EDH Mana Ramp
Commander (EDH) forum
Posted on Feb. 22, 2012, 2 a.m. by revitev
I have been designing a deck called Tutorplasm (http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/tutorplasm-1/). I'm trying to make my mana ramp as fast as possible while not sacrificing the way the deck works in the description.
One first hand I had was: Mystical Tutor, Manalith, Underground River, Drowned Catacomb, Flooded Grove, Dark Ritual, and ExplorationThis allowed me to play Underground River, Dark Ritual, Manalith which tapped to allow me to play Exploration for Flooded Grove which I then tapped to play Mystical Tutor for maybe something like Weird Harvest.
What are more cards that I can add to this deck to keep having these chance hands that let me throw down right away?
Epochalyptik says... #3
Having perfectly synergistic hands like this in EDH is extremely rare because of the improbability of drawing any given card.
Mana ramp in EDH is mostly limited to land accelerators like Kodama's Reach and hard ramp like Extraplanar Lens, Gauntlet of Power, Caged Sun, Keeper of Progenitus, Mana Reflection, Nirkana Revenant, etc. Single-use pool accelerators like Dark Ritual and Seething Song generally don't see play in the format because they're so limited in usefulness.
February 22, 2012 9:12 a.m.
I am looking for things that are not of traditional mana, but more like spells that give me large amounts of mana that I can spend to do the same thing multiple times until I've built up enough for a huge creature on the first few turns.
Exploration, Burgeoning, Dark Ritual, Seething Song, and spells that let me sacrifice creatures for mana. What other sort of mana ramp exists like this? I can and have searched the database for text containing, "add to mana pool" or "additional land" etc. but I am not certain if there are more cards/ways of accomplishing this type of mana ramping.
February 22, 2012 7:09 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #5
Land rate accelerators: Azusa, Lost but Seeking, Rites of Flourishing, Oracle of Mul Daya, Gaea's Touch, Storm Cauldron (lulz), Explore, Summer Bloom
Mana pool accelerators: Burnt Offering/Sacrifice (kind of difficult to use properly), Cabal Ritual, Channel the Suns (only playable in 5-color), Culling the Weak, Desperate Ritual, Geosurge, Infernal Plunge, Inner Fire, Mana Drain/Scattering Stroke, Mana Geyser, Mana Seism, Metamorphosis, Pyretic Ritual, Rain of Filth, [Rite of Flame]], Songs of the Damned, Spoils of Evil
Also, Ashnod's Altar
revitev says... #2
Sorry, I picked random lands out of what I remember having. This one was a bad example as it wouldn't work this way with these lands, but it was intended to illustrate the type of design.
February 22, 2012 2:02 a.m.