Voracious Bibliophile

Creature — Dragon

Flying, vigilance

Whenever you cast a spell with one or more targets, draw that many cards.

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
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (3)

doc_frank_18 on Speedball, New Warrior

1 month ago

Endless Atlas!?! take out Flame Javelin and put in Pym Particles..... take out Solphim, Mayhem Dominus (how much noncombat damage are you doing?) and put in Temur Battle Rage..... take out Capricious Hellraiser and put in Voracious Bibliophile.....

Tarzunga on Death from Above

8 months ago

clayperce Wow, wow, wow. Never had this kind of such detailed help before, thank you very much.

I see what you mean about the "OUT" section, I don't disagree:

• The adventure/omen dragons I just wanted to try them out and see how they felt, due to the versatility you mention, but I'm aware they will probably be at the top of the list when it comes to cutting cards;

• Revel in Riches is a card that I have some experience with, from my Victory or Seppuku deck, where I added it, removed it because it was too slow, tried it again but ended up ultimately removing it. Was hoping it could find a home in this deck, but will probably suffer the same fate as before;

• Vedalken Humiliator same as the dragons, wanted to try it out and see how it felt, if I could use it often, but again I'm aware it will be one of the first to go;

• The draw enchants I hadn't seen them as a place to cut, but now that you mention it, yeah, it's the kind of cards that can often just sit there doing nothing, if there's no creatures, etc... Plus I hadn't yet counted how many draw cards I have xD

• Voracious Bibliophile is basicly the same as the other dragons and the Vedalken guy, one of those creatures to try out and see how often I could make use of it, but not guaranteed to stay in the deck.

Your "IN" suggestions are actually all options I had considered to include in the main deck, but was going to leave those to try out later, if/when cutting the options mentioned above.

As for the Massacre Girl, Known Killer my plan was to put her if/when I remove Vedalken Humiliator, so she will most likely have a place in the deck, almost feels like she was made to be in it.

Again, thank you very much for your help. This is a deck I had in mind for a long time, but never really commited to it until now, glad there's people enjoying the build and contributing to improve it. My main deck is the one I mentioned previously in this comment, but I'd really like for this one to be my "second main" if it works well.

clayperce on Death from Above

8 months ago

Yeah, Salubrious' manabase tool has probably improved the play of my decks more than any single thing out there.

FWIW, here's where I'd start with Silumgar: Silumgar First Look ... a "strong" manabase, with a 0.4 turn overall average delay, and a 0.5 turn average delay for Silumgar.

IN:
- A bunch of inexpensive untapped lands and a couple more utility lands.
- A few more Swamps and mana rocks.
- Bloodline Pretender, Adaptive Automaton, and Graveshifter: Solid utility Shapeshifters, er Dragons.
- Feywild Visitor: Generally solid, and SUPERB against go-wide decks.
- Roiling Dragonstorm: Repeatable draw for just {1}{U}? Love it!

OUT:
- As many tapped lands as possible.
- Moved a bunch of Dragons to the Sideboard, focusing on the 6-mana ones (which compete directly with Silumgar). I'm would honestly drop Feral Deathgorger and Young Blue Dragon entirely ... I LOVE their flexibility, but 3 power for 5+ mana is too meh for me.
- Revel in Riches: A great card, but 5 mana is a LOT to spend for it.
- Vedalken Humiliator: Getting Metalcraft is just too hard in this deck.
- Reconnaissance Mission and Coastal Piracy: GREAT cards, but 15x card advantage and 7x card selection effects should be enough.
- Voracious Bibliophile: A decent enough Dragon, but without the card draw it's not great.

TWO MORE THOUGHTS:
- I REALLY like Massacre Girl, Known Killer in the deck. If I dropped a Land, this would be the card I added.
- Reflections of Littjara is also a great card for a deck like this, but we'd need to either drop some Legendary Dragons or add a bit more recursion to make it worth the 5 mana. I wouldn't want to do that at this point, but maybe as the deck evolves ...

Thank you for coming to my TEDtalk ... hopefully there's something useful in there! :-D

Good luck (and good skill!) with the deck; cheers!