Have you considered running a single cheeky zubera?

More seriously, have you considered Mirrorweave? It's right there with Mirror Entity and Shapesharer in making things into other things.

While probably not what you generally want to be doing, Expansion // Explosion can be radiated... if you picked the same target for both parts. So if you have the highest life total and/or number of cards, it works out great. But the typical use case doesn't work with Radiate, and it can't work wit...

So I meant to comment back on this thread like two weeks ago, but I got distracted by irl stuff as well as making the incredibly shortsighted decision to write my own Primer for my favorite deck to help me forget that I'm trapped in my house for the foreseeable future thanks to COVID-19 (seriously ...

pokken wrote: ↑

4 years ago

Just my opinion of course.

I'll second that opinion. They played it pretty safe with the partners in general, and pushed the companions. Which make sense: partner is an all upside ability, companion is meant to require restriction.

So you could use Cackling Counterpart , Quasiduplicate , Heat Shimmer , or Twinflame to make the token copy (as some options that are 3 cmc or less) and use Cloudstone Curio to do the bouncing. And then you just need a way to repay for the mutate each time. With the Drakkis, it could just be Turnab...

snip Alright, time to find the jank combo. If we mutate onto a creature, then clone it, then bounce the original, we can mutate onto the clone for double mutate triggers. Then we clone the new stack with another clone, bounce the first clone, and re-mutate onto the increasingly mutant creature. I j...

I've always been a staunch defender of these in budget builds. Infinitely better than Terramorphic Expanse and Evolving Wilds because these at least provide mana on curve and can be cracked when you have the chance versus the latter that give you a tapped basic. Super under utilized, especially the...

Ooo, I haven't thrown my hat in here, but I can probably do 4pm saturday. I'll make sure I still have cockatrice and discord runnable when I get home, cause it's been a bit.

Much like the "5 color commanders are already broken" argument I'm not sure you get a pass on "let's make them more broken then!" because of that. While I'll agree that the format already absorbs the power discrepancies, that's no reason to add a ton more. So you're saying that ...

I wonder why they changed that. Maybe so you wouldn't see the aftermath part as easily while it's in your hand the typical way they get fanned out, since that can only be cast from graveyard? I like the little tombstone icons they had on older cards with flashback like Moment's Peace . It makes it ...

bobthefunny wrote: ↑

4 years ago

That's not pity, that's threat assessment! You can't be a threat if you have no lands. :p

Disagree. If I could Door to Nothingness an Aura Shards, I would do it every time.

But even if instead of being a respectably-costed creature it were, say, Scornful Egotist or Force of Savagery , I'd still run it as a companion, because there is absolutely zero downside to doing so, and it has some marginal utility by virtue of being a creature. The only way to make a card weak e...

I am not sure there will ever be a way to actually stop this divide. The problem isn't the divide, the problem is pretending the divide doesn't exist. Like, I can be making pudding, and you can be making soup, and we both could start out with a bowl full of milk. That doesn't mean we're making the ...

While I understand that Lutri is able to be played as a companion any of the decks in its colors, and that makes it strong, calling Lutri an auto-include in any URx deck appears to me to be naive thinking. Lutri would be an auto-include in any URx deck without a different companion. Normally callin...

I assume this is a joke but I think willfully misinterpreting a metaphor is rather the reverse of dunking :) Do you know what the reverse of dunking is? Still dunking. https://youtu.be/tqHEPdRcO7I?t=25 cEDH has done a lot for the format to advance dialog about power levels in my opinion, and has li...

I think it's pretty easy to stretch any metaphor to its breaking point, I would argue that I dunked on your metaphor. but I would say my intention is to interpret that stuff (court size, regulation rules, etc.) as akin to the rule 0 discussion, and the general game of basketball as Commander format...

Depends on what you mean by mingling. There's quite a lot of cross pollination of ideas. I do think there's value in really understanding what makes decks tick. I'm never gonna hoop with Lebron but I don't think he'd tell me I'm not playing basketball :P Yeah, but Lebron also isn't going to say you...

I would think for any format, regardless of how competitively it is played, balance is a reasonable goal, especially when this balance doesn't come at the expense of fun. I don't think many people believe Flash being banned makes EDH less fun in any quantifiable terms other than some looming fear t...

I'm certainly willing to die on my pet hills for the cause, but I'm never going to tell people who play the game differently than me that they should find something else to do. That defeats the very spirit of EDH to me, the personalization. Like I said, I totally can see people disagreeing with the...

cEDH players are lepers, and I don't really think it's doing our community any justice. cEDH players are part of the same community, sure, because they probably also play regular Commander or are friends with people who do. But cEDH players are making an active decision to play the format different...

Everyone saying commander is too complicated is looking at it the wrong way. I'll concede that there are some effects (a lot of the ones I love most, looking at you Knowledge Pool ) that make games mentally taxing and could potentially scare someone off, but having observed plenty of players who jum...

CEDH players are like the canary in the coal mine. They are the warning of dangers yet to come. Well, it's been about a decade since hermit druid was the boogeyman deck, and I didn't see casual players flock to that. Frankly, for almost the entire history of Magic: the Gathering, players in a casua...

Hermes_ wrote: ↑

4 years ago

Naturally cEDH reddit is upset over the "tone" lol

I made your sentence more efficient.

I could potentially see Manascape in deck that already use artifact untappers in conjunction with the ixalan tolarian academy . I think the card is pretty bad. For the same mana you could play coalition relic which gives you consistent value and even relic sees fairly little play. 3 drop mana rocks...

I wish I could work from home. I'm a community pharmacist and...I'll just say that people are all over the place. People think I'm going to give them their Adderall and oxycodone early because of the pandemic. I'm getting constant questions about hydroxychloroquine, masks, thermometers, etc. My wif...