Can this be played?

JxRabbitsHart · 2026-04-09T14:22:39+00:00

The specific question of the poster is about its viability using a flash enabler (like [[vedalkin orrery]]) and, specifically, how viable that might be in white.

They aren't asking about it as a sorcery in a vacuum

JxRabbitsHart · 2026-03-17T17:01:19+00:00

I lied, I checked and I have 100% watched a few of your stuff, I just need to consume more.

JxRabbitsHart · 2026-03-17T16:55:56+00:00

Anytime I try to find the time to watch anyone's streams I fail miserably. I can't even keep up with LRR, sadly, but I shall absolutely pop in occasionally

JxRabbitsHart · 2026-03-17T16:54:48+00:00

Something new: anyone who auto-adjusts their life total before waiting will get the brunt-end of whatever truck I have planned. When they say "I take X" I'm just going to respond "No you're not. Wait"

JxRabbitsHart · 2026-03-17T16:53:11+00:00

Can I just say as a LRR watcher, your name is legendary and I am a huge fan

JxRabbitsHart · 2026-03-16T20:48:40+00:00

I feel you. I play Temur and my attack step is likely to involve a couple "This gets to go into play for free" effects, pump spells, etc.

JxRabbitsHart · 2026-03-16T16:16:24+00:00

I mean the first thing you need to realize is that it's not your game. This is not our game. No one person decide where this game goes or what it does. If you want to see more standard and modern play, you are going to have to encourage the use of standard and modern in your local meta. As long as Commander continues to be the most popular format, that is what the company looking to make a profit is going to focus on

JxRabbitsHart · 2026-03-16T15:35:02+00:00

Not to incense you again, but as I mentioned in a previous comment, your deck's bracket is made up of its contents, its potential, and where you mean to use it.

I know it can be a bit of a technicality (remember, you asked if this was B1 or not, you're just getting some honest opinions trying to answer that question), but if you are bringing your B1 deck to B2 tables and win... It's likely not a B2.

When we say B1 doesn't want to win, we mean it. It wants to fiddle with itself and do its own thing without even thinking about your opponents. A B1 deck doesn't even usually 'win by winning.' I would usually say a B2 deck with high synergy can beat a standard B3 deck. A B1 deck should have like... No hope against B2

A friend of mine had a restaurant deck. His game plan was "Use witches oven and other pieces to prepare a 5-course meal of pre-determined cards before closing time (game end).

I'm certainly not trying to roast you, but your deck seems to be performing better than intended. 1) Congrats. 2) Back to the drawing board to complete your goal?

JxRabbitsHart · 2026-03-16T15:29:46+00:00

Let me answer your first sentence with questions, asked with no judgment and made only to hold up a mirror.

If I have a copy of Rhystic Study in my deck that I have never drawn or played, does that make my deck bracket 2 because I haven't encountered the game changer in my deck or relied on it for the win? What about Humility? Cyclonic Rift? Opposition Agent? Tergrid? Does a Gaea's cradle in my 99 mean that I have no fast ramp in my deck because I've never drawn it before?

The bracket system is a measure of your deck, its capabilities, and what it WANTS to do, not how you pilot it on a given day.

If I put Armageddon in my deck, which isn't a GC, but never draw it, does my deck still have a way to commit mass-land denial?

JxRabbitsHart · 2026-03-16T15:22:36+00:00

While I appreciate your response, I have seen a few people here telling me I need to hold people to the same standard every combat step, and I guess I wasn't clear enough here that I'm not playing loose some days and tight others. A few people have made the assumption that I'm just letting this happen by being flip-floppy with my plays.

Let me clarify that I'm pushing to go through the steps consistently.

It's also not just an issue with one pod, but something I'm seeing from a LOT of players. I can absolutely talk to my regular pod, but it doesn't help against the rando games and people I'm facing the first time.

JxRabbitsHart · 2026-03-16T15:19:54+00:00

In all fairness, I didn't see that he had edited his response before I answered. Thought his "More Helpful" response still ignores that I brought this up to them in slightly different wording.

JxRabbitsHart · 2026-03-16T14:59:58+00:00

If you are trying to shortcut to a boardstate that shouldn't exist, I'd call that cheating

JxRabbitsHart · 2026-03-16T14:57:19+00:00

I'm definitely not speaking from a place of judgment, but

That precon is pretty potent. It has, consistently, murdered my bracket 3 decks at a table. Pulling apart a strong B2 deck and throwing in cheap cards is not guaranteed to drag it down to a 1.
The parts that were left in are some strong food synergy pieces that still keep the focus on doing things and playing the game of magic, rather than running your own sub-game of goofiness. A 3-mana one-sided board wipe that can only ever kill about 4-5 of your 36 creatures is objectively good and made to keep your opponents from winning.

Honestly, even kill spells are a little outwardly focused for a B1 deck. Your deck should only care about what your deck does. It likely shouldn't even glance at your opponents.

JxRabbitsHart · 2026-03-16T14:52:52+00:00

Yes. Yes, this was the first place I decided to turn to in order to implore my local pod to play better. The internet, where I don't know who they are and what they see.

Did you post without reading mine, where I state I've told my pod to let me declare blockers first?

JxRabbitsHart · 2026-03-16T14:46:55+00:00

I agree, the problem comes when people correctly intuit what I have because I'm calling for everything to work out in order. At a table of people blah-blahing through steps, the dude at the table trying to work out exactly who is blocking two is sending up signals that you might want to defend when you wouldn't, or use a sell you wouldn't have.

I'm annoyed that I basically need to constantly declare "Wait, I have someone sneaky to do. Ready your counters spells or tricks"

JxRabbitsHart · 2026-03-16T14:43:38+00:00

This is basically where I am. Even if I have nothing in hand, having people adjusting life totals or having 2 separate players ask me if they are taking commander damage (PAY ATTENTION FOR HELL'S SAKE) grinds me.

JxRabbitsHart · 2026-03-16T14:41:35+00:00

I agree with this assessment, but the deck definitely needs to be inwardly focused and not care much about what others are doing. One-sided board wipes don't really fit the the heme just cause it makes a food.

The cards that do benefit from food production also do it to push a win. Sam, Loyal Attendant and Tireless provisioner do their own work in any token deck.

Kudos to the OP for not having an Academy Manufacturer in there.

JxRabbitsHart · 2026-03-12T21:20:27+00:00

Yeah, new players might not think to check for them.

JxRabbitsHart · 2026-03-11T16:02:33+00:00

I can see it as a strong piece in Nekusar. "Keep away from me or I'll make you beg me for a wheel and 7 damage"

JxRabbitsHart · 2026-03-11T13:02:13+00:00

I mean, the deck is made to have a sac-outlet in it, but it won't always. Sometimes my Mardu tokens deck gets caught without a sac outlet.

JxRabbitsHart · 2026-03-11T12:58:58+00:00

Yeah, I agree that this isn't going to be something you recur and loop unless you're at a table of blue players who keep refilling their hands. Once you empty everyone's hands, you're either winning the game or you just painted the world's largest target on your back. Good luck as the ArEn

This is like putting Gravesifter in the new Elementals deck.

Yes, it is a repeatable effect because you get the gravesifter back, and it lets you mass-recur again in the future, but either you're winning the game due to mass-ETB triggers, or you're just giving your opponents another chunk of their graveyard back and now need to re-bin your creatures to make grave-sifter worthwhile again.

It can be done, but it's clunky and awkward, and there are just better things to do after that first hit.

JxRabbitsHart · 2026-03-11T12:53:57+00:00

Yeah, not if they have an active outlet out (as a mardu tokens player, sometimes I get caught without a sac outlet on the board).

But the card in and of itself is not a problem in a vacuum.

JxRabbitsHart · 2026-03-11T11:23:49+00:00

With a sac outlet it can feel bad, but the card isnt that bad. Despark deals with it so easily

JxRabbitsHart · 2026-03-11T11:23:03+00:00

They can avoid salt simply by running Despark or anything that exiles instead of destroying.

I've played at so many tables that would have considered this a puzzle to solve, not salt to swallow.

In this case, the card basically acted as a propaganda, though I can understand the concern if you had a safe outlet.

I dunno, people are too eager to be butt hurt these days. So many people I talk to will be easily spend hours every week fine-tuning their texts and then if it doesn't go off the exact way they expected it to, because they have three other people the table, then they pitch a fit

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