Rev 13:18

Commander / EDH reversemermaid

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2nd update —Jan. 30, 2017

Time Spiral -> Isochron Scepter

The deck only rarely wins with spiral tide, and six mana for a wheel is a lot even if you do get to immediately play rocks and tutors. Scepter is something cute I want to test, we'll see how good imprinting Mana Drain or a Vampiric Tutor is, but the combo with Dramatic Reversal seems solid enough. Any tutor for either top or desire wins the game after going infinite, plus you can Jeleva mill people to death with infinite mana.

lanfeara says... #1

Curious what are your thoughts on Jeleva vs Zur? What made you go with Jeleva and what advantages do you feel she offers over Zur?

I've been kind of flip-flopping and not too sure which to go for. Thanks!

January 17, 2017 11:51 a.m.

reversemermaid says... #2

Jeleva gives me access to red blasts, Wheel of Fortune, Vandalblast and Gamble. Zur's acccess to white offers practically only Angel's Grace for the Nauseam combo and Silence which is pretty much a counterspell. Wheel of Fortune and Gamble are both super powerful cards and I value the red splash over the white one, and as a general Jeleva isn't much worse than Zur. Having Necropotence in your command zone + silver bullets in the form of O-Ring and friends is probably better, but Jeleva is a really good card too. Most of the time you do hit a wheel or a tutor so it's not like playing Jeleva sacrifices card advantage from the command zone for 2 powerful splash cards and then some cute stuff.

I'd say it comes down to preference, in addition to what I wrote above Jeleva does support a "true storm" build better with Mind's Desire and things, and I do find that playstyle more fun.

January 18, 2017 6:06 a.m.

Razawaza says... #3

Have you tried out Isochron Scepter with this kind of build yet? For the combo with Dramatic reversal + rocks?

January 22, 2017 6:23 p.m.

reversemermaid says... #4

I briefly tested it before I did the switch to this slimmer, more rock heavy build and didn't like it there, mostly because both the cards felt bad. In this build with every possible 2cmc rock it could work since Reversal is great with the higher density of rocks, I guess I'll test it again. The thing is the combo doesn't win the game immediately unlike it does with Thrasios or Oona so I've been a little hesitant to just jam it, though it doesn't need that much to just win. Any tutor for Mind's Desire is gg.

And if you go even more jank you could slot back Copy Artifact, imprint Chain of Vapor and use Jeleva to exile your oppnents' decks. It'd probably never be relevant but it would be a 3rd wincon in case I'd get incredibly unlucky with Jeleva flips :P

January 24, 2017 7:08 a.m.