Simic Guildgate

Land — Gate

This enters tapped.

{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

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
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Pre-release	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Standard	Legal
Standard Brawl	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (51)

lohow9608 on Faceless Menace PreCon

2 months ago

Remove: Apex Altisaur, Bounty of the Luxa, Exotic Orchard, Foul Orchard, Golgari Guildgate, Great Oak Guardian, Grismold, the Dreadsower, Hex, Jungle Hollow, Mire in Misery, Pendant of Prosperity, Rayami, First of the Fallen, Road of Return, Sagu Mauler, Scaretiller, Simic Guildgate, Strionic Resonator, Tempt with Discovery, Tezzeret's Gambit, Thelonite Hermit, Thespian's Stage, Thought Sponge, Thran Dynamo, Urban Evolution, Voice of Many, Volrath, the Shapestealer, Vraska the Unseen, Woodland Stream

Card count 29

Gman6664 on Tatyova, Land Cruiser

7 months ago

• Lands: Take Simic Guildgate and Woodland Stream out. Any land that enters tapped without benefit is below par. Yavimaya Coast you can leave in for a budget add. Its personally not a card I like but this commander does offset its self-ping well.

• Remove: Hermit Druid and Elvish Reclaimer dont synergize well since you dont focus on graveyard recursion. This isnt a Muldrotha, the Gravetide deck. Though I do see a few more additions to this graveyard sub-theme now...but I feel its moreso to make work Icetill Explorer. Personally, I'd stay away from graveyard stuff since this is Simic and not Sultai. But you could still make it work, though my personal rec is to stay away from that subtheme all together. (An easy) Cut Urban Evolution, I'd want to do more than draw three cards and play an additional land for 5 mana. Tatyova, Benthic Druid has this built in and should be triggering often that you wouldnt need that card.

• Praise: Mossborn Hydra, Territorial Scythecat, Seedship Agrarian are welcome additions that stack when you play lands, and are even better when MULTIPLE lands a turn are played. Roil Elemental is one of my pet cards and by god is it fun to hit the table and mess with people.

• Consider: Panharmonicon if you are going to consider ETB creatures for a number of your land drops (think of how Ashaya, Soul of the Wild will pop off!). Add Retreat to Kazandu to amplify when your lands enter on any other creature (switch with Retreat to Coralhelm.

• Confusion: I'm curious about your Hydras' and 'X' cost creatures and their effectiveness. Not what I would have thought to do with a bunch of mana, but it does set you up where an opponent can counter your big spell and your turn is dead in the water. I'm otherwise not seeing big bombs in your deck. Yes, Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger is formidable, and Avenger of Zendikar is a staple in this kind of deck. But how do we make these creatures all unblockable? How do we beef them all up with +1/+1 counters? Or how do we protect and regenerate our creatures from board wipes?

• Thoughts: You clearly like playing Blue, some counterspells are present and you like to mess with your opponents plays. Theres something to look into here with that mentality. Not sure what it is as I havent found myself on that particular 'counter' path in MTG yet. But worth exploring to make this deck more your own and less how I've built mine.

• Conclusion: Overall, its a vast improvement from what it was and is certainly faster. I'd focus on getting to either a good combo or having a fordmiable board state. My deck focuses on tempo and bouncing opponents lands back to their hands and giving me advantage that way. You have found a playstyle that works for you and you should keep exploring it.

Balaam__ on The First Pauper

3 years ago

You may as well run Thornwood Falls over Simic Guildgate for the incidental life gain. Both enter tapped so it’s a strict upgrade.

Edit-just noticed this is tagged as both Casual and Competitive lol. Can’t say I’ve seen that before

razelfark on

5 years ago

Hello. Looks like you are just getting into the game with an intro deck and want some suggestions on how to upgrade your deck. I will try to give you some upgrades that will hopefully not be outside your budget.

First suggestion for your deck would be to focus on being either a deck that wants to mill or be an aggressive deck. Since the only card you are running that allows you to mill is Jace, Wielder of Mysteries , we should probably consider focusing on the +1/+1 counter theme you have going.

Considering you are running cards that have a relatively high mana cost on average, I would suggest adding some ramp cards. There are three cards I would highly suggest.

Cultivate - Searches for two lands and puts one into play right away making it so you will be able to play a majority of your cards from then on. Suggest adding 4 copies to the deck.

Llanowar Elves - is a great 1 drop creature that will help boost your ability to cast spells.

Nissa, Who Shakes the World - A strong planeswalker that will make your "Forests" tap for extra mana giving you a large boost in your mana generation and allow you to transform your lands into aggressive creatures that use +1/+1 counters. These lands will now also benefit from your proliferate functions. If you create a copy of it with Spark Double then the mana production passive is increased even more. This rare does cost about $6 as of this post and is the most expensive card I will try to recommend. Would suggest 2 copies at least but would say you would be fine adding more for the deck as it can runaway with games by itself sometimes.

To make room for all the suggested cards I would cut both your Jace planeswalkers, Jace's Ruse , Benthic Biomancer , Merfolk Skydiver , and Primal Empathy

I would also suggest trading the Simic Guildgate out for Rimewood Falls if you get decide to pickup Nissa, Who Shakes the World for the deck as they do count as forests. This means that even if you do that them for blue mana, you will still get one green mana when used for mana. You will also be able to search your deck with Nisa's final skill to add them to the battlefield which can be convenient.

Hope these suggestions help. Feel free to let me know if you have any questions about the suggestions or might be looking for different style of cards to adjust your deck for the mill angle.

Side note - You should mark your deck as casual format instead of standard for the site if you want to make it so your deck list doesn't light up in red as standard is a format for the most recent sets of cards.

Icbrgr on Prismatic Omen Vs Blood Moon

5 years ago

I am wondering how the interaction between Prismatic Omen and Blood Moon work.

if I have 3x Simic Guildgate , 1x Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle and 1x Maze's End in play with Prismatic omen in play... then valakut will trigger upon playing any other lands and i should still be able to activate mazes end's ability as well.

but if then blood moon is played.... do the above lands still for any color but lose their abilites?.... or are they all just happy little Mountain s now?

BonesawMcGraw13 on Illuna

5 years ago

11/18/2020

Replaced Genesis Ultimatum with Pir, Imaginative Rascal and a forest with Toothy, Imaginary Friend.

Replaced Ketria Crystal with Ilysian Caryatid

Replaced Gruul Signet with Incubation Druid

Swapped Gruul Guildgate for Spire Garden

swapped Simic Guildgate for Temple of Mystery

tacolover25 on Simic Madness

5 years ago

I like your substitute for Intuition. Very nice. Personally, I would cut one Careful Study since you aren't playing Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath, and in it's place I'd play an additional Just the Wind or a Savage Swipe for removal.

For budget land upgrades I would suggest running 4 Hinterland Harbor and removing 2 Simic Guildgates and 2 Woodland Stream.

Your sideboard is going to need a way to deal with other decks that toolbox the graveyard. If you cannot afford Echo of Eons I would recommend just playing a few copies of Tormod's Crypt. The burn matchup can be tough without Uro. For this reason, I recommend you also side two copies of Golgari Brownscale as well.

Job well done on making the deck more budget. I look forward to watching the deck's progress. Cheers!

stellarnear on Evolution Upgrade

6 years ago

Cards change

Beast Within > Demonic Tutor
Migration Path > Skullclamp
Zagoth Crystal > Aether Vial
Lifecrafter's Bestiary > Rhystic Study

Lands

Thornwood Falls > Evolving Wilds
Golgari Guildgate > Terramorphic Expanse
Fetid Pools > Zagoth Triome
Simic Guildgate > Yavimaya Coast
Dismal Backwater > Underground River
Sunken Hollow > Gemstone Mine
Jungle Hollow > Hall of the Bandit Lord
1 Swamp > Shizo, Death's Storehouse