Timesifter

Artifact

At the beginning of each upkeep, each player removes the top card of his or her library from the game. The player who removed the card with the highest converted mana cost takes an extra turn after this one. If two or more players' cards are tied for highest cost, the tied players repeat this process until the tie is broken.

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
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (50)

capwner on Azorius Timesifter Prison

1 month ago

SufferFromEDHD Top is already in here brother, probably the best card in the deck since we're all about Timesifter :) Catastrophe is a good one, that's in my Mono-W versions which is more focused around wrath and indestructibility.

casual_competitive on Mono White Timesifter Prison

4 months ago

Timesifter is hilarious. use to have a twoheaded giant LGS and my brother had a deck where it would get Timesifter out and have me as his teamate using a deck with no lands and every possible 10+ mana card

i was gunna recommend Hidden Retreat but youd have to have a valid target. Scroll Rack is just the best option, making it more likely to get scroll rack is a good idea. glad to see someone else other then me uses Endless Horizons. Tenuous Truce is good cheap draw and will instantly make one player of the game your friend, either give it to the most combat focused deck to avoid their wrath or give it to the player thats struggling, same thing applies with Loran of the Third Path but with an added bonus of removal. Bottled Cloister is good if your playgroup has a lot of handhate. if you want a good board wipe i cant imagine a better one then Out of Time, a little mean since it just makes everyones commander vanish forever until someone gets rid of out of it. other then that your deck is well put together and unique

Bookrook on 0% Synergy, 100% WINERGY

6 months ago

I feel like leyline of singularity has anti synergy with your deck because all of the copy effects. Some other random cool cards are, Oracle's Vault, Rowan's Grim Search, Shared Fate, Timesifter, Fly, and Ancient Silver Dragon.

capwner on Timebelcher

7 months ago

wheels47 Heyo! I did actually see one of those lists already, the mono W one, when I realized that the "Timebelcher" name had been used previously I went and checked it out. I actually really like the idea of running the miracle cards, I may have to consider Temporal Mastery, Terminus, and Devastation Tide for this list, also using cheap cyclers to draw into those on your opponent's turn is very clever. As for cutting the cheaper cards from this list, I'm not sure if it would be worth switching to a tap-MDFC (it would probably be Umara Wizard  ^Flip) over the Sinks and Hydroelectric. The interaction from Sink and ability to play them untapped feels pretty important to me. Same with the Pentad Prism as this is our primary option for ramp (vs Lotus Bloom which is even lower cmc), this enables turn 3 Sifter/Belcher which feels awesome. The other alternative would be the adventure land-drop cards I have in the maybeboard, but this only ramps us by 1 not 2 and it consumes a land drop. The average CMC is still super high because we run all the most expensive MDFCs, and in my playtesting a resolved Timesifter almost always results in a win. Even if we lose 1 turn somewhere in there, the odds of our opponents being in a position to win on that single turn seem to be pretty low, generally. And some cards like Ulamog will always beat us no matter what we flip. Thanks for checking out the list, it's very nice to see a fellow Timesifter appreciator :)

capwner on Timebelcher

7 months ago

kamarupa Thanks for the interest and the +1! I may add a bit more description but honestly it's pretty simple, the MDFCs are just there to be expensive and win us Timesifter triggers. As well as being a requirement for the Belcher and Selective Memory wincons. The theory behind the deck is with Timesifter, now we run 12 "1-card-wins," as opposed to traditional Blue Belcher which just has 8. Blue Belcher is probably still a much better deck than this. The only real "tech" from the MDFCs is that you can use Suppression Ray  ^Flip to tap down blockers once allowing for repeated beatdowns on Timesifter turns. I just played my first couple matches with this online and we beat Eldrazi and Esper Goryo's lol

DreadKhan on Lil' Shit

1 year ago

IMHO their are few bigger 'lil shit' type cards than Rite of the Raging Storm, if their is an opponent who can't handle 5/1 Tramplers they are dead meat very quickly, it's a very chaotic atmosphere with Rite out. It's also very good with many cards that would work well with your Commander, such as Mask of Griselbrand, and I can point out a bunch of other options. Relic of Sauron is a very good Grixis mana rock that can also draw a card now and then. I think copy effects are probably pretty good with your Commander, if you cast Rite of Replication on your Commander you still get 5 copies ETBing and dying, which should clear out hands and serve as a huge board wipe (you get 5 triggers each of the ETB and death trigger, if you have 3 opponents left 2 of them have 1/4 of their permanents and one has half left, similar for their hands. Irenicus's Vile Duplication is another fun copy effect, this one doesn't die right away and has flying. If you like annoying creatures you might like some of the specters out their, Hypnotic Specter is an old classic that will always take away a card from whomever you hit, and Stronghold Rats can take one from each player fwiw.

I can't decide if MImic Vat would be worth it with your Commander, if you can get him into the Vat you can make a copy each turn for very little mana, but it doesn't get sacrificed unfortunately, it gets exiled at end of turn, so you'd need sac outlets to get his Death Triggers (but on the upside nobody is going to block you).

Their are a few Chaos type cards that might help with your plans to annoy the table, I've always enjoyed Teferi's Puzzle Box, but any effect that cares about your opponent drawing cards really loves the effect, if you can get Box and a Notion Thief out your opponents each lose their hand and you draw cards equal to how many they had when they lost them. Grip of Chaos can help keep your Commander (or another key permanent) alive longer, and you don't run a ton of targeted interaction yourself. Omen Machine is pretty funny, it's especially useful if you use a high average MV, same with Timesifter. Some people will try to flip the table if you resolve a Possibility Storm, especially if your deck isn't trying to abuse the effect. If you leaned harder into your spell plan, or into permanents that work regardless of who controls them you could try Thieves' Auction, a card many that is so obnoxious that some people consider scooping rather than resolving the effect.

I hope some of these ideas aren't too disruptive, it's fun to have a deck that can troll your playgroup a bit!

SufferFromEDHD on Volrath: No School, like Old School

2 years ago

Wow. Thanks for the upvote on my build. I see a ton of overlap in our strategies.

Pestilence Demon > Pestilence

Dawn of the Dead recycle Volrath fodder by reanimating for 1 life.

Temporal Extortion you are running all the cool color bending spells why not throw this blue effect into your mono black list :)

Timesifter "you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?”

DreadKhan on Rakdos

2 years ago

It's not really a great card, but Shivan Gorge can deal some damage to each opponent, which can let you shave mana off of spells for a turn. There is also stuff like Spear Spewer that pings each player, that's a much better way to achieve that goal I suppose. There are also Kessig Flamebreather and Firebrand Archer that can turn any non-creature spell into damage, not sure you have enough stuff to justify them, but felt they were worth a mention. There is also good old Pyrohemia/Pestilence, which can ping each opponent (and it clears out x/1s if tokens are an issue in your area). Not sure if you will be able to get in for damage consistently, but Rite of the Raging Storm tokens usually suck to block, so you might get 5 damage per turn in some metas.

I feel like it's worth throwing in something like Carrion Feeder or Viscera Seer if you want a sac outlet that can clear out lots of bodies and derive value from it, Feeder even works with Pitiless Plunderer (or another 'mana from dead creature' card, Pawn of Ulamog and Bog Initiate will work on a budget) and Gravecrawler to go infinite.

Final point, maybe a few Annihilator creatures that have high MV as their drawback, they tend to be colourless anyways, so can give a full discount and be free sometimes. Artisan of Kozilek and Pathrazer of Ulamog are good examples that aren't too pricey, but Titans are obviously more expensive/powerful, it's worth noting you'll always get cast triggers, even if you're casting them for nothing/very little. Some of these can also let you run cards that care about high MV, like Protection Racket and Timesifter, both are very strong in some metas. Heck, I think I'd just run Protection Racket either way now that I think about it, I'm not sure there is a drawback to that card in this deck, it's big drawback is that it's bad in combo decks because people won't give you combo pieces, but in a deck that isn't attached to any one card you can run it safely. There is also Meteor Golem, Platinum Emperion and even Platinum Angel to offer some value if stuff like Darksteel Colossus or Blightsteel Colossus are over the budget, and there are big old utility beaters like Tsabo Tavoc that are worth a look, you can shave 5 mana off still.

Rakdos is a pretty nifty Commander, hope you're having fun with him!