Thornwood Falls

Land

Thornwood Falls enters the battlefield tapped.

When Thornwood Falls enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.

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Discussion (49)

gatotempo on Simic Kicks

1 month ago

Why Thornwood Falls? You could play Fabled Passage.

Rageinn on When Rashmi crafts a sea creature army...

3 months ago

Definitively need a Kiora planeswalker and one stated in the other comment is Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner (untap engine)

Nezahal, Primal Tide would be great

Thornwood Falls should be cheap dual land with +1life

Thespian's Stage is a land copythat combo with Arixmethes wen its a land (you pay with arix tap thespian to copy it with 0 sleep counters since its already on the battlefield.) You will have to sack you original since you cant have to same legendary.

Cold-Eyed Selkie could replace Elusive Krasis (more flexible mana and great card engine)

Sigiled Starfish replaced by Kiora's Follower. If youre looking not to miss land draw then put a card that can untap one land you got

Thing in the Ice  ^Flip can unwillingly board clear you since it auto flip and you got no horrors except that card

Sea-Dasher Octopus for its 2mana flash mutate. Good card engine or mutate over non-octopus/leviatan/kraken to protect it from Whelming Wave

Lightning Greaves better then Swiftfoot Boots but you can have both

multimedia on Otrimi Plays Hard

3 months ago

Hey, nice budget upgrades to the precon: Sea-Dasher, Reconnaissance, Brokkos, and Triome.

Elusive Tormentor  ^Flip and Troll Ascetic are two budget creatures who you want to mutate with Otrimi. Tormentor for Insidious Mist when mutated with Otrimi makes a 6/6 hexproof, indestructible, unblockable, trample Beast. Discard a creature with mutate to flip Tormentor and recur that creature with Otrimi. The combination of hexproof and regenerate of Ascetic is powerful with mutate.

Hexproof is key and it's wanted because it protects the creature you're mutating to from targeted removal before it mutates and then after it protects the mutate pile so you can safely mutate again. Swiftfoot Boots can equip to any creature you control giving it hexproof.

( > = could replace)

• Elusive Tormentor  ^Flip > Vorapede.
• Troll Ascetic > Vastwood Hydra.
• Swiftfoot Boots > Phantom Warrior.

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The manabase of the precon is not good and you haven't changed it much. The color fixing is not good enough to be able to consistently cast Otrimi. Needing three different colors and having 11x basic Forests is going to be problematic without more color fixing.

On a budget, a manabase change to consider is to add the Bounce lands: Simic Growth Chamber, Dimir Aqueduct, Golgari Rot Farm in place of other lands that ETB tapped. With Bounce lands have to return a land you control to your hand (bounce) and they interact well with a basic land to bounce. They help with color fixing since you tap them for two different colors of mana.

• Dimir Aqueduct > Dimir Guildgate.
• Golgari Rot Farm > Golgari Guildgate.
• Simic Growth Chamber > Temple of Mystery.
• Yavimaya Coast > Thornwood Falls.
• Ash Barrens > Temple of the False God.
• Evolving Wilds > Soaring Seacliff.
• Could cut 2x Forest, add 2x more Island.

More Signets can help with faster ramp and color fixing. Arcane Signet is great, but there's three other budget Signets to consider adding: Simic Signet, Golgari Signet and Dimir Signet (Ravnica version). A Signet is helpful since any basic Forest or any other land can be used to make two different colors of mana.

• Golgari Signet > Migration Path.
• Dimir Signet > Animist's Awakening.
• Simic Signet > Fertilid.

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Shared Summons is a budget instant creature tutor that can put any two creatures into your hand. Jarad's Orders is another creature tutor that puts a creature into your hand and any other creature into your graveyard such as one with mutate to recur with Otrimi. Primal Empathy can be repeatable draw source or repeatable source to make Otrimi bigger. Season of Growth can be another repeatable draw source, any time you cast a creature for it's mutate cost targeting a creature to mutate.

• Shared Summons > Illusory Ambusher.
• Jarad's Orders > Cavern Whisperer.
• Primal Empathy > Mysterious Egg.
• Season of Growth > Mind Spring.

Good luck with your deck.

multimedia on Kalamax Precon Upgraded

3 months ago

Hey, nice budget version of Kalamax. Several good upgrades you've made to the precon.

Chord of Calling with Kalamax to tutor for Pili + Architect for infinite mana is interesting. Consider more ways to draw into a win condition when you have infinite mana? Without the draw making infinite mana with Pili + Architect or with Scepter + Reversal doesn't do enough. Expansion / Explosion is another instant Fork or Explosion with infinite mana can draw a lot of cards. Pull from Tomorrow and Blue Sun's Zenith are other instants that draw X cards.

Nivix Guildmage with infinite mana can draw into your deck until you find a win condition as well as counters to protect the combo. Guildmage with infinite mana can also infinite copy an instant/sorcery you cast which can make Banefire a win condition since you can copy it for each opponent and target a different opponent with each copy. If you can some how get a third copy of Chord when you cast it then you can also tutor for Guildmage.

Some lands in the manabase could be upgraded. Life lands from the precon and Scry temple lands are not worth ETB tapped. Survivors' Encampment and Holdout Settlement are unique lands with Kalamax because they're repeatable ways to tap him. These lands are like Springleaf Drum, they make mana when you use them to tap Kalamax or another creature. But unlike Drum you can tutor for and put onto the battlefield with Crop Rotation. Having more ways to tap Kalamax without attacking while also making mana is beneficial.

Some other good lands that are reasonable price to consider adding are: Rootbound Crag and Shivan Reef. The Filter lands: Cascade Bluffs, Flooded Grove and Fire-Lit Thicket are at lowest price due to just being reprinted in Double Masters. Can get these lands for as low as $5 each. Bluffs is helpful since it can make or , important color combinations to want to consistently make to cast instants for Kalamax.

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Cards to consider cutting:

• Rugged Highlands
• Thornwood Falls
• Swiftwater Cliffs
• Temple of Mystery
• Aggressive Mammoth
• Charmbreaker Devils
• Djinn Illuminatus
• Refuse / Cooperate

Good luck with your deck.

stellarnear on Evolution Upgrade

4 months 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

desmondwrite on Arcade Fire (Without the Fire)

6 months ago

Cut Thornwood Falls for Alchemist's Refuge.

fmastrome2008 on Yarok ETB 2.0

6 months ago

It's probably a budget decision, but this is the one deck that doesn't want bounce lands. Take out Simic Growth Chamber, Dimir Aqueduct, and Golgari Rot Farm for scry lands lands like Temple of Mystery, Temple of Malady, and Temple of Deceit or lifegain lands like Thornwood Falls.

Bojuka Bog would also provide graveyard interaction without affecting synergy or breaking the bank.

thomas9790 on COWABUNGA!!! Turtle power is a great toughness!

7 months ago

instead of using Simic Guildgate you can use Thornwood Falls its not much of a difference but it is better nonetheless