Selesnya Guildgate

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Selesnya Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped.

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Discussion (51)

Vannu on Deck Help - Shalai, Voice of Plenty

4 months ago

Hey Goose_ thanks for the response, I appreciate the feedback. I will definitely pick up some board wipe protection, I just don't own any yet in white and green. I'm new to the commander format and only play with 2 others who are both using store bought commander decks at the moment. Most of these cards my brother-in-law gave me so I'm not concerned about price if I already have it and everything I listed here I have XD

I didn't even know Krosan Verge existed but I am already in love. Is it worth replacing Selesnya Guildgate over a basic land when adding in something like Sunpetal Grove ?

Goose_ on Deck Help - Shalai, Voice of Plenty

4 months ago

Cute deck idea, however a single board wipe just destroys this deck hard. Maybe include some anti-board wipe tech with Teferi's Protection , Heroic Intervention or even Wrap in Vigor . Second, I'm not sure how much you care about price, but that cradle is taking up HALF the price of this deck! There is a new card from the D&D set called Circle of Dreams Druid which does the same exact thing, just on a creature, which is great bc u want to have your commander out anyways. That would bring the deck price way down if you are looking into that. Also, I would replace that Selesnya Guildgate with something like a Sunpetal Grove so that it is more consistent. Another amazing land that is just special to selesnya is Krosan Verge which is EXTREMELY strong! I could help you out some more but I don't want to put up too much of a text wall for you. If you'd like more suggestions, please just @ me!

nathanielhebert on

7 months ago

The efficient land cards are what make this set more expensive, but the sturdy defender deck can afford to slow things down with cheaper mana alternatives. On the plus side, the guild-gates at our disposal look like we're building up more walls, and the scry from the various Temple of Mystery 's helps to put the combo pieces we need into our hands.

A slimmer version:

1x Botanical Sanctum , 3x Temple of Mystery

1x Fortified Village , 3x Temple of Plenty

1x Glacial Fortress , 2x Temple of Enlightenment

1x Hallowed Fountain , 3x Azorius Guildgate

1x Wooded Bastion , 3x Selesnya Guildgate

1x Island 1x Forest

multimedia on

1 year ago

Hey, very good upgrade of the precon while still keeping budget. Nice Doubling Season and Xenagos, God of Revels is some spicy tech with Obuun :)

My advice is consider cutting a few land ramp spells and adding some repeatable draw sources such as Valakut Exploration, Garruk's Uprising and Tireless Tracker. Exploration uses landfall to play cards from the top of your library including lands. It can also be graveyard fuel for Trove Warden, Sun Titan and Emeria Shepherd. Uprising is an amazing budget card in Commander with creature strategies especially with Omnath, Locus of Rage and Rampaging Baloths since it triggers when a token is created. Tracker, Mystery Booster version, creates clues with landfall and clues can sac to draw.

Crop Rotation can tutor for any land which is nice with Bounce lands, Fetch lands, Kessig Wolf Run and Gavony Township. Emeria Angel and Scute Swarm are build your own army with landfall which is very good with Doubling Season, Felidar Retreat, Township and Beastmaster Ascension.

Cinder Glade and Canopy Vista are some land upgrades for the manabase because they have good interaction with lots of basic lands and they're two different land types. Farseek, Nature's Lore, Grasslands, Mountain Valley can search for one of these dual lands. Krosan Verge and Skyshroud Claim can get both of them. These Battle lands are $2 or less each at TCGPlayer. Exotic Orchard is a budget Rainbow land that's quite good in multiplayer Commander.

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Cards to consider cutting:

• Gruul Guildgate
• Selesnya Guildgate
• Boros Guildgate
• 1x Forest
• Colossification
• Awakening of Vitu-Ghazi
• Beanstalk Giant
• Nissa's Renewal
• Far Wanderings
• Circuitous Route
• Rampant Growth
• Retreat to Kazandu

Good luck with your deck.

multimedia on Welcome to Gishathic Park

1 year ago

Hey, nice Scroll Rack Invention :)

Some budget cards to consider adding:

• Sol Ring
• Command Tower
• Congregation at Dawn
• Forerunner of the Empire
• Quartzwood Crasher
• Ripjaw Raptor
• Garruk's Uprising
• Rhythm of the Wild
• Elemental Bond
• Orcish Lumberjack
• Faeburrow Elder
• Farseek
• Canopy Vista
• Cinder Glade
• Exotic Orchard
• Naya Panorama

Sol Ring and Command Tower are some staple budget cards in Commander. At TCGPlayer you can find Sol for less than $3 and Tower for less than $1. Congregation at Dawn is a good budget creature tutor with Gishath. Cast it the same turn you want play Gishath or the turn before to tutor for and arrange the top of your library with any three Dinos to cheat onto the battlefield. Forerunner of the Empire is a Dino tutor (puts the Dino on top of your library) and a repeatable enrage enabler when a Dino you control ETB.

Quartzwood Crasher is one of the better budget Dinos since it can be a repeatable source of Dino tokens since many other Dinos have trample especially with Ghalta. Crasher combines well with Garruk's Uprising which can be a repeatable draw source and can give all creatures you control trample. Ripjaw Raptor has a powerful enrage ability to draw a card when it takes damage. Rhythm of the Wild makes all creatures you cast uncounterable and it gives nontoken creatures when they ETB the option of haste or make it bigger with a +1/+1 counter.

With Orcish Lumberjack sacing a Forest you control can make four mana since you can tap the Forest for mana before you sac it which can be a quick way to ramp into Gishath or other Dinos. Farseek is two drop land ramp that can search for a dual land such as Stomping Ground, Canopy Vista, Cinder Glade. At TCGPlayer can get Vista and Glade for less than $2 each.

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Cards to consider cutting:

• Timber Gorge
• Tranquil Expanse
• Gruul Guildgate
• Selesnya Guildgate
• Blossoming Sands
• Nissa's Pilgrimage
• Font of Fertility
• Hunt the Weak
• Pounce
• Insult / Injury
• Gruul Keyrune
• Burnished Hart
• Ravenous Daggertooth
• Raging Regisaur
• Radiant Destiny
• Overgrown Armasaur
• Kinjalli's Caller
• Zhur-Taa Druid

Good luck with your deck.

Cotter11 on Kathril, Keyword Soup

1 year ago

Nature's Lore

Circuitous Route

Dimir Guildgate

Selesnya Guildgate

Golgari Guildgate

Scattered Groves

Indatha Triome

Dryad Arbor

Journey to Eternity  ^Flip

Golgari Thug

BlackoutX on Catmander

1 year ago

You have to many tap lands, Graypelt Refuge, Tranquil Expanse, Temple of Plenty, Selesnya Guildgate, Saltcrusted Steppe, Evolving Wilds, and Blossoming Sands just shouldn't be run. Use basics or use expensive duels that can enter untapped. I'd personally remove Scattered Groves, Opal Palace, Gavony Township, and Animal Sanctuary I find them to be slow and often don't return the value spent.

Just a note, one for one trades like Beast Within tend to be bad in commander. You also will probably want to run more one to two mana ramp cards like Avacyn's Pilgrim and Wild Growth.

9-lives on Felidae Cult

1 year ago

Ahh those are nice cards, and I think the best one that makes a flyer out of my cards is Angelic Gift. Also, super useful against a strong flyer is Plummet which I happen to already have a few of in card form. I also already own Tower Defense in card form for my Wall deck, but it's only good for defense (or offense in a wall deck! haha!), which instead I plan on using my flyer enchantment to deal damage as well as block other flyers.

Huatli, Radiant Champion is also another Planeswalker I would consider. However, she is only useful in the latter end of the game when I have lots of cats on the field. But that's just drawing power; I will most likely either need drawing power for my lands, or drawing power for my enchantments, instants, and sorceries. If I want a strong card that draws lands, I could always use Circuitous Route, which I have one in card form. That's an amazing card for having extra lands on the battlefield when you already did your upkeep. Especially if I have Selesnya Guildgate, I could use this card for them since they enter tapped anyways.