Solemn Simulacrum

Artifact Creature — Golem

When Solemn Simulacrum enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card and put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.

When Solemn Simulacrum is put into the graveyard from the battlefield, you may draw a card.

Discussion (51)

Femme_Fatale on Synonyms/Nicknames System for Deckbuilding and ...

2 weeks ago

Introducing the synonyms/nicknames system to alleviate all those "wtf was that one land of that one cycle named?" problems that plague you.

This system is simple. It is designed to redirect terms that you typed out that match a synonym/nickname of a card, to that card name. This lets you never have to remember the name "Seachrome Coast" and can instead just type out "WU Fastland" (as an example). Note that this only works in text edit entries on deck lists and inventory, not the live edit or the card search forms.

There is a lot of other things that are utilised here as well.

• Godzilla Names
• Non-American Spellings
• Common Nicknames
• Common Misspellings
• Redirections of Misspelled Submissions
• Each side of a split card as a synonym (unless they already exist as a card).

Not needing to know the name of each card in a land/artifact cycle is a big boon, but you still need to know the nickname of that cycle and the syntax. For lands/mana rocks/the swords of X and Y at the present moment it is always "XY Nickname" or "YX Nickname". Examples:

• WU Fastland
• GR BFZ
• GW ABUR Dual Land
• BW Fetch

For 2 colour lands, it is always the two colour letters, followed by the nickname, and then followed by the option to have the world land either connected to the nickname or not. (these are all viable options for example: "WU Fast", "UW Fastland", "UW Fast Land".) For 3 colour lands, it is only the primary order of colour letters you see on cards, or the Alara/Khans name. (WUB Lair, Mardu Triome as examples.) Swords and other artifact cycles follow the same setup (though swords can also be "Sword of GB" or "Sword of G and B"), and mono colour land cycles use the same setup just with only one letter. Note that none of these are plural, so don't put that s in. Colourless cards that are a part of a cycle use C/Colorless/Colourless.

Some of these cycles don't have well defined names yet (like BBD) and some of these cycles have had too many names that people constantly fight over so there was no point in bothering to put them all in and instead I just used the TLA (specifically BFZ).

Goals:

The primary purpose of this is to make the ability to tag cards and edit decks/inventory far more robust than what it has been. Tappedout doesn't presently have a spellchecker, and to be fair most sites don't. It's not an easy feature to implement. So with this synonyms/nicknames feature, we can alleviate some of those aggravations of misspellings or different ways to spell a word by making them valid targets and redirecting them to the right card name. Another benefit of this is the ability to give cards shorthands or nicknames when the community largely doesn't remember the actual name of a card, just their shorthand. We have all been hit with "wtf is that land's name again?" when we know for a fact that it's just "the blue and white shadows over innistrad reveal land". This saves the step of having to open up a search engine to figure out the card name, and in general speeds up and makes the process of building decks and inventory, a lot more enjoyable.

Cycles that currently have nicknames: Show

• ABUR Duals as ABUR/Duals/ABUR Duals
• MDR Artifact Lands as Artifact Lands
• AKH Bike Lands as Bikes/Bicycles/Bicyclings/Cycle Lands/Cycling Lands
• BFZ Lands as BFZ/BFZ Lands
• RAV Guildhalls as Guildhalls
• Fastlands
• Fetches
• SHM/EVE Lands as Filters
• Hideaways
• VIS Karoos as Karoos/Bouncelands
• RAV Karoos as Karoos/Bouncelands
• Lairs
• Memorials
• MH1 Lands as Horizons/Canopy Lands
• Painlands
• SOI Lands as SOI Lands/Reveal Lands
• Shocks
• Swords of X and Y as XY Swords/Swords of XY/Swords of X and Y
• Talismans
• Temples as Temples/Scrylands
• IKO Triomes as Triomes/Tricycles/Cycles/Cyclings
• Vivids

A lot of the cycle synonyms are meant to intuitive and robust so that you won't even have to think about knowing what the exact written synonym actually is and still be able to get it right on the first try, though it will take time to reach a point in which this is 100% true. As an example of scope, each recognized nickname for a cycle creates 6 entries for each given card in that cycle. So the AKH lands have 30 entries for each card in that cycle, resulting in a total of 150 entries. The Triomes have the same amount, but if I were to add each individual string combination of the colour letters (WUB, BUW, WBU etc) then that count would increase by 45 for each entry, resulting 75 entries for each one, totalling at 375 entries for the whole cycle.

Nicknames will usually be things like "Snappy", "Bolt", "Path", "Bob", "FoW", etc. They are to be commonly used by the larger community as a whole, not what your FNM/play group exclusively uses (though this isn't a hard set in stone as I'm not omniscient).

Here's a list of nicknames that I have. Show

• Aether Vial: Vial
• Aetherflux Reservoir: Dome Dome
• Assassin's Trophy: Ass Trophy
• Birds of Paradise: Birds, BoP
• Bloodbraid Elf: BBE
• Brimstone Trebuchet: Bucket
• Cavalcade of Calamity: Cavalcade
• Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh  ^Flip: Baby Chandra
• Chandra Nalaar: Zippotricks McEdgelord
• Charming Prince: Prince Charming
• Collected Company: CoCo
• Dark Confidant: Bob
• Dark Ritual: Rit
• Demonic Tutor: DT
• Dig Through Time: DTT
• Eternal Witness: E-Wit, E-Witness
• Explosive Vegetation: Explosive Veggies
• Field of Ruin: FoR
• Force of Will: FoW
• Ghost Quarter: GC
• Gilded Goose: Goose
• Giver of Runes: Mommy, Stepmom
• Goblin Charbelcher: Belcher, Charbelcher
• Gray Merchant of Asphodel: Gary
• Griselbrand: Grizzy B
• Hypnotic Specter: Hippie
• Inquisition of Kozilek: IoK
• Jace, Cunning Castaway: Sexy Jace
• Jace, the Mindsculptor: Jace, JtMS
• Jace, Wielder of Mysteries: Lab Jace,
• Jace, Vryn's Prodigy  ^Flip: Literal Actual Baby Jace
• Jace Beleren: Party Jace
• Karn Liberated: Karn
• Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker: Kiki, Kiki Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• Kitchen Finks: Finks
• Kytheon, Hero of Akros  ^Flip: Baby Gideon, Baby Gids
• Laboratory Maniac: Lab Man, Lab Maniac
• Life from the Loam: Loam
• Lightning Bolt: Bolt
• Lightning Helix: Helix
• Lightning Strike: Strike
• Liliana, Heretical Healer  ^Flip: Baby Lili
• Liliana, the Last Hope: Last Hope
• Liliana of the Veil: Lili, LotV
• Lion's Eye Diamond: LED
• Llanowar Elves: Dork, Elf
• Mother of Runes: Mom
• Nissa, Vastwood Seer  ^Flip: Baby Nissa
• Oblivion Ring: O-Ring
• Oko, Thief of Crowns: Oko
• Path to Exile: Path, PtE
• Pia and Kiran Nalaar: Chandra's Parents, Mom and Dad, Ma and Pa, Pia and Kiran, Parents
• Pia Nalaar: Chandra's Mom, Pia
• Primeval Titan: Prime Time
• Prodigal Sorcerer: Tim
• Sakura-Tribe Elder: STE, Steve
• Savage Punch: Bear Punch
• Scalding Tarn: Tarn
• Scavenging Ooze: Scooze
• Sensei's Divining Top: Top
• Settle the Wreckage: Settle
• Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon: Skittles
• Smuggler's Copter: Copter, Thopter Copter
• Snapcaster Mage: Snapcaster, Snappy
• Solemn Simulacrum: Sad Robot
• Sorin, Solemn Visitor: Sad Sorin
• Splinter Twin: Twin
• Swords to Plowshares: Swords
• Tarmogoyf: Goyf, Goyfy, Tarmo
• Tectonic Edge: Tec Edge, TecEdge
• Teferi, Hero of Dominaria: 5feri, T5feri
• Teferi, Time Raveler: 3feri, T3feri
• The Gitrog Monster: Gitrog, HypnoToad, Hypno Toad
• Thing in the Ice  ^Flip: Titi
• Torrential Gearhulk: Fatcaster
• True-Name Nemesis: TNM, TNN, True-Name
• Ugin, the Spirit Dragon: Eugene, Ugin
• Wrenn and Six: W6, Wand6, Wn6

Here's a list of non-american spellings I have in: Show

• Armour
• Ax/Axe
• Catalogue
• Colour
• Defense
• Favour
• Flavour
• Grey
• Harbour
• Honour
• Humour
• Licence
• Offence
• Paralyse
• Rumour
• Splendour
• Traveller

Here's a list of things that is in the works to do. Show

• All triple coloured land cycles (triomes, lairs, trilands) to have an entry for each of their letter combinations. (Example, bant lands would have WUG, GUW, WGU, GWU, UGW, UWG.)
• All dual coloured land cycles will have the ravnican guild names to replace the two colours as an option.
• All land cycles will have the TLA as an option to replace the nickname.
• All land cycles to have "Nickname XY" format.
• More non-american spellings.
• More common misspellings.
• Cards that have or do not have the word "and", to have a synonym of the opposite.
• Synonym that is a version of the card name but without punctuation.
• Nicknames of all the cards with commas that ignores everything past the comma, provided that it is unique.
• Fringe/old land cycles.
• A lot of mana rock cycles.

Limitations:

A card can have any number of synonyms/nicknames. But only one synonym/nickname can be tied to a card. So if a new card/land cycle gets printed that has covers a misspelling (like an UNcard might) or has that nickname as it's actual card name, those synonyms will get removed (as an example, Snapcaster Mage cannot have Snap as a nickname). We are also looking to limit the amount of times a synonym has to get removed so nicknames of cards during their presence in the standard formats are not likely to be put in, as they become forgotten or even re-used when they rotate out. These are also done manually so sometimes a change might just take a while to do if it encompasses a large number of cards or a large number of synonyms.. We also won't be going through alternate language as possible synonyms because WotC doesn't nearly double check duplicate card names for foreign languages as well as they do for English cards.

This is not something on the card submission form, so it is not available to edit for any user.

If you know of something missing like common misspellings or common non-American spellings that will be needed, or cycle syntaxes that you tried to use but didn't work, post them here and I'll review them for possible inclusion in the future.

EDIT: Before you ask for a nickname etc to be added:

1. Check if it exists first by trying it out.
2. Check if the larger community recognizes it, this is done by going around discords, lgs' and other forums about that nickname.
3. Check if it has any nsfw, discriminatory or derogatory terminology, we straight up will not allow these.

This isn't a system for your pet nickname that your local playgroup uses. This is a system that can utilize nicknames that naturally grew organically out of continued use from the larger mtg community as a whole. This isn't a "which nicknames do you think this system could use" but rather "which nicknames that are used across the world that we have missed".

TheGreatDistortion117 on Triad of Fate Blink

2 weeks ago

I suggest adding another card. Currently you have 99 cards total in this deck, and commander decks are required to have 100. As for cards within the deck, here are some for each category:

Eldrazi Displacer, Astral Drift - Good for flickering other creatures

Bloodtracker, Wall of Omens - Good for card draw in a blink deck

Mangara of Corondor, Harmonic Sliver - Good for targeted removal in a blink deck. You're already set on Mass Removal

Kor Cartographer, Knight of the White Orchid - Good for ramp in a blink deck. And definitely replace Burnished Hart with Solemn Simulacrum

Some other cool cards are Scroll of Fate, which lets you cheat out huge creatures by manifesting them and then blinking them Triad of Fates, and Strionic Resonator which basically works like an inferior Panharmonicon.

There you go, you were looking for suggestions, so here are some you could consider. My big thing though is just to make sure you get that extra card in the deck. I hope you found this helpful.

masterluc on Alela The Queen of Faerie's

2 weeks ago

Take out Shinechaser and Eye Collector. They are low impact. You should replace them with either a good artifact/enchantment creature (preferably flying) or just a good artifact or enchantment. Even Solemn Simulacrum would be fine.

pitabread94 on Sacrifice me, Daddy

2 weeks ago

Xenagos, the Reveler for mana/exile ult, Dryad Arbor for the land and 1/1, Bastion of Remembrance for the token and life, Prossh, Skyraider of Kher for the token and sac, & Solemn Simulacrum for land search.

I'd remove The Gitrog Monster. Sideboard it for now.

fmastrome2008 on Yarok, who let the lands out?!

3 weeks ago

ju009x, let's give it a go!

1. Solemn Simulacrum, Cultivate, Wood Elves, and any other cards you might consider adding like Farhaven Elf, Rampant Growth, etc... all want basics. Even forest cards like Wood Elves sometimes nab basics. Blood Moon is also a card that lots of people play.

2. Panharmonicon makes it possible to go off without your commander being out since it's the same exact effect. I use Thassa, Deep-Dwelling to draw more cards with Baleful Strix, kill more creatures with Ravenous Chupacabra, or thin my deck more with Wood Elves (think Avenger of Zendikar triggers late game). Both can be put in place of lands here.

3. Reclamation Sage replaces Krosan Grip simply because of the double triggers. Shriekmaw replaces Erebos's Intervention (seems out of place in this deck).

4. Fit Sire of Stagnation in place of a land.

5. Dark Depths seems like it would get 20 triggers because of Yarok unless I'm mistaken. First cut. Unless your opponents steal a lot of your permanents, I'd next cut Homeward Path. Petrified Field seems kind of meh to me, but that's just an opinion.

fmastrome2008 on Blink182

3 weeks ago

1. Command Tower and Sol Ring should be in nearly every commander deck, especially this one.
2. Bojuka Bog provides graveyard hate that doesn't affect consistency. It also exiles 2 graveyard, which can be a plus in multiplayer.
3. Eternal Witness seems better than Archaeomancer. EWit hits everything. With only 10 targets, I can't imagine hitting 2 targets in your g/y consistently enough to warrant playing it over EWit.
4. Same thing for Solemn Simulacrum over Ondu Giant.
5. Shriekmaw is a great utility spell that also triggers Risen Reef.
6. Farhaven Elf would provide another Wood Elves effect, which could help the landfall theme I see being played.
7. Speaking of landfall, Ob Nixilis, the Fallen is a beat stick.

ihaveadogandhisnameistunathesecond on Shirei and her Army of Black Weenies

3 weeks ago

I was thinking about adding Wayfarer's Bauble, Burnished Hart and Solemn Simulacrum, the ramp isn't on an ideal level right now.

Kalavas on Bant Blink & Flicker

1 month ago

Added: Ancient Tomb Removed: Plains

Added: Worldly Tutor Removed: Solemn Simulacrum

Added: Thassa, Deep-Dwelling Removed: Conjurer's Closet

Lowered the overall mana curve with these changes, it should make the deck more competitive.