TypicalTimmy on Card creation challenge
2 days ago
This'll be for Duskmourn
Well that's terrifying.
Wild
capwner on Azorius Timesifter Prison
2 days ago
Thanks for the suggestions SufferFromEDHD and Bookrook, these are all great ideas and I have in fact considered the hourglass pendant, but all of these have lower mana cost which is a big consideration for this build. I'm trying to focus on high cost cards that can be cast cheaply like Commandeer or cheated out like Academy Rector > Omniscience. Thanks for the suggestions though! If you like the concept perhaps consider leaving an upvote? :D
SufferFromEDHD on Azorius Timesifter Prison
2 days ago
Doh! I hate when I make suggestions that are in the board. Let me redeem myself...
Release to the Wind and Soul Partition janky but on curve with Lavinia and brutal alongside her trigger
Bookrook on Shout out to Caerwyn and …
2 days ago
I was just about to make a post saying the same thing. Thank you mods.
Tsukimi on Shout out to Caerwyn and …
2 days ago
Thank you Caerwyn and other mods. It's wild to see some of the stuff you have to deal with, but just wanted to say your work is super appreciated. Not always easy to find a good community of people online, and on TO we have one in large part due to the work y'all do.
legendofa on Card creation challenge
2 days ago
Sonic Ballista
Sorcery
Sonic Ballista deals 3 damage to each creature target player controls. Goad each creature dealt damage this way.
Create a mysterious hallway.
legendofa on $1 Enchantment EDH. One US …
2 days ago
Balaam__ You could get a few and hand them out at parties. Give 'em to friends, family, random people on the street, anyone you want.
zandl on Card creation challenge
2 days ago
Hive Mindslave
Sorcery
During each player's next turn, that player is controlled by the player to their right.
Exile ~.
god I would just go home at that point haha
Wild.
hiddengibbons on Card creation challenge
2 days ago
Righteous Justice
Instant
Split Second
Counter target black, blue, or red instant spell. If a spell is countered in this way, that spell’s controller can’t cast additional spells this turn.
This has gone far enough!
Create a super complicated spell that is a buzz kill and would cause groans and sighs in a commander game
capwner on Azorius Timesifter Prison
2 days ago
SufferFromEDHD Top is already in here brother, probably the best card in the deck since we're all about Timesifter :) Catastrophe is a good one, that's in my Mono-W versions which is more focused around wrath and indestructibility.
SufferFromEDHD on Azorius Timesifter Prison
2 days ago
Sensei's Divining Top so that Counterbalance can reach its full potential.
Catastrophe Swiss army knife
TypicalTimmy on Card creation challenge
2 days ago
In other words, a non-blue extra turn card? Got it.
Omenpath Reinforcements
Sorcery
This spell costs less for each creature you control.
After this turn, take an extra turn. During that turn, creatures you control have haste and vigilance until end of turn and you may activate up to one Planeswalkers loyalty ability an additional time.
lol nice
See above
zandl on Card creation challenge
2 days ago
Era of Rebuilding
Sorcery
You may only cast this spell if two or more creatures you controlled died last turn.
Create two 1/1 white Human Soldier tokens. You gain 2 life. Take an extra turn after this one.
A white counterspell that fits the color pie.
Mortlocke on The Nobility Are Athirst
2 days ago
pinecone2k3, It's been sometime since your comment - I was more focused on trying to get the deck and deck page in a good place. For the longest time since I bought the precon I always treated the deck as a sort of afterthought, never putting it front and center - until now. The previously mentioned Cliffhaven Vampire and Marauding Blight-Priest seem irrelevant in the face of the new Vampire BFFs Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose and Bloodthirsty Conqueror. And Hall of Heliod's Generosity feels a bit too specific to really make an impact. What do you think of the updated list?
Balaam__ on $1 Enchantment EDH. One US …
2 days ago
I’ve never played a game of EDH. If I ever do, there’s a 99.999% chance I’ll pick one of these ultra budget builds. I imagine the slogan would go something like:
First world fun for Third world prices!
Tsukimi on Card creation challenge
2 days ago
Reflection Rouser
Creature - Dryad Druid
When this creature enters, create a token that is a copy of target creature you control.
At the beginning of your end step, if three or more creatures entered under your control this turn, populate.
2/3
"The Selesnyans refer to it as 'Waking the Reflections.' The rest of Ravnica usually refers to it as "Making a ruckus.'"
Favorite deck is Bant Populate deck, always wished there was a commander with populate in Bant, but in the meantime we have Brenard.
Create a card that allows a player to take an extra turn, but the magic of an extra turn must be represented as something other than time magic. (Like we always see on extra turn cards)
Rincewind23 on Card creation challenge
2 days ago
This one is from SOTR, the new THG novel.
Will of the Gamemakers
Sorcery
Will of the Gamemakers deals X damage to all creatures your opponents control, where X is your devotion to red added to your devotion to black. Exile all creatures that died this way.
I lost the game... the Hunger Games...
design a card for your favourite deck. Also, if you read the flavour text then you are now thinking about the game.
legendofa on Impermanence
2 days ago
On the plus side, Basking Broodscale's gone, and this deck has room to breathe again. On the minus side, it takes Deadly Dispute with it, and Kuldotha Rebirth is gone too. Is it worth it to try to reclaim the Broodscale space?
legendofa on Dead Metal II: Rage
2 days ago
Literally two days after thinking about changes, Kuldotha Rebirth gets itself banned in Pauper thanks to a completely different deck. Awesome. This one's getting put aside for now.
Mortlocke on When and How Did EDH …
2 days ago
I agree with the sentiment that EDH/Commander is popular, but possibly doesn't fit - it is the most popular format by a wide margin. This feels the case anecdotally as from my observations the majority of products made by WOTC are marketed toward Commander players. But in terms of raw numbers, the best I could do was search various terms in google trends. Specifically, "mtg commander", "mtg modern", "mtg legacy", and "mtg standard".
MTG Trends 2004 - Present Show
If someone else has numbers to suggest otherwise, i'd love to see what they bring and discuss. For me, Commander became a thing around 2009 - 2010 as that's where I saw it start as a niche "grass roots" format. But it really started to pick up steam around 2011 when the first Commander decks were released. That's when I started to frequent LGSes to try and learn the game.
I can only speak for myself when it comes to why interest in standard was waning - having to lose tens if not hundreds of dollars because of a format rotation gets old after a period of time. When I was paying attention to standard (circa 2002) it was called "Type 2" and I was dealing with Affinity and the ol' Arcbound Ravager. That thing pretty much dominated the format and made games samey and downright boring sometimes. After that I took a break and picked the game back up when Llorywn dropped, but even then I only played draft.
Thinking about Commander it has everything going for it - all the good stuff of magic: expression of creativity, power (and the curation of it) and diversity minus all of the annoying problems such as meta (if we're excluding cEDH), set rotations, and budgetary constraints (remember: Proxying is Officially Endorsed by Wizards!). It was the professor of Tolarian Community College who opened my eyes to true potential of the format. Deck building can be so much more than cobbling together a pile of draft chaff, or a half baked Slivers deck that you can barely pilot - it can be a form of expression. The embodiment of your fantasy army of which you are the mastermind and your commander is your champion. Once that clicked for me I was hooked; fortunately and unfortunately I know I will be a life long player. Given how greedy Hasbro and by extension WOTC have been in recent years I've been working to try and balance my budget and make careful decisions on when to even think of buying.
Goldberserkerdragon on HELP! I've locked myself out …
2 days ago
Went to rename a deck with a couple imoji's to try it out--to no avail. Now the deck has no name and can no longer be clicked on or accessed.
Any help on how to fix this issue would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Formless0209 on Magar the Horrible
2 days ago
jirkjam Lucky clover only applies to adventure spells, and I don't believe he's running any.
IceMan6468 on Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
2 days ago
Yoif wouldn’t work the way you’re thinking. Trinisphere only ups the amount you have to pay, not the spells converted mana cost as it’s checked on the stack and other zones. If you cast a ponder, you’d pay 3, but still wouldn’t trigger bc the CMC is still 1. The other reason I wouldn’t want this in list even if not the case is now your free spells that are casted alternatively are no longer free.
Shapeshift on Neoform Fleshcrafter Oculus
2 days ago
Yeah you're probably right.
Most times I get smoked in my local tourneys is from combo decks based on triggered abilities so Repudiate I think will be crucial for me.
I also only own 1 flare of denial so need to grab a few more.
What are you thinking? Get rid of 4 consider and maybe add 2 flare and 2 repudiate?
SefTheReject on Bordello of Blood
2 days ago
dee333 I have looked at Bloodletter, but with ripper and conqueror being printed I don’t have room for it. Vito & conqueror work incredibly well together, add ripper and you have threats to deal with immediately or the game is don. Adding Bloodletter would be overkill. Wish I had room for it, has a great effect
Rhadamanthus on Volrath Shapestealer and Enduring Glimmers
2 days ago
Since there don't seem to be any more corrections or follow-ups on this, I have changed the "Accepted answer" to the more accurate one so it will be clear to anyone else in the future who happens to have a question like this and finds this in their search results.
DemonDragonJ on When and How Did EDH …
2 days ago
EDH/Commander is now quite possibly the most popular format in Magic: the Gathering, at this time, but I wonder how, exactly, that occurred, and, just as importantly, when it occurred.
I shall presume that a major reason for EDH becoming as popular as has it the singleton nature of the game, which ensures that no two games are ever exactly the same (except in situations in which a player builds their deck specifically to have a consistent strategy), and the idea of having a legendary creature as the face of the deck is also quite nice, but I also wonder when EDH started to overshadow standard as the most popular format; I imagine that the change did not occur immediately, and likely was a slow and gradual one, but can anyone here determine an exact date when that change began to occur, or a set that helped to start that change? I imagine that the fact that WotC now includes a Commander product with every standard-legal set is a major factor for that change, but it cannot be the only factor, so I certainly am interested to hear what everyone else here has to say, on this matter.
What does everyone else here have to say, on this subject? How and when did EDH become so popular? I certainly am interested in receiving your feedback, on this matter.
DemonDragonJ on Why Do Some Creatures Not …
2 days ago
wallisface, RiotRunner789, those explanations make sense.
RiotRunner789 on Why Do Some Creatures Not …
2 days ago
Having played Lathiel, this would dramatically make the card more powerful. Lathiel already has lifelink and can therefore feed into its ability already. The challenge becomes not having your 2/2 die which becomes less of a problem when it's going to get 10+ counters a turn.
Having something not be able to pump itself is fine, especially if there already a large flying dragon.
wallisface on Why Do Some Creatures Not …
2 days ago
Not every design has to do the same thing. Cards can try different effects, for flavour or just trying a different design direction (or both). Cards shouldn’t all be the same - it’s the differences that make things interesting.
legendofa on Baraton, Reckless Geomancer
2 days ago
Should be "You may play an additional basic Mountain on each of your turns."
AsheliaDaydream on Creatures of the Deep
2 days ago
To do: - swap out cards like Path of Ancestry that are better in more focused typal decks. - fill out remainder of deck
ivaggione on Mana curve not showing on …
2 days ago
Sorry about that, should be fixed. Decks will evenutally update on their own and show the charts, but you can save them once to make it show right now
SufferFromEDHD on (Curse)d spirit manipulation
2 days ago
Read the Runes grossly under utilized in EDH. Spicy in this.
Fatal Grudge running all the sac a permanent as an additional cost spells except my favorite one!
Possibly Strionic Resonator for double Lynde triggers.
DemonDragonJ on Should I Put Genesis Ultimatum …
3 days ago
Does anyone here have any feedback, on this subject?
DemonDragonJ on Battle Hymn of the Seraphim
3 days ago
I have replaced Scourge of the Nobilis with Prosperous Partnership, since I believe that the latter card is generally superior to the former card.
DemonDragonJ on Why Do Some Creatures Not …
3 days ago
The new canopy gargantuan from Tarkir: Dragonstorm can place +1/+1 counters on other creatures, but not on itself, and it is not the only creature that has that restriction, with Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn being another noteworthy example, and I wonder why those creatures have that restriction; the dragon, at least, is a 7/7 creature with flying and ward 2, but Lathiel is very unremarkable without other creatures on the battlefield, and I understand that cooperation is a major aspect of green/white's color identity, both philosophically and mechanically, but I fail to see why Lathiel could not have the ability to place +1/+1 counters on themselves (is Lathiel male or female?). For this reason, I am very glad that both Archangel of Thune and Shalai, Voice of Plenty are able to place +1/+1 counters on themselves, which is a major part of the reason for which I use both of them in many of my decks.
What does everyone else say, about this? Why do certain creatures not place +1/+1 counters on themselves? Would they be too powerful, if they did so? I certainly am very interested to hear your thoughts, on this matter.