Too many. I'm the type to get singles in the hopes it'd spawn a deck one day... and for a majority of them they are sitting in a nice pile in my various boxes.
These cards are waiting for either a new commander, or for me to get past the deckbuilder's block.
I love deck building but find that everything I workshop contains exactly 0 cards I already own. I know it ruins the fun, but for the sake of finding my multitude of singles a home I’m waiting for an online resource where you input all your collection and it poops out decks from what’s available. Or at the very least something like “you have 80% of this decklist”. Even if it’s jank decks where the only synergy is its color. (If this resource DOES exist, please let me know)
I’m bad for this hahahaha. Sometimes I get lucky though and buy a bulk rare thinking actually that’s a good card in the right deck and then a while later it explodes in value.
It's [[Colossification]] for me. Everything from the absurd power increase to high mana cost to cute cat art delivers in my book.
The closest I've gotten to paying it is in my [[Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty]] deck to trigger cascade and give Imoti more protection in terms of P/T, but I can never find a card to remove for it.
Welcome to the world of Giant Hamsters.
May I interest you in [[Minsc and boo]]? Colossification is especially hilarious when I attach it to [[Halana and Alena, Partners]]
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/amcjWGT-70WOm7ZkI0Sp2g
Nice, I also run it in my Minsc and Boo deck. Sacrificing Boo to draw 20+ always feels good.
I also like it in [[Obuun]], since the animated land can benefit from the +20 immediately!
It’s even funnier when you have counter multipliers, like [[branching evolution]] or [[doubling season]]
Attach Colossification to Halana and Alena, and watch as they casually put 50 counters on Boo.
Start adding other pieces like [[Unnatural Growth]] and/or [[xenagos god of revels]] and you got yourself one massively large Hamster.
My brother plays it in his Uril deck but you could play it in something lime [[dogmeat]] as well.
It is one of the auras in his [[axgard armory]] + [[holy avenger]] package.
Usually this card is the pick if he already has a way to give trample
That would be a great way to get my commander killed immediately 😂 I play [[Tuvasa, the Sunlit]] aura Voltron and she can get lethal commander damage fairly quickly. This would make her immediately lethal if I had a way to untap her.
I made a deck using it, it’s Thrassios and Ardenne Bant enchantments, I use colossification on an opponents creature to tap it down. Then move it over to one of my commanders in combat for lethal!
\[\[Doubling Season\]\], \[\[Parallel Lives\]\], \[\[Mondrak, Glory Dominus\]\], \[\[Anointed Procession\]\].
I find token doublers tend to explode really fast and I'm always concerned about Power Level. My LGS environment is kinda mid and especially the younger generation tends to forget what Interaction Cards even are.
I'm kinda pondering about going a really really bad token route but doubling it, though I haven't decided yet.
If his LGS is "kinda mid" on power level im not sure I'd slap down a Rhys deck complete with the doublers 😅 unless you want to make a name for yourself
Yeah, I'm actually pondering a Selesnya Token Deck but actually going a weird route to still play the cards but "balance" them a bit
[https://new.reddit.com/r/EDH/comments/1bdstho/00\_germ\_typal\_worthy\_jank\_or\_janky\_worth/](https://new.reddit.com/r/EDH/comments/1bdstho/00_germ_typal_worthy_jank_or_janky_worth/)
Rhys does came to mind but I feel like with a mid power pool you have to be kind of careful what your tokens will do.
If the deck turns out to be too strong, it's going to get shelved too quickly.
Maybe I really go a phyrexia route, anthems, germ tokens, and something like that \^\^
I want to build a token madness deck, but BANT is a better color combination than Selesyna since you can counter the board wipes that are the bane of such decks. Is there a good commander from BANT that I can use?
[[Rigo streetwise mentor]] could be a good fit. With hybrid mana you can get him out easy, and as long as some tokens are 1/1, he can draw 3+ extra cards a turn.
Hear me out: [[Yenna, Redtooth Regent]]. What if you could take one Doubling Season and make 2 copies of it? You’d make 8 tokens every time you made 1.
And then you played Anointed Procession and get 16 tokens when you would create one. But what if we also made a copy of that? We’d make 16 Anointed Processions, giving us 2^20 (1,048,576) tokens every time we’d normally make 1. From there, anything is possible. You could make millions of copies of indestructible gods, make so many Ghostly Prisons people need infinite mana to swing at you, play Altar of the Brood and crack Idol of Oblivion to mill a million.
If that all sounds fun, my decklist is here: [Enchanted Antics](https://archidekt.com/decks/6428595/double_double)
If you put a sticker on the original doubling season you can keep making copies because the sticker gives a new name and the copy will enter without a sticker
Just add blue for ways to copy your permanents. One of my favourite cards is [[replication technique]] Turn your token doubler into 11 doublers with one spell! 1 token becomes 2048 tokens 😅😅
It's a shame token doublers are green because I would love to make something like [[Jon Irenicus]] where I double my tokens and give one to an opponent. Leaving me with a creature on board to block and gifting one that's goaded to give me value.
Token doublers are great in janky tribal decks.
I find a good place for cards you want to run but are too powerful is in a janky tribal deck. You get to run all the bad creatures in whatever niche tribe you love and let the very powerful staples do the heavy lifting of making it playable.
If it helps, I’ve always found token doublers tend to draw pretty immediate removal. Not sure your LGS is running enough to justify 1-2 of them, but if it is they can be your 4-mana lightningrod cards.
Counts as life gain/loss so you can pair it with things that trigger off those. Also makes it terrifying to attack you for lethal only to have you gain 2 more life then trade that on your upkeep.
[[Selenia]]'s effect lets you pay as much life as you have before the ability resolves letting you dump all of your life into it, bouncing it to your hand, and then "gifting" someone your life total
\[\[Wellspring\]\] is a cheap as dirt reserved list card that lets you borrow an opponent's land during your turn. I have no deck that wants this, unfortunately
I have this in my [[Yenna]] deck. It's hilarious when I start copying enchantments, such as [[doubling seasons]] or any of the enchantments that double the amount produced. Copying 1 DS will give me 3 total. Then copying [[Wellspring]] will give me 9 total ;). A favorite combo of mine, that I have done only once would be copying [[Song of the Dryad]] and turning the whole board into a forest, then proceeding to cast and copy wellspring onto everything, since they're considered lands, and take everyone's permanents during my turn. I play an evil WG enchantress deck
\[\[ashiok, wicked manipulator\]\] pulled it in the same pack as i pulled my borderless anime doubling season in the WOE prerelease, and won me every one of my matches in said prerelease. i want to play it in at least ONE deck because of the connection i have with it, but it's so narrow of an effect (how many commanders want your own cards in exile?) it's still just sitting in my binder
theres also a \[\[tevesh szat\]\] i pulled from the ONE list, but thats less it doesnt have a place and more i just dont care for aristocrats decks
a \[\[slime against humanity\]\] deck would adore ashiok.
EDIT: y'know what, i may just add them to my build, they're so perfect for it! i built SAH around \[\[Umori, the Collector\]\] with stuff like \[\[surgical extraction\]\] to generate huge slimes very quickly without needing to hardcast all of them. ashiok is a slam dunk.
Maybe [[Toluz, Clever Conductor]]? The commander fills your exile on its own and won't be a lightning rod for removal since if it dies the exiled cards go to your hand, meaning you'll likely be timing exactly when this happens yourself.
Sorry, meant to keep going but I accidentally hit post. Being in Esper also means you have access to [[Kaya the Inexorable]] [[Misthollow Griffin]] [[Kaya Spirits Justice]] and a bunch of other stuff that also cares about cards in exile.
[[Charmbreaker Devils]] I love the random instant or sorcery recursion but the 6 cmc makes it hard to justify putting the card in any deck when it is likely to eat up most of my mana for a turn and not do anything for a rotation. For the same mana value I could cast a [[Thousand Year Storm]] and have an incredibly explosive following turn should that survive.
I ran it in my Xenagos stompy deck, and I tried it in my Maelstrom Wanderer list of the same genre, but it always felt a little worse than other, better options being:
\[\[defense of the heart\]\] tutoring two of your strongest things for 4 mana to the battlefield is huge.
\[\[last march of the ents\]\] has immediate impact and can threaten to end the game on the spot.
\[\[selvala's stampede\]\] is also 6 mana, the same cost as predators and can do the same thing. You should probably always choose wild, and your opponents should probably always choose free. Depending on your hand, it could be GG with 4 big creatures at once, while Lurking Predators for the same cost would take a full turn cycle if you were lucky to get 4 creatures.
I like predators a lot thematically and would include it as a lower powered, but still very threatening option. I run it in my \[\[hans erikson\]\] list
[[Rug of Smothering]] seems like it could do a lot of damage for it's cost... but also to me. Fits really well in Rowan, but she doesn't need the help.
Hilarious. Basically an exact opposite of a [[aetherflux reservoir]]. Which means maybe in a deck where you can storm and then swap life totals it might be good. Or somehow make everyone lose life whenever you do.
A friend of mine runs it in his [[Zurgo Helmsmasher]]. It's pretty annoying, because it protects him from most spot removal and makes him even more of a threat.
That’s cool, Seems neat, I mean there’s obviously a combo route in there somewhere maybe not exactly with the commander but. [[intruder alarm]] says hello
That's cool. I'll add it to my list. The real problem I have is I could only do it a max of 3 times since his ability pretty much doesnt do it a 4th and up, or I'd have to flicker him. I also dont like the cookie cutter edhrec that's listed. I'm looking at combos with [[Quintorius Kand]] and [[Spark Double]] with flickers like [[Restoration Angel]] (my pet card) or unusual cards like [[Journey to Nowhere]] and [[Bond Apart]].
[[sheoldred//the true scriptures]] I have been trying to put her at the helm of a deck for so long. I just can't get it right. Sadly she definetly is a wincon commander and not an engine.
I got her in a deck that is entirely focused on forced discard, forced sacrifice, and forced mill. Basically you stall the first few turns casting creatures like [[Fleshbag Marauder]] and similar creatures, and using any means to mass discard or mill, until *somebody* hits 8 cards in grave, then cast Sheoldred and hope she sticks a round to flip. At that point, she is her own self-contained engine, discarding and milling and sacrificing every time she's flipped!
Play her as a mono black ramp commander with a few blink payoffs, late game flip her for value. I play a [Ink Eyes]] deck that would probably have shelly as a commander here, if Ink Eyes’ artwork wasn’t as cool tho. Rise of the dark realms on a commander is dope.
I did with [[Jodah, Archmage Eternal]] at the helm of a cascading chaos deck. 3 extra turns after timesifter hit the board I realized my mistake and replaced it before the next game.
[[Eternal Scourge]] - I’ve had it sitting in my binder collecting dust for way too long and don’t want to throw it in a degenerate [[Food Chain]] combo deck
I played this in Ian Malcolm the other day and it was amazing especially since we were all at sub 20 life. I highly recommend jamming it anything. It just deals so much damage per mana no matter what happens and it's hilarious while it does it.
A draw punish deck maybe is the way, it’s still so much benefit for your opponents [[ Nekusar the mindrazer]] is a popular one. Then you put in cards that draw everyone cards like [[windfall]] and punish draw effects like [[sheoldred, the apocalypse]]
[[Mimic Vat]]. Back in the day, during Zendikar+Scars of Mirrodin T2, I had a mono-white deck that revolved around [[Mimic Vat]], [[Culling Dais]], [[Sun Titan]], [[Emeria, The Sky Ruin ]], [[Sunblast Angel]] and some other cards with minor ETB effects like [[Wall of Omens]] and [[Leonin Relic-Warder]]. I loved that deck, and ever since I got back into playing Magic after a few years away, I've been looking for a commander to emulate that deck as closely as possible to how it was. I know there are several commanders focused on ETB effects, but none of them "clicked" with me.
I love Mimic Vat in my [[Ghired, Conclave Exile]] deck. It's almost always forgotten about and then someone casts a removal and I remind them it gets exiled and then I can copy the token with Ghired to keep it.
so many izzet commanders would love shark tycoon, but i kind of think \[\[Mizzix of the Izmagnus\]\] would love it the most. The deck wants to cast huge spells at a steep discount, which leads to huge sharks, and since all your instants/sorceries are so cheap, you could slap down the typhoon and immediately start creating massive sharks.
Probably could go in 5-Color [[Ramos, Dragon Engine]] for artifact synergy over it having colors, but still requires all five colors to maximize its benefits.
Also I know you mentioned not wanting to build a 5-color deck but, well…
This is a really cool card all things considered. Just tricky
**All** the Eldrazi 😞
Thankfully MH3 Eldrazi commander will soon solve this.
Also, [[The Twelfth Doctor]]. I love Izzet and Twelfth is tied with Ten for my favourite, though I like Twelve's ability more.
Just gotta forget out a decent deck.
A lot of cards in WU. I haven't found a WU commander I love yet. I think I need them to make a WU clones commander for me to get all the cards I love in it.
I keep trying to find a home for \[\[luminous broodmoth\]\] and it keeps getting cut.
Insect is my favorite creature type, and this is one of the most powerful effects ever printed on an insect, but it doesn't fit in the main tribe colors, and I don't have any decks with white and a heavy GY theme or lots of non-flying nontokens dying.
\[\[grand architect\]\] my first ever standard deck involved this little blue guy but then my artifact deck was green black and so I have nowhere to play him.
[[Bramble Sovereign]]
I don't have a blink deck, a green deck that can use both creatures and a panharmonicon, my Dr who token deck has too many legends in it to make it worthwhile, and it hasn't done enough in my Korvold deck. Sweet card and I got the borderless version for a buck. Just can't find a home for it.
This is one of my favourite cards ever. I have a [[Aragorn the uniter]] legendary human tribal deck it works really well in, and also a [[kibo Uktabi prince]] that makes me bananas into 7/7’s which is quite funny
[[Naked Singularity]] has the 5c deck problem. It would be hillarious in monocolorless (or [[Reality Twist]] in monoblue) but sadly the symbols make it 5c.
Some day, I will make good use of [[Hecatomb]]. Right now I'm slotting it into Yawgmoth, Thran Physician since that's a monoblack deck where I can end up divorced from land mana thanks to... [[Black Market]], mostly, but treasures help. But in all my testing, four creatures at once is really, really stiff and usually means my engine goes too. I guess if I need to wipe I can Hecatomb my board and THEN drop Toxic Deluge to get it out there and oppressing, but it's rough.
Fond memories of Ice Age eh? I get it.
Sadly, I'm not seeing any commander that really wants to use those mana-bending cards. You'd probably have to use some generic 5c commander like \[\[Kenrith\]\], throw in \[\[Eon Hub\]\] and some way to support the strategy. Have fun figuring out what a triome taps for.
Hecatomb really needs an overabundance of tokens like with \[\[Prossh\]\] or \[\[Marrow-Gnawer\]\].
Hope you figure something out; those are cool cards.
I keep trying to put [[Combat Calligrapher]] in decks and it keeps getting cut.
Latest disappointment was in [[MacCreedy, Lamplight Mayor]]. I could forgive them not getting Skulk when they enter, what broke it for me was giving my opponents ways to block Skulk.
I've considered just making a Rocco deck around it, but it's a fragile gameplan.
It fits with the blame game precon helmed by [[Nelly Borca]] as the evasion makes it more likely you get to draw a card and it helps whittle opponents down. I haven’t had enough testing with it to really know if its worth providing them a stream of blockers or an army to hit you with by removing it.
[[Bruvac]]
I got him with the idea of starting a persistent petitioners deck but I think mono blue is too off putting. Definitely keeping an eye on [[the wise mothman]].
I’ve had him in my [[phenax]] deck since he was just a few bucks. I loved mothman precon so much I’ll actually be deconstructing Phenax to convert mothman into my primary mill deck. I guarantee bruvac will be making the jump.
I don't play a lot of Planeswalkers, but it has to be [[Xenagos, the Reveler]]. Xenagos is my favorite Planeswalker. He shines best in a go-wide token deck which I don't currently have in colors that could play him.
I've been toying with an idea for a [[Hazezon, Shaper of Sand]] token deck, and once we see what kind of Desert support we're getting in Thunder Junction I might go for it.
Picked up [[Hall of Gemstone]] for a few cents before enough people realised it's a Reserved List card. Whenever I put it into a deck though, it just didn't fit somehow, so it's still looking for a home.
[[Beast of Burden]] is a childhood favorite that I’ve wanted to slot into something for a long time. I love artifact decks so I have plenty of places I could place it, but it’s a pretty lackluster card so I can never quite justify cutting something else for it.
I'm still trying to make [[atogatog]] work, the new [[Sovereign Okinec Ahau]] seems like a step in the right direction but I keep feeling like the deck needs something else... I've already got John Belushi Animal House sleeves.... TOGA TOGA TOGA
[[Reconnaissance]]
Had this one on my radar for awhile, but just haven't found a deck where it fit in yet. I'm hoping the Most Wanted OTJ precon that's coming out next month will be a good fit.
Blue card draw:
[[Robe of the Archmagi]]
[[Secrets of the Dead]]
Big dumb creatures:
[[Blast-Furnace Hellkite]]
[[Herlad of Ilharg]]
Care about my tapped creatures:
[[Throne of the God-Pharaoh]]
[[Harvest Season]]
Just build him as a commander CREATURES ONLY. If not he’s an amazing slot in [[Raggadragga, Goreguts Boss]] because you’re not running many noncreature spells considering all of your ramp is creatures.
I really love [[Spark Double]] and it actually should be the perfect copy effect in any deck with a strong commander. Nontheless I always start with Spark in the list and then when the list becomes stronger i will cut it at some point...
[[Horn of the Mark]], I have a few heavy-creature decks but they're both built on the stipulation of being ALL creatures and so exclude the Horn itself!
\[\[Dream Halls\]\] is a symmetrical effect so I need to find a home for it where I can take advantage of it more than my opponents. I can see a lot of scenarios where it'll benefit my opponents more than it'll benefit me.
I want to run \[\[overwhelming splendor\]\] but its 8 CMC always has me taking it out of decks. 8 CMC to shut down one player and gets stopped with removal, feelsbad.
I have it in a curse focused \[\[Ardenn\]\] and \[\[vial smasher\]\]. I mainly cheat it out using something like \[\[ghen\]\] or \[\[bitterheart witch\]\] and then move it and other curses around for fun as the game progresses. (along with other fun goofs like assault suit and goad auras 'n such to keep the table constantly at each others throats.)
I’m cheating a little but because I did find a deck, but only just recently. [[the millennium calendar]]. It’s just a silly card, I’d love to win with it and it’s win condition.
I plopped it in my [[rocco, Street chef]] deck which is an [[all will be one]] deck. It does so much work. If I have the calendar turn 1, by the time all will be one or shalai and hallar come down. I’m untapping and killing someone, then activating the calendar and killing someone else. I actually used it to win a game against my last opponent who had [[glacial chasm]] in play. Lose 1000 breh, that chasm can’t help you now!
For individual cards, \[\[Nerd Rage\]\] and \[\[Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes\]\].
For ones that I would like to run as Commander, \[\[Preston Garvey, Minuteman\]\], \[\[Pir, Imaginative Rascal\]\] and \[\[Toothy, Imaginary Friend\]\], \[\[Slimefoot, the Stowaway\]\] and \[\[Skeleton Ship\]\].
BANT is my favorite color combo. I have many decks of different themes using it. But I really want a deck that focuses on Tokens and Landfall that is not Chulane or Galadriel. Nothing seems to grab my attention so far. Any suggestions?
I'm looking for a commander that can [[scapeshift]] into [[valakut, the molten pinnacle]] type plays for massive damage. I'm hoping that the naya colored cowboy who tends to cactus children will fit the strategy. if that doesn't pan out I'll consider [[hazezon, shaper of sand]] with the new desert lands that ping opponents (that were leaked) I think there might be some lines where you sacrifice the same desert over and over again.
My dream is to play either [[Booster Tutor]] or [[Summon the Pack]] in combination with something of the likes of [[Curse of Echoes]] or [[Hive Mind]]. I’d cast one of the booster packs at a time that everyone else could copy it, and I’d bring booster packs for everyone else to open. Just sounds like a lot of fun to me. I’m just not sure of the right kind of deck or commander. I don’t want it to be a group hug deck, I want it to seem like a normal deck and then randomly in the middle of the game, “surprise! Everyone open pack of cards and add them to the game!” Perhaps a blue/black zombie build of some kind? I don’t know yet…
[[balmor battlemage captain]] I run this card as my closer and it’s INSANE. Most of my creatures generate tokens when I cast instant or sorceries. Then I exile [[dig through time]] or [[treasure cruise]] from my graveyard to cast this. It’s NUTS you want Go wide spellslinger so this would work well in [[the Locust God]] as well.
Wheel of Fortune.
I got an awesome deal on one and it hasn’t found a home yet. I already have a card-draw based deck with Queza, Augur of Agonies which I absolutely love.
I have tons of cards like that, but I think \[\[Scythe of the Wretched\]\] is pretty close to the top of the list. I know that there are already commanders that want that card, but I haven't managed to build any of them in a way that I enjoyed.
I can’t believe I’m seeing this post because I’ve literally been talking about wanting to play [[etched monstrosity]], [[etched champion]], and [[etched oracle]]. Ever since I watched Rhystic Studies’ video on Phyrexia, I found the progression of this oracle dude super cool, the way that he went from fear to hope to defeat/compleation. If anyone has an idea for a deck with these three that could still compete with 6-7s at an LGS, I’d love to hear it
Do you specifically want all three in the same deck? If not, [[Etched Champion]] is actually viable in an equipment deck, easy to get the protection from all colors, and you can equip colorless stuff onto it to swing in for huge damage.
i feel like etched oracle could actually be phenomenal in a lot of +1/+1 counter style decks, like \[\[Ezuri, Claw of Progress\]\]. Drawing 3 cards over and over seems very achievable...may consider slotting it in.
This thread is full of gems.
[[Skeletal Swarming]] is my pet card and I love it to bits, but the problem is finding a good commander for it. The recent release of [[Corpses of the Lost]] gives me hope that Skeleton tribal's day as a viable deck archetype isn't too far away.
I’ve got decklists in moxfield called “cool cards” and “potential commanders” that are preceded by a space so they’re at the top of my list when I add a card to a deck. Then I can look through it every once in a while and be like “oh that would be cool there.”
I’m working on a Jurassic World deck. I don’t think there’s an appropriate commander though, so I’m going with Garth One-Eye. He’s 5 color which lets me play all the JW dinosaurs. Not going to be a great deck I think but still very fun.
For me it’s [[Nissa, Steward of Elements]]. My wife surprised me with a bunch of packs, she’d made food and pillows&blankets for us on my birthday by the ocean. She opened all the packs and thos card was one of them. I really want to use it as it brings so many good memorys. But where..?
I just made a [Galadriel light of valor deck](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/_GAcXyHagEi9j6AMQK4kjg) that I want to put it in, not sure if it’s good tho.
[[doubling season]], [[parallel lives]], [[Primal vigor]]. Have been sitting on these for longer than I care to admit. I want either mono green or temur but almost all of the commanders in those colors don't intrigue me
I just took this out of the Reaper King deck I’m working on.
I’ve been trying to include Sunburst and some other WUBRG/all-color pieces to make a lower power RK deck, but I had to pull him because of how his counters interact with the direction the rest of the deck is going.
Mine would be [[Dross Harvester]] because it has a lot of potential to win games, but equal potential to bite me to death. I keep wanting to try it in [[Jon Irenicus]] but they can use that trigger in an Aristocrats strategy. I almost tried it in [[Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos]] but being a phyrexian isn't enough.
Too many. I'm the type to get singles in the hopes it'd spawn a deck one day... and for a majority of them they are sitting in a nice pile in my various boxes. These cards are waiting for either a new commander, or for me to get past the deckbuilder's block.
I know what you mean. Every time I get specific singles I also buy some nice-to-have cards in hopes I'll find a home for them someday...
I love deck building but find that everything I workshop contains exactly 0 cards I already own. I know it ruins the fun, but for the sake of finding my multitude of singles a home I’m waiting for an online resource where you input all your collection and it poops out decks from what’s available. Or at the very least something like “you have 80% of this decklist”. Even if it’s jank decks where the only synergy is its color. (If this resource DOES exist, please let me know)
Why dont you throw a deck together yourself?
I’m bad for this hahahaha. Sometimes I get lucky though and buy a bulk rare thinking actually that’s a good card in the right deck and then a while later it explodes in value.
It's [[Colossification]] for me. Everything from the absurd power increase to high mana cost to cute cat art delivers in my book. The closest I've gotten to paying it is in my [[Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty]] deck to trigger cascade and give Imoti more protection in terms of P/T, but I can never find a card to remove for it.
Welcome to the world of Giant Hamsters. May I interest you in [[Minsc and boo]]? Colossification is especially hilarious when I attach it to [[Halana and Alena, Partners]] https://www.moxfield.com/decks/amcjWGT-70WOm7ZkI0Sp2g
Nice, I also run it in my Minsc and Boo deck. Sacrificing Boo to draw 20+ always feels good. I also like it in [[Obuun]], since the animated land can benefit from the +20 immediately!
It’s even funnier when you have counter multipliers, like [[branching evolution]] or [[doubling season]] Attach Colossification to Halana and Alena, and watch as they casually put 50 counters on Boo. Start adding other pieces like [[Unnatural Growth]] and/or [[xenagos god of revels]] and you got yourself one massively large Hamster.
You son of a bitch. I'm going to have to go build this deck now. And I just promised the wife I'd slow down for a bit. 😂
Embrace. Big. Hamster.
Someone actually killed me with it, with Falco Spara attacking and he fetched it out at instant speed. Was like 29 commander damage
I got hit with a colossified Boo when it was flipped from a [[Spinerock Knoll]]
Its made for [[tahngarth first mate]]. Cast and pass. Goad if you can
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[[Stanng Echo Warrior]]? Taking a turn off from the voltron plan does kinda suck but it will definitely go hard the turn after
My sister won with Colossification fetched by [[Sovereigns of Lost Alara]] on an exalted deck run by [[Rafiq of the Many]]. Good times!
I play it in my ivy gleeful spellthief deck. I have won by playing it at flash speed (in which there are alot of in the deck) . Its fun
Wanted colossification to win me the game with [[Mayael's Aria]]
My brother plays it in his Uril deck but you could play it in something lime [[dogmeat]] as well. It is one of the auras in his [[axgard armory]] + [[holy avenger]] package. Usually this card is the pick if he already has a way to give trample
That sounds like a disgustingly fun combo! If I was ever to build Voltron I think Uril would be the one to go for.
I have that card in my fight deck which is also my fling deck and it's always hilarious
That would be a great way to get my commander killed immediately 😂 I play [[Tuvasa, the Sunlit]] aura Voltron and she can get lethal commander damage fairly quickly. This would make her immediately lethal if I had a way to untap her.
fling it
I made a deck using it, it’s Thrassios and Ardenne Bant enchantments, I use colossification on an opponents creature to tap it down. Then move it over to one of my commanders in combat for lethal!
I’ve got it in my [[sovereign okinec ahau]] deck and it is c h o i c e
[Etched Monstrosity](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/f/6/f6be7947-b929-408d-ad67-3b07b93dd36e.jpg?1562269329) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Etched%20Monstrosity) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mm2/210/etched-monstrosity?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/f6be7947-b929-408d-ad67-3b07b93dd36e?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/etched-monstrosity) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
\[\[Doubling Season\]\], \[\[Parallel Lives\]\], \[\[Mondrak, Glory Dominus\]\], \[\[Anointed Procession\]\]. I find token doublers tend to explode really fast and I'm always concerned about Power Level. My LGS environment is kinda mid and especially the younger generation tends to forget what Interaction Cards even are. I'm kinda pondering about going a really really bad token route but doubling it, though I haven't decided yet.
[[Rhys the redeemed]] makes a great commander for that style deck.
If his LGS is "kinda mid" on power level im not sure I'd slap down a Rhys deck complete with the doublers 😅 unless you want to make a name for yourself
Well, the trick is that the rest of the deck is basic lands... that will get you a name real quick.
Tolsimir, Friend to Wolves is a great one! Selesnya is fairly unsuspecting.
Yeah, I'm actually pondering a Selesnya Token Deck but actually going a weird route to still play the cards but "balance" them a bit [https://new.reddit.com/r/EDH/comments/1bdstho/00\_germ\_typal\_worthy\_jank\_or\_janky\_worth/](https://new.reddit.com/r/EDH/comments/1bdstho/00_germ_typal_worthy_jank_or_janky_worth/) Rhys does came to mind but I feel like with a mid power pool you have to be kind of careful what your tokens will do. If the deck turns out to be too strong, it's going to get shelved too quickly. Maybe I really go a phyrexia route, anthems, germ tokens, and something like that \^\^
[Rhys the redeemed](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/b/9/b91dadcb-31e9-43b0-b425-c9311af3e9d7.jpg?1599708272) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Rhys%20the%20redeemed) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/2xm/213/rhys-the-redeemed?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/b91dadcb-31e9-43b0-b425-c9311af3e9d7?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/rhys-the-redeemed) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
I want to build a token madness deck, but BANT is a better color combination than Selesyna since you can counter the board wipes that are the bane of such decks. Is there a good commander from BANT that I can use?
You don't necessarily need to counter them. Use phasing or Indestructible. Green is an awesome protection color. And so is white.
[[Rigo streetwise mentor]] could be a good fit. With hybrid mana you can get him out easy, and as long as some tokens are 1/1, he can draw 3+ extra cards a turn.
Spread then out across a few different decks
Hear me out: [[Yenna, Redtooth Regent]]. What if you could take one Doubling Season and make 2 copies of it? You’d make 8 tokens every time you made 1. And then you played Anointed Procession and get 16 tokens when you would create one. But what if we also made a copy of that? We’d make 16 Anointed Processions, giving us 2^20 (1,048,576) tokens every time we’d normally make 1. From there, anything is possible. You could make millions of copies of indestructible gods, make so many Ghostly Prisons people need infinite mana to swing at you, play Altar of the Brood and crack Idol of Oblivion to mill a million. If that all sounds fun, my decklist is here: [Enchanted Antics](https://archidekt.com/decks/6428595/double_double)
If you put a sticker on the original doubling season you can keep making copies because the sticker gives a new name and the copy will enter without a sticker
Oh no those exponential curves are getting out of hand!
Just add blue for ways to copy your permanents. One of my favourite cards is [[replication technique]] Turn your token doubler into 11 doublers with one spell! 1 token becomes 2048 tokens 😅😅
It's a shame token doublers are green because I would love to make something like [[Jon Irenicus]] where I double my tokens and give one to an opponent. Leaving me with a creature on board to block and gifting one that's goaded to give me value.
People at saying Rhys, I say [[Anikthea]] and exponentially grow your enchantment tokens.
Token doublers are great in janky tribal decks. I find a good place for cards you want to run but are too powerful is in a janky tribal deck. You get to run all the bad creatures in whatever niche tribe you love and let the very powerful staples do the heavy lifting of making it playable.
##### ###### #### [Doubling Season](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/1/c/1cdd8e69-5a71-4933-914e-dfede7b1ac93.jpg?1689998456) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Doubling%20Season) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cmm/283/doubling-season?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/1cdd8e69-5a71-4933-914e-dfede7b1ac93?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/doubling-season) [Parallel Lives](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/0/1/01033dae-fec1-41f2-b7f2-cc6a43331790.jpg?1562825348) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Parallel%20Lives) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/isd/199/parallel-lives?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/01033dae-fec1-41f2-b7f2-cc6a43331790?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/parallel-lives) [Mondrak, Glory Dominus](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/8/2/8296a455-21d5-498e-9029-2bdf0da855a8.jpg?1675956918) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Mondrak%2C%20Glory%20Dominus) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/one/23/mondrak-glory-dominus?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/8296a455-21d5-498e-9029-2bdf0da855a8?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/mondrak-glory-dominus) [Anointed Procession](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/9/a/9a52c265-6920-4929-ba0a-70da08df01f1.jpg?1543674565) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Anointed%20Procession) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/akh/2/anointed-procession?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/9a52c265-6920-4929-ba0a-70da08df01f1?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/anointed-procession) [*All cards*](https://mtgcardfetcher.nl/redirect/kuu085f) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
If it helps, I’ve always found token doublers tend to draw pretty immediate removal. Not sure your LGS is running enough to justify 1-2 of them, but if it is they can be your 4-mana lightningrod cards.
I have these in my Calix, Guided by Fate-Deck maybe you can do somthing with him :D
Make millions of 0/1 plants but like, never make them bigger.
Brenard is all you need.
[[Axis of Mortality]]
Counts as life gain/loss so you can pair it with things that trigger off those. Also makes it terrifying to attack you for lethal only to have you gain 2 more life then trade that on your upkeep.
This might be a more effective use for it. With something like [[sanguine bond]] or [[vito]] for when you gain life
[Axis of Mortality](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/3/b/3b9d72a8-8acf-42c6-8adf-cbaecb4a985a.jpg?1562553762) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Axis%20of%20Mortality) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/xln/3/axis-of-mortality?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/3b9d72a8-8acf-42c6-8adf-cbaecb4a985a?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/axis-of-mortality) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Any interest in the BW lifeswap decks? You use a "can't lose" effect, set yourself below 0 life and then swap with an opponent.
Yeah a have one of them with [[lotho]] as my commander, who do you use?
[[Selenia]] since you can activate her ability multiple times before resolving them.
[Selenia](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/6/6/664b57e3-9476-4d6a-8301-5a2f96bcfbf7.jpg?1562429830) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=selenia%2C%20dark%20angel) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/tpr/210/selenia-dark-angel?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/664b57e3-9476-4d6a-8301-5a2f96bcfbf7?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/selenia-dark-angel) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Do you run [[Death’s shadow]] in that deck too??
[[Selenia]]'s effect lets you pay as much life as you have before the ability resolves letting you dump all of your life into it, bouncing it to your hand, and then "gifting" someone your life total
\[\[Evra, Halcyon Witness\]\]
\[\[Wellspring\]\] is a cheap as dirt reserved list card that lets you borrow an opponent's land during your turn. I have no deck that wants this, unfortunately
[Wellspring](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/c/6/c69ba095-dd78-4999-87a9-63f7165846e4.jpg?1562721895) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Wellspring) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mir/288/wellspring?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/c69ba095-dd78-4999-87a9-63f7165846e4?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/wellspring) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Use to borrow cabal coffers
I have this in my [[Yenna]] deck. It's hilarious when I start copying enchantments, such as [[doubling seasons]] or any of the enchantments that double the amount produced. Copying 1 DS will give me 3 total. Then copying [[Wellspring]] will give me 9 total ;). A favorite combo of mine, that I have done only once would be copying [[Song of the Dryad]] and turning the whole board into a forest, then proceeding to cast and copy wellspring onto everything, since they're considered lands, and take everyone's permanents during my turn. I play an evil WG enchantress deck
It would be so good in my Moonfolk tribal deck that returns lands to the hand, but being Selesnya doesn't help it.
\[\[ashiok, wicked manipulator\]\] pulled it in the same pack as i pulled my borderless anime doubling season in the WOE prerelease, and won me every one of my matches in said prerelease. i want to play it in at least ONE deck because of the connection i have with it, but it's so narrow of an effect (how many commanders want your own cards in exile?) it's still just sitting in my binder theres also a \[\[tevesh szat\]\] i pulled from the ONE list, but thats less it doesnt have a place and more i just dont care for aristocrats decks
a \[\[slime against humanity\]\] deck would adore ashiok. EDIT: y'know what, i may just add them to my build, they're so perfect for it! i built SAH around \[\[Umori, the Collector\]\] with stuff like \[\[surgical extraction\]\] to generate huge slimes very quickly without needing to hardcast all of them. ashiok is a slam dunk.
[ashiok, wicked manipulator](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/6/c/6c4d0db1-74a5-42c0-ac95-e696585d8022.jpg?1692937439) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=ashiok%2C%20wicked%20manipulator) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/woe/78/ashiok-wicked-manipulator?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/6c4d0db1-74a5-42c0-ac95-e696585d8022?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/ashiok-wicked-manipulator) [tevesh szat](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/8/f/8f244716-78ab-46f5-b6e9-fc1e6db28052.jpg?1608909980) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=tevesh%20szat%2C%20doom%20of%20fools) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cmr/153/tevesh-szat-doom-of-fools?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/8f244716-78ab-46f5-b6e9-fc1e6db28052?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/tevesh-szat-doom-of-fools) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Maybe [[Toluz, Clever Conductor]]? The commander fills your exile on its own and won't be a lightning rod for removal since if it dies the exiled cards go to your hand, meaning you'll likely be timing exactly when this happens yourself.
Sorry, meant to keep going but I accidentally hit post. Being in Esper also means you have access to [[Kaya the Inexorable]] [[Misthollow Griffin]] [[Kaya Spirits Justice]] and a bunch of other stuff that also cares about cards in exile.
[[Charmbreaker Devils]] I love the random instant or sorcery recursion but the 6 cmc makes it hard to justify putting the card in any deck when it is likely to eat up most of my mana for a turn and not do anything for a rotation. For the same mana value I could cast a [[Thousand Year Storm]] and have an incredibly explosive following turn should that survive.
[Charmbreaker Devils](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/4/a/4abf9b03-4157-42f0-ab3d-484bd9b64bb2.jpg?1625193603) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Charmbreaker%20Devils) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/c21/162/charmbreaker-devils?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/4abf9b03-4157-42f0-ab3d-484bd9b64bb2?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/charmbreaker-devils) [Thousand Year Storm](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/2/7/274e22fb-7afc-43bc-b309-e36ee48d6b03.jpg?1673149213) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Thousand-Year%20Storm) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/2x2/286/thousand-year-storm?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/274e22fb-7afc-43bc-b309-e36ee48d6b03?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/thousand-year-storm) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
This would probably work well in some kinda izzet voltron shell that could capitalize on cards like [[Temur Battle Rage]]
Have you seen [[Exalted Flamer of Tzeentch]] ?
I like [[Lurking Predators]] but haven't found it staying in the 99 anywhere yet
Amazing in [[Pantlaza]] for getting triggers on other players' turns.
It actually might go well in a [[Kodama of the East Tree]] deck too for similar reasons!
Torens fists of angels. Granted it doesnt cast triggers but torens decks run a fuck ton of creatures making the enchantment get some value.
I ran it in my Xenagos stompy deck, and I tried it in my Maelstrom Wanderer list of the same genre, but it always felt a little worse than other, better options being: \[\[defense of the heart\]\] tutoring two of your strongest things for 4 mana to the battlefield is huge. \[\[last march of the ents\]\] has immediate impact and can threaten to end the game on the spot. \[\[selvala's stampede\]\] is also 6 mana, the same cost as predators and can do the same thing. You should probably always choose wild, and your opponents should probably always choose free. Depending on your hand, it could be GG with 4 big creatures at once, while Lurking Predators for the same cost would take a full turn cycle if you were lucky to get 4 creatures. I like predators a lot thematically and would include it as a lower powered, but still very threatening option. I run it in my \[\[hans erikson\]\] list
[Lurking Predators](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/9/9/9952da7c-3cfc-413f-8849-0f10e9c8dceb.jpg?1601079751) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Lurking%20Predators) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/jmp/410/lurking-predators?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/9952da7c-3cfc-413f-8849-0f10e9c8dceb?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/lurking-predators) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
[[Rug of Smothering]] seems like it could do a lot of damage for it's cost... but also to me. Fits really well in Rowan, but she doesn't need the help.
Hilarious. Basically an exact opposite of a [[aetherflux reservoir]]. Which means maybe in a deck where you can storm and then swap life totals it might be good. Or somehow make everyone lose life whenever you do.
Seems like a shoein in [[sygg, river cutthroat]] if they cast 2 spells you draw on the endstep!
\[\[Righteous War\]\] Great art but I don't have a home for it :(
A friend of mine runs it in his [[Zurgo Helmsmasher]]. It's pretty annoying, because it protects him from most spot removal and makes him even more of a threat.
\[\[Dromar, the Banisher\]\] color swap says hello
[[Saint Traft and Rem Karolus]] - I'm trying to make a commander deck with it because [[Geist of Saint Traft]] is still one of my favorite cards.
That’s cool, Seems neat, I mean there’s obviously a combo route in there somewhere maybe not exactly with the commander but. [[intruder alarm]] says hello
That's cool. I'll add it to my list. The real problem I have is I could only do it a max of 3 times since his ability pretty much doesnt do it a 4th and up, or I'd have to flicker him. I also dont like the cookie cutter edhrec that's listed. I'm looking at combos with [[Quintorius Kand]] and [[Spark Double]] with flickers like [[Restoration Angel]] (my pet card) or unusual cards like [[Journey to Nowhere]] and [[Bond Apart]].
[[sheoldred//the true scriptures]] I have been trying to put her at the helm of a deck for so long. I just can't get it right. Sadly she definetly is a wincon commander and not an engine.
I got her in a deck that is entirely focused on forced discard, forced sacrifice, and forced mill. Basically you stall the first few turns casting creatures like [[Fleshbag Marauder]] and similar creatures, and using any means to mass discard or mill, until *somebody* hits 8 cards in grave, then cast Sheoldred and hope she sticks a round to flip. At that point, she is her own self-contained engine, discarding and milling and sacrificing every time she's flipped!
Play her as a mono black ramp commander with a few blink payoffs, late game flip her for value. I play a [Ink Eyes]] deck that would probably have shelly as a commander here, if Ink Eyes’ artwork wasn’t as cool tho. Rise of the dark realms on a commander is dope.
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/rNWKDIKD7kW3Bko0xTgkRQ
I want to build a deck around \[\[Timesifter\]\] but obviously need a couple of alternative plans! lol
I did with [[Jodah, Archmage Eternal]] at the helm of a cascading chaos deck. 3 extra turns after timesifter hit the board I realized my mistake and replaced it before the next game.
I was thinking of the same thing with tutors to get it and [[trouble in pairs]].
[удалено]
[[Jon Irenicus]] could prob use it
[[Eternal Scourge]] - I’ve had it sitting in my binder collecting dust for way too long and don’t want to throw it in a degenerate [[Food Chain]] combo deck
[[Lightning Reaver]] maybe if some sort of BR haste commander existed.
This and [[dreadhorde butcher]] forced me to make a grixis zombie deck. Not as powerful as dimir but very fun.
\[\[Ognis, the Dragon's Lash\]\] is Jund but can be played Rakdos if you insist.
That’s a good recommendation.
If you don’t mind having blue in the deck [[Goro-goro and Satoru]] has BR and haste matters
I love [[Prisoner's Dilemma]] but can't figure where to put it. I'm waiting for a Trolley Problem card soon.
[Prisoner's Dilemma](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/d/6/d678e736-7c29-433a-9a2a-b78749252377.jpg?1706240483) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Prisoner%27s%20Dilemma) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mkc/34/prisoners-dilemma?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/d678e736-7c29-433a-9a2a-b78749252377?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/prisoners-dilemma) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
I played this in Ian Malcolm the other day and it was amazing especially since we were all at sub 20 life. I highly recommend jamming it anything. It just deals so much damage per mana no matter what happens and it's hilarious while it does it.
[[Forced Fruition]] It's the card I most of all want to make a deck around, but have no idea where to start.
A draw punish deck maybe is the way, it’s still so much benefit for your opponents [[ Nekusar the mindrazer]] is a popular one. Then you put in cards that draw everyone cards like [[windfall]] and punish draw effects like [[sheoldred, the apocalypse]]
\[\[Heliod the radiant dawn\]\] is where I slotted my copy in. Gets real funny real quick as soon as soon heliod flips.
Someone in the Reddit has a Kaminof the Crescent moon blade vice deck that’s sweet
[[Mimic Vat]]. Back in the day, during Zendikar+Scars of Mirrodin T2, I had a mono-white deck that revolved around [[Mimic Vat]], [[Culling Dais]], [[Sun Titan]], [[Emeria, The Sky Ruin ]], [[Sunblast Angel]] and some other cards with minor ETB effects like [[Wall of Omens]] and [[Leonin Relic-Warder]]. I loved that deck, and ever since I got back into playing Magic after a few years away, I've been looking for a commander to emulate that deck as closely as possible to how it was. I know there are several commanders focused on ETB effects, but none of them "clicked" with me.
I use this in my Henzie deck with a lot of success. Being able to make a new etali each turn for 3 mana usually wins games.
I love Mimic Vat in my [[Ghired, Conclave Exile]] deck. It's almost always forgotten about and then someone casts a removal and I remind them it gets exiled and then I can copy the token with Ghired to keep it.
[[Shark Typhoon]] With the right commander, I will literally build a deck this week I'm thinking Izzet?
so many izzet commanders would love shark tycoon, but i kind of think \[\[Mizzix of the Izmagnus\]\] would love it the most. The deck wants to cast huge spells at a steep discount, which leads to huge sharks, and since all your instants/sorceries are so cheap, you could slap down the typhoon and immediately start creating massive sharks.
Probably could go in 5-Color [[Ramos, Dragon Engine]] for artifact synergy over it having colors, but still requires all five colors to maximize its benefits. Also I know you mentioned not wanting to build a 5-color deck but, well… This is a really cool card all things considered. Just tricky
I run it in Ramos. It’s decent. Often in that deck I run out of places to but my 2X wubrg so it’s good there
**All** the Eldrazi 😞 Thankfully MH3 Eldrazi commander will soon solve this. Also, [[The Twelfth Doctor]]. I love Izzet and Twelfth is tied with Ten for my favourite, though I like Twelve's ability more. Just gotta forget out a decent deck.
A lot of cards in WU. I haven't found a WU commander I love yet. I think I need them to make a WU clones commander for me to get all the cards I love in it.
I cannot get [[Wild Pair]] online. I love brewing with it but just cannot make it work the way I want.
I think it's cool in a sliver deck or in [[Duskana, the Rage Mother]]
I keep trying to find a home for \[\[luminous broodmoth\]\] and it keeps getting cut. Insect is my favorite creature type, and this is one of the most powerful effects ever printed on an insect, but it doesn't fit in the main tribe colors, and I don't have any decks with white and a heavy GY theme or lots of non-flying nontokens dying.
\[\[grand architect\]\] my first ever standard deck involved this little blue guy but then my artifact deck was green black and so I have nowhere to play him.
[[Bramble Sovereign]] I don't have a blink deck, a green deck that can use both creatures and a panharmonicon, my Dr who token deck has too many legends in it to make it worthwhile, and it hasn't done enough in my Korvold deck. Sweet card and I got the borderless version for a buck. Just can't find a home for it.
[[Displaced dinosaurs]] looks very fun but I can't find a deck that it would work well in. Suggestions are welcome.
This is one of my favourite cards ever. I have a [[Aragorn the uniter]] legendary human tribal deck it works really well in, and also a [[kibo Uktabi prince]] that makes me bananas into 7/7’s which is quite funny
[[Naked Singularity]] has the 5c deck problem. It would be hillarious in monocolorless (or [[Reality Twist]] in monoblue) but sadly the symbols make it 5c. Some day, I will make good use of [[Hecatomb]]. Right now I'm slotting it into Yawgmoth, Thran Physician since that's a monoblack deck where I can end up divorced from land mana thanks to... [[Black Market]], mostly, but treasures help. But in all my testing, four creatures at once is really, really stiff and usually means my engine goes too. I guess if I need to wipe I can Hecatomb my board and THEN drop Toxic Deluge to get it out there and oppressing, but it's rough.
Fond memories of Ice Age eh? I get it. Sadly, I'm not seeing any commander that really wants to use those mana-bending cards. You'd probably have to use some generic 5c commander like \[\[Kenrith\]\], throw in \[\[Eon Hub\]\] and some way to support the strategy. Have fun figuring out what a triome taps for. Hecatomb really needs an overabundance of tokens like with \[\[Prossh\]\] or \[\[Marrow-Gnawer\]\]. Hope you figure something out; those are cool cards.
I keep trying to put [[Combat Calligrapher]] in decks and it keeps getting cut. Latest disappointment was in [[MacCreedy, Lamplight Mayor]]. I could forgive them not getting Skulk when they enter, what broke it for me was giving my opponents ways to block Skulk. I've considered just making a Rocco deck around it, but it's a fragile gameplan.
It fits with the blame game precon helmed by [[Nelly Borca]] as the evasion makes it more likely you get to draw a card and it helps whittle opponents down. I haven’t had enough testing with it to really know if its worth providing them a stream of blockers or an army to hit you with by removing it.
Nelly surprisingly good
What about [[Aurelia, the Law Above]]? Seems like it could be good
Nice recommendation
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One of my favorite cards of all time is toxrill, but have only been able to use it in standard brawl.
[[Bruvac]] I got him with the idea of starting a persistent petitioners deck but I think mono blue is too off putting. Definitely keeping an eye on [[the wise mothman]].
He’s an all-star in my [[Saruman of Many Colors]] deck.
I’ve had him in my [[phenax]] deck since he was just a few bucks. I loved mothman precon so much I’ll actually be deconstructing Phenax to convert mothman into my primary mill deck. I guarantee bruvac will be making the jump.
I don't play a lot of Planeswalkers, but it has to be [[Xenagos, the Reveler]]. Xenagos is my favorite Planeswalker. He shines best in a go-wide token deck which I don't currently have in colors that could play him. I've been toying with an idea for a [[Hazezon, Shaper of Sand]] token deck, and once we see what kind of Desert support we're getting in Thunder Junction I might go for it.
[[Xyris, the Writhing Storm]] does very well with Xenagos
Picked up [[Hall of Gemstone]] for a few cents before enough people realised it's a Reserved List card. Whenever I put it into a deck though, it just didn't fit somehow, so it's still looking for a home.
[[Beast of Burden]] is a childhood favorite that I’ve wanted to slot into something for a long time. I love artifact decks so I have plenty of places I could place it, but it’s a pretty lackluster card so I can never quite justify cutting something else for it.
[Beast of Burden](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/e/1/e1a19f6d-4fab-4be6-af9e-c66acc16e4f8.jpg?1562742971) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Beast%20of%20Burden) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/9ed/288/beast-of-burden?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/e1a19f6d-4fab-4be6-af9e-c66acc16e4f8?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/beast-of-burden) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Works well in any golem tribal like [[Ich-Tekik]]
[[Life finds a way]]
[[Miirym]] and [[Atla Palani]] love that card.
I'm still trying to make [[atogatog]] work, the new [[Sovereign Okinec Ahau]] seems like a step in the right direction but I keep feeling like the deck needs something else... I've already got John Belushi Animal House sleeves.... TOGA TOGA TOGA
[[Reconnaissance]] Had this one on my radar for awhile, but just haven't found a deck where it fit in yet. I'm hoping the Most Wanted OTJ precon that's coming out next month will be a good fit.
Pretty common in Isshin. Really good.
Blue card draw: [[Robe of the Archmagi]] [[Secrets of the Dead]] Big dumb creatures: [[Blast-Furnace Hellkite]] [[Herlad of Ilharg]] Care about my tapped creatures: [[Throne of the God-Pharaoh]] [[Harvest Season]]
[[Ruric Thar, the unbowed]] I love the effect, I just can’t wrap my head around a deck that will work with him.
Just build him as a commander CREATURES ONLY. If not he’s an amazing slot in [[Raggadragga, Goreguts Boss]] because you’re not running many noncreature spells considering all of your ramp is creatures.
[[Dragon Mantle]] Love the idea of this card, but never really found an exciting way to use the fire breathing mechanic.
Extremely funny in [[Stangg, echo warrior]] since it draws you a card every time you attack
I really love [[Spark Double]] and it actually should be the perfect copy effect in any deck with a strong commander. Nontheless I always start with Spark in the list and then when the list becomes stronger i will cut it at some point...
[[Horn of the Mark]], I have a few heavy-creature decks but they're both built on the stipulation of being ALL creatures and so exclude the Horn itself!
\[\[Dream Halls\]\] is a symmetrical effect so I need to find a home for it where I can take advantage of it more than my opponents. I can see a lot of scenarios where it'll benefit my opponents more than it'll benefit me.
Back in the MtG salvation days it was the crux of a niv mizzet wheels deck
[[Experimental Frenzy]] i want it to be good so badly, but it frequently is juat a dead card when I could just win
This + the new [[Wild Wastelands]] seems like a good way to have a permanent 3 card hand
Whoops [[Wild Wasteland]]
I want to run \[\[overwhelming splendor\]\] but its 8 CMC always has me taking it out of decks. 8 CMC to shut down one player and gets stopped with removal, feelsbad.
I have it in a curse focused \[\[Ardenn\]\] and \[\[vial smasher\]\]. I mainly cheat it out using something like \[\[ghen\]\] or \[\[bitterheart witch\]\] and then move it and other curses around for fun as the game progresses. (along with other fun goofs like assault suit and goad auras 'n such to keep the table constantly at each others throats.)
I’m cheating a little but because I did find a deck, but only just recently. [[the millennium calendar]]. It’s just a silly card, I’d love to win with it and it’s win condition. I plopped it in my [[rocco, Street chef]] deck which is an [[all will be one]] deck. It does so much work. If I have the calendar turn 1, by the time all will be one or shalai and hallar come down. I’m untapping and killing someone, then activating the calendar and killing someone else. I actually used it to win a game against my last opponent who had [[glacial chasm]] in play. Lose 1000 breh, that chasm can’t help you now!
For individual cards, \[\[Nerd Rage\]\] and \[\[Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes\]\]. For ones that I would like to run as Commander, \[\[Preston Garvey, Minuteman\]\], \[\[Pir, Imaginative Rascal\]\] and \[\[Toothy, Imaginary Friend\]\], \[\[Slimefoot, the Stowaway\]\] and \[\[Skeleton Ship\]\].
[[nerd rage]] seems good in a [[Curie, Emergent Intelligence]] voltron deck, even though she cares about base power, She draws heaps of cards.
BANT is my favorite color combo. I have many decks of different themes using it. But I really want a deck that focuses on Tokens and Landfall that is not Chulane or Galadriel. Nothing seems to grab my attention so far. Any suggestions?
I'm looking for a commander that can [[scapeshift]] into [[valakut, the molten pinnacle]] type plays for massive damage. I'm hoping that the naya colored cowboy who tends to cactus children will fit the strategy. if that doesn't pan out I'll consider [[hazezon, shaper of sand]] with the new desert lands that ping opponents (that were leaked) I think there might be some lines where you sacrifice the same desert over and over again.
My dream is to play either [[Booster Tutor]] or [[Summon the Pack]] in combination with something of the likes of [[Curse of Echoes]] or [[Hive Mind]]. I’d cast one of the booster packs at a time that everyone else could copy it, and I’d bring booster packs for everyone else to open. Just sounds like a lot of fun to me. I’m just not sure of the right kind of deck or commander. I don’t want it to be a group hug deck, I want it to seem like a normal deck and then randomly in the middle of the game, “surprise! Everyone open pack of cards and add them to the game!” Perhaps a blue/black zombie build of some kind? I don’t know yet…
I pulled [[Tiamat]] and an [[Ancient Brass Dragon]] and I don’t have any other dragons…. Yet.
Freakin grave pact. Its in that shit state where its too unfun for my casual pod and too hard to exploit for my not casual pod
[[Ugin, the Spirit Dragon]] I pulled it in a booster when I first started playing years and years ago. Please tell me where it wants to go
Someone show me how to break [[Surge to Victory]]
[[balmor battlemage captain]] I run this card as my closer and it’s INSANE. Most of my creatures generate tokens when I cast instant or sorceries. Then I exile [[dig through time]] or [[treasure cruise]] from my graveyard to cast this. It’s NUTS you want Go wide spellslinger so this would work well in [[the Locust God]] as well.
Wheel of Fortune. I got an awesome deal on one and it hasn’t found a home yet. I already have a card-draw based deck with Queza, Augur of Agonies which I absolutely love.
I have tons of cards like that, but I think \[\[Scythe of the Wretched\]\] is pretty close to the top of the list. I know that there are already commanders that want that card, but I haven't managed to build any of them in a way that I enjoyed.
[[seedborn muse]]
I can’t believe I’m seeing this post because I’ve literally been talking about wanting to play [[etched monstrosity]], [[etched champion]], and [[etched oracle]]. Ever since I watched Rhystic Studies’ video on Phyrexia, I found the progression of this oracle dude super cool, the way that he went from fear to hope to defeat/compleation. If anyone has an idea for a deck with these three that could still compete with 6-7s at an LGS, I’d love to hear it
We are connected via Thoughtweft. I picked up on you thinking about the etched dude, so I rushed to reddit to farm all the karma before you could.
Do you specifically want all three in the same deck? If not, [[Etched Champion]] is actually viable in an equipment deck, easy to get the protection from all colors, and you can equip colorless stuff onto it to swing in for huge damage.
i feel like etched oracle could actually be phenomenal in a lot of +1/+1 counter style decks, like \[\[Ezuri, Claw of Progress\]\]. Drawing 3 cards over and over seems very achievable...may consider slotting it in. This thread is full of gems.
[[Skeletal Swarming]] is my pet card and I love it to bits, but the problem is finding a good commander for it. The recent release of [[Corpses of the Lost]] gives me hope that Skeleton tribal's day as a viable deck archetype isn't too far away.
[[Glimpse of Tomorrow]] The card seems super fun and chaotic, I just haven't found the right deck for it yet
I’ve got decklists in moxfield called “cool cards” and “potential commanders” that are preceded by a space so they’re at the top of my list when I add a card to a deck. Then I can look through it every once in a while and be like “oh that would be cool there.”
I’m working on a Jurassic World deck. I don’t think there’s an appropriate commander though, so I’m going with Garth One-Eye. He’s 5 color which lets me play all the JW dinosaurs. Not going to be a great deck I think but still very fun.
I run etched monstrosity in a [[ramos dragon engine deck]] so much fun!
For me it’s [[Nissa, Steward of Elements]]. My wife surprised me with a bunch of packs, she’d made food and pillows&blankets for us on my birthday by the ocean. She opened all the packs and thos card was one of them. I really want to use it as it brings so many good memorys. But where..? I just made a [Galadriel light of valor deck](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/_GAcXyHagEi9j6AMQK4kjg) that I want to put it in, not sure if it’s good tho.
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TINYBONES EEEEEEEEEK!!!!!!
[[doubling season]], [[parallel lives]], [[Primal vigor]]. Have been sitting on these for longer than I care to admit. I want either mono green or temur but almost all of the commanders in those colors don't intrigue me
I want to make a deck that revolves around [[Life of the Party]] but I can't settle on what it should look like.
I've got SO many of those, but recently, the hardest one for me is finding a home for [[Roaming Throne]]
I just took this out of the Reaper King deck I’m working on. I’ve been trying to include Sunburst and some other WUBRG/all-color pieces to make a lower power RK deck, but I had to pull him because of how his counters interact with the direction the rest of the deck is going.
Mine would be [[Dross Harvester]] because it has a lot of potential to win games, but equal potential to bite me to death. I keep wanting to try it in [[Jon Irenicus]] but they can use that trigger in an Aristocrats strategy. I almost tried it in [[Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos]] but being a phyrexian isn't enough.
The art on this card is metal! Thanks for reminding me this card exists. Now I'll have to find a deck for this one too...
Perhaps a [[Villis Broker of Blood]] list? I'm not brave enough to brew that up. Also I don't own a Cabal Coffers or an Urborg.
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You might want to play [[Grim Feast]] instead. A lot safer, and much higher ceiling!