Soul's Majesty

Sorcery

Draw cards equal to the power of target creature you control.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (51)

Suspence89 on Winter's Cold

5 days ago

Marit Lage's Slumber is fun Dead of Winter Is kinda busted for its cost and sometimes your big dudes will outsize the negative Kruphix, God of Horizons and Horizon Stone Doubling Cube to help bank your excess mana you'll be making Cultivate and Kodama's Reach because there isn't a better ramp spell Heroic Intervention Big Bois Hydra Broodmaster Neverwinter Hydra Corpsejack Menace to enable Zaxara, the Exemplary Polukranos, World Eater Primordial Hydra Altered Ego Tervigon Termagant Swarm Drawing Cards Blue Sun's Zenith Pull from Tomorrow Inspiring Call also doubles as a board protector Stroke of Genius Return of the Wildspeaker Rishkar's Expertise Soul's Majesty Momentous Fall Cut of the Profits Life's Legacy

jarncards on hasteland

4 weeks ago

For global haste you can use Fires of Yavimaya, Concordant Crossroads, Mass Hysteria, and Urabrask the Hidden who will also conveniently turn off other people's haste. Anger and Barbarian Class also give haste after more effort.

Ant Queen, Artifact Mutation, Battle Hymn, Circle of Dreams Druid, Dragon Broodmother, Pest Infestation, Scute Swarm, Tempt with Vengeance, Sylvan Offering, Termagant Swarm are all useful if you can give haste to all of them.

Birds of Paradise is just the best mana dork.

You have green, so you might as well use the standard ramp package with Cultivate , Kodama's Reach, Explore , Farseek, , Rampant Growth, Three Visits and Nature's Lore. Probably ignore most mana rocks, because people are going to want to vandalblast you just because of the treasures.

Relentless Assault, Scourge of the Throne, Combat Celebrant, Hexplate Wallbreaker, World at War grant extra combats, with Hellkite Charger and Aggravated Assault potentially going infinite.

Vandalblast goes in every red deck. Even though youll have a ton of treasures i'd still run Brotherhood's End too

For draw spells consider Scroll Rack, Garruk's Uprising, Elemental Bond, Soul's Majesty, Furious Rise, Rishkar's Expertise, Beast Whisperer, Shamanic Revelation, Disciple of Bolas, Pact of the Serpent, Painful Truths, Harmonize, Sign in Blood, Night's Whisper, Read the Bones, Ambition's Cost, Ancient Craving, Damnable Pact, Commune with Lava, Lifeblood Hydra, or maybe Necropotence although the color restricion on necro is tough, treasures should take care of it.

Fable of the Mirror-Breaker  ^Flip, Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer , The Reaver Cleaver , Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge , Ancient Copper Dragon , Old Gnawbone Ziatora, the Incinerator for more treasure makers. Pyrohemia and Pestilence could be fun with the extra mana. Awaken the Woods is an amazing x spell too, but wont appreciate the two aforementioned cards.

If you're using magda the deck will benefit from dragons and expensive artifacts. throw in Imperial Recruiter and Worldly Tutor, Vampiric Tutor, and Demonic Tutor all go in your colors. so you can get her more consistently. Darksteel Forge and Gate to Phyrexia can be tutored into play with her for five treasure.

If you use dragons, you could add Dragonstorm, but you should carefully consider how many cheap spells you expect to be able to cast if you arent building specifically towards this card. Chatterstorm, Empty the Warrens, Yawgmoth's Will, Jeska's Will, Mana Geyser, and Manamorphose, Past in Flames are all good on their own and would add synergy.

If it ends up dragon tribal, cards like Crippling Fear , Kindred Dominance, Crux of Fate

Swashbuckler Extraordinaire is a very good payoff for using treasures if you dont use certain other nightmarish dragons like Atarka, World Render, Blast-Furnace Hellkite, Terror of Mount Velus, Thrakkus the Butcher

awesomedude20 on Sekki, Ghost Piñata

2 months ago

Profet93

That's a fair point for Garruk/Elemental, but I might try to lean into some burst draw like Soul's Majesty rather than those two in particular, just for the reasons I mentioned before.

As for Asceticism, the goal of the deck is to give Sekki at least one additional toughness by means of anthems or equipment, auras, etc. If Sekki has one toughness, it's completely immune to damage-related death, and still produces tokens equal to the damage it takes. The regenerate is for targeted removal or whatever, boardwipes that don't exile or bounce, etc. etc. Long story short, I want to give Sekki at least +0/+1 and then beat the hell out of it with everything I can get my hands on to spam out Spirits.

As for Garruk, I might be able to swap out something like Stoneforge Masterwork for it. I really like Stoneforge, but if I needed that effect I may as well run Coat of Arms I think.

And for Topiary Stomper... honestly this entire time, I thought it just couldn't attack. I can probably do away with it, yeah, good catch, I can't read haha

awesomedude20 on Sekki, Ghost Piñata

2 months ago

Profet93

Hello, thanks for stopping by!

Alrighty so:

Abundance Show

I actually quite like Abundance because I do have a deeecent amount of draw options otherwise, and the ability to just... actually guarantee a land was quite useful. That being said, I completely forgot that Sylvan Library worked with it like that, which honestly might be super worth adding lol. Overall, I added Abundance kinda like... rather than looking at it as "to draw spell, or not to draw spell" I looked at it more as a simple utility on its own merit to guarantee lands.

Colossal Majesty Show

I went with Colossal since it's not TOO bad to have a creature out that meets the power requirements, especially if I'm just a bit more defensive with Sekki, but beyond that, I don't really have a ton of creatures, in an already low creature count deck, to trigger Garruk's Uprising. Elemental Bond is a bit more doable, but I just don't think I have enough creatures that fit the requirements to make Garruk's Uprising worth it. (Sekki, Grothama, Vigor, Topiary Stomper, and Craterhoof Behemoth) If we look at Elemental Bond, that list adds Kodama lol.

I will fully admit, the addition of Trample would be nice though.

Awakening Zone Show

This card has some in pretty clutch in my testing as a ramp source, yeah. Emergency blockers as well, and of course, it works nicely with Doubling Season, but yeah, it's mostly there for consistent ramp.

Terramorph Show

Excellent point, every time I looked at this thing I was like "really, is that the best I can do there?" and somehow just missed Migration Path. That being said, Terramorph does put the lands in untapped, which is always nice.

Asceticism Show

Hmm, that's kind of a tough choice. I do sorta like Asceticism's regen clause since it can regenerate Grothama (to my own benefit so Sekki doesn't get huge and kill it if I don't want to, and against opponents who will likely be taking pot shots at it for the card draw as well), and Golden Guardian if I do decide to toss that in, as well as any other key creatures of course. I entirely won't lie, with the group I play with, they all very much know to run their bundle of removal spells, so I just feel like a one-off protection spell, while saving Sekki once, might just put it off till the next person's turn or something. Enchantments have the benefit of being kiiinda tricky to remove, moreso than other permanents anyways, so the odds of it getting hated off the field immediately aren't the worst in the world. Honestly, I could also just be entirely misjudging the effectiveness of stuff like Vines of Vastwood though, so if you really insist that it's good, I could absolutely take it for a spin for a few games, no harm done haha

Bonder's Enclave Show

Great idea lol

The Great Henge Show

Also not a bad idea. I definitely looked at it before, and just figured "I'm sure I can find something more consistent" since Sekki won't always be at 8/8, I need ramp to get TO Sekki, so casting it before him definitely isn't an option without Grothama around, which is a bad idea in and of itself lol, plus the card draw, while nice and generic, also brings my creature count into question again, since most of my offense is through the Sekki Spirits.

10/10 card, I just wasn't too sure on it when I first looked into it.

Ancient Tomb Show

The ONLY reason I didn't include this, is because within my friend group, it's kinda one of those really pricy, generically good in everything cards, that kinda serves as like... a particular "I'm throwing more money at the game to win harder against you guys."

No shade to anyone that runs it haha, I know it's a REAALLY good card, that if need be, I can toss in, but it's mostly a playgroup respect thing. It's like grabbing OG Dual Lands for all my decks, or Mana Crypt, etc. etc. like they're DEFINITELY good, but they're so generically good and can go in literally every deck ever, you get the gist ;D Rather than needing to shill out that much money for us to all be at the same playing level anyways, we'd rather just... not include those, to also still be at the same playing level haha

Garruk, Primal Hunter Show

I do kinda like this. I wasn't really sure about any Planeswalkers, but I suppose I'm not particularly bad at keeping them safe behind the wall of Spirits.

Greater Good Show

So, it's one more mana, but wouldn't Soul's Majesty mesh better? No discard, doesn't kill Sekki, sti- I just realized that's an enchantment. I can see use here. Wait to use it until I've gotten a bunch of spirits on board, sac Sekki with 8 spirits, get him back, repeat. Definitely worth noting, yeah. How did I think that was a sorcery this whole time AGH.

Harmonize Show

I did some looking into this card, and all I've seen about it is like... "yes it's generic green draw, but it's kinda meh, but it's kinda all you have to work with sometimes. I could definitely toss it in, but before I resorted to that, I was gonna poke around and see if I could scrounge up stuff that worked better.

Rishkar's Expertise Show

So, I did think about this one, yeah, it's just a bit on the steep side for mana. It's definitely great draw, and I have a loads of stuff the second effect will hit, so I could see this being worth it yeah.

Hi_diddly_ho_neighbor on Sekki, Ghost Piñata

2 months ago

This, I like this. First of all, I had no idea you could use Sekki like that. +1 from me

Some suggestions for the two problems you want help with:

Early game: One thing you could do is run a bunch of mana dorks. All the Llanowar Elves variants will help you ramp into Sekki faster, give you early creatures to equip Sword of the Animist and Mask of Memory onto, and will make green draw spells like Shamanic Revelation more useful if you haven't been able to make spirits off Sekki.

Card Draw: Green has some fairly strong card draw options for a go tall strategy that you could still consider in Harmonize, Rishkar's Expertise, Momentous Fall, Runic Armasaur, Ohran Frostfang, Hunter's Insight, Soul's Majesty, and Hunter's Prowess.

Tur on Hidden Power - Crop Rotation

3 months ago

TypicalTimmy

Thank you for noticing my intention, that is the key point of this argument!! Newer and casual players tend to disregard or ignore Crop Rotation, because they only see it for very expensive cards such as: Gaea's Cradle, Mishra's Workshop, The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale, Serra's Sanctum, Bazaar of Baghdad, and Diamond Valley. (I.e. sacrifice a Forest and get Gaea's Cradle.)

In fact, I own all of these cards and in only one single case is Gaea's Cradle the first priority for Crop Rotation. Here are a few examples using commander decks: (These do not include utility lands, such as Bojuka Bog, Cavern of Souls, nor Homeward Path.)

Commander: Lord Windgrace

• First Priority: Lotus Field / Lotus Vale / Scorched Ruins
• Second Priority: Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth / Cabal Coffers
• Third Priority: Field of the Dead
• Fourth Priority: Thespian's Stage / Vesuva
• Fifth Priority: Bazaar of Baghdad
• Sixth Priority: Glacial Chasm

Lotus Field is great for ramping with Lord Windgrace minus three ability. Cabal Coffers is fantastic for ramp. Field of the Dead provides a win condition and blockers.

Commander: Mina and Denn, Wildborn

• First Priority: Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
• Second Priority: Thespian's Stage / Vesuva
• Third Priority: Field of the Dead
• Fourth Priority: Gaea's Cradle

Because of Fiery Emancipation, Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle became ridiculously overpowered. Nine damage every time a mountain enters the battlefield. Furthermore, the Scapeshift combo causes you to win the game.

Commander: The Gitrog Monster

• First Priority: Dakmor Salvage
• Second Priority: Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth / Cabal Coffers
• Third Priority: Field of the Dead

Dakmor Salvage is the combo engine for The Gitrog Monster. Therefore searching for it, the sacrificing it to The Gitrog Monster is crucial for the deck.

Commander: Gargos, Vicious Watcher

• First Priority: Hall of the Bandit Lord
• Second Priority: Reliquary Tower
• Third Priority: Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• Fourth Priority: Temple of the False God / Ancient Tomb
• Fifth Priority: Diamond Valley

Hall of the Bandit Lord provides haste to the hydra tribal. Reliquary Tower is necessary for cards such as Soul's Majesty and Greater Good. Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx is pretty nice with the triple green devotion from Gargos, Vicious Watcher.

Commander: Carth the Lion

• First Priority: Field of the Dead
• Second Priority: Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth / Cabal Coffers
• Third Priority: Volrath's Stronghold
• Fourth Priority: Karn's Bastion

Field of the Dead is way too good in Carth the Lion, because Garruk, Cursed Huntsman emblems immediately with Carth the Lion. Making at least one 5/5 zombie with trample every turn is very strong.

Commander: Maelstrom Wanderer

• First Priority: Sanctum of Eternity
• Second Priority: High Market
• Third Priority: Command Beacon

Sanctum of Eternity allows you to put Maelstrom Wanderer back into your hand, allowing for the on-cast trigger to happen again. High Market not only taps for mana, but allows you to send Maelstrom Wanderer back to the command zone.

Commander: Sythis, Harvest's Hand

• First Priority: Serra's Sanctum
• Second Priority: Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• Third Priority: Field of the Dead
• Fourth Priority: Hall of Heliod's Generosity / Gaea's Cradle

Unfortunately, for this deck Serra's Sanctum is the best target for Crop Rotation, however Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx is a close second best target. With Sythis, Harvest's Hand you have to commit heavily to the board, so your devotion is going to be high. Field of the Dead gives blockers before you can stabilize with Sphere of Safety, Solitary Confinement, and Ghostly Prison.

Commander: Marwyn, the Nurturer

• First Priority: Gaea's Cradle
• Second Priority: Wirewood Lodge
• Third Priority: Deserted Temple
• Fourth Priority: Yavimaya Hollow
• Fifth Priority: Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• Sixth Priority: Ancient Tomb

Unfortunately, for this deck Gaea's Cradle is the best target for Crop Rotation, however Wirewood Lodge is a close second best target for untapping Marwyn, the Nurturer. In fact, I found myself frequently choosing Wirewood Lodge over Gaea's Cradle because it does not draw as much threat for Strip Mine effects. Wizards of the Coast is frightfully aware of this fact and has made many cards to compensate by using creatures and enchantments: Priest of Titania, Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun, Elvish Archdruid, and Circle of Dreams Druid.

Hope this helps clarify my stance!

Profet93 on Azusa, Just Lost...

3 months ago

Initially you said you want to overwhelm with speed, then you say you want resiliency. One is usually at cost for the other. For me, I've valued resiliency the majority of the time. Given you are playing 3 player (or even 4 for that matter), you should focus on late game rather than trying to be incredibly explosive. Not to say you shouldn't do what green loves to do, ramp, but the way you ramp depends on your goals. I'm going to focus on a resilient deck mindset. That way, you don't get needlessly targeted and are out of the game, it also makes the games as you described.

Lands

Blighted Woodland/Myriad Landscape - Different kind of fetches

Good/Bad Fetches - Fabled Passage/Misty Rainforest/Prismatic Vista/Terramorphic Expanse/Verdant Catacombs/Windswept Heath/other fetches that are older and came out more recently that I can't recall. Some are more expensive that others, for you, terramorphic and a few of the cheaper fetches (Listed here and the ones that recently came out, I don't keep up with new sets) should be a great asset to you. Fetches are incredibly important for Azusa. Don't sleep on it

Castle Garenbrig - Ramp

Field of the Dead - RIGHT at the budget mark, VERY powerful. The more nonbasics you get, the more powerful. Think fetchlands triggering this, Acnient Greenwarden doubling the triggers. Azusa + 3 fetches = 6 Zombies! Not needed, but SO powerful, definitely add when you have more nonbasics. This card goes NUTs with effects that brings lots of lands into play like boundless realm/reshape the earth, Scapeshift, etc....

Mirrorpool - Not at all needed, a pet card of mine. Getting another Terrastodon, eteranal witness or just any powerful nonlegendary spell really. I like to copy Greenwarden myself.

Reliquary Tower - When you add much more card draw (which you seriously need), then add this.

Sanctum of Ugin - The way my deck works is that I have various land tutors to search for this or Eye of Ugin. Then I cast a spell like All is dust/akroma's memorial to sac sanctum to find either Kozilek to refill my empty hand. Depends on how many 7+ colorless spells you end up running. I think you should run both Kozilek's for sure. Ulamogs are upgraded removal > Desert Twister. But you don't want too many per your comment, so this land remains to be seen in how effective it is. For your build, I'm inclined to say no, but given it's saved my ass more times than I could count, I wanted to bring it to your attention.

Strip Mine - With crucible of worlds = GG. Although from my understanding, you don't want to do that. Nevertheless, it's still useful for getting rid of opponents Cabal Coffers, Cradle, Nkythos or any other utility land that's giving you an issue. You could also utilize another Land Destruction land which is less oppressive should you wish, I could name a few.

High Market/Miren the Moaning Well - Sac lands prevent theft, exile and trigger death (Greenwarden, Kura, etc...).

Thespian's Stage - Meta dependent, not needed. If they run Urborg + Coffers, you can copy their coffers. I use it to copy my field of the dead (imagine 2x zombies per land + 3 fetches = 12 zombies if I'm doing match correctly, combine that with ancient greenwarden to swarm!). All depends on the lands you end up choosing and your opponents lands. Meta dependent as well. I know some people combine it with Dark Depths for Marit Lage token in more casual playgroups should you be inclined for that synergy. Crucible of worlds makes this repeatable. Just remember that the token itself is legendary.

Draw

Aside from mind's eye and the other spells mentioned prior....

Garruk, Primal Hunter/Soul's Majesty - Garruk is better for sure as it is a permanent to come into play with Genesis Wave (unsure why you aren't running it, $?) and is more versatile. Not sure of budget at the moment, but he also provides tokens which he can use his 2nd ability to draw from. Ult is largely irrelevant.

Kozilek, Butcher of Truth/Kozilek, the Great Distortion - The primary purpose of these cards is to refill your hand. While there are other cards prior mentioned to refill your hand, card draw is insanely necessary in Azusa. Given distortion is cheaper and better IMO, I would go with distortion. Just ensure you have enough utility lands in the deck (I'd add like 5-15, 10 probably, more depending on your preferences). I understand you want this to be a green deck and don't want to rely on them as a wincon, thats fine. I see you already run Avenger + Craterhoof.

Cuts

I can list reasons for the cards if you have any questions, but to give a tell all, many of these are either drastically inefficient or simply just could be better.

Abundant Harvest, Broken Bond (eh, its okish), Desert Twister, Nature's Lore, Nissa's Pilgrimage, Reshape the Earth, Groundswell , Naturalize (Return to Nature is a strict upgrade, but I would run neither), Primal Bellow, Wrap in Vigor (Heroic Intervention upgrade), Primal Rage, Retreat to Kazandu, Caged Sun (with less basics, its less effective), Opal Palace, Jungle Basin, Darksteel Citadel, Undergrowth Champion , Ulvenwald Oddity , Seedborn Muse (you are not a passive deck), Scythe Leopard Kalonian Twingrove/Dungrove Elder (see caged sun), Brawn , Arboreal Grazer

Obviously it's your deck and depending on your meta, making your deck really good could make it less fun for your opponents. Or they could improve their synergy as well. Azusa is a very powerful commander, Like Tier 3 IMO which is pretty high, especially in a casual meta like yours.

If you have any questions regarding why I recommended a particular cut or suggestion, please let me know. I love to help fellow Azusa players :)

NV_1980 on Goblins are too OP

3 months ago

Since you're already throwing some money at this deck, maybe Eladamri, Lord of Leaves is worth considering. Rishkar's Expertise or Soul's Majesty might also be worth an include with Marwyn as your commander.