Rootbound Crag

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Rootbound Crag enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Forest.

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DemMeowsephs on Sultai_Sir

2 days ago

Hey there! No problem, and you have definitely come to the right place! Here are some types of lands that I personally think should have a spot in every deck, and some multi-colored lands that work anywhere and everywhere! I hope this helps you throughout your journey in the world of magic.

• Types of Lands:

• Shock Lands

• These lands say when [cardname] enters the battlefield you either take two, or have it enter tapped, which I am sure you are familiar with.

• Watery Grave, Blood Crypt, Temple Garden, Breeding Pool, Hallowed Fountain, Stomping Ground, Sacred Foundry, Overgrown Tomb, Steam Vents and Godless Shrine

• Check Lands

• These are lands that say, [cardname] enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a [land type] or [land type]. These aren't always that good in my opinion, but if you need a cheaper option they are MUCH better than guildgates, etc.

• Glacial Fortress, Drowned Catacomb, Woodland Cemetery, Dragonskull Summit, Isolated Chapel, Rootbound Crag, Sunpetal Grove, Hinterland Harbor, Sulfur Falls, and Clifftop Retreat

• Filter Lands

• Similar to the signets, these lands can be extremely useful when you have one color, and need the other. They are also a lot cheaper as they just got reprinted in Double Masters

• Wooded Bastion, Sunken Ruins, Mystic Gate, Flooded Grove, Rugged Prairie, Graven Cairns, Fire-Lit Thicket, Fetid Heath, Twilight Mire, Cascade Bluffs

• Fast Lands

• Some of my personal favorites, these lands can be untapped unless you have 4+ lands, and are very helpful at the start of the game

• Seachrome Coast, Razorverge Thicket, Botanical Sanctum, Copperline Gorge, Blackcleave Cliffs, Darkslick Shores, Blooming Marsh, Concealed Courtyard, Spirebluff Canal, Inspiring Vantage

• Pain Lands

• These are by far some of the best, as you always know you can get mana from them, without worrying they might be tapped, or untapped, or something like that.

• Adarkar Wastes, Underground River, Sulfurous Springs, Karplusan Forest, Brushland, Caves of Koilos, Llanowar Wastes, Yavimaya Coast, Shivan Reef, Battlefield Forge

• Horizon Lands

• The better version of pain lands- but they are not printed in every color combination. However when you can, cut your pain lands for these!

• Horizon Canopy, Silent Clearing, Nurturing Peatland, Waterlogged Grove, Fiery Islet, Sunbaked Canyon

• Fetch Lands

• There are also the beloved fetch lands, which can even search for shock lands, proving to be very useful in many situations!

• Flooded Strand, Bloodstained Mire, Windswept Heath, Wooded Foothills, Polluted Delta, Misty Rainforest, Marsh Flats, Verdant Catacombs, Arid Mesa, Scalding Tarn

• Battlebond Lands

• These are EXTREMELY useful if you have multiple opponents, as they come at no extra cost. However like the Horizon lands, they are not available in every color.
• Sea of Clouds, Morphic Pool, Luxury Suite, Spire Garden, Bountiful Promenade

These dual lands are some of the best, and my favorites, though there are many more people enjoy playing, such as bounce ladnds (Dimir Aqueduct), Battle Lands (Sunken Hollow), Reveal Lands, (Port Town), Cycle Lands (Irrigated Farmland), Storage Lands (Calciform Pools) and many others, but usually you don't have this many spaces in your deck, and so the ones I named first are usually better. However, I'm not done! There are many multicolor lands that fit in any deck, that are extremely powerful! Some of them are listed below.

• City of Brass
• Mana Confluence
• Prismatic Vista
• Fabled Passage
• Ancient Tomb
• Exotic Orchard
• Command Tower
• Forbidden Orchard
• Gemstone Mine
• Gemstone Caverns
• Command Tower
• Maze of Ith
• Strip Mine
• Wasteland
• Tarnished Citadel

• Meteor Crater

• Etc. There are many more like this but as before, the ones above are definitely the best, and most of them deserve a spot in every deck! Some specific deck themes have their own versions of these lands, like for Artifact decks you might play Glimmervoid and for Creature decks you might play Ancient Ziggurat. Usually, when I deckbuild i go to EDHREC, which has amazing suggestions and synergies for EVERY commander, and even for specific archetypes and colors- lands among them! For these speciifc themes you can find the lands you need there (along with many other cards too) but everything I named above I recommend playing in the meantime! I hope this helps you in your future decks, thanks for reaching out, good luck, and have a great day!

Kazierts on Fool Moon

2 weeks ago

I happy that those were of any help to you.

So here are some more options that you could maybe use:

• Village Ironsmith  ^Flip has First Strike but doesn't do a lot besides that. Duskwatch Recruiter  ^Flip would be an efficient 2 drop replacement for the Ironsmith. This can help you dig for more gas and its werewolf form can help you cast your other werewolves.

• Mayor of Avabruck  ^Flip is cheap costed and can support both forms of your werewolves, independent of the form they are in. The only problem I can see with him is the pricing. I don't know how much it costs. However, it's definitely one to keep in mind.

• I don't know how Geier Reach Bandit  ^Flip would fit in the deck, but its werewolf form would definitely help by getting everything guy that comes into play instantly transformed.

• Moonlight Hunt is a form of removal that can take advantage of the size of your guys(I'm gonna say guys from now on because werewolf is too big) and the fact that some of them grow the others, which may allow you to take out some threats that other removal in these colors wouldn't be able to.

• Silverfur Partisan is, maybe, a little bit of a strech. Definitely not a mainboard option but may a side one? It can make not as profitable as your opponent would like when they remove one of your guys, especially if the "removal" is bouncing.

• I don't think Domri, Anarch of Bolas would be a good inclusion. Still, I decided to include it here so you couls decide. After all, the deck is yours, not mine. He kinda ramps you while also being a removal "spell/engine" and a very small "anthem"

I also have some land suggestions, though I don't know if they would fit your budget.

• Game Trail is a simple and effective one. Simply reveal a basic land from your hand and you already have access to both colors of mana.

• Rootbound Crag is similar to the one above. The only difference is that it won't enter tapped during the first turn.

• Cinder Glade is probably the most "budget" out of these three that I have mentioned. However, it won't enter untapped until, at least, your turn three.

• Skarrg, the Rage Pits and Castle Embereth are some utility lands that may help you close out the game or at the very least put some pressure on your opponents.

One last suggestion. This one probably will be outside outside of your budget. I will mention just in case you'd like to invest or you end up having the opportunity to have one of these.

• Descendants' Path. This one is pretty much self-explanatory. It can cheat your guys into play, which would be very good considering your deck doesn't have any ramp.

TriusMalarky on 5c elementals toolbox

2 weeks ago

I think that's pretty much the same(however you set up fetches is fine, you just need to make sure every fetch can get every color).

TBH I'd run Copperline Gorge over Rootbound Crag in this deck. Having basically Taiga for turns 1-3 seems better here than having potential Taiga for turns 2+. I mean, you have 14(counting fetches) triggers for crag, which is fine.... but there'll be situations in which you won't have the trigger in the first couple turns because of how your lands turn out. Additionally, you have enough 3 mana or fewer plays that you can play Gorge tapped and wait a turn to resolve Omnath and you won't be in that bad of a situation.

You could also just go 3x Stomping Ground.

On Fabled Passage, it's good lategame but not early. You need the Vistas here, as Passage will just be Evolving Wilds for you.

Primal Beyond is fine, but Cavern of Souls is better and you only have so much room.

dichia on 5c elementals toolbox

2 weeks ago

I was thinking about:

• 4x Cavern of Souls: it makes any color for elementals and make them uncounterable.

• 4x Prismatic Vista/Fabled Passage: let me take a basic land of the color I need at the moment.

• 1x for each basic land

• 2x Bloodstained Mire and 2x Windswept Heath

• 1x Sacred Foundry and 1x Overgrown Tomb cause they can be looked for by any of the four fetchlands.

• 1x Steam Vents and 1x Breeding Pool to get blue mana from any of the fetchlands.

• 3x Rootbound Crag cause every shockland is either a forest or a mountain and Red and Green are the most common colors in the deck.

What do you think?

Yogei on Immortal Knights

4 weeks ago

Balaam__, I've been looking over dual lands after your recommendations. How do you feel about the "check lands", e.g Isolated Chapel, Rootbound Crag? You'll have to have pretty bad luck to play them tapped and at least some of them aren't all that expensive.

multimedia on I'm Mr. Marisi, Look at me!

1 month ago

Hey, you don't have 100 cards, don't need to make cuts just yet ;)

Your deck is missing Marisi as Commander. In the deck editor add the CMDR tag after Marisi text.

Marisi, Breaker of the Coil *CMDR*

Doing this will make Marisi the official Commander and show the card image.

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Sol Ring, Arcane Signet, Eladamri's Call are some staple cards within the budget here.

Goblin Spymaster is another repeatable way to give your opponents creatures. Bedlam makes it so your opponents kill each other with unblockable creatures since they're not going to be attacking you. Mass Hysteria gives all creatures haste. Grenzo, Havoc Raiser and Agitator Ant can be repeatable goad.

The shadow ability is good with Marisi since opponents are not going to have creatures with shadow thus shadow creatures will consistently do combat damage to a player and trigger Marisi.

• Soltari Foot Soldier
• Spirit en-Dal: repeatable, can give any creature shadow.
• Soltari Visionary

More flying creatures will also consistently do combat damage to a player to trigger Marisi.

• Aven Mindcensor
• Kinjalli's Sunwing
• Shalai, Voice of Plenty

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Land upgrades to consider:

• Jungle Shrine
• Temple Garden
• Stomping Ground
• Battlefield Forge
• Brushland
• Karplusan Forest
• Canopy Vista
• Cinder Glade
• Rootbound Crag
• Clifftop Retreat
• Sunpetal Grove
• Rugged Prairie
• Naya Panorama
• Ash Barrens
• Rogue's Passage
• Kessig Wolf Run

Good luck with your deck.

multimedia on Zacama, Primal Calamity Ramp

1 month ago

Hey, you're welcome.

When looking at the color requirements of the cards in your deck green is overall most important therefore Forests should be the most basic lands in the manabase. A basic Forest will do a lot more for you than a basic Mountain or Plains. Can cast land ramp spells with green and they get you the other colors especially Farseek, Lore and Skyshroud if you add some dual lands that are two different land types.

My advice is rely more on dual lands for white and red than basic lands. Lantern and Dryad help a lot for color fixing, but don't want to count on having one of them every game therefore make the manabase function without them and have them as a bonus. Grand Abolisher sticks out in white. Other than him white is the least important color here and green has many sources that can help to get you white mana.

The ratio of basic lands to use really depends on what kind of manabase you want to make. You want most lands in the manabase to be able to make green mana and on a budget this means lots of Forests. A budget manabase of Check lands, Battle lands, Pain lands, Bounce lands will have more basic lands. Compare this to a more expensive manabase of more Rainbow lands, Fetch lands, Shock lands, Battlebond lands, Pain lands, Bounce lands will have less basic lands. The expensive manabase would replace some basic lands with more lands that can make more than one color.

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Budget 36 land manabase example (27 green sources, 17 red, 17 white):

• 10x Forest
• 4x Mountain
• 4x Plains
• Command Tower
• Exotic Orchard
• Jungle Shrine
• Ash Barrens
• Evolving Wilds
• Naya Panorama
• Canopy Vista
• Cinder Glade
• Brushland
• Karplusan Forest
• Battlefield Forge
• Sheltered Thicket
• Scattered Groves
• Rootbound Crag
• Sunpetal Grove
• Boros Garrison
• Gruul Turf
• Selesnya Sanctuary
• Mosswort Bridge
• Sanctum of Eternity

More expensive 36 land manabase example with less basic lands:

• 8x Forest
• 2x Mountain
• 2x Plains
• Command Tower
• Exotic Orchard
• Jungle Shrine
• City of Brass
• Forbidden Orchard
• Windswept Heath
• Wooded Foothills
• Temple Garden
• Stomping Ground
• Sacred Foundry
• Bountiful Promenade
• Spire Garden
• Brushland
• Karplusan Forest
• Rugged Prairie
• Canopy Vista
• Cinder Glade
• Boros Garrison
• Gruul Turf
• Selesnya Sanctuary
• Naya Panorama
• Mosswort Bridge
• Sanctum of Eternity

Balaam__ on Cheating on the Eldrazi Exam

1 month ago

Looks pretty solid overall. The only immediate idea that comes to mind has a hefty price tag associated with it, so depending on your desired budget for this build it might not be reasonable. If you removed the 3 Rootbound Crag in favor of 3 Stomping Ground or Wooded Foothills, you’d always have the right mana on a given turn as well as the bonus of having thinned your deck for better subsequent draws.