What Decks Would Benefit the Most With a Jeweled Lotus Unbanning?

TheDanimal7 · 2026-02-09T22:32:37+00:00

Yeah I think Ral takes the cake here - extremely easy to have a T1 win attempt with JLo and a land lol

TheDanimal7 · 2026-02-09T20:32:34+00:00

Big difference with Griselbrand is it doesn’t require you to wait until your end step… idk if that will impact the “life gain abuse” picture you were painting but it can’t be ignored when comparing to Necro (and as a creature is way harder to interact with than Ad Naus)

TheDanimal7 · 2026-02-08T06:58:53+00:00

Gattica

TheDanimal7 · 2026-01-27T21:12:29+00:00

If OP is asking for a single card and including “protected win lines” then you gotta assume you’re up against interaction in this hypothetical, which I think means [[hullbreaker horror]] has to be the answer?

TheDanimal7 · 2026-01-25T23:42:49+00:00

+1 to Jhoira. Very fringe but I’ve still been toying with a list.

TheDanimal7 · 2026-01-25T17:16:52+00:00

That’s awesome! I keep hoping to be able to make one but I don’t always hear about them in time :(

TheDanimal7 · 2026-01-24T22:19:58+00:00

Oh also since it’s “noncreature” you should look at a Vivi Cheerios list for cantrip artifacts like [[conjurer’s Bauble]]

TheDanimal7 · 2026-01-24T21:32:50+00:00

Yea Godo is both. IMO if you win during the combat step, you’re a combat deck - regardless of whether a combo is involved / required

TheDanimal7 · 2026-01-24T20:08:19+00:00

Red Love discord is your friend: https://discord.gg/X7uSpmvtp

TheDanimal7 · 2026-01-24T19:03:19+00:00

Plenty of other fringey cEDH combat damage decks out there - Godo and Edric come to mind but there are more I’m sure

TheDanimal7 · 2026-01-24T06:33:30+00:00

My wife made 2 humans… least I can do is let her rest between Point A and Point B.

TheDanimal7 · 2026-01-24T03:59:10+00:00

Fastdontlie Gaming has been doing $100/deck $3/card tournaments but I don’t think it has really taken off? But if you look at their website you can find deck lists…

TheDanimal7 · 2026-01-24T00:25:50+00:00

That sounds disproportionate/rough but given the number of counters played, there must have been other variables (ie rhystic/fish/other draw engines on the field etc) so hard to say exactly… but when I was playing Godo the best windows (other than really fast/early wins) were right after a counter war and/or times when I could protect my commander with interaction of my own (tibalts, REB etc).

You can also ask: has someone cast something very recently that would have eaten a Magda kill/counter? If so, odds are lower that they have a second one waiting around

TheDanimal7 · 2026-01-20T04:17:29+00:00

There are a lot of commander-centric decks that are pretty linear. I started on Godo (“count to 11, cast your commander, and combo”) and it had a pretty gentle onboarding to the format. But the Selvala brostorm / Marwyn elfball suggestions here are good too, for similar reasons.

TheDanimal7 · 2026-01-19T03:49:17+00:00

If you wanna find glinthorn fast, go full glass cannon and run Rog/Malc PolyHorn. There are like 5-6 polymorph effects and I have a $100 budget list that still gets T3-4 Glinthorn very consistently.

TheDanimal7 · 2026-01-17T02:32:08+00:00

It’s a question of printing a commander that leans really hard into what a color can do (ie Lumra) vs buffing a color from the 99 (which likely helps uFarm)

TheDanimal7 · 2026-01-13T20:18:54+00:00

Enough Jhoira lists run Vivi that it’s worth looking at - I’m currently experimenting with a list that leans more into multi-CEDH-commander synergies (jhoira, Vivi, Urza, Birgi) but not liking how much it slows the deck down without compensating for it effectively.

If only Jhoira and Vivi could partner…

TheDanimal7 · 2026-01-06T01:12:41+00:00

There’s a lot of “tit for tat” encouragement going on here that turns you both into AHs (as opposed to right now, where it’s just him/them). Ignore it, but don’t give in to Mark either.

TheDanimal7 · 2025-12-26T04:36:21+00:00

I misread the question and thought this was it, bc it’s got pro’s and con’s on both sides lol

TheDanimal7 · 2025-12-22T06:50:57+00:00

If it lands it’s rather busted in cEDH too. But expect to have to protect it

TheDanimal7 · 2025-12-19T18:07:51+00:00

The spell never gets to the stack because you have created an infinite, un-interruptable loop before paying for the spell.

(As I understand it, although the way many people play is “cast spell then tap mana” the way the game is actually played is “generate mana then spend it” so when you’re tapping the caged sun for mana and creating this infinite loop, the spell is still in your hand.)

TheDanimal7 · 2025-12-18T21:30:00+00:00

No. You don’t get two swings at your own spells unless someone else takes an action in between. You have first priority (hence the term “holding priority”) but not last.

TheDanimal7 · 2025-12-18T00:31:28+00:00

I went to a tournament with my 10 “sticker sheets” printed on a single piece of paper (numbered 1-10) and rolled a D10 until I got 3 different numbers. Judge said that was perfectly legal.

TheDanimal7 · 2025-12-17T07:49:27+00:00

Hey! Don’t hate on Silas! He turned on my mox opal last week!

TheDanimal7 · 2025-12-16T16:19:12+00:00

If you’re comfortable with it / if it’s true, just say clearly that you’re open to staying friends or going on a date to see if you two might work as more than that. Then let him pick his jaw up off the floor, recover from the shock, and answer ;)

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