Hey thats a dope deck, seems very light on the ramp tho especially with such an expensive commander and curve. In your experience, is the slowing down opponents strat enough to compensate for that or wouldnt more ramp or soumething like mana flare help you to accelerate to your expensive win cons? Also 35 lands seems a bit low, how does that work out in your experience?
The land count is low compared to most my decks (I default to 39 normally) but I have Land Tax and Archeomancer’s Map, as well as 3 loot effects, so the deck functions as if it has more lands in my experience. It does usually take turn 7 to cast Gisela, but normally wiping once or twice keeps me alive until then. Also I can tutor up something like Descent into Avernus if I want to focus on getting her out earlier, or grab Land Tax to guarantee I hit my land drops. In the case of Mana Flare, I used to play that back when I first created her as a commander (during Avacyn Restored days). That deck however was all about equipment and so it could protect her easily, but this deck can’t protect her so I’d prefer not to risk Mana Flaring into her only for her to get removed and cost 9 mana while I only have 5 lands in play. I will say this deck probably has a low win rate. It gets hated out pretty hard, and I’m still learning how to pilot it. That being said, it always makes the games go a lot faster, so I feel pretty good even about the games I lose. In the future I may increase the ramp and/or wrath effects, but for now I want to try to focus tightly on the enchantment theme and see how well I can make that work.
My dude Gisela halves the damage you'd take but rounds it UP not down, barbs and other 1 damage pingers will still hit you and for that it's best to have Gisela replacement happens last when you have other damage doublers
Hey thanks for commenting. I always appreciate people helping me get better with the rules. However, Gisela is worded in a unique way, and the damage prevention effect is what is being rounded up. So if you would prevent half a point of damage, instead you prevent 1 point of damage. There's a good blog on it here: blogs.magicjudges.org/rulestips/2013/03/gisela-will-prevent-all-instances-of-1-damage/
Super neat deck
I love it!
Hey thats a dope deck, seems very light on the ramp tho especially with such an expensive commander and curve. In your experience, is the slowing down opponents strat enough to compensate for that or wouldnt more ramp or soumething like mana flare help you to accelerate to your expensive win cons? Also 35 lands seems a bit low, how does that work out in your experience?
The land count is low compared to most my decks (I default to 39 normally) but I have Land Tax and Archeomancer’s Map, as well as 3 loot effects, so the deck functions as if it has more lands in my experience.
It does usually take turn 7 to cast Gisela, but normally wiping once or twice keeps me alive until then. Also I can tutor up something like Descent into Avernus if I want to focus on getting her out earlier, or grab Land Tax to guarantee I hit my land drops.
In the case of Mana Flare, I used to play that back when I first created her as a commander (during Avacyn Restored days). That deck however was all about equipment and so it could protect her easily, but this deck can’t protect her so I’d prefer not to risk Mana Flaring into her only for her to get removed and cost 9 mana while I only have 5 lands in play.
I will say this deck probably has a low win rate. It gets hated out pretty hard, and I’m still learning how to pilot it. That being said, it always makes the games go a lot faster, so I feel pretty good even about the games I lose. In the future I may increase the ramp and/or wrath effects, but for now I want to try to focus tightly on the enchantment theme and see how well I can make that work.
My dude Gisela halves the damage you'd take but rounds it UP not down, barbs and other 1 damage pingers will still hit you and for that it's best to have Gisela replacement happens last when you have other damage doublers
it rounds up yes, but it prevents that much. Half of 1 rounded up IS 1. 1 is prevented.
Hey thanks for commenting. I always appreciate people helping me get better with the rules. However, Gisela is worded in a unique way, and the damage prevention effect is what is being rounded up. So if you would prevent half a point of damage, instead you prevent 1 point of damage. There's a good blog on it here: blogs.magicjudges.org/rulestips/2013/03/gisela-will-prevent-all-instances-of-1-damage/
@@t_daddy_mtg uh that's a new thing learned today, neat!
I apologise for the intrusion then ^^;
I’m still glad you brought it up because I’m sure other there are other people thinking the same, so now it’s documented for any future viewers :)