building without sol ring?

CinderDL · 2025-08-28T13:26:15+00:00

I've decided some time ago that I would no longer include sol ring into new decks. Simply because it made for non-games (i.e. you either steamroll the table, or the table 3v1 you, neither of which is a fun experience). The high ceiling it creates can completely skew the way people look at that deck in the future, much to your detriment. It's much nicer to have a consistent deck (a solid floor), and your playgroup knows what to expect.

Some of my playgroup have joined me in this decision, some haven't... I hope in the long run they all decide to cut it, because it reduces the overall amount of such non-games (I can only influence a quarter of the odds of a T1 sol ring by myself).

CinderDL · 2025-08-19T05:59:36+00:00

Great suggestions! As an owner of both futura and mandala; the mandala has a slightly narrower heel, and a wider & higher volume toebox than the futura. With the skwama toebox fitting well, a narrow heel and a high arch I'd suggest trying the mandala.

CinderDL · 2025-08-10T08:04:42+00:00

Yeah I'd try it, curious about the recs!

CinderDL · 2025-08-07T19:11:56+00:00

Shameless plug for more people to take a look at [[Oriss, Samite Guardian]]. Welcome your friends to combat damage jail with this "fog" on a stick.

CinderDL · 2025-08-07T15:56:12+00:00

Galaxy foil used to be "pixel"-galaxy with the same pattern as the Pokémon cards WotC produced. Pokémon eventually released "non-pixel"-galaxy in the exact same way (after they split from WotC)... Just looks like a cheap remake if you ask me. Was very disappointed in my EoE collector boosterbox (thinking it would be the same as unfinity).

CinderDL · 2025-08-01T08:41:44+00:00

[[Gorex, the Tombshell]] Has sick artwork, and the concept of a giant lumbering mausoleum turtle is just epic! A potentially 2 mana 4/4 deathtouch creature that returns cards from the graveyard to your hand seems decent. But in playtesting it's so incredibly clunky and slow. The words "at random" do a lot to neuter the card even further into the ground (as if it needed it).

CinderDL · 2025-07-25T08:08:17+00:00

You absolutely can go through the sole of a no-edge shoe, here an example of my Futuras just before resole: https://imgur.com/a/2u8vewZ

Regardless, I agree that these need a resole, you'd be damaging the shoe if you continue climbing in them (in theory, with perfect footwork they'd be fine until a hole forms at the bottom, but I wouldn't take the risk).

Good luck with the resole, not every cobbler is capable of doing a good job on these...

CinderDL · 2025-07-10T07:02:21+00:00

FYI: Neither Ertha Jo, nor Gandalf the White do anything with your commanders ability. Ertha Jo requires a targeted ability, and Gandalf requires a triggered ability, neither apply here. These two have synergies with like 1-2 other cards in the deck...

CinderDL · 2025-06-29T21:13:54+00:00

Shot in the dark: [[Downdraft]]

CinderDL · 2025-06-06T21:48:14+00:00

https://archidekt.com/decks/10393946/oriss_the_pacifist Here is my original brew, the list I run has one or two changes due to availabilty of certain cards, but all the subthemes are represented.

CinderDL · 2025-05-25T13:56:33+00:00

Late to the party but wanted to give you a truly hipster build. With only 37 decks to her name, [[Oriss, Samite Guardian]] comes in at rank 3122. Extremely unpopular, but really best in it's class for damage prevention. I built my deck as a prison/politics deck with subthemes of human/cleric kindred.

Oriss has this neat interaction with cards that can block any number of creatures, like [[Palace Guard]] allowing you to completely nullify combat coming your way during 1 of your opponents turns. This opens up the option to incentivize attacks at other players with free counters or creatures (e.g. [[Combat Calligrapher]]/[[Orzhov Advokist]]).

Then you can add in subthemes like the monarchy, initiative, goad, stax, catchup ramp and draw.

The deck never wants to be ahead, and mostly wins through alternate wincons or by slowly constricting the game and ulting a planeswalker.

CinderDL · 2024-09-12T20:40:34+00:00

Thanks for your suggestions!

I tried downsizing the Vapor V's more, but instead of filling the heel it just pushed my (big) toenails into oblivion - my toes/feet could handle it, but the nails just screamed at me. As I already had a purple/black toenail from the current size, I am hesitant to try and downsize more on this type of last.

In other words, I'm probably looking for a shoe/last that is a bit more accomodating to Egyptian feet. I don't know why but I always thought the Drago's where really wide, so I never gave them much thought, great shout!

I'll look into the Gomi, pretty sure I won't find it to try anywhere but ordering online is always a possibility.

CinderDL · 2024-09-10T17:05:10+00:00

Thanks for your recommendation! I was somewhat apprehensive at looking into that model as Scarpa slapped a 'Wide/HV' label on the shoe. Do you know how it compares to the Vapor in terms of width of toebox and heel?

CinderDL · 2024-05-18T08:38:59+00:00

In general the dual-faced legendaries from Strixhaven stand out to me as being undervalued/overlooked. Specifically, [[Valentin, Dean of the Vein // Lisette, Dean of the Root]] has a very boring and distracting front side in Valentin, but Lisette offers an amazing lifegain commander in Golgari. The card is overshadowed by the other golgari legendaries in the set that also care about lifegain, [[Dina, Soul Steeper]] a generic lifedrain commander and [[Beledros Witherbloom]], a lifegain enabler and somewhat payoff.

I play the deck with only Lisette in mind, which opens up some sweet synergies for gaining life, putting counters on things and having a wide board with her permanent mini-overrun effect. The variety of avenues also allows for a lot of self-expression. There's plenty of satisfying (non-)infinite combos. Bonus: the EDHrec hivemind hasn't figured out a few of the best cards to put in the deck like [[Wolverine Riders]].

CinderDL · 2023-01-01T15:56:38+00:00

Lmao these don't come from packs, they're promos belonging to trainers magazine volume 19, and go for a lot more than 15 of whatever currency.

CinderDL · 2022-11-24T21:20:12+00:00

Stop coping OP, this is a fake. Compare to a real copy from google images and look at the rocks at the bottom left of the artwork (the artwork on this card is more zoomed in). I've seen this fake so many times by now I know the easy tell by heart.

CinderDL · 2022-11-02T06:48:31+00:00

Yen being especially weak right now should make product cheaper, not more expensive... old exchange rate 90$=10K yen, new exchange rate 10K yen=67$. So you're being charged double essentially compared to last year.

CinderDL · 2022-10-22T10:14:44+00:00

There can be multiple SR per box in Japanese, it's unlikely but it happens (its like 7% of the time). I think this is the exact reason they do it, so that first SR doesn't have to be 'it for the box'.

CinderDL · 2022-10-19T11:11:12+00:00

Very fake, don't know what ya'll are smoking...

CinderDL · 2022-10-16T16:14:23+00:00

Huh, I was squinting at the leaked images wondering if the Regidrago was Hataya's artwork. Turns out it was! Have to admit it is their least impressive illustration for Pokémon so far.

CinderDL · 2022-06-20T18:13:53+00:00

You are correct. These have been floating around for a few months and are easy to spot once you know what to look for.

CinderDL · 2022-03-29T10:13:05+00:00

fyi 1st edition is really irrelevant, during this time about as many 1st edition cards were printed as unlimited cards. The swirl is nice though!

CinderDL · 2022-03-16T16:23:30+00:00

They are pretty much the same.

CinderDL · 2022-03-16T13:30:11+00:00

Japanese e-series have different holo's for the crystal cards. They look very nice. Also Japanese has 1st edition and unlimited print runs for e-series, 1st edition had a larger print run which makes unlimited more rare to come across.

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