Verdant Catacombs

Land

, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this: Search your library for a Swamp or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.

Discussion (46)

YamishiTheWickedOne on Sexy Vampires

1 week ago

I should mention, I've been giving you advice under the assumption you're working with a limited budget. I bring this up because fetch lands like Marsh Flats, Verdant Catacombs, Bloodstained Mire, Polluted Delta and Prismatic Vista are all extremely useful in vampires even if you're monocolor because they let you reuse Bloodghast up to twice per turn, they can force a shuffle to hopefully get Nocturnus active, and they thin your deck making it slightly more likely you'll draw what you need.

Aside from Thoughtseize and Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet, another expensive card is Cavern of Souls, because having mainboard countermeasures to blue decks is always a good thing.

multimedia on Lathril, Blade of the Elves

1 month ago

Hey, well done so far at upgrading the precon on a budget.

Some suggestions to consider are how to improve the manabase and other ways to get black mana without Swamps. The amount of basic lands is backwards; there's more Swamps than Forests. Forests/green mana is much more important than Swamps/black mana because the majority of the Elves including one drops are green. By cutting some Swamps and adding more Forests or more Golgari dual lands you can make it more consistent in getting green mana to cast Elves. With less Swamps then Green Elves who can make black mana are helpful.

• Elves of Deep Shadow --> Tajuru Blightblade
• Birchlore Rangers --> Drove of Elves
• Paradise Druid --> Druid of the Cowl
• Farhaven Elf or Wood Elves --> Lys Alana Bowmaster
• Llanowar Wastes --> 1x Swamp
• Undergrowth Stadium --> 1x Swamp
• Unclaimed Territory --> 1x Swamp
• Woodland Chasm or Overgrown Tomb --> 1x Swamp
• 2x more Forest --> 2x Swamp

Woodland Chasm is budget and Overgrown Tomb is expensive are lands that Verdant Catacombs or Wood Elves can search for.

Good luck with your deck.

corpsebandit on Titania

1 month ago

Upgrades: Kavu Lair out, Garruk's Uprising in. Replace 2 Snow-Covered Forest for Misty Rainforest and Verdant Catacombs .

Balaam__ on Oozing with Potential (?)

2 months ago

Neat tribe to build around. Depending on the budget you’ve allotted for this deck, there are obvious upgrades to your mana base—lands like Overgrown Tomb or Verdant Catacombs , or the Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth / Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth would all help drastically speed up and smooth out play.

Most of all though I’d be remiss if I didn’t recommend Pyre of Heroes . This will permit you to sift through your entire selection of ooze creatures to field progressively stronger ones ahead of curve.

Runeroads on Would you like pickles with that?

2 months ago

-1 Terramorphic Expanse
+1 Verdant Catacombs

stellarnear on ComboFromTheGrave

3 months ago

Competitive all the way

Blooming Marsh > Polluted Delta
Botanical Sanctum > Wooded Foothills
Darkslick Shores > Scalding Tarn
Darkwater Catacombs > Verdant Catacombs
Grand Coliseum > Misty Rainforest
Path of Ancestry > Dark Confidant
Counterspell > Mana Drain

Runeroads on Would you like pickles with that?

3 months ago

1x Alchemist's Refuge -> 1x Alchemist's Refuge
1x Ash Barrens -> 1x Prismatic Vista
1x Bojuka Bog -> 1x Bojuka Bog
1x Command Tower -> 1x Command Tower
1x Darkwater Catacombs -> 1x Watery Grave
1x Dimir Aqueduct -> 1x Morphic Pool
1x Evolving Wilds -> 1x Fabled Passage
1x Exotic Orchard -> 1x Exotic Orchard
4x Forest -> 4x Forest
1x Foul Orchard -> 1x Overgrown Tomb
1x Golgari Rot Farm -> 1x Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
1x Ice Tunnel -> 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
4x Island -> 4x Island
1x Jungle Hollow -> 1x Woodland Cemetery
1x Llanowar Wastes -> 1x Mana Confluence
1x Lumbering Falls -> 1x Rejuvenating Springs
1x Myriad Landscape -> 1x Misty Rainforest
1x Opulent Palace -> 1x Opulent Palace
1x Reliquary Tower -> 1x Reliquary Tower
1x Rimewood Falls -> 1x Rimewood Falls
1x Simic Growth Chamber -> 1x Breeding Pool
1x Sunken Hollow -> 1x Sunken Hollow
2x Swamp -> 2x Swamp
1x Terramorphic Expanse -> 1x Verdant Catacombs
1x Thornwood Falls -> 1x Zagoth Triome
1x Tidechannel Pathway -> 1x Tidechannel Pathway
1x Winding Canyons -> 1x Winding Canyons
1x Yavimaya Coast -> 1x Yavimaya Coast

multimedia on golgari elves

5 months ago

Hey, consider Sol Ring ? It's a staple mana rock in Commander. Consider less Swamps and more Golgari dual lands? Green mana is much more important than black. 11 Swamps really reduces the consistency of having a green source turn one for a green one drop mana dork. You don't want to draw all Swamps and no Forests.

You can speed up game play and help color fixing by adding more dual lands that can ETB untapped:

• Llanowar Wastes
• Undergrowth Stadium
• Overgrown Tomb
• Nurturing Peatland
• City of Brass
• Mana Confluence
• Verdant Catacombs : gets Overgrown Tomb .
• Windswept Heath : gets Overgrown Tomb .
• Darkbore Pathway  ^Flip
• Unclaimed Territory

Others:

• Twilight Mire
• Woodland Cemetery
• Reflecting Pool
• Blooming Marsh
• Tainted Wood

Several of these lands could replace lands that always ETB tapped: Foul Orchard , Golgari Guildgate , Jungle Hollow , Golgari Rot Farm . Elves of Deep Shadow is very helpful since can make black mana. Deathrite Shaman if playing multiplayer since can exile lands from opponents graveyards.

Good luck with your deck.