Naranga, Fruiting Body

Legendary Creature - Plant Elemental

Creatures with power 2 or less must attack you if possible for as long as you control this creature.

Whenever one or more creatures attack you, for each one choose one: - Gain 1 life. - Put a land card from your hand or graveyard onto the battlefield tapped.

"So many lured to its fruit do not realize that the plant itself is not only carnivorous but sentient."

2/4

Wild

Thwack

Sorcery

Target creature you control deals damage equal to the number of forests in play to target creature you don't control.

"Hit it with a stick!!!"

zandl just have to say, 10/10 card design. I love it.

Repeat!

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.

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)

Master of the Ways

Creature - Demon Monk

Flying, Prowess

Whenever an opponent would draw a card, instead look at the top two cards of their library, you may put one into their graveyard.

5/4

"It delights in mocking every aspect of the Jeskai culture by emulating them"

Create a card with a fun/fresh/new mechanic that excites you

Matriarch of Runes

Creature - Turtle Druid

Whenever a turtle you control is dealt non-lethal damage, you may put a stun counter on it, then note it's remaining toughness. If you put a counter on it this way, draw that many cards. Then put a shield counter on another creature you control.

2/5

"Generations have lived on the matriarch, each cultivating their rune craft into the patterns of her shell"

Create a card that represents using electricity to stimulate the nervous system for a specific result.

Upvote for the name, I will be incorporating this into my vocabulary.

I dont know if you've seen DanDaDan but it gives my the vibe of something Turbo Granny would say.

Herigast, Erupting Nullkite, Laughing Jasper Flint, and Bazaar Trader are just a few that popped out to me as not really helping your Steal and Sac strategy. I'd say you want more sac outlets that can stick around other than your commander, stuff like Viscera Seer or Culling Dais are a few that come to mind.

Great looking list! My friend has a Jon deck centered around relentless rats, and this one looks like like it'd also be difficult to figure out how to play around! Love a deck that makes players approach the game differently. Only think that comes to mind is making sure you're good to go if it comes down to just you and another player's. Pieces like Psychosis Crawler come to mind to help you chip away at life totals in the mean time, and I checked it is below 2$!

Kruphix's Questioning Conundrum

Creature - Sphinx Hydra

Flying

When Kruphix's Questioning Conundrum enters or attacks, each player draws a card.

Whenever a player draws one or more cards and it is not their turn, if this creature is not a token, create a token copy of it. If you create a token this way, you may have it fight target creature.

4/4

"A prophet that proves questions can tell us more than answers"

I imagine the art for this as a hydra with a feline body and each face is a different species/type of creature. I miss fun UG mythics that weren't just value cards.

Make another two colored, nonlegendary, funky lil mythic rare.

Aglecaea, Mother of Nyx

Legendary Enchantment Creature - God

Indestructible

As long as your Devotion to black and blue is less than seven, ~ is not a creature.

Enchantment creatures you control have flying and Undying.

Whenever an Enchantment creature enters for the first time each turn, draw a card.

Whenever you draw three or more cards during another player's turn, exile target creature an opponent controls, and they create a 1/1 blue and black Nightmare Enchantment Creature token.

3/7

"Nyx's grief for its children during the Phyrexian Invasion manifested into Aglecaea, and many turned gods fell at her hands."

Create a white card that encourages everyone at the table to sacrifice creatures.

I'd definitely recommend including some treasure synergy! Each treasure you use is a permanent sac'd that will boost Carmen. Grim Hireling is usually better is decks that go a bit wide, but even if you hit two players I'd say it's already returned your investment. Smothering TitheGC, Treasure Vault, and Pitiless Plunderer, and Warren Soultrader come to mind. There are also cards that give everyone at the table treasures, clues, food, etc. which synergize really well with Carmen.

Ungol, Black Market Mediator

Legendary Creature - Warlock Advisor

Whenever an opponent draws a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, you may draw a card and gain 1 life.

Whenever an opponent sacrifices a token, you may return Ungol, Black Market Mediator from your graveyard to the battlefield.

: Each player creates their choice of either a clue token or a treasure token.

1/4

"Ah so you thought to save yourself the trouble by removing me? My friend, I welcome you to find out first hand just how prepared the Orzhov Syndicate is for people like you!"

Create a high ranking member of the Simic Combine that represents a side of the Simic we haven't seen (aka no +1 +1 counter stuff). It also has to have Advisor as part of their creature type.

legendofa All great suggestions! I had considered all of these when building except Tainted Sigil and Plunge into Darkness. I do like that Tainted Sigil hits all players including us. I am now realizing we can recur it with Sun Titan, Angel of Indemnity so it's definitely going high on the maybelist. Right now if I make cuts it will most likely be for some self mill effects. Thanks for the feedback!

Andramalech Thank you so much for the feedback! I felt similarly about the causal rating until I poked around a bit and realized Crow_Umbra's Isshin deck is somehow sitting around a comparable 90-something percent casual, despite the fact that I am sure it functions on a similar if not higher level than my Betor primer.

The number one unexpected result from building this deck is realizing that lands are actually the best source of self inflicted life loss. Shock lands and pain lands are MVP, and so is Ripples of Undeath. I've been seeking out more strong and cheap mill sources but the deck is already fairly full and RoU sets a high and maybe unfair standard. Glad you enjoyed your playtest!

Voice of Conflict

Legendary Creature - Demon Bard

Flying, Mobilize 2

Whenever a creature you control becomes blocked, the blocking creature's controller loses 1 life.

Whenever an opponent loses life from a noncombat source, you may sacrifice a creature. If you do, that opponent discards a card, and then you each draw a card.

"Do you hear them? The screams, the rage of the unheard? It is the finest music, to hear them raise their weapons."

4/5

Keep thinking lately about how I love Mardu's take on bards and warsingers contributing to battle, couldn't get the idea of a demon bard out of my head.

Show us another unique bard creature, a bard angel, a bard ooze, whatever you desire.

Thanks for the upvotes! If you ever want feedback on a deck just let me know (:

Sheoldred, Ambitious Servant

Legendary Creature - Thrull

When Sheoldred, Ambitious Servant enters, each opponent sacrifices a creature.

: Exile a creature from a graveyard. Sheoldred becomes a copy of the exiled creature except it is a black horror in addition to its other types and gains this ability.

1/2

"So many masters are blind to the ambitions of those beneath them."

Continue with Elesh norn or wild!

Counterpoint, the dog familiar fetching a bone for their necromancer master was so cute it explored a new flavor of mtg I hadn't thought of previously. So secret Lair gives us new opportunities for flavor I enjoy even if I don't enjoy the concept of SL itself.

Also, fwiw mtg is not all just about battle Lore wise. They build some pretty rich worlds where we see all kinds of magic that isn't just combat. I like seeing complexity like that

tonylomas what do you mean by aggressive? Skyclave Apparition is always excellent.

Also, who's your commander/ what's the game plan?