Another cool thing you can do with dauthi embrace is give it to a defending creature so it can't block. Like if you have like 10 guys and they have 1-2 blockers it very efficient to just make them not be able to block
I've recently mentioned Cultural Exchange in one of my videos, where I discussed how versatile it is in a 4 player EDH game, especially when you go against tribal decks and switch out +1/+1 pumpers between for example an elf player and a merfolk player. Also, probably the cutest artwork in the history of Magic The Gathering.
I finally got to a point where the over half of the cards in these videos are already in my decks! I think this series changed how I look for cards to put in my EDH decks. I am pretty sure my playgroup is starting to get annoyed with me having to read every card now lol. Keep up the good work!
I like the mental image of Demo just going down the full list of all cards alphabetically and stumbling across cool ones and wanting to share them with us
Yo, big fan! I love this series so much! I especially love that you bring up cards you don't know what decks to put them in because often they slot in perfectly into one of the decks for the custom commander discord i am in.
In addition to Matthew Thurber's comment about Cultural Exchange not targeting I think there's another REALLLY fantastic aspect of the wording. The main problem with stealing someone's commander or putting something like imprisisoned in the moon or song of dryads is sometimes the player in question goes. "Huh, well I don't have a way to destroy the thing that took my commander, or destroy it myself to get it back... so guess I'll just kill you and then get it back that way! :)" But in the scenario that you were talking about where you swap 2 people's commanders, you're NOT the person they need to kill to get their commander back. Which is soooooooooo cool.
I just got go put this out: I really love you for saying the errata text of all the cards instead of the printed texts. because most of the time that is way more clear :) (i noticed i was irritated about it in a Commandzone video)
you can also use dauthi embrace to make your oponent creatures don't block, its kinda good when i wanna force my oponent to block with a certain creature by giving shadow to all the others and attacking him.
I have cryptic gateway in my Phyrexian tribal deck. It goes absolutely crazy getting Trinisform into play with a sac outlet, creating 3 Phyrexian Golems to then tap to put more big stuff into play.
I click on these instantly. Always love finding out about cards I never knew of! Also, love seeing another good piece I could add to my Glissa deck as I've revised it at least 4 times now. Thanks Demo!
1st, loving your channel. Especially this series. It’s like I’m digging through the bulk rare bin at an LGS nobody has heard of. 2nd, you mentioned in episode 11 that you would post all of these to a page. Can’t seem to find the link.
Another combo with Dawn of the Dead: End the Turn effects. Sundial of the Infinite and Obeka being recurring versions of the effect. Since they exile effect is a trigger that happens on the next endstep, you wait for that trigger to go on the stack, then end the turn in response, letting you keep whatever you resurrect. This also works for token clones that die at the end step from effects like Flameshadow Conjuring or Inalla.
Years ago I had a Dauthi/Shadow deck. And I loved using the Embrace with Dauthi Assassin and/or Dauthi Ghoul. Need something dead? Give it shadow and pop it. Yeah, it's 4 mana, but repeatable. Maybe someone is going nuts with sacrifices, give a few of those creatures shadow before they leave and grow the Ghoul.
Thanks Demo. I have an entire deck based around Shadow creatures. I love using Dauthi Embrace with Dauthi Trapper (give the creature Shadow with Embrace, destroy with the Trapper...)
I believe you meant Dauthi Cutthroat. Dauthi Trapper taps to give a creature shadow; the cutthroat has you pay two mana and tap it to destroy a creature with shadow.
@@edhdeckbuilding I dont think so. You need to have a total of 10 mana available for the combo and hope, that it doesn't get destroyed until your upkeep. Its too slow. The first thing people get from their sidisi is probably cabal coffers...
I honestly cant remember if I saw this on this channel, another one or if I just had this idea but a cryptic gateway in eldrazi/eldrazi scion deck would be absolutely crazy!
Loved the vid! I was wondering if you would do a Plargg// Augusta deck tech focusing on tapping matters? I was thinking of making it, and would love to hear your viewpoint on this unique Boris commander.
#1 is only slightly different from Vesuvan Doppleganger, since when VD enters, you must choose a creature in play for it to copy, or it will die. #6 is also affected by proliferate effects, that's why it's not totally like Cumulative Upkeep and can do more damage faster. Remember it is not targeting anything, so gets around shroud and hexproof.
There a mono white two card infinite tokens combo I used to run in my old eight and a half tails deck, that go's with Stormfront riders and cryptic gateway you just need two soldiers on the field and stormfront in hand to start with then use cryptic gateway to bounce one of the soldiers plus stormfront to generate two more to tap with cryptic rinse and repeat. End result is infinite tapped soldier tokens that will make your opponents want to kill you or boardwipe before you untap!
Cryptic Gateway using Changelings as 1 or both of your tap creatures let’s you cheat anything in! (Tap 1 changeling and 1 dragon = dragon, tap 2 changeling get any type)
Cryptic Gateway works best with tribes with a wide variety of CMCs. Slivers and, most of all, Eldrazi work best with it. Tap two Eldrazi Scions/Spawn: Put one of the Eldrazi Titans in play. ;-)
I have cyclone in my omnath locus of mana deck. Since it's voltron deck and 9/10 my commander won't die from even 4+ damage to everything. Ops don't want your commander to die just don't pay the cost. Great card.
Cultural exchange is really powerful in political decks like pheldagriff. You can exchange one opponent's hippo with another's commander and then you just get to watch both of them duke it out over that commander
The downside of cryptoplasm is that it can only copy a creature while that creature is in play, so you might be stuck in a situation where you wanna kill something, but still have a copy of it.
whoops I forgot Cultural Exchange for a Garth one-eye Token deck I'm working on you make a bunch of weenies then you can just trade them for a bunch of ridiculously powerful...and as people mentioned it doesn't target so you can snag the hexproof/shroud/ward creatures
Cryptic Gateway isn't great in a tribal deck with a low CMC for its creatures, like rogues or goblins, tbh. 5 CMC to play small creatures every turn while tapping your board just doesn't flow with the gameplan of most aggro decks, which low-CMC tribal decks tend to lean towards. But it really is fantastic for an Unesh sphinx tribal build. (It's especially good for Unesh because Unesh cares more about ETBs than actually keeping your big expensive boys untapped.)
So ive seen a lot of these videos of yours and have a question am i the only person who loves commander and uses the r cost blue enchantment frozen aether it so so so good in edh
Culling scales is like Drop of Honey which kills the lowest power creature during your upkeep. too bad reserve list 700 dollar card but cool proxy. also its only 1 mana n green, kinda cool creature removal
Dark Prophecy would be fantastic with all the pest tokens where when they die, you gain one life, so it don’t have that downside of the life lost from Dark Prophecy
Cyclone is similar to Cumulitive upkeep but way cheaper and def. should not be errated. Cumulitive upkeep doubles with each age counter...Clyclone becomes much cheaper and better without it.
when is "Surprise Deployment" gonna hit these lists? a surprise blocker, a surprise attacker (if it has haste or something can give it haste), just wanting to flex by throwing a flying spaghetti monster out to block a 1/1, or taking advantage of an ETB to clear a bit of the board or what ever
bleeh. I had a Cultural exchange when I was a kid, but some kid who was visiting a friend of mine stole it. he lived in some other city so I never got it back.
the prices usually spike because of modern decks i think. shinka, bloodsoaked keep was like $36 in my red lands list for some reason, even though nobody plays it.
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Another cool thing you can do with dauthi embrace is give it to a defending creature so it can't block. Like if you have like 10 guys and they have 1-2 blockers it very efficient to just make them not be able to block
I've recently mentioned Cultural Exchange in one of my videos, where I discussed how versatile it is in a 4 player EDH game, especially when you go against tribal decks and switch out +1/+1 pumpers between for example an elf player and a merfolk player. Also, probably the cutest artwork in the history of Magic The Gathering.
Not to mention it can steal creatures that have hexproof or shroud as it never actually targets the creatures.
@@thatlamp Thank you, fellow Man of Culture. Cultural Exchange a true masterpiece and a brilliant card with so much versatility.
I finally got to a point where the over half of the cards in these videos are already in my decks! I think this series changed how I look for cards to put in my EDH decks. I am pretty sure my playgroup is starting to get annoyed with me having to read every card now lol. Keep up the good work!
Yo this series is amazing. So many cards I've never heard of get mentioned every episode.
Cyclone was originaly printed in Arabian Nights, before "cumulative upkeep" was a thing. Why the oracle text hasn't been updated remains a mystery
I like the mental image of Demo just going down the full list of all cards alphabetically and stumbling across cool ones and wanting to share them with us
Yo, big fan! I love this series so much! I especially love that you bring up cards you don't know what decks to put them in because often they slot in perfectly into one of the decks for the custom commander discord i am in.
In addition to Matthew Thurber's comment about Cultural Exchange not targeting I think there's another REALLLY fantastic aspect of the wording. The main problem with stealing someone's commander or putting something like imprisisoned in the moon or song of dryads is sometimes the player in question goes. "Huh, well I don't have a way to destroy the thing that took my commander, or destroy it myself to get it back... so guess I'll just kill you and then get it back that way! :)" But in the scenario that you were talking about where you swap 2 people's commanders, you're NOT the person they need to kill to get their commander back. Which is soooooooooo cool.
I just got go put this out: I really love you for saying the errata text of all the cards instead of the printed texts. because most of the time that is way more clear :)
(i noticed i was irritated about it in a Commandzone video)
you can also use dauthi embrace to make your oponent creatures don't block, its kinda good when i wanna force my oponent to block with a certain creature by giving shadow to all the others and attacking him.
I have cryptic gateway in my Phyrexian tribal deck. It goes absolutely crazy getting Trinisform into play with a sac outlet, creating 3 Phyrexian Golems to then tap to put more big stuff into play.
I click on these instantly. Always love finding out about cards I never knew of! Also, love seeing another good piece I could add to my Glissa deck as I've revised it at least 4 times now. Thanks Demo!
1st, loving your channel. Especially this series. It’s like I’m digging through the bulk rare bin at an LGS nobody has heard of.
2nd, you mentioned in episode 11 that you would post all of these to a page. Can’t seem to find the link.
Another combo with Dawn of the Dead: End the Turn effects. Sundial of the Infinite and Obeka being recurring versions of the effect. Since they exile effect is a trigger that happens on the next endstep, you wait for that trigger to go on the stack, then end the turn in response, letting you keep whatever you resurrect. This also works for token clones that die at the end step from effects like Flameshadow Conjuring or Inalla.
I use Culling the Weak in my Shirei, Shizo’s Caretaker deck. It’s really cheap too
dauthi embrace is my favorite black really happy to see it here and in games where theres the new powerful cards with shadow i can still block : P
Years ago I had a Dauthi/Shadow deck. And I loved using the Embrace with Dauthi Assassin and/or Dauthi Ghoul. Need something dead? Give it shadow and pop it. Yeah, it's 4 mana, but repeatable. Maybe someone is going nuts with sacrifices, give a few of those creatures shadow before they leave and grow the Ghoul.
Thanks Demo. I have an entire deck based around Shadow creatures.
I love using Dauthi Embrace with Dauthi Trapper (give the creature Shadow with Embrace, destroy with the Trapper...)
I believe you meant Dauthi Cutthroat. Dauthi Trapper taps to give a creature shadow; the cutthroat has you pay two mana and tap it to destroy a creature with shadow.
@@PBlot1 Ha! Very true! Thanks for the correction. 😁
Love the black cards in this! Dark prophecy is one of my favorite cards. I use it and smothering abomination a lot.
Great list as usual. I love cryptic gateway in my reaper king deck.
Hello Darkness, my old friend. ;)
Dark Prophecy really does work in a Ghave deck.
Dauthi's embrace was in my yuriko for a long time, its a great card
Hmm, I forgot all about Cyclone. It could be nice for my Vrondiss deck. Good suggestion.
"I'm sure that everyone who has a sidisi deck already has dawn of the dead in here"
-in 7 sidisi decks
wow, that's shocking.
@@edhdeckbuilding I dont think so. You need to have a total of 10 mana available for the combo and hope, that it doesn't get destroyed until your upkeep. Its too slow. The first thing people get from their sidisi is probably cabal coffers...
no you only need 5.
I honestly cant remember if I saw this on this channel, another one or if I just had this idea but a cryptic gateway in eldrazi/eldrazi scion deck would be absolutely crazy!
Loved the vid! I was wondering if you would do a Plargg// Augusta deck tech focusing on tapping matters? I was thinking of making it, and would love to hear your viewpoint on this unique Boris commander.
Darkness recently spiked in price thanks to modern mill using it as fog effect.
#1 is only slightly different from Vesuvan Doppleganger, since when VD enters, you must choose a creature in play for it to copy, or it will die.
#6 is also affected by proliferate effects, that's why it's not totally like Cumulative Upkeep and can do more damage faster. Remember it is not targeting anything, so gets around shroud and hexproof.
Proliferate also affects cumulative upkeeps.....they work off of "age" counters.
Always love these videos!
Hey, @edhdeckbuilding cyclone is actually really good in an Jolrael, Empress of Beasts deck if you want to destroy lands and wipe boards.
There a mono white two card infinite tokens combo I used to run in my old eight and a half tails deck, that go's with Stormfront riders and cryptic gateway you just need two soldiers on the field and stormfront in hand to start with then use cryptic gateway to bounce one of the soldiers plus stormfront to generate two more to tap with cryptic rinse and repeat. End result is infinite tapped soldier tokens that will make your opponents want to kill you or boardwipe before you untap!
Cryptic Gateway in Magda... Tap 2 dwarves to put a dwarf into play sounds like good value to me
I knew about almost none of these. Great vid!
You should definitely add Pentarch Paladin in one of these video.
Cryptic Gateway using Changelings as 1 or both of your tap creatures let’s you cheat anything in! (Tap 1 changeling and 1 dragon = dragon, tap 2 changeling get any type)
Ooh, I also use Dark prophecy in my Shirei deck. I’m surprised it doesn’t see more play. I guess it does kinda stick you in mono black, but still
Burnt offering is so much more powerful and versatile than Culling, I think. But no reason you can't have both in your 99.
You can't errata cyclone to cumulative upkeep because the counters are wind counters, not time counters
Cultural Exchange is so fun. My Favorite thing to do with it is to swap creatures between two opponents. It's hilarious.
''Veridian revel'' is a potentially amazing card draw in green now with clues, food and treasures being pushed so much
Cryptic Gateway works best with tribes with a wide variety of CMCs. Slivers and, most of all, Eldrazi work best with it.
Tap two Eldrazi Scions/Spawn: Put one of the Eldrazi Titans in play. ;-)
Had a culling the weak in my Syr Konrad deck not sure where else I should put it haha.
I have cyclone in my omnath locus of mana deck. Since it's voltron deck and 9/10 my commander won't die from even 4+ damage to everything. Ops don't want your commander to die just don't pay the cost. Great card.
Cyclone is pretty good in Kamahl, Fist of Kosa land destruction decks
Fun fact, darkness being the original "fog" means it's not really a black fog, fog is a green darkness 😉
I imagine that Cryptic Gateway is great in an Elf deck.
I run Darkness in my black cards, its hilarious to see people's reactions too
Wow, Dawn of the Dead needs to go in my Greven deck 😳 the one life loss just buffs him and I can keep sacrificing my Kokusho every turn 😎
What do you think of magnetic mine to keep treasure tokens in check?
Grim harvest is also a decent card for Sidisi as well not a strong because its to hand but its very recurable!
Dark Prophecy is just nuts!
Cultural exchange is really powerful in political decks like pheldagriff. You can exchange one opponent's hippo with another's commander and then you just get to watch both of them duke it out over that commander
The downside of cryptoplasm is that it can only copy a creature while that creature is in play, so you might be stuck in a situation where you wanna kill something, but still have a copy of it.
whoops I forgot Cultural Exchange for a Garth one-eye Token deck I'm working on you make a bunch of weenies then you can just trade them for a bunch of ridiculously powerful...and as people mentioned it doesn't target so you can snag the hexproof/shroud/ward creatures
Cryptic gateway with inalla or that new simic guy that gives you copies, whoo boy
Cryptic Gateway isn't great in a tribal deck with a low CMC for its creatures, like rogues or goblins, tbh. 5 CMC to play small creatures every turn while tapping your board just doesn't flow with the gameplan of most aggro decks, which low-CMC tribal decks tend to lean towards.
But it really is fantastic for an Unesh sphinx tribal build. (It's especially good for Unesh because Unesh cares more about ETBs than actually keeping your big expensive boys untapped.)
So ive seen a lot of these videos of yours and have a question am i the only person who loves commander and uses the r cost blue enchantment frozen aether it so so so good in edh
I had cryptic gateway in an Inalla deck
So with cryptic gateway you can tap creatures affected by summoning sickeness ?? If you can it d be great for my draconic rage deck !
yes you can
@@edhdeckbuilding Thanks for the answer, i loves your videos, sendin you good vibes from France ! :D
Harvester of Souls is Dark Prophecy on a stick. 👍👍
I am a big fan of Dauthi Embrace as a combat trick and political bargaining chip
Culling scales is like Drop of Honey which kills the lowest power creature during your upkeep. too bad reserve list 700 dollar card but cool proxy. also its only 1 mana n green, kinda cool creature removal
Dark Prophecy would be fantastic with all the pest tokens where when they die, you gain one life, so it don’t have that downside of the life lost from Dark Prophecy
Cryptic Gateway with Siegegang Commander.
Cyclone is similar to Cumulitive upkeep but way cheaper and def. should not be errated. Cumulitive upkeep doubles with each age counter...Clyclone becomes much cheaper and better without it.
Shadow, Horsemanship under a different name.
CUMulative upkeep just kills me a little everytime he says it... love the videos though! I've put so many of the cards in these videos in my decks!
Agreed!
when is "Surprise Deployment" gonna hit these lists? a surprise blocker, a surprise attacker (if it has haste or something can give it haste), just wanting to flex by throwing a flying spaghetti monster out to block a 1/1, or taking advantage of an ETB to clear a bit of the board or what ever
I barely see deathrender equipment
lol. next video.
@@edhdeckbuilding I played it and got few people mad 😡
Cultural exchange in a kodie deck or zedruu
Culling Scales could work with Ich-Tek Tik, bad spelling.
Culling The Weak with Phyrexian Negator.
A lot of these cards are too slow for my playgroup. I sometimes wish it was more casual.
i feel for ya buddy.
Unfortunately Darkness doesn't get much love based purely on the artist and his world views. Great card though, and people never see it coming.
bleeh. I had a Cultural exchange when I was a kid, but some kid who was visiting a friend of mine stole it. he lived in some other city so I never got it back.
Darkness is already $15? What caused the hike?
Modern mill winning a modern challenge by going 6-0😬
the prices usually spike because of modern decks i think. shinka, bloodsoaked keep was like $36 in my red lands list for some reason, even though nobody plays it.