Yes, this is my favorite card. I've played a Commander deck with it since release. When it was printed twice in one year, I finally bought 3x more and now have a 60-card full of the same fun.
I think any list that has the words '5-color' and 'Elemental' is just less than optimal without the best 8 CMC card in the game, aka Maelstrom Wanderer.
I've also played Dack's Duplicate and Phyrexian Metamorph in lists like this, and you'd get extra value from them here, because you can play them early and then just use Crystal Shard to upgrade them to something better later on.
Absolutely, yes! I run all this in the Commander version of this deck. With 60 cards, I want to play multiples and I don't always have good targets on the board that isn't my own creature.
Thijs1301 I do appreciate your feedback. I already have a deck that is more or less built around Purphoros and Prossh. I felt like with Lurking Predator and an average of four opponents, it seemed like enough free damage to the table to include.
Ok, points taken. I had the Regent because it has flying and life gain, both of which are critical in the meta. I traded those for Silklash and Courser. Do you think it's worth adding a GSZ or Chord? I'm concerned about this being too much of a glass cannon. I also adjusted the Gods.
I know I'm asking a lot with three threads on the same day, but I probably won't get to play again for the next nine weeks (soccer season), so I'm trying to prepare in advance and then buy some cards next month when MM3 bottoms out. Thanks in advance for your feedback!
The point is to get either Possibility Storm or Lurking Predators (ideally both) and then coast. Point taken on the bounce lands, but I think that is a waste without some Landfall triggers in there somewhere.
This deck works great, I just want to make it work better. The Treespeakers, Managorger, and Bellower were just clogging the works. I'm planning to buy some Craterhoof's after tehy bottom, so that will probably replace the Ibex. The Hydra and the Seekers do more of what I'm taking out.
I need early game starters and late game gambles for something better.
I decided to go with this based on the meta:
4x Emeria, The Sky Ruin
1x Mirrorpool
4x Myriad Landscape
13x Plains
2x Wastes
Creature (23)
3x Containment Priest
4x Eldrazi Displacer
1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
2x Emeria Shepherd
1x Heliod, God of the Sun
1x Karmic Guide
1x Oreskos Explorer
2x Pilgrim's Eye
4x Sun Titan
4x Wall of Omens
2x Tragic Arrogance
4x Wrath of God
Instant (2)
2x Swords to Plowshares
Enchantment (3)
3x Serenity
Artifact (2)
2x Mind Stone
1x Bane of Progress
4x Birds of Paradise
4x Coiling Oracle
1x Crater Hellion
1x Craterhoof Behemoth
1x Greenwarden of Murasa
3x Maelstrom Wanderer
1x Prime Speaker Zegana
2x Primeval Titan
3x Prophet of Kruphix
2x Rashmi, Eternities Crafter
1x Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
3x Shaman of Forgotten Ways
1x Surrak Dragonclaw
2x Sylvan Primordial
1x Temur Sabertooth
2x Thragtusk
1x Venser, Shaper Savant
2x Xenagos, God of Revels
4x Breeding Pool
4x Cinder Glade
10x Forest
2x Island
2x Mountain
Sorcery (2)
1x Mob Rule
1x Selvala's Stampede
PS- Cz, I really like the MBC deck name
1x Bane of Progress
4x Birds of Paradise
4x Coiling Oracle
1x Crater Hellion
1x Craterhoof Behemoth
1x Greenwarden of Murasa
3x Maelstrom Wanderer
1x Prime Speaker Zegana
2x Primeval Titan
3x Prophet of Kruphix
2x Rashmi, Eternities Crafter
3x Shaman of Forgotten Ways
1x Surrak Dragonclaw
2x Sylvan Primordial
1x Temur Sabertooth
1x Thragtusk
1x Venser, Shaper Savant
2x Xenagos, God of Revels
4x Breeding Pool
4x Cinder Glade
10x Forest
2x Island
2x Mountain
Sorcery (2)
1x Mob Rule
1x Selvala's Stampede
Artifact (2)
2x Crystal Shard
What about this?
4x Baleful Strix
1x Consecrated Sphinx
1x Deadeye Navigator
4x Enigma Sphinx
3x Glint-Nest Crane
1x Lavinia of the Tenth
1x Linvala, the Preserver
1x Massacre Wurm
2x Mulldrifter
1x Wurmcoil Engine
4x Flooded Strand
2x Godless Shrine
4x Hallowed Fountain
9x Island
1x Temple of the False God
3x Watery Grave
Instant (1)
1x Sphinx's Revelation
2x Aether Gale
4x Preordain
4x Supreme Verdict
Artifact (7)
2x Crystal Shard
4x Fellwar Stone
1x Sol Ring
4x Baleful Strix
1x Consecrated Sphinx
1x Deadeye Navigator
4x Enigma Sphinx
3x Glint-Nest Crane
1x Lavinia of the Tenth
1x Linvala, the Preserver
1x Massacre Wurm
2x Mulldrifter
1x Myr Battlesphere
1x Wurmcoil Engine
11x Island
2x Plains
3x Prairie Stream
3x Sunken Hollow
3x Swamp
1x Temple of the False God
Instant (2)
2x Fact or Fiction
Sorcery (8)
2x Aether Gale
4x Preordain
2x Unburial Rites
2x Crystal Shard
4x Fellwar Stone
1x Sol Ring
4x Exotic Orchard
12x Island
1x Plains
1x Reliquary Tower
5x Swamp
1x Temple of the False God
3x Displacement Wave
2x Merciless Eviction
3x Painful Truths
4x Preordain
4x Supreme Verdict
Artifact (5)
4x Fellwar Stone
1x Sol Ring
2x Augur of Bolas
4x Baleful Strix
1x Consecrated Sphinx
2x Mulldrifter
3x Psychosis Crawler
Instant (3)
3x Sphinx's Revelation
4x Birds of Paradise
2x Courser of Kruphix
1x Craterhoof Behemoth
1x Greenwarden of Murasa
2x Joraga Treespeaker
1x Molten Primordial
2x Nylea, God of the Hunt
2x Primeval Titan
2x Purphoros, God of the Forge
2x Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
4x Sakura-Tribe Elder
1x Silklash Spider
1x Skullwinder
2x Sylvan Primordial
4x Xenagos, God of Revels
10x Forest
1x Kessig Wolf Run
4x Mountain
4x Stomping Ground
4x Temple of Abandon
Enchantment (6)
4x Lurking Predators
2x Possibility Storm
4x Baleful Strix
1x Consecrated Sphinx
1x Deadeye Navigator
4x Enigma Sphinx
1x Lavinia of the Tenth
1x Linvala, the Preserver
1x Massacre Wurm
3x Mulldrifter
11x Island
2x Plains
3x Prairie Stream
3x Sunken Hollow
3x Swamp
1x Temple of the False God
Artifact (5)
4x Crystal Shard
1x Sol Ring
4x Preordain
1x Ugin's Insight
2x Unburial Rites
Instant (6)
4x Curfew
2x Fact or Fiction
3x Augur of Bolas
4x Baleful Strix
1x Laboratory Maniac
4x Mulldrifter
1x Notion Thief
3x Psychosis Crawler
3x Sphinx's Revelation
Land (24)
4x Exotic Orchard
12x Island
1x Plains
1x Reliquary Tower
5x Swamp
1x Temple of the False God
3x Displacement Wave
2x Merciless Eviction
3x Painful Truths
4x Preordain
Artifact (5)
4x Fellwar Stone
1x Sol Ring
This deck works great, I just want to make it work better. The Treespeakers, Managorger, and Bellower were just clogging the works. I'm planning to buy some Craterhoof's after tehy bottom, so that will probably replace the Ibex. The Hydra and the Seekers do more of what I'm taking out.
I need early game starters and late game gambles for something better.