Commander General- /edhg/

Happynon here:

Thanks for putting up with me for so long. My life is turning around and I wanted to share my happiness with you guys. I write autistic amounts of deck advice in these threads from time to time, I'll take a peak at one or two people's decklists and write a novel of advice.

I'm just so happy, I have a date with a big tittied bookworm, and we're going to talk semiotics over dinner and a movie. Probably Pacific Rim 2 if I'm lucky.

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Yup. It actually was Kamigawa (the legendary set) where they changed Legend from being a creature type to being a card type. They had to do it to make legendary artifacts and enchantments so creatures were changed too. It makes some strange errataed cards today like Lord of Atlantis and Lovisa Coldeyes.

Hooray! Good luck on your date user

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Please, and thank you.

Congrats user. You have a good time.

best of luck on your date user, just bee yourself that's how I got my nerdy amazonian gf

maybe you'll get the pacific rimjob if you're lucky

When you absolutely, positively, have to kill every motherfucker in the room, accept no substitutes.

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>nerdy amazonian gf
I envy you. How tall/thick is she?

Oh neat, I've never built a deck like this before. Give me five or so minutes and I'll tell you what I think.

Truly this is the best place in all of Veeky Forums, thanks guys!

If I'm really slick, I'll get to Hegel her Arendt, then Aquinas her Marx until she Kant anymore.

take a seat kid, this is a man's game

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Krosan cloud scraper

doesn't kill my enchantments :^)

like a full head on me, not as thick as some but thick enough for my tastes

You are the realest of niggas. Good luck, and may many nights of pillow talk be in your future

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Best of luck, I recently got myself a nerdy GF too. Been playing Xcom 2 with her watching the last week. Gonna have to teach her the wonders of MtG soon.

Psh, nothing personal kid.

Seriously though, this is why I run obliterate.

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pro tip for teaching gfs to play mtg, let them play stompy and win like the first two games

Name a Sharpshooter after her if you want extra good succ

Stop fighting everyone we can have peace instead.

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>Probably Pacific Rim 2 if I'm lucky.
It's fucking precious, in a good way, that a movie is what constitutes "getting lucky" on a date for you.

alright, happy dude, check out my best deck. I think I should cut a noncreature for a creature to help my ratios but it's hard.
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>tfw I make super serious characters that look badass with realistic names and cool sounding nicknames
>she wants me to give them fedoras, pink gear, hipster glasses and manbuns
>always picks the ugliest possible looking mofo's from the recruit tab

Anyways, on a more MtG related topic, is anyone here going to be drafting A25, or buying and boosters?

I usually buy a box each set to draft with my friends, but I'm definitely holding off on this one. Only going to pay for 3 boosters to join the LGS sanctioned draft.

Buying any boosters*

>spending $30 on jank instead of investing in a cube

I wait for the inevitable shock of literally any Masters set not being well-absorbed and then snatching up a bulk deal. Got IMA for $5.50 a pack and had a blast drafting with friends.

Call me crazy, but I'm almost certain at this point that box EV is low so that nobody actually sells it for MSRP, so LGS' can actually get the product reliably and sell it more than once to the same customer. Steady money is the best kind of money for small businesses.

A good friend of mine has a $30,000 completely foiled 540 card cube, I don't really need to get my own.

Please do me daddy.
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That's awesome user, I hope it goes great for you!

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I'm getting back into the format, and feel like doing some Mardu related things. What are some good Mardu commanders and why?

The Tranny, because repeatedly reanimating creatures is great. Lots of fun.

Zurgo and Marchesa are excellent control commanders, Marchesa as a multifaceted engine and Zurgo as a vicious finisher. Alesha has a number of creature strategies, from hatebears to tokens to raw combo, and Edgar is a wonderful option for aggression.

First of all:
>2697 views and a tappedout plus account
Look at you Mr. fancy pants.

Now that that's over with, I'm torn about your commander. Either you go all in optimizing the uncounterable part of the guy, or you optimize swinging with him. I personally think making him unblockable is a waste of time, because you aren't going to win a whole table by beating people down with him, and he only needs to attack, he doesn't need the damage, so I'd go more towards an indestructible kind of route. Something like False Demise or Indestructibility seems good, because he just needs to survive swinging and you get to pull off all your nonsense. Serra's Ascendant is cute, but it's not really good if you're in a multiplayer group, and paints a giant target on your head if you cast it early enough to be useful. Sphinx's Revelation is a strictly worse stroke of genius because it requires coloured devotion, and while lifegain is nice, the casting requirement is really restrictive considering how little ramp you're running. Arcanis needs to be in this deck instead of that tap artifact thing, though it is pretty spicy tech if you ever decide to run stax pieces. I'd cut everything combat related that doesn't give Tiagam indestructible, including sword of the animist. I'd also throw in gilded lotus and worn powerstone.

Now, why the fuck aren't you running ponder, preordain, impulse and brainstorm? That shit would be your jam, your commander would love you, and memory jar and windfall are really really good. If you wanted to go pure jank, you could run Sphinx's tutelage, Also, because I'm a dirty monoblue artifact stax kind of guy, I'd run winter orb, static orb, uba mask, mana vortex, and a few MLD spells, planeswalker teferi, probably with paradox engine and ways to recur mindslaver, but that's if you want to be a pure degenerate fuckwad such as myself.

Marchesa looks like a Mardu take on Oloro, sorta?

second for marchesa pillowfort/superfriends/mld
>make it so they cant attack you
>cast walkers who make tokens
>repeatedly blow up everyones lands and creatures till you can combo out

PLAY ZURGO
PLAY WORLDSLAYER
FUCK THE WORLD

Kinda, I personally don't like her that much since she seems pretty uninspired, she doesn't really make you play any certain strategy or help you in any unique way other than giving you an extra draw.

I guess she slightly incentives combat due to giving Monarch, but that always seemed pretty meh to me. Just my opinion though, she is one of the most popular commanders.

tymna + bruse tarl
vial smasher + tymna
vial smashter + bruse tarl
fuck akiri we don't need that shit

Legendary Artifacts existed in Mirrodin, but Legendary creatures like Glissa still had the "Legend" type. Kamigawa just made it consistent.

That is getting lucky? I love mech suits and it would have been really awkward going by myself. There's also this sushi place I want to go but have never been, but now I'm really excited to get to take her there.

>this deck
Oh jeez, G/W is not my strong suit but I'll give it my best shot. If you need to cut one card, unless you're playing against MLD, I suggest cutting Karmic Justice. Fecundity is probably good in this deck too, and while cute, I suggest cutting Unexpectedly absent, unless you're specifically using it to bounce a creature to your library for WW.

Now, Sylvan Library would do you wonders. I also like Garruk Wildspeaker in every single green deck ever. I like the creature sacrifice thing you have going on, but if I was building the deck, I'd focus more on hatebears, like Aven Mindcensor, OG Linvala, either Thalia, and gaddock teeg. Your lack of ramp is spooking me significantly, but I'm extremely autistic about the package I use. You should run Ashonds, and if you do, Thelonite Druid will let you swing with your forests. I suggest Pathbreaker Ibex, Kalonian Hydra, Terestadon, and Overwhelming Stampede, I'd cut Archon of Justice, Starved Rusalka, and Ulvenwald Hydra. Also, you can run Triumph of the Hordes and Phyrexian Hydra if you want to be a complete asshole. Overall? I'd need to see it in action to know how to help any more than I did.

OH FUCK Natures Will. Hall of the Gemstones. Both of these will make you happy.

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>Legendary Artifacts existed in Mirrodin
While that statement is true, Legendary non-creature Artifacts had been around for a while by the time Mirrodin came out. I believe the first was printed in Stronghold.

Wow, thanks TCG player. I had ordered some commander stuff and I'm very sure the aetherflux I got warping bent every other card in the order, since they're all bent in the same sort of way. Any tips on flattening out cards or something, seemed like a good place to ask since it was a commander order

Pic of the cards

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Overall I agree, but why cut Ulvenwald? It fetches cradle.

and why add Phyrexian Hydra?

Also, Deranged Hermit seems like a solid add to the deck, also goes infinite with Nim Deathmantle.

I'd also add a Stoneforge Mystic to get Nim, or Clamp if that's needed.

Nigga put them in sleeves and you will not notice.

They will get flattened out just by sleeving them up and putting them in a tight deckbox. If it's not enough, just put them under some heavy books.

Also, any particular reason for not running Protean Hulk?

What are some combos that you pulled off you didn't know you had until you got it off?

I had a neat combo with a body double and a victimize in my graveyard, and then casting eternal witness targeting victimize. Then I could cast victimize targeting body double and another creature in my graveyard, and sac eternal witness. Body double then becomes an eternal witness and targets the victimize. So basically pay 2B to reanimate a creature from my graveyard tapped. Felt gud.

Oh, I didn't realize it was any land. Still, as a six mana tutor for cradle, it's kind of bleh, and I like phyrexian hydra because it's 7 power/toughness for 5 mana, and if you're sacing it to greater good, or running overwhelming stampede/pathbreaker ibex, it seems to work well. I can see the argument against it though.

>protean hulk
I always forget this is unbanned, good call.

I mean I do prefer commanders that don't specifically lock me into a specific strategy (I just came off of Ezuri, which doesn't have exactly the same issue, but he warps the deck construction pretty heavily)
See I'm a die hard Borosfag, and I refuse to play any partner commanders until they print an Agrus Kos and a Feather that both have partner because fuck you I want to make a cop movie deck.
Sounds kinda fun to me.
That'd be a fun deck that I'd get to play exactly one time.

Thanks, I had that wrong.

Any spicy techs? Or thoughts on deckbuilding around her in general?
Conjurer's Closet is an obvious one, as well as any wheel effect. You can sac her while her trigger is on the stack and use it on herself, which is pretty sweet. She seems to be built around recovering from board wipes, but since it puts the creatures back to your hand instead of the battlefield I'm not sure that's the best approach.

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>cop movie deck
fuck now i want this

Living Death into Garna seems pretty good.

Thanks. Thelonite Druid does seem spicy, he could replace a Rusalka as a sacrifice outlet if I want to make the deck more fun but slower.

I'm definitely adding Terastadon and maybe Kalonian Hydra. I have Hall of Gemstones and might add those.
I've been playing this deck since 2011 and it used to be much better and totally built with the expectation of triggering Primeval Titan. After he was banned and Ulvenwald Hydra was printed I put it in as a crappy replacement. Gaea's Cradle and Emeria are well worth tutoring for.

Good idea.

can my fellow fa/tg/uys help me fix up this reaper king deck. i'm trying to mostly have artifact shenanigans and to stay away from changelings, but i'm not totalling opposed to them.
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>thread question
rise of the dark realms

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Nim Deathmantle, Ashnod's Altar, Ornithopter, Blood Artist.
Sac Garna and thopter to altar, get 4 mana, pay 4 mana for deathmantle on Garna, returning thopter to hand to recast. Repeat. With Blood Artist that's a win.

Doesn't seem too great desu.

That harrow should actually be a regal behemoth. God, I hate how Tappedout changes the URL every time you update the deck now. It's so obnoxious.
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That's kinda it though. No good reanimator strats since all the dead creatures go back to hand. You could Gravestorm the fuck out of someone though.

I think Torgaar looks way more fun. You can do loads of wild shit. Fucking plow through your life total off stuff like Necro, Promise of Power, Phyrexian Arena and Spoils of the Vault, then sac a bunch of creatures for a 7/6 for BB, AND you can get your life back up to non-dangerous levels. He might be the Suicide Black commander I've been waiting for, with a healthy side of Aristocrats.

>big tittied bookworm
Nice.
>Pacific Rim 2
ABORT.

Posted this on your decklist, but I'll post it here as well.

Protean Hulk, pretty obvious suggestion. You probably don't play it due to power concerns but felt I'd mention it anyway.

Panharmonicon, you got a ton of creatures with ETB's that would benefit from this, might be too win-more, but should be pretty good.

Ashnod's Altar, often just straight up better in combination with Nim Deathmantle. Definitely worth running next to Phyrexian Altar.

Stoneforge Mystic, on the note of Nim Deathmantle, it's just so good you might as well add an additional tutor for it. Can also get Skullclamp which is an amazing card.

Deranged Hermit, a cheaper alternative to Avenger of Zendikar for infinte ETB/LTB/Mana with Nim Deathmantle and Altars.

Blasting Station, probably the best way to win with your infinite combos.

Mentor of the Meek, good draw engine. So many small creatures that keep on coming back, this will draw you quite a lot.

Woodfall Primus, excellent tool for repeatable removal. Can easily win the game with stuff life;

Solemnity, an excellent infinite combo piece with cards like the above Woodfall Primus, and Kitchen Finks. They will just keep on coming back infinitely. Vizier of Remedies and Melira, Sylvok Outcast also work similarly.

Restoration Angel, Felidar Guardian 2.0, also allows for an infinite loop with Felidar + Restoration flickering each other forever. With Panharmonicon you can suddenly flicker all permanents infinitely.

Selfless Spirit & Dauntless Escort, excellent tools to protect large boards.

Boonweaver Giant, for infinite combos with Pattern of Rebirth

Angel of Glory's Rise infinite ETB's with Saffi and a free sac outlet.

>buying GD graded cards
>expects quality

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xenagos is pretty straighforward
animar could always use some work
sigarda is kind of a pet deck, a commander version of the first deck i made when i started playing magic again back during scars/innistrad block.

>thread question
avacyn, angel of hope

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When Dominaria drops, how viable will five color elemental tribal be?

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So where are the spicy BELZENLOK decks at. There has to be some cool shit you can do with this guy.

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Well, it gets a new staple with Muldrotha

How busted is Muldrotha as a commander?

Pretty damn busted, gonna be some crazy decks coming around with Dominaria out.

>[Laughs in wizard]

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Already ordered everything, but anyone got any jank wincons for Shirei?
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Score dude. I think I have this deck figured out, but I'm open to advice if you have the time.
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I want Inalla to fuck off forever.

>[Laughs in Izzet Artificer]

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>[Laughs in Death Cloud]

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>all these creature-based decks with bad ramp packages
Why must you do this user? You're running kruphix, you just want to shit ramp into helix pinnacle, or deck someone with a stroke of genius.

Alright, back to business, I think you need to focus on what you want to do. This deck is the definition of a "goodstuff" deck, because you aren't really running wincons outside of Hydra Broodmaster, stroke of genius, and most of your other wins involve grinding people out with some fatties. In terms of the Eldrazi, OG Kozilek => Newlamog > OG Ulamog >>>> New Kozilek. I know he draws you cards, but there are lots of ways to do that. Blightsteel is objectively the best non-combo beater in the game. If you want to go the creature route, I suggest packing it with ramp, things to cheat creatures into play, things that make your creatures uncounterable, and just try to play as many fatties as possible. If you're going this route, like with the other user, things like Overwhelming Stampede, Garruk Wildspeaker, and Pathbreaker Ibex are pretty stronk. Dark Depths is too good not to run.

Now I know I always recommend people stax, but I just find the control is a little... weak. Forbid is fan-fucking-tastic, and capsize needs to be in this deck. Traverse the Outlands could probably fit into your deck if you're going the creature route, and Avenger of Zendikar is stupidly good, particularly with deadeye navigator. If you're going that route, you can run brutalizer exarch, my main nigga Venser, and worldly tutor to make people really sad.

Also, hate to break it to you, but you're going to lose to artifacts/enchantments every single time. This is the type of deck where I show up playing my 13 creatures, shitting out static orbs and back to basics, or Zur comes along and tutors necropotence, and you have absolutely no way to answer it outside of praying for a counter and coloured mana at the perfect time.

>not 50 shadowborn apostles

Ah fuck, I've seen your deck and meant to read it. Check back around noon tomorrow and I'll take a peak.

Thats $100 right there user, I'm on a budget. Also no one would allow me to get six of them on the field at once

Thrumming Stone, dawg.

I'll make an alternate deck for him later full of Apostles, just not now.

inb4 the first time a player sees an opponent use the 2nd ability on themselves and freak out
also what is this card even for? It's not for modern, it's not for standard, its... so very disappointing in edh, what's the point?

google "edh mono black combos" put them all in
run sidisi and put shirei in the 99
take out the random demons and add more 1 power etb or when it dies creatures
needs more grave pact and dictate of erebos
also always run contamination in mono B for extra salt

>T3 Weaponcraft Enthusiast
>T4 Torgaar, chunk the fuck out of opponent
>finish game with big beats and burn

Huh, I didn't know about that creature.

Would probably be good enough for Shattergang Brothers

3 creatures for 3 mana is always good. Enthusiast has been the crux of a lot of fun Standard and Modern brews for a while now

>on one life
>torgaar yourself
>now on 20 life
>bounce and or flicker him every time you get low on life or your opponent goes over 20 life
>ride never ends
>extra style points if used in conjunction with the life swapping enchantment

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Yeah I don't think she'd be a good reanimator general, but maybe cycling? Or hand control, play tons of symmetrical discard spells and get yours back.
I like your ideas about Torgaar, didn't occur to me to use his ability on yourself.

so he's just for mono black flicker hehe im supposed to be azorius hehe
what a gay demon

That deck's got some moxie, user.

not really flicker, more like sacrifice.

Also he has a pretty big body.

go grixis black has some nice flicker dudes that go well with UW

>Still, as a six mana tutor for cradle, it's kind of bleh
You've got to keep in mind that it's very likely going to trigger more than once.

>Give him lifelink
>Only play cards that are >=4CMC (or alternatively, remove all cards less than that from your library)
>Draw your whole deck minus lands
>End up at the same LT as when you started

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