Just some of the more weird and whacky blue enchantments in the format. Maybe some of my inventive viewers can figure out how to make these useful. Patreon / edhdeckbuilding TCGPlayer Affiliate Link www.tcgplayer.com/?...
Interestingly, Commander's like Teferi, Temporal Archmage "add cards to hand" rather than draw you cards, meaning they aren't effected by Zur's Weirding. Also, Nesting Grounds would allow you to manipulate Tidal Influence to always stay at 3 for just 1 colorless mana a turn. (Plus the 1 colorless mana wasted by having to tap Nesting Grounds each turn)
I run Ice Cave, Psychic Battle, Zur's Weirding, and Conjured Currency in my Phelddagrif Group Hug Chaos deck and it's hilarious. Some of the most fun cards in Magic are the ones that change the rules up in weird ways
Faces of the Past: I'm going to try running this in my Linvala, Shield of Sea Gate deck, since I run angel tribal and I sacrifice her a lot. It effectively makes her ability "Give all of your angels indestructible and untap them"
@@maximilianjack1764 No, I have a lot of recursion. With Gift of Immortality she comes back to the battlefield before her ability resolves so she gains her own hexproof or indestructible. I have a number of ways to tutor that aura
Tidal Influence is actually almost part of a cycle of cards that I use in the wishboard of my My Little Pony deck. Nightmare Moon can wish for cards with moons in their art and there are 4 anthems (no green one) with moons in their art: Crusade, Tidal Influence, Bad Moon, and Chaos Moon.
Great video! I have several of these in my "decks that surely will want this" box but I've never made the decks. Psychic Possession is very interesting in any wheels deck, i used it in Arjun, the shifting flame
3:52 i have a friend that uses faces of the past in his prime speaker vannifar deck and its insane and not fun too play against with that card on the table
Faces of the past could be used in Kuema. You want to be tapping & untapping merfolk all the time. So if someone wants to use target removal on islandwalk lord it could draw you cards or pump the team.
Illusionary Terrain is an interesting hoser for Urborg, Yavimaya and Blood Moon. Ice Cave is really good tech if you run anti-counter stuff like Cavern of Souls, Rhythm of the Wild, Destiny Spinner, etc. Faces of the Past is an auto-include in Vannifar elf tribal, works amazingly well with it.
I mean it does absolutely work with Blood Moon since it makes everything into basic mountains. As for the others it only works in the sense that you can cancel their effects on basic lands.
@@SeraphimKnight blood moon does not state it turns lands into basic mountains, just mountains. It even has a ruling: This effect doesn’t affect names or supertypes. It won’t turn any land into a basic land or remove the legendary supertype from a legendary land, and the lands won’t be named “Mountain.”
Ok here's the deal for Faces of the Past in a Merieke Ri Berit deck (or at least how I play her): The deck itself is a janky combo deck with big elements of pillowfort and removal to basically stay alive. So anytime a creature dies the effect is gonna come in handy for 2 reasons. 1.) You can tap down potential threats (although chance is involved) 2.) Merieke is a human (which is easy to trigger with the Faces of the Past), meaning you can tap her for her abilty again since she won't untap on her own. Also, if the creature you took control over originally is a human or wizard, when it dies due to Merieke untapping from the Faces of the Past, this thing friggin triggers again! Dude you have no idea how excited I am for this card. Instant buy!
how to use coral reef(inspired by true events): turn 0 - say you have an unlikely four card infinite turn combo turn 1 - mystic sanctuary, act disappointed turn 2 - island, coral reef, laugh at crazy card, mention this video turn 3 - island, rootwater hunter, form a sentence with the word "classic" in it turn 4 - island, crucible or worlds, look scary, mention some free counter spells turn 5 - island, really act like you have counter spells opponent's end step before your turn 6 - Mystical Tutor for temporal manipulation, look serious then smile like the joker with a crazy look in your eye turn 6 - cast Temporal Manipulation, sac mystic sanctuary to coral reef, play mystic sanctuary from graveyard via crucible or worlds, put Temporal Manipulation on top, tap rootwater hunter to do 1 damage to face extra turn - repeat Turn 6 and give me and edh deckbuilding credit, shake hands, act surprised, be humble, but know they hate you infinite turns and infinite damage
Shared Fate would be really sick in a deck where the commander has a draw replacement effect, like the new Eruth, Tormented Prophet. Since you replace your own draw with impulse draw, you would be the only one not affected by Shared Fate. Each opponent would now be subjected to the chaotic effect, but you'd be entirely unaffected and continue to "draw" as normal. Hell, throw Zur's Weirding into the deck as well for the same reason. Since you don't actually "draw" cards, nobody has the opportunity to deny you those cards. Just cause mass chaos for everyone but yourself. This would also work with older commanders like Tomorrow, Azami's Familiar.
faces of the past can be used in mono blue or blue green merfolk to untap them all. That or it can be slotted into any blue deck for tribal hate. Thinking about it, it could go into volo, since he tries to play as many different creature types as possible and tutor for a specific hate card and bam, tap down an opponents board. It can also be used with maskwood nexus if you have maskwood nexus out, swing, sac a creature to a phyrexian alter or whatever and tap everything everyone else controls. Can also be used to sac something small and untap all of your creatures. Hope this helps someone with ideas.
Tidal Influence is at 3 counters, upkeep comes around, put Tidal Influence on the Stack, then Chisei. Chisei moves it down to 2 counters, Influence goes back up to 3.
I play Faces of the Past in Merieke. With Merieke's basic engine out, it acts as "destroy all of your opponents' humans", and it is a fog effect against tribal armies.
I was in a game With Shared Fate. Nekusar started casting wheels and everyone exiled my whole library. Couldn't feel bad for their high interest in my cards.
Shared fate and ice caves are two of my favorite cards to play in commander. Tidal influence could be silly in Tetsuko Umezawa, trying to get power down to 1 or boosting your 1 toughness creatures
i comment this before i watch the video because i see one of my all time favorite Enhcantments in the Thumbnail. Shared Fate is such a fun card, so much fun that i build a janky deck around it, back in Mirrodin/Kamigawa standard. it didnt won that much games but most games i won because people refused to not play with their cards. i will always like this card because in can shake things up, even in commander, if no one has a removal by the time this resolves, the game stays weird for quite some time. combine with teferis puzzlebox for even more "fun"
Deep water is amazing for color fixing. in dimir my Cabal coffers with Urbog can tap for all blue instead of all black if I need it. The colorless urza lands tap for 7 blue instead of 7 colorless. ancient tomb or temple of false god tap for 2 blue. Calling it a potential 'Worst" card betrays a players lack of vision. Also Orvar loves Faces from the Past
I'm a big fan of Verity Circle - it'll often draw me as many cards as Rhystic Study, but doesn't draw anywhere near as much hate. You may draw a card whenever an opponent's creature is tapped, if it isn't being declared as an attacker. Mana dorks? Draw a card. You'd be amazed at how many random 'tap to do x' effects there are in commander. Or you can just cast cryptic command or another similar 'tap all creatures' effect and pretty much draw as much of your deck as you like.
Faces of the Past can work as a great closer for morph decks. Since none of your morphs have any creature types they will never be affected by it, but if you start attacking tribal decks you can tap down their field to swing in. Works especially well with cards in the deck like Riptide Entrancer, so I may actually run this in my new Kadena deck I finally built!
Faces of the Past seems really good in a Kumena merfolk deck. I mean the payoff for the untap is stapled onto Kumena. Additionally merfolk in general have some decent tap abilities you could double up on.
I LOVE shared Fate. I run it in Lazov. I'm already becoming something of my opponents, might as well also play cards from their deck and stop them from doing so
I have an opponent’s choice deck that I use shared fate in. The idea is to play only spells that make your opponents to pick things like fact or fiction. It’s a lot of fun!
Mist of stagnation is in my unfinished orvar list to be upkeep mana doubling. Having extra mana during your upkeep or being able to multitap for abilities feels like fun jank.
I put Faces of the Past in my Minn, Wily Illusionist deck. Gives all of my big illusions pseudo-vigilance since at least one is going to die (one way or another). Works super well!
Faces of the Past was an auto included in my Rhoda / Timin deck. Helps untap my tappers and buffs Rhoda fast. Politics with it was fun too. Tappa Tappa Tappa
In my mono blue deck I combine Illusionary Terrain with Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth to stall out everyone while I build up an advantage. I also have Lifetap in the deck with Yavimaya. You can use Power Conduit to remove the counter on Tidal Influence.
I have coral reef in my charix the raging Isle deck, it makes him bigger while still being unlockable by tetsuko for example, and the sacrifice an island is an excellent combat trick for his activation
I had never heard of Faces of the Past, but it would be a monstrously powerful card in my Koma, Cosmos Serpent deck. I play cards like Cryptolith Rite, so I can use the many, many coils Koma makes to make mana. Koma itself is a sacrifice outlet, and with Ashnod's Altar out, it makes Faces of the Past a crazy catalyst for a Big Mana style deck.
Shared Fate is nuts in a Reality Chip Deck! You can sideline your opponents by forcing them to play with a different deck, while you can still mostly stick to your original game plan by playing cards from the top of your own library. Since you will have usually have decent card draw, you can "ursurp" another deck´s strategy more quickly, and thanks to your topdeck manipulation tools, you can sour the deal if your opponents want to tap into your deck in return. And if you manage to get a combo with Senseis Divining Top online (as many Chip Decks already want to do), it turns into the nastiest wincon, because now you can just steal every. players. entire. library.
For Tidal Influence, you could use a Power Conduit. 2 mana artifact from Mirrodin that has: Tap and remove a counter from a PERMANENT you control and put a charge counter on an artifact or +1/+1 counter on a creature. Since the conduit can take counters off any thing its perfect for those cards where you have a counter that has a negative effect. I love to use this together with Urza's Saga so i can keep it on the second step and make a Karnsruct each turn.
Digital Despot's posy may be far better, but I'll still offer that the Artifact Power Conduit, by tapping for 2 colorless, is an option to remove the 3rd Tidal counter and each time convert it into either a +1/+1 or Charge counter. (Placed on a creature or artifact, respectively.)
Illusory terrain is brutal I played vs a freeze / jail deck in one of the first commander matches I ever played and their combo involved turning all my lands into a color I couldn't use because suddenly I had all blue mana when I can't use blue mana at all, and with having to only untap one permanent a turn and needing to draw a mana source not out of a basic land in my monogreen deck was backbreaking
Faces of the past I run in my zellix sanity flayer deck, it’s been awesome for me Running a mill / sacrifice theme, I get rid of a token, untap zellix and keep sacrificing to mill with sacrifice outlets and ping for damage with other cards
I used faces of the past with my sliver/changeling deck that had Atogatog as commander. Basically slivers boosted the changelings and so atogatog would eat one to not only get stupid big, but to use faces of the past to then tap down all my opponents creatures. Or using cryptolith rite to tap for a bunch of mana, then sacrificing a sliver to Atogatog to untap them for even more mana. The deck was super wacky and had my commander been literally any sliver and not Atogatog it would have been top tier. But no had to meme
Faces of the Past is excellent against tribal (kill one and tap down every other one on their field). It's also used as a backup to Intruder Alarm in my mono blue merfolk. Lullmage Mentor is a huge fan of this card if you have a sac outlet
Play energy vortex in Izzet and run Braid of fire. You get a boat load of mana during your upkeep, then dump it all into Energy vortex. If that player dies, then bounce it to your hand and choose a new opponent.
Energy Vortex can help be an actual win condition for prison decks. Lock everyone out (except yourself), play it and burn player 2 out by paying just over what they can. Pick it up with some effect (Capsize?) and repeat for players 3 and 4. Only thought of this because if you play a prison deck, a good portion of players will make them tell you how you win the game before scooping. Deep water can help get around blood moon type effects, especially in decks who can't use red mana. Mists of Stagnation plus Leyline of the Void will break symmetry. Rest in Peace will be stronger but you would need a way to win the game in play before this. Tidal Influence plus a flicker effect can keep it at 1 counter, and if you go against low power blue creatures, often unblockable or flying ones, it can keep their power locked down without some kind of anthem. Shared Fate in Vega, the Watcher lets you steal their win conditions and keep drawing/stealing off of them.
Zur's Weirding is such an amazing card for stopping your opponents' progress in a 4 player game when you're far ahead of your opponents. Slam it on the table and literally no one is drawing cards. I'm surprised that it isn't more popular in Commander.
Back when this was Standard legal, so were the Words enchantments (Words of Waste, Words of Wonder etc.) This paired VERY well with Words of Worship which replaced my draw for 1 colorless mana to give me 5 life. It would take forever, but I'd mill players out with the combo.
Planeswalker’s Mischief is actually pretty good in Obeka. Exile someone’s card and if it’s not an instant/sorcery, go to EoT and exile the triggered ability at end step and they never get it back.
Faces of the Past: With a free sac outlet, Bloodline Keeper and Godsire will give you infinite creatures entering and dieing. If the sac outlet is Ashnod's Altar or Phyrexian Altar you have infinite mana. Imperious Perfect can give you infinite ETB and LTB triggers if you use Phyrexian Altar.
Shared fate plus jace the minsculpted would be interesting. The brainstirm could could be an ancestral along with fateseal controling the tops of players libraries. Also you could bounce the creatures opponents play of your library.
I love using Illusionary terrain with Kormus bell in my Toxrill deck. Faces of the past in Morophon Changeling tribal, kill a changeling tap all their creatures
Faces of thw past fits really nicely into tribal decks/combo decks, looking for another intruder alarm, this goes infinite with alot of the same pieces, ive gone infinite woth krenko and a couple of other creatures, whisper can also go infinite
I have blue and black rat deck, and it actually combos infinitely with marrow gnawer, since Faces of the Past untaps marrow gnawer thanks to the sac trigger.
faces of the past looks interesting for my ertai the corrupted deck. I might be able to make a combo with tokens. I also think it might be interesting with changlings.
Pretty sure you have Energy Vortex wrong. On your upkeep, remove all counters, then pay X to put X counters on it. So pay 5 for 5 counters. Then on your opponent's upkeep, they pay 1 for all 5 counters or take 3 for as many as they don't pay for. The counters all go away on your next upkeep, but you can just pay 5 again to put 5 more on. This is a potentially huge mana sink and damage dealer. Add blink abilities to it to affect a new opponent after the first has died and you have yourself a wincon.
Faces of the Past would be great for a control deck that runs changelings. You can sac your own changeling creature and then all creatures on the battlefield will become tapped.
i have an ezuri claw of progress (simic) deck which has enough elves that have been the single target removal. faces of the past could force a board wipe but a board wipe might already be coming, if ive amased enough creatures. faces of the past i feel could be really good for scarab god zombie decks where zombies enter tapped.
Faces of the Past would work well in my Dimir Scarab God, Zombie tribal deck. The premise is to kill opponents just by having a large standing army, Add in throne of the god pharaoh and some of the zombies that damage on tapping with a little sacrifice theme and it would work great.
Back when Mirrodin was in standard, I had a leveller/shared fate deck with lots of barter in blood and discard nonsense. The multiplayer nature of commander definitely changes how that works, though.
Birthing Boughs or Maskwood Nexus + sac outlet for repeatable Faces of the Past triggers... could tap/untap everything regardless of types. Don't know if it still gonna do anything too amazing though.
@@ryanlink8699 it's a triggered effect. Split second doesn't stop triggers or special actions such as a mana ability or flipping over a morph creature.
For faces of the past, i would suggest elves or zombies. Sac an elf and untap all your mana producing elves (building sultai elves so this will come in handy) and with zombies, theres several abilities that say, "tap x zombies, do a thing" then sac a zombie and do it all again
Faces of the Past could be used in a changeling tribal deck, maybe? You could tap all enemy creatures just by sacing a changeling, but it would slow you down a lot as well.
For Tidal Influence, you can remove a counter (using Power Conduit, etc.) with the trigger that adds a counter on the stack. You can do the whole thing during your upkeep so you don't lose the benefit during opponents' turns, and the fourth counter ability never triggers. So for the same reason, it definitely goes in a Chisei deck. Since you determine the order of your own triggers, at the beginning of your upkeep, put the Tidal Influence trigger on the stack first, then the Chisei trigger on top if it. Chisei resolves, taking Tidal Influence down to two counters, then Tidal Influence adds the third counter again. Edit: Ummmm, Mirrodin came out over 18 years ago and is definitely that old. It was only five years after Urza's Saga. For perspective, today is five years after the release of Kaladesh block. If you're remembering Mirrodin as "not that old" it means you're a geezer like me :).
I made my own turbo stasis 60 card deck, with Mists of Stagnation and Wheel of Sun and Moon, used Mana Vault to get it out turn 2 lol. Also Shared fate + forced Fruition Is a hilarious combo
I use "Faces of the Past" in my Ral Zarek oathbreaker deck as a win condition. Since the deck is based around tapping and untapping my creatures it uses a lot of pinger to control the board. Almost all of them are human + something else. So you can use Kiki-Jiki to make a copy of a human+shaman and ping this copy to death to untap and repeat. Not sure if this works in a real commander since a boardwipe goes a long way against this kind of deck and Izzet sucks at getting creatures from your graveyard...
Faces of the Past could go infinite with a creature that taps to make tokens that share the token-maker's type (Krenko, for example) and a sacrifice outlet.
I'm using Faces of the Past in my X equals 0 Hydra tribal deck to untap my commander Zaxara after I cast a Hydra (and create the token) and get 2 untaps from this as they both die, which usually gains me mana letting me soon more wheels.
I feel like Zur’s Wierding, Mist of Stagnation, and Planeswalker’s Mischief would be interesting together. Zur’s Wierding reveals everyone’s hands so any instant/sorceries you see that could be useful for you Planeswalker’s Mischief can let you steal it. And if the other players want to use Zur’s Wierding to keep you from drawing cards, then that means you untap more stuff with Mist of Stagnation!
