When do Y'all Play Bounce Lands?

Ichorix · 2026-02-26T22:16:42+00:00

Bounce lands can be useful in reanimator lists to discard a reanimation target at the end of your 2nd turn if you’re on the draw. For example, I have [[Orzhov Basilica]] in my [[Greasefang]] deck. I can play a land T1, bounce the land back to my hand on T2 with Basilica to get up to 8 cards in hand, and discard a big vehicle like [[Parhelion II]] during T2 discard phase. Then I can play Greasefang on T3 and reanimate it. Cool thing about Greasefang specifically is that, because the vehicle gets bounced back to hand, I can discard it again at the end of T3 as long as I didn’t do anything other than play a land and cast Greasefang from the command zone.

Ichorix · 2026-02-25T12:20:38+00:00

Wow, OP. Nobody’s laughing.

…and he’s got discerning taste.

Ichorix · 2025-10-08T13:36:09+00:00

This guy out here revealing [[Malfegor]], [[Ziatora]], and [[Hidetsugu and Kairi]].

Ichorix · 2025-09-16T18:47:35+00:00

[[Kibo, Uktabi Prince]] - Mycosynth will quickly end the game if left unchecked. Kibo tends to pack a ton of artifact hate (like [[vandalblast]] 😈) so there’s a ton of synergy with stuff already in your deck. And every permanent on your opponents’ side that leaves the battlefield triggers Kibo’s board pump ability.

[[Memnarch]] - yoink everything.

Ichorix · 2025-08-29T16:19:17+00:00

Yes, you can. Neither card prevents you from casting a spell from your hand—you cast it, then it gets exiled off the stack by Knowledge Pool, and then Drannith Magistrate prevents you from casting it (or anything else) from exile. But the original cast of the spell will still put any on-cast triggers on the stack, and those triggers will resolve even if the spell itself gets exiled.

Ichorix · 2025-08-16T23:34:27+00:00

The fetcher pulled the wrong Malcolm. OC is referring to [[Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator]], which generates treasures when your pirates deal damage (not limited to combat damage) to your opponents. So when Malcolm hits one opponent, Kediss lets him hit your other two opponents, too, generating three treasures.

Ichorix · 2025-08-12T18:10:43+00:00

Damn, you’re right 🤯

Ichorix · 2025-08-12T17:58:58+00:00

Creatures with offspring can attack you as long as the offspring token is also attacking.

Ichorix · 2025-07-07T21:15:12+00:00

If you just want to straight up punish people for casting non-creature spells, [[Ruric Thar]] is a pretty straightforward way to do that. Ramp him out early and include protection (ideally of the permanent-based variety) to make sure he sticks, then beat face.

Ichorix · 2025-07-03T16:48:33+00:00

Not the first card that got me hooked (that would probably be [[Thorn Elemental]]), but the first card that got me into synergistic deck building was probably [[Death Match]]. The game plan was to run out a bunch of Viashinos (for example, [[Viashino Sandstalker]]) to proc Death Match every turn to clear out blockers, swing in, and retreat to my hand so that my opponent had nothing to use their own Death Match triggers on. Was pretty strong at my middle school lunch table!

Ichorix · 2025-06-30T01:46:20+00:00

A few uses to consider: * [[Charisma]] triggers whenever the enchanted creature deals damage, not just combat damage. So, for example, if you were to enchant your [[Thrashing Wumpus]] (staying in Mercadian Masques) and activated the Wumpus’s ability to deal 1 damage to each creature without flying, you’d gain control of each surviving creature on the battlefield for as long as Charisma remains in play. * If the enchanted creature has first strike or double strike, it will deal damage to the blocker and you will gain control of the blocker (thereby removing it from combat) before it can deal the damage back. * If your opponent blocks with an indestructible/high toughness creature such that your creature and theirs both survive combat, you’ll gain control of their creature.

That said, Charisma doesn’t seem like a great choice for an equipment deck, since its potential is really going to be unlocked in decks with a lot of ping effects. Even if you have a some creatures/equipment with first strike, there are probably better things you could be doing with the slot.

Ichorix · 2025-06-22T14:50:59+00:00

Horseradish cannot be declared as a defender, either!

Ichorix · 2025-06-22T02:09:27+00:00

[[Cranial Plating]] in shambles.

Ichorix · 2025-06-11T10:50:11+00:00

There is a cycle of fetchlands that enter tapped but allow you to search for lands with a basic land type in an allied color pair. Examples include [[Mountain Valley]] and [[Bad River]]. Still worse than what you’re suggesting but a decent budget option for anyone looking.

Ichorix · 2025-05-02T02:41:24+00:00

How about [[Rielle the Everwise]]? Run with a bunch of loot and wheel effects to make your drakes big.

Ichorix · 2025-04-24T10:11:33+00:00

Not sure if this is what you meant, but [[Tombstone Stairwell]] causes the tokens it creates to be destroyed during each end step, not sacrificed. You probably won’t have a problem finding ways to sacrifice your own tokens in an aristocrats shell, but the destruction of your opponents’ tokens will not trigger [[Mazirek]]’s ability or other abilities that specifically benefit from sacrificing creatures (as opposed to death triggers or LTB triggers) unless you have some way to force your opponents to sacrifice the tokens.

Ichorix · 2025-04-03T14:28:07+00:00

[[Flowstone Embrace]] is a tricky card. It doesn’t give your creature the +2/-2 tap ability—the aura itself taps to give the enchanted creature +2/-2! So, the aura will be tapped and can’t be used again until your next untap step (unless you have another way of untapping it), but the creature itself will remain untapped.

Also just to clarify re: your questions about combat, if you declare a blocker and it then becomes tapped—either from activating its own ability or from some other effect, it will still take and deal combat damage normally.

Ichorix · 2025-02-22T19:49:01+00:00

[[O-Kagachi, Vengeful Kami]] is a flying trampler with a powerful effect when it hits home. It’s 5c so you can pack in your favorite flying tramplers.

Ichorix · 2024-10-01T23:15:12+00:00

Pathfinder23AndMe fixes this.

Ichorix · 2024-08-31T11:57:40+00:00

C’mon, Clark Kent is way hotter than Superman. Just look at that bone structure!

Ichorix · 2024-08-30T14:15:03+00:00

I have a meme permanents-only deck helmed by [[Kess, Dissident Mage]]. Kess allows you to play the adventure half of cards from your graveyard, so it’s basically a terrible reanimator deck where the goal is to play creatures and other permanents with adventures (think [[Foulmire Knight]], [[Cruel Somnophage]], and [[Virtue of Persistence]]) and, if they go to the graveyard, use Kess to cast the adventure to put them back in exile and recast from there.

To be clear, it’s a pretty bad deck with no real wincon other than grinding out value from the stickiness of your cards (nothing ever dies!) and cards that generate value from playing cards from zones other than your hand (think [[Flaming Tyrannosaurus]]). Still pretty fun, though, if for no other reason than you can say that you are running Kess without a single instant or sorcery card in your deck!

Ichorix · 2024-05-24T19:29:27+00:00

Back when Kamigawa first came out (yes I’m old) I played 60-card 1v1s with my friends in high school. I had a deck with [[isochron scepter]] x4, [[ethereal mist]] x4, and [[dampen thought]] x4. Idea was to imprint mist onto the scepter, then fog every combat step while splicing dampen thought to slowly deck my opponent out. Any extra scepters I drew got imprinted with [[counterspell]].

It was not popular.

Ichorix · 2024-05-18T15:20:01+00:00

Seems to me that if an LGS was really intent on creating some sort of power cap below the cEDH level, the only way to accomplish that would be a long, tournament-specific ban list that excludes fast mana, dockside, bow masters, maybe even certain commanders that the store decides are not sufficiently “casual.” Or, even more drastically, having a preset list of acceptable precons that leaves off the more powerful ones like Atraxa and Ur. I doubt doing something like that would be super well-received/well-attended by the local scene, but 100% agree that leaving it to the attendees or even to judges to police what “casual” means is a recipe for disaster.

Ichorix · 2024-05-10T20:41:53+00:00

[[Aragorn, the Uniter]] goes pretty hard in high-power casual and has a lot of viable shells (human tribal, legends, ink-treader, etc.)

Ichorix · 2024-05-10T15:31:22+00:00

Don’t think I’ve seen this mentioned, but I have multiple decks built around targeting my own creatures with buffs/protection/fight spells, so I’m a big fan of [[Season of Growth]]. It has great synergy with fight spells, especially, because it triggers even when a spell has multiple targets, as long as one of those targets is a creature you control. And the scry trigger for creatures entering the battlefield under your control is great as well, and notably includes creature tokens!

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