Ruin Ghost

Creature — Spirit

{{W}}, Tap: Exile target land you control, then return it to the battlefield under your control.

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
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (44)

carpecanum on Good Boy Yoshi :)

1 year ago

I just noticed you have Ruin Ghost but no legendary lands to blink for a counter. A few of the legendary lands are pretty cheap and could be slotted in.

plakjekaas on So Dominaria

1 year ago

Living Twister can take your deserts back to hand to replay them, Ruin Ghost can flicker them, Crucible of Worlds/Ramunap Excavator/Splendid Reclamation+Sylvan Safekeeper to return them from graveyard, Ancient Greenwarden to make more tokens per desert drop. Hour of Promise finally to be used as intended.

wallisface on Help with my landfall deck

2 years ago

I found this deck on tappedout. It’s a little out if date, but may present a better avenue for your deck to go down. Currently your deck lacks a “go infinite” combo, which can make easy to mess with (because its trying to be a combo deck, but isn’t). I think competitively you’ll have greater success if you have an immediate “i win” scenario in your deck that can be achieved reliably by turn 5. Your current brew is trying to compete down the same lines as traditional-mill, which will always just make it a sub-optimal mill deck.

Splashing white to include the Ruin Ghost + Retreat to Coralhelm combo seems decent, imo

legendofa on Is Theros the only plane …

2 years ago

Ravnica also has the Ghost Quarter, and Zendikar has occasional cards like Ruin Ghost that appear to be spirits of the dead. There's also a random Pteron Ghost from Mirrodin.

zapyourtumor on RCDBO: The Wonderful World and Everything In It

2 years ago

Reminds me some of my modern landfall combo deck. In fact, I knew about the sakura tribe + bounceland + coralhelm combo, but I somehow thought it needed 2 bouncelands because I forgot it can bounce itself - gotta change that right after this. But about the deck, there are definitely some other pieces you should add for extra combos.

First off, Ruin Ghost . Ruin Ghost + Retreat to Coralhelm + any producing land is infinite landfall triggers, so inf mana with lotus cobra, gg with ruin crab/tunneling geopede, inf draw with Tatyova, Benthic Druid , etc.

Next, I'd add Valakut Exploration , since it's a great card advantage engine that basically functions like Tatyova for the purposes of this deck. It is also another wincon if u just repeat any landfall loop 40 times then let it clap all your opponents at once, in case you don't have the mana to cast another wincon or something.

Hedron Crab is a pretty obvious redundant copy of Ruin Crab , but since its only a wincon I don't know if its necessary.

I also run Thassa's Oracle but that might not be necessary if you can just draw ruin crab and play it for strictly less mana. You might want a way to get rid of Tatyova then, though so you don't mill yourself out.

Lastly, Knight of the Reliquary also has a really sexy interaction with Retreat to Coralhelm , netting you 1 mana each time and repeatedly generating landfall triggers (not infinite though!).

HELLcaster19 on Omnath, Locus of Creation

3 years ago

An important thing to note about Food Chain mana that is overlooked; it is only useable on creature casting. Nothing else. So unless you have ways to abuse creature casting, avoid Food Chain combos.

Also, in regards to the Lotus Cobra and Retreat to Coralhelm; If you also look at Ruin Ghost , you can use it to blink out a land (preferably one with a white source that enters untapped). This way, you always have the white mana to keep using Ruin Ghost. Retreat to Coralhelm will always untap Ruin Ghost when the land re-enters the field. And Lotus Cobra nets you extra mana as well. Not to mention that adding Ruin Ghost will also work in tandem with your other Landfall triggers :)

Additionally, if you have that Dryad of the Ilysian Grove on board, you can also blink out your commander to get a card draw, but more importantly, reset its Landfall ability to ping everyone for damage.

Two cards that could help streamline your deck a bit are Neoform and Traverse the Ulvenwald . Neoform will put something vital straight into play at the cost of sacking a creature as well. Traverse is one that I think is underplayed. I dont see it in many decks with green. It will search for a basic, unless you have Delerium. Which instead, allows you to pull any land or even a creature and put it in your hand. Both are very cheap :)

king-saproling on Toggo and Akiri's ROCKy Partnership

3 years ago

You might like these: Puresteel Paladin , Wyleth, Soul of Steel , Valduk, Keeper of the Flame , Armament Master , Champion of the Flame , Kemba, Kha Regent , Settle the Wreckage , Sword of the Animist , Reyav, Master Smith , Gorgon Flail , Gorgon's Head , Weathered Wayfarer , Expedition Map , Halvar, God of Battle  ^Flip, Evolving Wilds , Ruin Ghost

bjgivesbj on Can This Turn-3 Infinite Landfall …

3 years ago

Test Infinite Ghost Crab

Good Morning Community,

Today I began to play with a combo that I discovered accidentally as I was searching for U/W cards with exile effects. I stumbled upon Ruin Ghost, and an idea clicked that ideally finds turn one Ruin Crab, turn two, Ruin Ghost, and turn three Retreat to Coralhelm. If I'm not mistaken, Ruin Ghost can blink the same plains that was tapped for its ability, returning it to the battlefield untapped. when it returns to the battlefield, Retreat to Coralhelm should be able to untap Ruin Ghost, so that the user can rinse and repeat, while Ruin Crab passively mills multiple opponents. I've also added some other landfall cards that generate tokens such as Emeria Angel.

My main question is has this combo been found before? Nevermind, I'm sure the answer is yes, I just want to be let down easily.

I guess I'd like to know your thoughts on the efficiency of the deck. Should I add more removal? Counterspells? More card draw or cycling to find the combo pieces? Creature protection like Dive Down? Would you splash another color to get more value?

How would you feel if you played this deck against your friends? How would you feel if you had to play against this deck?