MTG Salvation

His best friend is Transguild Courier

It's true that the hand refill is really appealing This is actually the main reason I was considering PSZ as commander.
But now that you mentioned it, being to have a thematic deck, finding 'cute' tricks/interaction is even more appealing

It's time for research

Does blue/green have any blink effect? (other than bounce to hand then recast)

I guess it's true that with Vorel the deck will be more focused on "Counter" where as with Prime you can just pile some straight up good beat down green or blue cards in it...

Considering PSZ eob, she's definitively gonna shine in multiplayer Would a Vorel deck also be good in multiplayer format?

Seeing Vorel of the Hull Clade, I wanted to make a simic counter base commander deck; so I started fetching some of the cards I like for it where my current top 5 would be:
- Experiment Kraj
- Prime Speaker Zegana
- Fathom Mage -- Prerelease art being one of my all time favorite
- Novijen Sages
- Cytoplast Manipulator

and then... I started to wonder, if Vorel really the commander I want here??? Wouldn't Prime Speaker being much better in that role?
I mean: most of the other creatures either won't have much synergy with the commander or won't be really good for commander...

Well there's definitively exception such as: Gyre Sage or Everflowing chalice, and yet I'd be affraid to go infinite
[Note: I don't like infinite combos, so I always break them if I discover one in my EDH deck]

Any thoughts? Which commander is more recommended for fun / somewhat strong deck?

I had that feeling looking at the primer; I dunno the presence of control decks in the modern meta; I just have a friend whose very found of control. And I was also afraid that a 4 CMC threat (i.e: Tezzeret) would be too late against these decks; hence why I was considering Ensoul Artifact.

That said; black does have answers to control in term of 1 mana discard: Inquisition of Kozilek or Thoughtseize. Maybe that's the answer: load up you sideboard with more discard spell.

Hi there,

Having been tired of the Standard format as the format felt more or less the same over these past years... Overall, not very appealing;
On the other hand, my interest in Modern format kept increasing and I would love to jump into some Modern competition.

Looking at my personal library I stumbled on my playset of Tezzeret; so I started to homebrew a deck with him.
Once done, I looked online to see if there were existing modern decks to compare it to and see if I was missing some staple cards

I was super happy to discover this thread. Great job on this primer.

That said; I do have a few questions, and apologize in advance if this has already been discussed in the previous pages:
- Has anyone consider Ensoul Artifact?
- Counter spells aren't really used in these builds (remand, leak, negate...); any particular reasons for this?
- What about Mortapod? It's true that overall, it's two mana for an not too appealing equipment, however it's a great target for Tezzeret (or Ensoul) while allowing you to take care of threat like: Delver, Young pyro, dark confident...
- Finally assuming a Grixis build; what about a one or two of "Shrapnel Blast"?

mmm.... my only complain is his name
Xenagos is not only a planeswalker, but also a god!?...

Hi,

(Not sure if this is the right forum for this)

I just noticed that Stoneforge Mystic has more than doubled its price in the last month...
Any reason for this change?

Thank,
Kandjar

Hi,

Assuming the Junk Diver and Scarecrone are on the battlefield, the opponent plays Days of Judgment, can Junk Diver target scarecrone? (they die at the same time)

Thanks,
Kandjar

Regarding the following two cards:
- Grove of the Burnwillows
- Zhur-Taa Druid
I understand that they are both mana ability.
(http://magiccards.info/rule/605-mana....html#rule-605)

That said, I'm just curios, couldn't have Zhur been written as:
"t: add G to your mana pool. Zhur deals 1 damage to each opponent" instead of having this ability splitted in two: a mana ability and a trigger ability ???

I guess the difference is that:
- if you want to play a non-flash creature; after adding all the mana to your mana pool, you HAVE TO let Zhur's second ability resolve.. and therefore give your opponent a chance to respond before using your mana. With card like Mana Short.

Whereas for Burnwillow, you cannot respond to the life gain unless some ability triggered due to that effect. For example, if your opponent has Drogskol Reaver" target="blank">Drogskol Reaver on the battlefield.

Thanks,
Kandjar

Quote from 42Osiris

Any time you bottom something, I can't help but feel like I just got infinite value off playing a scry land. While the effect doesn't need to be rare, it certainly is a valuable play, and combining it with a dual seems a good reason to make it rare.

I'm not disagreeing with the fact the scry is a very nice ability.
It just that these lands do not feel 'rare' for me, they feel uncommon (Yes, I know that New Benalia" target="blank">New Benalia already exist as uncommon).

As you mentioned: the value of putting something at the bottom is huge. Which is why: if these lands in order to come untapped were giving my opponent(s) the ability to scry, it would feel like a decent draw back.

I would have actually like to see the theros land be something like:

"Enter the battlefield tapped unless you let your opponent scry 1"

Or:

"Enter the battlefield tapped unless you let your opponent scry 1, if ~ enters the battlefield tapped, scry 1"

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Even though I think scry is a strong ability, I still feel don't feel these lands should have been rare.

Quote from Cédrix

I put my commander in a penny sleeve so I can recognize him if I shuffle him in and take him out if he gets tucked.

Quite handy when he get condemned or oblationed

This is clearly way worse that doubling season....
* Doubling Season is only beneficial for you! [I admit: I didn't realize that when I first got that card...]
* Doubling Season is fun (broken?) with planeswalkers [But new people don't quite understand how it works... and it's a pain to explain each time you use it...]
* Doubling Season also works with charge counters!...

However, this one won't kill Belligerent Hatchling when he enters... or Kitchen Finks when its persist ability resolves Is the trade of worth it? ... mmm... guess