Rogue's Passage

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Cypher35 on Muldrotha, Coping with loss *BUDGET PRIMER*

14 hours ago

Brutal_B thanks for the comment! I honestly really like Rogue's Passage for the deck! as a land, it would be a bit harder to remove as well. Suspicious Bookcase is super good too, and it would be useful for blocks as a wall, but I'd be a bit hesitant to replace any creature/artifact/enchantment slots in the deck, but I think it could still be quite efficient in the deck.

Thank you for the suggestions, have a great day!

Brutal_B on Muldrotha, Coping with loss *BUDGET PRIMER*

14 hours ago

Rogue's Passage and Suspicious Bookcase to make a creature unblockable. Bookcase can be cast out of graveyard as a creature or artifact.

devenj on Commander Land Staples

2 days ago

Utility Lands:

Good for Monocolor:

Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

Black:

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth Castle Locthwain Cabal Stronghold Phyrexian Tower Shizo, Death's Storehouse Cabal Coffers

Green:

Dryad Arbor Oran-Rief, the Vastwood Castle Garenbrig Mosswort Bridge Yavimaya Hollow

Colorless:

Temple of the False God War Room Buried Ruin Inventors' Fair Rogue's Passage Thespian's Stage Scavenger Grounds

Excuse me, you dropped this:

Mystic Sanctuary Hall of Heliod's Generosity Academy Ruins

Slow Fetch:

Grasslands Rocky Tar Pit Bad River Flood Plain Mountain Valley

Krosan Verge Terramorphic Expanse Evolving Wilds Myriad Landscape

WUBRG:

The World Tree

zobster on Etali, Primal Storm

5 days ago

Some suggestions: Goblin Guide , Winter Orb , Fiery Emancipation , Command Beacon , Hall of the Bandit Lord , Homeward Path , Rogue's Passage , Strip Mine and Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle

zobster on Whats yours is mine and whats mine is... mine

5 days ago

Some suggestions: Goblin Guide , Winter Orb , Fiery Emancipation , Command Beacon , Hall of the Bandit Lord , Homeward Path , Rogue's Passage , Strip Mine and Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle

zobster on Etali, Primal Storm

5 days ago

Some support lands include Endless Sands , Command Beacon , Hall of the Bandit Lord , Homeward Path , Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle , Strip Mine , Rogue's Passage and Ancient Tomb

wallisface on On the Prowl

6 days ago

Here are my thoughts - many of these have already been echoed by Balaam__ above.

• Modern is a very fast format. Most miderange decks typically want to be running cards with cmc between 1-3, with a very few cards at cmc4 (look at Jund, for example, that only runs Bloodbraid Elf and then lots of low-costing cards). In that vein, I think you need to look at lowering your curve. I get that some of your cards can be cast for cheaper with Prowl, but I think you'd only want to keep the very best of these.

• On the above note, personally I would drop Zareth San, the Trickster and Notorious Throng entirely. Their cost is waaay too high, especially in a deck with 22 lands, and they don't do enough to justify their spots. I would also drop a few Earwig Squad - it feels like you want to be playing either 2 or 3.... maybe mainboard 2 and have a 3rd in the sideboard against decks that you really need to disable?

• I notice you also have Agent of Treachery and Knowledge Exploitation in the sideboard, and I would suggest ditching both of these, neither are particularly strong and both demand too much mana.

• I would echo what has already been said above that some good cmc1 cards would be very useful to the the deck. Consider Fatal Push , Thoughtseize , Inquisition of Kozilek . You probably want at least 8ish cards that are 1cmc so your first turn isn't wasted.

• On the subject of lands, I would recommend swapping both Sunken Hollow and Rogue's Passage for both of Darkslick Shores and Drowned Catacomb . The Hollow just has too many scenarios where it's going to slow you down, and the Passage is both going to hurt your mana base, and be unlikely to get any benefits (you need 5 lands in play and nothing else to do, to make use of it). If the beforementioned cards are too expensive, i'd suggest just running basics over what's happening now.

• If you have the money, I'd strongly suggest ditching Thieves' Fortune in place of Aether Vial . It'll make your deck multiple-times stronger than where it is now, and and also Vial will be able to slot seamlessly into any other future tribal-based decks you make, if that is your preferred way of playing. Another option for this deck in particular could be Bitterblossom . I do think Thieves' Fortune is probably a card you'd want to ditch, though perhaps this is a slot that could also be happily consumed by the beforementioned 1cmc cards too.

• For sideboard tech, these cards may be worth considering: Mystical Dispute , Aether Gust , Collective Brutality , Nihil Spellbomb , Drown in the Loch , Spell Snare

DemonDragonJ on Strixhaven spoiler season

1 week ago

With double major now existing, it seems that copying permanent spells will now be an ability that shall appear, on occasion, which I was really hoping would not happen; why could it not simply copy a creature that was already on the battlefield?

Baleful mastery is similar to many previous spells that can exile creatures or planeswalkers, but it is nice to have another addition to that group of cards. That card will actually be nice for a Nekusar, the mindrazer EDH deck, where the player can cast it for the reduced cost specifically to make an opponent draw a card and hurt themselves.

Basic conjuration is not worthy of being a rare, in my mind; it would have been much better as an uncommon.

Access tunnel is a worse version of Rogue's Passage , but I know that some players will appreciate it.

Fracture is awesome, but it already has a significant amount of competition in those colors, most notably from Despark , Mortify , and Anguished Unmaking , so I am not certain if I can use it in any of my decks. Closing statement is also nice, but not quite as impressive, in my mind. Vanishing verse is also amazing; if I ever build a black/white EDH deck, it will have so many awesome options for permanent removal!

Dramatic finale would have been awesome, if only its ability triggered each time that a creature died; the fact that it triggers only once per turn severely limits its usefulness.

Crackle with power is insane, and I am certain that it shall prove to be a powerful finishing move for many games, but I still prefer Comet Storm , since that card is an instant.

Why does necrotic fumes require that its controller exile a creature instead of sacrificing it? That completely bypasses abilities that trigger from creatures dying, which is a central aspect of black’s identity, profiting from the deaths of others.

Secret rendezvous is a new idea for white, but the opponent benefits more greatly than does the caster, since the opponent spends no mana on it and also does not lose a card from their hand.

Devastating mastery is another mass destruction spell, but the fact that it costs 4 white mana is very restrictive, so most players will cast it for its reduced cost. Obviously, the opponent shall return their most valuable permanents to their hand, but it shall still destroy all of their other permanents.

I was wondering if there would ever be a black/white version of Meddling Mage , and, now, there is, so I am very pleased about that.

Why does exponential growth increase only the creature’s power? Would it not make sense for it to increase the creature’s toughness, as well?

I wonder if I should replace Castigate in any deck that contains black and white with humiliate? Exiling a card is better than discarding it, but making one of my own creatures more powerful is also nice.