Pulse of Llanowar

Enchantment

If a basic land you control is tapped for mana, it produces mana of a color of your choice instead of any other type.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (5)

libraryjoy on Don’t fuck with Kenrith

2 years ago

So if you want Zirda, the Dawnwaker as your companion (in the sideboard and always accessible to put in your hand for ), then every card you start with has to have an activated ability. If you just put him in the 99, then you don't have to worry about that requirement.

If you don't have Gilded Drake, I would take it out. There are lots of other ways to take opponents' creatures. While it has awesome value, I don't think it makes a $400 difference in your deck. I'd drop Lili temporarily and maybe put her in the maybe board for later when you can get her in. I'd look at adding more ramp. I really like Jegantha, the Wellspring with Kenrith. Something like Chromatic Lantern is a huge benefit in a 5 color deck. A budget option is Pulse of Llanowar, but not sure that will jive well with your manabase. Something like Kruphix, God of Horizons would help you carry over mana. Mirari's Wake and Zendikar Resurgent are one-sided mana doublers, like Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger. Good luck!

Xenephrim on Dragon 5 Color

4 years ago

Blood Sun will help your tri-lands enter the battlefield untapped so you won't have to wait until the next turn to use them. Yes, Blood Sun causes these lands and lands like them to lose the "enters the battlefield tapped" quality.

If you need a cheap mana fixer, Pulse of Llanowar is a good alternative to Prismatic Omen if you can't afford it.

Worldgorger Dragon is an absolute beast just waiting to be abused. Combine it with an enchantment like Flameshadow Conjuring or another creature such as Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker and you can perform an infinite loop of enter the battlefield and leaves the battlefield triggers. Combine this with Dragon Tempest or Scourge of Valkas and you have infinite damage. With Lathliss, Dragon Queen it can produce a ton of tokens (this isn't infinite as the tokens will be exiled with each cycle). Temur Ascendancy will net you massive card draw, and so on. It's so abusable.

Anyway, hope some of my recommendations helped!

Atavistic on

6 years ago

KeelHaul10

Some interesting suggestions there that I certainly had not thought of. I will absolutely agree on board wipes being lacking and definitely plan to get a Wrath of God or something similar to give me an additional option in that area. I like your suggestion of Child of Alara - it's undoubtedly a solid card for a five-colour deck - but I hadn't included it as it isn't an Elemental, and for this deck I didn't want to deviate away from that unless absolutely necessary (see Burnished Hart and Sylvan Caryatid as the main examples in the current list).

The same applies for Sunburst creatures, but that is also influenced by the fact that they are pretty random and, barring your favourite, I've not seen many that particularly excite me. It's part of the reason that I demoted Woodland Wanderer to the Maybeboard as, while Converge could cause it to be a 6/6 with Vigilance and Trample, it just isn't very exciting and doesn't exactly do an awful lot.

When it comes to Rhystic Study, I've only seen one player in my LGS's playgroup use it, and it doesn't seem to draw hate so much as it just causes everyone to roll their eyes and accept it. That being said, that player's Study is usually the least of our concerns, so maybe it would draw hate in my deck. I'll have to playtest the deck to see how that ends up going, and then decide what to do with it.

I was considering getting Joiner Adept at one point as a budget replacement for Prismatic Omen, but at the time I felt that the Adept was too vulnerable because it's such a small body. That being said, its ability is definitely better than that of the Caryatid, so I will definitely have to consider it. Pulse of Llanowar is an interesting card that I've never seen before, but it seems a bit random for my liking and, in the early game at least, seems like it could be as irritating as it could be helpful. Also, how would it interact with Prismatic Omen? I ask this because it seems to me as if this would pretty much cancel out the Omen due to every land I control having every basic land type. Granted, this would only affect my basic lands, but it still seems somewhat problematic.

As for whether I need the Walls or not, that will have to be something else I investigate after some playtesting, as it doesn't seem strictly necessary to me just from the decklist, but maybe actually playing the test will flag that as an issue.

KeelHaul10 on

6 years ago

+1 From me, mate! This deck looks baller. Although, boardwipes look lacking. Does Child of Alara do anything for you? If you're looking for mana fixing, may I recommend Pulse of Llanowar and Joiner Adept? since you run 5 colors, maybe sunburst would appeal to you? Suncrusher (My personal favorite, but maybe not viable in this deck)?

To make room, may I suggest cutting Rhystic Study? Before everyone goes apesh!t let me reason: It draws a lot of hate, and since you're behind in terms of taplands, perhaps drawing attention to yourself while being behind aint a great thing, but the two could cancel out.

And finally, you just might need a good old wall. Wall of Fire, Wall of Ice, Moaning Wall. something to prevent you taking damage or making really unfavorable trades. Beautiful deck, may you acquire the shock lands easily and cheaply.

Or if you're playgroup/LGS is cool with it, just make foil alternate art proxies via printer and Scribus.

zephramtripp on Budget Progenitus EDH

6 years ago

Sorry for the triple post, but I just realized Chromatic Lantern is super expensive. Perhaps you could use Prismatic Geoscope or Pulse of Llanowar instead?