Spectator Seating

Land

This enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.

{T}: Add {R} or {W}.

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
Freeform	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (47)

theNeroTurtle on Kaalia DDA

1 week ago

Great commander. Solid build. What kind of suggestions are you looking for? For starters, I think you could clean up the mana base a little bit and still stay in budget. Other than tri-lands, tapped lands are kind of lame.

Reflecting Pool - a little pricy.

Savai Triome - a little pricy.

Lowlife lands are an option, like Raucous Carnival

Verge lands are worth considering. Example: Bleachbone Verge

Fetch Lands are best next to duals to be honest. Sacred Foundry

Slow Lands are great, too. Easy prices. Example: Shattered Sanctum

Most people don't like pain lands, but they are better than waiting a turn to use what you have. Example: Caves of Koilos.

Check lands are a great price. Example: Dragonskull Summit

Filter lands aren't great, but good, too. Example: Rugged Prairie

Battlebond's are pricy, but don't break the bank. Example: Spectator Seating

In Commander, speed is king. 1+ from me. You just need a little more speed.

theNeroTurtle on Aragorn, the Charmer

1 week ago

Off the cuff I am wondering why you aren't running the fetch lands, considering you are running the duals and shocks.

I would also consider the Battlebond lands - example: Bountiful Promenade and Spectator Seating

I would start there. I think you could speed the deck up a splash but dropping the tapped lands.

clayperce on Zurgo's Workforce Reduction Plan (Zurgo Primer)

1 month ago

Greets!
I've been working on the manabase for my Bracket 3 Zurgo deck over on Moxfield, and I've been super-impressed with the Mardu Triome (Savai Triome) and Battlebond lands (Luxury Suite, Spectator Seating, and Vault of Champions). Might be worth checking out ...

Cheers!

Optimator on Boots for the Beatdown

2 months ago

True Conviction could be some sort of limit break. Or Big Guard or Enemy Skill Materia.

For your lands, why not do alters of :

Jetmir's Garden - Temple of the ancients? The Crater? Wall Market? Another version of Aeris's church garden or home garden? The Ancient Forest?

The inclusion of Jetmir's Garden also makes Three Visits and Nature's Lore a lot better. Fetch lands too, but I understand the desire not to run fetches. It also turns on all three Check lands.

Sacred Foundry - Stomping Ground - Temple Garden -- Temple Garden would be extra-thematic for Coral Valley or The Temple of the Ancients

Bountiful Promenade - Spectator Seating - Spire Garden

Commercial District - Elegant Parlor - Lush Portico

You have all three Check lands in, so of course having duals with land types is extra desirable. Check lands also go extra-well with Fetch lands, but you may not have room if you're keeping the cool precon lands.

I feel like if you're going all-out with this deck, why not have the good lands? Aggro decks need them more. Swap the cycling duals and the always-tapped duals? (Radiant Grove etc). You could also swap the Snow duals, though it is fairly thematic for those lands to be Snow lands. Still, you have no Snow payoffs to worry about.

I feel like Wooded Bastion and Sunscorched Divide could be upgraded easily enough--although I do kind of like how the Sunscorched Divide and Wooded Bastion complete the cycle from the precon. I've always found the Shadowmoor filterlands to be a bit unreliable in three-color decks. Not awful, mind you. Still, I think you'd be way better off swapping the alters over to shock lands or Battlebond duals.

You could turn Wooded Ridgeline into Stomping Ground and keep the art and flavor text.

I love the inclusion of the "Slowland" cycle (Sundown Pass etc)

theNeroTurtle on Proliferation of Poison

4 months ago

I see that the maybe board has surveil lands and not scry lands. I just want to confirm that you know the difference between the two. I am also personally a fan of lands that don't enter tapped, which you have a few of. There are a lot of great dual land options that don't cost a leg and an arm. Here are some examples. "Most" of these are under a dollar. You could make the mana base way more effective if you worked on using these types of duals rather than basics and lands that enter tapped.

Battle Lands

Spectator Seating

Odyssey Lands

Sunscorched Divide

Filter Lands

Rugged Prairie

Verge Lands

Sunbillow Verge

_AoxomoxoA_ on Veni, Vidi, Vici

1 year ago

09/24/2024 Revisions

Why?

R.I.P. Mana Crypt :(

2 Card Changes

Removed

Mana Crypt: R.I.P.

Plains

Added

Mondrak, Glory Dominus: Annointed Procession but as a creature!

Spectator Seating: I will always have 2 opponents, same reasoning as for Vault of Champions.

Crow_Umbra on Allies Bring the Energy

1 year ago

As a new player, I loved the flavor of an adventuring party helping each other out. Lol nice! That's definitely the type of combos my play group used run back them. Ooo nice, best of luck figuring out the swap for Warleader's Call.

I saw your comment on the main feed regarding your mana base. I think generally speaking, your color fixing is good, especially since quite a few of your spells have a heavy single-color investment, or are multi-colored. Speed on mana is great once you can get it, but I think color fixing is the next best thing to focus on.

If you wanted to focus on manabase upgrades first, you're spot on with swapping out some tapped lands, and swapping with options like Clifftop Retreat or Spectator Seating, depending on your budget. A couple more two mana rocks like Talisman of Conviction or Izzet Signet could help too.

I like what you've got going on with your utility lands and the Proliferation tech.

Crow_Umbra on Alesha, Who Blinks at Death EDH

1 year ago

Hi there, I saw your comment on the front page feed that you were looking for some help with your deck. Alesha was one of my first favorites, but I recycled her a couple of years ago to build Isshin.

In looking at your deck and some of the stuff in your Maybe Board, I have a few suggestions:

• Generally speaking, I think you can trim down your creature base a bit more to give you a bit more room for lands, another mana rock or two, and other spells that can help your overall strategy.

• Some of the creatures I think you can safely cut are: Ponyback Brigade (you have other token creators that aren't 3 color intensive, also kinda underwhelming), Vulturous Aven (there are other similar effects on cheaper spells, at cost of not being repeatable), and Mirkwood Bats (mostly because you currently have ~10 or fewer token creating effects in deck, so not a lot of support).

• As mentioned for the Vulturous Aven swap, but Deadly Dispute, Costly Plunder, & Plumb the Forbidden are all excellent options. Plumb the Forbidden is one I've enjoyed in my aggro decks as a response to board wipes.

• Fanatical Devotion is a budget option that pulls some weight in Alesha as a protection effect & repeatable "free" sac outlet.

• Scapegoat can also be a cheap board protection effect, & means for you to return ETB creatures to hand for reuse.

• Reconnaissance - I first started playing this card in Alesha before using it in some of my current aggro decks. Helps with pulling Alesha or other creatures out of combat after they've dealt damage, since creatures are considered attacking until combat ends. This EDHREc article goes in more detail.

• Snarling Gorehound - Is a newer card & can help Alesha get some repeated Surveil to sculpt her graveyard.

• I'd recommend replacing Coldsteel Heart with something like Talisman of Conviction or Fellwar Stone. I see you recently swapped out Fellwar Stone for Coldsteel Heart, but you're losing a bit of mana velocity with that ETB tapped on Coldsteel.

• In looking at your mana, I think you can probably swap Castle Embereth with another Mountain, mostly because 6 of your 33 lands have the Mountain type. On that note, I think you could safely replace some of your lands that enter tapped with more Basics until you can your hands on something like Luxury Suite or Spectator Seating. Exotic Orchard can also be helpful.

• You can also maybe swap out Junkyard Genius for something like Goblin War Drums, if you're looking for a more reliable Menace anthem.

• I know she's in your Maybe Board, but I think Loran of the Third Path can be a potential swap with Boneshredder. The political draw she has can be really helpful.

Hope these suggestions were helpful. I'd be down to chat about additional swaps if you're up for it. Best of luck, Alesha is a lot of fun

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