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- Loxodon Gatekeeper + Winter Orb
- Orb of Dreams + Winter Orb
- Thalia, Heretic Cathar + Winter Orb
- Nature's Will + Winter Orb
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 |
| Highlander | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Leviathan | Legal |
| Limited | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Oldschool 93/94 | Legal |
| Planar Constructed | Legal |
| Planechase | Legal |
| Premodern | Legal |
| Quest Magic | Legal |
| Tiny Leaders | Legal |
| Vanguard | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
Winter Orb
Artifact
As long as Winter Orb is untapped, players can't untap more than one land during their untap steps.
SufferFromEDHD on
Braids, Unbanned
1 week ago
Glad to see her unbanned. Great build! Lots of old school synergy in this.
Rishadan Port get that in the main board. Buried Ruin too.
Koskun Falls surprised this color wheel bending stax tax didn't make main or maybe.
Ritual of the Machine only suggesting this because you are running so many old school cool cards. Less stax but unique control.
Now I'm gonna get weird. Blinkmoth Well, Static Orb and Winter Orb. I recently discovered this simple synergy and keep sneaking it into stax shells. It's cheap, it's easy, it's brutal.
Kjacobson6800 on
Kaalia, Queen of the Vast
1 month ago
Cool Build. I have a pretty mean Kaalia myself but its rather competitive. Yours looks fun to play I just tested it a few times. Love the Sneak Attack as a backup. Feel free to take a look at mine if you'd like. My only real suggestions after seeing your maybe list is to tune the creatures a bit more and sell that Alpha/Beta D-Tutor ... buy a Chrome Mox. Would leave you with a few $$ to really deck this thing out. Id also be running all 3 Talismans. A revised Demonic tutor is Rather affordable. I run Gamble Demonic Tutor, Enlightened Tutor, Vampiric Tutor, Grim Tutor, And Imperial Seal. More tutors and maybe Steelshaper's Gift to get the Greaves out fast. Diabolic Tutor works just fine to go get an Avacyn or something and get the whole table salty Lotus Petal is clutch too and chronically slept on IMO, especially when it comes to Kaalia... Im pretty sure Jeweled Lotus is banned in EDH now so maybe let that one go too. Necropotence is stupid good in a Kaalia deck, especially if you can get a Reliquary Tower out. As soon as i focused more on tutors, mana rocks, and a few board-wipes Wrath of God Day of Judgment Damn She started going off quick and dirty.Sensei's Divining Top is super helpful too. I wouldn't sleep on Dark Ritual if you're short a Jeska's Will. I slip a Dark Rit in mine from time to time depending on where I'm playing. I also run Armageddon and Catastrophe. Sometimes Winter Orb ...locks everyone down once I have Her out. I Cant tell you how many times Steel Hellkite has won the game for me. Blows up all dorks and keeps opponents rocks at bay. Plus you can grab him with Enlightened tutor. Dragon Mage could work in this to help load up youre Kaalia drops without needing a Wheel of Fortune Solid build!! Ive been tuning mine for years now.
DreadKhan on Adding brackets to commander decks
3 months ago
I can see not counting stax like Meekstone atm, but 'mass land denial' is probably supposed to include fun stuff like Stasis and Static Orb (also Winter Orb and Rising Waters, maybe Mana Web, but I don't know about stuff like Choke atm, or Omen of Fire). I've heard 'affects 4 or more lands' as the gold standard, hence me not being certain if 'targeted' land hate (vs a single colour's Basics) should count.
Apologies (and thanks) if you're already working on it!
hyalopterouslemur on Best color for this type …
3 months ago
What you're looking for is a Stax deck. Basically it uses cards to disable conventional paths to victory (I'm fond of Winter Orb and Meekstone in this way.) while using things like Black Vise or Zulaport Cutthroat to slowly chip away at an opponent's life total.
Stax decks come in all colors, since a lot of the pieces are artifacts, but you're usually looking for or for the lockdown effects, for forced sac effects, and possibly for direct damage or to make sure the controllish aspects of the deck don't apply to you.
Mortlocke on
water proof deck (v.3.0)
3 months ago
I can see that you are starting a Primer, in case you don't have them I suggest the following resource: Epochalyptik's Do you want to write a primer? I've found it useful and hope you do as well. So, first things first I have some questions:
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What decks do you intend to play with using this deck? Do you want to play in a High Powered pod with degenerate spells like Mana Drain, Force of Will, Winter Orb and the like? Or is this a pod with lower power?
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What's the budget with this deck? Is it to be in the same mold as an upgraded precon?
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How do you want to win?
I saw your comments on the Advertise your deck forum, and I can see that you wish to add more draw and more control. In regards to draw I can see that Rhystic Study was suggested before and you have budgetary concerns - there is always the option to proxy. If your playgroup allows it of course.
Possible subthemes/Wincons to consider outside of Voltron: - A flicker (exile a permanent then return it to the battlefield end of turn) subtheme may be an interesting direction to go with this deck. There are numerous options to go with in blue and including creatures such as Thassa, Deep-Dwelling, Scourge of Fleets, Archaeomancer, Spark Double, and Spellseeker to use and abuse their enter the battlefield effects.
- You could try slotting in Pili-Pala and Grand Architect for infinite mana or run Tunnel Vision and then win using Laboratory Maniac/Thassa's Oracle.
Honorable Mentions for fun Control/Card Advantage effects:
- Aven Courier - this guy helps your commander do more of what it likes to do. You should try and slot him in.
- Stormtide Leviathan - this guy can stop combat damage from reaching you for a time
- Faerie Mastermind - fun little taxing effects like this are great because it guarantees card advantage
- Wavebreak Hippocamp - given your deck has a lot of interaction it's likely you could keep up your tempo with this guy out
Caerwyn on Why Did WotC Change the …
5 months ago
This is hardly an “obnoxious move” - the official policy of Wizards is to use errata to preserve the original meaning of the card. From a certain point of view, this errata is not changing the card - it is preserving the card by ensuring the modern rules match the original intent.
Compare Winter Orb and Winter Orb. Notice the errata there? All continuous artifacts used to have a rule where if they were tapped, they were turned off. That rule went away… so cards like Winter Orb received errata to include “as long as Winter orb is Untapped” language.
Or every old Wall creature. When they removed the “walls can’t attack” restriction on the subtype, they used functional errata to give all walls Defender.
What happened with Lotus Vale is not weird - it is just how Wizards handles situations like this to preserve the original card even when the underlying rules that card was designed upon change.
SufferFromEDHD on
Shisato! Whispering! Hunter!
5 months ago
I need to slither a Winter Orb into this list for an additional blinkmoth synergy!
Myth Unbound is currently filling the roll of all your suggestions. Clearly I need to trim a playset of pet cards and add 2 ramp/2 draw. Something as simple as Wild Growth?
This month I did a lot of brainstorming around green legends from Kamigawa. Ayumi and Shisato are definitely in a tie for my favorite green commander. This plays like a control deck!
