IvoryTower
@1vorytower.bsky.social
EDH enthusiast and recovering PhD. Decks: https://www.moxfield.com/users/IvoryTower
Was this your doing or the bar’s?! Bummed I can’t make it 😭
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Was this your doing or the bar’s?! Bummed I can’t make it 😭
I’d been contemplating the Temur allies concept from this deckbuilding challenge a little ways back as a fun shell, but completely blew past this Mai and Zuko until now. 🤔 edhrec.com/articles/dec...
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November 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I’d been contemplating the Temur allies concept from this deckbuilding challenge a little ways back as a fun shell, but completely blew past this Mai and Zuko until now. 🤔 edhrec.com/articles/dec...
It seems to me like recognizing whether your deck wants to rush its commander out, knowing what CMC ramp will let you curve into it most efficiently, and arranging your ramp package accordingly is one of the bigger level up moments in commander. bsky.app/profile/1vor...
It depends on the deck. If your deck wants its commander out and the commander costs 4 CMC, Rampant Growth gets it out on turn 3. Cultivate gets it out on turn 4 as normal, and you just wind up with one unspent mana unless you’re still holding a 1 drop.
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
It seems to me like recognizing whether your deck wants to rush its commander out, knowing what CMC ramp will let you curve into it most efficiently, and arranging your ramp package accordingly is one of the bigger level up moments in commander. bsky.app/profile/1vor...
Where Cultivate, I agree, “feels” better is that it lets you rationalize running fewer lands overall, because the added land to hand lets you make up for a missing a land normally. But it’s all context specific. High CMC commanders probably want Cultivate more generally.
November 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Where Cultivate, I agree, “feels” better is that it lets you rationalize running fewer lands overall, because the added land to hand lets you make up for a missing a land normally. But it’s all context specific. High CMC commanders probably want Cultivate more generally.
It depends on the deck. If your deck wants its commander out and the commander costs 4 CMC, Rampant Growth gets it out on turn 3. Cultivate gets it out on turn 4 as normal, and you just wind up with one unspent mana unless you’re still holding a 1 drop.
November 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
It depends on the deck. If your deck wants its commander out and the commander costs 4 CMC, Rampant Growth gets it out on turn 3. Cultivate gets it out on turn 4 as normal, and you just wind up with one unspent mana unless you’re still holding a 1 drop.
Battling Brews While Benji’s Benched? I’ll take a 2% royalty on any future sales, thank you very much.
November 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Battling Brews While Benji’s Benched? I’ll take a 2% royalty on any future sales, thank you very much.
Are we calling this Battling with Benji?!
November 11, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Are we calling this Battling with Benji?!
Genuinely at a loss as to what you’re trying to capture here, sorry.
November 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Genuinely at a loss as to what you’re trying to capture here, sorry.
How would hybrid mana solve the 4-5 color pile problem today and not “three years from now,” as you complain about above? Surely every rules change needs to be evaluated in prospective terms to begin with.
November 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
How would hybrid mana solve the 4-5 color pile problem today and not “three years from now,” as you complain about above? Surely every rules change needs to be evaluated in prospective terms to begin with.
Fierce doesn’t have that problem. It’s annoying. But the control of your commander clause might also have its own (good? bad?) impact on the Brawl meta by giving an edge to lower to the ground commanders.
November 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Fierce doesn’t have that problem. It’s annoying. But the control of your commander clause might also have its own (good? bad?) impact on the Brawl meta by giving an edge to lower to the ground commanders.
I agree, but based on the logic of their ban announcement, I can see it at least being internally coherent. Their objection to Mana Drain is the tempo swing: not only do you lose something, I gain, with enough of an impact to account for a 10% swing in win rate. 1/2
November 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I agree, but based on the logic of their ban announcement, I can see it at least being internally coherent. Their objection to Mana Drain is the tempo swing: not only do you lose something, I gain, with enough of an impact to account for a 10% swing in win rate. 1/2
I would love to believe, but sadly don’t think so. He and Schumer have done this dance before. Knowing that Johnson will pass whatever Trump tells him to, Jeffries is free to make all the noise he wants. It’s where the resistance would be meaningful that we get crickets.
November 10, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I would love to believe, but sadly don’t think so. He and Schumer have done this dance before. Knowing that Johnson will pass whatever Trump tells him to, Jeffries is free to make all the noise he wants. It’s where the resistance would be meaningful that we get crickets.
It would be the height of irony if the Commanders, having successfully rehabilitated so much of the team’s image, were bullied back into becoming a pariah franchise for the next 30 years. bsky.app/profile/sanh...
“An intermediary for the White House has told the Commanders’ ownership group that Trump wants the club’s new stadium—part of a nearly $4 billion project in the nation's capital at the site of what was known as RFK Stadium—to bear his name.”
An arch, a ballroom, and a stadium all named after him.🙄🤡
An arch, a ballroom, and a stadium all named after him.🙄🤡
Donald Trump plans to be the 1st sitting US president at a regular-season NFL game since 1978
November 9, 2025 at 11:44 PM
It would be the height of irony if the Commanders, having successfully rehabilitated so much of the team’s image, were bullied back into becoming a pariah franchise for the next 30 years. bsky.app/profile/sanh...
I believe that’s correct, but it’s astonishing to me that I couldn’t find corroboration from any official sources. I’d hazard that because MaRo doesn’t strictly “like” commander, his energy is directed mostly at compatibility in the 99, leading to the “OR not AND” thing that’s causing confusion.
November 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I believe that’s correct, but it’s astonishing to me that I couldn’t find corroboration from any official sources. I’d hazard that because MaRo doesn’t strictly “like” commander, his energy is directed mostly at compatibility in the 99, leading to the “OR not AND” thing that’s causing confusion.
Among other things, Bandit would’ve known better than to even ask that question.
November 8, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Among other things, Bandit would’ve known better than to even ask that question.
“Going to meet myself to my side” sounds like a killer song title.
November 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
“Going to meet myself to my side” sounds like a killer song title.
Adding that this is all correct and that I miss you too, even though I saw you last week. Plus it’s a beautiful day for a walk if you’re feeling it!
November 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Adding that this is all correct and that I miss you too, even though I saw you last week. Plus it’s a beautiful day for a walk if you’re feeling it!
*Christian Bale (but yes, either would have worked)
November 6, 2025 at 2:20 AM
*Christian Bale (but yes, either would have worked)
Completely agree with the sentiment, but feel like I have to (alas) do a public service here: bsky.app/profile/pale...
That screenshot of MrBeast talking about Zohran Mamdani is fake
November 6, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Completely agree with the sentiment, but feel like I have to (alas) do a public service here: bsky.app/profile/pale...
Ah, I missed the reminder text! Back, then, to just amazing!
November 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Ah, I missed the reminder text! Back, then, to just amazing!
I have been Varchild-curious for so long, but can never bring myself embrace the boring things the deck would have to do for the desired effect. As a result, she’s become the 101st card in a half dozen shells since. To the point that my current concept for Azula might ALSO be a Varchild deck, sigh.
November 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I have been Varchild-curious for so long, but can never bring myself embrace the boring things the deck would have to do for the desired effect. As a result, she’s become the 101st card in a half dozen shells since. To the point that my current concept for Azula might ALSO be a Varchild deck, sigh.
Yo, this is amazing, to the point that I hate to ask… but doesn’t putting something onto the battlefield directly (which is how Eternal Dominion reads) bypass the stack, meaning that Errant doesn’t have anything to target?
November 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Yo, this is amazing, to the point that I hate to ask… but doesn’t putting something onto the battlefield directly (which is how Eternal Dominion reads) bypass the stack, meaning that Errant doesn’t have anything to target?
I did try to think through other options, and something like Sylvan Library would also be appropriate, though possibly too good to be a bonus include. Or they could decide that today’s the day that it’s okay to reprint Library of Alexandria, sending the Earth hurtling off its axis and into the sun.
November 3, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I did try to think through other options, and something like Sylvan Library would also be appropriate, though possibly too good to be a bonus include. Or they could decide that today’s the day that it’s okay to reprint Library of Alexandria, sending the Earth hurtling off its axis and into the sun.
Here’s the 1926 film The Black Pirate, Peter Pan, and Pirates of the Caribbean, all prominent touchstones of the genre in their own moments. None share this composition, which would suggest that the treatment is in fact pretty varied, but I’m sure you can find your own examples.
November 3, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Here’s the 1926 film The Black Pirate, Peter Pan, and Pirates of the Caribbean, all prominent touchstones of the genre in their own moments. None share this composition, which would suggest that the treatment is in fact pretty varied, but I’m sure you can find your own examples.
I guess we now know that Canada ranks higher than LA on the administration’s enemies list, since they were so desperate to get the message out that they forgot there’s no conceivable way that Trump would still be up at 1 AM Eastern.
November 2, 2025 at 5:13 AM
I guess we now know that Canada ranks higher than LA on the administration’s enemies list, since they were so desperate to get the message out that they forgot there’s no conceivable way that Trump would still be up at 1 AM Eastern.