>Official Site: Contains deck building rules and the current ban list. mtgcommander.net
>Deck List Site: You can search for decks that other people have made. Authors often have comments that explain their deck’s strategy and card choices. tappedout.net
>Another resource for commander discussion; they have an entire forum dedicated to discussing decks. People often make primers, which go into detail about how they built and play their deck. mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/commander-edh
>Statistically see what everyone else puts in their commander decks based on what is posted to the the internet. edhrec.com/
>Find out what lands you can add to your deck, sorted by category, based on a chosen Commander’s color identity. manabasecrafter.com/
>Thread Question What's the craziest deck you've ever built; the one that has fewer staples and more batshit never-used-elsewhere choices? How did it go?
I avoid playing colorless staples like sadbot and instead play fun cards. Sometimes that added consistancy is missed but other times it causes hilarious explosive wins. When you remove staples you flex your deck building muscles and start finding new engines that can fuel your decks.
Carter Powell
>Thread Question Fuck, I dunno. I built Shu Yun cantrip tribal once, that was a fun time.
Andrew Powell
I've been thinking about building Locust God, since I've never tried tokens or Izzet before. From what I can tell (after a some reading) Wheels, Anthems, Mana Rocks/Acceleration and (maybe) Counterspells to keep Locust God/Tokens on the field seems to be good themes. Anyone Have any advice, tips, secret tech?
Connor Peterson
How do you make group hug and win? Enlighten me please.
Robert Cox
I made an Izzet Chaos deck with Nin on the helm.
Its hidden strategy was to put things to the board for free, so I can steal them with red/blue take control spells
Cooper Foster
From what i understand you just try and avoid hate while drawing into a combo or assembling pieces to go off. Your real goal should be to get more resources than you give out but imo it is not a very good strategy. If you like it then just go look at some primers but i think there are better things you can do.
Camden Torres
I'm currently building ETB tech with, as you said, tons of wheels and some counterspells. Going Impact Tremors and Purphoros for kills. Got Lab Man in there as well for stupid wins. Mana Echoes is fucking retarded once you have a few insects lying around. I'm also going for Howling Mine style effects as well as Alhammaret's Archive and Consecrated Sphinx. Skullclamp is there for more drawan.
Aaron Smith
>What's the craziest deck you've ever built; the one that has fewer staples and more batshit never-used-elsewhere choices? Progenitus 5 color tribal (i.e. the tribe is 5 color cards).
>How did it go? It's... mediocre, honestly. Lots of bad cards that don't do anything, lots of mana issues, etc. It's fun alright, but I wouldn't call it good. It is also brand new and has only played two games so far, both of which it did alright in before losing to some bullshit (and nearly won one game, despite being Archenemy for like 6 turns), so it's not beyond hope.
Jeremiah James
I tried that card in my Rakdos, Lord of Riots deck, things get rather out of hand with both on the field.
Jaxson Wilson
Was brainstorming what I would build Unesh like. It's shit, not gonna follow through with it, not even gonna skim the shit down.
Elijah Phillips
>Guy in LGS: "look at all these fake Chinaman cards in my decks! You can't even tell them apart" >A month or two later: "Have you seen my rare binder? I think I lost it at the shop last week" Is this karma?
Jace Moore
>fucking 3 people pulled him on prerelease >myself included I just wanted a scarab god and I got shit that's barely playable in EDH.
Christopher Young
It's like Sophocles Cliff Notes.
Matthew Butler
So how much do casuals hate land destruction?
Luis Jones
Neheb went straight into Akroma, Angel of Fury. It's massive value with like half the stuff I jammed in there.
Michael Garcia
Is it stupid to run 4 signets in a 4 color deck. Should I do more, less, or all possible.
Juan Parker
Exactly as much as it should be hated. 2 colors = 1 signet 3 colors = 3 signet 4 colors = 6 signet 5 colors = 10 signet
Lincoln Miller
>tfw you just got done utterly annihilating your monoblack deck, duplicate monoblack deck, and esper deck for cards that work really well in scarab god
Gearhulks, Panham, Sepulchral Primordial, and ulamog's nullifier, so i can get multiple copies of the cards that are worth it at instant speed.
Kayden Bailey
I only run the x/green signets in my 5c deck; but I also run a heavily green mana base / fixing package. I've found that it works more often than not.
Jose Edwards
is there any card that prevents creatures from getting counters?
I know i've seen a card like that around but i can't find it now no matter what i put into gatherer
Dylan Price
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Jordan Adams
Solemnity.
Samuel Scott
Solemnity, it's from the newest set.
Jackson Bell
Are gatecrash boxes worth buying to try and get more shock lands?
Ethan Perez
No. The people who sell boxes know the odds and if they're any good at their job will sell boxes for more than the singles are worth on average. Might as well go to a real casino if you want to gamble.
Wyatt Butler
I want the gearhulks for breya but damn the blue one is expensive. Standard needs to rotate already.
Elijah Sullivan
I need advice on my Kaalia deck, particularly lands. I want to keep the manabase -relatively- budget, but part of me is saying "fuck it, I'm already probably spending at least 250 on this, might as well include good lands too". tappedout.net/mtg-decks/20-06-17-kaalia-prototype/
Dominic Campbell
>breya Goddamn I'll be building that one for a while.
Levi Allen
That ain't rotating for about a year.
Michael Jenkins
I've been sitting on four of them ever since I stopped playing standard.
Jonathan Harris
I know what i want to do with her its just getting all the pieces together thats taking a while.
Dominic Williams
Why did you stop? Also what deck even plays them with how expensive they are to cast?
Anthony Richardson
Temur dynavolt was playing bluehulks. I just happened to have a blackhulk in my Gonti deck.
I stopped playing standard because I didn't like seeing the same decks over and over again- also, playing dynavolt decks during marvel / mardu standard was absolute suffering.
Ethan Bailey
I gotcha. I guess when you have a card pool that small it gets kind of stagnant.
Sebastian Gonzalez
Mine's still on the drawing board. Not even sure which combos I want to include.
Dominic Watson
I started with wanting the salvaging/blasting station packages and figured i may as well put eggs in as well. Right now im just looking to add alternate wincons and just other things i can put in for fun.
Juan Williams
>tfw your deck reaches 5000 views
Dominic Perez
Card draw in red? Is it just wheels?
Asher Hernandez
fucking thanks!
Carter Sanders
Cathartic Reunion, Tormenting Voice , scorpion god in RB
Joseph Sanders
>yfw you just wan to play magic but your work schedule means you don't have friends so you just colect and make decks but haven't played a game in years but you still have nice boxes of worthless crap so I guess thats nice
Juan Richardson
There's the exile kind with outpost siege, commune with lava, Chandra pyromaster, and some others.
Bentley Hill
i wanna make an Ashling the Extinguisher deck but i want it to be Oppressive any suggestions
Aaron Morris
Just bit the bullet and spent $60 on shock lands for saskia.
Blake Fisher
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Ryan Nelson
Skullclamp if you're playing tokens, mad prophet, humble defector. Adding a fork or reverbertate to any of these works really well.
Landon Morris
not bad m8, but i'd remove some basics for a shimmering grotto and mirage fetches
Hudson Morgan
For Kaalia in particular, you need lands that come into play untapped. Your general is all about coming out very early, and getting to swing in order to drop a large threat onto the board. The longer you delay that swing, the worse your deck will be. You need to ditch all your lands that come into play tapped, basics are better than they are. If you are willing spend some dosh on lands, fastlands and painlands are both good, as are City of Brass, Mana Confluence, & Cavern of Souls.
Blake Price
thx senpai will do
Thomas Nelson
Good choice. Optimizing your land base is one of those things that seems pretty boring but serves you better in the long run since it makes things so much smoother.
Caleb Phillips
this is gonna be really good in neheb
they either block him and he deathtouches something, or they lose half their life and you btfo them with all that sick mana with an X burn spell.
Josiah Sullivan
>Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each land on the battlefield with the same name as the exiled card.
I'm gonna play this in my monogreen deck, green is the most common color in edh right?
also: any way to tutor for sorcery spells in green?
Also Planar Portal in colorless. I think green only tutors creatures and lands.
Tyler Ross
All depends on playgroup kouhai You'll see a lot of people come in with real quick comments like "Should I this or that" and get ignored. The game is dependent on way too many factors for people to take the time to throw out generalized ideas left and right.
It's all about what you're looking for.
That being said you're deck looks like it was throw together from shit you found lying around. A very aggressive early game deck that revolves around getting your commander out. Since it's easy to shut down that kind of play style I'd recommend throwing in a Rift Bolt, can be really nice for getting Rakdos out on curve. Also more colorless creatures so you can drop them without having to worry too much about your mana. Take your time and play around with it, see it's strengths and weakness and tune it in the direction you want it to go.
Camden Gutierrez
Thanks. I'm going to play it for the first time casually tomorrow, so any advice helps.
David Turner
I wanna play some Selesnya. Should I make a Karametra, Selveta parley or wait for cat tribal?
Jace Jackson
Gaddock teeg hatebear/prison
Brandon Roberts
Here's a few things to add: >Forcefield A strictly better Conservator. Yes, you will take 1 guaranteed damage, but the $200 price tag on this bad boy is worth it to hose those combo decks that end the game in a single alpha strike, and you have enough lifegain to offset this disadvantage. Also consider Rakalite and other damage prevention artifacts for maximum pillow fort. >Razor Boomerang Since you're in the BR burnfort archetype, you're gonna be lacking in card advantage compared to anything with blue. This can ping face infinitely given enough time and mana, and is a great mana sink when you're hellbent. >Viashino Skeleton A fine beater that can only be destroyed by the uncommon "can't be regenerated" clause of certain removal cards. Pitch your lands to it in the late game and your opponents will tear their hair out trying to figure out how to get rid of it. >Tombfire As Past in Flames and other flashback cards are often seen in Commander, you'll probably want to mainboard this hoser. I prefer this to Bojuka Bog simply because the tempo loss of a mono tapland simply isn't worth it, and there are better lands you can run in it's place anyways.
Michael Evans
Stop responding to your own bait
Leo Harris
Thoughts on building a new Neheb land destruction deck?
Dominic Cox
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Evan Collins
I want to build a deck based around all out attacking, but not just me. I want a deck where EVERYONE has to attack each turn, even if they don't want to. I want GrandMelee.dec. Who would be the best commander for this? I was thinking Gahiji for his whole "attack other guys for a buff" schtick and for access to GW, but I'm not sure.
Brandon Price
wtf is going on in that art? it's like someone took a snapshot of their drunken nightmare
Connor Parker
Fumiko.
Hunter Brooks
Fumiko the Lowblood forces that state.
Parker Cox
>In geology and related fields, a stratum (plural: strata) is a layer of sedimentary rock or soil with internally consistent characteristics that distinguish it from other layers. The "stratum" is the fundamental unit in a stratigraphic column and forms the basis of the study of stratigraphy. Mirrodin has plenty of strange and wonderful artifacts and creatures. That's some kind of golem or simulacrum preforming some kind of task relating to the earth, probably with magic involved due to the scythe's nature.
Blake Rogers
Dont forget avatar of slaugher as well so everything has double strike, then add a furnace of wrath effect for double damage from all sources hell throw in everything that gives additional combat phases too, just have a fog effect for yourself and let the games begin
Luke Roberts
another user here, i'm also building niv-cricket myself. I haven't pulled it off yet, but i'm trying to run a jank combo of mana echoes and well of ideas. all I have to do is instant speed draw spell and i can draw literally everything
side note, enter the infinite is mana expensive but pretty spicy with this guy
>opened this bad boy from my only reward pack on prerelease Someone up there knows i have a boner for black
Kayden Smith
>still love the colorshifted border >It's just $10 cheaper than the judge gift program one or the fullart one
Chase White
Foil planar chaos damnations are at the same price as invocations
Isaac Rodriguez
Prices are fucked for some things >Scion of the Ur-Dragon >-$5 >foil >+$50
Nathan Jenkins
Auto-include in every B/G/x deck?
Lincoln Morgan
Yes
Gavin Gray
Hopefully we're getting it foil in the new precon
Oliver Evans
Those speculators would be so mad. Now I really hope for it, too, despite not really being interested in ever getting one.
Adam Wood
Take it on a case-by-case basis. The last sentence is just flavor text in Commander. 99% of the time it gets any two (non/basic) lands for 4G, up from explosive veggies which just gets basics at 3G. If you want to fetch a glacial chasm, dark depths, and so on, this does the trick. If you don't care, pass on it and just use veggies.
Austin Morgan
>that second clause that you'll never trigger taking up all that space My autism
Ethan Long
>Take it on a case-by-case basis. Well, yeah. That's why auto-include in B/G. It gets Urborg + Coffers.
William Brooks
The leaks don't show Scion in foil. The three foil legendaries for the 5C dragon precon appear to be Ramos, O-Kagachi, and The Ur-Dragon.
Christian Powell
Still no actual news about the other two decks other than Dragons and Cats?
Sebastian Roberts
Nope. This is the only thing that popped up recently.
Hudson Martinez
I just want angels or spirits...
Henry Russell
But you already have Kaliaa Don't you like having everyone hate you off the table and having to put completely degenerate shit in your deck just so you can win then realizing your deck is arguably a typical beater deck?
Dylan Rogers
And I want Vampires
Ryder Jenkins
I would lose my shit if spirits are one of the tribes. esper would be sweet.
Connor Gutierrez
I want sneks
Ethan Murphy
The fact that reprints always erase the watermark bothers me more than it should.
William Bennett
Goddamn if it didn't say "another" on the las ability it would be a fucking good commander
Cooper Hughes
I feel like doing a single tribe kinda under utilizes that commander... But I could just be an idiot.
Asher Collins
He has some very powerful early pushing power since he buffs from the command Zone and his activated lets you scale well into mid game. He's gonna be close to Isamaru in terms of early game aggression but still have the capability to be built for funsies.
Dylan Flores
So, I have Subjugator Angel and Sunblast Angel on the field and I play Ghostly Flicker to blink them Would that destroy all my opponents creatures or, since they return at the same time, something different happens?
