Blue and White ETB & LTB effects
Commander (EDH) forum
Posted on June 16, 2014, 7:08 p.m. by abenz419
I'm looking for some stuff in blue and white (wow, like the title says lol) with really good "enters the battlefield" and "leaves the battlefield" effects. My commander originally started as Lavinia of the Tenth because it was my first ever EDH deck and that's what I had. I found blink effects to work great with her but she's probably not the greatest commander so I'm gonna switch it up since I now have Ephara, God of the Polis . The deck is incomplete at the moment as I've moved on to other decks since my first as I've learned more, so it doesn't quite have the collection of creatures to fully take advantage of the blink effects since the focus was locking down things with lavinia's detain ability. What I need are some really good creatures in U and W that would be good for this kind of deck. I have quite a bit of ways to blink things in and out so really I'm looking for the creature base that these will support and be able to take advantage (mildly abuse) of. Since I don't have a complete decklist to show you guys, assume I'm starting from scratch. What kind of creatures would you recommend for a U/W deck that wants to take advantage of creatures entering and leaving the battlefield?? Also, I do have ways to blink things like Spine of Ish Sah so I should probably include things that aren't creatures as well in this idea hunt, if you can't think of any that is. I'm really just spit-balling looking for ideas so don't worry if its something I might already have in the original deck or if it's expensive. I want ideas and anything that's too expensive for an immediate investment and I want for the deck will just be something I look toward acquiring whenever I can.
Deadeye Navigator , Flickerwisp , Galepowder Mage , Geist-Honored Monk , Glen Elendra Archmage , Mistmeadow Witch , Palinchron , Peregrine Drake , Phyrexian Metamorph , Restoration Angel , Reveillark , Soul Warden , Sphinx of Uthuun , Sun Titan , Wall of Omens . Mimic Vat , Conjurer's Closet , Strionic Resonator , Rite of Replication . Hope that gets you started.
Also, you might just want to use Roon of the Hidden Realm . He flickers well. I have a blast running the guy.
June 16, 2014 7:37 p.m.
Yeah I know bant is the typical colors for this kind of build, and I may some day do that. For now, I want to keep it U/W because like I said this was my first EDH deck so there is a little nostalgia to it (even though I am making some changes). To be honest the flicker wasn't the original strategy. My friend and I both recently got into EDH at the same time so we played a lot of 1v1. At that time the deck was kind of like a white weenie aggro deck that used lavinia to help punch damage through. Haha, how little we actually knew about EDH deck building then. While talking to some people about my first deck they pointed out how flicker abilities work really well with Lavinia and that's kind of how it came about. I actually plan to leave Lavinia as the secondary commander for those 1v1 games against my friend because he has now since put together a Kallia deck and Lavinia just does more in that matchup. For multiplayer games though I'm going to use Ephara, God of the Polis .
Thanks for all of the suggestions by the way. I already see cards I haven't seen/thought of before so it's a big help.
June 16, 2014 8:09 p.m.
I really like the suggestion of Geist-Honored Monk . The original deck had a few anthem effects, because like I said it was kind of an aggro deck, and being able to pump out tokens with anthem effects on the board would work great. Can you think of any other's like that??
June 16, 2014 8:16 p.m.
Attended Knight , Benthicore , Blade Splicer , Captain of the Watch , Cloudgoat Ranger , Custodi Soulbinders . Uhh... Having trouble thinking of more stuff. Green would have ample effects with stuff like Avenger of Zendikar . They usually do this type of thing a bit better.
June 16, 2014 8:23 p.m.
And yeah, I like Geist-Honored Monk . I had a game last week where I had 7 token copies of her and the original on the field, each as a 19/19. It was pretty nuts.
June 16, 2014 8:24 p.m.
Yeah I know, I can easily see how green would add quite a bit and a Roon of the Hidden Realm deck may be in my future sometime but for now I'm content with just working with U/W right now. It's not usually the first deck I pull out and since I just finished getting the last of the stuff I absolutely needed for my Prossh deck I figured I'd go back to it and put some good work into it.
June 16, 2014 8:32 p.m.
Hjaltrohir says... #9
Mnemonic Wall and Archaeomancer
Green would be really helpful with Avenger of Zendikar and Thragtusk
June 17, 2014 2:11 a.m.
aeonstoremyliver says... #10
Venser, the Sojourner , Suture Priest , Ranger of Eos , Sunblast Angel , Clone , Body Double , Archon of Justice , Silverblade Paladin are a few on top of what's listed.
June 17, 2014 4:05 a.m.
Venser, Shaper Savant is everything you could want for flickering.
June 17, 2014 10:27 p.m.
Indigoindigo says... #12
Have a look at the description on my Roon deck: Blink blink, nudge nudge, there's a lot of cards with ETB-effects categorized by card draw, counterspells, removal, blinking/flicker, etc.
June 18, 2014 4:56 p.m.
Thanks everyone for all the different ideas. They've all helped a lot. Now I just have to figure out which ones have the most synergy together and with the other stuff I already have that can be used in the deck as well.
June 18, 2014 5:17 p.m.
Check out my Brago deck here http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/brago-commander-eternal/
I'm doing really well with it so far. Obviously don't need all of those planeswalkers but I had them so I added them.
flyguy says... #2
Brago, King Eternal . He is ridiculous for this, as I understand.
June 16, 2014 7:22 p.m.