Shadowblood Ridge

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DemMeowsephs on Mogis Group Slug V1.2

2 days ago

Luxury Suite, Bloodstained Mire, Blackcleave Cliffs, Sulfurous Springs and Shadowblood Ridge would make fine additions. Ancient Tomb too.

DemMeowsephs on Obash Big Damage

1 week ago

Just a note, you are one card over 100, and the commander format only allows 100. :)

• Arcane Signet, Jet Medallion, Ruby Medallion, and Dark Ritual, Talisman of Indulgence are all very good ramp spells you seem to be missing. Maybe consider some of them

• Blackcleave Cliffs, Luxury Suite, Shadowblood Ridge, Ancient Tomb, Prismatic Vista, City of Brass, Mana Confluence, Reflecting Pool, and Wasteland are great too.

• Also for lands, you might want to consider other fetch lands in B/R. Things like Wooded Foothills and Marsh Flats can search for Blood Crypt making them pretty good too

multimedia on Hail to Kolaghan King!

3 months ago

Hey, for the low budget good job for your first Commander deck.

Consider a Goblin and Dragon theme? This would give your overall deck a more focused theme instead of just playing random creatures such as Diregraf Ghoul and Spinal Centipede. I suggest this because when Kolaghan attacks she pumps any creatures you control and Goblins can make lots of token creatures. This kind of strategy is call go wide. Which means attacking with lots of creatures, a wide battlefield of creatures.

Cards to consider adding:

• Command Tower
• Tome of Legends: repeatable draw, triggers twice when you dash Kolaghan since she ETB and attacks.
• Sol Ring
• Diabolic Tutor
• Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin
• Krenko, Mob Boss
• Legion Warboss
• Taurean Mauler: Changeling, is a Dragon and a Goblin.
• Ogre Battledriver: each token that's created does ETB it gains haste and gets a +2/0 pump. Each time you dash Kolaghan she ETB giving her a +2/0 pump.
• Boltwing Marauder
• Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
• Siege-Gang Commander
• Chaos Warp
• Heraldic Banner

Other Draw/Tutors

• Sarkhan's Triumph
• Read the Bones
• Thrill of Possibility

Other Ramp

• Rakdos Signet
• Dark Ritual

Other Dragons

• Tyrant's Familiar
• Steel Hellkite

Other Goblins

• Goblin Matron
• Goblin Warchief
• Skirk Prospector
• Krenko's Command
• Dragon Fodder
• Hordeling Outburst
• Pashalik Mons
• Sling-Gang Lieutenant

Other Removal

• Terminate

Other Lands

• Unclaimed Territory
• Smoldering Marsh
• Rakdos Carnarium
• Shadowblood Ridge
• Ash Barrens

Good luck with your deck.

Vulnoth on Turbo Aggro Grind Time

5 months ago

Continuing where I left off.

continuing from creatures

Something to consider when addressing what to drop for my suggestions is how it affects your overall strategy and politics. Ashenmoor Gouger looks good because on paper it can deal damage, but consider what happens if you draw it 10 turns in and the table has all dug in for the long game. Hyper aggressive cards of the sort that do little else aren't going to help you after the first few turns. Hackrobat, Rakdos Firewheeler, Thrill-Kill Assassin, and the like are what you should look for when hacking cards out of the deck in the creature department. You might be gearing up to go fast and hit hard, but you still are playing the "long game", if you can even call it that.

Support

Onwards we march, starting with the strict spell category. Here, you should be looking for either utility or pure power. Spot removal cards like Go for the Throat work in regular 60 card formats, but lose a ton of value as the game is slowed enough for that one spell to have a diminished effect because it can only hit a single creature, often to little effect. Now Bedevil, on the other hand, is outstanding because you can hold it for either an artifact or 'walker, thus expanding your range and making it always live and effective.

• Allure of the Unknown - A huge resource generation spell. Additionally, it plays into politics well by letting an opponent (or friend) have a card. Gotta keep the train moving.

• Bituminous Blast - Perhaps not the most clutch of cards, but at least worth considering since EDH is slow enough for these types of spells to put in work, mostly because Cascade is nuts. I'd understand if it didn't make the cut, though.

• Captive Audience - Hilarious and effective. Instant enemy-maker, but if you haven't farted in the general direction of everyone at the table, others might turn a blind eye. In my experience, when Joe Shmoe poops out an army of dargons and you slap him with this, the table would generally point and laugh.

• Cauldron Dance - A nice little shuffling of creatures, which is nice if you're rich in chunguses.

• Kolaghan's Command - The best charm from its cycle, for good reasons. It's always live in EDH.

• Spiteful Visions - Perhaps risky for politics, but it does put damage on board, thus making Rakdos live, and generates card advantage.

• Fork/Reverberate/Wild Ricochet - copy spells, in my experience, tend to do a lot since they're just whatever everyone else is playing.

• Beacon of Unrest - There will always be something in the grave, and self-recursion is a godsend in my books.

• Scheming Symmetry - Helps your consistency and makes a friend.

• Subversion - Nibbles at your opponents while sustaining yourself, and makes Rakdos live.

• Generally any spell with X in its cost. As the game drags on, they only get better.

I did a brief skim of cards in Gatherer and from among my own decks, but don't be afraid to look at other decks or EDHRec for things that will help you. Just remember that your goal boils largely down to pinging to make Rakdos live, cards that Rakdos is payoff for, and utility general support that rounds out the deck.

Artifacts

Necessary gears to get the machine moving. Mostly it will boil down to mana rocks to accelerate your state, but there will be others that you want purely because they work well for you.

• Cryptolith Fragment  ^Flip - Mana plus ping.

• Commander's Sphere - Obvious utility.

• Sol Ring/Gilded Lotus - Big mana staple.

• Mind Stone/Hedron Archive - Both have their uses, and I adore them both, but in a multicolor they can run the risk of being unhelpful due to generating colorless mana.

• Firemind Vessel - Perhaps slow, but produces plenty of mana.

• Thought Vessel - A personal choice, but if you don't have enough draw power to fill your hand, then it's not worth the cash.

• Tome of Legends - Easy draws.

• Conqueror's Galleon  ^Flip - Another personal choice, but I find that once it transforms, the advantage it generates does wonders, and as a deck stuffed with creatures that could crew it, the fit seems nice to me.

• Lightning Greaves/Swiftfoot Boots - Staples for protecting your Commander. Also Haste.

• Sword of the Animist - Free Rampant Growth on attack. Obvious value is obvious.

Lands

Here you can start to have some fun. Being 2-color, you do have to be somewhat mindful of what you're running, but you can definitely make use of a lot of offbeat lands since you're not trying to be a fool and mana fix 5 colors. Keep in mind that you may not necessarily need everything listed here, but it's just a matter of helping keep your ability to produce both colors consistent.

• Temple of Malice - Slow lands may be unappealing, but Scrying usually helps.

• Arch of Orazca - Yet another personal choice. All you need is to have 10 permanents at any point while controlling/playing a card with City's Blessing and you have it for the game. At which point, Arch becomes something to do with spare mana.

• Reliquary Tower - Like Thought Vessel, it's worth considering, but is acceptable to pass on if you keep burning your hand up.

• Command Tower - Staple.

• Graven Cairns - Filter lands are always nice.

• Rakdos Carnarium - Slow, yes, but in the long run gives more mana.

• Shadowblood Ridge - Another pseudo Filter Land

Chopping Block

I encourage you to think these things out on your own or ask friends about this part, because understanding the process of what and why things stay or go is important to understanding your deck. Below are my suggestions for what needs to get yeeted.

• Ashenmoor Gouger/Hackrobat/Hellhole Flailer/Rakdos Firewheeler/Thrill-Kill Assassin/Rakdos Guildmage - All just don't do that much. Awesome to drop in the first turns, but soon are just fodder. They're nice fodder for Lysolda and Judith, but overall too narrow in use and too low impact.

• Void Winnower/Blood Moon - As someone who wins almost all his games through player politics, I advise against these types of cards that choke the entire table. Like infinite combos kept as panic buttons in decks, you really only get to pull it once before the group starts remembering what you have up your sleeve. After that, you risk being targeted because they'll know what you have.

• Phyrexian Obliterator - BBBB in 2-color is a bold move for what's essentially a 5/5 unblockable.

• Dark Ritual/Doom Blade/Go for the Throat - I personally would cut them, but feel free to play around with at least the removal spells for consistency in board control. Ritual, however, is just not suited for this format.

• Everlasting Torment - It's the only card of its type in your deck, and actually makes you vulnerable to getting chump blocked.

• Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth - Urborg serves almost no purpose in this deck.

• Rakdos Guildgate - Guildgates are just packfiller.

• Rakdos Signet/Rakdos Keyrune - In the modern day, your mana rocks mostly should be more useful than an overcosted creature, and if it only produces mana, it needs to be efficient like Sol Ring.

• Lava Axe - Shouting "Catch" while literally throwing this is hilarious, but the card's just horribly overcosted.

• Anthem of Rakdos - You will lose a lot of games you shouldn't lose because of this.

• Ogre Battledriver - Giving a dude Haste to swing is nice, but it's a lot easier to just run a pinger like Goblin Fireslinger or Lobber Crew

• Ob Nixilis, the Fallen - His Landfall is nice, but by nature isn't consistent, which is what you're looking for in ways to ping your opponent. Becoming a chungus is nice, but you're better off just skipping the hoops and playing an actual chungus.

• Vial Smasher the Fierce - This one I'm not totally sold on cutting, but she seems more complicated than just running a pinger. Play around with her and see how Vial Smasher synergizes.

• Master of Cruelties - Another I'm not totally sold on chopping, but he can only attack alone, which bottlenecks your options.

I know this all is sort of messy, but when making edits, start with comparable replacements (i.e. swapping a creature for a creature), run a few test turns, and see how things work.

jakaeser on Mardu EDH Test (Cheap)

6 months ago

Here's a some more staple cards you should consider:

Removal

• Vandalblast is arguably the best artifact board wipe in the game.
• Blasphemous Act is a must-run in any red deck. It's red's best board wipe, hands down.
• Bedevil has a very specific casting cost, but the payoff is its flexibility.
• Rakdos Charm – never leave home without it. Modal graveyard hate, the ability to really mess up a token swarm deck, and at worst targeted artifact removal is too good not to run.
• Darksteel Mutation to make their commander a bug.

Lands

• Smoldering Marsh
• Graven Cairns,Rugged Prairie, and Fetid Heath
• Shadowblood Ridge
• Battlefield Forge, Sulfurous Springs, and Caves of Koilos – the 1 life won't matter much, and you have plenty of access to incidental life gain in your colors.
• Tainted Field and Tainted Peak if you run end up being Swamp heavy.

Ramp

• Arcane Signet
• Rakdos Signet, Boros Signet, and Orzhov Signet
• Talisman of Conviction, Talisman of Indulgence, and Talisman of Hierarchy
• If you can swing it, Smothering Tithe is one of the best white cards printed for commander in a loooooong time. I'd run it in any white deck.

Other

• Goblin Bombardment is one of my favoritest free sacrifice outlets. Sac outlets are way more flexible than you'd think – someone going to blow up your board? Make them eat however much damage. They want to steal a creature? How about no. Someone plays something like Imprisoned in the Moon on Alesha? Sac her first before she's a land forever more.
• You could also consider blink effects like Ephemerate and Eerie Interlude as multi-function board protection and ETB abuse.

I'm sure I'll be back with more recommendations later ;)

PlayingWithPowerMTG on Anje, Dragon Tamer [[Primer]]

10 months ago

Risumu Shadowblood Ridge was left out simply because of its restriction. We already run an extremely low amount of lands so we could cut any unnecessary lands from the list.

joselemanouch on MadWorld

11 months ago

Wow thanks for the feedback Eemiller622, I’m still testing the deck and still haven't put in the proper deck description. I was surprised when I saw the different deck lists with so few lands but I am super unlucky (even with the new mulligan) with my first hands and will not start a game without enough mana to ensure Anje Falkenrath turn 3 or less. I will put in Blackcleave Cliffs and remove Shadowblood Ridge . Ideally I would put Mox Diamond , Lion's Eye Diamond and Mana Crypt but they are financially not reasonable. Thanks a lot for the Tainted Pact info I did not realize I should not have any basic land duplicates.

eliakimras on Edgar Markov

1 year ago

I forgot to mention Shadowblood Ridge if your vampires have BR in their costs. To keep synergy, Manic Vandal could go out for some more vampires or a Painful Truths . Some of the advantages of playing Vampires is that many of them are really cheap to acquire.