Phyrexian Arena
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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Alchemy Legal
Archenemy Legal
Arena Legal
Block Constructed Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander / EDH Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander 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
Pre-release Legal
Premodern Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Standard Legal
Standard Brawl Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Phyrexian Arena

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Rekt_Angles on [Zul Ashur] Death Is Not the End

2 weeks ago

I've goldfished it with the playtest, and I had a lot of "feast or famine" type games. I either comboed off super early and everyone would be weeping tears of agony, or I kinda faffed about for 5 turns trying to get off the ground.

I think adding some repeatable draw effects would be a good idea. Necropotence is on the new GC list, but you only have 2 so far so you could slot that in pretty easily. Or you could use its little brother, Phyrexian Arena.

I also noted that the deck was vulnerable to effects like Rest in Peace and Leyline of the Void. I'm not sure if/how the deck can overcome those, but I figured it would be something to consider.

Overall, though, I love the rotting dead and mono-black combos, so this deck makes me happy and gets a +1 from me!

amarthaler on EDH Jorn, God of Winter

4 months ago

Update!

Out: Phyrexian Arena

In: Rhystic Study

Craeter on Sewer Rats

5 months ago

This is a neat take on the ratties, nicely done mate.

Since the win con is poison counters, one thing I would recommend is more ways to get Fear on the Rats to make them pseudo unblockable. Marrow Gnawer is ideal for sure, but Cover of Darkness can serve the same function and is only a 2 drop.

Maybe also include a couple staple Black tutors to help ensure these are pulled.

How about extra Draw? Phyrexian Arena & Ayara, First of Locthwain are usually auto includes in my mono black decks.

mickalopagus on

5 months ago

If this is a Agent deck I would think you really wanna build around spells that maximize his potency.

Orzhov Charm as protection, or threat destruction. Mourning for recurring targeting, as well as to nerf opponents attackers, Whip Silk for the same, Kaya's Ghostform

Im not sure what youre trying to do with the landfall triggers, but if you want to maximize that get some cards like Field of the Dead and Dryad of the Ilysian Grove in there, as well as 1-2 Scapeshift as a wincon for cards like Dread Presence, etc.. Again this is assuming youre using landfall triggers and not just ramping mana. If youre just ramping id opt for dark rituals. Speaking of Dark ritual, you need 3 mana carddraw like Phyrexian Arena. I see the idol produces some for you, but also for your opponents.... that can be dangerous unless you have a way to limit their card draw.

Assassin's Trophy is almost a must add with all the land ramp, or Field of Ruin at minimum. Pir's Whim is also good in this deck context, as well as Collective Voyage, just a game wrecker with landfall triggers.

So thats what I kind of see here is like an agent/landfall theme. idol, plus massive landramp via voyage, and lotus cobra, then youre pretty much casting your deck and pissing people off haha

inni794 on Liesa but Angels

5 months ago

Thanks to both multimedia and TheoryCrafter for the suggestions.

A few of them I've acted on, for example, I didn't realise I couldn't use multiple Legion Angel in sideboard, and then Seraph Sanctuary, plus replacing Unmake with the Strictly better Utter End.

Added a Hedron Archive for more ramp, and Divine Visitation (a card I had already and was figuring out which deck to put in), along with another token generator in Dramatic Finale.

However, every addition I've made for your suggestions is just cards I already had (or found randomly when looking through my now 10 year old collection and forgot/didn't know I owned).

For the rest, though I agree with some of them on a concept level, including some of the lower power angels, my friend already has an angel deck and I'm trying to make mine slightly different from hers so as to not have overlap, so some of this was a conscious choice to be different, or some cases, I simply don't have more copies of the cards and don't want to buy more (HI Arcane Signet/Phyrexian Arena.

Again, thanks for your suggestions :)

NV_1980 on Caesar, Mardu Dressing

5 months ago

In a combat-focussed token deck, maybe include Cathars' Crusade to make your army ridiculously powerful in a very easy way. The deck in its current form also doesn't contain a lot of draw-options, which might slow you down compared to other decks. Maybe a card like Phyrexian Arena or Smuggler's Share or something could help on that front. Good luck with the deck.

multimedia on Liesa but Angels

5 months ago

Hey, good WIP for Angels, nice Avacyn and Tithe.

When you break it down to the very basics of what you need for Angels it's three things: Angels, ramp and draw. Angels because you want to cast/attack with Angels, ramp because you want to be able to consistently cast your higher mana cost (4+ CMC) Angels and repeatable draw because you want to keep having Angels in your hand to cast. The better Angels you want to attack with, including Liesa, have a high mana cost, without more ramp you'll have a more difficult time casting them. Consider more lower mana cost (1-3 CMC) ramp and more repeatable draw sources?

In my opinion, a good rule for casual Commander deck building is having at least 10 sources of draw and at least 10 sources of ramp, allocate deck room for these. These are the most important two effects to have for smoother gameplay. Better overall gameplay makes playing Commander more fun since you'll get less frustrated with how your deck is running. Consider cutting a few of the lesser power cards compared to other cards here for more ramp and draw?

Add:

Cut:

Some land upgrades to consider that are within the budget for the manabase: Caves of Koilos, Fetid Heath, Shineshadow Snarl, Great Hall of Starnheim, Tyrite Sanctum, Vault of the Archangel, Soulstone Sanctuary, Path of Ancestry

I hope this advice is helpful and I offer more if you're interested, about the potential adds/cuts I've suggested.

Craeter on The Big Black Succ

6 months ago

Heya, I've been meaning to take a looksie at this one. This commander is super cool! The curve looks great and I can see you've put some thought into the construction and playtesting for this one.

My one question is how does it do for Draw? I see Ayara and the Castle, which is great, but perhaps it could do with some more? Skullclamp is pretty darn amazing in sac EDH decks, I'd defs recommend you consider adding that in here. War Roomfoil & Phyrexian Arena are also some possibilities.

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