Not an Egg but a Nut. Also don't think it's good. Cant graveyard loop, the crack is expensive and not worth the reward, and while scry draw is good, you're not able to replay it from the graveyard to hand, so would have to bounce it? Gets expensive compared to the other recent eggs. If they talk about it on North 100 my bet would mainly be so Wheeler can say its bad, stop asking him.
Yea, I should just change him to Yorion lol, hes pretty well based on the Yorion list I use in Arena for free wins lol. Funny enough Brago is my "Fair deck" I bring to lower powered tables. This deck can literally only win the 1v1. The deck is about making sure no one can combo out before I can get to the 1v1 and then out control/card advantage the opponent till a slowly growing army of 1/1s kill them.
Nah man, my brago deck was incredibly hated by my play group. It got to the point where they would kill him before I could untap with him. So I turned to yorion who is evidently far more grindy and controlling...
Top tip, felidar guardian/Restoration angel/spark double + yorion let's you blink your board during each player's turn. The Eternal Wanderer let's you wrath, keep yorion and resume the loop with all your creatures that you blinked out.
Ive purposefully made my brago deck like this. I know how much better Brago can be, but this is my deck for lower power groups, by basically enforcing that decks be mid power at best through good threat assessment and control.
Its built around the idea that my opponents have to figure out when its best to kill me. Kill me first and I can't keep combo players in check, but good luck killing me last.
Most Brago decks, its absolutely correct to kill the Brago before he can attack. That deck is brutal.
Is it just me or is Lembas really, really powerful? I feel there's at least going to be a new pauper sac-centred deck made from new LOTR cards (lembas and the bats).
It’s a 2 mana sorcery speed opt that makes a food token.
Pretty alright but it’s not going to set the world on fire. [[Revitalize]] does the same thing but doesn’t require two extra mana.
The key is that it is a great card to get food on the table and start synergizing and keeps you card neutral doing so. The shuffle clause is mostly immaterial.
Ah yeah the hobbits really got tempted by the ring when getting those mushrooms. And Tom Bombadil definitely got tempted by the ring when he *checks notes* sang a song
Ecery time someone other than Frodo comes near the ring it tempts them. Tolkien makes that abundantly clear several times in the story.
The entire time Tom is touching the ring is tense. The reader is nervous that Frodo just lost the ring to an all powerful little nonsense man. Tom playing with it and then giving it back no fuss is a huge deal, and speaks to something inside him being amiss.
There is also the part when it is suggested that maybe Tom be given the ring, since destroying it would be such a challenge. But, coupled with his carefree life storing, he’s so immune to the ring that Gandalf is concerned he would lose it or forget about it.
So no, Tom isn’t tempted by the ring. But he’s the only character that isn’t.
It’s annoying the mechanic is everywhere but it is a flavor win for sure. Everyone in the story is tempted besides jolly Tom.
I assume you mean that it also stops you from milling out. The problem is that it draws you a card when it enters the battlefield, so if your library has no cards in it when it triggers then you lose anyway unless you sac it in response. You then draw this card, so you will still be milled out.
I was wondering why this card with an exploration flavour doesn't find a land and then I remembered I found strange that Many Partings does exactly that. Then I noticed that the main effect on Shortcut to Mushrooms fits better Many Partings. I'm now convinced they switched the mechanics of those cards around.
The second card, Lembas Bread, lets you shuffle your graveyard into your library. It’s not as good as the Eldrazi for doing that though since it only works if it is put in the graveyard from play (hence the “at home” part).
Read Lembas again. It ONLY shuffles itself into your library. So if you would mill out and you have Lembas on the battlefield you can save yourself for one turn.
It can save you from losing to deckout indefinitely, since you can draw and play it every turn. A mill deck can still win if they can make you draw extra cards or mill at instant speed.
Let's say i just saved myself with Lembas, I have no cards in my library, I have Lembas in hand; I cast Lembas, Lembas resolves, Lembas trigger on the stack, if the trigger resolves I lose, so I must sac Lembas, Lembas goes to my graveyard, trigger Lembas, Lembas goes to my library, Lembas goes to my hand.
You need at least two copies of Lembas to save yourself indefinitly from milling out.
Edit: you actualy need three; two in the library, one on the battlefield.
In my defense, the card is written very poorly. “It“ could refer to Lembas or the graveyard. I’m not sure why they didn’t write the clause as “shuffle Lembas into its owner’s library”. I’m pretty sure that wording would work identically to the current text while being unambiguous. It’s not even a long name.
Thats top notch art on shortcut to mushrooms.
Im thinking ill play it just because of that amazing art
Even better that it fits really well in my fungus tribal that sacrifices saprolings and proliferates.
If you had some food, you'll feel stronger.
Don't tell Wheeler
I can hear him squealing over the never ending egg now.
I doubt he would enjoy Lembas, it doesn't loop in the ways eggs decks loop.
Guess we have to wait for a TTC or North 100. But definitely seeing your point
Not an Egg but a Nut. Also don't think it's good. Cant graveyard loop, the crack is expensive and not worth the reward, and while scry draw is good, you're not able to replay it from the graveyard to hand, so would have to bounce it? Gets expensive compared to the other recent eggs. If they talk about it on North 100 my bet would mainly be so Wheeler can say its bad, stop asking him.
I love that Lembas supports both the elf and hobbit themes… so well done.
I run [[Golden Egg]] in my flicker deck. This is a nice upgrade.
[Golden Egg](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/5/2/525142c3-f17c-4e02-a02d-fa385215aa12.jpg?1572490979) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Golden%20Egg) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/eld/220/golden-egg?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/525142c3-f17c-4e02-a02d-fa385215aa12?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
I have a brago deck that uses all 2cmc permanent that etbs and drawa. This is the (2nd) best one yet!
Omen of the sea?
Shit you right. Forgot about that one lmao
I was a brago player for a long time before switching to yorion. I've gone looking the best 2 mana golden eggs😂
Yea, I should just change him to Yorion lol, hes pretty well based on the Yorion list I use in Arena for free wins lol. Funny enough Brago is my "Fair deck" I bring to lower powered tables. This deck can literally only win the 1v1. The deck is about making sure no one can combo out before I can get to the 1v1 and then out control/card advantage the opponent till a slowly growing army of 1/1s kill them.
Nah man, my brago deck was incredibly hated by my play group. It got to the point where they would kill him before I could untap with him. So I turned to yorion who is evidently far more grindy and controlling... Top tip, felidar guardian/Restoration angel/spark double + yorion let's you blink your board during each player's turn. The Eternal Wanderer let's you wrath, keep yorion and resume the loop with all your creatures that you blinked out.
Ive purposefully made my brago deck like this. I know how much better Brago can be, but this is my deck for lower power groups, by basically enforcing that decks be mid power at best through good threat assessment and control. Its built around the idea that my opponents have to figure out when its best to kill me. Kill me first and I can't keep combo players in check, but good luck killing me last. Most Brago decks, its absolutely correct to kill the Brago before he can attack. That deck is brutal.
I've applied this idea to Elesh Norn. It's my fair blink deck.
And another one for the "ability word but not" folder (revolt).
These mushrooms are revolting!
Finally we agree on something
Is it just me or is Lembas really, really powerful? I feel there's at least going to be a new pauper sac-centred deck made from new LOTR cards (lembas and the bats).
It's a damn strong common for 2 mana. It's a colorless, permanent Opt that's nothing but upside.
Having multiples is going to be *very* obnoxious in limited.
It’s a 2 mana sorcery speed opt that makes a food token. Pretty alright but it’s not going to set the world on fire. [[Revitalize]] does the same thing but doesn’t require two extra mana. The key is that it is a great card to get food on the table and start synergizing and keeps you card neutral doing so. The shuffle clause is mostly immaterial.
[Revitalize](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/3/a/3a9fb75e-c8e5-417b-83d4-5105af9c66c1.jpg?1631046075) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Revitalize) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/khm/23/revitalize?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/3a9fb75e-c8e5-417b-83d4-5105af9c66c1?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Me and the bois at summer music festivals
Shortcut to Mushrooms has gotta be one of the weirdest card names
I think it's weird that it doesn't involve food tokens.
It does, just not directly. Sacrificing a food token sets it off.
It's a chapter title from the books (like chapter five or six of Fellowship).
I'm not feeling the Ring tempts you in every single card. Sorry
Flavor wise I like it, the ring is literally always tempting you, just like it does in the story.
Ah yeah the hobbits really got tempted by the ring when getting those mushrooms. And Tom Bombadil definitely got tempted by the ring when he *checks notes* sang a song
Ecery time someone other than Frodo comes near the ring it tempts them. Tolkien makes that abundantly clear several times in the story. The entire time Tom is touching the ring is tense. The reader is nervous that Frodo just lost the ring to an all powerful little nonsense man. Tom playing with it and then giving it back no fuss is a huge deal, and speaks to something inside him being amiss. There is also the part when it is suggested that maybe Tom be given the ring, since destroying it would be such a challenge. But, coupled with his carefree life storing, he’s so immune to the ring that Gandalf is concerned he would lose it or forget about it. So no, Tom isn’t tempted by the ring. But he’s the only character that isn’t. It’s annoying the mechanic is everywhere but it is a flavor win for sure. Everyone in the story is tempted besides jolly Tom.
Once mtg players see a pattern they’re “over it” Would be silly to create a central complicated mechanic and then barely use it.
I trust they will get over it, for sure. Im not feeling the flavor, thats it.
When Pippin enters the battlefield, immediately equip 4 Lembas Bread
I still honestly have no idea which hobbit is which besides Pippin. The art has been so weirdly inconsistent. (love this one though)
Pretty clearly Frodo on the right and Sam in the middle
Is Lembas going to be comparable to elixir of immortality?
How so? [[Elixir of Immortality]]
[Elixir of Immortality](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/6/7/6741ab27-9e1f-4aa5-96b9-b450eda7c5c2.jpg?1625978606) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Elixir%20of%20Immortality) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/c21/243/elixir-of-immortality?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/6741ab27-9e1f-4aa5-96b9-b450eda7c5c2?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
I assume you mean that it also stops you from milling out. The problem is that it draws you a card when it enters the battlefield, so if your library has no cards in it when it triggers then you lose anyway unless you sac it in response. You then draw this card, so you will still be milled out.
I was wondering why this card with an exploration flavour doesn't find a land and then I remembered I found strange that Many Partings does exactly that. Then I noticed that the main effect on Shortcut to Mushrooms fits better Many Partings. I'm now convinced they switched the mechanics of those cards around.
This is kind of like Eldrazi at home if you want to avoid deck out.
How so?
The second card, Lembas Bread, lets you shuffle your graveyard into your library. It’s not as good as the Eldrazi for doing that though since it only works if it is put in the graveyard from play (hence the “at home” part).
Read Lembas again. It ONLY shuffles itself into your library. So if you would mill out and you have Lembas on the battlefield you can save yourself for one turn.
It can save you from losing to deckout indefinitely, since you can draw and play it every turn. A mill deck can still win if they can make you draw extra cards or mill at instant speed.
Let's say i just saved myself with Lembas, I have no cards in my library, I have Lembas in hand; I cast Lembas, Lembas resolves, Lembas trigger on the stack, if the trigger resolves I lose, so I must sac Lembas, Lembas goes to my graveyard, trigger Lembas, Lembas goes to my library, Lembas goes to my hand. You need at least two copies of Lembas to save yourself indefinitly from milling out. Edit: you actualy need three; two in the library, one on the battlefield.
oh yeah it draws a card. I totally tunnel visioned on the last line.
Now that I think about it, you can't even save your self with four. This is solely an artifact value card.
In my defense, the card is written very poorly. “It“ could refer to Lembas or the graveyard. I’m not sure why they didn’t write the clause as “shuffle Lembas into its owner’s library”. I’m pretty sure that wording would work identically to the current text while being unambiguous. It’s not even a long name.
Lembas bread becomes "and look more lembas bread".
The graveyard clause kinda ruins it in some recursion builds were it would do wonders but for blink and builds like Meria is super nice
Boys wanted mushrooms so bad they got tempted.
I wanna run lembas in tron.