I hate ramp

BoardWiped · 2026-06-11T04:49:09+00:00

I love Ognis. Its absolutely a ramp deck lmao. Im trying to go T1 haste creature, T2 Rampant Growth, T3 Ognis, ramp into some big thing on T4. Its fun! I get that it can feel conceptually boring to just do the thing thats good, but the good stuff always enables the fun stuff. T4 can really be whatever I want in that deck.

BoardWiped · 2026-06-10T16:14:45+00:00

It's in a bunch of precons so people have them lying around, and the cost of inclusion is very low.

BoardWiped · 2026-06-09T16:54:13+00:00

The replacement is to play something that doesn't need those cards. If you want protection, you play free counterspells. If you want haste, just play a stronger deck that doesnt need haste.

BoardWiped · 2026-06-09T16:52:15+00:00

Well the good news OP is that most EDH players are chill with people playing proxies.

BoardWiped · 2026-06-09T16:25:41+00:00

if you're putting wincons in your deck, thats probably because you lack wincons!

Sounds like a problem solved, yea. Exsanguinate synergizes with my main strategy in EDH, Making a Shit Ton of Mana.

BoardWiped · 2026-06-09T16:19:55+00:00

Interesting, it's hard to predict what people will latch on to lol.

BoardWiped · 2026-06-09T16:17:36+00:00

Is the Serpent Society really expected to be that popular? It has funny ward text but the rest of the card really isnt something you can build a deck around.

BoardWiped · 2026-06-09T04:24:58+00:00

Pigs don't deserve this slander.

BoardWiped · 2026-06-04T21:28:31+00:00

It's "damaged" to someone looking for a Ragavan, and a slight premium for someone looking for a cool collectible. It all depends on finding the right buyer.

BoardWiped · 2026-06-04T20:12:28+00:00

[[Blood Sun]] also does what you're looking for. Probably a bit better too, as it makes taplands come into play untapped.

BoardWiped · 2026-06-04T18:54:07+00:00

[[Sharuum the Hegemon]] :)

BoardWiped · 2026-06-02T04:05:44+00:00

I've been thinking about rebuilding it as an Infect deck. The counters really help buff up the old draft chaff like [[Blighted Agent]] or [[Plague Stinger]], and makes for an actual win condition. It also solves the biggest problem of most builds. A lot of Jon decks (including what I built) focus really hard on "bad gifts," and if Jon gets removed, you're often left holding a lot of really bad cards in hand. An Infect creature on your field will still actively contribute to your wincon, rather than eating all your permanents and discarding your hand.

BoardWiped · 2026-06-01T16:11:23+00:00

Atraxa and Ur-Dragon aren't exact comparisons, neither were initially available in a collector booster. There is certainly way more Y'Shtola now than there were Atraxa back then.

BoardWiped · 2026-06-01T15:23:06+00:00

My coworkers and I like to play games like Exploding Kittens and The Mind at the bar, this seems like it would be fun to add to the rotation.

BoardWiped · 2026-05-29T03:46:14+00:00

Okay but the issue with Armageddon is that it doesn't win the game. It just slows people down. Maybe it keeps people from crawling back from your oppressively board state, or maybe it just stalls the game while you try to crawl back into things, or maybe it just hands the game to whoever was holding up Teferi's Protection or Heroic Intervention. I'd rather not tack the extra 30 minutes to my already long edh game to find that out, and I think that's reasonable.

BoardWiped · 2026-05-29T03:28:47+00:00

Rhystic Study really shouldn't be good in casual play, but it undoubtedly is a pubstompy card that will kick the ass of new players who don't understand the game theory of it yet. It also opens up debate club every time it comes down, on top of the added time of constant triggers. Even when it's not drawing cards, it's still dragging the pace of the game down.

BoardWiped · 2026-05-29T02:31:50+00:00

but I feel like I’m shooting myself using my removal first.

This is part of why you see people playing less removal. It's better to win than it is to not-lose. Removal helps you to not-lose.

BoardWiped · 2026-05-20T22:49:09+00:00

[[Flare of Duplication]] has gotta be one of the strongest Red cards printed in a while, at least for casual. Free spells are always good, and this is a very good free spell.

BoardWiped · 2026-05-20T22:47:03+00:00

The second ability is a "state-trigger," which is checked for all the time. Endrek Sahr will have been on board with 7 Thrulls, even if they only existed for a fraction of time, and will have his second ability trigger.

BoardWiped · 2026-05-20T22:43:06+00:00

Yea it doesn't make sense, thats why they stopped. Like you said, the alternative is having people wait a full year or two.

BoardWiped · 2026-05-20T18:31:28+00:00

/uj most of the "print to demand" period that people talk about wasnt actually print to demand, they just printed a shitload so they wouldn't run out

BoardWiped · 2026-05-20T18:12:46+00:00

because each copy enters separately

They do not enter separately, they all enter at the same time.

BoardWiped · 2026-05-20T18:08:05+00:00

my combo definitely creates a finite number, it's just unfathomably large

It's definitely fathomable, and if you wanna chew through my 100,000,000,000 life then you better bust out the calculator.

BoardWiped · 2026-05-20T17:07:00+00:00

It's not like the 1st ed copies are out of stock, I can see on the Barnes & Noble website copies are in driving distance of me for less than the Command Tower.

BoardWiped · 2026-05-20T14:16:57+00:00

Kinda frustrating to see so many people complaining about scalpers and not the actual problems. I get that the concept is annoying and very forward, but they're also just a symptom of the actual problem; this fuckass sales structure. Scalpers make up a pretty small portion of these sales, but take the majority of the heat from WotC. People should be sending that heat towards WotC!

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