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Put this one together recently. The idea is to bounce every possible threat your opponent plays. Because the deck is piloted by Talrand, each bounce spell widens the gap in board presence more and more.
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One word, my friend: Iona.
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you're right. people shouldnt play mono colored magic because they printed ONE card that shuts their deck off. its not like the deck is blue, or something, so it might have access to counterspells. Yeah. that could never happen.
You must be a dire supporter of Doom Blade.
Well, why don't you look and tell me some of those counterspells in the main deck. It's just, I think if you're going to play EDH, why just give your opponent the chance to Emeria all over your face? I'm not saying this deck is obsolete, but it has a weakness that is easily exploited. Don't get me wrong, it's a good deck.
Ok, smart guy, since you want to play the "what if" game and you cast Iona when he doesnt have his only counterspell, here you go:What if you play Iona, and he responds to her ETB trigger by bouncing her back to your hand every time you cast her, time walking you every turn, because you insist on jamming a 9 drop into a deck full of answers for it? and its Iona, not Emeria, and if you build decks because youre scared of one card, you should probably not be playing EDH. theres a reason Wizards bans cards like Primeval Titan and Sylvan Primordial and not Iona.
Iona uses a replacement effect, not ETB trigger. The real defense is that even in EDH Iona is expensive as balls.
you are correct. it uses "as" not "when" I misread it. the point still stands that not playing a single color deck because of one card is absurd.
And it's that "Expensive as balls" thing that should really be taken into account. He's just gonna bounce your lands over and over if he knows you have a bomb like that waiting.
Iona is obviously a problem, but she is to any EDH deck if she can hit the field. If she hits the field it's pretty detrimental to even a 3+ color EDH...It's a powerful effect for sure. The problem is that "if" factor. Iona costs a buttload of mana to play. I've played against this deck and it is very, very fast. You're gonna be hard pressed to make an impact with Iona that late into the game. The other thing is that Iona (again, for good reason) paints a big target on your head. In a multiplayer venue like EDH, using Iona will be a bit of a liability. Sadly these are things rarely taken into account when someone decides to say "Dood Iona lolz" =/
Yeah she'd probably single-handily ruin 9/10 edh decks if her effect went off. I have two, and she'd ruin my Vorel edh. Though she wouldn't be much of an issue for my Oloro since it has multiple win cons. Sure as hell would slow it down though. There's also things like grindstone, but I wouldn't trash the whole deck just because of those two cards.
Once more I offer meager advice to a format I probably never will understand. Would 'Remand' help you out? Counter, Bounce and Draw in one for 1{U}
Thassa? pricey but shed give you brilliant card control
Looks pretty good, Upheaval is banned though.
In EDH? I'll be damned, thank you for the heads up.
Why's Extraplanar Lens here? Just curious.
The added mana it provides lets me play more/bigger spells earlier on, which helps keep me ahead of my opponent. It's also quite the boon with Mirari.
It'd have to be a basic land right, since it's edh? For example, you imprint an island so then you'd get 2 U for each island you tap right?
a neat trick with extraplanar lens is to run snow lands instead of regular basics. this allows you to exile a snow land, to double only those types.
Ah I get it. That's probably what they're going for here.
exactly. it gets you the benefit without providing it to your opponents who happen to be sharing those colors.