Well of Lost Dreams

Artifact

Whenever you gain life, you may pay (X), where X is less than or equal to the amount of life you gained. If you do, draw X cards.

Discussion (51)

AlistarFiend on The Machine (The Pit of Despair)

2 weeks ago

smackjack Thank you for the great suggestions. I have added Well of Lost Dreams and will consider some of the others.

MadWollf on Angelic demise

2 weeks ago

Here's a few suggestions to get started with cutting.

Shepherd of Heroes

Winged Shepherd

Anointer Priest

Daybreak Chaplain

Emeria Captain

Legion Angel

Loxodon Restorer

Makeshift Battalion

Iona's Judgment

Angel's Mercy

Sandblast

True Love's Kiss

Candlelight Vigil (use Sentinel's Eyes instead)

Elspeth, Sun's Nemesis

A few others to consider: Serra Ascendant as well as Felidar Guardian

Leave No Trace

Murderous Rider

Light of Hope fits your themes as well

Aetherflux Reservoir can be a wincon as well as slow your casting life loss

Commander's Sphere

Endless Atlas and Well of Lost Dreams for card draw

Swiftfoot Boots and Lightning Greaves for commander protection

Disenchant

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smackjack on The Machine (The Pit of Despair)

4 weeks ago

Nice list! Im building her as well, and i like Magus of the Moat (or Moat if you can) in my list since im mostly attacking with fliers. Well of Lost Dreams is also pretty nice allowing you to draw 5 when swinging with Liesa. Mangara, the Diplomat is another nice source of card advantage. Resolute Archangel can be really good late game and Helm of the Host multiplies the pain from Liesa, altho its quite an mana investment..

sub780lime on Liesa

1 month ago

Also, Archangel of Thune or possible Well of Lost Dreams.

Santiago1011 on Liesa, Angel of Monsters and Masochism [PRIMER]

1 month ago

betomindslav thanks for the upvote! Norn's Annex and Polluted Bonds are just too expensive for what they bring to the table imo. They also fall at 5 cmc, which we want to leave as empty as possible so we can drop Liesa when we get 5 mana.

Well of Lost Dreams I am considering as a replacement for Court of Grace. I'm not sure yet though.

king-saproling on Commander Mono black budget Vampire

1 month ago

You might like these: Sanctum Seeker, Marauding Blight-Priest, Scion of the Swarm, Syphon Mind, Well of Lost Dreams, Bolas's Citadel, Lich's Mastery, Caged Sun, Hall of Triumph, Obelisk of Urd, Adaptive Automaton, Vanquisher's Banner, Nightmare Lash, Strata Scythe, Heirloom Blade, Throne of the God-Pharaoh

king-saproling on Liesa's L.E.G.S

1 month ago

Cards like Light of Promise, Sunbond, and Cradle of Vitality are pretty strong with a lifelink general.

You might consider these too: Vizkopa Guildmage, Helm of the Host, Howling Mine, Helm of Awakening, Blinkmoth Urn, Temple Bell, Font of Mythos, Lightmine Field, Horn of Greed, Coveted Jewel, Archfiend of Despair, Aetherflux Reservoir, Well of Lost Dreams

Reznorboy on Elephants Are Better Than Birds V2.0

2 months ago

I just wanted to say that just because a Commander has not been literally just released, does not mean it has been "solved".

What I mean is, there are some older Commanders (both in and outside of these colors) which can be fun, competitive, adaptable, AND fairly unexplored.

The best example in my mind is Dragonlord Dromoka.

He can be built simply as a beatdown strategy and work fairly well, but, you can instead try building him as a heavy-handed infinite combo deck as well.

Effectively having Grand Abolisher as your Commander allows you to do your infinite comboing without any pesky interruption and win every single time you have the mana and cards.

And to boot, I've never actually seen anyone do it before. (I wanted to, but never did.)

And even if a Commander has been built by many people, many times, they may not have done it in all of the possible ways (styles of play).

Many people have made a Wolf-Tribal deck for Tolsimir, Friend to Wolves, but I haven't seen many people make a heavy blink/flicker deck for him, abusing the life gain with cards like Well of Lost Dreams and saccing the extra tokens with Phyrexian Altar.

Point is, I don't think the Commander has to have just come out to be unexplored/have unexplored avenues.

(A personal favorite of mine is Yasharn, Implacable Earth blink/lands matter.)