Spirit en-Dal - I run this in Marisi, Breaker of the Coil. It's a great way to punch in for 5 commander damage and then goad all of that player's creatures.
Mono Red is for me the best deck to have snow lands only. Skred, Tundra Fumarole, Glacial Crevasses, there's just some pretty good cards that care about snow mountains. Great video!
You get other snow cards like Frost Bite, Thermopod, and Rimescale Dragon too. Since you're running snow lands, don't forget Mouth of Ronom, Faceless Cavern, Scrying Sheets, Dark Depths/Thespian's Stage, and the Glacial Chasm/Crucible of Worlds combos.
Demo you actually just saved my life. My wife has been trying to make her black deck more power and just got Sidisi, Undead Viser as her commander and the plan is to recure her every turn for free with Dawn of the Dead. Problem is if the enhancement gets destroyed. I couldn't find any colorless ways to bring it back man thanks a million.
Honestly brother same here... except I built a super streamlined mono black Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder deck that relies on churning out thrull tokens and using free sac outlets like the altars and whatnot turn the thrulls into mana. I have some nasty enchantments in there like Grave Pact; Dictate of Erebos; Bastion of Remembrance; Dark Prophecy; Mortuary; and The Meathook Massacre to get death triggers too. I added artifact recursion like Myr Retriever and Scrap Trawler to get back the altars if they get blown up but I couldn't find any way to get back enchantments if they get blown up... until now. Another decent way to get back enchantments, artifacts, and even other nonland cards like Planeswalkers, instants and sorcereis is Codex Shredder. Its a 1 mana artifact that lets you tap it to put the top card of a players deck into the bin OR pay 5 colorless to tap it and sac it to put target card from a graveyard into your hand. It's kinda slow and to get it back I would have to rely on other cards but I run Sidisi, Undead Vizier and other tutors so I can usually get what I need when I need it after a little set up. In mono black, getting a ton of mana usually isn't too hard with the altars and rituals so 5 colorless mana to get cards that are usually hard to get in mono black back to hand and on the field makes it easier to recover from a board wipe or targeted removal 🤙🏽
Codex shredder, Yawgmoth’s Will, Ill-Gotten Gains and Xiahou Dun (a better Eternal witness in some ways) are other ways to replay Dawn of the Dead from the graveyard or return it to hand.
Soldevi Sage is in my Slogurk, the Overslime deck, because it helps to get the 3 counter realy fast at instant speed on Slogurk to protect it from boardwipe and/ or removal , 2 lands in the yard discard one land and Slogurk is fine 🙂
Love the series. Introduces awesome cards that sometimes I have never heard of. Another interesting addition to the series could be a brief discussion of each card's flavor/art/set to kind of spice up the list. Could be interesting. I know I love hearing other people's takes on flavor.
I remember drafting coldsnap back in the day. The guy who won that draft picked up like 4 Skred and just destroyed us with them. It wasn't until Kaldheim that I found out that you weren't supposed to be able to have 100% snow lands in a draft, only the snow lands that you drafted. I also ran this in a standard deck that featured stuffy doll and swans of bryn argoll. That one was a lot of fun.
I forgot about Soldevi Sage. Used to have 5 of them in the late 90s-2000. Wish I kept one for my Aesi Lands deck. Spellweaver Volute likes graveyard tutors like Entomb, Unmarked Grave, Vile Entomber, as well as draw/discard effects like Careful Study, Mental Discipline, Mesmeric Trance, Mind Over Matter, Faithless Looting, Fact or Fiction, Breakthrough, Desperate Ravings, Probe, and Ideas Unbound. Toss Enter the Infinite, In Garruk's Wake, Doomsday, or any big splashy sorcery into the bin and away you go.
These are some interesting picks. I have a flicker deck that Sky Hussar might fit well in, Skull of Orm is neat for off-color enchantment decks, I like Spring Cleaning because it's a board wipe in green.
Sky Hussar goes in my Derevi Vehicles deck, which foccuses heavily on Inspired effects. Both its abilities are massive upside for it, any azorious vehicle deck could likely run it.
Sigil Captain - If you run a token based strategy with Atraxa, using this and Orochi Hatchery is a great combo. Hatchery makes 1/1 snakes equal to it's charge counters, so with Atraxa in play and Sigil Captain, you get more tokens as time goes on, and the longer any one token stays in play, the stronger it gets.
I've had my eye on a few of these... I built Falco with the 'real the top card' theme (e.g. Counterbalance), so clash cards work there. And Spellweaver Volute works well in my Vega deck as it draws you a card every time you do it, and in theory Jadzi (I never put it into paper due to the stormy nature of it). I came across Splintering Wind when researching cards for my Esix deck, but like you I feel there must be potential there!
Splintering Wind is a long time all star in my Marath Will of the Wild Enrage/Hurt-Yourself deck. It's like a self starting engine which is especially great after you've just gotten board wiped and need to build back up
Spring Cleaning looks really good! I play an Ur-Dragon deck and have trouble destroying opponents enchantments, and since it only affects my opponents and my deck ususally have big CMC, it's a big deal!
So idk if you've featured this card before or not, but a card i found in my box of bulk that i think is cool in a "how did i not know this card existed?" Kind of way is Burn Away. Its an instant for 4 and a red that says it deals 6 damage to target creature, when that creature dies this turn, exile all cards from its controller's graveyard." I know there is far more effecient grave hate in the format and even in mono red, but 6 damage will kill most problem creatures and a kill spell that also hates on that players graveyard is really underrated and to my knowledge, is one of the only cards that does both of those things and at instant speed, no less.
I'm aware I have an encyclopaedic knowledge of all the jank cards in the multiverse at this point but I was having a discussion with a friend I regularly play on spelltable with a couple of months back about Splintering wind... It's one of the cards he wants to break in some way, I suggested building a populate and donate deck giving the splinter tokens out to all your opponents could be fun and playing Yavimia to give them all the option to pay for the upkeep costs then just play a bunch of token hoser's like spreading plague or pestilence when they have like three or four of the annoying thing's... It's a sultai jank mages dream of a card with stuff like Puca's mischief! XD
Splintering Wind goes very well with Vigor or Rite of Passage. I considered Wind for my Hallar deck, as I run both. Ultimately, it was easier, and more productive, to use Pyrohemia and Cacophodon.
Splintering Wind is a card I was thinking on using in my Abzan lifegain deck. That deck is focused around using cards like pestilence demon to deal one damage to all creatures or all players and to give me that much life. If I have a card out like Whip of Erebos or True Conviction, then splintering wind represents a huge amount of lifegain if the token dies.
Great video as always! Does anyone know if there is a list available that includes all the cards that were mentioned up to this point? Searching for the ones I forgot to write down during the video seems a little tedious.
I personally would consider the cost difference between a normal Mountain and a snow covered one a bit of a downside unless your sitting on a sufficient number to fit out the deck.
Huh, Soldevi Sage has weird oracle text. It's just "Tap, Sacrifice two lands: Draw three cards, then discard one of them." So you have to discard one of the three cards drawn; you can't discard a different card already in hand. That feels awkward (memory/trust issues - haha!)
@@pianojoker2 i just love playing a card like this and seeing the looks of surprise all around the table. One of the best things in commander is discovering these cards and finding a good place for them
"There is not a deck out there, that isn't playing sorceries" Primal Surge Vaevictus Asmadi, The Dire. Only 1 sorcery in the deck, everything else is permanents.
Splintering wind could be pretty jank in a golgari aristocrat style style deck using Blood Artist/Nadier's Nightblade type cards to counteract the damage the tokens deal, might actually be decent in a focused Chatterfang tokens deck where you get benefits beyond the splinter token. Very odd!
I've used Spring Cleaning for a while now. Definitely kind of a coin flip, but amazing if I win, and if I don't, I at least removed the biggest target out of the enchantments they have
i got just the commander for Soldevi Sage and thats Orvar, the all form he can make clones of your lands with the spells so you can sacrfice the token lands for that draw effect and Splintering wind i have another idea with it how about bad gifts? (Codie) because if they deck is filled with weenies and giving these tokens will make them have such a hard time to keep the board state
It’s always fun seeing obscure cards, but these are all stretches for the 99 in most decks. My Kykar deck got excited for the Hussar for a moment until I read closer. Once per turn, only during upkeep. That’s terrible. That timing makes it the worst top deck of all time. It’s like the spell/ability version of a tapped land.
TIL that I can only use Spirit en-Dal during my upkeep. Whoops. I don't think I ever read the reminder text for it - it seemed self-explanatory enough.
I'll tell you why sigil captain isn't in more decks, people want to play more than one anthem effect, and if you have captain on board, all future anthems are dead draws and vice versa. And if the captain the only anthem in your deck, your creatures that aren't 1/1 are missing out on the stat boosts
Spirit en-Dal - I run this in Marisi, Breaker of the Coil. It's a great way to punch in for 5 commander damage and then goad all of that player's creatures.
Snap! Such a good guarantee for attack.
That's just evil... I love it
Mono Red is for me the best deck to have snow lands only. Skred, Tundra Fumarole, Glacial Crevasses, there's just some pretty good cards that care about snow mountains.
Great video!
You get other snow cards like Frost Bite, Thermopod, and Rimescale Dragon too. Since you're running snow lands, don't forget Mouth of Ronom, Faceless Cavern, Scrying Sheets, Dark Depths/Thespian's Stage, and the Glacial Chasm/Crucible of Worlds combos.
Demo you actually just saved my life. My wife has been trying to make her black deck more power and just got Sidisi, Undead Viser as her commander and the plan is to recure her every turn for free with Dawn of the Dead. Problem is if the enhancement gets destroyed. I couldn't find any colorless ways to bring it back man thanks a million.
I’d check out Crystal Chimes! Similar effect :)
Honestly brother same here... except I built a super streamlined mono black Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder deck that relies on churning out thrull tokens and using free sac outlets like the altars and whatnot turn the thrulls into mana. I have some nasty enchantments in there like Grave Pact; Dictate of Erebos; Bastion of Remembrance; Dark Prophecy; Mortuary; and The Meathook Massacre to get death triggers too. I added artifact recursion like Myr Retriever and Scrap Trawler to get back the altars if they get blown up but I couldn't find any way to get back enchantments if they get blown up... until now.
Another decent way to get back enchantments, artifacts, and even other nonland cards like Planeswalkers, instants and sorcereis is Codex Shredder. Its a 1 mana artifact that lets you tap it to put the top card of a players deck into the bin OR pay 5 colorless to tap it and sac it to put target card from a graveyard into your hand. It's kinda slow and to get it back I would have to rely on other cards but I run Sidisi, Undead Vizier and other tutors so I can usually get what I need when I need it after a little set up. In mono black, getting a ton of mana usually isn't too hard with the altars and rituals so 5 colorless mana to get cards that are usually hard to get in mono black back to hand and on the field makes it easier to recover from a board wipe or targeted removal 🤙🏽
Codex shredder, Yawgmoth’s Will, Ill-Gotten Gains and Xiahou Dun (a better Eternal witness in some ways) are other ways to replay Dawn of the Dead from the graveyard or return it to hand.
Corpse dance works pretty well with sidisi too
@@HoundofDarkness Corpse dance is creatures lol
Soldevi Sage is in my Slogurk, the Overslime deck, because it helps to get the 3 counter realy fast at instant speed on Slogurk to protect it from boardwipe and/ or removal , 2 lands in the yard discard one land and Slogurk is fine 🙂
Hell yeah, Slogurk
Love the series. Introduces awesome cards that sometimes I have never heard of. Another interesting addition to the series could be a brief discussion of each card's flavor/art/set to kind of spice up the list. Could be interesting. I know I love hearing other people's takes on flavor.
Love this series, still going strong. Any upcoming deck techs planned?
Splintering winds would work well in a Vrondiss Rage of the Ancients deck to pump out a bunch of running dragons!
Yep. It is in my vrondiss deck and it is doing a fine job
I remember drafting coldsnap back in the day. The guy who won that draft picked up like 4 Skred and just destroyed us with them. It wasn't until Kaldheim that I found out that you weren't supposed to be able to have 100% snow lands in a draft, only the snow lands that you drafted.
I also ran this in a standard deck that featured stuffy doll and swans of bryn argoll. That one was a lot of fun.
tbf afaik the snow land rule only applies to sets with snow? so like any other set its fine?
I forgot about Soldevi Sage. Used to have 5 of them in the late 90s-2000. Wish I kept one for my Aesi Lands deck.
Spellweaver Volute likes graveyard tutors like Entomb, Unmarked Grave, Vile Entomber, as well as draw/discard effects like Careful Study, Mental Discipline, Mesmeric Trance, Mind Over Matter, Faithless Looting, Fact or Fiction, Breakthrough, Desperate Ravings, Probe, and Ideas Unbound. Toss Enter the Infinite, In Garruk's Wake, Doomsday, or any big splashy sorcery into the bin and away you go.
Splintering wind is SO good in vrondiss
These are some interesting picks. I have a flicker deck that Sky Hussar might fit well in, Skull of Orm is neat for off-color enchantment decks, I like Spring Cleaning because it's a board wipe in green.
Sky Hussar goes in my Derevi Vehicles deck, which foccuses heavily on Inspired effects.
Both its abilities are massive upside for it, any azorious vehicle deck could likely run it.
Sigil Captain - If you run a token based strategy with Atraxa, using this and Orochi Hatchery is a great combo. Hatchery makes 1/1 snakes equal to it's charge counters, so with Atraxa in play and Sigil Captain, you get more tokens as time goes on, and the longer any one token stays in play, the stronger it gets.
I've had my eye on a few of these... I built Falco with the 'real the top card' theme (e.g. Counterbalance), so clash cards work there. And Spellweaver Volute works well in my Vega deck as it draws you a card every time you do it, and in theory Jadzi (I never put it into paper due to the stormy nature of it). I came across Splintering Wind when researching cards for my Esix deck, but like you I feel there must be potential there!
Splintering Wind is a long time all star in my Marath Will of the Wild Enrage/Hurt-Yourself deck. It's like a self starting engine which is especially great after you've just gotten board wiped and need to build back up
I'll definitely consider Skred for my Purphoros deck, since I am already running 20+ snow lands. Thanks again, Demo!
9:30 WOW that goes great in my Slogurk the Overslime deck!
Ya I love it in my Slogurk! Also if you like it, you might like excavation if you don't already have it.
wow sky hussar is incredible, I've been thinking about making an azorius or esper flyers deck for a while now, he'll be slotting in there definitely
Put in my Ranar deck and it does wonders with little to no effort.
I just recently made a commander deck with Kangee, Sky Warden. That Sky Hussar will fit nicely there.
Oh look Spellweaver Volute! A card I mentioned a few weeks ago and got hated for it. I also think Soldevi Sage would go great in Slogurk.
Spring Cleaning looks really good!
I play an Ur-Dragon deck and have trouble destroying opponents enchantments, and since it only affects my opponents and my deck ususally have big CMC, it's a big deal!
Spell weaver volute is absolutely balls to the wall design thank you for showing me it
So idk if you've featured this card before or not, but a card i found in my box of bulk that i think is cool in a "how did i not know this card existed?" Kind of way is Burn Away. Its an instant for 4 and a red that says it deals 6 damage to target creature, when that creature dies this turn, exile all cards from its controller's graveyard."
I know there is far more effecient grave hate in the format and even in mono red, but 6 damage will kill most problem creatures and a kill spell that also hates on that players graveyard is really underrated and to my knowledge, is one of the only cards that does both of those things and at instant speed, no less.
I'm aware I have an encyclopaedic knowledge of all the jank cards in the multiverse at this point but I was having a discussion with a friend I regularly play on spelltable with a couple of months back about Splintering wind... It's one of the cards he wants to break in some way, I suggested building a populate and donate deck giving the splinter tokens out to all your opponents could be fun and playing Yavimia to give them all the option to pay for the upkeep costs then just play a bunch of token hoser's like spreading plague or pestilence when they have like three or four of the annoying thing's... It's a sultai jank mages dream of a card with stuff like Puca's mischief! XD
You've brought up Splintering Wind before. I know because I bought one when you did :)
Splintering Wind goes very well with Vigor or Rite of Passage. I considered Wind for my Hallar deck, as I run both. Ultimately, it was easier, and more productive, to use Pyrohemia and Cacophodon.
Splintering Wind is a card I was thinking on using in my Abzan lifegain deck. That deck is focused around using cards like pestilence demon to deal one damage to all creatures or all players and to give me that much life. If I have a card out like Whip of Erebos or True Conviction, then splintering wind represents a huge amount of lifegain if the token dies.
SW Volute is a great card. Ran it for a long time, glad to see a call out for it
Spring Cleaning makes me just smile😂😂 I can't wait to use it! Thanks Demo
Sigil Captain fits very well in Bess since she cares about base power/toughness 1/1. Basically makes those weenies even bigger.
Seems like an auto include
Dang Sigil Captain is pretty good. Never even heard of it. It would be awesome with Torens I bet.
I played spirit en dal in my Marisi breaker of the Coil deck and it made it very easy to control people and force them to swing out at each other!
soldevi sage would work well in Slogurk! one of my favorite decks
Great video as always! Does anyone know if there is a list available that includes all the cards that were mentioned up to this point? Searching for the ones I forgot to write down during the video seems a little tedious.
as it turns out i have a very ambitious viewer who put this together: deckstats.net/decks/113415/2254566-edh-deckbuilding-10-cards-you-/de
@@edhdeckbuilding Awesome, thanks!
"Shapeshifter's Marrow" is a card from Future sight that I've always wanted to play, together with "Spin into Myth". so much fun within that set.
The spellweaver volute remind me of it jejeje, partially unrelated...
I have Spin in my Xanathar deck. It's good, but Submerge is FAR funnier.
I've got an upgraded Ragnar precon that generates enough spirit tokens Sky Hussar would be useful.
Sky Hussar is fantastic in decks that run Persistent Petitioners.
I personally would consider the cost difference between a normal Mountain and a snow covered one a bit of a downside unless your sitting on a sufficient number to fit out the deck.
Splintering Wind works very well with any creature (especially Vrondiss) that is equipped with a Fiendlash.
13:40 also, since krosan grip has split second, once it hits the stack, your opponent cant reply anymore. no counters
Clash abilities are also a great way to punish Sensei's Divining Top.
Huh, Soldevi Sage has weird oracle text. It's just "Tap, Sacrifice two lands: Draw three cards, then discard one of them." So you have to discard one of the three cards drawn; you can't discard a different card already in hand. That feels awkward (memory/trust issues - haha!)
I appreciate your videos so much, thank you!
Splintering wind would go well with a jared carthalion deck.
Ha! That is awesome finding someone else who uses Splintering Wind in their Jared deck. :) Ron Spencer cards are always amazing brewbait.
i have seen spellweaver volute before. Mostly because it was in my mizzix deck
Skull of orm is one of my favourite cards
Auto include in every deck in my opinion
Spirit en dal Id like to use if someone is holding up a great blocker and you’re going wide, give their one blocker shadow and swing in
I'm one of those guys that goes wow that Soldevi Sage goes insanely well in my Slogurk Deck
i discovered spellweaver volute a few weeks ago and it became one of my favorite cards. I put it into a few decks and now I can't wait to playtest it
I love it in my Talrand deck, so much value
@@pianojoker2 i just love playing a card like this and seeing the looks of surprise all around the table. One of the best things in commander is discovering these cards and finding a good place for them
Spring cleaning with enchanted evening at instant speed looks nice
spellweaver volute sounds really great in my Eruth cantrip deck
"There is not a deck out there, that isn't playing sorceries" Primal Surge Vaevictus Asmadi, The Dire. Only 1 sorcery in the deck, everything else is permanents.
Might try that enchantment in my Vrondis deck...
I packed skred as a list card the other day and wanted to put it in my omnath deck that is running snow lands because of into the north.
Soldari Sage un deck like Tatiova or Aesi, with Ravenup Excavator, and Crucible of Worlds, could be a great value engine
Splintering wind could be pretty jank in a golgari aristocrat style style deck using Blood Artist/Nadier's Nightblade type cards to counteract the damage the tokens deal, might actually be decent in a focused Chatterfang tokens deck where you get benefits beyond the splinter token. Very odd!
I love spellweaver i have it in my Hinata deck. It's amazing.
I mean, Splintering Wind would go great in any deck that can make use of Stuffy Doll and Brash Taunter.
Isn't back to nature just better than spring cleaning?
Although, I suppose losing all your enchantments can suck.
I've used Spring Cleaning for a while now. Definitely kind of a coin flip, but amazing if I win, and if I don't, I at least removed the biggest target out of the enchantments they have
i got just the commander for Soldevi Sage and thats Orvar, the all form he can make clones of your lands with the spells so you can sacrfice the token lands for that draw effect
and Splintering wind i have another idea with it how about bad gifts? (Codie) because if they deck is filled with weenies and giving these tokens will make them have such a hard time to keep the board state
SKREEEEEEED!!! As a rdw flag bearer skred has done work for me over the years. I just say all mountains are snow. Have to play with my beta mountains.
Patron of the Moon could definitely use that mage. it only costs her one mana to put two lands into play
Splintering Wind is going straight into my Gishath deck!
I'd like to point out that protection makes things unblockable, which white has almost exclusive rights to.
It’s always fun seeing obscure cards, but these are all stretches for the 99 in most decks. My Kykar deck got excited for the Hussar for a moment until I read closer. Once per turn, only during upkeep. That’s terrible. That timing makes it the worst top deck of all time. It’s like the spell/ability version of a tapped land.
Soldevi Sage fits perfectly in a Slogurk deck
i play sky hussar in my derevi deck and it's great there
I have splintering wind in my marath enrage/noncombat damage deck.
TIL that I can only use Spirit en-Dal during my upkeep. Whoops. I don't think I ever read the reminder text for it - it seemed self-explanatory enough.
I'll tell you why sigil captain isn't in more decks, people want to play more than one anthem effect, and if you have captain on board, all future anthems are dead draws and vice versa. And if the captain the only anthem in your deck, your creatures that aren't 1/1 are missing out on the stat boosts
Soldevi Sage works well with a Flagstone
Sigil Captain won me the game with my Trostani deck
no downside to oops all snow lands
*laughs in Reidaine, God of the Worthy*
Sigil captain would be a great commander. A shame it isn't legendary
Kinda wanna put skred in my krark and sakashima deck
Also sky hussar maybe in yennet might work
Playing Splintering Winds in my Jinnie Fae deck
Making cats and dogs instead of the cumulative upkeep dude
Such a gross fit in the deck
Sky Hussar has won me games in my Brago deck.
Sky hussar is good in.a deck with alot of convoke
Spirit en-dal belongs in every Kiyomaro, first to stand deck
I end up giving my opponents creatures Shadow so they can't block, or to destroy target creature with Shadow instead of using it on my creatures.
More players need to learn to fear shadow 👻
Spring cleaning is pretty mean
Soldevi Sage in Muldrotha
Never say always or never Demo. My Nikya of the old ways deck never plays a sorcery only creatures and lands in that one
I know that decks not blue so doesn’t matter but still
SKY Hunter ir n Jeskai could be value until You combo with Kiki Jiki
Sigil Captain was great... until i drew my skull clamp...
Here to say FUCK YES I love Skull of Orn
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