Lands Lives Matter (BLOODLUST Edition)

Commander / EDH Enral

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Experimenting —Sept. 11, 2016

Thoughts...

  • Life from the Loam or Evolutionary Leap + Kozilek, Butcher of Truth possible inclusion to recur sac lands with ability to put all cards back into library. Late game Kozilek can draw me cards to refuel my hand plus put a threat on the table. Warrens testing.

  • Abundance is going to replace Elemental Bond for testing. The card draw from elemental bond is nice but the mandatory clause has either benefit or backfired hard. Abundance combos with Sylvan Library to give an ancestral recall per turn.

  • Conventional wisdom says include as many ramp spells as possible in Omnath, but Wild Growth works so much better in this deck that is not dependant on ramp. It synergizes with Earthcraft and also gets me way ahead when I get one early game. Also turns manaless lands like Dark Depths into something useful.

  • Nissa, Vital Force has earned a permanent spot after testing. She is absolutely insane and very easy to get her ultimate to go off. I will usually just take over the game and win after that.

  • Triumph of the Hordes as possible alt win con. Combos with Warstorm Surge to make every 2 landfall triggers a lethal shot or kill anyone by just sacrificing 4 tokens.

AdrenalineBomb says... #1

Just wondering why you don't play Horn of Greed seems like it would synerize quite well with the rest of the deck.

September 8, 2016 1:10 a.m.

Enral says... #2

AdrenalineBomb: Thanks for your suggestion~ I have considered and tested this card before and it has proven to be less useful as most of the lands I put into play are through creatures like Walking Atlas and I really hate group huggy cards. I have also updated my list to include the new planeswalker Nissa, Vital Force that is not as difficult to get her ultimate for the sweet card draw.

September 8, 2016 9:07 a.m.

Mennenth says... #3

Hello!

Came here from your comment on my deck!

Jeebus, this deck looks intense! I sort of agree with your version of infinite landfall as well. It would certainly be easier in terms of the number of cards to pull off than my combo. I'll have to play test it myself. As I mentioned somewhere else, two bombs are better than one so perhaps I'll find a place to include the 2 missing pieces on my end. HOWEVER, after re-reading Cloudstone curio I def want it in my deck. I hadn't fully considered the possibility of turning all my lands into mini turfs, which is the key to turning on my version of the engine (the ability to bounce itself without using mina to net mana instead of at best break even).

What do you think of Storm Cauldron + Omnath, Locus of Mana + Burgeoning? I've been thinking of cutting locus of mana from my list to make room for other effects, but when I got my burgeoning (still need to update my list proper) I noticed the potential for extra ramp on top of ramp, not to mention even more landfall triggers.

And yeah, KLD Nissa is insane. I saw her and my jaw dropped. She's honestly the first planeswalker I've actively wanted in my deck, all the others have been meh, imo, because it usually takes too long for them to be as impactfull as other creatures.

September 9, 2016 2:26 a.m.

Enral says... #4

Mennenth: Yeah, cloudstone curio is the MVP in any landfall matters deck. Having the ability to bounce your lands whenever you want and chain into more landfall triggers is the best feeling ever.

Regarding Burgeoning, I would recommend Scryb Ranger and Quirion Ranger (I really wished there are more of this type of creatures printed) to fully take advantage of it. Notice "once per turn"? That essentially means during each turn (including your opponents') you can return a basic forest to your hand and make an additional landfall trigger during your opponent's turn when they play a land. Or you can literally just cheat one out with Walking Atlas per turn. It's absolutely insane. Imagine this line of play in a 4 player game:

  • Opponent's turn, untap atlas to return a forest to your hand and put forest into play with Walking Atlas. Next opponent's turn, untap walking atlas to return forest to your hand and put forest into play with atlas (with cloudstone curio you can get additional landfall triggers during your opponent's turn with burgeoning too).

I tested locus of mana and it just didn't do it to further my strategy. Locus of mana also requires you to tap and float mana to further fuel it which is a nonbo with storm cauldron. I would suggest you replace it with more Walking Atlas critters like Skyshroud Ranger.

Good luck and happy landfalling!

September 9, 2016 9:50 a.m. Edited.

Mennenth says... #5

Enral,

Well, while it may be a nonbo it does wind up adding value/synergizing a bit (when done on opponents turn before the burgeoning trigger resolves you've got the same number of lands in play, have ramped, and have triggered landfall).

I do agree that the effect with locus of mana probably isn't the best fit though (really just there to keep the mana from going to waste if you do the above on an opponents turn), and yes I'm looking to include a Skyshroud Ranger in my list as a redundant Sakura-Tribe Scout. 'Tis why I wanted to ask your opinion on if I should keep Locus of Mana around (I more than likely will not).

Thanks for the insight!

September 9, 2016 3:33 p.m.

Mennenth says... #6

Enral,

what do you think about the potential of Panharmonicon and the mirrodin artifact lands, Great Furnace and Tree of Tales (plus Darksteel Citadel for redundancy, and we are both already running Dryad Arbor)? Good idea or win more?

September 10, 2016 6:01 p.m.

Enral says... #7

Mennenth: I think it's going to dilute the number of basics and waste a slot in our decks in order to accommodate it. However, I don't want to discredit it too early and I think it has potential considering the amount of triggered abilities are involved (dead omnath's elemental tokens triggers twice; Where Ancients Tread triggers twice..etc). But I do think that it is a win more and does not further the strategy of a land matters theme.

September 10, 2016 11:25 p.m.