Rhys the Redeemed
Wars are won with strength, valor, and numbers—especially numbers.
Rhys the Redeemed is the seemingly default commander of choice when it comes to making token-themed decks. You can go with other commanders (Ghave, Guru of Spores, Hazezon Tamar, Wort, the Raidmother, Trostani, Selesnya's Voice, etc.), but it is hard to beat Rhys' low casting cost and awesome "super-Populate" ability.
My version of Rhys is like a lot of my decks; it doesn't run some cards that would make the deck go infinite and it may run a few unorthodox choices, but its a blast to play with or against. I don't know many people who can resist Cycling a Decree of Justice mid-combat with Doubling Season and Cathars' Crusade in play...
Update through Ravnica Allegience - 2/11/2019
10/18/2014
-1 Grove of the Guardian - Underperformer
-1 Twilight Drover - Just seemed out of place here.
+1 Dictate of Heliod - Another good anthem effect.
+1 Temple of Plenty - Another decent dual land.
1/12/2015
-1 Glorious Anthem, -1 Gaea's Anthem - The addition of Dictate of Heliod made me see that I was running too many Anthems
+1 Hornet Queen - One of the best new cards at generating tokens when it enters the battlefield.
+1 Requiem Angel - Sweet anti-wrath tech that also allows me to attack profitably when I normally would not be able to.
10/21/2015:
+1 Monastery Mentor, -1 Caller of the Claw: Mentor is amazing and CotC doesn't trigger on tokens dying
+1 Secure the Wastes, -1 Luminarch Ascension: Ascension didn't get turned on enough and StW is a solid token-maker
+1 Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury, -1 Garruk Wildspeaker: Garruk is great, but I wanted PWs that didn't minus to make tokens
+1 Gideon, Ally of Zendikar, -1 Elspeth Tirel: Ditto
+1 Canopy Vista, -1 Thawing Glaciers: Glaciers is slow and the number of good dual is high enough where its not needed.
3/25/2017:
+1 Nissa, Voice of Zendikar - cheap token-making and mass-pump
+1 Fortified Village - another good dual land
+1 Season's Past - some card draw is nice
+1 Angel of Invention - tokens plus anthem, right on cue
+1 Sram's Expertise - a solid, cheap token-maker often tacked onto a free spell.
+1 Nature's Lore - a little more ramp never hurt anyone, and this deck is mana hungry
+1 Council's Judgment - I had to decide between this and PtE. Eventually, I'll work more spot-removal into the deck
-1 White Sun's Zenith - Too many X-spells and this was easily the worst
-1 Gelatinous Genesis - Another victim of cutting X-spells
-1 Entreat the Angels - Without a consistent source of manipulation of the top of the deck to hit Miracle, this would often be just a very expensive token-maker
-1 Emmara Tandris - As much as the ability is perfectly in-theme, the card is just expensive and bad.
-1 Trostani, Selesnya's Voice - This was never really great in the deck, plus she has her own deck to shine in.
-1 Bestial Menace - I decided in the end that neither this nor Righteous Confluence were good enough
-1 Selesnya Sanctuary - I've been cutting these for the SOI dual lands where I can.
4/22/2017:
+1 Shamanic Revelation - I'm going to try to run this here as a way to generate some card advantage, and its cheaper than Collective Unconscious and Regal Force.
+1 Anointed Procession - Another Parallel Lives for the deck that thrives on this kind of effect.
+1 Path to Exile - More removal
+1 [c]Beast Within[c/] - More removal that actually has some token synergy
-1 Mikaeus, the Lunarch - Not a good enough Anthem effect without +1/+1 counter support
-1 Spear of Heliod - As an onboard removal spell it ends up not being very effective, so it ends up being just an anthem.
-1 Sensei's Divining Top - I may add in a Sylvan Library at some point, but SDT was never really good here.
-1 Yavimaya Elder - I find myself taking this out of a lot of decks trying to free up space to run other stuff
2/14/2018:
+1 Growing Rites of Itlimoc, -1 Oracle of Mul Daya - I love Muli Duli, but Growing Rites is sick and something has to give.
+1 Primal Amulet, -1 Sakura-Tribe Elder - I love STE, but Primal Amulet is also sick and again something needed to give.
+1 Zendikar Resurgent, -1 Trostani's Summoner - I held on to Summoner for as long as I could because its not a great card due to the casting cost, but I loved the diverse number of tokens it produced and that I'm getting 10 power spread over 4 creatures for my 7 mana. But in the end, I know that I needed to pull a 7+ drop in order to fit in Resurgent in order to support the deck's top end
+1 Tendershoot Dryad, -1 Ant Queen - Ant Queen always bugged me as its the only card in the current deck that requires me to pay additional mana for my tokens, so I'm going to swap in an arguably worse card that gets me free tokens and that plays nicely with Selesnya Guildmage, Aura Mutation, Sprout Swarm, and Vitu-Ghazi, the City-Tree.
6/18/2018:
-1 Temple of the False God, +1 Scattered Groves
-1 Vitu-Ghazi Guildmage
-1 Wilt-Leaf Liege
-1 Tolsimir Wolfblood
-1 Hornet Queen
-1 Sprout Swarm
-1 Skyshroud Claim
-1 Growing Rites of Itlimoc
-1 Mana Reflection
-1 Zendikar Resurgent
+1 Gather the Townsfolk
+1 Raise the Alarm
+1 Servo Expedition
+1 Saproling Migration
+1 Spectral Procession
+1 Battle Screech
+1 Bestial Menace
+1 Righteous Confluence
+1 Collective Unconscious
2/11/2019:
+1 Bountiful Promenade, -1 Temple of Plenty
+1 Empyrial Storm, -1 Bestial Menace
+1 Camaraderie, -1 Collective Unconscious
+1 March of the Multitudes, -1 Cloudgoat Ranger
+1 Trostani Discordant, -1 Tendershoot Dryad
+1 Divine Visitation, -1 Juniper Order Ranger
Tokens Needed - updated 2/11/2019
White
1/1 Human
1/1 Warrior
1/1 Soldier
1/1 Kor Soldier
1/1 Monk with Prowess
1/1 Soldier with Lifelink
1/1 Bird with Flying
1/1 Spirit with Flying
2/2 Knight
2/2 Knight Ally
4/4 Angel with Flying
4/4 Angel with Flying and Vigilance
Green
0/1 Plant
1/1 Saproling
1/1 Elf Druid with " : Add "
2/2 Wolf
3/3 Beast
4/4 Beast
6/6 Wurm
Green/White
1/1 Elf Warrior
Colorless
1/1 Artifact Servo
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whelp. sorry. Didnt notice.
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From the wiki: . She managed to assuage him and persuaded him to join her on a diner date [on ravnica]. It was interrupted by the arrival of Gideon Jura who begged Jace for help with the Eldrazi on Zendikar. When Jace asked her to help him she refused. She then questioned him on why he would go with the muscle-bound gorilla and not help her.
So liliana was mad that gideon was interrupting their date so she didnt help! It gets better.
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Put that in my signature.
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Go here: http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/magic-fundamentals/magic-storyline/storyline-speculation/665224-what-worlds-storylines-do-you-want-to-see
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I agree with you. There are many great ones that are filled of lore and cool random things about them. Just that the funniest ones stick out to people.
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What planes or storylines do you want to see? They can be revisited or new.
I would like a plane where its all in water with an ice coating (like the moon Europa) where its all civilized and everything like little kids are imaging sea-monkeys.
Green creatures/spells would be in kelp forests
Black ones in trenches
White ones on the surface
Blue ones are just vanilla creatures most of the time
Red are from sea volcanoes.
From Mullerornis:
White mana is from 'seagrass plains'
Blue is from Underwater Caves (or just caves in this sense)
Black: Brine Lakes
Red: Volcanoes
Green: Kelp Forests or Coral Reefs.
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Speaking of waterworld with islands, Goo Lagoon. From Spongebob.