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30 day Mtg challenge day 30: Card with Tons of Sentimental Value

Welcome all to ChronosCasuals! I’m ChronosMysty and this month I’m doing the 30 day Mtg challenge:

Today is “A Card with Tons of Sentimental Value”. For me, that card is a foil The Great Aurora:

The Great Aurora 6GGG Sorcery Each player shuffles all cards from their hand and all permanents they own into their library, then draws that many cards. Each player may put any number of land cards from their hand onto the battlefield. Exile The Great Aurora.

From a flavor perspective, I think this card is completely off. I feel like this should be a mono-U or UB card that polymorphs all non-faerie creatures if we’re being completely flavor-accurate, but that’s a story for another day. I like this card because it’s like warp World but without the stack of 40 triggers that usually results. I use it in Kruphix where II can usually get enough mana to cast Kruphix again and keep all the mana I’ve been floating. In general, this is better for token strategies or after a nuke.

As for why this card is sentimental to me, a friend of mine gave me a foil.

Anyway, that’s it for the 30 day mtg challenge. it’s been a lot of fun. Unfortunately, my posting schedule will probably once again become irregular. Thank you all for joining me on this journey. that’s all I have for you today. I’ll see you all next time, and remember, keep it casual!

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30 day Mtg challenge day 29: Card You’re Always trying to Build With

Welcome all to ChronosCasuals! I’m ChronosMysty and this month I’m doing the 30 day Mtg challenge:

Today is “Card you’re always trying to build with”. That card for me is:

Angel’s Trumpet 3 Artifact All creatures have vigilance. At the beginning of each player's end step, tap all untapped creatures that player controls that didn't attack this turn. Angel's Trumpet deals damage to the player equal to the number of creatures tapped this way.

What I like about this card is that it cuts right to the chase. I’m sure we’ve all played edh games where everyone has about 10 creatures out and nobody wants to attack into each other because any creature that swings won’t be able to block, either because it’s tapped or dead. This takes away all of that with its unique method of “highly encouraging” attacks - if your creatures don’t swing, they’ll get tapped and hurt you (unless they’re utility creatures with tap in the cost - Angel’s Trumpet doesn’t do much to them except make them do it sooner), meanwhile if they attack, they might survive to block during the rest of the round. It encourages attacks without quite the same ‘feel bad’ as when someone has to tap their board to swing in and is subsequently picked off. Angel’s Trumpet is also in colorless identity, which means it’s available for all decks as opposed to just red or blue.

That’s all I have for you today. I’ll see you all next time, and remember, keep it casual!

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30 day Mtg challenge day 28: Card you Want to Own

Welcome all to ChronosCasuals! I’m ChronosMysty and this month I’m doing the 30 day Mtg challenge:

Today is “Card You want to own”. For me, that’s:

Consecrated Sphinx 4UU Creature - Sphinx Flying Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw two cards. 4/6

Having played against it, it is VERY efficient at drawing cards. The only problem is when two people have one and the next draw step becomes a much longer mind-game than it needs to be.

Anyway, that’s all i have for you today. I’ll see you all next time, and remember, keep it casual!

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30 day Mtg challenge day 27: Card you want reprinted

Welcome all to ChronosCasuals! I’m chronosMysty and this month I'm doing the 30 day mtg challenge:

Today is “card You want reprinted”. For me, that card is:

Reconnaissance W Enchantment 0: Remove target attacking creature you control from combat and untap it.

There are a couple of reasons I want this reprinted: 1. It’s currently ten dollars. Why is an uncommon ten dollars? 2. It’s actually really useful, but I’ll get to that. 3. Its reminder text is incorrect. (Well, when you want it to be.)

The important thing to know is that creatures are still considered attacking during the “end of combat” step, after they have dealt combat damage. This is why using Maze of ith to untap your knight of the Reliquary after it has dealt combat damage is a possible (and powerful) move in legacy. This card can serve a similar purpose - untap your creatures after they’ve dealt combat damage. It’s almost like giving your creatures vigilance! In addition to functional vigilance, it also allows you to just swing in with everyone without any real concern since you can basically “undo” the attacks of those that get blocked by bigger creatures. This is particularly funny with creatures that have attack triggers (such as kaalia) or lure effects - Taunting Elf is a fun card, but it’s even better when it can survive to do it again, and again, and again.

Anyway, that’s all I have for you today. I’ll see you all next time, and remember, keep it casual!

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30 day Mtg challenge day 26: Favorite commander

Welcome all to ChronosCasuals! I’m ChronosMysty and this month I’m doing the 30 day mtg challenge:

Today is “favorite commander”. That card is:

Kruphix, God of Horizons 3GU Legendary Enchantment Creature - God Indestructible As long as your devotion to green and blue is less than seven, Kruphix isn't a creature. You have no maximum hand size. If you would lose unspent mana, that mana becomes colorless instead. 4/7

This is basically an indestructible legendary creature version of Ice Cauldron in the two best colors in commander. Given how I like to create huge plays with big mana, this fits my playstyle well. Admittedly, I find that, as my deck becomes optimized for a curve, Kruphix becomes less useful.

Anyway, that’s all I have for you today. I’ll see you all next time, and remember, keep it casual!

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30 day Mtg challenge day 25: Card that makes you sad

Welcome all to Chronoscasuals! I’m chronosmysty and this month I’m doing the 30 day mtg challenge:

Today is “card that makes you Sad”. For me, that card is:

Capsize 1UU Instant Buyback 3 Return target permanent to its owner’s hand.

This card is both ruthlessly powerful and woefully mana-inefficient. A repeatable bounce that can target lands can ensure one player never gets off the ground, but how much mana it costs means that the user will take a long while to do the same. I’m not sure what the point of the card is, but it just derails what were good games.

That’s all I have for you today. I’ll see you all next time, and remember, keep it casual!

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30 day Mtg challenge day 24: Nostalgic card

Welcome all to ChronosCasuals! I’m ChronosMysty and this month I’m doing the 30 day mtg challenge:

Today is “Nostalgic card”. I have next to no idea what that means, so I’ll go with:

Tsabo’s Assassin 2BB Creature - Zombie Assassin T: Destroy target creature if it shares a color with the most common color among all permanents or a color tied for most common. A creature destroyed this way can't be regenerated. 1/1

Referencing one of the main mechanics from Invasion (the “if it shares a color with the most common color among all permanents or a color tied for most common), a set from my childhood? Check.

Being able to kill black creatures despite being black, which was unusual for the time and stuck out like a sore thumb? Check.

Art in which I still have no idea was is going on even after all these years? Check.

As for the card itself, I mentioned the main point: it can kill black creatures so long as the plurality or majority of creatures are black. Still a bit limited in its targeting capabilities, but being able to tap to kill a creature, tapped or untapped, for no mana, and you’ll probably almost always have a good target in multiplayer, makes this a very interesting card that would highly recommend any black, non-token deck try. (Sadly, or perhaps fittingly, you’ll have a hard time killing Eldrazi.)

That’s all I have for you today. I’ll see you all next time and remember, keep it casual!

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30 day Mtg challenge day 23: Expensive card you own

Welcome all to ChronosCasuals! I’m chronosMysty and this month I’m doing the 30 day mtg challenge:

Today is “Expensive card you own”. I own all the Eldrazi titans in some form except for OG Emrakul, so I’ll go with the most expensive of those I have:

Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger [prelease foil] 10 Legendary Creature - Eldrazi When you cast this spell, exile two target permanents. Indestructible Whenever Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger attacks, defending player exiles the top twenty cards of their library. 10/10

I mostly like the fact that it’s 10 mana and that its cast trigger exiles two target permanents. That’s a value deal right there. Oh yeah, and you get a 10/10 indestructible too - that’s very good for blocking with. I say blocking, because every time I swing with it I get really underwhelmed.

“I’ll swing at you and exile your top twenty cards.” “I’ll chump block and I still have about 60-70 cards remaining.” “Wow, this is gonna take a long time.”

Compare that to two other certain eldrazi cards and you know they’re losing at least four permanents per swing, which can be quite an impact on the board.

Anyway, that’s all I have for you today. I’ll see you all next time, and remember, keep it casual!

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30 day Mtg challenge day 22: Overrated card

Welcome all to ChronosCasuals! I’m chronosmysty and this month I’m doing the 30 day Mtg challenge:

Today is “Overrated card”. I’m not really good at determining when a card is overrated, underrated, or aptly rated, so I picked something I see people overcomplaining about, which I guess is similar enough:

Blood Moon 2R Enchantment Nonbasic lands are Mountains.

Seriously, I don’t get it. This card serves a purpose of punishing greedy manabases in modern, a role that Price of Progress, Blood Moon, and Back to Basics collectively fill in Legacy. If you don’t want to be hosed by Blood Moon, maybe trim back a bit on the fetches or duals and run more basics. (Assassin’s Trophy and Path to Exile are perfectly valid reasons to run basics anyway.)

Anyway, that’s all I have for you today. I’ll see you all next time, and remember, keep it casual!

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30 day Mtg challenge day 21: Underrated card

Welcome all to ChronosCasuals! I’m ChronosMysty and this month I’m doing the 30 day mtg challenge:

Today is underrated card, so I’m going to go with:

Avatar of Woe 6BB Creature - Avatar If there are ten or more creature cards total in all graveyards, this spell costs 6 less to cast. Fear T: Destroy target creature. It can’t be regenerated. 6/5

For some reason, I never see this in commander decks, despite it having been reprinted 6 times + once as an Invocation. Pretty much anyone who plays commander should know of this card.

Maybe it’s the mana cost? But as its first sentence states, especially in multiplayer, it’s probably going to cost 2 mana later in the game. Being only BB in the late game means you can cast this and another powerful card in the same turn.

Naturally, the capability I most enjoy about this card is its tap ability- repeatable creature removal is very powerful. That being said, 6/5 is a hefty body, and fear helps it slip by most blockers and close out a game.

The only downside is that it needs to wait a round to do anything, which, combined with its power level, often causes it to be the target of removal before your next turn comes. I’m personally fine with spending two mana for powerful removal bait, especially if it can be revived, but I’m guessing a lot of people don’t. I would recommend trying this in reanimator builds.

That’s all I have for you today. I’ll see you next time, and remember, keep it casual!

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30 day Mtg challenge day 20: Favorite white-bordered card

Welcome all of chronosCasuals! I’m chronosMysty and this month I’m doing the 30 day Mtg challenge:

Today is favorite white-border card. To be honest, I stopped caring about border-color years ago so long as the border color isn’t silver, but since I havern’t mentioned Inferno yet and want to, now’s a perfect time:

Inferno 5RR Instant Inferno deals 6 damage to each creature and each player.

This looks like a pretty average red nuke, until you read the word on its typeline again: Instant, and let me tell you, dropping an instant nuke is hilarious (especially since Wotc doesn’t print those too much anymore). Would highly recommend it for red commander decks.

Anyway, that’s all I have for you today. I’ll see you all next time, and remember, keep it casual!

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30 day Mtg challenge day 19: Card from your Favorite set

Welcome all to ChronosCasuals! I’m ChronosMysty and this month I’m doing the 30 day Mtg challenge:

Today is “Card from your Favorite Set”. Before I get to the card, I want to go over my favorite set and explain why. It’s Time spiral and there are a lot of reasons why.

First of all, if you count the Timeshifted cards as part of the set, the set had 408 cards, which is a lot. I like sets that have a lot of cards.

Second, nostalgia. The Timeshifted cards were excellent choices, it was nice to see the old frame again, and even all the new cards were references to one or more older cards.

Third, mechanics. Time Spiral had an incredibly high keyword and mechanics count, with Suspend still being one of my all-time favorites.

Fourth, and this is mostly true for the block more than for this set, but it messed with the color pie a lot by providing abilities to colors that they either didn’t have or had had before WotC had figured out exactly what they were doing with the color pie. While color pie breaks do eat away at the colors’ differences, I still can’t help but like it a little bit when it happens once in a while.

Anyway, the card I’m going to talk about today is Gemstone caverns:

Gemstone caverns Legendary land If Gemstone Caverns is in your opening hand and you're not playing first, you may begin the game with Gemstone Caverns on the battlefield with a luck counter on it. If you do, exile a card from your hand. T: Add C. If Gemstone Caverns has a luck counter on it, instead add one mana of any color.

I have never personally played this card, but having seen it played, the card is utterly nuts if it’s in your opening hand, essentially acting as a more flexible Chrome Mox that takes up a land spot in your deck. If you want to ramp fast, this is a powerful way to do it in commander. Even if it turns out to not be in your opening hand or you happen to go first, it’s still a land, so there really isn’t much opportunity cost unless your deck is really heavily based on colored mana. There might be a place for this in mono-color decks, but I’m iffy on that generally since I prefer keeping most of the lands basic for Extraplanar Lens synergies and such. I definitely recommend this for most two and three color commander decks, with four and five maybe being a bit stretched thin.

Anyway, that’s all I have for you today. I’ll see you all next time, and remember, keep it casual!

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30 day Mtg challenge day 18: Favorite multicolor card

Welcome all to Chronoscasuals! I’m ChronosMysty and this month I’m doing the 30 day Mtg challenge:

Today is favorite multicolored card. Funny enough, I don’t use multicolored cards a lot except for commanders, so I decided to go with:

Lim-Dûl's Vault UB Instant Look at the top five cards of your library. As many times as you choose, you may pay 1 life, put those cards on the bottom of your library in any order, then look at the top five cards of your library. Then shuffle your library and put the last cards you looked at this way on top of it in any order.

The gatherer rulings list this: In other words: — Step 1: Look at the top five cards of your library. — Step 2: If you like them, proceed to step 3a. If you don’t like them, proceed to step 3b. — Step 3a: Shuffle the rest of your library, then put those five cards back on top of your library in the order you want. The spell has finished resolving. — Step 3b: Put those five cards on the bottom of your library in the order you want. Pay 1 life. Return to step 1. Some cards would do better with a flowchart than an actual text box. This might be one of those. I won’t insult your intelligence by explaining what the card does, since both the text and the rule explain it, but I think of it like a two mana Vampiric Tutor with variable life cost and that lets you arrange the next four cards.

Anyway, that’s all I have for you today. I’ll see you all next time, and remember, keep it casual!

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30 day Mtg challenge day 17: Favorite enchantment

Welcome all to ChronosCasuals! I’m ChronosMysty and this month I’m doing the 30 day Mtg challenge:

Today is “favorite enchantment”. As people might have been able to guess, it’s probably the one enchantment designed to help people cast big cards on the cheap (or this case, free):

Omniscience 7UUU Enchantment You may cast spells from your hand without paying their mana costs.

I don’t think this needs much explanation. That being said, it does have some limitations in commander, although don’t get me wrong, it’s still insanely powerful regardless:

• The spells can still be countered. • Krosan Grip exists. (Fun fact about priority: after casting a spell, you still hold priority until you actively pass it [which you need to do for spells to eventually resolve], so after Omniscience resolves, you can immediately cast a sorcery speed and any number of instants before the opponent can Grip it. You can thank 116.3b and 116.3c for this interaction.) • Spells with X in the cost have to choose 0 if you don’t pay a cost that • You can’t pay alternate costs like this (meaning you’re still gonna have to pay 7 mana for that cyclonic Rift to wipe the boards) • You still have to pay additional costs. That Rite of Replication for five copies is still gonna cost 5 mana. • And, again, it’s only from your hand. You probably aren’t casting your commander for cheaper with this.

Anyway, that’s all I have for you today. I’ll see you all next time, and remember, keep it casual!

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30 day Mtg challenge day 16: Card you’ve given as a gift

Welcome all to ChronosCasuals! I’m chronosMysty and this month I’m doing the 30 day Mtg challenge:

Today is “A card you’ve given as a gift”. A card I can remember qualifying is:

Cabal Slaver 2B Creature - Human Cleric Whenever a Goblin deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card. 2/1

It’s funny how they forecasted a shift in goblins from R to BR all the way back in onslaught. I gave this card to a friend who played Wort, Boggart Auntie, unsurprisingly. In addition to Wort providing card advantage in the form of a Boggart Birth Rite every turn, Cabal Slaver can clear entire hands with the help of Krenko. One thing of note is that Cabal Slaver also works for your opponents’ Goblins too, so just keep that in mind.

Anyway, that’s all I have for you today. I’ll see you all next time, and remember, keep it casual!

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30 day Mtg challenge day 15: A card you’re currently playing

Welcome all to ChronosCasuals! I’m ChronosMysty and this month I’m doing the Mtg challenge:

Today is “card you’re currently playing”. I don’t have a better place to put this card, but I felt like mentioning it.

Concordant Crossroads G World Enchantment All creatures have haste.

World Enchantment just means that, at the time it enters play, all other world enchantments are put into the graveyards (and if multiple enter at the same time, all do). This is called the “world rule”, and honestly, I hope they remove that rule and replace World on these cards with Legendary.

Anyway, the text is very simple and is very often found on R and RG cards (and usually one sided), but here’s the thing: THIS IS MONO-G. It’s a huge color pie break that proves very useful in commander, since it means green decks based on summoning a lot of creatures in one turn don’t have to splash red (and therefore, get a new commander) to make sure they don’t get blown out by a sorcery-speed wrath.

Anyway, that’s all I have for you today. I’ll see you all next time, and remember, keep it casual!

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30 day Mtg challenge day 14: card that’s best in foil

Welcome all to ChronosCasuals! I’m chronosMysty and this month I’m doing the 30 day Mtg challenge:

Today is “card that’s best in foil”, and for me that’s:

It’s not really possible to see on the screen, but the metal bits become very shiny (creating for one shiny spot on the doll’s stomach) and makes the background look even darker, making the art seem even scarier.

Now for the card itself:

Stuffy Doll 5 Artifact Creature - Construct Indestructible As Stuffy Doll enters the battlefield, choose a player. Whenever Stuffy Doll is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to the chosen player. T: Stuffy Doll deals 1 damage to itself. 0/1

This card is rather powerful both in 1v1 and multiplayer. In 1v1, it essentially guarantees that your opponent’s biggest non-evasive, non-trample creature will only be hitting its controller on the swing, which can make combat really difficult. In multiplayer, however, this gets a lot more dangerous for the chosen player, as each other player can swing a creature to get blocked by the Stuffy Doll to hurt that player. This is often referred to as a "cheap move”, but sometimes a player is just going to dominate the game if the other players don’t cooperate and sometimes a ‘fair move’ isn’t going to cut it.

Anyway, that’s all I have for you today. I’ll see you all next time, and remember, keep it casual!

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