The Song of Phyresis

Commander / EDH Mortlocke

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A Song for a A Song... —Sept. 17, 2019

So about a month back I reached out to my good pal Gattison to write a song for this deck - I've just wanted to add some more fun flavor to the deck page and had a blast coming up with some fun Phyrexian inspired lyrics for the deck. I guess i'm showing my age a bit with the reference for the song, but the idea was to get something fun and silly and twist it to fit the purposes of spreading the greatness of Phyrexia. Think of this song as The Lego Movie's Everything is Awesome theme song...but for Phyrexia. Set to the tune of The Banana Split's Opening Theme Song I present to you:

Tra-la-la, la-la-la-la (x4)

One infect, two infect, three infect, four

We are soon to be compleat and entirely pure

Come along and confess your love for Phyrexia too

Better say it quick, or Atraxa will come for you

Makin’ up a mess of fun (x2) Lots of fun for everyone

Tra-la-la, la-la-la-la (x4)

Five infect, six infect, seven infect, eight

Phyrexia's love grows with proliferate

Corrupting Karn's mind while forging a Mirrodin reborn:

Jin-Gitaxis , Vorinclex , Sheoldred and Elesh Norn

We even got Karn's Bastion(x2) We proliferate everyone!

Tra-la-la, la-la-la-la (x4)

Nine infect, ten infect, proliferate more:

Everyone's compleat, cuz' the Colossus made sure

Hey there all Phyrexians, come along and see

Just how many heretics we can make compleat

Mortlocke says... #1

THEDEMIGOD07, "LVL_666 oh no I meant the boxes everything is in. The brownish gray you have with all the text in"

I'm still not sure I follow what you mean buy brownish gray with all the text. Do you mean how I changed the color for the "Edit", "Live Edit", "Upvote" buttons?

August 18, 2019 4:40 p.m.

bushido_man96 says... #2

LVL_666, sorry I'm so long in responding. I've been busy with home/work stuff...

An off-white coloring for the letters might be helpful...I'd have to see it to be sure. It could be just enough to help out.

As for Champion of Lambholt , and what to cut...that's tough. Perhaps Grateful Apparition ? It doesn't fit your Phyresis theme, either, really, and I imagine it eventually gets dealt with. At least with The Champ, it will put counters on itself, and then proliferate can take off. And I imagine you've got enough proliferate triggers in the deck that you wouldn't miss that one.

August 18, 2019 11:41 p.m.

THEDEMIGOD07 says... #3

LVL_666 Page Screen shot What is circled in yellow the transparent boxes

what is circled in red the brownish boxes

I just want to know how thats done, and if that can be obtained by putting a command in the description of the deck while editing.

August 19, 2019 2:51 a.m.

THEDEMIGOD07 says... #4

LVL_666 Here is a link. Doesnt look like the image posted. Screenshot of deck page

August 19, 2019 2:53 a.m.

Mortlocke says... #5

THEDEMIGOD07, "LVL_666 Here is a link. Doesnt look like the image posted"

So, i'm guessing you mean what's in the red circle - the Upvote, deckcycle, etc. buttons? Well. That's simple. So within .btn you can basically target a whole host of attributes. Here's some code along with comments. Have a look. But before we get too far ahead, just FYI - coding on your deck page is a privilege generally reserved for members only on this site. Nobody's really stopping you from coding your page anyway...but it's recommended that you donate. Technically...you're not supposed to be able to run CSS scripts - again, this is a privilege. Not a right. Support the Site if you want to run CSS on your deck pages. Now without further ado, here's some code:

.btn 
{
    background-color: #4D4743; /*color of the button*/
    border-color: #18100C; /*color of the border around the button*/
    color: rgb(182,182,162); text-shadow: 0 0 2px rgb(204, 85, 0); /*color of the text on the button*/
    opacity: 0.7;
    filter:alpha(opacity=80); /*IE transparency*/
}
 
.sidebar .btn:hover 
{ 
    background-color: rgb(204, 85, 0); 
    color: black;
}
 
.sidebar .vote-link:hover 
{
    background-color: rgb(204, 85, 0);
}

if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask.

August 21, 2019 10:04 p.m.

THEDEMIGOD07 says... #6

LVL_666 Ah ok, that makes sense. I have been a member for a while but i don't mind supporting the site. Ive been on it for years lol. Thank you for the help and theword of caution

August 22, 2019 2:17 a.m.

PHATJER says... #7

Wow, this is an amazing deck, very flavorful as well.

I do have a question though. I am very interested in building this deck but Stax is very frowned upon in my playgroup. So I was wondering, what cards do you think would work well in this deck if we remove the Stax cards?

August 26, 2019 2:32 p.m.

Mortlocke says... #8

PHATJER, a shame your playgroup doesn't like Stax :( If anything, this deck relies more on soft locks - nothing like Winter Orb , Static Orb , or Sphere of Resistance ...but I digress. So to make sure we're on the same page, the Stax elements of the deck are 7 cards, specifically:

We cut all the Praetors and the Artifact/Enchantments that synergize with proliferation triggers, what does that leave? Well that opens up slots to dive deeper into the remaining themes of the deck: proliferate, -1/-1 counters, +1/+1 counters, and infect. I'd recommend building out into all three, while still maintaining that sweet sweet vorthos - of course i'm going to suggest Yawgmoth, Thran Physician . To accompany him, the following infect creatures need to be added as well: Necropede , Corpse Cur and Core Prowler to gain more value for Yawgmoth's " Pay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature and draw a card."

So now, that leaves us with 3 slots left. What should we fill those slots with? If you're going for flavor over function there's the very fun Fuel for the Cause . Then you could toss in an additional bomb in the form of Cathars' Crusade . Last, but definitely not least i'd probably toss in Beast Within for a bit more interaction, which never hurts. What's best about the previously mentioned is that it has a New Phyrexia printing which keeps things on flavor. So a quick recap of my suggested replacements:

Alternatively, you could opt for creatures that have more synergy with Yawgmoth, pretty much anything in the archetype of Reassembling Skeleton . That's pretty much all the ideas I could come up with off the top of my head. What do you think? Also, thanks for the +1.

August 27, 2019 8:51 p.m.

PHATJER says... #9

LVL_666 Thank you for responding to my comment. The new cards you suggested will become grrat additions to the deck and will also stay in flavor. I will swap these in to replace the Stax cards. Although after having a talk with my playgroup, I will at least be able to keep Elesh Norm as they feel she isn't as cheap as the others and don't stop them from playing Magic.

Keep on deck brewing, your decks are awesome. :D

August 28, 2019 1:01 a.m.