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Deck Reviews / Re: [EDH / Commander] Mono-Blue: Budget Hakim, the Dream

« on: February 16, 2024, 09:59:36 am »

Revision 2

Added/removed cards:
-1 Aether Tunnel
-1 Aqueous Form
-1 Cloudseeder
-1 Cunning
-1 Eel Umbra
-1 Ghostly Wings
-1 Hedron Archive
-1 Illusionary Armor
-1 Inundate
-1 Mystic Veil
-1 Nezahal, Primal Tide
-1 One With the Wind
-1 Ordeal of Thassa
-1 Robe of Mirrors
-1 Spectral Flight
-1 Tricks of the Trade
+1 Aboshan's Desire
+1 Arcane Signet
+1 Aura Finesse
+1 Aura Graft
+1 Become the Pilot
+1 Castle Vantress
+1 Commander's Sphere
+1 Devastation Tide
+1 Enchantment Alteration
+1 Grafted Identity
+1 Illusory Gains
+1 Mind Stone
+1 Muddle the Mixture
+1 Mystic Sanctuary
+1 Sky Diamond
+1 Sol Ring
+1 The Everflowing Well // The Myriad Pools
+1 Thought Vessel

Changed amounts:
-2 Island

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General Magic / Re: Cards you refuse to use

« on: August 12, 2022, 08:52:06 pm »

I absolutely will not use the absurdly power-crept Modern Horizons Card. The monkey, Murktide Regent, Urza's Saga, Unholy Heat, etc.

Generally I love what the two sets added (Esper vial with Soulherder is probably my favourite deck) but there are some cards that were blatantly designed to be good and sell packs and so I will never purchase those packs or cards as I feel they're bad for the long-term health of eternal formats. This isn't so much a problem for me with a card like Urza that just ended up being an insane combo piece but is more so an issue in my eyes when WOTC just decides to make a one-mana murder for red or gives blue the best two-mana beater there is because they are so obviously going to warp formats and are just designed to say fk the colour pie, buy new packs.

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General Magic / Re: The Collaborative Creative Creature Closet

« on: July 09, 2020, 05:57:41 am »

Decided I might chime in on what I think pretty well encapsulates what oozes are all about


The Inexorable
Trample
Whenever a creature you don't control dies, put X 1/1 counters CARDNAME, where X is that creature's toughness.
{x}, Remove X 1/1 counters from CARDNAME, {t}: Create X X/X green Ooze creature tokens

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Deck Reviews / Re: Questions About Your Magic Mindset?

« on: March 30, 2020, 08:01:04 am »

A few things

• You are correct in playing this deck defensively. It's a deck full of creatures that can't attack and no combos. Not really any other possible way to play the deck if I'm looking at it correctly.
• You don't need 28 lands In a deck with an average cmc of 2.95. I would recommend going down to 25 lands along with including one or two man lands for purposes listed below (I would recommend Celestial Colonnade if you can afford it and Stirring Wildwood if you're working with a budget, which I assume you are due to the lack of untapped duals).
• To go with the last point, the curve of the deck is somewhat awkward. If I were you, I'd replace some of your lands with mana-dorks like Avacyn's Pilgrim, Birds of Paradise, Llanowar Elves, and their ilk. Additionally, I would replace some of the seemingly redundant parts of the deck with the recommendations below (Angelic Chorus, Brave the Sands, and Tower Defense don't really contribute to you winning the game)
• If you don't draw High Alert, or if your opponent destroys it, you have literally no way to win anymore other than your opponents decking themselves. This is a problem. Adding mana-dorks and man-lands can help by giving some small amount of incremental damage without this, but I would additionally add some card draw (Wall of Blossoms and Wall of Omens are great for this) along with protection in the form of countermagic.
• A really good top-end card that's pretty budget-friendly and would help with a number of the issues listed here is Arcades, the Strategist.

Here's an example list I made based on your deck that's still very budget friendly:


Hope this helps.

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Commander Discussion / Re: New Deckbuilding Contest Starting Today!

« on: February 13, 2020, 01:09:08 am »

Revision 2

I Just kind of wanted to make a deck that can complete every achievement by itself without going more than two-colour. (It can technically be done in mono-white, but no other mono-colour)

This deck can complete every achievement.

The hope is that you can draw through your deck and then complete all the achievements once your deck is in your hand.

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Deck Reviews / [Pioneer] Semi-Budget Orzhov Aristocrats

« on: February 07, 2020, 06:44:45 am »

Semi-Budget Orzhov Aristocrats

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Deck Reviews / [Pioneer] DANCE TIL UR DED

« on: February 07, 2020, 06:21:15 am »

DANCE TIL UR DED

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Deck Reviews / Re: In need of Birds - EDH

« on: February 06, 2020, 05:41:02 pm »

a Plains from Mirage

Oop, don't know why I said forest. The plains for Mirage is number 334 I believe
https://scryfall.com/card/mir/334/plains

There are also some in 331, but the birds aren't as obvious
https://scryfall.com/card/mir/331/plains

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Deck Reviews / Re: In need of Birds - EDH

« on: February 06, 2020, 12:30:25 am »

I don't know if you have the basic's set aside for the deck already, but I'm pretty sure these are the only two lands with birds clearly in their art. Just to make the deck 100% birb.

https://scryfall.com/card/inv/350/forest?utm_source=mci

https://scryfall.com/card/roe/234/island?utm_source=mci

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Deck Reviews / [Pioneer] BG Pioneer Scales

« on: February 05, 2020, 05:14:44 pm »

BG Pioneer Scales


Semi-budget, so no thoughtseizes ofc.

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Deck Reviews / [Modern] Ultra-Budget Redcap

« on: January 30, 2020, 06:07:01 pm »

Ultra-Budget Redcap

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Deck Reviews / Re: [EDH / Commander] Dante's Inferno

« on: January 23, 2020, 12:23:37 am »

Recommendation: Purgatory. To represent purgatory.

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Deck Reviews / Re: [EDH / Commander] Updated Spiders

« on: January 20, 2020, 09:03:58 pm »

Revision 4

Added/removed cards:
-1 Disciple of Bolas
+1 Beast Within

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Deck Reviews / [EDH / Commander] Updated Spiders

« on: January 19, 2020, 06:26:11 am »

Updated Spiders

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Deck Reviews / Re: [Pioneer] Pioneer MBC

« on: December 09, 2019, 07:46:12 pm »

With control-based decks I feel that reactiveness of Dark Betrayal provides a greater upside than the ability for Liliana's Defeat to hit black planeswalkers, which barely see any play in the format, especially at a time when the format is so well-dominated by aggro and tempo decks.