ability.

Anowon can be repeatable draw if the attacked opponent mills a creature, but this can miss/will miss a lot. Other repeatable draw options to consider.

• Bident of Thassa
• Mask of Memory
• Military Intelligence

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Cards to consider cutting:

• Feldon's Cane
• Perplex
• Trepanation Blade
• Mind Grind
• Torment of Hailfire
• Dreamscape Artist
• Balustrade Spy
• Keymaster Rogue

Good luck with your deck.

multimedia on Pirate Commander

2 weeks ago

Hey, having more low CMC Pirates who have the better evasion (flying or unblockable) can help to do combat damage to opponents to trigger Malcolm and Breeches.

• Spectral Sailor: mana sink for treasures to draw cards.
• Departed Deckhand: mana sink for treasures to make Pirates unblockable.
• Siren Stormtamer
• Warkite Marauder

Lightning-Rig Crew has great interaction with Malcolm to create treasures and Breeches to exile your opponents cards. Since Rig does damage to each opponent you create a number of treasures equal to the number of opponents you have or exile a card from each opponents library.

Sol Ring is a staple mana rock in Commander that can go in every deck you make. Having more repeatable draw is helpful in Commander and when one of your Commanders has flying then cards that let you draw when you do combat damage to an opponent are consistent options:

• Tandem Lookout: soulbond can change who it's paired with. Pair to Lightning-Rig Crew to draw a lot of cards since damage that is done by the paired creature doesn't have to be combat damage.
• Reconnaissance Mission
• Mask of Memory

Some budget lands to consider adding:

• Path of Ancestry
• Rogue's Passage
• Unclaimed Territory
• Ash Barrens
• Izzet Boilerworks
• Temple of Epiphany
• Opal Palace

Total at TCG Player: $9.86, see list

If this upgrade interests you then I offer more advice of what cards to consider cutting.

Good luck with your deck.

multimedia on Dreams of the Fae

2 weeks ago

Hey, nice budget version of Alela, but you forgot Sol Ring :)

My suggestions are to improve the mana. 30 lands is low with only 6 ramp sources. My advice is add 5 more lands or five more mana rocks or a combination of both.

• Exotic Orchard
• Path of Ancestry
• Caves of Koilos
• Sunken Hollow
• Esper Panorama

and/or

• Sol Ring
• Dimir Signet
• Azorius Signet
• Orzhov Signet
• Mind Stone

Cards to consider cutting:

• Shambling Suit
• Baneful Omen
• Kiora Bests the Sea God
• Norn's Annex
• Oppressive Will
• Cancel

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Some upgrades to consider for repeatable draw:

• Bident of Thassa > Shoal Kraken
• Skullclamp > Blue Sun's Zenith
• Reconnaissance Mission > Arcanist's Owl

Bident and Mission are very good repeatable draw sources with Faeries since you draw a card for each creature who does combat damage to an opponent. When your Commander can create 1/1 creatures then Skullclamp is a reliable powerful draw source.

Good luck with your deck.

RinceRaven on Brago

2 weeks ago

Landbase recommendations:

Port Town, Prairie Stream, Nimbus Maze, Skycloud Expanse

More expensive:

Mystic Gate, Adarkar Wastes, Seachrome Coast, Hallowed Fountain, Glacial Fortress

Cheap but not great:

Temple of Enlightenment, Tranquil Cove, Irrigated Farmland

Staples: (budget varies but doesn't go up too high)

Command Tower, Fabled Passage, Holdout Settlement, Thespian's Stage, Exotic Orchard, Glimmervoid, Path of Ancestry

multimedia on Adeliz leads some angry Wizards

3 weeks ago

Hey, saw your forum topic asking for help. Good build on such a low a budget. Realistically to make much improvements you're going to have to be able to spend more than $30 for your deck.

My advice is to lower the mana curve by adding more low CMC Wizards and more low CMC instants and sorceries that draw cards. End the curve with two five drops Wizards: Azami, Lady of Scrolls, Shipwreck Dowser and one six drop Archetype of Imagination. I suggest playing double the amount or more of instants and sorceries than Wizards because technically you don't need other Wizards because Adeliz can pump herself. Still have a strong base of low CMC Wizards, just a smaller one.

Since Adeliz can pump herself and has flying she is really your best win condition doing 21 Commander damage to each opponent. The problem with Adeliz is she doesn't provide card advantage only pump therefore you need a lot of other cards that draw cards to fuel the pump.

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Some Wizards can help for card advantage:

• Windrider Wizard: lets you draw each time you cast an instant or sorcery or even a Wizard and he has flying which makes him a threat to attack. If just about every card you cast draws you a card then that's a nice advantage to keep drawing instants/sorceries/Wizards.
• Burning Prophet: repeatable scry is powerful when you want to draw certain cards and not lands or other cards. She can filter away lands so that you draw instants/sorceries/Wizards.

Consider more low CMC Wizards? That way you can establish a Wizard army quicker and get faster benefits from Adeliz with other Wizards. More low CMC flying Wizards can benefit much more from the pump from Adeliz because they can more easily do combat damage to an opponent:

• Siren Stormtamer
• Wingcrafter: way to give a Wizard who doesn't have evasion flying such as Burning Prophet and soulbond can change creatures.
• Faerie Seer
• Kaza, Roil Chaser
• Lightning Stormkin
• Dreadhorde Arcanist

With more low CMC flying Wizards then cards such as Bident of Thassa and Reconnaissance Mission can draw a lot of cards since you draw a card for each creature who does combat damage to a player. This is a way to keep refilling your hand with instants/sorceries by attacking with Wizards even if you don't have instants/sorceries to cast. Flying Wizards are still going to do combat damage to a player and draw cards. Shared Animosity is repeatable pump for each attacking Wizard you control. This repeatable effect is in addition too any pump that Adeliz does.

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Izzet has a wealth of good low CMC budget instants/sorceries that draw cards that are staples of Commander:

• Preordain, Serum Visions, Ponder
• Brainstorm, Faithless Looting
• Windfall, Frantic Search
• Impulse, Chart a Course, Thrill of Possibility

Shadow Rift and Slip Through Space are one drop spells that can make Adeliz unblockable while also drawing a card.

Some budget lands upgrades to consider:

• Command Tower: staple of Commander for two or more color decks.
• Unclaimed Territory
• Path of Ancestry: repeatable scry when you cast a Wizard.
• Shivan Reef
• Mystic Sanctuary: recur a instant or sorcery from your graveyard.

Good luck with your deck.

multimedia on Teysa Karlov Aristocrats

3 weeks ago

Hey, Skullclamp is one of the better repeatable die effects with Teysa since drawing 4 cards each time you equip to a creature for 1 mana is very good value. Skullclamp could replace Wayfarer's Bauble. The maybeboard is packed full of good cards that could be upgrades and there's several budget cards there to consider adding.

• Arcane Signet
• Talisman of Hierarchy
• Viscera Seer
• Archon of Justice
• Sun Titan
• Court of Grace
• Demon's Disciple
• Woe Strider
• Solemn Simulacrum
• Kaya's Wrath
• Generous Gift
• High Market
• Tainted Field
• Temple of Silence

These cards could replace:

• Vivid Marsh
• Vivid Meadow
• Orzhov Guildgate
• Gavony Unhallowed
• Dauntless Cathar
• Voracious Null
• Unruly Mob
• Countless Gears Renegade
• Thallid Omnivore
• Bone Splinters
• Elixir of Immortality
• Fellwar Stone
• Thallid Soothsayer

Other good budget cards with Teysa: Dark Prophecy, Midnight Reaper, Dreadhorde Invasion, Victimize, Ministrant of Obligation, Marauding Blight-Priest, Path of Ancestry, Witch's Cottage, Esper Panorama, Ash Barrens.

Good luck with your deck.

multimedia on "He's a Pirate"

4 weeks ago

Hey, well done, very creative on a budget :)

Arcane Signet, Rainbow mana rock is an upgrade for Charcoal Diamond for the "The nine pieces of eight". Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator is a flying Pirate which helps to trigger Brass and is very good with the treasure strategy since he can be repeatable treasures. Malcolm could replace Trophy Mage since Mage is not a character and only has one 3 CMC artifact that's worth tutoring for and Deadeye Quartermaster can tutor for it.

Departed Deckhand is a Pirate who's consistently unblockable/make other Pirates unblockable is an upgrade for Captain Vargus Wrath since Wrath is not a character. Spectral Sailor flying one drop Pirate/repeatable draw source is an upgrade for Rowdy Crew since Crew is also not a character.

Exotic Orchard, Unclaimed Territory, Path of Ancestry are three budget Rainbow land upgrades which could replace Bloodfell Caves, Dismal Backwater and Swiftwater Cliffs.

Good luck with your deck.

multimedia on Dragon riders

4 weeks ago

Hey, you have several good cards, but also quite a few that can be upgraded even on a budget.

Utvara Hellkite and Lathliss, Dragon Queen are two Dragon upgrades because they can be card advantage since they create Dragon tokens when Dragons attack or when nontoken Dragons ETB. Drakuseth, Maw of Flames has a powerful attack trigger. Knight of the White Orchid is a Knight upgrade since it can tutor for any Plains including Sacred Foundry or Mistveil Plains and put it onto the battlefield.

Changelings are Knights and Dragons. Taurean Mauler gets bigger when any opponent casts a spell. Mirror Entity has an ability to change all creatures you control power/toughness and give them all creature types. Depending on how much mana you have you can make your army of creatures huge power with Entity.

Command Tower, Path of Ancestry, Spectator Seating are some land upgrades to consider.

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Before you make other improvements however my advice is to first improve ramp because when the cards you want to try to win the game with are high CMC such as Dragons then lots of ramp should a high priority. The idea is to have more ramp and less high CMC cards because you can easily cast ramp, but without ramp you can't easily cast high CMC Dragons.

• Sol Ring: staple mana rock in Commander.
• Arcane Signet: staple mana rock in Commander.
• Keeper of the Accord
• Knight of the White Orchid
• Boros Signet
• Jeska's Will: can be a fast way to cast both your Commanders or a high CMC Dragon in your hand if you target an opponent who has seven or more cards in hand.
• Dragon's Hoard: ramp and can be repeatable draw with Dragons.
• Talisman of Conviction

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The next important thing to expand on is draw. The options for repeatable draw are slim in Boros therefore you want to instead count on cards that give you repeatable card advantage in other ways. Keeper of the Accord is an example of a new card from Commander Legends that's a card advantage engine for white in muliplayer Commander since he creates creatures if you're behind on creatures and/or is land ramp if you're behind on lands and he triggers on each opponent's turn.

• Sunforger: when people talk about Boros usually Sunforger comes up in the conversation because it's powerful equipment for repeatable card advantage. When it's equipped to a creature you can at instant speed pay two mana to unequipped to tutor for any white or red instant spell in your library that's 4 CMC or less and cast that spell for free. Sunforger package is an art form for Boros players. +4 power is a big pump when the creature has double strike or flying.
  
  
• Mask of Memory: repeatable draw, effects that trigger when you do combat damage to a player can trigger twice with double strike. If equipped creature isn't blocked then you hit the opponent your attacking twice to draw four cards and discard any two.
  
  
• Open the Armory: tutor for any equipment.
• Sarkhan's Triumph: tutor for any Dragon.

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With Sunforger Mistveil Plains makes it better because you can put an instant in your graveyard back into your library to cast it again with Sunforger. Example of a Sunforger package of instants:

• Swords to Plowshares: exile a creature.
• Boros Charm: give all permanents you control including lands indestructible.
• Chaos Warp: remove a permanent including a land.
• Shields of Velis Vel: give all creatures you control all creature types.
• Sarkhan's Triumph: Dragon tutor.
• Brought Back: permanent reanimation.
• Unbreakable Formation: give all creatures you control indestructible.
• Return to Dust: exile up to two different artifacts or enchantments.
• Valakut Awakening  ^Flip: draw.
• Akroma's Will: make all your attacking creatures real threats.

If interested I offer more advice in another comment, including suggestions of cards to cut. Good luck with your deck.