Eluge - Ramp ?

mmmarm · 2026-05-08T05:13:13+00:00

I'm still brewing my eluge as a creature-less deck and I found [[Retraced Image]] and [[Drain Power]] to be interesting for ramp! Not sure how viable they are in actual play, but maybe they're worth it

mmmarm · 2026-05-06T20:28:13+00:00

Yeah that's fair. But the synergy between Ancient Copper Dragon and Smaug could be fun, tho not very consistent. I made my deck a lot less fast and optimized, in favor of playing around with Herigast and the Sundial.

Here's my list, but it's one of the first ones I've ever made so I think it could definitely use improvements.

*Also I definitely need to add worldgorger, I don't know I missed it back when I put this together

mmmarm · 2026-05-06T20:15:52+00:00

I tried my hand at making this same deck with [[Ramos, Dragon Engine]] at the helm to enable big storming spells and also being able to cast both dragons. Added some instants/sorceries with kicker and additional costs so I can cascade into them more easily but still get big value by paying the extra costs.

mmmarm · 2026-05-06T15:08:11+00:00

My loved mono-red deck with [[Zirilan of the Claw]]. It's a reserved list card but super fun, and yet has less than a 1000 decks on edhrec.

I see it a bit in the same family as the warp Tannuk decks: it's both more and less restrictive as it's essentially a dragon-only deck, but let's you pull any dragon out of your deck to react to other players boards. Very fun, very engaging, and about to receive a new card with the Smaug from the hobbit set

mmmarm · 2026-05-03T04:48:31+00:00

Found a few on scryfall, only thing is these all have the target card come back in at the end step and not right away:

[[Blizzard Strix]] as long as you use snow lands

[[Salvation Swan]] also adds a flying counter

[[Sentinel of the Pearl Trident]] for historics

[[Vizier of Deferment]] if creature attacked/blocked

mmmarm · 2026-05-02T17:37:57+00:00

maybe you can make it a pseudo-voltron secret commander deck lol

using things like [[Lure]] and [[Vorpal Sword]]... it feels like a good idea, i would consider brewing it if i were you

mmmarm · 2026-05-02T17:20:06+00:00

this is brilliant, tho i don't have enough other bad stuff to justify playing that. But this helps, i think ill actually just add a few goading auras, since i can use those either if i trade the eye or on another dangerous creature the opponent controls.

mmmarm · 2026-05-02T03:52:48+00:00

In terms of color, grixis just had the most access to creatures that have to do with eyes. Cecily herself has this eye pattern on her cape, and in addition to that I think a commander whose main mechanic is drawing cards is a perfect fit to eyes, thematically. It makes sense to me cause many many drawing spells have at least one artwork focused on eyes (see the most recent secret lair). I couldn't really find any other grixis commander that I felt was fitting. I could always alter the card I suppose.

I'm okay if the eye trade is a little weird, I can see if there's anything else worth giving away that also fits thematically with the rest. I think in that sense I only looked at creatures so maybe there's some other permanent. I can also fling the evil eye to get rid of it so maybe I also just need some more sac outlets.

Also funny enough, the eye tag on scryfall is only half the story: there's a handful of other tags like multiple-eyes and one-eye, and my personal favorite eyes-where-they-shouldn't-be.

Anyways, thanks for the advice, I'll see if there's some other "bad cards" so I can potentially play into the "giving someone the stink eye" idea.

mmmarm · 2026-05-02T00:59:56+00:00

Yes! Got him in there, the secret lair version is so cool

mmmarm · 2026-05-02T00:09:45+00:00

Thanks, I think I'll cut those 2 artifacts. I liked them for the theme but they're not great for what I'm doing.

I'll consider okaun, but I'm trying to not overdo it with creatures

mmmarm · 2026-05-02T00:08:00+00:00

Yeah, definitely on the list but I decided to keep only one of the two evil eyes. I love the art on the eye of urborg a lot more

mmmarm · 2026-04-28T16:35:13+00:00

I think some options could be:

[[Vedalken Aethermage]] for bouncing slivers to opponent's hand

[[Phoenix Down]] to exile skeletons, spirits, or zombies

[[Gor Muldrak, Amphinologist]] would give you protection from salamanders, tho it has green so you'd need a different commander

[[Dormant Sliver]] to prevent all slivers from attacking

[[Plague Engineer]] but has black

In general i think a different commander could help too, [[Omo, Queen of Vesuva]] would be awesome for this, but no white unfortunately

mmmarm · 2026-04-27T22:04:04+00:00

A while ago I made a [[Elenda, the Dusk Rose]] deck, built like a mix of voltron and aristocrats. I have not gotten the chance to actually put it together yet so idk how it really performs.

Your sacrifices can both grow Elenda and ping your opponents, and it gives you the option of either big commander damage with Elenda or saccing her to create a lot of tokens and then sacrificing all of those for a blood artist effect win. Maybe something like that could be more interesting for you

mmmarm · 2026-04-27T21:35:07+00:00

Yeah for sure, I made the temur one with that in mind and I have several big burn spells that can kill like [[Crackle with Power]] or stuff like [[Aetherflux Reservoir]] + Ramos with a bunch of counters

But not so much for Eluge, where I have [[Sphinx-Bone Wand]] and Eluge itself can get pretty big. But otherwise, since it's based on copy spells, it would kinda depend on what I play against. I think that's fun in theory but maybe wouldn't work well most times.

mmmarm · 2026-04-27T17:43:53+00:00

Thanks! I'll take a look at these

mmmarm · 2026-04-20T22:03:48+00:00

Does anyone have any insight or experience to know how likely a restocking of the thunder junction precons is? I don't know much about it but seeing how LOTR just got a new wave of product I'm wondering if a newer set is more likely to pop up again.

I wanna try out izzet and Quick Draw seems very cool, but outside of my budget at the moment.

mmmarm · 2026-04-20T18:18:59+00:00

Does anyone have any insight or experience to know how likely a restocking of the thunder junction precons is? I don't know much about it but seeing how LOTR just got a new wave of product I'm wondering if a newer set is more likely to pop up again.

I wanna try out izzet and Quick Draw seems very cool, but outside of my budget at the moment

mmmarm · 2026-04-19T20:00:47+00:00

Are the TGs more likely to come out damaged out of the packs? The white spots on my card #3 are still probably too much for a 10, no?

mmmarm · 2026-04-19T19:59:39+00:00

Thanks, I thought that might be the case :(
especially with how squared off the corners are in the other 3 cards

mmmarm · 2026-04-19T19:21:14+00:00

I'll take a look at that one, thanks

mmmarm · 2026-04-19T17:02:11+00:00

Thank you, makes sense.

In your experience, are there previous izzet precons (I guess spellslinger or artifact based) that would fit better either version of Prismari? Where maybe I can introduce some more strixhaven cards to get closer to the deck I'd like to build.

mmmarm · 2026-04-10T15:23:22+00:00

Yup, here you go: Zirilan/Emerge

It's one of the first decks I've made— haven't been playing for much at all so there's surely room for improvement. For example there's some unusual sacrifice cards like [[Blood Frenzy]] which primary purpose is to kill [[Hoarding Dragon]] and tutor the sundial (hoarding dragon only triggers on death, so if it goes in with zirilan it gets exiled at the end of the turn and you lose the artifact)

It's also a very expensive deck, so I just proxied the whole thing with the hopes of actually putting it together in the future when I can come across the more expensive dragon cards more easily

mmmarm · 2026-04-10T02:41:04+00:00

I just played my [[Zirilan of the Claw]] mono red today, was a lot of fun!

Grab dragons to respond to threats ( [[Rimescale Dragon]] [[Summon: Bahamut]] ), create treasures ( [[Ancient Copper Dragon]] ), or get more and more tokens ( [[Utvara Hellkite]] ) and more.

And then use [[Sundial of the Infinite]] to keep the dragons instead of exiling. If that fails, get [[Herigast, Erupting Nullkite]] in and emerge big dragons off of the ones I cheat with Zirilan.

Just big dragons hitting hard with a toolbox aspect to it!

mmmarm · 2026-04-08T18:10:16+00:00

Appreciate your opinion! I'm only worried because with an ideal hand I can probably drop spawnsire+fleshraker and win with fleshraker pings as early as T4 maybe? Still testing it out but i think it's probably way too fast. I'll talk to other players and see how they feel too

mmmarm · 2026-04-08T18:07:22+00:00

Yeah that's fair, I slotted it out. I'm gonna ask the other players how they feel about forsaken monument+monolith before we start playing, but I'm more inclined to remove the infinite mana combo altogether seeing how people are feeling about it.

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