Recross the Paths

Sorcery

Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a land card. Put that card into play and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. Clash with an opponent. If you win, return Recross the Paths to its owner's hand. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of his or her library, then puts that card on the top or bottom. A player wins if his or her card had a higher converted mana cost.)

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
PreDH	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (47)

Hydr0x on The Purple-Dragon-Punk Ritual

3 months ago

Ruby Medallion, Bitter Reunion, Manamorphose, Manamorphose, Manamorphose, Manamorphose, Bitter Reunion, Irencrag Feat, Stormscale Scion... large storm count, I than have the obstacle of only having four copies of Recross the Paths and a brand new option, being able to go Stormscale Scion and remove all Goblin Charbelcher. But that obstacle makes it unlikely I will get Recross the Paths, unless I wanted to work with Serum Powder or something.

Hydr0x on The Purple-Dragon-Punk Ritual

3 months ago

I want to play Recross the Paths it than comes down to the perfect arrangement of the cards I want to draw; pretty fascinating choice process, strategically speaking.

capwner on Do You Have “Pet Cards?”

4 months ago

My most pet card for EDH is Timesifter and by extension all the deckthinning tech for it like Trench Gorger, Mana Severance, Endless Horizons, and for pulling out nonlands you have Skyship Weatherlight and Selective Memory.

Recross the Paths has also become something of a pet meme card mostly from using it in my grist deck which is perhaps my wildest original combo idea. Recross allows for stacking the entire deck in any order in all-spells/belcher lists.

I like a lot of the big red spells but Thieves' Auction is probably my favorite especially when you can break parity with something like t-pro or Worldgorger Dragon, similarly to MLD. I just think it's funny.

Then Restore Balance, Greater Gargadon, and Commandeer are all pretty special for me after playing with them for years in my Modern garga-geddon deck.

capwner on Slender Man Grist 2.0

4 months ago

Grist is one of my favorites, I'm so used to playing the all-bugs version with Recross the Paths, but 'fair' Grist looks very cool too. Have you ever considered cards such as Forever Young and Gravepurge to set up for a +1 super-activation? Grist + Forever Young used to be a tier 1 Oathbreaker deck when the format was more popular!

edit: Cryptolith Rite is another absolute banger I use in my list that would probably work nicely here as well!

capwner on One-card wins

8 months ago

Rythven-Fang -- Defense of the Heart is a good one, actually I used to play this in a couple decks! Doesn't quite win by itself because you need a bit of help from an opponent to proc it, but I do think it's close enough to include here. Hmmm still trying to think of more, going back to all-spells there's Recross the Paths and Abundance which both can stack the whole deck in any order and set up a win. However these are very specific to all-spells decks and generally win next-turn not on the spot.

king-saproling on ❌ lands ❌ creatures ✔️ charbelcher

1 year ago

Recross the Paths is a great suggestion, definitely gotta make room for it. Thanks Taida!

Taida on ❌ lands ❌ creatures ✔️ charbelcher

1 year ago

Such a cool idea! I tried to make one quite a bit ago, but it was an absolute failure, just relying on Indomitable Creativity or other artifact tutors. It felt quite restrictive, as it needed to fit the limitations to always tutor correctly with Indomitable Creativity, so I never thought on how useful was The Prismatic Bridge  ^Flip in it, it does seem much more functional. As recomendations, for your deck Recross the Paths might fit amazingly. It allows to order everything exactly as you want, so not only tutors your Goblin Charbelcher but also interaction pieces, rituals or whatever.

capwner on 4 Land Goblin Charbelcher

2 years ago

I would truly max out on the MDFC land TBH... don't see any reason why you need to run ANY regular lands when in 5c, you have a pool of 50 total MDFC land available (15 untap, 25 tap, and 10 duals), enough to give you a healthy ratio without compromising your odds of successfully belching. Plus with true 0 land you can make use of the deck stacking effect of Belcher and Recross the Paths, if you so wish. The whole advantage of the MDFC is that you can reliably hit land drops without needing to actually run land