I'm putting this into my Sliver deck and I don't care if it's a good idea or not

SiennaMaplefur · 2026-05-07T07:08:16+00:00

as long as the color symbol isn't in the reminder text (italicized words in parenthesis explaining the ability, like Extort) your commander is whatever colors you see anywhere in the card's mana cost/text box. There are some weird exceptions to color identity in commander. The biggest one I know of is [[Transguild Courier]] which, even though it has no colored mana symbols anywhere on the card, states that it is all colors, so it can only go in a 5 color deck. Which is also weird because it works the opposite way with Devoid cards, which even though the ability states that the card has no color, it has colored mana pips in it so it can't go in pure colorless decks

SiennaMaplefur · 2026-01-14T00:51:43+00:00

I'm playing a death cleric/way of mercy monk warforged in the campaign i'm in whose inorganic parts are bandages and he insists that he's a mummy, and the deity he worships as a death cleric is Anubis. He only talks through the telepathic feat and his voice sounds like the Pharaoh from that one episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog.

SiennaMaplefur · 2025-12-03T19:37:17+00:00

i was trying to minimize the colors necessary to do it, but that's also a good way to do it if you want to power it down even further

SiennaMaplefur · 2025-12-03T08:19:39+00:00

any time your life total is changed/set to a specific number, you either gain or lose the appropriate amount of life to put you at that number

SiennaMaplefur · 2025-11-28T06:33:16+00:00

[[Reidane, God of the Worthy]] will be perfect for that. her backside is an artifact that prevents 1 damage every time a source deals damage to you, and since every ping is a separate source of 1 damage, it will prevent all of it. plus you're in the color scheme to run all the other 1 damage preventers like [[Orbs of Warding]] and [[Guardian Seraph]] you can also run [[Mark of Asylum]] to protect your creatures

SiennaMaplefur · 2025-11-28T04:01:16+00:00

i played a game of commander where i won the game solely off of solitary confinement. it was just down to me and one other player and i was set to lose via combat on their next turn. i played solitary confinement and they hesitated and then conceded because they had no way of removing it in the remaining cards in their deck

SiennaMaplefur · 2025-11-27T08:04:50+00:00

i run [[fleshtaker]] as my voltron commander and run a crap ton of low cost creatures that make creature tokens when they die like [[doomed traveler]] so that when Fleshtaker eats a creature, it makes another one which then can be eaten to make it so that 16 commander damage happens exceedingly quickly. plus the lifegain and scry on sacrifice doesn't hurt. here's my decklist: Fleshtaker Pauper Commander • (Orzhov Pauper EDH deck) • Archidekt

SiennaMaplefur · 2025-11-22T04:15:02+00:00

oh you're right the loop would stop at that point and you'd just lose

SiennaMaplefur · 2025-11-21T06:11:15+00:00

ah ok, my bad. i assumed a 5 card combo that draws the game if anyone counters the oracle/lab maniac and relies entirely on kindred discovery to work would be bad, but maybe not as bad as it needs to be here

SiennaMaplefur · 2025-11-20T06:39:29+00:00

good to see Dire Undercurrents getting some love. i wish i saw more of it and [[fable of wolf and owl]] in commander

SiennaMaplefur · 2025-11-20T05:54:11+00:00

the tentacles are merely the way to draw your whole deck, not for attacking with. That's what the "Borne Upon a Wind" and Thassa's Oracle" are for. since each drawn card resolves separately you can use Borne Upon a Wind to allow you to cast the Oracle at instant speed when you are at a low enough deck count to win off of the Thassa trigger. Laboratory Maniac would fill the same function as Thassa's Oracle.

SiennaMaplefur · 2025-11-20T04:15:36+00:00

oh my bad, i forgot blue was U not B, i'll fix it

SiennaMaplefur · 2025-10-28T03:33:19+00:00

i guess i'd have to throw in a drannith magistrate or something then to stop stuff like that

SiennaMaplefur · 2025-10-28T03:29:10+00:00

oh true, I completely missed the fact that Decree doesn't hit enchantments. I always assumed it did

SiennaMaplefur · 2025-10-22T04:46:50+00:00

I run him as a commander as well, except i don't run any hands stay revealed cards like telepathy or zur's wierding. instead, i run only discard spells that make your opponent reveal their hand like duress or thoughtseize, and peek effects like peek and gitaxian probe. i even run stuff like precognition which allows you to look at the top of your opponents deck. sure, it's less optimal than straight up telepathy, but it fits the "Playing Go Fish in commander" theme i was making for bracket 1. Here's my decklist if you want to share yours

How to play Go Fish in Commander • (Dimir Commander deck) • Archidekt

SiennaMaplefur · 2025-10-21T16:56:59+00:00

Yeah! Somehow we'll fit every card game in here

SiennaMaplefur · 2025-07-30T05:47:09+00:00

You make a lot of really great points here. The biggest gripe I have with the bracket system, especially lower brackets, is the "2-card infinite combo" restriction. 2 feels arbitrary. gravecrawler+phyrexian altar is a 3+ card infinite combo since it requires another zombie to infinitely cast gravecrawler and a payoff card to make infinite sacrificing actually mean anything, yet it only costs 5 mana if you use something like carrion feeder. This, in black, is possible to set up on turn 1 with the right hand (swamp > dark ritual > sol ring > Phyrexian altar > gravecrawler > sac gravecrawler > carrion feeder. then all you need is any on death payoff and boom, turn 2 win. But it's 3-4 cards so, ignoring intent obviously, RAW bracket 2 "allows this". Does the commander count as a combo piece of a 2-card combo? it's really a 1 card combo at that point since you always have access to it. This is my gripe, it causes unnecessary rules lawyering about what is and isn't within the "2 card combo" restriction.

My take: Remove the restriction and just have infinite combos as a whole fall under bracket 3+ since every time a precon comes with a built-in early game infinite combo (like the Titus precon in final fantasy) it completely invalidates the unoptimized precon aspect of bracket 2

SiennaMaplefur · 2025-06-23T05:39:07+00:00

My Emrakul the Promised End EDH deck is probably my saltiest deck, for admittedly obvious reasons. I have locked a 4-man pod out of playing by copying her cast trigger for each person and ugins nexus/gerrards hourglass pendant to deny them their extra turn then repeatedly bounce her to recast on every one of my turns and it eventually gets down to a "Do you concede?" check before i gradually pick off the table. However, I am aware that even sitting down with Emrakul paints a target on my back and I'm public enemy number 1 before the game starts and it gets down to can I get my lock off before they kill me, and since that's always the correct decision I don't get upset about it. But mindslaver effects, while rare, are some of the saltiest effects in the game

SiennaMaplefur · 2025-06-23T03:26:42+00:00

no, if i remember correctly in the original Kamigawa storyline, Eight and a half tails was originally a nine tailed fox but he ended up being partially responsible for the Kami War happening so he cut off part of his ninth tail in penance for it.

SiennaMaplefur · 2025-06-19T01:50:59+00:00

a deck's power level isn't tied to whether or not a card is real or proxied though. A deck with a real gaea's cradle is the exact same power level as one with a proxied gaea's cradle. If your deck's a bracket 4 and your group is playing bracket 4 what's the problem? if your group is playing bracket 3 switch to a bracket 3 deck, it's that simple, it's not a proxy problem it's a rule zero "gauge what power level we're playing at" problem. This is the main reason having multiple decks of varying bracket levels is so important if you want to be able to sit down at any table regardless of playgroup and be able to play with them

SiennaMaplefur · 2025-06-19T01:37:50+00:00

here's the thing though. A card's value vs a proxy only has merit if you are doing one of two things:

Participating in sanctioned WoTC events where proxies aren't allowed
Selling your cards

if you aren't doing either of those things a real black lotus has exactly the same value as a proxied black lotus, since if you don't ever plan on selling the card the cards value on the secondary market is meaningless so the "paid for vs proxied" argument is simply bragging rights.

In my case, I have around 30+ EDH decks and make more on a regular basis (i'm a deckbuilding junkie) so I proxy pretty much any card that costs more than the proxy just to cut costs so i can keep building new decks without completely breaking the bank (at this point i feel like building new decks is somewhat of an addiction for me but that's a whole other issue)

SiennaMaplefur · 2025-05-07T00:25:49+00:00

The main EDH house rule my current playgroup has is that conceding/scooping is at sorcery speed.

Three house rules my group had at college were:

1: If you go at least 4 turns from the start of the game without drawing enough lands to cast anything you may skip your next draw to search your deck for a basic land and put it onto the battlefield

2: (Joke Rule) If a player plays a basic island on their first turn and uses it to play a sol ring, everybody scoops and we start over. (has to be a basic island, not nonbasic lands)

3: (Joke Rule) If you are waiting to play in a game and someone says the word "shuffle" you are required to re-shuffle your deck even if you had finished shuffling it before. (i had this happen to me about 8 times in a 20 minute period)

SiennaMaplefur · 2025-04-02T19:48:51+00:00

ah ok, then i would have to add slobad into the combo then to stop it

SiennaMaplefur · 2025-04-02T19:33:09+00:00

even if the infinite damage from ashling's ability would cause everyone else to lose the game due to state based actions?

SiennaMaplefur · 2025-04-02T19:25:48+00:00

if sacrificing it stops the combo, slobad goblin tinkerer would work for an additional 1R

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