Sacred Foundry

Land — Mountain Plains

({T}: Add {R} or {W}.)

As this enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, this enters tapped.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Pre-release	Legal
PreDH	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Standard	Legal
Standard Brawl	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Unformat	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (48)

theNeroTurtle on Kaalia DDA

1 month ago

Great commander. Solid build. What kind of suggestions are you looking for? For starters, I think you could clean up the mana base a little bit and still stay in budget. Other than tri-lands, tapped lands are kind of lame.

Reflecting Pool - a little pricy.

Savai Triome - a little pricy.

Lowlife lands are an option, like Raucous Carnival

Verge lands are worth considering. Example: Bleachbone Verge

Fetch Lands are best next to duals to be honest. Sacred Foundry

Slow Lands are great, too. Easy prices. Example: Shattered Sanctum

Most people don't like pain lands, but they are better than waiting a turn to use what you have. Example: Caves of Koilos.

Check lands are a great price. Example: Dragonskull Summit

Filter lands aren't great, but good, too. Example: Rugged Prairie

Battlebond's are pricy, but don't break the bank. Example: Spectator Seating

In Commander, speed is king. 1+ from me. You just need a little more speed.

Optimator on Boots for the Beatdown

3 months ago

True Conviction could be some sort of limit break. Or Big Guard or Enemy Skill Materia.

For your lands, why not do alters of :

Jetmir's Garden - Temple of the ancients? The Crater? Wall Market? Another version of Aeris's church garden or home garden? The Ancient Forest?

The inclusion of Jetmir's Garden also makes Three Visits and Nature's Lore a lot better. Fetch lands too, but I understand the desire not to run fetches. It also turns on all three Check lands.

Sacred Foundry - Stomping Ground - Temple Garden -- Temple Garden would be extra-thematic for Coral Valley or The Temple of the Ancients

Bountiful Promenade - Spectator Seating - Spire Garden

Commercial District - Elegant Parlor - Lush Portico

You have all three Check lands in, so of course having duals with land types is extra desirable. Check lands also go extra-well with Fetch lands, but you may not have room if you're keeping the cool precon lands.

I feel like if you're going all-out with this deck, why not have the good lands? Aggro decks need them more. Swap the cycling duals and the always-tapped duals? (Radiant Grove etc). You could also swap the Snow duals, though it is fairly thematic for those lands to be Snow lands. Still, you have no Snow payoffs to worry about.

I feel like Wooded Bastion and Sunscorched Divide could be upgraded easily enough--although I do kind of like how the Sunscorched Divide and Wooded Bastion complete the cycle from the precon. I've always found the Shadowmoor filterlands to be a bit unreliable in three-color decks. Not awful, mind you. Still, I think you'd be way better off swapping the alters over to shock lands or Battlebond duals.

You could turn Wooded Ridgeline into Stomping Ground and keep the art and flavor text.

I love the inclusion of the "Slowland" cycle (Sundown Pass etc)

Voodoo_Gremlin on Enchanting Terra

8 months ago

Because you're playing Scholar of New Horizons you may want to remove one Plains and replace it with a Sacred Foundry, Elegant Parlor or Jetmir's Garden. That way you can have access to both of your commander's colours if you're missing one and Scholar of New Horizons is your only land search.

Since you're playing a few fetches you'd probably benefit from a single triome or surveil land in general. In my experience playing more than one of either is asking for trouble.

wallisface on How Good is Angel of …

10 months ago

plakjekaas the way the card is worded, it does nothing to hinder shocklands like Sacred Foundry

plakjekaas on How Good is Angel of …

10 months ago

It shuts down some very poweful stuff like phyrexian mana, Necropotence and Flooded Strand and the other fetchlands like it. The shocklands ( Sacred Foundry ) become mere guildgates. It could be a middle-of-the-road card in bracket 3 decks to punish the players who overbuilt and overoptimised for their bracket in, probably, a mono white deck. Niche corner to perform, but the anthem does help most mono white strategies that would want to play this, so that it's not a dead card when your opponents don't play fetchlands. It both slows your opponents, and speeds up your mono white win. That's far from horrible in commander. If the anthem is not going to help your boardstate much in a multicolor deck, I'd have hesitations to play it though.

It also shuts down Aristocrat strategies. If you hate those with a passion, play this card.

kamarupa on Mono Red Devotion

10 months ago

Since you already have a full set of Ashling, Braid of Fire seems like a possible addition here. While I think you're running an awful lot of Instant spells for a Devotion deck, you would be able to cast those spells with mana from Braid of Fire during your upkeep if you didn't already have Ashling in play.

I decided Fanatic of Mogis looked like a fun card to brew around, so I put together my own Red Devotion brew. I also decided that splashing white for both blink spells (I went with Ephemerate) as well as recursion spells (I went with Late to Dinner) seemed worth it. Since you've already opted to include fetch lands, it seems like it would be easy enough to swap 4 of those for Arid Mesa and add a couple Sacred Foundrys.

You can check out what I've put together if you feel so inclined. I'm not completely satisfied with it, but I think it's got potential to be decent. Devoted Fans

DemonDragonJ on How Many Dual Lands do …

1 year ago

I have 10 two-colored 60-card decks, and I have eight dual lands in each of those decks: four copies of the appropriately-colored shocklands (i.e., Godless Shrine, Sacred Foundry, and so forth) and four copies of the appropriately-colored "checklands" (i.e., Glacial Fortress, Hinterland Harbor, and do forth), but I am wondering if I should put additional dual lands into those decks, such as the "slow lands" from Innistrad (i.e., Shattered Sanctum, Sundown Pass, and so forth) or the filter lands from Shadowmoor and Eventide (i.e., Cascade Bluffs, Rugged Prairie, and so forth), or if eight dual lands are sufficient, for each deck.

What does everyone else say, about this subject? Should I put additional dual lands into my 60-card decks, or are eight dual lands sufficient, for each deck?

Balaam__ on Boros Angel Lifegain

1 year ago

A lot of this will depend on the budget you’ve allotted the deck, but off the top of my head here are some simple fixes for your mana problems.

1) Replace stuff like Stone Quarry and Kabira Crossroads with Fetchlands or Shocklands. Since you’re in Legacy, true Duals like Plateau are the obvious suggestion, but they’re ludicrously expensive and out of reach for most. So things like Arid Mesa or Sacred Foundry are much more affordable and the next best thing. If that’s still out of reach, try fastlands or other less common mana producers like Inspiring Vantage or Clifftop Retreat. In other words, any land that says ‘Enters Tapped’ is slow as molasses and to be avoided.

•Another neat little trick is to run stuff like Flagstones of Trokair. A full set will let you thin your own deck with no drawback. You plop one down and have {W} ready to go, and each subsequent one you play after that will heave the previous one into the graveyard and replace it while also fetching a Plains from your deck for free.

Be sure to check for the cheapest version of each card as well, since prices can vary drastically.