Vault of Champions

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Vault of Champions enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents.

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multimedia on Vast of Vanity

2 weeks ago

Hey, good first version, nice Avacyn, Angel of Hope.

Having some backup plans to cheat big creatures onto the battlefield can be helpful because you will not always control Kaalia. Reanimation and ramp are two straight forward backup plans to consider expanding on.

• Rakdos, Lord of Riots: Demon who can reduce the colorless cost of creatures you cast.
• Emeria Shepherd: repeatable reanimate any nonland permanent in your graveyard if you play a Plains or if you play any land then put that permanent into your hand instead.
• Karmic Guide: Angel who can reanimate any creature in your graveyard.
• Nahiri, the Harbinger: all her loyalty abilities are good, her -8 can tutor for any creature and put it on the battlefield.
• Wayfarer's Bauble: land ramp that has interaction with Emeria Shepherd since it can get a basic Plains, repeatable with Shepherd for two mana.

Some changes to consider:

• Rakdos, Lord of Riots --> Hoard-Smelter Dragon
• Emeria Shepherd --> Akroma, Angel of Wrath
• Karmic Guide --> Tariel, Reckoner of Souls
• Nahiri, the Harbinger --> Descend upon the Sinful
• Wayfarer's Bauble --> Darksteel Ingot

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Some other upgrades to consider:

• Profane Tutor --> Ruinous Path
• Boros Charm --> Leave No Trace
• Dragon Tempest --> Fervor
• Chaos Warp --> Wrecking Ball
• Generous Gift --> Unmake

Some lands to consider adding to improve the manabase in place of some basic lands, the three Bounce lands, Wreckage and the two Scry lands.

• Exotic Orchard
• Arid Mesa: can get Godless Shrine.
• Caves of Koilos
• Battlefield Forge
• Vault of Champions
• Spectator Seating
• Rogue's Passage
• Tyrite Sanctum
• Haunted Ridge
• Fabled Passage
• Evolving Wilds
• Terramorphic Expanse

If you choose to add Emeria Shepherd then some Fetch lands that can get a basic Plains are helpful because they give you two triggers of landfall.

Good luck with your deck.

stellarnear on KikoolKaalia !

3 weeks ago

Sulfurous Springs>Luxury Suite
Battlefield Forge>Spectator Seating
Kor Haven>Vault of Champions

multimedia on Work in Progress - God Save the Queen

1 month ago

Hey, good work in progress so far for a first deck with an interesting concept.

Command Tower and Arcane Signet are two staples to consider adding. Consider adding some flying creatures who can disrupt your opponent to help you do keep the monarch and some repeatable sources of flying creatures?

• Archon of Emeria and Rule of Law can bring the game to a halt which helps you to keep the monarch.
• Windborn Muse and Ghostly Prison make it more difficult for opponents to attack you which helps you to keep the monarch.
• Aven Mindcensor: doesn't let your opponents tutor which can give you a big advantage.
• Luminarch Ascension: it cares about each opponent's end step meaning in multiplayer Commander that it can get counters quick.
• Court of Grace: another source of the monarch.

Blind Obedience can be opponent mana rock ramp disruption and shuts off haste of opponent's creatures who might want to attack you. With Cunning Rhetoric opponent may not want to attack you because then you'll exile card from top of their library.

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The mana curve is very high here since you have so many 5 CMC, 6 CMC or higher cards. Cutting some of them for lower CMC cards and more ramp would help gameplay. More two drop mana rocks can make it easier/faster to cast Marchesa. Since she's a 4 CMC creature then a turn two mana rock can potentially let you cast her turn three if you make your land drops.

• Arcane Signet
• Fellwar Stone
• Thought Vessel: no max hand size can help when you're drawing a lot of cards with the monarch.
• Boros Signet
• Orzhov Signet
• Rakdos Signet

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Some lands to consider adding in place of some basic lands that are within your budget to improve the manabase:

• Rainbow lands: Command Tower, Exotic Orchard, Path of Ancestry
• Fetch lands: Fabled Passage
• Mardu lands: Nomad Outpost
• Bond lands: Vault of Champions, Spectator Seating
• Pain lands: Caves of Koilos, Battlefield Forge
• Filter lands: Rugged Prairie, Fetid Heath, Graven Cairns
• Check lands: Dragonskull Summit, Isolated Chapel, Clifftop Retreat
• Tango lands: Smoldering Marsh

If you're playing Dark Depths then consider Thespian's Stage? Stage is the land that combos with Depths to get Marit Lage. When you control Depths and Stage pay 2 mana to copy Depths with Stage. Stage becomes Depths with no ice counters on it and the legendary rule will take place since you can't control two legendary Depths at the same time. Choose to keep Stage and remove Depths. Since Stage has no ice counters it's saced to create Marit Lage.

If interested I offer more advice including cuts to consider. Good luck with your deck.

multimedia on Vampire Assault

2 months ago

Hey, nice budget version.

I prefer a lower mana curve with Vamps having Edgar and Ruinous Ultimatum as the high end. With Patriarch's Bidding and Haunting Voyage as major recovery.

Here's two combos that give you repeatable value or can potentially win the game without having to attack with Vamps which in some situations is helpful in Commander.

• Oathsworn Vampire + Cruel Celebrant + Yahenni, Undying Partisan
• Captivating Vampire + Throne of the God-Pharaoh

Oathsworn Vampire + Cruel Celebrant + Yahenni, Undying Partisan is a Vamp combo because of Edgar's eminence to create as many Vamp tokens as mana you have available from repeatedly casting Oathsworn from your graveyard. This combo makes die triggers from Celebrant by sacing Oathsworn which is what lets you cast Oathsworn from your graveyard. Combine these Vamps with Cordial Vampire to make your Vamp army powerful with +1/+1 counters. Combine this combo with Captivating Vampire to gain control of a lot of your opponents creatures.

Bontu's Monument is nonVamp card that can replace Celebrant in the combo and it reduces the cost of Oathsworn to only one black mana. Blood Artist can also replace Celebrant. Viscera Seer is another Vamp sac outlet that could replace Yahenni in the combo.

Throne of the God-Pharaoh combines with Captivating Vampire and other Vamps to drain all your opponents life by tapping Vamps. Captivating can gain control of a creature and that creature can be your own creature repeatedly which means that if opponents don't have creatures to steal then you can continue activating Captivating.

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Here's some suggestions of how to improve the manabase on a budget.

• Exotic Orchard --> Guildmages' Forum
• Caves of Koilos --> Scoured Barrens
• Battlefield Forge --> Bloodfell Caves
• Shineshadow Snarl --> Orzhov Basilica
• Foreboding Ruins --> Rakdos Carnarium
• Smoldering Marsh --> Temple of Malice
• Tainted Field --> Temple of Silence
• Tainted Peak --> Terramorphic Expanse

Vault of Champions and Spectator Seating are excellent lands in multiplayer, but they be out of budget range.

Good luck with your deck.

multimedia on Alela and her pimped out posse

2 months ago

Hey, with so much equipment consider Puresteel Paladin and Sigarda's Aid to free equip? Grand Architect lets you tap himself and other blue creatures to pay for equip costs or to cast artifacts. Alela and the Faeries she creates are blue. Shimmer Myr lets you cast artifacts at instant speed. Cranial Plating can make Alela because she has flying an attacking threat to do lethal Commander damage.

Grand Architect is good ramp for the Thopter Assembly + Time Sieve extra turn combo. With Alela this combo is lots of Faeries equal to the amount of extra turns you want to take. The win condition is attacking with Faeries at each opponent at each extra turn.

Tap Architect + Alela + 1 Faerie for 6 colorless mana to cast Assembly. Each extra turn Assembly is bounced back to your hand to create 5 artifact Thopters, you then have to cast Assembly again and next you sac those 5 Thopters with Sieve to take an extra turn to repeat. Casting Assembly at each extra turn is what creates the Faeries.

If attacking with Alela and Faerie tokens is something you want to do then because of flying consider Bident of Thassa and Reconnaissance Mission ? These are for repeatable draw which lets you draw for each creature who does combat damage to a player.

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Some land upgrades to consider:

• Exotic Orchard --> Archway Commons
• Spire of Industry --> Transguild Promenade
• Arcane Sanctum --> Boreal Shelf
• Vault of Champions --> Frost Marsh
• Caves of Koilos --> Orzhov Guildgate
• Prairie Stream --> Azorius Guildgate
• Sunken Hollow --> Dimir Guildgate
• Shineshadow Snarl --> Scoured Barrens
• Port Town --> Tranquil Cove
• Seat of the Synod --> Dismal Backwater

Good luck with your deck.

multimedia on Kaalia of the Vast

3 months ago

Hey, nice personal version. I respect you're willing to post for critique your personal deck that you're currently playing.

An area to consider improving is ramp. Consider cutting some basic lands especially Swamps for more low CMC mana rocks?

• Arcane Signet
• Talisman of Hierarchy
• Talisman of Conviction
• Talisman of Indulgence

You can get ramp other ways than mana rocks such as Rakdos, Lord of Riots who's underrated with Kaalia. Can also be a backup to more easily cast high CMC creatures if you can't cheat them onto the battlefield with Kaalia. Rakdos could replace Iona, Shield of Emeria because she's banned in multiplayer EDH/Commander.

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40 lands with 27 basic lands isn't a good ratio for color fixing when you need all three colors equally. You can't count on having Chromatic Lantern every game for color fixing, but you should consistently be able to count on your lands. Bloodstained Mire is great, nice Expedition, but currently it can't fetch a white source because there's no Swamp/Plains or Mountain/Plains land. Savai Triome , Godless Shrine and Sacred Foundry are Plains lands that Mire can search for.

Less lands, more color fixing and more ramp will help gameplay. You want at least 20 sources of each color from lands in the manabase which is completely doable with the already high budget. My advice is cut basic lands for more dual lands. I'll suggest two different tiers of land improvements to consider based on your current budget.

Tier 1 (more expensive lands, better color fixing): more Rainbow lands, more Fetch lands, Shock lands, Bond lands.

• Mana Confluence
• Exotic Orchard
• Forbidden Orchard
• Marsh Flats
• Arid Mesa
• Savai Triome
• Godless Shrine
• Sacred Foundry
• Blood Crypt
• Vault of Champions
• Spectator Seating
• Luxury Suite

Tier 2 (less expensive lands, less color fixing): lesser Rainbow lands, Bond lands, Pathways and Filter lands.

• Exotic Orchard
• Savai Triome : for Mire to fetch.
• Path of Ancestry
• Vault of Champions
• Spectator Seating
• Caves of Koilos
• Brightclimb Pathway  ^Flip
• Needleverge Pathway  ^Flip
• Graven Cairns
• Rugged Prairie
• Fetid Heath

I offer more advice. Would you like more advice? Good luck with your deck.

multimedia on Alesha, No Idea

4 months ago

Hey, you're welcome.

Some changes to consider:

• Vile Entomber --> Ankle Shanker
• Unmarked Grave --> Humble Defector
• Goblin Bombardment --> Mardu Ascendancy
• Viscera Seer --> Butcher of the Horde
• Karmic Guide --> Tajic, Blade of the Legion
• Ravenous Chupacabra --> Intrepid Hero
• Solemn Simulacrum --> Utter End
• Zephyr Boots --> Anointed Procession
• Exotic Orchard --> Temple of the False God
• Spectator Seating --> Wind-Scarred Crag
• Vault of Champions --> Temple of Triumph
• Talisman of Conviction or Boros Signet --> Darksteel Ingot
• Talisman of Hierarchy or Orzhov Signet --> Savai Crystal

Both Goblin Bombardment and Viscera Seer are sac outlets that add to the infinite combo here of Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit + Murderous Redcap . Anointed Procession is a good card, but it's an expensive price card that's not doing much here because there's not a strong token sub theme. By sub theme I mean 10 or more cards that care about tokens. You could add more creatures who create tokens when they ETB such as Siege-Gang Commander , but I don't think you need them.

Ankle Shanker is an attack trigger which you will not get when you reanimate him with Alesha. Creatures who have a tap activated ability are less good with Alesha since when you reanimate them with her they ETB tapped not letting them tap to activate.

multimedia on Alesha, No Idea

4 months ago

Hey, nice version of Alesha.

New sets Modern Horizons 2 and Strixhaven has lots of budget goodies for Alesha. The first two cards can tutor for and put Master of Cruelties into your graveyard.

• Vile Entomber : best card of the bunch to consider adding since it's repeatable Entomb with a deathtouch body who Alesha can reanimate.
• Unmarked Grave : tutor for any nonlegendary card and put in your graveyard.
• Goblin Bombardment : now a $1 and it's one of the best sac outlets in Commander especially with Cruelties. After making an opponent have 1 life sac Cruelties to end that opponent and repeat next turn by reanimating Cruelties.
• Karmic Guide : now a $1, powerful with Alesha because she can reanimate it which then can reanimate any other creature in your graveyard. Karmic can put itself back into your graveyard by not paying the echo cost making it easily repeatable.
• Zephyr Boots : give Alesha flying evasion and it can be repeatable loot to fuel her reanimation.
• Access Tunnel : another Rogue's Passage , less mana cost to activate.

Viscera Seer is a one drop sac outlet to abuse reanimation of the same creatures with Alesha and it also can help your draws with repeatable scry. Solemn Simulacrum can be repeatable basic land ramp and draw when reanimated with Alesha. Ravenous Chupacabra can be repeatable creature removal.

Exotic Orchard is another rainbow land. Spectator Seating and Vault of Champions are Bond lands that ETB untapped if playing multiplayer Commander. Talisman of Conviction and Talisman of Hierarchy are two more two drop mana rocks.

If interested in any of these suggestions then I offer more advice including cuts to consider. Good luck with your deck.