Dreamscape artist is one of my pet cards. Not only do the lands come in UNTAPPED, but then you get 2 cards in your graveyard. Amazing in my araumi deck
this video is another beautiful example of why this is my favorite MTG channel. for the past week i was looking to build a mono-blue janky land/mana matters deck using cards like Iceberg and Energy Vortex with X spells and big drops and this just gave me like 4 new cards to put in it lol. not only do they fit what i was going for, they actually enhance my goal a fair bit. thanks demo!
Dreamscape artist is a spellshaper. You don't look at the ability and see it as going down a card for the discard. You have to think of it as "I am transforming a card in my hand into a Harrow".
Its the same value proposition that made Pack Rats insane, and its the same value proposition every Spellshaper offers Pay a card, pay usually three mana, get an ability that mimics a card with that same cost
do people not realise that the spellshaper is a card. they aren't bad but you are still 2 for 1 to cast harrow. I like spellshapers but they are not good card advantage.
Glad to see you liked my comment last week. :) I've mentioned these cards to a couple of the TH-cam MTG people in the past but you're the first to ever embrace the idea.
I like Savour the Moment in a somewhat similar spot. At its bottom, it's an Explore for 3 mana. It shines if you have 1/turn abilities (planeswalkers, for example) or upkeep/endstep triggers.
Just from the thumbnail - I see the exact cards I use. Now that I'm watching - I am among those 139 Mimeofacture players, and yes - I want to ramp basics.
With Mitotic Manipulation, whiffing on lands means you’ve saved yourself from 7 turns of missing land drops. For Mimeofacture(mim- rhymes with Nim; mimeo is from Greek, meaning to copy): you can target the opponent who just tutored/Sensei’s Topped something good to the top of their deck so that they shuffle it away. These are amazing finds! 🙌
I think one severily underrated ramp card gotta be "Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree". People just think of it as a preator payoff, but I think it can be worth it with just the first ability alone, which is basically a rampant growth. Sure it might miss, but once any opponent gets any land in their yard, you're pretty much set. Plus depending on your deck and pod the risk of getting off-color lands might very well be outweighted by the quality of land you're getting from your opponents.
That one got immediately in my Phenax deck. In a deck where you are actively milling you always have a payoff for your 2 mana expended. And that only helps speedrun to reach the 6 mana of "Oblivion Sower", which almost always steal 10+ lands.
@@stencil25 The lands stolen with Realmbreaker get a delayed trigger of: “If this land would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else.”. So you still can get them again with Oblivion Sower if they try to destroy or bounce them. But I was talking more about how a mill deck should have means to exile opponents graveyards on demand. So Realmbreaker is ramping you thanks the the mill, and when you get your Oblivion Sower you select the player with the most lands in the graveyard, exile the graveyard and get every land in there, even the ones exiled with Realmbreaker
I saw the thumbnail and thought wait I had the same idea when I looked through the pile of cards my brother doesn't use. But yeah Mimeofactor is okay to ramp especially if there aren't many 5 or 4 color decks at the table. In theory Mizzix can cast this for UU to get two lands if you have 6 experience counters and then for 3UUU three. Replicate is additional cost so reducing generic mana will affect the overall cost. (reducing by 1 will still cost 5UU for two lands). Three ways are still missing but they are mean: A) Annex to steal a land from an opponent for 2UU. There are also the versions that gain control of permanents like Confiscate, Dream Leash, In Bolas's Clutches, Lay Claim, Take Possession, Volition Reins. But then you easily spend 5-7 mana to gain another land (but also remove an opponents land). B) My favourite. Animating a Land and making creature copy tokens. Enchant an Awaken Land with Endless Evil and get a token copy at each Upkeep. Also able to use Follow Footsteps or Ghastly Mimicry. Notworthy all cases will make land tokens that aren't creatures. A nice little trick is also Stolen Identity ciphered on Faerie Conclave which allows the land to copy itself or another creature/artifact whenever you deal combat damage with it. C) Shifting Border, Vedalken Plotter, Darning Thief. Those are good if an opponent has lands that produce more mana than yours. Like nice Guildless Commons you got there... would be a shame if someone exchanged it with an Island. This is only Ramp if you trade for better lands but there are ways to at least turn that into land advantage by e.g. bouncing the land or regain control of it. If you use Heidar or similar cards to bounce the land you gave your opponent to your hand you put one player behind and got your land back. Noteworthy if you trade an artifact land for your opponents basic it is easier to return that to your hand. To actually turn this into ramp you need a weird combo. Activate Homward Path after donating a land turned into a creature with Awaken (Clutch of Currents or Rush of Ice) or give away a Mobilized District. But at that point that may become your whole strategy. Honorable mention Patron of the Moon. As long as you have a 3 mana Moonfolk you can even get it on T4 to actually ramp with the activated ability.
I think my favourite blue 'ramp' card would be savour the moment, its just a better blue explore, as it works with things that trigger only once per turn as well. Make your land drop draw a card activate your planes walker another time our trigger your once per turn effects.
These types of videos are why I love this channel so much. I recently put together an izzet storm deck that exclusively uses "lightning bolt" type effects and cards with lightning in the artwork. That mimeofracture looks like a perfect ramp option if you ask me!
Came here to say that too. I love that card. Plus if your opponent has, let's say, 4 mountains and 1 command tower, you can steal the tower to mess up their mana fixing
Mono blue deck turn 3, If I look at the top seven cards and I don't find a basic island I'm probably glad that I just prevented myself from getting landscrew for the next 7 turns. Seems like a win-win all around if you're using it strictly for land ramp
works best if you are in a deck that is heavy on draw and manipulating the top, this lets you pitch the cards you don't need and get your extra land drop
The idea of putting Mimeofacture into a theft themed deck is hilarious to me. Not only can you outright steal a land, but it can double as a "shuffle away" for any top deck manipulation the opponent may have performed on their previous turn.
If you are looking at Dreamscape Artist, the effect is as though you are casting Harrow. You are using a card in your hand, paying 3 mana, sacrificing a land, then getting two lands into play. That is a pretty good deal.
Appreciate the idea. I may actually use Mitotic Manipulation in my mono blue Wizards deck. Reliquary Tower, Arcane Signet, and sol ring chances or at the very least I ramp a land and know the 6 cards I’m putting on bottom is excellent in a deck where I’m constantly needing to manipulate my deck. Heck with Information Dealer I’ll probably know what I’m drawing into for Mitotic Manipulation. Thanks!
This is really helpful, as I'm trying to move from an aggressive Arixmethes deck to a similarly aggressive monoblue Octavia deck, but I didn't realize just how hard the green really enabled the former.
I'm working on putting 2 drop mana dorks in my Octavia deck. There are a good handful of mono-U dorks that can tap for a U for instants & sorceries. The other mono U spell for land ramp is Savor the Moment. Octavia prefers creatures over mana rocks - and if you go heavy on self mill, Scaretiller can pull lands out of the graveyard onto the field when you swing with him.
Mono-blue has tons of mana dorks as well. Cards like Kelpie Guide and Vizier of Tumbling Sands are nice because they can also untap your tapped creatures, meaning you can get double usage out of your commander or at least give a creature pseudo-vigilance. They're expensive, but they're very flexible in their usage. Even Nimbleclaw Adept is a four mana dork that essentially taps for two, not that bad. Also, cards like Annex are ramp options in monoblue as well. None of these options trigger landfall however, which I imagine is the theme of your deck. I also had a cosima landfall deck, but I got burned out with it pretty quick. I just kept thinking "great, I ramp and landfall. Now what?" It didn't feel like the deck was particularly strong in any unique way, it just felt like I was trying to impress people by making monoblue do "the thing" at a rate that's fast but not unusual for decks in green. Too much of the deck was dedicated to just making the landfall work and to generate some amount of value out of it. Maybe you'll find that missing piece I couldn't though, and you'll blow people away.
I will suggest one additional, crazy way to ramp in mono blue that has a lot of hoops :). Urza's Saga, then bounce it back into hand with Guildless Commons. If you don't have commons in hand already, use the tutor ability to get expedition map and find it. If you do have it in hand you can fetch sol ring or mana crypt. Then play the Saga again and get whatever you didn't get before. If you are not in mono blue you can use the other bounce lands / lairs for this as well. Unfortunately the mono=colored bounce lands don't work for it.
Those are great in a landfall theme in monoblue like Cosima, but if you care about devotion or the enchantment type you got some options in monoblue too. Annex allows you to steal a land, best case scenario you gain control of their land that taps for two, or take that Gaea's Cradle from them. Steal Artifact and Master Thief can steal a mana rock, potentially a Sol Ring!
Dont forget about Blue Braids. Sure you could cheat in creatures or artifacts which can be boiled down to 'ramping' but you can also just play an extra land. Its horrible in the 99 but it's entertianing if your group isnt cutthroat and gets you extra land drops.
I'm convince this is just a video highlighting my Cosima, God of the Voyage - Deck! Thanks for shedding some light on these fun cards ! I will generally use High Tide for Mimeofracture
Every time I cast Retraced Image or Mitotic Manipulation I get at least one “ramping lands on monoblue?!” With Retraced image you could also cheat Arcane signets and Solemns.
Honestly I think artist is a really good creature. In mono blue you have way more access to card draw than ramp, and it's even useful in any multi colored deck that cares about landfall. It's great in all those simic decks that rotate lands around, or chulane or something like that. Def underrated
I think i stick with equipment based ramp (sword of the animist etc), that said there are quite a few ways to make copies of artifact lands and if you use the indestructible ones for this there is little chance of a blowout. My personal favorit here is prototype portal.
Honesty I think with “retraced image” that’s a slam dunk In new nazgul/wraith deck build theme cuz can have 9 nazgul in deck so beside odds on ramp your focusing on completing your goal get all nazgul out hahah pretty spicy I love it
My favorite that wasnt mentioned "As Foretold" 1)After two or three turns you can drop a mana rock for free while saving mana for other spells 2) more importantly any blue deck with a lot if counterspells thrive with this! Tap out on your turn and still be able to counter a spell on an opponents turn for free! Also great to proliferate
The big problem with as foretold, assuming you do not have a deck that manipulates counters, is that it works directly against mana curve. My average deck averages between 2 and 3, so after 3 or 4 turns, the odds of having something in hand I can cast using the reduction gets pretty low. This is especially true if I cant get it out by turn 2 or 3.
u have missed one if not the most powefull ramp cards in blue. Minn, Wily Illusionist. It puts a permanent in to play whenever an illusion dies. if you have a sac outlet or get 2-3 illsuions to cambat in your turn u are most likeley to put 3 permanent in to play. This includes lands!
Oh nice! Retraced image!!! I just bought two haha one for my lord of the nazgul … “nazgul” deck and one for my bruvac persistent petitioners deck thanks demo!
mitotic manipulation is worth considering in decks mostly because it sees opponents boards as well and your likely to nail a well played staple with it.
The first 2 were good but in my opinion the rest were “meh”. Regarding other opportunities to ramp in blue I have 2 that I can think of off the top of my head: Urza lord high artificer is just sick. At minimum it will create 1 blue mana dork on cast and there will likely be other artifacts in play that can be used as well. Next, is an old school blue creature called apprentice wizard. While it does not produce blue mana in particular it will put you 2 colorless mana positive for the activation cost of 1 blue mana and tap the apprentice wizard……blue does have a couple spells with that ‘x’ mana cost. Lastly an idea for a more indirect way to use blue to ramp……..blue does have an abundance of creatures that can untap permanents you control for a more versatile “mana dork”……..to really get the most out them throw in some multi-mana sources like lotus vale, etc…
i'm one of those 139 decks with Mimeofacture. It's a Spy Kit deck, the whole idea is to attach it to an opponent's creature and then search for any creaturein their deck and get it for free
Mitotic Manipulation is good for a kono blue deck I'm making thanks! I was already using retraced image but thinking about cutting it do to its late game drawbacks
I have a Cosima deck, and I run a ton of utility lands and fetches so I only have about 18 islands. It is easy to run out of them pretty quick. The deck is meant to be janky so Mimeofracture is kinda hilarious and I’m considering it
Back in Ravnica Kamigawa standard I tan stuff like Mimeofacture, annex, confiscate and copy enchantment with grand arbiter Augustine. Not top tier, but wrecked the local fnm.
What about the spell [[Energy Tap]] it’s a one time use but It can give you so much mana early. Exemple that happen to me. I had cast a 5 cmc creature on turn 4 and then on turn 5 play land for turn now i have 5 lands and one mana rock. I tap one land to cast energy tap, I target my 5 cmc creature it makes it have to tap the creature but it gives you the tapped creatures cmc as colourless mana in your mana pool. So now with the 4 lands remaining and the one mana rock. On turn 5 I’m playing with 10 mana until end of turn. What it does is 1 of 2 things. 1. It can help you cheat in one big expensive thing in play many turns earlier or 2. it can be an explosive turn and cast multiple thing that all do something that potentially makes you go off hehe
I play mitotic mutation in a lot of decks! Out of the hundred or so times I've cast it I've only whiffed once. I do play a high basic count. I mostly just built decks with the cards I have around
Deno considers “Ramp” to be adding lands directly onto the battlefield. I don’t agree with the opinion 100% but it’s just what he goes by. Plus, everyone who builds mono blue pretty much exclusively uses rocks, so everyone knows about it
Everyone knows the TRUE way to ramp in blue goes like this: -Land 5 -Time warp -Land 6 -Pass Its not about land count, its about RESPECT. Keep the othER plaYers in their pLACE.
Pfft, total amateur hour. You want ramp in Mono-Blue that isn't mana-rock based? Steal lands (Annex and similar) Steal/copy things that ramp. Terrain Generator + basic Island in hand Copying activated abilities (Rings of Brighthearth; Abstruce Archaic; Adric, Mathematical Genius; Lithoform Engine) + Fetch Lands (Polluted Delta et all, Flood Plain et all, Panoramas, etc) Copying activated abilities + Dreamscape Artist sounds a whole lot more appealing. Copying activated abilities + Terrain Generator + 2+ basic Islands in hand Copying opponent's activated/triggered ramp abilities
Dreamscape artist is one of my pet cards. Not only do the lands come in UNTAPPED, but then you get 2 cards in your graveyard. Amazing in my araumi deck
I bought a bunch of copies back when I first found it. Goes in all my blue decks without green. Harrow is a great card.
And the flavor text is just perfect
One of the MVPs of my Mairsil deck, specially with ability copiers making me search for four/six lands for the sac of one
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this video is another beautiful example of why this is my favorite MTG channel. for the past week i was looking to build a mono-blue janky land/mana matters deck using cards like Iceberg and Energy Vortex with X spells and big drops and this just gave me like 4 new cards to put in it lol. not only do they fit what i was going for, they actually enhance my goal a fair bit. thanks demo!
Dreamscape artist is a spellshaper. You don't look at the ability and see it as going down a card for the discard. You have to think of it as "I am transforming a card in my hand into a Harrow".
That’s also literally a repeatable Harrow, and not Harrow is not bad.
Its the same value proposition that made Pack Rats insane, and its the same value proposition every Spellshaper offers
Pay a card, pay usually three mana, get an ability that mimics a card with that same cost
do people not realise that the spellshaper is a card. they aren't bad but you are still 2 for 1 to cast harrow. I like spellshapers but they are not good card advantage.
What about if you play a U/B/R Madness deck? Awesome card to slam in.
@@empty5013 Well yeah, you're still playing a mediocre body, but the ABILITY is completely normal cost
Glad to see you liked my comment last week. :) I've mentioned these cards to a couple of the TH-cam MTG people in the past but you're the first to ever embrace the idea.
I like Savour the Moment in a somewhat similar spot. At its bottom, it's an Explore for 3 mana. It shines if you have 1/turn abilities (planeswalkers, for example) or upkeep/endstep triggers.
Retraced Image works really well if your opponent has a card in play that you have in hand but can't case for whatever reason.
Just from the thumbnail - I see the exact cards I use.
Now that I'm watching - I am among those 139 Mimeofacture players, and yes - I want to ramp basics.
With Mitotic Manipulation, whiffing on lands means you’ve saved yourself from 7 turns of missing land drops.
For Mimeofacture(mim- rhymes with Nim; mimeo is from Greek, meaning to copy): you can target the opponent who just tutored/Sensei’s Topped something good to the top of their deck so that they shuffle it away.
These are amazing finds! 🙌
I hadn't considered that for Mitotic Manipulation - it's going back in my Octavia deck!
I think one severily underrated ramp card gotta be "Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree". People just think of it as a preator payoff, but I think it can be worth it with just the first ability alone, which is basically a rampant growth. Sure it might miss, but once any opponent gets any land in their yard, you're pretty much set. Plus depending on your deck and pod the risk of getting off-color lands might very well be outweighted by the quality of land you're getting from your opponents.
That one got immediately in my Phenax deck.
In a deck where you are actively milling you always have a payoff for your 2 mana expended.
And that only helps speedrun to reach the 6 mana of "Oblivion Sower", which almost always steal 10+ lands.
@@Trasgobardo I'm curious about how this synergy with Oblivion Sowerby works.
Oblivion Sowerby puts lands from exile, not graveyard
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The lands stolen with Realmbreaker get a delayed trigger of:
“If this land would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else.”.
So you still can get them again with Oblivion Sower if they try to destroy or bounce them.
But I was talking more about how a mill deck should have means to exile opponents graveyards on demand.
So Realmbreaker is ramping you thanks the the mill, and when you get your Oblivion Sower you select the player with the most lands in the graveyard, exile the graveyard and get every land in there, even the ones exiled with Realmbreaker
I saw the thumbnail and thought wait I had the same idea when I looked through the pile of cards my brother doesn't use. But yeah Mimeofactor is okay to ramp especially if there aren't many 5 or 4 color decks at the table. In theory Mizzix can cast this for UU to get two lands if you have 6 experience counters and then for 3UUU three. Replicate is additional cost so reducing generic mana will affect the overall cost. (reducing by 1 will still cost 5UU for two lands).
Three ways are still missing but they are mean:
A) Annex to steal a land from an opponent for 2UU. There are also the versions that gain control of permanents like Confiscate, Dream Leash, In Bolas's Clutches, Lay Claim, Take Possession, Volition Reins. But then you easily spend 5-7 mana to gain another land (but also remove an opponents land).
B) My favourite. Animating a Land and making creature copy tokens. Enchant an Awaken Land with Endless Evil and get a token copy at each Upkeep. Also able to use Follow Footsteps or Ghastly Mimicry. Notworthy all cases will make land tokens that aren't creatures. A nice little trick is also Stolen Identity ciphered on Faerie Conclave which allows the land to copy itself or another creature/artifact whenever you deal combat damage with it.
C) Shifting Border, Vedalken Plotter, Darning Thief. Those are good if an opponent has lands that produce more mana than yours. Like nice Guildless Commons you got there... would be a shame if someone exchanged it with an Island.
This is only Ramp if you trade for better lands but there are ways to at least turn that into land advantage by e.g. bouncing the land or regain control of it. If you use Heidar or similar cards to bounce the land you gave your opponent to your hand you put one player behind and got your land back. Noteworthy if you trade an artifact land for your opponents basic it is easier to return that to your hand. To actually turn this into ramp you need a weird combo. Activate Homward Path after donating a land turned into a creature with Awaken (Clutch of Currents or Rush of Ice) or give away a Mobilized District. But at that point that may become your whole strategy.
Honorable mention Patron of the Moon. As long as you have a 3 mana Moonfolk you can even get it on T4 to actually ramp with the activated ability.
I think my favourite blue 'ramp' card would be savour the moment, its just a better blue explore, as it works with things that trigger only once per turn as well. Make your land drop draw a card activate your planes walker another time our trigger your once per turn effects.
I'm a fan of this card, though for some reason I've never really thought of it as ramp, even though it does get you another land drop... good call
Replication Technique can be ramp too.
Normally you will have something better to copy but never undereestimate the option to copy lands you have :)
Great options for a Talrand deck that feeds on instants/sorceries which could be superior to a mana rock.
These types of videos are why I love this channel so much. I recently put together an izzet storm deck that exclusively uses "lightning bolt" type effects and cards with lightning in the artwork. That mimeofracture looks like a perfect ramp option if you ask me!
I could see attaching Spy Kit to an opponent's creature with something like Ardenn, then you could mimeofacture any non-legendary creature out.
Actually building an ardenn deck right now to do that + eradicate an opponents creature to exile all the non legendary creatures from their deck
I play Annex in a deck. It's aura focused. It's a type of land removal and ramp at the same time
Came here to say that too. I love that card. Plus if your opponent has, let's say, 4 mountains and 1 command tower, you can steal the tower to mess up their mana fixing
Mono blue deck turn 3, If I look at the top seven cards and I don't find a basic island I'm probably glad that I just prevented myself from getting landscrew for the next 7 turns. Seems like a win-win all around if you're using it strictly for land ramp
works best if you are in a deck that is heavy on draw and manipulating the top, this lets you pitch the cards you don't need and get your extra land drop
The idea of putting Mimeofacture into a theft themed deck is hilarious to me. Not only can you outright steal a land, but it can double as a "shuffle away" for any top deck manipulation the opponent may have performed on their previous turn.
If you are looking at Dreamscape Artist, the effect is as though you are casting Harrow. You are using a card in your hand, paying 3 mana, sacrificing a land, then getting two lands into play. That is a pretty good deal.
Appreciate the idea. I may actually use Mitotic Manipulation in my mono blue Wizards deck. Reliquary Tower, Arcane Signet, and sol ring chances or at the very least I ramp a land and know the 6 cards I’m putting on bottom is excellent in a deck where I’m constantly needing to manipulate my deck.
Heck with Information Dealer I’ll probably know what I’m drawing into for Mitotic Manipulation. Thanks!
This is really helpful, as I'm trying to move from an aggressive Arixmethes deck to a similarly aggressive monoblue Octavia deck, but I didn't realize just how hard the green really enabled the former.
I'm working on putting 2 drop mana dorks in my Octavia deck. There are a good handful of mono-U dorks that can tap for a U for instants & sorceries. The other mono U spell for land ramp is Savor the Moment. Octavia prefers creatures over mana rocks - and if you go heavy on self mill, Scaretiller can pull lands out of the graveyard onto the field when you swing with him.
Mono-blue has tons of mana dorks as well. Cards like Kelpie Guide and Vizier of Tumbling Sands are nice because they can also untap your tapped creatures, meaning you can get double usage out of your commander or at least give a creature pseudo-vigilance. They're expensive, but they're very flexible in their usage. Even Nimbleclaw Adept is a four mana dork that essentially taps for two, not that bad. Also, cards like Annex are ramp options in monoblue as well. None of these options trigger landfall however, which I imagine is the theme of your deck.
I also had a cosima landfall deck, but I got burned out with it pretty quick. I just kept thinking "great, I ramp and landfall. Now what?" It didn't feel like the deck was particularly strong in any unique way, it just felt like I was trying to impress people by making monoblue do "the thing" at a rate that's fast but not unusual for decks in green. Too much of the deck was dedicated to just making the landfall work and to generate some amount of value out of it. Maybe you'll find that missing piece I couldn't though, and you'll blow people away.
I will suggest one additional, crazy way to ramp in mono blue that has a lot of hoops :). Urza's Saga, then bounce it back into hand with Guildless Commons. If you don't have commons in hand already, use the tutor ability to get expedition map and find it. If you do have it in hand you can fetch sol ring or mana crypt. Then play the Saga again and get whatever you didn't get before.
If you are not in mono blue you can use the other bounce lands / lairs for this as well. Unfortunately the mono=colored bounce lands don't work for it.
Those are great in a landfall theme in monoblue like Cosima, but if you care about devotion or the enchantment type you got some options in monoblue too. Annex allows you to steal a land, best case scenario you gain control of their land that taps for two, or take that Gaea's Cradle from them. Steal Artifact and Master Thief can steal a mana rock, potentially a Sol Ring!
Replication Technique can ramp you 2 lands for 5 mana, has a lot of flexibility and doesnt need you to be mono-blue.
good one!
I mean, I'm a little sad we didn't see Patron of the Moon in this video.
Those same name cards, like the one that tutors for a same name works amazingly well in any deck running multiple nazgul.
The one that tutors only tutors an opponent's deck
Dont forget about Blue Braids. Sure you could cheat in creatures or artifacts which can be boiled down to 'ramping' but you can also just play an extra land. Its horrible in the 99 but it's entertianing if your group isnt cutthroat and gets you extra land drops.
gonna have to pick up a couple of copies of Mitotic Manipulation....could see that being a good general utility card actaully.
I'm convince this is just a video highlighting my Cosima, God of the Voyage - Deck!
Thanks for shedding some light on these fun cards !
I will generally use High Tide for Mimeofracture
Due to the printing of Virtue of Knowledge all of the 'slow' ramp options gets better. Dreamscape Artist gets 4 untapped lands ! yay
Every time I cast Retraced Image or Mitotic Manipulation I get at least one “ramping lands on monoblue?!”
With Retraced image you could also cheat Arcane signets and Solemns.
Mitotic Manipulation gives me a fun use for Psychic Paper when running Scroll Rack/Sensei's Divining Top
I play mitotic manipulation in my Charix, mono blue crab votron deck as lands matter for his ability. I always get super confused looks as I cast it.
Walking atlas is pretty good! Blue draws a ton, you’ll likely have a grip of at least 5-6 lands in hand plus blue taps and untaps pretty easy.
Honestly I think artist is a really good creature. In mono blue you have way more access to card draw than ramp, and it's even useful in any multi colored deck that cares about landfall. It's great in all those simic decks that rotate lands around, or chulane or something like that. Def underrated
I think i stick with equipment based ramp (sword of the animist etc), that said there are quite a few ways to make copies of artifact lands and if you use the indestructible ones for this there is little chance of a blowout. My personal favorit here is prototype portal.
Dreamscape with drowned temple is my go to
Honesty I think with “retraced image” that’s a slam dunk In new nazgul/wraith deck build theme cuz can have 9 nazgul in deck so beside odds on ramp your focusing on completing your goal get all nazgul out hahah pretty spicy I love it
Oooo didn’t know about the 2nd and 3rd card! I like this!
works in all decks but I only play zoetic cavern in colorless and mono-blue decks. works particularly well in morph decks which are often blue
You forgot to mention Apprentice Wizard. He ramps very good. 😊
My favorite that wasnt mentioned "As Foretold"
1)After two or three turns you can drop a mana rock for free while saving mana for other spells
2) more importantly any blue deck with a lot if counterspells thrive with this! Tap out on your turn and still be able to counter a spell on an opponents turn for free!
Also great to proliferate
The big problem with as foretold, assuming you do not have a deck that manipulates counters, is that it works directly against mana curve. My average deck averages between 2 and 3, so after 3 or 4 turns, the odds of having something in hand I can cast using the reduction gets pretty low. This is especially true if I cant get it out by turn 2 or 3.
u have missed one if not the most powefull ramp cards in blue. Minn, Wily Illusionist. It puts a permanent in to play whenever an illusion dies. if you have a sac outlet or get 2-3 illsuions to cambat in your turn u are most likeley to put 3 permanent in to play. This includes lands!
Retraced image is awesome. Have one in my Charix deck
Oh nice! Retraced image!!! I just bought two haha one for my lord of the nazgul … “nazgul” deck and one for my bruvac persistent petitioners deck thanks demo!
And miotic manipulation!
mitotic manipulation is worth considering in decks mostly because it sees opponents boards as well and your likely to nail a well played staple with it.
One card that I really like for mana in blue is energy tap. It's not ramp but it does a lot of work
great ritual effect. i have it in my aboshan deck.
I've been waiting for this video after my comments from last one.
The first 2 were good but in my opinion the rest were “meh”.
Regarding other opportunities to ramp in blue I have 2 that I can think of off the top of my head:
Urza lord high artificer is just sick. At minimum it will create 1 blue mana dork on cast and there will likely be other artifacts in play that can be used as well.
Next, is an old school blue creature called apprentice wizard. While it does not produce blue mana in particular it will put you 2 colorless mana positive for the activation cost of 1 blue mana and tap the apprentice wizard……blue does have a couple spells with that ‘x’ mana cost.
Lastly an idea for a more indirect way to use blue to ramp……..blue does have an abundance of creatures that can untap permanents you control for a more versatile “mana dork”……..to really get the most out them throw in some multi-mana sources like lotus vale, etc…
i'm one of those 139 decks with Mimeofacture. It's a Spy Kit deck, the whole idea is to attach it to an opponent's creature and then search for any creaturein their deck and get it for free
I have retraced image in both of my mono blue decks and it’s great on any turn because my mono blue decks are so good at card draw
Could you use mimeofracture to just look at an opponent’s entire deck to sus out any future threats?!
Mitotic Manipulation is good for a kono blue deck I'm making thanks! I was already using retraced image but thinking about cutting it do to its late game drawbacks
Retraced image could also be good for persistent petitioners
I have a Cosima deck, and I run a ton of utility lands and fetches so I only have about 18 islands. It is easy to run out of them pretty quick. The deck is meant to be janky so Mimeofracture is kinda hilarious and I’m considering it
I like it when mono-blue gets to be weird. ☺️
Dreamscape Artist is great in decks, where you want cards in your graveyard.
retraced image does NOT have to be a land it can be any permanent on the BOARD.
I think i'll try Mitotic Manipulation in my River Song deck. Ramps and I can stack my next 6 draws
Back in Ravnica Kamigawa standard I tan stuff like Mimeofacture, annex, confiscate and copy enchantment with grand arbiter Augustine. Not top tier, but wrecked the local fnm.
What about the spell [[Energy Tap]] it’s a one time use but It can give you so much mana early. Exemple that happen to me. I had cast a 5 cmc creature on turn 4 and then on turn 5 play land for turn now i have 5 lands and one mana rock. I tap one land to cast energy tap, I target my 5 cmc creature it makes it have to tap the creature but it gives you the tapped creatures cmc as colourless mana in your mana pool. So now with the 4 lands remaining and the one mana rock. On turn 5 I’m playing with 10 mana until end of turn.
What it does is 1 of 2 things. 1. It can help you cheat in one big expensive thing in play many turns earlier or 2. it can be an explosive turn and cast multiple thing that all do something that potentially makes you go off hehe
I play mitotic mutation in a lot of decks! Out of the hundred or so times I've cast it I've only whiffed once. I do play a high basic count. I mostly just built decks with the cards I have around
my personal rule of thumbs is minimum 10 islands to make it work
Urza LHA and cherios, done.
Oho! Here's that video ;)
Absolutely F-ed up.
I love it, blue does blue things, that's the either point.
I like Patron of the moon
So, do mana dorks not count as ramp? Because Apprentice Wizard could be useful.
Deno considers “Ramp” to be adding lands directly onto the battlefield. I don’t agree with the opinion 100% but it’s just what he goes by. Plus, everyone who builds mono blue pretty much exclusively uses rocks, so everyone knows about it
dreamscape artist turns any card in your hand into Harrow. i don't know why you're ragging on it so hard.
Everyone knows the TRUE way to ramp in blue goes like this:
-Land 5
-Time warp
-Land 6
-Pass
Its not about land count, its about RESPECT. Keep the othER plaYers in their pLACE.
My esper decks thank you.
Are you building "Islands Matter"?
My Charix Crabtron deck is “islands matter” I play almost all of these. It’s hilarious.
I know this video wasn't titled "the *best* ways to ramp in blue"... But I'm still pretty underwhelmed. 😕
try them... especially in decks that either manipulate the library or where spells matter. you won't regret it
Pfft, total amateur hour. You want ramp in Mono-Blue that isn't mana-rock based?
Steal lands (Annex and similar)
Steal/copy things that ramp.
Terrain Generator + basic Island in hand
Copying activated abilities (Rings of Brighthearth; Abstruce Archaic; Adric, Mathematical Genius; Lithoform Engine) + Fetch Lands (Polluted Delta et all, Flood Plain et all, Panoramas, etc)
Copying activated abilities + Dreamscape Artist sounds a whole lot more appealing.
Copying activated abilities + Terrain Generator + 2+ basic Islands in hand
Copying opponent's activated/triggered ramp abilities
Same name, mono blue. Yeah I think I know what you are building and I hate you for it. Screw mill.
Mimeofracture can be great in a deck where you want to control things you don't own