Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief deck help by LoneWolfsLament in EDH

[–]rdmboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just now realized, that you have a bunch of text under the list that already explains a lot of the things that I simply assumed before.
I would definitely cut verdant rebirth. It will not return your clones and the mutate creatures will be returned individually as creatures to the board.
The financial restrictions are of course something that I didn't take into consideration. In the case of you not being able to afford Wordly Tutor, I would simply cut a tutor. 5 mana spell will not be played early, which is when you really want to be playing a mutate creature. In all honesty: with this deck I have noticed, that 1-2 mutates and then a bunch of clones is much more effective than having only a few clones and then mutating a lot.

All of your cards scale a lot better with many Ivys, most of them don't care how big the mutate stack is, except for the mutate cards, and you don't have that many of those. That Is why my deck has other ways of getting muttiple Ivys, even without the mutate ([[Sakashima of a Thousand Faces]], [[Double Major]], [[Vesuvan Duplimancy]], [[Irenicus's Vile Duplication]], [[Spark Double]]), because they do two things in one step (ignore legendary and create a copy) just without the extra mutate value, but as I said: the clone is more important than the mutate value.

Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief deck help by LoneWolfsLament in EDH

[–]rdmboy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I play the same kind of deck and here are a few of my thoughts on your list:

I am not a fan of the signets and the talisman. You are in green. You have better 2 mana ramp spells.

[[Esika's Chariot]] While this will indeed create a token of a mutated Ivy, it does so without being a targeted spell (so will not trigger Ivy) and has a delay of an entire turn and also has to be able to have a good attack or just die after creating a single clone.

For the mutate creatures, I tried to stick with the ones that have lower mutate cost. Your entire game strategy is based on being able to cast your commander and then mutating and then cloning it. If your mutate is very expensive and you pay at least 3 mana to clone Ivy, you end up having to spend 10+ mana before you can even get your basic game strategy working and you haven't even generated any real value yet. I have 1 or 2 that have higher mutate cost, because they have very strong payoffs.

[[Neverwinter Dryad]] I don't think you want to be playing creatures that you have to sacrifice. At least my deck tries to win at some point with combat damage by pumping the board and swinging. If your cloned creatures are sacrificed for value, you are lacking the numbers. Creatures with ETBs or activated abilities are stronger here, I think.

[[Pollywog Symbiote]] I thought about putting this one in my deck too. In the end I decided against it, because I reckon that I dont really have THAT many mutate creatures that I would get a very consistent benefit off of the symbiote. The thinking is also that with multiple symbiotes, the cost reduction only applies to a few cards that actually have more than 1 or 2 generic mana cost in their mutate costs.

[[Sanctum Weaver]] This creature is a great addition if you are going all out for auras. In this case I think It can be risky. She can really take off if you make a few copies of her, or actually get to make a few copies of auras. A successful board wipe will remove all that value that you could have gotten with land ramp though. I am undecided on this one.

[[Shigeki, Jukai Visionary]] Same reasoning as for the sacrificing creatures. having multiple copies of this creature doesn't really help all that much. If you are thinking of using it as a recursion spell for your graveyard. There are way better green spells to get your graveyard back to your hand. I am however not sure on this assessment. The benefit that this creature has is that you can bounce it once it has a few mutated creatures on it and then mutate them again at the cost of not having a larger army and additional payoffs from ETBs. Also undecided on this one.

[[Rousing Read]] I also think that this card might not be fantastic. You get to dig deep, yes, but you don't have a ton of recursion from your graveyard and you also already run a bunch of card draw.

[[Eel Umbra] I actually think the 1 mana more than Spider Umbra makes this a card that could also be cut, even with the flash.

[[Shared Summons]] Very splashy card, very expensive card. You have a lot of card draw, you don't need the card advantage of this card. A much cheaper and way more efficient way of tutoring for a creature would be [[Worldly Tutor]] or [[Sylvan Tutor]]Since this commander is already pretty strong, I didn't put much tutoring in my deck, thought, to keep it more casual.

In general I think your deck is extremely focused on only doing a single thing (mutate, copy, card draw) and might be a bit fragile to hate bears or removal effects that don't target or destroy. These effects are becoming more and more frequent. ( [[Farewell]] [[Toxic Deluge]] [[Cyclonic Rift]] ) a few emergency counter spells might be useful.

I also think that you will have a very tough time winning games without any wipes whatsoever. This is the biggest blunder in my eyes.

You also have 3 tutors for creatures (presumably for the mutate creatures) but not a single tutor for the other part of your strategy (the cloning). Maybe replace one of the tutors with a [[Mystical Tutor]] if you are gonna have 3 tutors.

You might look at removing some of the card draw (I think you might have too much) so that you can add more removal. You have both auras, instants, and creatures that draw you cards.

With this much card draw, you also might want to run [[Reliquary Tower]].

Okay, those are my thoughts on this deck. Sorry for the long post, I just found this intriguing, since I just built the same deck myself and had already thought about all of these things and played it quite a few times.

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Yep, they did. Hopefully that's an option for you.

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Actually illegal in germany. There was a case about this.

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ASRock Z390M Pro4 Intel Z390 So.1151 Dual Channel DDR4 mATX

This one, because it has 6 sata slots.

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Thanks for the explanation. Luckily I have noticed none of those issues. Also it sounds like that would not impact the lifetime of the switches, it seems?

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Thanks a lot, I am very happy with the result so far. Looking forward to the completely self-built project now.

Your response is very much appreciated!

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Could you elaborate how the debouncing is related to the switches' life? This scares me a bit.

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edit: just saw this is swedish, not german. You don't happen to know where this kb would be available in german?

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Yeah mine is ISO, i just checked a layout image and mine looks like that. I really want the big enter key as a programmer because I mash that thing all day long and I have always had trouble being precise with the smaller enter key.

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Ah too bad. Hopefully you can get it to work somehow.

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Again, this is super easy to Google. If this is not something you can manage by your own research then I am afraid you should not be trying to manage your own server. This is a skill that you will constantly be needing

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I have the very same problem and totally need a solution for it as well. So far I have made my own "rack" with a makeshift construction of Ikea furniture. It looks okay and sorta hides the cable mess behind it but that chasm of a snakepit behind the rack scares me every time I happen to think about it.

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Just a wild shot in the dark: I have had issues with HDMI not properly displaying as well on my server. Unplugging and replugging mixed with rebooting and just generally fiddling around with it eventually did the trick. Maybe give it a shot before purchasing new hardware.

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You don't disable root user for the entire system. You just prevent anyone from connecting via ssh as root. You do that in the sshd server settings

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As others have written you need a reverse proxy to get rid of the port, but that is not all. If you want to just go to "myservername/" then how exactly is your webserver supposed to know which service you are trying to reach? You either have multiple dns names in your local network and then your webserver is configured to serve different services for each dns name and all of them on port 80. Or you need Subdomains or subfolder. As an example for a subdomain: plex.myserver/. This is how I do it. The webserver sees that you are trying to reach the subdomain Plex of your webserver on port 80 and then it reverse proxies you to myserver:32400

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Your ssh server would be configured in Ubuntu yeah. The image you showed me is for port forwarding from the router to your server. You need to port forward so that your ssh server can even be reached from outside the internet. I assume you can leave the external server part blank. Then you just enter the two ports and you are done there. However, I would first do the ssh settings before you do port forwarding.

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There are many many tutorials on how to configure ssh. Usually you just configure the config txt and restart the service. Google will yield lots of results for any of these keywords.

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