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Suppose I'll repost. Mostly looking for any advice on creature loadout, particularly whether or not I should try to fit in some of the bigger beasties in the maybeboard. Burnished Hart, Canonist, Forgemaster, and Simulacrum all seem like possible cuts.
Isaac Richardson
I am going to need that GW Hatebears list user. For science.
Joshua Garcia
It's cool, I'm turning my Ruric Thar into Xenagod *Donkey punch and fuck Blue.dec*
It's still a work in progress, I'm going to toss in a Mirror Entity and some other cards to help my mid game and possibly more tax effects since all i really have is the Spelltithe Enforcer. Overall it's a fun deck especially at events since people always assume that it's a hugs deck based on the general.
Benjamin Walker
What kind of groovy tech can I slap in Alesha? I'm not doing stax, I to try a goofier build with a bunch of ETB and "combat damage to a player" triggers
Asher Campbell
Behind the Scenes Dauthi Embrace Break Through the Line
Sac outlets galore, there's obviously tons in black
Charles Morales
As someone who only likes Blue for flavor and card draw but think counter wars are autistic, what color combinations should I look for that still give me some card draw, but lemme play fatties and have synergy; R/G maybe or W/G?
Brayden White
Reconnaissance is especially good with dudes like kiki-jiki
Luis Young
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Robert Torres
Have you tried Master of Cruelties? There is also Drana and Flameshadow Conjuring for ETB.
Goblin Bombardment and Vampiric Rites are good sac outlets.
Cameron Mitchell
Etb's you say? Also Keldon Firebombers are the shit with Alesha
Jackson Rivera
INTIMIDATION DWARVEN NOMAD DWARVEN WARRIORS
GET THEM TRIGGERS, SON
Lincoln Harris
Wow that's fucking awesome
Robert Flores
>Keldon Firebombers are the shit with Alesha You can't really abuse them with Alesha's attack triggerthough, since they're a 3/3
Do you like quasi-Infect stapled onto something with Fear?
Sebastian Johnson
My bad i was thinking of Avalanche Riders they even sac themselves on your upkeep
Oliver Cox
Oh that's neato
Man this deck is going to suck
Thomas Carter
>Sydri
Post Decklist my nigga. I currently run Sydri.
Thomas Williams
Guys, what is one deck that is fun to play (Always does relevant stuff), but also fun to play against? I am kinda spiky on the inside and whenever I win (which i do most of the time), it kinda leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I play hardcore blue control (Kira), G/W Ramp into amgels/cool fatties (Karametra), G/B Aggro +1/+1 counters (Skullbriar) and Esper durdle/ramp (Dakkon)
I'm kinda thinking about making a red deck with burn spells n' stuff, but would that be good or fun?
Charles Rivera
>Myahaha, if I succeed, it will only take 9 more doses of poison to kill the king! Then castle Grayskull will be mine!
About to finalize this as my first deck. Thoughts? Suggestions? Just don't say Karn Liberated or Sword of Fire and Ice.
Mason Nelson
So, this is an old list I had. I had the deck, but it was stolen. But new Marchesa has me excited. I can run a similar list with fun stuff like No Mercy and everything.
So, anyone have suggestions for cards to add to this controlling combat theme deck?
Anyone here that let their color preference control what they build? I dislike Black in the game, but I love a lot of the commanders, like Meren, but I cannot see myself playing Black. I like Blue, but I hate the playstyle but I play it still. Anyone else like this?
Jace Rivera
HATRED OUT OF NOWHERE
Evan Diaz
Jeleva or Nicol Bolas for a steal yo shit deck? I feel like Jeleva would be stronger for it but it also just feels like a very Bolas thing to do
Josiah Flores
I'm putting together a budget Jori En deck and am wondering if Mercurial Chemister is a good inclusion. Is it a sick draw engine that kills dudes or a 5 mana do nothing?
Jonathan Rodriguez
Never let gameplay get in the way of flavor, Bolas the whole way.
Brandon Carter
Grixis Marchesa
Nathan Adams
Yes, I play mostly White and I dislike black But I'm getting over that as I made cool white/x decks and now I want to try other playstyles. The last deck I've built is a GB Pauper Combo Aristocrats, I've been having tons of fun.
Anthony Murphy
>nim death mantel + ashnods altar Holy frickin' fuck that's awesome. I was about to lose, hit that combo, and locked the board down with archfiend of depravity + endrek sahr until I drew something good.
Also, >that feel when your worst deck is significantly better than a group's best decks I'm going to build jank Kresh to be a bit more reasonably powered, but holy cow, first time that's ever happened. I went 6-1, against some pretty solid competition. Overwhelming stampede and rancor are love.
Jeremiah Myers
Not that bad with her though. Considering you want everyone to go at your own pace, Alesha wants land counts at a minimum.
Thats why I run Razia's Purification in my Alesha.
Chase Reed
I don't want to go hardcore stax though. Some MLD is probably OK, Impending Disaster might be pretty funny to hold the table hostage
Lincoln Watson
I'm actually in the process of disassembling my Jeleva deck. It's going to become Melek, with some of the black/Dimir steal shit in my Mimeoplasm. My issues were that some times I felt like I couldn't do shit with most of my opponents stuff--mostly because they were almost devoid of Instants and Sorceries. Jeleva works best as a Storm/Doomsday combo general, but she can be fun for like a few games as a StealCopy deck.
Nicol Bolas can work as you have a little more flexibility with your Commander. Dragon Tempest/Warstorm Surge can fuck someones hand over with a single resolution of Bolas, and you can pack some misc steal/clone stuff in there.
Marchesa is my second choice and I played her as well. Just note that if you go the Steal/Copy route, Mikaeus will be risky to you. (Undying will return them back to their owner's control so you need to make sure the shit you steal will have a counter if you want to keep them.) I personally think Grixis!Marchesa is slightly better for this type of deck, but Bolas is Bolas. Go for Bolas if you want some slight dragon shenanigans.
Nathan Torres
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Jordan Lewis
Looking for feedback on my Grixis Battlemage Pauper EDH deck, decided to go for a bunch of GY matters stuff like Delve, Flashback, Unearth and Madness and I included a bunch of sac outlets to take advantage of the unearth creatures as fodder after I unearth them. tappedout.net/mtg-decks/grixis-battlemage-edh/
Aaron Green
I'd be interested to see the Geist deck.
Jonathan Cook
>Aurelia Don't do that to yourself, user. Boros is always stupid slow.
Also Zada is funnest Goblin commander
Brody Perry
I am starting my first edh project. I am a Biology student in uni, so I was thinking U/G/x
Do I run B/U/G for the Mad Reanimator Doctor, like Dr Frankenstein?
Do I run R/U/G for the Survival of the Fittest Doctor, always evolving to win and grow?
Or W/U/G for the Helpful Doctor, who helps everyone out?
Also, any suggestions for what Commander to use would be awesome. I think W/U/G would be Phelldagrif though
Ayden Foster
Could I make a deck with Ob Nixilis, crucible of worlds, and 98 swamps?
What else would you add?
Landon Watson
Okie dokie, admitedly it's less voltron and more sort of voltron while spirits control and make a pillow fort. Also the list is outdated as I threw in Geist of the Archives but forgot what I replaced him with, going to have to look that up.
Yeah I hear RW is sort of underwhelming, I really like Boros though so it's a shame. Why Zada? Krenko just seems so simple and effective.
Bentley Rodriguez
>Why Zada? Krenko just seems so simple and effective Do you like to draw massive amounts of cards? Do you like turning a field of 1/1s into a bunch of 28/1 double striker trampling death machines?
Owen Martinez
Fetch lands
Blake Green
Drawing cards is pretty fun, don't really expect to do that with red but yeah, sounds fun. How does Zada do these things, user?
Brayden Wilson
Draw: >Crimson Wisps >Stun shit like that
Colossal Goblin steamroller engine >Temur Battle Rage >Brute Force >Shared Animosity >Balduvian Rage >Fists of the Anvil
It's stupidly fun. You can slap Krenko in the 99 too. It's great because it's all cheap combat tricks that just buff the shit out of your board for very little mana
Anthony Cox
>Zada niggers literally worse than shun yun fags
Kayden Nelson
Animar actually has one spell, Unexpected Results. Zedruu wins by scoops Mizzix started along side Arjun then got mashed into the same deck. Kruphix is bad and fun as fuck lots of green x-spells, tokens and card draw
Jaxson Carter
Cool stuff. I have a soft spot for Kamigawa so it's nice to see the spirits in there. How well's it work for you?
Jace Campbell
If it targets only one creature and says draw a card on it, it's fair game for zada. You also want anything that makes lots of mana for cheap, like all the red rituals, Mana Geyser, Inner Fire, and stuff.
Samuel Campbell
>I hate fun and anything that isn't Derevi stax
Nathaniel Nelson
>I hate fun and anything that isn't CrawWurm.dec
zadafags pls go
Leo Ross
>I hate anything that isn't magic christmas land full of impracticality and frail combos. >pls don't interact with my boardstate
Isaiah Kelly
>you either play Zada or Derevi stax >no other options >black mana isn't even allowed
Fuck you and your false dichotomies you fuckin Zadanigger, bet you're the same Zadanigger that made these false dichotomies last time
Anthony Davis
It works surprisingly better than I thought it would:
In the 1v1 scenario spirits do enough to trip up your opponent's creatures and negate potentially devastating spells you would want cast, (like most U decks.)
In the multiplayer scenario you can chill and cast what spirits you want to control other players when you see fit. It's certainly more controlly than I thought it would be.
You do either thing while waiting to cast Saint Traft at the right time so he can do the work.
Pretty comfy deck.
Hmm, ok, I'll look into it, thanks for the tips guys.
Jack Parker
So, will the "monarch" mechanic here work in EDH?
Mason Stewart
It'll work like any other ridiculous multiplayer only mechanic. Be hilarious.
William Peterson
I don't know if it'll be worth building around, but Marchesa might be alright for Merde Goodstuff.
Nathaniel Anderson
Why you gotta hate user
It's not the strongest deck but it's still fun
Blake Carter
It will be! Fun on a bun! Pile on the attack me cards!
Logan Cook
I'm just tired of reading all of your goddamn posts about how great Zada is every goddamn thread. Any time anyone asks for a commander suggestions one of you faggots pops out of the woodwork and starts ranting raving about how great ZADA!!! :D
Austin Myers
I've always wanted a come-at-me commander in Mardu, the colors support it so well.
Dominic Ortiz
Sorry someone pooped in your cornflakes and shot your dog this morning
It's a casual format in a children's card game my nigga, chill
Asher Moore
>lol y u mad tho Quit deflecting nerd. Find a new commander to masturbate to-- Zada's getting soggy.
James Torres
I'm gonna bring it up every thread now to see if you burst a blood vessel from going nuclear-meltdown apoplectic
I like Melek more anyway
Easton Fisher
>I'm gonna bring it up every thread now to see if you burst a blood vessel from going nuclear-meltdown apoplectic
It's not like you weren't already.
Michael Fisher
Turning my flip Avacyn boardwipe extravaganza into Queen Marchesa tokens.
Any suggestions on how many Sorins to run? I was thinking Lord of Innistrad and Solemn Visitor max. Also not sure whether to include Gideon, Ally of Zendikar.
Any spicy first strike tech besides Rise of the Hobgoblins?
Grayson Diaz
>literally worse than shun yun fags That's up in the air, they were pretty bad. I hadn't seen a Zada post for a few threads but Shu Yun was across literally every single EDH thread for like 2 weeks.
Grayson Wright
>have a few decks that I could break down and turn into 2 better multicolor decks >enjoy having a bunch of decks and switching between games
I like variety but I feel like combining a few decks into one super-pile would probably make for a better deck overall
Aaron Bennett
I mean I know there's weirdly no explicitly token related mardu commander, but is Queen Marchesa really the best for that? I'd probably use some sort of janky Alesha build with etb token generators or something.
Isaiah Davis
Reposting. Going for a Biology subtheme here. Do not know if to go with U/G for Simic or one of the three color variants.
Sultai for Dr Frankenstein Reanimator Temur for Wildlife Conservation Doctor Bant for Friendly Doctor to help everyone.
Eli Taylor
Go Simic and put Kraj at the helm
SCIENCE
Carson Miller
Church of Scientology it is
Christopher Turner
What's the silliest alternate wincon?
James Morales
The simic dude that says you win on your upkeep if you control four or more of him.
Bentley Butler
Valor. Rise of the hobgoblins, while cool doesn't jell with Marcheesy since she makes black tokens
Nolan Hall
Oh he's silly too. I want to try and win with him using Clones but that would take too much setup
Jace Adams
Currently building Shu Yun as 3color Zada Heroic
Nathan Ward
Still could use some suggestions on New Marchesa. Gonna throw in all the cards involving Monarch from today's reveal of course, but I wanna get a primer for the rest first.
What are some good counter measures to tuck into a Scion of the Ur-Dragon deck to deal with the inevitable table hate I'll get?
Ayden Reyes
The cheese way is to Rite of Replication him. The fun way is to Tempt with Reflections and then populate the tokens.
Ian Hill
Fuck that's actually way better
Shame I don't have a UG deck and have never built those colors together. Would Edric be good? Game and con the table while I quietly assemble the Biovisionaries?
Ryan Thompson
R I K U I K U
Benjamin Robinson
Can't look at the deck at, but depending on how tuned you want the deck, you probably wouldn't play any of the monarch cards revealed today besides Queen Marchesa herself, since you only need to become the monarch once and you should probably have set it up so that it couldn't be easily taken. All the artifact mana, all the Diamonds, and Signet's, all the best wipes, as much spot removal as possible with an especial leaning toward instant speed so you can use after drawing during the end and to prevent surprise attempts at the crown between turns. Then throw a couple combo wins in to round it out. Game plan should be to ramp hard enough to generate enough mana from rocks or float enough mana to cast a board wipe and Marchesa.
Lucas Harris
Edric is very good, but he draws a lot of hate and for good reason and a 2 card win the game combo won't do you any favors in terms of friends.
Nathaniel Bailey
Jeez don't kill the guy
Caleb Foster
Do people not look at and read every spell that gets cast and every permanent that enters play?
Christian Sanchez
Unfortunately Alesha is fucking terrible and of the relevant token producers she returns I would probably only run Mentor and Pyro which would require a specific build and wouldn't be very strong in my opinion. Her combo finish is boring not to mention easily disrupted while she drags on early and midgame not doing anything important.
Marchesa draws me cards, makes tokens, and passing around a Burger King crown is going to be hilarious for everyone involved.
Connor Gray
Oh my group doesn't know about Edric
Jace James
>Alesha is fucking terrible
Landon Johnson
I have a friend who used to play a regular 60 clone deck with him- he'd just fuck with people for fun and if the game went too long/boring he'd just clone him for GG. Stopped after awhile though because he got bored by it.
He just finished buying cards for his EDH deck today- still doing simic cloning.
>actually kind of anxious to face him knowing he's just out to spread anarchy and make the boardstate an indecipherable nightmare
Kayden Peterson
>my group doesn't know about Edric Go to fucking town.
Brandon Scott
I mean... you're already gonna be running a suboptimal Marchesa deck so it shouldn't be a big deal you'll be playing a suboptimal Alesha deck.
Cooper Reyes
Just drop board wipes to cut that bullshit out
Isaiah Ross
If you couldn't tell there will be a superfriends subtheme which is a nonbo in any decent Alesha deck, not that there's ever been a decent Alesha deck.
Also I'm pretty sure I mentioned the tokens thing and you haven't really given me a reason why I should run a bad reanimator over a token producer in a token deck.
Jackson Gonzalez
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Logan Brown
Because there are lots of weenie value token generators and because Marchesa doesn't make tokens all the time, and only when someone else is drawing a card on their end step.
