Absolutely love your take on cards. You put the cards into situations that are real and explain the point really well. You have a great way. Please keep doing what you are doing and Thanks! Take care.
I've been watching for a while now and gotta say, very underrated channel. Brings me back when I was in college - I scour old MTG boxes from my LGS and blow my mind with the stuff I find.
You didn't mention the other use of Reconnisance: You can use it in the end-of-combat step when your creatrues are still technically considered attacking creatures but have dealt their damage, to untap them, giving them pseudo-vigillance
Reconnaisance has another use in that it can give an attacking creature an infinite number of untaps. Infinite mana for instant speed spells, infinite tap effects on cards like Baby Jace, Arcanis/Azami, even cards like Chandra's Magmutt just kills everyone
@@mazimus2578 I think once it's removed from combat, the creature(s) in question won't be able untap. The prerequisite is "attacking creature" so once it's removed with the first activation the rest fizzles. Although if you attack with something that has triggers based on being targeted by abilities, you could activate infinitely, but at that point just use Nomads En-Kor.
@@pistolpete7422 Not really double taps unless the creature has vigilance, because otherwise you have to attack first, which taps the creature. But if your opponent has no blockers, you can get some damage in and then tap.
these videos are perfect, they’re like short little podcasts that i can just put on and listen to while i’m doing something, but i can sit down and watch them as well.
I keep waiting for the day when you run out of interesting cards for these lists, and yet here's another great list with multiple cards I'm intrigued by. Shivan harvest especially looks really good. This series is super great, best new mtg channel on youtube! Keep up the awesome work!
Adding serine Master to my God-Eternal Oketra deck. Absolutely love these videos they have been helping me at some relief nice cards to my decks. Keep it up Demo!
11:53 Strictly speaking, "Urza's Tower" is not a land type. They're two. Hence Urza's Factory having the Urza's type, but not the Tower, Mine, or Power-Plant type.
I rarely comment on videos but I'm compelled to tell you that I love your work. I always question some of the more obscure cards and it's fun to see a little validation on otherwise unused cards. Keep up the the great work!!!
i must say shimmer has been one of my favourite cards since that card came out in mirage set . always had a thing for phasing cards . way tricky payoffs for balance focuses between incorporating hindrance dealing setbacks with seeking beneficence minded outcome advantage.excited to be seeing phasing ,making a return .
In regards to phasing the type "Urza's Tower" with Shimmer, according to Scryfall's type filter you can actually just name "Urza's" and hose all the Tron lands, and Urza's Factory from Time Spiral. The latter could see play, considering the set it's from was reprinted.
yep 205.3i Lands have their own unique set of subtypes; these subtypes are called land types. The land types are Desert, Forest, Gate, Island, Lair, Locus, Mine, Mountain, Plains, Power-Plant, Swamp, Tower, and Urza’s
Solid video as always. LOVE this series! Had shivan harvest in my old Krenko deck, but I could generally kill the table turn 4 if all went well... that said, 1 boardwipe was all it took to ruin my day... So ended up cutting it as it was easy enough to just send like 20 boosted goblins at people rather than really care about their lands. That said... making a less competitive Korvold/goblin sac deck and def putting it in (thanks in part to this reminder). Cheers!
1- Reap is good :) I have it in all my green decks and Arcades especially. Just getting one card is already good enough and most importantly it’s an instant! 2- Reconnaissance is fantastic indeed, especially in Emmara. It’s a wonderful card in all creature-based deck actually. 3- Another card you can talk about is Reinforcements, in Gishath decks :p
Reconnaissance also works as a pseudo vigilance as well. You can attack and untap after damage as there's a post-combat step. It's a powerhouse in a go wide deck as well. I run it in my Varina deck and it's brutal every time it hits the board.
I play reconnaissance in Alesha and its not just great for pulling attacking commanders out of a sticky situation. A lot of people don't realize this, but you can actually activate after damage before combat ends. So it basically gives your whole board vigilance, with the added benefot of removing it from problematic blockers
I made a joke deck a while back of forgotten magic mechanics. Banding, Phasing, Rampage, Cumulative Upkeep, Flanking, Echo, those kinds of things. I was surprised at how good Reality Ripple was, and Shimmer was an all star! (As a tangent to that, I also found out that once you figure out how Banding actually works, you can do some really cheeky stuff with it.)
I love reconnaissance but alot of people dont use it well. There is a ruling that after the attacking creature deals damage it is still in combat so after the damage is dealt you can untap and take it out of combat. Pretty much sudo-vigilance
In regards to your comments on phasing. First off, there is a difference between cards with phasing (Teferi's Isle) and something that says phase out (e.g. Teferi's Protection). I think it's safe to say the dislike for phasing is quite justified. A permanent that's only in play every other turn is pretty crappy, and unappealing even if ti's somehow worth it. Being able to phase something out however, can be quite useful and/or powerful. There are pretty big differences between the two.
reconnaissance actually enables aggro incredibly well, it's cute to trigger your commanders attack ability each turn safely, but the real strength comes when you can happily swing 10 creatures at any opponent who has 9 or less defenders, and you just get free damage since no matter how dangerous the blockers are you can just pull the guys who are in danger back. I can't stress enough how powerful this is for aggro, you never have to trade creatures to get damage through, and your board is untapped ready to defend next turn, these are two of the most glaring problems with aggro in a FFA environment and recon solves both. Absolutely amazing card. Run it in any white deck you can!
not sure if this is obscure enough of an interaction, but it's a lot of fun running Karma with Urborg in a monowhite EDH deck, especially with foci on life gain. Hard to interact with way to chunk opponents.
Oooh I adore Reconnaissance. It’s baffling that it’s only 1 mana for such a good ability! I play a couple of attack/combat damage trigger decks, and reconnaissance basically guarantees I can get all the value out of my creatures as possible. In a go wide deck it’s great as well
Rishadan Pawnshop has had its ruling changed to "permanents you control. I had to look it up because it just seems to good to be true, when you mentioned the possibility of shuffling in instants.
scalding salamander is going in my snapdax deck, it looks really great/funny to mutate onto. I'm already aiming to give snapdax deathtouch. should work out nicely
You mentioned CommandZone but didn’t mention the cheese you can pull with Reconnaissance. You can untap your creatures after the Combat Damage has been dealt. Unless they fixed that but I haven’t heard anything about a fix.
Reality Ripple can also target opponent's permanents! If you are getting attacked by something huge or an opponent is attempting to combo off, Reality Ripple can stop it (temporarily, at least)
I call the serene master the monk who punches the big guy and the big guy gets sad. A major weakness of him is that if the blocked creature has something modifying its power, like an equipment or +1/+1 counter, that will still increase the switched power of the creature. If it has at least two power artificially applied to the card, blocking is going to be a trade.
I really like Reality Ripple. In certain color combinations this is simply fantastic. I mean, yes you could cast Redirect or Deflecting Swat in response to targeted removal, but what about board wipes? Redirection effects are useless in the face of a board wipe. So you normally have no choice but to counter the wipe if you don't want to lose your commander. That's why I never run those types of redirection spells. They are too situational, can't be used offensively, and can't interact with a board wipe. This card works very well for virtually any blue voltronish deck. In a sense, Niv-Mizzet is a voltron commander since he is probably the only creature on your field you really need to protect for the sheer reason that paying 2UUURRR is...undesirable. In a deck like that, you are also probably running plenty of your own wipes. I run Blasphemous Act and All is Dust. I can cast Reality Ripple in response to my own board wipe to save my commander. I like that a lot! This akin to casting Wrath of God followed by a Boros Charm. AND THAT'S ONLY THE BEGINNING. When you start thinking about how to use this card offensively, the possibilities are endless. Thanks so much for the suggestion.
Reconnaissance could be really good in a attack trigger deck where there's no profitable attack to make, or like if you have a blade of selves on a creature but you don't want to attack a specific opponent.
Engulfing Slagwurm is best blocker or the best thing to enchant with Lure (or same effect on other 20 or so other cards) Notice that the Wurm does *not* say "at end of combat" it destroys as soon as they are blocked or blocking.
Entangler {2}{W}{W} Enchantment - Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature can block any number of creatures. Lure {1}{G}{G} Enchantment - Aura Enchant creature All creatures able to block enchanted creature do so. Either of these would be fantastic on it.
i have the salamander in my kelsien deck since that deck is completely sniper focused (i.e. give DT to creature that can damage creatures) my playgroup sees it coming now, but when i gave the salamander DT for the first time and wiped a board, their faces were priceless and now it's something that gets immediately countered/destroyed
I do find it hilarious that the old salamander has become a kill-on-sight in the same vein as consecrated sphinx etc! I love to see unknown cards get used in creative ways like that and become new bogeymen. Though this hasn’t happened to me, so maybe I actually wouldn’t love to see my own cool old cards get shut down:P
@@dahuntre well when you know that it's basically a one sided board wipe every turn, it's gotta get taken care of lol. salamander works really great with damage increasers too like Torbran and he can be extremely annoying if you give him infect.
That recon enchantment would be good for Winota in the early game when your don't yet have a full board and trigger her without losing your non human creature. That way you can use it again next turn to trigger her.
One thing I love about this series is that, maybe not on purpose, it kind of tries to tone down power in EDH. Not that power is a bad thing, but sometimes you really want to play janky stuff and if the group is already playing some janky/low powered cards, it's easier to convince to go full jank!
you figured me out! it is on purpose yes. when i sit down at a table i don't want to see all the same cards and i definitely don't want to see all the same commanders. it is also about giving people alternative options for possibly making their janky commander deck a little better.
Boasting Salamander! Just wanted to point out that Urza's and Tower are two different land types, Urza's Factory demonstrates this. The couple of times I've played Shivan Harvest have had salty results. Would suggest not running it out early unless you absolutely have to.
serene master ... i was ponder its really really really close but theres a blocker just as good it only doesn't work if it doesn't have indestructible also its a huge 7cmc cost but its in green so you can get to that type of mana quickly that card that may be as good as the master is called Engulfing Slagwurm it's pretty much even more guaranteed to kill the creature that the master its ocastionally happened that the creatures power is lower than toughness but the wurm here just destroys what it blocks regardlses and on top of that you gain life equal to the toughness and to make it even more nightmaric and thats throwing in a "lure" effect in the mix it just forces all the creature's to block it and all die and the wurm doesn't and you gain a truck load of life too.
Rules question. Reconnaissance can stack a bunch of triggers on the same creature but the latter ones won't resolve because the creature won't be attacking right? Because my first thought was to abuse the hell out of the untap effect.
correct. you could do that. those 0 mana abilities from tempest get abused alot, nomads en-kor and cephalid illusionist is a famous one for milling your whole library.
Reality Riple can also phase out stuff with drawback etbs. Cast Phyrexian Dreadnought and Riple it with the ETB on the stack. Dreadnought leaves, his ETB does nothing and you can enjoy your 12/12 trample for 3 on your next untap.
Could reality ripple be used as removal in an opponents creature/artifact (maybe if they are about to combi off)? I don't know much about older mechanics, but that would add to the versatility of the card
So if you’ve been looking through every card alphabetically, will the series end when you reach Zurzoth/Zzzyxa’s Abyss? Or will you go through again, sorting by color or card type etc? I mean, if you’ve been looking through every single card and already picked out each one that stands out to you, that wouldn’t work. I love the series, but I guess it’s gotta end at some point. Ooh, the salamander could be good in my Toggo RUG Rocks deck, giving it a Sigil of Sleep or (in Christmas land) deathtouch+Scythe of the Wretched
good question. so the first time i sorted the list i was looking primarily for older cards. so when i get to z, i'll start again through but there will be more newish cards.
Personally I think that Reap, while instant speed, is too situational in high power compared to Compost. Compost will allow you to benefit off of all black spells, not just permanents, which is especially important because Black Spellslinger decks like Krrik(or any mono black deck) will be casting lots of rituals and tutors, something that will gain you advantage if you have Compost. Mono black decks don't tend to have a lot of black permanents in mid to high power, so Reap is only good against black tribal decks like Zombies or Vampires.
@@AsgneonthebesT iirc, the card DOES allow damage due to a little known phase at the end of combat where it’s still the combat step but damage resolves. Iirc, Command Zone had an episode that abused the hell out of the card in that way. Edit: just looked it up, and it does allow damage by activating it after damage is dealt and in the “end of combat” step.
@@AsgneonthebesT iirc, yea. it still gives and receives damage as normal (depending when you activate it of course). So, if you delay the activation to the end of combat phase, damage is still dealt normally, but you resolve the reconnaissance trigger after everything else is resolved, you just get pseudo vigilance. It basically just means that you get to choose who/what deals damage, what receives damage (activate before damage resolves) and what doesn’t (activate on end of combat step).
I was looking through the comments before posting this same comment. At the end of combat (after combat damage has been dealt), the creature is still considered “attacking”. And I just thought about how good that is with first strike - deal your damage, then untap.
Stripe mine can destroy non basic land so if you really don't want to be able to destroy basic land use the card as it could destroy just non basic land.. btw sinkhole, is it ban? If not same idea..
this series is popular bc its great seeing and knowing about all these older or obscure cards. love your voice too
thanks and glad you enjoy.
Absolutely love your take on cards. You put the cards into situations that are real and explain the point really well. You have a great way. Please keep doing what you are doing and Thanks! Take care.
much appreciated
I've been watching for a while now and gotta say, very underrated channel. Brings me back when I was in college - I scour old MTG boxes from my LGS and blow my mind with the stuff I find.
You didn't mention the other use of Reconnisance: You can use it in the end-of-combat step when your creatrues are still technically considered attacking creatures but have dealt their damage, to untap them, giving them pseudo-vigillance
Reconnaisance has another use in that it can give an attacking creature an infinite number of untaps. Infinite mana for instant speed spells, infinite tap effects on cards like Baby Jace, Arcanis/Azami, even cards like Chandra's Magmutt just kills everyone
@@mazimus2578 I think once it's removed from combat, the creature(s) in question won't be able untap. The prerequisite is "attacking creature" so once it's removed with the first activation the rest fizzles. Although if you attack with something that has triggers based on being targeted by abilities, you could activate infinitely, but at that point just use Nomads En-Kor.
@@mazimus2578 not infinite, but useful for getting double taps. Once it’s removed from combat, it stays removed.
@@pistolpete7422 Not really double taps unless the creature has vigilance, because otherwise you have to attack first, which taps the creature. But if your opponent has no blockers, you can get some damage in and then tap.
these videos are perfect, they’re like short little podcasts that i can just put on and listen to while i’m doing something, but i can sit down and watch them as well.
I keep waiting for the day when you run out of interesting cards for these lists, and yet here's another great list with multiple cards I'm intrigued by. Shivan harvest especially looks really good.
This series is super great, best new mtg channel on youtube! Keep up the awesome work!
i think i can make it episode 20.
Adding serine Master to my God-Eternal Oketra deck. Absolutely love these videos they have been helping me at some relief nice cards to my decks. Keep it up Demo!
11:53 Strictly speaking, "Urza's Tower" is not a land type. They're two. Hence Urza's Factory having the Urza's type, but not the Tower, Mine, or Power-Plant type.
I rarely comment on videos but I'm compelled to tell you that I love your work. I always question some of the more obscure cards and it's fun to see a little validation on otherwise unused cards. Keep up the the great work!!!
i'm big on validating opinions. just saying something is bad or good is pretty meaningless in a game as complex as magic. thank you for noticing.
The reason this series is so popular is because of they way you do it. Tons of people make videos about singles for edh
Maybe my favorite episode so far. I can’t believe Serene Master is a thing I didn’t know about.
These are some really good finds that aren't common cards but still have good niches. Love this series
Your videos are so damn good! Bringing cards to my attention that I had no idea existed...and would be great in my decks! Thank you!
i must say shimmer has been one of my favourite cards since that card came out in mirage set . always had a thing for phasing cards . way tricky payoffs for balance focuses between incorporating hindrance dealing setbacks with seeking beneficence minded outcome advantage.excited to be seeing phasing ,making a return .
Yes! SHIVAN HARVEST. I LOVE THAT CARD. It's a nice sac outlet that can slow down your opponents.
As someone who has been playing this game a very long time, I love seeing someone breath new life into some old cards!
In regards to phasing the type "Urza's Tower" with Shimmer, according to Scryfall's type filter you can actually just name "Urza's" and hose all the Tron lands, and Urza's Factory from Time Spiral. The latter could see play, considering the set it's from was reprinted.
yep
205.3i Lands have their own unique set of subtypes; these subtypes are called land types. The land
types are Desert, Forest, Gate, Island, Lair, Locus, Mine, Mountain, Plains, Power-Plant, Swamp, Tower, and Urza’s
Man. There is nothing better than sitting back and listening too him talk about magic while making a deck and drinking coffee.
well i got an hour long video coming up right away so you better brew a whole pot.
Never heard of Shivan Harvest. That is my next addition to Krenko. With a Skirk Prospector on board ,it costs 3 Goblins to smoke a non-basic.
"Urza's Tower" is not a type, it's two types!
With shimmer you can uast say "Urza's" and you mess up with all the Urza's lands
That's what I was going to say.
Solid video as always. LOVE this series! Had shivan harvest in my old Krenko deck, but I could generally kill the table turn 4 if all went well... that said, 1 boardwipe was all it took to ruin my day... So ended up cutting it as it was easy enough to just send like 20 boosted goblins at people rather than really care about their lands. That said... making a less competitive Korvold/goblin sac deck and def putting it in (thanks in part to this reminder). Cheers!
1- Reap is good :) I have it in all my green decks and Arcades especially. Just getting one card is already good enough and most importantly it’s an instant!
2- Reconnaissance is fantastic indeed, especially in Emmara. It’s a wonderful card in all creature-based deck actually.
3- Another card you can talk about is Reinforcements, in Gishath decks :p
Ok, love it. With pawnshop arriving i realized you can give every card a home, and thats amazing.
100 cards! More than an entire deck! Great series!
Reconnaissance also works as a pseudo vigilance as well. You can attack and untap after damage as there's a post-combat step. It's a powerhouse in a go wide deck as well. I run it in my Varina deck and it's brutal every time it hits the board.
I play reconnaissance in Alesha and its not just great for pulling attacking commanders out of a sticky situation. A lot of people don't realize this, but you can actually activate after damage before combat ends. So it basically gives your whole board vigilance, with the added benefot of removing it from problematic blockers
I've used Shimmer in my Taniwa mono blue land destruction deck, named gates against a friend's Golos Gates deck. Felt incredible
Been wanting to make a Mutate themed Commander deck and Phasing as a means to protect whilst keeping my creatures assembled seems great. Thanks!
Nice cards! Shimmer Myr, favorite pet card.
Thanks for another great video! Love the cards in this one
Phasing also gets very interesting when you start messing with the Untap step. That's what I've done in my Taniwha deck
I've been putting so many of your cards in my decks, thankyou.
I made a joke deck a while back of forgotten magic mechanics. Banding, Phasing, Rampage, Cumulative Upkeep, Flanking, Echo, those kinds of things. I was surprised at how good Reality Ripple was, and Shimmer was an all star! (As a tangent to that, I also found out that once you figure out how Banding actually works, you can do some really cheeky stuff with it.)
banding is actually not bad. just terribly confusing.
Banding is amazing.
I love reconnaissance but alot of people dont use it well. There is a ruling that after the attacking creature deals damage it is still in combat so after the damage is dealt you can untap and take it out of combat. Pretty much sudo-vigilance
A good salamander that can't be run in Gor Muldrak? That's just tragic.
He gives protection from the salamander when someone else tried it on you, so he's doing his job at least
@@jackcrawford1956
Not many commanders can say that they can survive a Scalding Salamander boardwipe lol
In regards to your comments on phasing.
First off, there is a difference between cards with phasing (Teferi's Isle) and something that says phase out (e.g. Teferi's Protection).
I think it's safe to say the dislike for phasing is quite justified. A permanent that's only in play every other turn is pretty crappy, and unappealing even if ti's somehow worth it.
Being able to phase something out however, can be quite useful and/or powerful.
There are pretty big differences between the two.
10 episodes worth of these videos now allow me to make a commander deck using only the cards listed 😎
6:28 for people looking for this kind of effect, but re-usable and colorless, Helm of Possession also exists.
reconnaissance actually enables aggro incredibly well, it's cute to trigger your commanders attack ability each turn safely, but the real strength comes when you can happily swing 10 creatures at any opponent who has 9 or less defenders, and you just get free damage since no matter how dangerous the blockers are you can just pull the guys who are in danger back. I can't stress enough how powerful this is for aggro, you never have to trade creatures to get damage through, and your board is untapped ready to defend next turn, these are two of the most glaring problems with aggro in a FFA environment and recon solves both.
Absolutely amazing card. Run it in any white deck you can!
Xur can fetch and then use Reconnaissance in the same swing, pretty nice.
not sure if this is obscure enough of an interaction, but it's a lot of fun running Karma with Urborg in a monowhite EDH deck, especially with foci on life gain. Hard to interact with way to chunk opponents.
Oooh I adore Reconnaissance. It’s baffling that it’s only 1 mana for such a good ability! I play a couple of attack/combat damage trigger decks, and reconnaissance basically guarantees I can get all the value out of my creatures as possible. In a go wide deck it’s great as well
Gonna put scalding salamander in my torbran deck for sure! Thanks!
I love your content... and I don't know if you're told this but I picture you as a Brian Posehn talking about mtg.
no glasses. otherwise pretty close.
@@edhdeckbuilding awesome, you were great in Mission Hill.
I do like Reality Ripple, I prefer Vanishing if I'm trying to protect my commander though. Really enjoy these 10 cards videos. Thanks.
Rishadan Pawnshop has had its ruling changed to "permanents you control. I had to look it up because it just seems to good to be true, when you mentioned the possibility of shuffling in instants.
scalding salamander is going in my snapdax deck, it looks really great/funny to mutate onto. I'm already aiming to give snapdax deathtouch. should work out nicely
You mentioned CommandZone but didn’t mention the cheese you can pull with Reconnaissance. You can untap your creatures after the Combat Damage has been dealt. Unless they fixed that but I haven’t heard anything about a fix.
that is correct you can. a creature is considered "attacking" until the end of combat. works really good with first strike.
Reality Ripple can also target opponent's permanents! If you are getting attacked by something huge or an opponent is attempting to combo off, Reality Ripple can stop it (temporarily, at least)
I call the serene master the monk who punches the big guy and the big guy gets sad.
A major weakness of him is that if the blocked creature has something modifying its power, like an equipment or +1/+1 counter, that will still increase the switched power of the creature. If it has at least two power artificially applied to the card, blocking is going to be a trade.
trade is still good though i think.
My son has Shivan Harvest in his Prossh deck. That thing can do work
I really like Reality Ripple. In certain color combinations this is simply fantastic. I mean, yes you could cast Redirect or Deflecting Swat in response to targeted removal, but what about board wipes? Redirection effects are useless in the face of a board wipe. So you normally have no choice but to counter the wipe if you don't want to lose your commander. That's why I never run those types of redirection spells. They are too situational, can't be used offensively, and can't interact with a board wipe.
This card works very well for virtually any blue voltronish deck. In a sense, Niv-Mizzet is a voltron commander since he is probably the only creature on your field you really need to protect for the sheer reason that paying 2UUURRR is...undesirable. In a deck like that, you are also probably running plenty of your own wipes. I run Blasphemous Act and All is Dust. I can cast Reality Ripple in response to my own board wipe to save my commander. I like that a lot! This akin to casting Wrath of God followed by a Boros Charm.
AND THAT'S ONLY THE BEGINNING. When you start thinking about how to use this card offensively, the possibilities are endless.
Thanks so much for the suggestion.
Ooh reality ripple on my braids conjuer adept. Only I get the upkeep trigger
Reconnaissance could be really good in a attack trigger deck where there's no profitable attack to make, or like if you have a blade of selves on a creature but you don't want to attack a specific opponent.
Some neat suggestions, thank you
Engulfing Slagwurm is best blocker or the best thing to enchant with Lure (or same effect on other 20 or so other cards) Notice that the Wurm does *not* say "at end of combat" it destroys as soon as they are blocked or blocking.
Entangler {2}{W}{W}
Enchantment - Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can block any number of creatures.
Lure {1}{G}{G}
Enchantment - Aura
Enchant creature
All creatures able to block enchanted creature do so.
Either of these would be fantastic on it.
i have the salamander in my kelsien deck since that deck is completely sniper focused (i.e. give DT to creature that can damage creatures) my playgroup sees it coming now, but when i gave the salamander DT for the first time and wiped a board, their faces were priceless and now it's something that gets immediately countered/destroyed
that's the downside of playgroups, not alot of surprises.
I do find it hilarious that the old salamander has become a kill-on-sight in the same vein as consecrated sphinx etc! I love to see unknown cards get used in creative ways like that and become new bogeymen. Though this hasn’t happened to me, so maybe I actually wouldn’t love to see my own cool old cards get shut down:P
@@dahuntre well when you know that it's basically a one sided board wipe every turn, it's gotta get taken care of lol. salamander works really great with damage increasers too like Torbran and he can be extremely annoying if you give him infect.
That recon enchantment would be good for Winota in the early game when your don't yet have a full board and trigger her without losing your non human creature. That way you can use it again next turn to trigger her.
Aboshan's desire giving fliyng and shroud by one mana if your GY has 7 or more cards is pretty cool
One thing I love about this series is that, maybe not on purpose, it kind of tries to tone down power in EDH.
Not that power is a bad thing, but sometimes you really want to play janky stuff and if the group is already playing some janky/low powered cards, it's easier to convince to go full jank!
you figured me out! it is on purpose yes. when i sit down at a table i don't want to see all the same cards and i definitely don't want to see all the same commanders. it is also about giving people alternative options for possibly making their janky commander deck a little better.
Reap will be great in a new deck of mine. My playground mostly poach of my hoard of decks and I'm a simple Grixis man, all of my decks have black.
Do you have any plans to make an aristocrat deck tech?
You need a public list of all these cards :)
i'm going to make a list of the first 100. probably post it on my next 10 cards video.
Yes!
Boasting Salamander! Just wanted to point out that Urza's and Tower are two different land types, Urza's Factory demonstrates this.
The couple of times I've played Shivan Harvest have had salty results. Would suggest not running it out early unless you absolutely have to.
Scalding Salamander is getting forcefully jammed into the Kelsien the Plague deck I’m working on 👀
serene master ... i was ponder its really really really close but theres a blocker just as good it only doesn't work if it doesn't have indestructible also its a huge 7cmc cost but its in green so you can get to that type of mana quickly
that card that may be as good as the master is called Engulfing Slagwurm it's pretty much even more guaranteed to kill the creature that the master its ocastionally happened that the creatures power is lower than toughness but the wurm here just destroys what it blocks regardlses and on top of that you gain life equal to the toughness
and to make it even more nightmaric and thats throwing in a "lure" effect in the mix it just forces all the creature's to block it and all die and the wurm doesn't and you gain a truck load of life too.
Rishadan Pawnshop would be decent to take survivors in a Varchild deck.
Rules question. Reconnaissance can stack a bunch of triggers on the same creature but the latter ones won't resolve because the creature won't be attacking right? Because my first thought was to abuse the hell out of the untap effect.
correct. you could do that. those 0 mana abilities from tempest get abused alot, nomads en-kor and cephalid illusionist is a famous one for milling your whole library.
@@edhdeckbuilding Yeah true, that's gross. Haha
I run shivan harvest in my kresh deck
used it once to destroy my friends maze of ith, swung with a giant kresh, good game
I play Shimmer in a mono blue deck and have calle Island from time to time. Since I run it in Taniwha, the downside isn't too bad.
What about “Call to the kindred” it’s a blue aura that is kinda like a repeatable kindred summons.
Seems really cool in tribal decks to me
I played Shivan Harvest in Kiki-Jiki. Played with ETB destroy land creatures, you quickly become archenemy. Too bad they have no lands.
I have a ramos fling deck and rupture is one of the ways the deck wins.
If you don't have a way to take advantage of the creature sacrifice, I would recommend Ruination over Shivan Harvest in most cases.
Reality Riple can also phase out stuff with drawback etbs. Cast Phyrexian Dreadnought and Riple it with the ETB on the stack. Dreadnought leaves, his ETB does nothing and you can enjoy your 12/12 trample for 3 on your next untap.
great point.
Ritual of the Machine seems like it could find a place in a Greven, Predator Captain deck.
Damn. I have reality ripple and never seen the potential. Thks
When is your Zur deck teck?
Reality Ripple is so gangster, i've been running it for the past couple months and I was wondering when it's gonna get some attention
Could reality ripple be used as removal in an opponents creature/artifact (maybe if they are about to combi off)? I don't know much about older mechanics, but that would add to the versatility of the card
absolutely. a million ways to use it.
@@edhdeckbuilding This is starting to sound better by the minute! Definitely an auto-include in some of my blue decks
Sentinal is also a great blocker, especially if you have a doran
Lets goooooo 5k soon!
we're almost there buddy.
You can use strip mine only on non-basics as a personal rule. Its what I do.
This video is awesome.
So if you’ve been looking through every card alphabetically, will the series end when you reach Zurzoth/Zzzyxa’s Abyss? Or will you go through again, sorting by color or card type etc? I mean, if you’ve been looking through every single card and already picked out each one that stands out to you, that wouldn’t work.
I love the series, but I guess it’s gotta end at some point.
Ooh, the salamander could be good in my Toggo RUG Rocks deck, giving it a Sigil of Sleep or (in Christmas land) deathtouch+Scythe of the Wretched
good question. so the first time i sorted the list i was looking primarily for older cards. so when i get to z, i'll start again through but there will be more newish cards.
Personally I think that Reap, while instant speed, is too situational in high power compared to Compost. Compost will allow you to benefit off of all black spells, not just permanents, which is especially important because Black Spellslinger decks like Krrik(or any mono black deck) will be casting lots of rituals and tutors, something that will gain you advantage if you have Compost. Mono black decks don't tend to have a lot of black permanents in mid to high power, so Reap is only good against black tribal decks like Zombies or Vampires.
Scalding Salamander is good in Torbran as well 😅 3 dmg gets rid of a lot of stuff
Amazing cards ty
Olivia Voldaren is great with Deathtouch.
I need a play mat and full art of that Rishadan Pawnshop....
Doesn't reconnaissance basically give everything vigilance too, I would've thought that was the primary draw
pseudo-vigilance as you can pull the creature out of combat after damage has been dealt
@@AsgneonthebesT iirc, the card DOES allow damage due to a little known phase at the end of combat where it’s still the combat step but damage resolves. Iirc, Command Zone had an episode that abused the hell out of the card in that way.
Edit: just looked it up, and it does allow damage by activating it after damage is dealt and in the “end of combat” step.
@@AsgneonthebesT iirc, yea. it still gives and receives damage as normal (depending when you activate it of course). So, if you delay the activation to the end of combat phase, damage is still dealt normally, but you resolve the reconnaissance trigger after everything else is resolved, you just get pseudo vigilance.
It basically just means that you get to choose who/what deals damage, what receives damage (activate before damage resolves) and what doesn’t (activate on end of combat step).
I was looking through the comments before posting this same comment. At the end of combat (after combat damage has been dealt), the creature is still considered “attacking”.
And I just thought about how good that is with first strike - deal your damage, then untap.
So now I want to build a dimir control deck that uses urborg and shimmer
i knew someone was going to take that idea from the video.
Reconnaissance also casually gives all your creatures Vigilance.
Salamander in my torbran build. Yes please
didn't even think of that. great place for it.
Stripe mine can destroy non basic land so if you really don't want to be able to destroy basic land use the card as it could destroy just non basic land.. btw sinkhole, is it ban? If not same idea..
Can you do a video of your thoughts on proxy decks and how much magic cards cost?
interesting idea. i just might do that.
Well I guess shivan harvest is now going into my krenko and my juri deck
You should have a lot more views, im commenting for the algorithm
not sure what that means but thanks.
I already have scalding Salamander in my Torbran because its 1 damage becomes 3 damage to each of their creatures.
I use shivan harvest in my Judith deck. You can easily shut down whole 3+ colour decks