#zulaport

[mtg-art-daily]

Zulaport Enforcer

Artist: Matt Stewart

[googlyeyesonmagiccards]

Does this go in aristocrats?

[card-of-the-day]

Today's Card Is: Zulaport Cutthroat

[underworlddreams]

Nighthaze

Artist: Tomasz Jedruszek Set: Rise of the Eldrazi

"To evade the brood lineages, one must be made dark to all the senses." --Traga, Zulaport runner

[toppart]

32 Challenge

⚪🔵⚫🔴🟢 Codie and the Maze - Codie, Vociferous Codex

⚪🔵⚫🔴 Yore-Tiller's Tactician - Sophina, Spearsage Deserter & Cecily, Haunted Mage

🔵⚫🔴🟢 Double Dragon - Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder

⚫🔴🟢⚪ Revolving Graveyard - Elmar, Ulvenwald Informant & Wernog, Rider's Chaplain

🔴🟢⚪🔵 Artifactual Resurrection - Othelm, Sigardian Outcast & Bjorna, Nightfall Alchemist

🟢⚪🔵⚫ Storytime with Atraxa - Atraxa, Praetors' Voice

⚪🔵⚫ Toluz's Discarded Recycling Center - Toluz, Clever Conductor

🔵⚫🔴 Sol'Kanar's Aikido Dojo - Sol'Kanar the Tainted

⚫🔴🟢 Mutant Adventures - Mr. Orfeo, the Boulder

🔴🟢⚪ Electric Garden Party - Jetmir, Nexus of Revels

🟢⚪🔵 Defensive Strategy - Arcades, the Strategist

⚪⚫🟢 Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful & Reyhan, Last of the Abzan

🔵🔴⚪ Kykar, Wind's Fury

⚫🟢🔵 Yarok. the Desecrated

🔴⚪⚫ Edgar Markov

🟢🔵🔴 Illuna, Apex of Wishes

⚪🔵 Inscrutable Flight - Isperia the Inscrutable

🔵⚫ Ninja Power - Satoru Umezawa

⚫🔴 Lord Rakdos' Casino - Rakdos, the Showstopper

🔴🟢 Falling Rock - Mina and Denn, Wildborn

🟢⚪ Boar-ing - Yasharn, Implacable Earth

⚪⚫ Ayli & Lurrus, Zulaport Region Gymleader - Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim

🔵🔴 Arcane Astrology - Vadrik, Astral Archmage

⚫🟢 Veiled Greatness - Virtus the Veiled & Gorm the Great

🔴⚪ Field Studies - Osgir, the Reconstructor

🟢🔵 Volo's Bestiary - Volo, Guide to Monsters

⚪ Holier than Thou -Giada, Font of Hope

🔵 Book Smart - Gadwick, the Wizened

⚫ oh RATS! - Marrow-Gnawer

🔴 THUNDER - Toralf, God of Fury

🟢 Kosei, Drip Master - Kosei, Penitent Warlord

🔶 Mechanized Energy - Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter

[reborn-spoilers-cards]

[PIO] [IT] Tagliagole di Zulaport [EN] Zulaport Cutthroat

[zoydraft]

Change Notes July 7 2024

First two aesthetic updates:

Laelia, the Blade Reforged goes borderless. The profile treatments feel formulaic to me, but the art direction of Commander cards generally feel perfunctory, and the original printing of Laelia is no exception, so pretty easy swap here.

Control Magic slides into the future... Going from Revised to 4ED, and with that, the rules text is drastically simplified. I'm embarrassed I didn't catch this upgrade before.

Marionette Apprentice might be a more fun contributor to Aristocrats than Bastion of Remembrance. Few thoughts contributing to the test

There are more than enough variants of Blood Artist in the cube, so I don't want to add to the total number

Bastion is the slowest and hardest to interact with, when the deck is already difficult to play around

No serious effect on game piece complexity. Neither use unique tokens. +1/+1 counters are easy.

Moderate effect on gameplay complexity, in that Apprentice has Fabricate, which currently only exists on Angel of Invention. With that I'm thinking both of using keywords and that it's a modal spell.

I kind of like that it doesn't gain life AND triggers on artifacts. That makes it more if a headache to play alongside Zulaport Cutthroat, but makes it much more interesting interesting in an artifacts deck.

Also relevant: 2/3 of stats at 2 mana, which makes it almost an anti-Blood Artist.

Overall, I think it's very likely to suffer from aesthetic gameplay annoyances and will get cut, but I like how versatile it is compared to other Aristocrats options.

Other Notes....

I now have enough experience to know that Treasure Cruise is a way cooler card than Dig Through Time. Drawing 3 cards is cool as fuck, and takes like 2 seconds.

Diabolic Tutor comes in to slowly enable weird combo-y stuff if players really want that. Ransack the Lab is fine, but UB and BG decks both have better options to achieve similar things. It won't be missed.

Wolfbriar Elemental is a holdover from an unsupported wolves deck that has stuck around as a sort-of mana sink. I'm hoping Waker of the Wilds can do that job much better.

[terriblecommanderdeck]

Deck Update

I've been keeping track of the deck in scryfall because that's actually designed for deck building unlike y'know, tumblr.

Assuming Silas Renn is the commander, there are 198 cards in Blue/Black color identity, including 93 lands. Which means technically I'm overdue for my first draft. As a cop out, please enjoy the current list of playable cards (below the cut)

1 Wasteland Strangler 1 Skittering Cicada 1 Pilgrim's Eye 1 Entirely Normal Armchair 1 Nevinyrral's Disk 1 Darksteel Ingot 1 Blinkmoth Urn 1 Scuttling Butler 1 Wall of Spears 1 Explorer's Scope 1 Phyrexian Arena 1 Ring of Thune 1 Soul-Guide Lantern 1 Icy Manipulator 1 Nihil Spellbomb 1 Urza's Miter 1 Dark Confidant 1 Tek 1 Runed Servitor 1 Windfall 1 Trailblazer's Torch 1 Brainstorm 1 Blade of the Oni 1 Captain N'ghathrod 1 Macabre Reconstruction 1 Inspired Sprite 1 Triton Wavebreaker 1 Ichor Shade 1 Sky Weaver 1 Szat's Will 1 Font of Fortunes 1 Rise of the Dark Realms 1 Vicious Hunger 1 Twiddle 1 Collective Brutality 1 Mutual Destruction 1 Karumonix, the Rat King 1 Somber Hoverguard 1 Looming Shade 1 Wave of Rats 1 Painful Lesson 1 Zulaport Duelist 1 Ever-Watching Threshold 1 Siege Zombie 1 Bloodlord of Vaasgoth 1 Murderous Compulsion 1 Feast of the Unicorn 1 Claustrophobia 1 Dark Ritual 1 Ichor Drinker 1 Unearth 1 Horses of the Bruinen 1 Waterspout Elemental 1 Lim-Dûl's High Guard 1 Josu Vess, Lich Knight 1 Graveshifter 1 Tricks of the Trade 1 Aetherspouts 1 Meteor Golem 1 Vow of Flight 1 Pursued Whale 1 Fleeting Distraction 1 Keepsake Gorgon 1 Volo, Itinerant Scholar 1 Decree of Pain 1 Black Vise 1 Carnival of Souls 1 Mindslaver 1 Hydroblast 1 Soulcoil Viper 1 Thieving Magpie 1 Murderous Rider 1 Night of Souls' Betrayal 1 Vampire Nighthawk 1 Jet Medallion 1 Sword Coast Serpent 1 Rhonas's Monument 1 Rotating Fireplace 1 Commander's Sphere 1 Eldrazi Conscription 1 Chill 1 Sarevok, Deathbringer 1 Coalition Relic 1 Elite Arcanist 1 Urza's Bauble 1 Howling Mine 1 Anoint with Affliction 1 Sword of the Meek 1 Disrupting Scepter 1 Perplexing Test 1 Scytheclaw 1 Grand Architect 1 New Perspectives 1 Lightning Greaves 1 Sphinx of Magosi 1 Pestilence 1 Diluvian Primordial 1 Dire Mimic 1 Bloodcrazed Socialite 1 Counterspell 1 Backfire 1 Lobe Lobber 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch 1 Zombify 1 Arcane Proxy 1 Sequestered Stash 1 Evolving Wilds 1 Bloodstained Mire 10 Swamp 10 Island 10 Swamp 1 Salt Marsh 1 Riptide Laboratory 1 Cavern of Souls 10 Island 10 Swamp 10 Swamp 10 Island 1 Underground Sea 1 Flooded Strand 1 Tectonic Edge 1 Darksteel Citadel 10 Swamp 1 Ghost Town 1 Nephalia Drownyard 1 Island

// Commander 1 Silas Renn, Seeker Adept

// Outside the Game 1 Roller Coaster

[hikorzik]

Alright yesterday me and my friends CUBED using my fresh COMMANDER CUBE that I made!!! And it was... A lot of fun!

It went (first player to play to last) : Brago vs Ghave (me) vs Marchesa vs Halana & Alena. I won!

My friends didn't know the cube's list at all, nor the themes (they didn't wish to be told), and aren't big drafters either.

Big analysis below!

What I get from the draft part is that discovering cards and synergies was fun and engaging, and there were enough cards and strategies that everybody found his niche without stepping on the others' toes. There were still contested cards as several of us drafted some colors (3 on white, 2 on red, 2 on black) but with sufficiently different goals that it still let us get useful cards in our decks. The least contested color was blue (out of 35 blue cards seen, 22 went into a main deck, and only one player had blue), the most was probably red or black (all 4 of us picked red cards at first but only 2 players ended up on red). Black had the least % of card played Maindeck (34 cards seen, 15 maindecked, so 44%). Green had the most % of maindecked cards (31 cards seen, 25 Maindeck, which is 80%). The packs were seeded with 2 legends each, so we saw 24 legends out of 50 total. Out of those 24, NINE were 3 colors, NINE others were 2 colors, one was green, 2 were red, one black, one blue and one white. What I get from this is that I need more 1 colors legends to pad the 3 and 2 colors one out. Indeed, in my cube you can pair mono color legends as though they had partner so I would like more people to put them in the command zone instead. What happened here is 1st pack we opened 4 3 colors legends, I was able to draft Gahiji, Thantis and Ghave and see what colors were open or gave me the best options. I would like the draft to be a little less open to this.

One player had, like me with Ghave, Marchesa from the beginning and went with this plan early, he probably had the best deck. Brago pivoted early second pack. Halana and Alena forced gruul because that is where his heart is, and ended up with a good deck, but probably amongst the weakest overall unless he had very good draws (which he sadly hadn't, even tho he came very close to winning!)

Gameplay wise, the early turns were kind of durdly. 3 colors commanders without a lot of fixing can be hard to bring out on curve, but we kind of managed. Brago and Marchesa went off quickly compared to the 2 other decks, thanks to the great value they were able to leverage. At one point Marchesa was 6/4 haste vigilance deathtouch Trample first strike AND had akki battlesquad on the board which let him come very close to victory! Brago was very close too, generating tons of tokens with cloudpost ranger, deadeye navigator, and being able to recur her interactions with archaeomancer. As for me, I struggled with card draw and was stuck with a very unimpressive board for most of the game. That said, I was able to resolve and keep zulaport cutthroat and cruel celebrant, which my opponents underestimated. I was able to finish off the two giants with repeated sacrifices and keeping removal in hand (contraband livestock and despark). H&A was very close to winning too because he built a threatening board while Brago and Marchesa fought and when Marchesa killed Brago he left himself open to the clapback.

It was a lot of fun and I loved the experience! I am keeping a sheets with stats since I don't get how to make stuff work on cube cobra... Here they are bellow, in all it's frenglish beauty

And here the cube's list!

Thanks for reading ✌️

[talenlee]

MtG: Halloweenmander #3

Spooky scary skeletons season! It’s horror time! It’s creepy movies and dark mystique and what we need now is to sit down and play a bunch of Magic: The Gathering, a game that has been periodically terrorised by fairies and goblins.

Let’s look at some horror-themed commander decks!

Five years ago (good GOD) I wrote two articles about different horror commanders you could use to make the heart of a spooky horrifying Commander deck that could be used for a halloween card game night. And that was 2018, so many years ago, and that means surely there are some more commanders printed since then, to revisit the idea.

How many commanders have been printed since then?

Oh.

In case you don’t read these numbers well, when the last article was published, there were 786 potential commanders printed. Since then, 1,170 more have been printed, and isn’t that a number.

Anyway, point is, I’m sure I can belt out five more commanders to make for a spooky horror deck, based on something about this card makes it a good spooky horror card!

I’m going to present here, then, a set of four different commanders, one for each different partially-black colour pairs, that, hopefully, pull in different enough directions that they don’t all feel like they’re all the same deck playing with the same ideas.

BW: Burakos, Party Leader // Folk Hero Zombies

WUBRG order predicts we have to start here with a white base creature. The combination of Burakos and Folk Hero is pretty obvious – as long as you have both out, any time you cast a creature that shares a creature type with Burakos, you get to draw a card, as long as you’re only playing one a turn. Burakos is a Cleric, Wizard, Warrior and a Rogue and an Orc, which means any time you cast those, Burakos can get you a card, which is a steady ongoing source of cards.

Thing is, if you just look at black and white’s top edhrec cards, you’re going to see some bangers. You can build for lock pieces, with things like Grand Abolisher and Mother of Runes, or you can build for aggressive Aristocrats effects with Zulaport Cutthroat and friends. But know what else you can build for?

There are a lot of zombies that are clerics, wizards and warriors. Death Baron is a Wizard. So’s Undead Augur. Archghoul of Thraben is. Mikaeus, The Unhallowed is a cleric. Shepherd of Rot, Rotlung Reanimator, Corpse Harvester, Boneknitter, they’re all Clerics and Wizards. You can get some bodies out there, and then there are cards Death_Priest of Myrkul, Ratadrabik – some stuff that’s midsized, and that means you benefit from dumping cards out there. You can build a hell of a party with a lot of dead meat, you’ll draw lots of cards, and Burakos even makes it possible to score treasures if you can make him hard to block.

It’s black, it’s white, it’s a swarm with control and ways to reload!

UB: Umbris, Fear Manifest

Making a blue black deck out of just the coolest things you can find isn’t hard, and there’s already a lot of cards you can cast that exile things off your opponent’s deck. This is a feeling of horror, of macabre dreadfulness, but also, the trick is, you want to make Umbris big enough to start one-shotting opponents, and then you want to protect them. That means you’re not trying to exile whole libraries, you just want to be able to exile chunks. This means that instead of focusing on beating up people’s graveyards en masse, you can treat other people’s graveyards like they’re a resource, which adds Uchuulon to your options.

The thing is, Umbris cares about entering the battlefield, which means if you can protect Umbris with flicker effects, you’re going to get something out of them! Things that bring Umbris back from the dead? Also handy!

The best thing about this kind of deck is if you make basically a blue-black flicker deck, around horrors, you have this sort of jump-scare effect and you have a lot of cards that are really good at pushing your game forward, that are good at protecting you, but don’t leave the other players at the casual table panicked that you’re going to counter their creatures.

Don’t get me wrong, when you start chomping chunks off the top of people’s libraries, they are going to want you dead, but at least you have a sort of blue-black voltron deck whose backup plan is melting minds.

BR: Kardur, Doomscourge

Man, I want an alter of Kardur that just looks like he was airbrushed on a van.

Where Burakos’ folk story is trying to make a swarm deck that cares about hitting the board and Umbris wants to turtle up, a Kardur deck? You want to make a bunch of goad cards the backbone here. Kardur wants creatures attacking and blocking. Kardur wants people on the board crashing into each other, and Kardur’s creatures want to be part of that. It’s okay for you to kill off your stuff with Kardur, and you don’t even mind if they come back symmetrically.

Here’s my thinking: Black red Berserkers, built around tribal effects, including Patriarch’s Bidding. You don’t mind if your bidding gets a bunch of other people’s stuff back: You want that stuff back, you want it on the floor so you can get them to crash into one another again!

BG: Old Stickfingers

Okay, that’s three decks that aren’t just ‘more stuff Talen already was going to play,’ right?

Well, here’s Old Stickfingers.

Old Stickfingers is a card that, for, say, four mana, loads two creatures into your yard, and just creatures. Since Stickfingers leaves spells alone, it’s not a source of flashback or jumpstart spells, it’s just a way to get just creatures into your bin. That’s okay though, because there are some creatures that can do stuff from inside your graveyard.

Any given creature from your bin, if it has more than 1 power, is better on the board than supporting Old Stickfingers. Stickfingers is a kind of hydra as a commander, and it can ‘draw’ you like, X cards while it’s doing it, especially if you build with cards like Skyclave Shade, Ghastly Remains, Genesis, Loathsome Troll, Gigapede, Brawn – that kinda stuff can be part of an engine. Genesis is obviously the best one!

This can be hard to deal with in terms of gumming up the ground though. Like, cheap cards like Bloodsoaked Champion and Dread Wanderer, they can jump from your graveyard to the battlefield, but they don’t gum up the ground well. I like Hormagaunt Horde in this space a lot, too!

Wrapup

Hm.

Anything else?

No, I guess not. Mask up and stay safe at your Magic: The Gathering halloween parties!

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[magicartcodex]

Duelliste de Zulaport

[lesserknownwaifus]

[ravenkult]

Zulaport Duelist - MTG by Bryan Sola https://www.artstation.com/artwork/18wzwK

[reuxben]

This was our MTGinktober for “Drain,” starring Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Thief of Hope! Draining is my absolute favorite Magic mechanic, so I packed just about all my favorite drainers in this piece. And not to drain you, gentle reader, but we still have a few Inktobers left to post, believe it or not. 

Click this post’s Source link for this piece’s Making-Of.

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Not normal,

Reuxben

[wilhelt]

Curious to know people's favorite combos that their decks create! Tell me about them: what cards are involved, how do you trigger it, is it an instant win con? Let me know!

Mine is in my Wilhelt, the Rot Cleaver deck where I have a Zulaport Cutthroat, Gravecrawler, and Phyrexian Altar.

Basically, since Gravecrawler costs one black mana to summon and can be brought back from the graveyard multiple times within your turn so long as you have the mana to spend, you sacrifice it to your Phyrexian Altar and can do so infinitely since the altar produces one mana of any color when you sacrifice a creature. Then, with Zulaport Cutthroat's trigger which causes each opponent to lose a life when a creature you control dies and for you to gain a life, you effectively win the game so long as you have all 3 cards in play. Could throw a Sanguine Bond or something similar in there to really rub salt in the wound though.

I won a game recently when I had my Phyrexian Altar on board and my Gravecrawler in hand. Then, an opponent's Zulaport Cutthroat had died so on my turn, after putting my Gravecrawler out, I used Gravespawn Sovereign, tapped 5 of my zombies, and brought the guy's Zulaport Cutthroat back under my control to win. Felt very vindicating I can't lie.

[markrosewater]

To offer an opinion on a card I was initially (and in some ways still am) very down on with a once per turn restriction I'll bring up a good point. Vraan is for many formats, especially Commander and 60 card formats with larger card pools, a let down for aristocrat strategies. These decks typically like to sac tons of creatures at once so cards like Zulaport Cutthroat easily outpace him. However, he allows for experimentation for aristocrat-like decks in standard with cards like Braids.

Do you have similar feelings about tap symbols?