Trading Post

It's da best non-creature card.


Currently been messing around with mono colour control decks using this as a main engine (White being the only one I can really call serious, but still).


Engine I've been using is:

3 Trading Post

4 Ichor Wellspring
4 Pristine Talisman
1 Mycosynth Wellspring


3 Solemn Simulacrum
2 Wurmcoil Engine


3 Buried Ruin
3 Phyrexia's Core


From my own experience it works wonders in getting the engine to perform at its best. Also, controlling Trading Post and Wurmcoil, provided you have discard fodder can make you almost impossible to kill late-game.

Recently, Black-White-Red Trading Post topped a Magic Online tourney so that's worth noting.

I like how, when it came out, nobody paid that much attention to it.

From what I've heard and read, Brad Nelson hyped it up when it was first released. Basically that's what made me want to try it out at all.


I should really try a BWR build for it, but I'm loving the novelty in monos atm. xD

Mox Opal at 1 or 2 (depending on the deck) is just insanely epic too actually.

Personally wouldn't run Mox Opal with what I have, since I have a lot of games where I'll just have 2 artifacts sitting on the board where I'd rely on a creature to be the 3rd, and I don't like that.


I'll definitely look into that kinda build though.

Personally, I'm looking into a Selesnya version once RtR hits in the fall, since they're well-known for token ramp, and based on the preview conference they had at Comic-Con, they're still the same as always.

Imagine a field...full of goats...that are 1/2, vigilant, and flying.

omg, Goat Control!

Exactly.

Goat Control EXISTS. And it's AWESOME.

>4T for a 0/1

But with Trading Post it becomes insane

I'd rather sac Solemn Simulacrums than sac random Goat tokens made by bad cards. Or just generate better tokens.

Or just duplicate your tokens with the stuff coming from RtR/already in Innistrad.

@Chandra Nalaar: Ever heard of Venser the Sojourner/Honor of the Pure/Intangible Virtue/O-Ring and a Plethora more white of permanents that likes to be on the field?