What are good ways in esper to recur your graveyard?
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Posted on June 18, 2015, 10:23 a.m. by Coinman1863
As the title states, what are good ways in esper to recur your graveyard? I have found some ways to get creatures back, but have not found good ways to get the rest of the grave back in one go.
branston567 says... #3
Living Death? board wipe + recursion but it is for both sides so you want to try to empty your opponents graveyard first
June 18, 2015 10:35 a.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #4
Recall can do multiple cards at once, but you have to have a good amount of mana and cards in hand to make it work.
June 18, 2015 10:36 a.m.
Karns_Pyromancer says... #5
Tamiyo, the Moon Sage, Elixir of Immortality, Rise of the Dark Realms; any of this useful?
June 18, 2015 11:33 a.m.
MagicalHacker says... #6
Bribery the green deck for Eternal Witness.
Other than that, the only card that can get literally any card back from the gravy in Esper is Codex Shredder.
Everything else is specific to a type (Sword of Light and Shadow), cmc (Sun Titan), or some other limitation.
June 18, 2015 12:51 p.m.
DeathChant17 says... #8
Cards I use in my esper commander deck,
Creature recursion: Phyrexian Reclamation, Athreos, God of Passage, Purgatory, Reya Dawnbringer, Debtors' Knell.
Artifact and Enchantment Recursion: Nomad Mythmaker, Hanna, Ship's Navigator, Bruna, Light of Alabaster.
June 18, 2015 2:27 p.m.
Sheoldred, Whispering One; Necromancy; Reanimate; Exhume; Animate Dead... probably not what you were searching for but nonetheless quite useful cards
June 18, 2015 5:25 p.m.
There are other ways,too. I forgot about some artifacts I've seen in a Zirilan of the Claw deck recently.Reito Lantern; Erratic Portal; Cold Storage;Tel-Jilad Stylus; Synod Sanctum; Rishadan Pawnshop. Although some of them work more in a way to protect your stuff to not lose it completely, I think they are good options
June 18, 2015 5:31 p.m.
Dreams of the Dead is a really underrated card that can be a powerhouse if you build around it. All you need is a way to blink the creatures your returning.
Other than that it's pretty much: Black returns creatures, Blue returns instants and sorceries, and White returns artifacts and enchantments, so just put your non-creature recursion on creatures (Archaeomancer, Argivian Archaeologist, Auramancer, Hanna, Ship's Navigator, Junk Diver, Myr Retriever, Treasure Hunter, Treasury Thrull, Twilight Shepherd, Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed.)
Countertop says... #2
it depends on the deck, Sharuum the Hegemon is very good for artifacts, but if you're not about that like, you could use stuff like legendary eldrazi to shuffle it back, but I don't think there is anything like Praetor's Counsel in esper
June 18, 2015 10:31 a.m.