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Searing Meditation
Enchantment
Whenever you gain life, you may pay . If you do, this deals 2 damage to any target (creature, player, planeswalker or battle).
SaberTech on
Nature's Bounty
3 weeks ago
I think that there is some potential room.
Tamanoa has limited synergy within the deck. There are only a handful of cards that it can work with, although the combo with Searing Meditation is kind of fun. My question would be, is it worth it to use that slot to try to support a tangential part of your deck when you could be strengthening synergies with your commander and a main mechanical theme within your deck?
You have four large damage amplifier cards in Aurelia, the Warleader, Pathbreaker Ibex, Akroma's Memorial, and True Conviction. I'm not sure you need that many expensive amplifiers when you already have the +1/+1 token theme strengthening your creatures. You could take at least one of those out (the Memorial would be my pick) to make room and help to drop your deck's average CMC. Marath + Cathars' Crusade already gives you really strong inevitability. Going harder into the +1/+1 counter support also lets Shalai and Hallar more easily step up to fill the extra damage role in place of the amplifier that you are taking out.
Getting Firemane Avenger's ability to work can be a little finicky. A Basilisk Collar could be an easier way for you to gain life and pick off creatures with your commander.
Unless Elixir of Immortality is a pick for your local meta, I think that it might be unnecessary for your deck. You are going to either win or lose long before you deck out. Replacing it with Bow of Nylea helps to cover for any need to gain life or shuffle some cards back into your library while also giving you another way to reload counters onto Marath or give it deathtouch.
hyalopterouslemur on Beta Brackets Update Today
5 months ago
DemonDragonJ: Yeah, my loathing of five-color goodstuff mostly comes from how this is supposed to be the color-restricted format: I have a Ghave, Guru of Spores deck, but if I want to make a Rith, the Awakener or Marath, Will of the Wild *f-etch* deck, I have to lose the black cards (and probably the entire Aristocrats theme). So, no more Grave Pact or Dictate of Erebos. No more Pitiless Plunderer. No more Diabolic Intent. No more Blood Artist or Bastion of Remembrance. I do gain red, though, so say hello to Purphoros, God of the Forge. Rhys the Redeemed or Nemata, Primeval Warden would be even more restricted, as token decks go.
My removal also suffers, since red removal is surprisingly bad in this format. (Seriously, I'd argue white has the best removal, followed closely by black. Green's a distant third, and red and blue are tied for fourth: Red has more removal, blue has better removal.)
And it happens between Oloro, Ageless Ascetic, Betor, Ancestor's Voice, Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim, Beledros Witherbloom, and Licia, Sanguine Tribune
too. All are lifegain, but only Oloro can use Absorb and Drogskol Reaver. Only Licia can use Lightning Helix and Searing Meditation. Only Betor can use Beledros Witherbloom. Ayli and Witherbloom are even more restricted, especially since Witherbloom can't use the color that's best at lifegain.
But that's the whole point. When I choose a Commander, I make a lot of choices regarding deck construction. I can't say "Cathars' Crusade would be good in my Animar, Soul of Elements deck." because, well, it wouldn't; it would be illegal. That forces me to pick, I don't know, Ivy Lane Denizen or Forgotten Ancient instead. Corpsejack Menace? You mean Branching Evolution? (Aside from the name, why is Corpsejack Menace anyway? I actually wouldn't mind if it were just because that's Simic's thing.) And so on down the line.
Five-color goodstuff opts to ignore all of this. And right now, there are more five-color decks in EDH than in Legacy.
Eh, I can always just hate them out with Primal Order.
That's my rant about how too much five-color goodstuff is bad for the game.
Anyway, I play Aura Shards and Seedborn Muse in a lot of decks too. Aura Shards is really oppressive in a token build, or even a reanimator build. Seedborn Muse is interesting because she's either overpowered (anything , token builds, Yeva, Nature's Herald) or just a fancy Village Bell-Ringer without the Splinter Twin combo. I have to go through my decks now and see which ones have four or more game changers.
DemonDragonJ on
Fires of Purgatory
2 years ago
I have replaced Blazing Specter, Pain Magnification, and Searing Meditation with Blazing Hellhound, Cruel Celebrant, and Mayhem Devil, which lowered the average converted mana cost of this deck from 3.84 to 3.82, since the newer cards better suit the theme of this deck.
DemonDragonJ on Which Card Should Denethor Replace?
2 years ago
I am planning to put a copy of Denethor, Ruling Steward into my Tariel, Reckoner of Souls EDH deck, but I am not certain which card to remove to make room for him.
I believe that Denethor should replace either Scourge of the Nobilis or Searing Meditation, since neither of those cards contributes very strongly to the deck's theme, and the scourge, in particular, is very vulnerable to removal, as it is an aura, so I think that it may be the best card to remove.
What does everyone else say about this? Which card should Denethor replace?
DemonDragonJ on Should I Put Altar of …
2 years ago
I am contemplating putting a copy of Altar of Dementia into my Tariel, Reckoner of Souls EDH deck, likely replacing either Searing Meditation or possibly Fists of the Demigod, but I wish to ask the other users here for advice, before I do that.
Since that deck focuses on stealing my opponents' creatures for both combat and sacrificing, AoD would provide both an additional sacrifice outlet and an additional way to put creature cards into my opponents' graveyard, for me to steal, which is obviously a good thing.
What does everyone else say about this? Should I put Altar of Dementia into my Tariel deck?
DemonDragonJ on Should I Put FotVD in …
2 years ago
I would like to put Feast of the Victorious Dead into these two decks, but I am not certain what cards to remove from those decks to make room for the feast.
In my Tariel, Reckoner of Souls deck, I feel that Glory of Warfare may be rather expensive (although I admit that Fists of the Demigod or Searing Meditation may also be rather superfluous in that deck, as well; Pain Magnification at least helps to fill my opponents' graveyards, for me to plunder them), but I am less certain about my Teneb, the Harvester deck; I am not certain that that deck contains a sufficient number of artifacts to justify it containing Glissa, the Traitor, but she also is an easy way to get creatures into my opponents' graveyards, for me to then steal with Teneb.
What does everyone else say about this? Should I put Feast of the Victorious Dead into those two decks?
DemonDragonJ on Seeker of Lost Dreams
5 years ago
Well of Lost Dreams is a nice card, but it does not provide any way for a player to gain life and trigger its ability, so I have decided to create a creature that synergizes with itself, following the example of when I previously made a creature version of Searing Meditation, and here is the result of my work:
Seeker of Lost Dreams Show
I felt that making this creature a colorless artifact creature would have made it too powerful, so I made it a colored creature: white for it to have lifelink and blue for it to provide card drawing. I contemplated increasing the mana cost to 5 mana, but I felt that having it require two colors of mana was sufficient for it to have the same mana cost.
What does everyone else say about this card? Do you like it?
KingArthur on
I have no idea what I'm doing Zirda Commander
5 years ago
Hello.
What about cards like Past in Flames to recast Zenith Flare and cycled spells?
Also you can use Searing Meditation, its like Savai Thundermane, but enchantment. If you have lots of life triggers, it might help.
I have not much experience, but for me it seems like you need to focus a little. What your deck wants to do?
Do you really need all that walls and tap spells?
And that Frenzied Raptor?