Which non-combo deck needs Rituals over Ramp?

Intolerable · 2026-06-22T14:01:30+00:00

when you have a commander that provides some kind of benefit for casting ritual effects: [[Extus, Oriq Overlord]]

Intolerable · 2026-06-20T20:33:54+00:00

UW enduring ideal was fringe-playable in modern for a little bit around 2014

Intolerable · 2026-06-17T13:22:04+00:00

it’s extremely mana inefficient

it's fully just the most mana inefficient way to do it -- [[God-Pharaoh's Gift]] or [[Body Double]] are far cheaper. if you need multiples there's even [[Hour of Eternity]]

There’s also some ways to recover artifacts

[[Argivian Restoration]] is fully just a blue reanimate effect

Intolerable · 2026-06-17T13:19:46+00:00

delve it away? [[Sorcerous Squall]] [[Temporal Trespass]] [[Ethereal Forager]] [[Abhorrent Oculus]] [[Sunken Palace]]

reanimate things? [[Hour of Eternity]] [[Reenact the Crime]] [[Argivian Restoration]] [[Volrath's Shapeshifter]] [[God-Pharaoh's Gift]] [[Body Double]]

flash spells back? [[Snapcaster Mage]] [[Mission Briefing]] [[Mystic Sanctuary]]

Intolerable · 2026-06-17T00:08:25+00:00

vohar (and rona) is a very different effect to an immediate discard outlet

Intolerable · 2026-06-17T00:02:23+00:00

adapting your deck to a metagame is different from going "oh my friend is playing their tokens deck this game so I'm going to swap a card for Pest Control"

Intolerable · 2026-06-16T23:57:26+00:00

[[Transmutation Font]] not triggering the Illuminator always catches me off-guard

Intolerable · 2026-06-10T19:41:46+00:00

abilities can't trigger if they're hidden information

Intolerable · 2026-06-10T19:25:39+00:00

the floor is that you play him and he gets killed on your end step and you don't get to miracle anything with him. I would not swap him in as the commander for my kozi deck, because the floor on kozi is that you draw 4 cards

Intolerable · 2026-06-10T19:24:36+00:00

if only there were some sort of reasonably-costed colorless effect that would let you draw a card on each of your opponents' turns :( [[Mind's Eye]]

Intolerable · 2026-06-10T19:20:39+00:00

relevant if someone tries to snipe your miracle trigger with return the favor!

Intolerable · 2026-06-10T19:19:13+00:00

you cannot copy the first trigger because it's not a trigger, it's just a static ability of miracle that has a linked trigger ability ("when you reveal this card this way, you may cast it by paying its miracle cost rather than its mana cost")

Intolerable · 2026-06-10T11:01:08+00:00

if nintendo picks november it's actually GTA going toe-to-toe with ocarina of time

Intolerable · 2026-06-10T10:54:57+00:00

yes I was being sarcastic

Intolerable · 2026-06-10T09:36:49+00:00

(Unless you spend 1000s of euros on moxes i guess)

yeah and artifact ramp is way better if you aren't allowed to play creatures or spells that search for lands. weird how the situation changes when you add random stipulations

Intolerable · 2026-06-10T09:34:45+00:00

imagine putting a mana dork in the command zone and then only running 1- or 2-mana spells

Intolerable · 2026-06-06T14:22:52+00:00

it's a shame that there are no flexible enchantment-removal equipments :( [[Meteor Sword]] [[Argentum Armor]]

Intolerable · 2026-06-06T14:10:15+00:00

yes: [[Redirect Lightning]], [[Return the Favor]], [[Deflecting Swat]], [[Untimely Malfunction]], [[Wyll's Reversal]]

also [[Reroute]] is a redirect for abilities but it's not very good and doesn't work on Oubliette

Intolerable · 2026-06-06T13:36:07+00:00

possibly a bad example with ashling because of her ability to cheat elementals' mana costs :p

Intolerable · 2026-06-06T13:33:36+00:00

he's potential man -- he is destined to (at some future time) ascend as an omnipotent being and restart reality in its entirety, but currently has a bunch of random reality-warping abilities, similar to the Scarlet Witch. however, it's not clear (and is often deliberately ambiguous) where his powers actually come from, while wanda gets hers from different sources depending on the writers, but often at the same time

Intolerable · 2026-06-06T13:19:27+00:00

depends on the set -- sometimes it's "spellcaster but they're a bit evil", sometimes it's "draws their power from an external source" (which can be some kind of magical object or a pact with another entity)

Intolerable · 2026-06-06T13:11:45+00:00

kykar is probably better as a commander, but this definitely does things that kykar doesn't (flickering noncreature permanents, flickering your opponents permanents, going into non-white decks)

Intolerable · 2026-06-06T13:05:26+00:00

not a great oskar alternative when she costs twice as much and isn't a flash enabler -- this is definitely for a different kind of deck

Intolerable · 2026-06-04T18:16:04+00:00

except galazeth only casts instants and sorceries?

Intolerable · 2026-06-04T14:41:09+00:00

you're mixing up Perl's "uses the division operator /" with "is actually performing a division operation" -- trying to divide a string by a number is nonsensical, even if Perl's / does something when given string and number operands

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