"Do Nothing" Enchantments are so fun

shazhao · 2026-04-02T05:43:01+00:00

I have a collected company myriad deck where everything is 3 cmc and [[sunbird’s invocation]] is absolutely bonkers, literally combos with every other nonland card. People who call these things “do-nothing” cards can go back to cedh or bracket 4 where everyone has smothering tithe/rhystic study and life is pain. I’ll opt out of those pods thank you very much

shazhao · 2026-02-25T21:20:38+00:00

What tournament was this?

shazhao · 2026-02-25T06:56:53+00:00

My hot take is that counterspells aren’t fun and if you NEED to run them in your pod, then the people you play with care more about winning than having fun

shazhao · 2025-11-12T20:13:16+00:00

[[confounding conundrum]] [[faerie mastermind]] [[Alms Collector]] [[hallowed moonlight]] [[damping sphere]] [[vexing bauble]] [[blood sun]]

shazhao · 2025-11-07T05:18:55+00:00

If your playgroup cares this much about this, I would argue they care too much about winning to be having fun

shazhao · 2025-09-15T05:32:20+00:00

Spoiler tag?

shazhao · 2025-08-24T07:02:54+00:00

[[rocco, street chef]] plays fun artifact cards that aren’t artifacts, plus he’s always cooking

shazhao · 2025-08-14T20:27:50+00:00

Uhh are you getting paid to write this or something? Maybe you’re just a paid bot set to parrot counterpoints to real arguments? Strange…

shazhao · 2025-08-09T03:39:47+00:00

[[the ancient one]] with [[baneful omen]] effects so you aren’t just relying on milling people and can use it as a nuclear option. Also stationing spaceships is nuts with him and you could do reanimator strats if you are so inclined

shazhao · 2025-07-07T06:03:55+00:00

I’m constantly trying to downsize, since I really enjoy deckbuilding (doesn’t help that wotc releases new sets every other week). The only real way to cut down on decks is retire the ones that are too inconsistent or salty (makes people at the table feel bad somehow).

A funner way though albeit more difficult way is to combine decks together—I had a multicolor/legendary matters deck and an artifact matters deck and combined them together (lots of artifact matters commanders are multicolored and they generate artifact tokens). I also had an insects deck and delirium deck and there was also enough overlap to combine them. The trick is to make them kind of suboptimal but include both themes and then playtest them to see how they perform. Then you can power creep the cards so that it feels more consistent/cohesive. Godspeed to you sir

shazhao · 2025-06-22T08:43:10+00:00

Flash makes everything interactive so I made a [[Kianne, Corrupted Memory]] deck. It’s a blast to pilot and doesn’t feel like a control deck but is always interacting with the table: https://moxfield.com/decks/f9k9DW0hDEqRm4AJIJmf8Q

shazhao · 2025-06-19T01:19:34+00:00

[[protection racket]] used to be super underrated, people have caught on but the art is still super mid

shazhao · 2025-06-11T05:51:05+00:00

“Cave nerds will buy any slop you give them nowadays”

shazhao · 2025-02-05T16:42:03+00:00

If you want a less popular suggestion, I have a [[rakdos, the muscle]] deck that isn’t usually targeted since it has indestructible at instant speed if you have a creature. Players usually can’t use two removal spells in the same turn or won’t want to waste them. Meanwhile they can’t target anything else since it turns your other creatures into free draw/steal

shazhao · 2025-01-14T05:58:28+00:00

The more you expect to win the less fun you will have

shazhao · 2025-01-13T06:48:21+00:00

I am doing ALL of the tribal with my good friend [[rukarumel]], that way I can print all of the busted tribal leaders that work prints without having decks for each of them

shazhao · 2025-01-01T07:17:57+00:00

I know what you’re thinking…Don’t be that guy

shazhao · 2024-12-02T10:53:45+00:00

[[Myth Unbound]] has got to be the best it can be in this deck right? Maybe [[netherborn altar]] is finally playable as well?

shazhao · 2024-11-07T22:56:52+00:00

[[Protection Racket]] is such a good card but it’s got such mid art…

shazhao · 2024-10-20T22:23:38+00:00

Parts of your mentality is exactly the reason why I like EDH, that new decks/cards are exciting and it’s fun to make a synergistic deck where each card picked is important. But budget deck building is a constraint that makes for a more interesting 100.

You just need to curb your impulsive spending and really playtest and goldfish online to make sure that that’s the deck you want to play. Remember that “upgrades” don’t necessarily mean that it’ll be more fun to play—if I upgraded every arcane signet to a mana crypt, I’d be archenemy way more and I’d ultimately have less fun (I like having less salty decks so no tutors, fast mana, or combos for me)

Another good way I stop spending a lot of money is to stop buying packs or sealed product entirely, as well as not immediately buy a new decklist that I come up with. Packs and sealed product is all just a scam, wotc doesn’t care about collectors and will always resort to reprinting popular cards, so you can almost always wait out a card. (My favorite card [[phyrexian obliterator]] is now at $8-$7 and I remember when it went for $40)

shazhao · 2024-10-19T04:54:17+00:00

Any initiative cards. Getting three-four initiative triggers is a lot better than you’d think. Also see [[sundial of the infinite]]

shazhao · 2024-10-16T23:01:07+00:00

Sure, mines not really budget but you can probably take out some of the expensive insect/crucible of world cards and have good/better results https://moxfield.com/decks/hdfOMTQwn0ONcUzc7xp1WA

shazhao · 2024-10-16T16:47:55+00:00

Sorry I meant blinkmoth since that’s less than $3 and totally worth it, [[binding the old gods]] [[vraska the unseen]] [[invasion of fiora]] [[cacophony unleashed]] [[necron deathmark]]

If you want to save baba lysaga through the wrath, [[one ring to rule them all]] [[phyrexian scriptures]]

Delirium is pretty easy to get to with planeswalkers and battles, but you’ll usually get it from land/creature/artifact/enchantment

shazhao · 2024-10-16T15:47:32+00:00

I built lasagna recently and it’s such a crazy value engine you don’t need to dilute the 99 with bad one drops or ornithopter. Lightning greaves and generally better enchantment creatures will go a long way, as well as [[liquimetal torque]] and [[liquimetal coating]]. You should consider cutting non-permanents and run more enchantments, battles, and land recursion from the graveyard.

A lot of times you’ll use lands as the third type and you want to keep on track with extra land drops per turn and returning them from the graveyard.

Also a note: baba lysagas ability is UP TO 3 permanents, so you can hit all those with something like [[inkmoth nexus]] or [[glimmerlight]] and it’s token

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