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Winter Moon
Artifact
Players can't untap more than one nonbasic land during their untap steps.
hyalopterouslemur on Question about brackets
5 days ago
So, I've noticed that three cards are mass land denial but the deckbuilding software thinks are legal in lower brackets?
So, are these MLD?
hyalopterouslemur on New player got a question.
6 days ago
What you're looking to play is a Stax deck. The good news is, a lot of Stax pieces are colorless. The bad news is, first, Stax is expensive, and secondly, Stax decks generally place you right in Bracket 4. (It's cards like Smokestack and Winter Orb that place you there.)
One thing you can do, regardless, is play Winter Moon, which costs under $2 at most places. More expensive decks tend to run more nonbasic lands, especially in the current meta where 4+ colors is the norm. In a deck like you're building, you're going to be running mostly (all?) basics, which are unaffected. Stax kinda works like that, finding ways to break symmetry.
Balaam__ on
Abiding Combo
1 week ago
@Andramalech I’ve not seen Winter Moon before, that’s a new card to me. Hearkens back to some real old school design, fitting nicely in among Winter Orb, Blood Moon and Alpine Moon. Very much my type of card.
Andramalech on
Abiding Combo
1 week ago
Funny to find Balaam__ here, because I agree- I had been looking for something in Orzhov colors to make myself nice and comfortable with.. and I have uou to thank for pushing me to a new shell. I like the fundamental principle of using almost exclusively 1-drop spells, and it gives me ideas for stax/control based pieces such as Chalice of the Void and Winter Moon. Time will show me how best to mae this my own, but hey.. not bad! I like what I see, and especially like the inclusion of Proclamation of Rebirth. Splendid deck design and really unique to the meta I currently see in Modern. +1, and please keep us updated on how this build is playing. Cheers!
hyalopterouslemur on Why Are the Other Free …
3 months ago
Also, if you're playing at a lower power level, Trinisphere becomes weak? Mind, never completely useless, since it makes a lot of removal/counterspells cost to more, but it's not nearly as strong in a Bracket 2 deck as it is in cEDH (Conversely, Gaddock Teeg is stronger in lower brackets, but still keeps Wraths and MLD off the table in higher brackets.)
The difference is a meta issue, as so much of Magic is. I always use the example of four- and five-color decks. In the lower brackets, there's only your budget stopping you from playing as many nonbasic lands as needed, and it's possible to even build a three-color deck with no basics. (In fact, the only nonbasic hoser of note that's legal in the lower brackets is Primal Order, I think. Oh, I guess Molten Rain.) But in bracket 4 and 5? Blood Moon, Back to Basics, Winter Moon, Ruination, suddenly playing five colors is a losing strategy.
hyalopterouslemur on Commander bans, a year later
3 months ago
I mean, some people are still salty over the bans, but that's to be expected. That WotC would produce even better versions of the banned cards is a pipe dream.
Still don't know the difference between Bracket 4 and Bracket 5. I do have a Ghave, Guru of Spores deck in Bracket 3 and one in Bracket 5. The latter is actually cheaper because it's a Stax deck that runs Winter Moon and only three nonbasic lands. (I presume Winter Moon qualifies as mass land denial.)
I'm divided on WotC taking over the format, but I see why it was necessary.
legendofa on Stax?
3 months ago
It's pretty much automatically going to be Bracket 4, if you care about that. Mass land denial's a pretty big thing.
Do you have any specific colors in mind? Blood Moon, Drannith Magistrate, No Mercy, High Noon, Opposition, and Pendrell Mists are all reasonably common options--at least, they're ones I've come into contact with. They're also higher budget than Winter Moon, if that's a concerns.
hyalopterouslemur on Stax?
3 months ago
So I've had a recent desire to make a bunch of Stax decks; how does everyone feel about common Stax pieces? I would say the rarity of Winter Moon is a crime if anything; it's a Stax card that can easily break symmetry, and the meta lovers its nonbasic lands.