Scoured Barrens

Land

Scoured Barrens enters the battlefield tapped.

When Scoured Barrens enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.

: Gain or .

Discussion (51)

lil_cheez on Karlov, life GANG

2 weeks ago

Kudos fellow papa Karl player!
My build is rather casual but here is an advice that I have:

• Use all the lifelands you can jam in (that of course would not run your mana flow too bad) like: Glimmerpost, Kabira Crossroads, Scoured Barrens, Radiant Fountain. Even Orzhova, the Church of Deals may help. Every single lifegain trigger counts, so why not?

DemMeowsephs on Queen Marchesa - The One True Love

1 month ago

Hey there mate! From what I see, you have all three shock lands (Pay 2 on ETB), all the filter lands (Pay X/Y get combination) and the check lands (ETB tapped unless X/Y). These are all great lands, but I think almost everything else can get a nice sweet upgrade. Note some of my suggestions may not be in your budget

• Blackcleave Cliffs
• Concealed Courtyard
• Inspiring Vantage
• Bloodstained Mire (Budget: Rocky Tar Pit
• Marsh Flats
• Arid Mesa
• Sulfurous Springs
• Caves of Koilos/Silent Clearing
• Battlefield Forge/Sunbaked Canyon
• Luxury Suite
• Vault of Champions
• Spectator Seating
• Ancient Tomb
• Prismatic Vista (A better Evolving Wilds)
• City of Brass
• Mana Confluence
• Reflecting Pool
• Strip Mine/Wasteland (A better Ghost Quarter)
• Gemstone Caverns

• Glacial Chasm (For Pillowfort?)

• Now I know that is quite a lot, but don't worry- I have an idea. I personally believe all of the following could and should be cut for some of the suggestions below, as you progress with your deck. Akoum Refuge, Bloodfell Caves, Evolving Wilds, Ghost Quarter, Nomad Outpost (Maybe Savai Triome instead?), Opal Palace, Scoured Barrens, Smoldering Marsh (it's only good in decks heavy with basics), Wind-Scarred Crag, etc!

• For ramp, Lotus Petal, Land Tax, and Dark Ritual can be pretty fun too.

• Hope this helps! If you like my suggestions be sure to support some of my decks (Double Trouble EDH *PRIMER*). Anyways though, hope this helps, good luck on your deck, and have a great day! Happy tapping!

VioletSpirit on Dad Said It's My Turn to Play with the Lifegain

1 month ago

DemMeowsephs

Thanks so much for all the suggestions! A few of them I had considered in the past, but I will go through all of them and weigh my options again (since I am terribly indecisive and not great at considering synergies lol).

I actually have both Vindicate and Mortify and I also have Scoured Barrens and Weathered Wayfarer as well.

Your land suggestions were what I needed the most so thank you again XD

DemMeowsephs on Dad Said It's My Turn to Play with the Lifegain

1 month ago

Hey there! Maybe consider some of the following for your manabase

• Marsh Flats (Can tutor for Godless Shrine)
• Concealed Courtyard
• Cabal Coffers (Cabal stronghold
• Silent Clearing
• Vault of Champions
• Ancient Tomb
• Prismatic Vista
• Fabled Passage
• City of Brass
• Mana Confluence
• Reflecting Pool
• Exotic Orchard
• Strip Mine/Wasteland (Field of ruin upgrade)
• Forbidden Orchard
• Gemstone Mine
• Gemstone Caverns

• Scoured Barrens (For the lifegain trigger?)

• For ramp, you might like some of the following

• Land Tax
• Talisman of Hierarchy
• Jet Medallion
• Pearl Medallion
• Weathered Wayfarer

• Dark Ritual

• Besides your mana base you may like some of the following

• Vindicate instead of Mortify
• Necropotence/Bolas's Citadel since you its lifegain based
• Also cut skullclamp- you don't have too many 1/1's.

iDescendance on Draino

2 months ago

If you'd like some inspiration for your list, I have 2 Orzhov lists you can look at that I like. This one is more in tune with what you're looking to do, this other one is more based discouraging the opponent from doing anything by playing cards that make them lose life for interactions. Might be worth checking out!

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Problem Cards/Concerns

• Baneslayer Angel (Good in a vacuum, not great for what this list wants to do. A touch too slow.)
• Tymaret, Chosen from Death (Too cute. Functionally he doesn't bring you closer to your Vito win-con, and his ability isn't really what you'd want to be spending mana on to do so.)
• Ill-Gotten Inheritance (I see what you're going for here, but it also feels too cute. It's not bad, just not fantastic either.
• Basri Ket (He's just making bad cards better. He's unnecessary for your Vito win-con.)
• Evolving Wilds (This can easily be swapped for Fabled Passage, does the same thing but can have lands enter untapped.)
• Radiant Fountain (You're not going to be finding this on the draw, and doesn't really help you otherwise. Might as well swap that for another Swamp)
• Scoured Barrens and Temple of Silence (All for these, but for the amount of 1-3 drop creatures you're looking to play, it would seem like you're going to be running into some mana issues. Would absolutely put in some Godless Shrine for this list since you can just heal back the damage it deals anyhow)
• Griffin Aerie (Another cute card. I get what you're going for with it, but I don't know how well it helps you get into your Vito win-con.)
• Light of Hope (Feels a bit niche. Not quite cute, just niche. There's likely better cards than this.)

As a general note, decent cards that make bad cards better aren't the answer. Look at how your win condition is typically met, and find more direct and impactful ways to influence it.

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Cards You Got Right

• Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose (Duh)
• Heliod, Sun-Crowned (Definitely works in your favor, just gotta watch out for your devotion.)
• Mangara, the Diplomat (Interesting card, definitely can serve as a nice draw engine against aggro decks)
• Sorin, Vengeful Bloodlord (He's great utility, and 100% sets you up to get a bunch of Vito triggers)

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Additions/Replacements

• Healer's Hawk (Staple lifegain creature, is super easy to get down and make use out of)
• Heartless Act or Eliminate (Could be a replacement for Mortify, as both are cheaper and have a little more use)
• Fabled Passage (See above for Evolving Wilds)
• Godless Shrine (See above for Scoured Barrens and Temple of Silence)
• Rhox Faithmender (A nice addition to the list, makes the Vito triggers hit even harder)
• Ajani, Strength of the Pride (Nice way to gain life, and he can easily sweep the board if he needs to)
• Ajani's Pridemate and/or Bloodthirsty Aerialist (Plays into that 'Whenever you gain life, put a 1/1 on a creature' thing you seem to like)

DeinoStinkus on Touch me and Die

2 months ago

Teysa is underrated af. I run her in my Yennett.

I know they may be expensive, but Godless Shrine and Fetid Heath are amazing. Even if you don't want higher end duals, then just grab a Scoured Barrens. Pretty decent and you might grab some synergy off of it.

multimedia on Wild Bonder

3 months ago

Hey, good budget version and interesting description. Nice Demonic Tutor :)

Cards $2 or less each to consider adding:

• Swiftfoot Boots: hexproof protection.
• Shielded by Faith: indestructibility protection.
• Open the Armory: tutor for Boots or Faith.
• Phyrexian Reclamation: repeatable creature recursion.
• Hushbringer: flying/double strike/lifelink Snapdax and major opponent disruption.
• Will-o'-the-Wisp: flying and regenerate protection.
• Vampire Nighthawk: flying/double strike/deathtouch/lifelink Snapdax.
• Adanto Vanguard: indestructibility protection.
• Brightling: bounce protection.
• Tome of Legends: repeatable draw with attacking Snapdax.
• Deafening Silence: powerful opponent disruption with your mutate creature strategies.
• Swords to Plowshares: instant exile a creature for one mana.
• Generous Gift: instant destroy any permanent.
• Caves of Koilos
• Battlefield Forge
• Foreboding Ruins

You want more protection for the creature you mutate too because without protection the mutate creature can be killed in response to being mutated or after. In multiplayer Commander mutate is much more of a problem because there's three or more opponents who could have removal. That's a lot more potential removal you have to deal with than if you were playing 1v1.

Swiftfoot Boots gives the equipped creature hexproof meaning that creature can't be targeted by your opponents removal. Boots is an equipment, it can be equipped to any creature you control and it doesn't leave the battlefield when the equipped creature is removed. Open the Armory is a budget tutor that can get Boots.

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Flying and double strike is a good combination to do Commander damage with Snapdax. Hushbringer is powerful disruption in multiplayer Commander since it prevents all creatures who have an enter the battlefield ability that triggers and any creature who has a dies ability that triggers. These two types of triggers are ways for players to gain a lot of value from creatures. Hushbringer is not going to affect you much since mutating is not an enter the battlefield trigger it's a cast trigger thus Hushbringer doesn't prevent mutating.

Will-o'-the-Wisp is a one drop flying creature who can regenerate. This little Spirit can be powerful with mutate. Brightling is a unique creature with mutate since you can bounce it as well as all creatures that are mutated back to your hand. This is pseudo protection because you can activate Brightling in response to opponents removal. By bouncing all the creatures that are mutated then you can mutate them all again getting more value out of mutate.

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When Snapdax dies you can choose to spend it to your graveyard instead of putting it back into the Command Zone. This gets around having to pay Commander tax for Snapdax and the tax must be paid even if you're mutating Snapdax from the Command Zone which can be problematic. When Snapdax goes to your graveyard then you can recur it with cards that recur creatures from your graveyard. Phyrexian Reclamation is very good repeatable recursion at instant speed for mutate creatures because you want the creature to come back to your hand to then cast it again to mutate again.

Cards to consider cutting:

• Vivid Marsh
• 2x Mountain
• Offspring's Revenge
• Parasitic Impetus
• Shiny Impetus
• Species Specialist
• Duskfang Mentor
• Frillscare Mentor
• Keensight Mentor
• Shriekmaw
• Tentative Connection
• Bad Deal
• Avenging Huntbonder
• Mysterious Egg

Good luck with your deck.

multimedia on Honour from the Grave

3 months ago

Hey, nice budget version.

You forgot Sol Ring? Ruinous Ultimatum wrecks all your opponents; leaving you untouched to attack. It's the most powerful Mardu spell currently in Commander. Mask of Memory is another way to discard Knights for Haakon or it's another way to get Haakon into your graveyard. Murderous Rider's adventure is an upgrade for a instant removal spell and then it's a Knight.

Exotic Orchard, Caves of Koilos, Battlefield Forge are budget land upgrades. Savai Triome is a Tri land Plains that Knight of the White Orchid can search for. When playing Sunforger than Mistveil Plains is worth adding because it's a way to repeatedly cast the same instant with Sunforger and it's also a Plains that Orchid can search for.

Changes to consider:

• Sol Ring > Harsh Sustenance
• Ruinous Ultimatum > Urza's Ruinous Blast
• Mask of Memory > Mace of the Valiant
• Murderous Rider > Murder
• Exotic Orchard > Bloodfell Caves
• Caves of Koilos > Scoured Barrens
• Battlefield Forge > Temple of Silence
• Mistveil Plains > 1x Plains
• Savai Triome > Terramorphic Expanse