Rootbound Crag

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

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Discussion (49)

multimedia on Werewolves on the hunt

3 weeks ago

Hey, good attempt for a budget version of Tovolar. nice Aggravated Assault. You've mistakenly added two Tovolar's Huntmaster  ^Flip :)

The card that combos with Spellbinder is Savage Beating for extra attacks which is now a $30 card. Without having Beating then Spellbinder is not worth playing because there's only 5 instants here out of 94 other cards.

When you control five or more lands then Bear Umbra enchanted to a creature who can keep attacking can pair with Aggravated Assault for extra attacks. Attacking with five or more creatures makes Druids' Repository combo with Assault. Savage Ventmaw who can keep attacking combos with Assault and also makes infinite green/red mana. Umbra could replace Spellbinder, Repository could replace Mantle of the Wolf and Ventmaw could replace the other copy Huntmaster.

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Consider more one, two, three drop Werewolves to replace the vanilla four and five drop Werewolves?

• Scorned Villager  ^Flip
• Realmwalker: changeling, it's a Werewolf and a Wolf.
• Kruin Outlaw  ^Flip
• Geier Reach Bandit  ^Flip
• Daybreak Ranger  ^Flip
• Breakneck Rider  ^Flip
• Village Messenger  ^Flip
• Hermit of the Natterknolls  ^Flip
• Reckless Waif  ^Flip
• Lambholt Elder  ^Flip
• Wolfbitten Captive  ^Flip

Some of these could replace:

• Tormented Pariah  ^Flip
• Tavern Ruffian  ^Flip
• Tireless Hauler  ^Flip
• Burly Breaker  ^Flip
• Villagers of Estwald  ^Flip
• Harvesttide Infiltrator  ^Flip
• Bird Admirer  ^Flip
• Spellrune Painter  ^Flip
• Fangblade Brigand  ^Flip

A couple of reasons for these changes is to get three or more Werewolves onto the battlefield to transform Tovolar quicker and have more Werewolves that can give you value rather than just only being Werewolves.

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Some lands to consider adding, replacing of some basic lands.

• Karplusan Forest
• Unclaimed Territory
• Cinder Glade
• Rockfall Vale
• Rootbound Crag
• Fire-Lit Thicket
• Game Trail
• Naya Panorama
• Jund Panorama

Good luck with your deck.

multimedia on Gruul Werewolf Pack

3 weeks ago

Hey, interesting high budget version of Tovolar with less Werewolves.

Human Werewolves that don't have day/night still count towards and transform when Tovolar upkeep triggers. The better Werewolves not having day/night is not really a drawback with Tovolar. Because Tovolar can repeatedly change from day to night then you have more chances to transform nonday/night Werewolves. If you play a nonday/night Werewolf after Tovolar transforms that's fine because more than likely Tovolar will flip back daybound giving you another chance to transform all Human Werewolves you control at your upkeep.

If you want to play a small amount of Werewolves then the ones you play really should give you more than just being a Werewolf.

• Mayor of Avabruck  ^Flip
• Huntmaster of the Fells  ^Flip
• Tovolar's Huntmaster
• Duskwatch Recruiter  ^Flip
• Kessig Naturalist
• Scorned Villager  ^Flip
• Reckless Stormseeker  ^Flip: day/night Werewolf
• Outland Liberator  ^Flip: day/night Werewolf

With such a high budget you can do better than the vanilla Werewolves who don't give you anything when they're Humans as well as when they nightbound transform? Many of the Wolves are also subpar compared to all other cards here. If you're playing the Wolves just to be able to upkeep trigger Tovolar faster any Human Werewolf will do the same thing and give you more than any of these Wolves.

Wolves and Werewolves to consider cutting:

• Pestilent Wolf, Bounding Wolf, Lambholt Harrier, Snarling Wolf
• Tireless Hauler  ^Flip, Burly Breaker  ^Flip, Spellrune Painter  ^Flip

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Really nice Fetch lands, but consider playing a Forest/Mountain dual land to fetch: Stomping Ground, Cinder Glade, Sheltered Thicket? Adding these lands will also give Farseek a dual land to search for instead of only being able to search for a basic Mountain. Also by adding some Forest/Mountain dual lands then you could improve the land ramp spells with Nature's Lore and Three Visits.

Some changes to consider:

• Stomping Ground --> Vivid Grove
• Cinder Glade --> Thriving Grove
• Sheltered Thicket --> Temple of Abandon
• Nature's Lore --> Lay of the Land
• Three Visits --> Rampant Growth

Some other lands that would improve the manabase by cutting some basic lands especially Mountains:

• Spire Garden
• Grove of the Burnwillows
• Karplusan Forest
• Rogue's Passage
• Cragcrown Pathway  ^Flip
• Fire-Lit Thicket
• Rootbound Crag
• Game Trail

Arcane Signet could replace Herald's Horn since Horn doesn't do much if you're not tribal. With so few Werewolves or Humans as well as many different creature types then a mana rock would make more ramp.

Door of Destinies is another tribal only card and it's very slow with so few Werewolves or Humans to cast. Could cut Door for Beastmaster Ascension since it's an anthem for all creatures you control.

Good luck with your deck.

multimedia on Draconic Rage Precon Upgraded

1 month ago

Hey, well done with upgrading the precon on a budget.

Greater Good and Goblin Bombardment let you abuse Dragon Spirits before they're saced after doing damage. When a Dragon Spirit does damage it makes a sacrifice trigger that has to resolve from the stack before the token is saced. When the trigger is on the stack you can response to it by sacing the token for value. Greater is draw 5 cards and Bombardment is do 1 damage to Vrondiss to create another Dragon Spirit. When Vrondiss is indestructible, Bombardment can be part a combo to do infinite damage to opponents with any two of Dragon Tempest, Scourge of Valkas, Terror of the Peaks, Outpost Siege or Warstorm Surge.

• Greater Good --> Wild Endeavor
• Goblin Bombardment --> Indomitable Might

Wild Endeavor is a six mana ramp spell with only d4 rolls, you don't really want to be casting ramp with six mana.

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Consider more repeatable draw sources which the precon really lacks. More effects that draw a card whenever a Spirit Dragon is created and from other enrage: Ripjaw Raptor, Garruk's Packleader, Elemental Bond.

Ripjaw Raptor is another good creature to make indestructible because then you can draw cards by doing damage to it. Garruk's Packleader draw is a may, you can stop drawing at any time. With Packleader in your control and Vrondiss is indestructible then one of Dragon Tempest, Scourge of Valkas, Terror of the Peaks, Outpost Siege or Warstorm Surge will create as many Dragon Spirits who will do damage/sac itself as you want which is draw as many cards as you want.

• Ripjaw Raptor --> Wulfgar of Icewind Dale
• Garruk's Packleader --> Chameleon Colossus
• Elemental Bond --> Neverwinter Hydra

Wulfgar of Icewind Dale is out of place in the precon and here because there's very few cards that trigger when the creature attacks. He's not worth keeping really just for Klauth, Unrivaled Ancient.

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One area from the precon you haven't upgraded is the manabase, it's still 39 lands and 27 basic lands. Some lands to consider adding in place of some basic lands and Underdark Rift:

• Karplusan Forest
• Fire-Lit Thicket
• Grove of the Burnwillows
• Rootbound Crag
• Rockfall Vale
• Cragcrown Pathway  ^Flip
• Highland Forest
• Naya Panorama
• Jund Panorama
• Tyrite Sanctum
• Rogue's Passage
• Bonders' Enclave

I don't think you need 39 lands, some of them could be cut for lower CMC ramp such as Farseek, Talisman of Impulse and Sakura-Tribe Elder. Because you have Cinder Glade and could add Highland Forest then Farseek has a dual land to search for. For two mana Tyrite Sanctum can repeatedly put a counter on Vrondiss to make him bigger. Once he's a God then Sanctum can be saced to make Vrondiss indestructible. Both these effects are helpful coming from a land.

I offer more advice. Good luck with your deck.

multimedia on MEATDOWN

1 month ago

Hey, nice upgrades for the precon and funny deck name.

Goblin Bombardment can do 1 damage to any target for enrage. When Dragon Spirits do damage their sac trigger goes onto the stack and it has to resolve before the Dragon Spirit is saced. When this trigger happens you can response to it by sacing the Dragon Spirit with Bombardment to do 1 damage to Vrondiss to create another Dragon Spirit or target another creature like Ripjaw Raptor. Greater Good is another powerful sac outlet to take advantage of Dragon Spirits sac trigger. In response sac the Dragon Spirit to draw 5 cards.

• Goblin Bombardment --> Vengeful Ancestor
• Greater Good --> Colossal Majesty

Cutting Scourge of Valkas from the precon is a mistake. It's a Dragon body that has Dragon Tempest effect and it can trigger Vrondiss enrage the turn it ETB. Scourge of Valkas --> Hydra Omnivore

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To really abuse Vrondiss consider more indestructible? You have Heroic Intervention, but consider more ways?

• Anara, Wolvid Familiar --> Thunderbreak Regent
• Roar of Challenge --> Mage Slayer
• Tyrite Sanctum --> Crucible of the Spirit Dragon

Roar of Challenge can do a lot with Vrondiss for three mana because he has more than 4 power. It makes him indestructible and forces an opponent who has creatures for all them block him which each creature who does this is one instance of damage/enrage to Vrondiss to potentially create a lot Dragon Spirits.

Because you have Stomping Ground, Cinder Glade and Highland Forest than Farseek is an upgrade for Rampant Growth. Karplusan Forest, Fire-Lit Thicket, Rootbound Crag, Jund Panorama are some less expensive lands to consider adding.

Good luck with your deck.

multimedia on Korvold Loves Treasure

1 month ago

Hey, well done on a budget, nice foil Goldspan and SL Dreadbore :)

Consider more ramp with Korvold? More one and two drop ramp sources:

• Ignoble Hierarch
• Elves of Deep Shadow
• Fyndhorn Elves
• Elvish Mystic
• Wild Growth
• Fellwar Stone

Korvold is powerful as Commander when playing lots of ramp since it helps to cast him faster and then that ramp can fuel his sacrifice. This makes playing lots of redundant ramp actually a strength.

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Animation Module + Ashnod's Altar + Korvold is a combo to draw as many cards as you want, make Korvold huge, make as much colorless mana as you want. Without the combo Module is a nice repeatable source of tokens for sac fodder because of Korvold.

Add Pitiless Plunderer to create tons of treasures. Plunderer and a different sac outlet such as Viscera Seer or Goblin Bombardment could replace Ashnod's Altar since it only costs 1 mana (1 treasure) to make a Servo with Module. Bombardment is an excellent low CMC budget sac outlet.

Ramunap Excavator lets you abuse lands as the permanent to sac with Korvold. Caustic Caterpillar and Seal of Primordium are upgrades for artifact/enchantment removal spells because they can sac themselves as well as be saced at instant speed. Plaguecrafter is a nice creature removal effect in multiplayer Commander who sacs himself.

Prossh, Skyraider of Kher as the high end has synergy with Korvold. It's a sac outlet and it makes Kobold tokens to sac. Farseek is an upgrade for Rampant Growth because you have Overgrown Tomb and Stomping Ground. Harrow is an upgrade for Cultivate because you sac a land to cast it.

Path of Ancestry, Jund Panorama, Karplusan Forest, Dragonskull Summit, Rootbound Crag, Cinder Glade, Smoldering Marsh are some budget land upgrades to consider.

If interested I offer more advice including suggestions of cuts to consider. Good luck with your deck.

RambIe on Thank You Dollar General

2 months ago

That pic is off a real play test,
Turn 1 Forest - Skyshroud Ranger
Turn 2 Forest - Traverse the Ulvenwald Fetch & play Island, Skyshroud Ranger - Rootbound Crag,Rootbound CragIsland - Nature's Lore - Stomping Ground, Stomping Ground - Sol Ring, Sol Ring - Arcane Signet
Turn 3 Shaman of the Great Hunt and well you can see were it went from there, its amazing how great a deck can be when there isnt anyone there to stop you

Brian-123 on Green Stomp

2 months ago

Aspect of Hydra to replace your Blanchwood Armor, if you can possible splash red a little then Seismic Stomp be discusting in this deck. I run it to make all ground unites cant block. an dif red is placed in just a little 2 mountain and 4x Rootbound Crag is a great card and originally from M12 comes in not tapped and will tap for either color so no slowing down and because your dropping big creatures do this Elemental Bond to give you a draw engine and if you want some beasts then this will land fall can get a little crazy Rampaging Baloths

my deck here might give you some good stuff...https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/10-06-21-natures-wrath/

zapyourtumor on The Impossible Deck

2 months ago

There are some better budget lands than the ones you are currently running. I've put parentheses around some that aren't quite as cheap and bolded the ones that are definitely in your price range.

Painlands: Llanowar Wastes, (Karplusan Forest)

Check lands: Dragonskull Summit, Rootbound Crag, (Woodland Cemetery)

MDFC lands: Cragcrown Pathway  ^Flip, (Blightstep Pathway  ^Flip), (Darkbore Pathway  ^Flip)

Scry lands: Temple of Malady, Temple of Malice, Temple of Abandon