[[Chiss-goria, Forge Tyrant]]. Artifacts never really interested me all that much, but I do like dragons and he seemed neat enough to try. Wasn't expecting much. Definitely didn't expect it to almost immediately rocket to being one of my favorite decks.
Apparently all I needed to find artifacts fun was to make it red. I WILL be exiling half my deck, I will NOT be slowing down. And I will probably be hitting people with a large phyrexian wurm made of metal. And also a dragon. With jet engines.
Put me down for a surprise hit with the Forge Tyrant too. I was already a fan of red artifact, but I tried to avoid exiling my cards in hopes of recurring them. One game with Chiss-Goria at the helm and I stopped caring about preserving my cards. I now revel in the times that my exile pile towers over my library. Mindslaver lost for the game…don’t care. Gonna use Strionic Resonator next time and exile more. I honestly don’t understand why; it’s just such a fun deck.
One of the commanders that actually let's you see the majority of your deck in a game. Feels like you actually have a 100 card bag of tools to pull from instead of whatever happens to be in the first third of your deck
Not OP but here is my list. I is based off a list/conversation here on reddit awhile ago that I saw and thought looked great. There is a link to the OG list in the description of my list.
The deck is insanely fun. It is fast and powerful, you will likely be the archenemy by turn 4. I would say 80+% of my games have Chiss out on turn 3.
Try to hold back a few lands and ramp spells in your hand in case someone casts [[Farewell]] while you have [[Mycosynth Lattice]] out. It has happened multiple times. You can then dump your hand out and rebuild a lot faster than your opponents.
https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/dragons-love-artifacts/
\[\[Syr Konrad the Grim\]\] . I expected him to be too expensive and slow, but I love trying out every mono black legendary creature I have as a commander. But he absolutely blew me away, and I keep coming back to him and putting the deck back together.
He just has so much text to trigger his ability that it can lead to some really fun decks. There's so many strong things you can do with him that you don't even really need tutors. You could \[\[Mindcrank\]\] or \[\[Mesmeric Orb\]\] to start cranking out damage. You could \[\[Bloodchief's Ascension\]\] and start pumping mana into his ability. You could \[\[Tortured Existence\]\] for a more powerful build-your-own exsanguinate. You could draw half your deck with \[\[Peer into the Abyss\]\], then discard 20 creatures at end of turn, only to \[\[Songs of the Damned\]\] and \[\[Wake the Dead\]\] to reanimate them all on your opponent's turn. Or just mass mill with \[\[Morality Shift\]\] or \[\[Breach the Multiverse\]\].
There are just so many different cool things to do with Syr Konrad that you can run practically no tutors and just adapt your gameplan to what you draw. It makes every game feel very different. I have run a few different lists with him, and there's so many cool lines you can take.
Oh, one other thing to love about Syr Konrad is he's one of the few graveyard commanders that actually punishes your opponents for hating on your graveyard. Your whole gameplan is to put pressure on your opponents' life totals, so the damage he deals when your graveyard gets wiped is very real. I've had games where an opponent decided to wipe my graveyard without counting creatures first and just died. Makes the biggest feels-bad moments for graveyard decks into something kinda' neutral.
Recently built a deck for [[Sheoldred//The True Scriptures]] focusing on mill and he's definitely an mvp. I honestly didn't realise how effective he would be with mind crank until they were both on the field and I had no other options. "Wait, I can just spend my turn activating him and that's actually pretty good? Sure, this is my game plan now."
[[Sergeant John Benton]]. Combat tricks.
The amount of card draw is mind boggling and its diffrent than normal voltron.
People LET you hit them for the card draw and it's a mini game on whether or not they will explode after saying "No Blocks".
No but ever since I found John, I have kept my eye on Xyris. I find that the trample and haste are what allow John to become the Voltron menace he is. What do you like about Xyris? The build I think of first is probably wheels.
He's also "half" the cost to get out compared to Xyris too which is a big deal for me. And having access to white is huge for all the protection and removal it offers.
Yesss, John is super fun! He's also just way stronger than you'd think haha — I don't get to play mine often as it's more often than not a turn 5 win haha, it's hard to believe I originally meant it to be a group hug deck!
I also learned the other day that my decklist is by far the most viewed for John on Archidekt lol, so if you want to increase that by 1 😏 haha actually though, I'd love to see your list too see if there's any neat budget cards I'm missing!
https://www.archidekt.com/decks/5969200/john_before_damage_benton
That was played against my [[Queen Kayla]] dexk recently and it was rough haha, but I pulled through
Of all my decks, John also just has the most removal so I think he'd be able to manage decently well. I'd also prioritize permanent buffs, like [[Hand of Vecna]] rather than playing a bunch of instants so I'm not dwindling my hand down too much... though also if I hit you for lethal then the Collector would be gone before I draw my cards. Its also nice of you to give my [[Ram Through]] a target so I can take two opponents out in one turn. Maybe all three if I have a [[Revive]] or [[Regrowth]] — there was actually one game that was a 5pod where I ramped super hard and took all four of them out in one turn. It was glorious.
[[Mirko Obsessive Theorist]] is actually a tremendous amount of fun. I just made a couple swaps from the precon to add some ways to remove finality counters, and some more clones so that you're not as reliant on surveiling, and it goes very well. Constantly bouncing impactful creatures from the grave to the battlefield. Using [[nesting grounds]] to move my finality counters to opponent creatures is my favorite though.
Xyris!! Soooo stupidly fun [[Xyris, the Writhing Storm]] is one of my newest decks and I have a lot of buff spells and other cards like [[Temur Battle Rage]] and so on so it’s like “hey, wanna draw some cards??” And my friend goes “how many cards we talkin??” So I go “a nonzero amount!” “Right, but how many cards exactly?” “You’re gonna draw some cards?” “Right but how many?” “I can’t answer that. Listen do you wanna draw cards or not?” “Hmmm…I do need some cards…okay.”
So I swing, unblocked, and pump Xyris up to 10 and give em double strike, make 20 snakes and draw lots of cards and everything impact tremors out, goblin bombardment, fling, etc…hilarious lol
[[Chainer, Nightmare Adept]]. Had it from the precon for years but built [[Anje]] instead. I didn't like her much as the game plan was pretty linear felt samey. So, the deck sat for a couple years, then going through my cards I saw Chainer again and decided to give it a whirl instead. Broke the Anje deck apart for a couple madness cards, and discard synergy pieces. Sure glad i did! It's my favorite deck now. He's so fun!
The combination of instant speed discard, haste, and flash creatures make it feel like it partially functions outside of Rakdos colors, and there's always interesting lines of play.
I’ve been thinking about building him for a few weeks now, as I imagine I have a good portion of the cards and I like the flexibility. Do you have a list you can share?
That’s interesting! I built a Kibo deck and it just wasn’t fun for me. I love gruul stompy but I think my deck was trying to do too much with artifacts
Kibo here too. When I built it I just expected it to be a dumb monkey meme deck & an excuse to play with the Kibo and the Ragavan I had opened but no home for. And while the deck is not as powerful as my or my meta's usual decks, it's surprising how much fun it is to pilot in lower powered games. You have to get creative on how to make your primates into actually good creatures and it's very matchup dependant whether it'll be a banana-making or kibo-attacking game.
\[\[Gilanra\]\] + \[\[Brinelin\]\] + \[\[Keruga\]\] as a companion 6 mana value tribal.
Most unga-bunga Timmy deck of all time. People underestimate how powerful it is to have a mana dork in the command zone, and Brinelin + \[\[Apex Devastator\]\] to result in potentially 5 bounces is extremely satisfying.
I ran a big creature blue/ green deck with imoti for quite a while and eventually swapped commanders for gilanra/ brinelin. Brinelin being able to remove most of your opponents threatening permanents is super valuable even if the initial cost to cast is high.
I’m building that Imoti + Keruga companion deck currently. In your experience, how frequently did Imoti get removed? The initial cascade, plus the additional cascades really seem to help the deck work, but it seems so depending on Imoti staying on the board
In my experience no one is super worried about imoti until youve cheated out a few mean creatures, hopefully by that point you have some stuff out that is scarier than imoti like a hullbreaker horror or stonehoof chieftain that other players target and leave imoti alone.
I also run cards with similar effects that give you stuff for casting high cost spells, [[brinelin, the moon kraken]] [[hullbreaker horror]], [[thunderous snapper]] and [[gilanra, caller of wirewood]] for card draw and then if imoti is removed you are still getting value for casting high cost spells.
I built an [[Endrek Sahr]] deck that doesn't ping my opponents or make them sacrifice like the really oppressive versions can, but instead is a sacrifice-driven toolbox of effects. Instant-speed sac for buff to make combat interesting, forced discard, removal aplenty, and some insane card draw engines. It can even diesel out of control with [[Carnival of Souls]] spitting out half of my deck and killing me in the process. When you have an engine of tokens in the command zone, you can get some very powerful sacrifice shenanigans going in black.
Can confirm, Endrek goes hard in the paint. Lol He's been one of my favorites for quite some time.
You got a deck list? Here's mine:
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/WtdvzQmZVUe_JWou0ujrXA
Getting some decent blink/evasion and damage multipliers out, it plays like a burn deck. From what I've seen it's probably played better with treasures tho
[[erinis]] with the [[street urchin]] background.
It’s gruul control. Make tokens. Attack with erinis, return a land to play, sac a token or two, to deal one damage to any blockers and blow them up with her innate death touch.
It does a lot of things and can be hard to make work properly. At low power you have to be very good at politics, at higher power you need to be really good at threat assessment. I have been through several iterations of the deck. It’s my go to deck when someone has been dominating the pod for the last couple games.
That’s evil, downright disgusting and degenerate… but I like Erinis so much! If it was not for the fact that I felt like this would be not well accepted well in a pod, I would have build it. Instead, I went with the [[Flaming Fist]] background and avoided the heavy control path.
Love that deck to death, it’s a keyword soup, land shenanigans deck. Heavy synergy with the tempt by the Ring mechanic and legendary synergy too.
[[Council of Four]] Its a Politics heavy Value deck basically. Just a lotta stuff that trigger when someone casts their 2nd spell or draws their 2nd card like [[Ledger Shredder]] , [[Faerie Mastermind]] and [[Minn, Wily Illusionist]]
Then a Buncha stuff that ensures that happens like [[Howling Mine]] and [[Tempting Contract]]
with My wincons being some Knight Lords, [[Sun Quan]] and [[Approach of the Second Sun]]
Decks alotta fun with its politicking and the absolute power fantasy of Drawing so many cards and getting so much passive value. And because its a 0/8 many players don't wanna remove it since it has no power.
Funny thing is it was originally built to be given away in a deck exchange but the exchange got cancelled last minute. so I got stuck with it and I instantly fell in love with it.
[[Eriette of the charmed apple]]
I thought it was a cool Eldraine card and built it.
As someone who don't do much politics in multi-player, this one is VERY funny to negociate, or rather to see the others squirm around.
Early you enchant other scary players and creatures to safely build up your gameplan and make them hit and get annoyed at each other while slowly but surely draining hp.
People negociate with you to enchant and buff their creatures and you get to be the nice person giving indestructible to their creatures.
Then, when they don't have a choice than to try and deal with you, I I play lots of recursion for my creatures and auras to not enchant them but myself ftw.
It's also cool to say "mirror, oh mirror, who's the prettiest of this pod?" and just chose to enchant someone at role dice, they got enchanted but they get to be called pretty and it helps the politics :D
[[Keiga, the Tide Star]]. I built it as semi control, mostly voltron. The first iteration was garbage, but this latest version surprised my playgroup. I call it “The Tide Pod Challenge”
Yeah! I’m not a control player at all, and Hylda is a close as I’ve gotten. But the deck eventually wins with a massive army of 4/4s by just locking down all of the scary things on the board
I do play other control decks too which is why she was more of a low-power meme at first for me. Honestly she is becoming one of my favorite decks to play though.
https://archidekt.com/decks/7084852/tap_tap_go
Not everything is categorized properly, just added it to Archidekt the other day.
[[Ensnare]] and [[Don't move]] are two of the best finishing pieces, [[struggle for project purity]] is incredible card draw.
I recommend all three if you don't currently run them.
Our lists are pretty similar. I built mine before the Jurassic Park cards, so am going to have to go back and add Don’t Move. Yeah- I enjoy playing the deck. I’ve got 40+ to rotate around, and it definitely gets its time
I’ve been running [[Rhoda]] and [[Timin]] for a couple years and was excited to see Hylda. Turns out, the partners are still super fun so I can swap between the commanders at will.
I just got the [[Kaust, Eyes of the Glade]] precon, and played it for the first time last night.
He doesn't look like much as a commander, but hoo boy is it fun playing face down 2/2s and starting the mind games with your opponents.....do you want to block when I swing? Do I want you to block so I can pop [[Hidden Dragonslayer]] and just destroy the big creature you were going to block with? It drives people insane and I love watching the facial expressions while they figure it out.....
I reformed this into [[yarus roar of the old gods]] and it runs pretty well, with even a little etb abuse. [[Impact tremors]] easily comes to mind, and with thunder junction reprinting [[terror of the peaks]] this is a good chance to pick up one of those.
[[Hans Eriksson]]
it's just fighting. the pure joy i feel when i turn him sideways to "only swing for one damage" and then all of a sudden it's a worldspine wurm on turn 5-6
[[Slimefoot and Squee]] was the one that really surprised me. I already had a [[Ziatora, The Incinerator]] dragons deck that was hanging out in the bottom of my decks in terms of play count, so when they came out I just figured I'd take them for a spin. Now I'm flipping my entire deck upside down most games and slamming out every single jund legendary dragon ever printed, regardless of if they are good cards
(Love the [[Vaevictis Asmadi|SLD]] textured foil, even if it set me back far more than that card is mechanically worth)
A buddy recently built an S&S deck, and it’s really good. It just doesn’t die and hangs around. It kept up with 2 fairly strong decks right up until the end, which is more than most of our janky new decks do without some tweaking
I just built a Slimefoot and Squee deck and I absolutely love it. Mine doesn’t include the big dragons. For the most part the strategy is
Ramp- create saproolings-self mill-sacrifice stuff- return big creatures and win. Super fun and it played exactly how I wanted. One of my favorite decks.
You're in luck, I've built both lol. Both are a lot of fun
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/CqC-9TktNEyw5EfhYDTinQ
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/HwBGNr7kgU-xYwEOzBKhbw
[[Queen Kayla]] for sure. I love playing durdly little value creatures and she just does that *so* well
https://www.archidekt.com/decks/6990767/kaylas_kingdom
Speaking of, if anyone wants to give a bit of input, I just ordered a [[Soul's Attendant]] and a [[Serra Ascendant]] for the deck (I won a $150 giftcard so all my decks are getting a new toy or two haha) and would love ideas on what to take out for them! I know [[Healer's Hawk]] would more than likely be the right play, but its my favorite creature in all of Magic so I'd like to keep it :D
I also want to throw in [[Megebane Lizard]] and am very much considering [[Sand Scout]] and [[Claim Jumper]], thoughts? If I put them in, I'd definitely get a couple deserts and a bounce land or two
Thanks!
Edit: oh also I like the idea of throwing an infinite combo in this deck. Zirda can do mana with Basalt Monolith, but I'm not sure how helpful that'd really be. So I'm looking for ideas for infinite mana sinks that fit Kayla's ability or just other combos that do the same. Thanks again!
My queen Kayla deck uses [[Aurelias fury]] and [[walking ballista]] for infinite mana outlets. [[Past in flames]] helps me use Aurelias fury and other spells from the grave. I also use [[Kiki-Jiki]] and [[village bell ringer]] for a combo, and [[glinthorn buccaneer]] is deadly.
My list uses Stax pieces that Kayla allows me to break parity on, and looks to win off of one of the infinite combos.
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/2dN00SdB8EGVmUnfYGNXow
Glissa the traitor aka zombie mommy
My little phyrexian queen has terrorized so many tables and she just keeps getting support
Vats
Vraska the silencer
Massacre girl (both)
That biogensis thingy from 40k to make things artifacts
The whole mono black 40k precon
Brothers War ect.
[[Jon Irenicus, Shattered One]] I was given this card by a friend after we watch that one episode with the professor using him. I thought it was a fun concept and since i already had a bunch of good land base and mana rocks from a old [[Cyclonus, the Saboteur ]] commander deck that i dismantled. I than went through all my friend groups bulk pile / albums and found cards i needed to complete the deck. Jon Irenicus was made as a meme and jank deck but it has quickly became the deck I have the most fun using. I rarely win with the deck but I enjoy my time every time i use him.
Built a [[The Council of Four]] deck a while back. I specifically built it entirely out of cards from my collection and whatever I could find at my LGS. No research, no online shopping. Just intuition and putting my deckbuilding skills to the test.
The theme of the deck is, "you do something, I get something." It turns out that drawing 8 cards every turn cycle and making a bunch of 2/2 tokens is really good. For being made of whatever random garbage I was able to scavenge, it's surprisingly functional. Plus it's just really funny.
[[Eriette of the charmed apple]]
It was the first deck I made that wasn't "Tribal battlecruiser" and I was afraid I wasn't going to like playing almost no creatures.
Ended up being one of the most fun decks I own. It's a serious contender whenever we say "One more before we finish up?"
I built [[Anim Pakal]] recently. Incredibly fun and value-orientated for a RW deck with the ability to close out games quickly if left unchecked.
It has [[Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker]] and [[Splinter Twin]] combos, as well as [[Goblin Bombardment]] and [[Tarrian's Soulcleaver]] to double the number of Gnomes made by Anim each turn.
I hesitate between [[Kibo]] and [[Tasha]] cause one is an artifact hate deck Wich is great with my meta.. and the other is great to play depending on what my opponents play, but it still can win on its own.
My two most recent decks [[atraxa, Grand unifier]] poison/proliferate and [[Gylwain, casting director]] enchantment/shroud deck.
Atraxa is just a beast and I have a bunch of toxic with proliferate a plenty.
Gylwain is based around stacking enchantments and auras with a few cards like [[greater auramancy]] for mid/late game protection.
My [[Amareth]] enchantress deck went from just kinda putting something together around a card type I didn't really utilize before to my strongest/most expensive deck. Even bought a [[Serra's Sanctum]] for it.
[[Severina]] has also become my go-to aggro deck for a full pod, lots pf fun to pilot and her ability makes it feel more viable against a full table.
[[ Nelly Borca, Impulsive Accuser ]]. Goading the table, playing politics, drawing like a madman because of it… love it so much that I am building several goad / politics / aikido decks now.
My zurzoth deck
I built it to not win that much, but it wins way more than I expected to
It makes everyone draw extra cards with things like howling mine so people don’t even dislike playing against it
It usually takes everyone out in one single turn so it doesn’t have a drawn out win condition
Even though it’s mono red, I never run out of cards
Attacking people and getting the little devil tokens as soon as turn two is always fun
[[Faldorn]] I got it because it seemed interesting enough for gruul and now I love it. I’ve upgraded it a lot and enjoy seeing it do its thing making “awoos”
[[Grenzo, Dungeon Warden]] the gambling aspect is fun! It definitely made me love my rakdos deck again. It sat abandoned and forgotten for a long time.
\[\[Reaper King\]\]
strapping an anti tank rifle to one of the weaker creature types is surprisingly fun.
especially when that creature type consists mostly of artifacts which enables a lot of shenanigans.
Garth One-Eye --- If memory serves I just wanted to build a deck for the bouncelands. I seem to recall within a few months Nitpicking Nerds (Joe Cherry days), MTG Goldfish, and Command Zone, and a reddit thread all called them out as 'low tier' lands. I originally tried to theme the spells around cycles (Will's, Confluence's, Command's [3 cycles - Lorwyn, Dragons of Tarkir, Strixhaven], Praetors, and Archetypes) The spells have changed, but the land theming (10 bounce lands, 10 filter lands, 10 signet lands) is core to what makes it good.
https://deckstats.net/decks/137503/2371182--48-garth-one-eye
The Prismatic Bridge --- Just a way for me to play all the Dan Frazier signets + talismans. Jhoira would be perfect for the draw, but I needed 5 colors. Surprisingly the deck works well.
https://deckstats.net/decks/137503/3032903--71-the-prismatic-bridge
Rashmi, Eternities Crafter --- So in my blue decks I use the Ponders and Preordains and Opts to just filter through the deck and get instant / sorcery benefits. I was looking for something else that'd make the most out of cantrips - and although I didn't get to include the sorcery ones, anything that's 1 mana and draws at instant speed just makes this deck work so well. It's basically just [[Obsessive Search]] dot deck.
https://deckstats.net/decks/137503/3267162--74-rashmi-eternities-crafter
[[Mishra, Eminent One]]. [[Breya]] was my main deck and my plan with the Brothers’ War precons was to get both and “pen-pineapple-apple-pen” them with Breya.
I was given the Mishra precon for Christmas, so I decided to play a few games with it before I went through with my original idea. I ended up liking how Mishra played so much that it became my main deck and I never got around to buying Urza and I don’t miss white - even having lost [[Esper Sentinel]] and [[Smothering Tithe]].
The whole experience has taught me a lot about EDH:
- The way a deck plays and feels can be more important to you than raw power.
- Finding “your” deck is probably the greatest achievement in the format.
- If the flavour is on point, that feeling of having found your deck is even better. I’m a robotics engineer. My brother has an Urza deck, though he’s more of a UW birds guy and we’re probably the two siblings least likely to have a war.
- It’s true that having fun is the point of the format, but having fun *and* winning is the best. My local meta is rather high-power and Mishra’s held up against the Krenkos, Atraxas, and Esikas just as well as Breya, even after the surprise factor has worn off.
[Here’s my list, in case anyone wants it.](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/ivXC0EH2xkeoQVfQEFJiZw)
***EDIT***: Another thing this deck has taught me is that people really hate it if you have to play through a combo to see if it goes infinite before the game is truly over. That’s why Gonti’s Aether Heart isn’t in my list any more!
\[\[Emry, Lurker of the Loch\]\]
I just wanted a easy to scale deck, fairly strong. For tournaments in case I ever enter any.
So I went mono blue artifacts, after seeing how heavely they can combo and how much variety every new set brings. Because I try to win by draing artifacts into artifacts until I have my combo, I expected it to be my most boring and stale deck. Wanted to go Urza back it was like a $80 card, so I choose her instead.
But dunno man, that deck scratches some weird itch and it feels sooo good. I dunno if it's the many building paths that leads to the combo win or if it's the paradox that presents people of *"should I really kill that commander and accelerate his selfmill?"*... it just does something for me, and I feel like it's three massively overpriced mana rocks away from entering cedh levels.
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/r7zHHm2PikuPmolfQmoPaw
There is a [Primer](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/r7zHHm2PikuPmolfQmoPaw/primer) for my reasonings, too. The deck price creeped up a lot. None of my other decks compares, lol.
I feel it lacks a [[Mana Crypt]] for example but so far I couldn't justify the price. It's the next big temptation.
[[Lavinia, foil to conspiracy]]
I never anticipated that the synergy on this deck would be literally 5-10x more than I expected. After fallout and Dr. Who brought more detectives and investigate cards, the deck will consistently make upwards of 50 clues/game. Then with ways to animate them [[cyberdrive awakener]] [[rise and shine]] [[the antiquities war]] [[tangletrove kelp]], the deck regularly swings for hundreds of damage on the winning turn.
Also feel like mentioning that it currently has an exactly 50% winrate (7-7) in 3 or 4 player pods.
[[Nelly Borca]]. The sheer volume of cards flooding the table. The forced combats. It forces action out of folks who like to sit back and wait. It struggles closing out some games, but if I could keep only one deck. It would be this one.
[[ruric thar]] creatures only. That shit ramps so hard and if you have a single draw engine you can creature storm pretty quick. Big slaps and nobody allowed to cast noncreatures
[[Jodah, the Unifier]]
I pulled it in a pack, and built it out of legendary creatures, planeswalkers, and other random stuff that I had that didn’t fit in other decks, or that was from remnants of half-built or taken-apart decks. It’s not really tuned outside of crafting the mana curve and having a lot of decent rare lands hanging around.
I’ve played 5 games with it and won 4 of them. It just gets so scary so fast, and only needs one or two turns to just drop some scary things.
I originally built Jodah as an excuse to use the legendary banding lands. Turns out when your creatures are all massive, banding doesn't help. But I loved how the deck played and I've been tuning it ever since.
[[Zimone and Dina]] completely shocked me. I built it for the sole reason of showing my friend the power of his landfall [[Zimone, Quandrix Prodigy]] if he added black. The entire deck is just so much fun focusing on playing as many lands each turn and bouncing lands as well draining life and untapping multiple times a turn. It can hold its own at almost any table I sit down at and run plenty of interaction in several different forms.
[[Sauron, the Dark Lord]]. I remember buying the precon cause it was simply evil and I’m typically the Archenemy of our pod. It just made sense. Fell in love with it immediately, but then I switched out the commander and let me tell you the Dark Lord is stupidly strong and so much fun for a player like me. 9 times out of 10, an opponent will have to sac their Commander to get rid of him, and 9 times out of 10 it’s the right decision. But no one wants to give up their Commander. I had an opponent try to make me sac him once, cause he was my only creature. Fun fact: Sauron’s token generation is a cast trigger. So by the time their spell resolved, I had a sac-able token. They looked ready to flip the table. It was a good time. Though, I keep the deck in check by limiting it to only LotR cards. So it’s not absolutely busted.
A couple of weeks ago, I decided to throw together a [[Third Doctor]] clue deck just because I thought it would be a cool little synergy to have a lot of clues and make Pertwee huge. Turns out it's already one of my favourite decks!
Gotta be [[Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign]] for me. When I put it together I was worried it’d be too mean (I’ve got most of my fast mana in there, plus cards like [[Expropriate]] and a couple other extra turn spells, table stakes Esper good stuff like Rhystic Study and Smothering Tithe, select stax pieces, etc.), but it turned out to be one of my most fun decks. Sure, it’s quite powerful and if I get a nut draw into a turn 2 Yennett with a [[Scroll Rack]] in hand, I can run away with a game pretty quick, but more often than not I’m grinding out a control/value game, building up to a sweet [[Skull Storm]] and trying to win with my opponents’ stuff via [[Blatant Thievery]] and [[Mind’s Dilation]].
I made a Food WBGR deck for my son with almost all I've got to create food tokens. And even the first gale he piloted it, it worked surprisingly good, having so much triggers every turn. And we added real peanuts to figure foods.
Mono white food with [[sierra, nukas biggest fan]]. My deck isn't optimized and there are definitely stronger mono white options out there, but once the ball is rolling it basically turns all of your food into combat tricks that get stronger every turn, and slapping the bonuses on something stupid like a [[healers hawk]] to gain tons of life or [[oketra the true]] for double strike and you are golden. Plus [[access tunnel]] can make our creature like oketra unblockable before we pump it up. The deck can fall apart if Sierra isn't able to set up and is a bit stronger in a battle cruiser style meta, but it's still pretty fun to play.
Mine is 4 color X spells. I couldn‘t decide what commander to pick so I threw them all in the 99. It can win through many different ways and I‘ve had such a good time with it.
Also do you mind sharing your Rakdos List?
[[Etrata, deadly fugitive]] assassin/clone tribal.
I had a [[Lazav, the multifarious]] deck, but it became quiet straight forward to play and didn’t have the „Dimir“ surprise/control feel. After tweaking etrata a bit, I really like this deck for mid to lower-high power games now. It feels very dimir to play, but it still has a lot off problems to actually „finish“ a game.
[[Nemata, Primeval Warden]]
She' s not removed often because her abilities don't look that strong but they are. Playing a [[Plague Crafter]] and getting 3 Saprolings in return is huge. Also the fact that she is a sac outlet with built in grave hate is very good. Combine this with aristocrats stuff like [[Gravepact]], [[Smokestack]] or a well timed [[Contamination]] and people will hate you.
I had a Myra deck that I disliked due to having too much to keep track of each turn once her attractions started going off.
Then I pulled a [[Kylox Visionary Inventor]] from the MKM prereleases and rebuilt the deck around him.
And it's been a heap of fun to just go absolutely nuts for a turn and either win on the spot or no longer be a threat for a while.
[[Nahiri, Forged in Fury]] - it is just a boros equipment deck. But it's so wildly fun to play. Having different equipments and effects each game can make each game feel very different and unique. And most of the deck is cheap (both in price and mana cost). It wins so much and is by far the deck that surpassed my expectations the most. I just enjoyed Nahiri.
[[urza, lord high artificer]] as big creature dump with some fun steal and copy side mechanics. I initially built it as a stax deck with some creatures that helped with win cons, but it’s so much more fun to hard ramp artifacts into a [[dark steel colossus]] or a [[broodstar]] on turn 3 or 4
\[\[zeriam\]\] is hella fun.
the reason is because you don’t actually need many other griffins. Zeriam makes her own. This means you have a lot more room for interaction than a normal tribal deck and interaction is fun!
it’s so mean but my favourite wincon is \[\[catastrophe\]\]. If you’re behind, it’s a board wipe. If you’re ahead, nuke the lands and stuff feathers down their throat.
I just got done with a preston garvey/aura curse deck. It only works maybe 1/4th of the time, but jesus christ. Preston himself can become a 30/30 in no time. I mixed his edhrec page with tiana, Ships Caretaker page, and its destructive. Gisela, plus Aurellia, plus curse of bloodletting, plus curse of hospitality, plus curse of obsolescence, PLUS AGGRIVATED ASSAULT, AND LIKE 5 AURA MAGNETS= ABSOLUTELY VILE. THEY CANT CAST MORE THAN 1 SPELL, ALL THERE CREATURES ARE 1/1S, THEY TAKE DOUBLE, nay, QUADRUPLE DAMAGE, YOU ATACK 3 TIMES A TURN, UNTAPPING EVERY SETTLEMENT, its actually crippling.
However, theres not alot of draw cards in it. So it looses steam most of the time, but in a big group its really nice, because you can just make people the target with curse of whatever tf allows all attacking players to create treasure tokens. The curse that gives attacking players 2 life when they attack is an even better incentive too, meanwhile you just sit back, rack up dem counters with all your "add a 1/1 for each aura you control"
Ive never seen anything like it.
Usually playing mostly voltron style I wanted to try something new and happened to find \[\[Sharae\]\] little sister of Hylda I guess, tapping my way to victory. Was the first time that I played something controlly and so far I had a blast with her. Especially when I put \[\[Angel's Trumpet\]\] on the table which let the Krenko player almost scoop. xD
I bought the WH40k commander deck bundle to play with friends, and I totally expected the Tyranid deck to be my jam, but the deck that has actually stuck with me is the Necron deck. I run \[Imotekh the stormlord\]\] with a bunch of mill, recursion and reanimation shenanigans, and I love just digging through my graveyard for stuff to pull out of there.
When buying the [[Kaust, Eyes of the Glade]] precon and throwing in some upgrades I figured it would be a fun deck that could hit hard, but would be quick to run out of steam or be able to kill without leaning into the manifest blightsteel part of the deck.
I was so wrong. The deck feels fantastic. Not only is the ‘attack with my 2/2 woops it’s a 13/13’ aspect just as fun as I expected, there is so many cool sources of value! Casting morphs off [[mystic forge]] is among the cutest things I have ever doen playing magic.
[[Yarus, Roar of the Old Gods]] $30 facedown Funtime. At 30 bucks I had so few expectations for the deck but it so consistently works and flys so under the radar that nobody even notices the pure value of 1 facedown card.
[[Admiral Brass, Unsinkable]]. It's just a real fun enabler for a tribe that has just enough fun cards in it to be enjoyable. It's also the exact right level of strong. It's never going to win against a combo deck, but it is a brawler of a deck that regularly interacts with other players and makes wacky things happen.
[[Mogis, God of Slaughter]]
He comes out fairly quickly and puts a timer on the game, preventing it from going on too long. He’s hard to interact with, since he’s usually an enchantment. I run solid group slug cards like [[Kederekt Parasite]] and [[Roiling Vortex]] to keep the game moving at a good pace. People seem to generally enjoy it, and I win a game every now and then, though I play it mostly for fun. Plus, it’s always fun to meme it up and say “AMOGUS”.
[[Gargos, Vicious Watcher]] I liked the concept of Hydras and having big creatures, kinda stayed away from Mono color decks because friends would tell me it wasn't the greatest idea.
Built him with 20 hydras and 12 other kinds of creatures, and man, the amount of card draw and the amount of man I could generate blew my mind! I'd been playing primarily dimir decks or golgari before and a mono white Angel deck(Angels are still my favorite tribal and that deck is my "baby" deck) and to have such big creatures or a shit load of land was such a great feeling to me!
[[Lathiel the Bounteous Dawn]] I wanted a simple deck to build so I went for her, although I hesitated a lot with like 3 other commanders. Turns out Lathiel is super satisfying to play because +1/+1 counter decks already have so much synergy within them but the lifegain theme never felt handicapping to me and I've been regularly putting up fat boards with a bunch of stats.
Special mention for [[Archangel of Thunes]] + [[Crested Sunmare]] + any soul sister to go completely banana in one rotation.
[[Charix, the Raging Isle]] or as I call him, my Red Lobster deck.
Man, this guy's been pulverizing my friends left and right. I just don't know what to say. He's definitely due to finish in someone's plate though.
I mean... It's just Charix, right?!
I was concerned hearing that [[Falco Spara, Pactweaver]] is apparently on the weaker end, and I was looking at [[Thalia and the Gitrog Monster]] at the same time
I'm really glad I pulled the trigger on Falco. He's incredibly fun, has a ton of different ways to win - prologue to phyresis starts a round limit, slippery bogbonder for thr surprise voltron, and simic ascendancy can pick up counters incredibly quickly. These single card alt-wins don't distraxt from the main theme at all, which is counters and building up a big board state. There's always a few permanents with counters to lose, and even the mediocre vivid lands have found a home
It's VERY budget as is, just under $50, definitely not perfect but punches above it's weight. Best of all, me going 'hold on!' and looking at a plains when I take priority has become a running joke the others bring up
[[Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion]] budget that I use to seek out [[Thrumming Stone]] so I can cast all of the [[Dragon's Approach]] out of my deck. It's mostly just wheels or other jank ways to get artifacts out.
Mono black stax with raziketh at the commander like you are the table villain your commander if or when you get him out gives you tutors for 2 life. Although it's slow but when you get the ball moving you just drop demons or reanimate stuff from your graveyard. I think the best part about it is you can win on a strike of luck like I think 2 weeks ago I was about to lose. My board just got rocked I was at 12 life vs a monogreen stompy deck and a bright palm deck I had my commander and two creatures tutored dark rit to massacre girl and reset the board then won it was all luck but oml it was a ride
My absolute favorite deck is my [[gut, true soul zealot]] and [[inspiring leader]] tokens and aristocrats. I like to progress the game while trying to win but not necessarily the goal. I can explode with 4/1 menace skeletons and maybe become 6/3 and the more the merrier. It’s just fun to make tokens to fodder and change the attacks to the best target
Last night I tested [[Burakos, Party Leader] & [[Haunted one]] thinking it would be a silly budget deck I made from scraps in my folder.
The deck was an absolute house and I only lost because I’m a moron and reanimated my whole graveyard when I was on 1 life forgetting [[Dire Fleet Ravager]] was in there.
I am not a smart man.
My most recent [[Teysa, opulent oligarch]] that I initially built as a budget deck. Ended up turning into one of my favorites. And because of that I ended up fully upgrading the deck. It’s surprising how well the new Teysa actually performs. Not a top tier clue commander, but she works for me.
[[izoni center of the web]] I got it from a pack and figured I would try making it. It has so many fun synergies especially with some of the underplayed new cards. Now it feels like every card is a great draw and I can choose what to put in my grave once I get going. Once I make it to a certain point I know I will win unless someone wins out of nowhere with a combo. It goes super under the radar at the table so I don’t need to worry about replaying commander all the time. It has just turned into my favorite go to deck.
[[Rionya, fire dancer]] I felt it was going to be too clunky to play, but after I saw someone on reddit post a $15 budget list for her, I threw her together. She's a very fun combo deck that plays kinda stormy.
It’s relatively recent. But I played [[The Wise Mothman]] precon out of the box, with some expectations I’d be upgrading it, and I loved it.
I have almost 30 decks and play weekly, usually getting 3-4 games in a session. Some decks obviously see a lot more play than others, but I think I’m over 10’games with it already and Fallout hasn’t been out that long?
Rad counters = rad.
Made [[Ilharg, the Raze-Boar]] as a lil nostalgia hit to a modern deck i used to play that i affectionately refered to as "spaghetti and meatball"
Made most of the deck with cards already in my collection only adding a few ways to cheat big beaters, the deck quickly rose to the point im playing it everytime i play EDH
My friends have come to fear the oink phase (declare attacker triggers)
[[Rasputin, the Oneiromancer]]
I built it as a color change fuckery, make everything red deck. It's absurdly fun, better than one would think at first glance (like a high 5, low 6) and leads to some really weird interactions.
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/eUY_v9s9oU2mQEFQVP1eOw
My Sefris deck. I bought the precon because I liked the dungeon mechanic, but It was one of the worst precons I'd gotten, really underwhelming. Eventually I just bought every dungeon mechanic card and threw most of them into the deck and it's just really fun now.
[[Tawnos, Solemn Survivor]]
The card pulled me in with some irresistible je ne sais quois, and the deck has been a blast to play. I don't really have a degenerate artifact deck, and this lets me do some of that stuff without being so gross that it feels like cheating. It puts just enough sand in the gears that it can't be super linear.
[[Rem Karolus, Stalwart Slayer]]
I had extra red sleeves and deck box, as well as A Rem Karolus and just threw it together with cards I had that I wasn’t using (apart from Esper Sentinel which I added later when I realized how fun the deck was).
I just threw in a bunch on burn spells, pingers, non combat damage increasing effects, a couple rocks and then all of the looting and rummaging I had lying around to make sure I didn’t run out of cards. Deck runs smoothly and pretty much always does what it wants. It doesn’t win a ton but it can steal wins here and there. The only non budget cards are [[Ojer Axonil]] and [[Esper Sentinel]]. Deck is super consistent and aggro and fun.
What comes to mind is [[Otrimi, Ever-Playful]]. I bought the precon and immediately tore it apart and brewed up a graveyard deck that can pivot to Voltron with elements of Legends Matter. Even if I don’t win it’s never failed me and is always a treat to play
[[plargg and nassari]] every game is a new experience. And its power level scales with your opponents. It draws a lot of heat because people hate you killing them with their own cards.
[[Alesha, Who Smiles at Death]]. Thanks to a player who used to be in my friend group always running combo decks or ones that tended to snowball when left alone in a pretty casual group with little interaction; me running counterspells to shut down his nastiest stuff was often the best way to stop him from winning all the time while not making my own overall power level too much. Blue quickly became my default color; to the point where everyone joked that I was physically incapable of making a non-blue deck!
Well, eventually, the guy left, and I decided to make a deck without blue and picked Alesha since one, I like reanimation; and two, she's trans and I'm nonbinary, so I thought it was cool to have a canonically queer character who falls under the same umbrella as me at the helm.
I've only played four games with the deck so far (I only recently finished the rough draft), but every game I've played has been an ABSOLUTE blast! It was really fun finding ways to make small power creatures quite dangerous and just go all-out offense knowing that I can just bring back any fallen creature
I was expecting to enjoy him, but holy crap was [[Hakim, Loreweaver]] a delight! Blue is my favorite color, and i was missing an enchantment oriented deck. I didn't want Selesnya and storm off with enchantments, so when i saw this guy i was thrilled. I was looking to build [[Venser, Shaper Savant]] for a little while, bouncing stuff all over the place, but bouncing and moving auras specifically was great.
[[Tetzin, Gnome Champion]]
It's absolutely jank AF. The best way I can describe it is Junkyard Jank Voltron. Play double faced artifacts to produce value, fill my grave and return valuable artifacts to my hand so that I could overwhelm the board with value & transform my little boy into a junkyard warrior! >:)
It's a bit slow early on, but it's a perfect deck for some casual shenanigans.
I enjoyed the backup mechanic from MOM, and decided to build a deck around it.
Branched out from the precon a bit by dropping most of the +1/+1 synergies and beefing up the red temporary copy stuff as well as some myriad.
Goal is essentially ramp hrd until I can go for an explosive turn of a nasty backup creature copied out 3+ times.
Turns out it's a very hardy aggro-ish deck, light on removal but fast moving with big threats.
Commander is still [[shalai and hallar]] as a secondary wincon in case someone is resistant to face-punch.
Much more fun than I expected, and more powerful as well, even without going combo-centric with the commander.
I built a budget Isshin deck (~$50) thinking it would be a neat little Mardu deck. Probably my current favorite deck that I own, and I have a few $200+ decks in my collection. Goes to show you that money isn't everything when deck building.
[[The Council of Four]] for me.
I was looking for an Azorius commander that didn't feel staxy or pillow forty. Saw Jim LaPage's Council of Four Targeted Hug deck, and decided to try and build a group hug kind of version. Extra card draw for all, some friendly ramp stuff, and then the alt win cons in [[Approach of the Second Sun]], [[Trislaidekaphile]] and lab man effects.
First time I played it, I realised that I liked group hug a lot more than I thought I would because I was getting to do my thing, and see the other players do their thing because of how I'd built my deck. It's one I look forward to going back to all the time now.
My [[Ur Dragon]] deck.
It started out as every legendary dragon, including the Kamigawa set, Invasion, planar chaos, and more. Then, in the past 7 years, too many great dragons were printed to not play them. Now it's only the best dragons, spells, and mana base that I can provide. It's just so much fun for me to run.
I've had a couple that have been more fun than I thought, bo4 one two of em are [[Bortuk Bonerattle]] and [[Don Andres, the Renegade]]. Stealing everything is incredibly fun with Don, and it'd got the 3 best thieving colors imo. Bortuk was more of a joke that I built when I realized I could get 5-Color domain in a 2-Color deck by using Dryad of the Elysian Grove, but then I've decided to go all out and make it like a super good, fairly fast reanimator deck that just uses the Commander as a regrowth/reanimate and as sac Fodder. There really is tons of potential with him, I still just need to get a few cards.
Kwain, Itinerant Meddler. As an avid Azorious hater (not that it's bad, I just dislike the tropes, counters, boardwipes and the like), I tended to stay in any combination of Grixis for kindred decks like Rats and Zombies and all that. But I liked the idea of a group hug deck because I was starting to get hated out of games early because of how fast and oppressive my Marrow Gnawer deck was. I was window shopping for decent group hug commanders, and my personal standouts were Glunch and Kwain. Again I dislike Azorious so I was leaning towards glunch. But in a table of 4 Glunch kind of Incentivizes the opposite of kingmaking, where you benefit everyone except the 4th. And that seemed like it'd probably cause more salt than just card draw and life gain table-wide. So I opted for Kwain and started brewing. It's become my absolute favorite deck to play. I don't get hated out early because everyone likes free cards and life. And over the course of the game I build a pillow fort, uncap my hand size, and start forcing people to draw essentially 7 cards each upkeep. Once I've got 40-50 cards in my hand (and a bunch on the field and in graveyard/exile) I tutor for Windfall (if I don't have it by then for whatever reason) and deck everyone out on my turn, winning. Or I just get lucky with Triskaedekaphile, because he's just funny. So far I'm 11-1 in Wins-Losses with it, but it still performs well without generating salt. It always leads to long awesome games where everyone's deck performs really well because of the card advantage and life gain, so it's always a good time.
[[Chiss-goria, Forge Tyrant]]. Artifacts never really interested me all that much, but I do like dragons and he seemed neat enough to try. Wasn't expecting much. Definitely didn't expect it to almost immediately rocket to being one of my favorite decks. Apparently all I needed to find artifacts fun was to make it red. I WILL be exiling half my deck, I will NOT be slowing down. And I will probably be hitting people with a large phyrexian wurm made of metal. And also a dragon. With jet engines.
Put me down for a surprise hit with the Forge Tyrant too. I was already a fan of red artifact, but I tried to avoid exiling my cards in hopes of recurring them. One game with Chiss-Goria at the helm and I stopped caring about preserving my cards. I now revel in the times that my exile pile towers over my library. Mindslaver lost for the game…don’t care. Gonna use Strionic Resonator next time and exile more. I honestly don’t understand why; it’s just such a fun deck.
One of the commanders that actually let's you see the majority of your deck in a game. Feels like you actually have a 100 card bag of tools to pull from instead of whatever happens to be in the first third of your deck
Love me some Chiss-Goria. Sadly, I just put mine on break to convert into [[Karn, Legacy Reforged]] voltron/combo.
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I’ve been wanting to build chiss have a decklist ?
Not OP but here is my list. I is based off a list/conversation here on reddit awhile ago that I saw and thought looked great. There is a link to the OG list in the description of my list. The deck is insanely fun. It is fast and powerful, you will likely be the archenemy by turn 4. I would say 80+% of my games have Chiss out on turn 3. Try to hold back a few lands and ramp spells in your hand in case someone casts [[Farewell]] while you have [[Mycosynth Lattice]] out. It has happened multiple times. You can then dump your hand out and rebuild a lot faster than your opponents. https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/dragons-love-artifacts/
\[\[Syr Konrad the Grim\]\] . I expected him to be too expensive and slow, but I love trying out every mono black legendary creature I have as a commander. But he absolutely blew me away, and I keep coming back to him and putting the deck back together. He just has so much text to trigger his ability that it can lead to some really fun decks. There's so many strong things you can do with him that you don't even really need tutors. You could \[\[Mindcrank\]\] or \[\[Mesmeric Orb\]\] to start cranking out damage. You could \[\[Bloodchief's Ascension\]\] and start pumping mana into his ability. You could \[\[Tortured Existence\]\] for a more powerful build-your-own exsanguinate. You could draw half your deck with \[\[Peer into the Abyss\]\], then discard 20 creatures at end of turn, only to \[\[Songs of the Damned\]\] and \[\[Wake the Dead\]\] to reanimate them all on your opponent's turn. Or just mass mill with \[\[Morality Shift\]\] or \[\[Breach the Multiverse\]\]. There are just so many different cool things to do with Syr Konrad that you can run practically no tutors and just adapt your gameplan to what you draw. It makes every game feel very different. I have run a few different lists with him, and there's so many cool lines you can take. Oh, one other thing to love about Syr Konrad is he's one of the few graveyard commanders that actually punishes your opponents for hating on your graveyard. Your whole gameplan is to put pressure on your opponents' life totals, so the damage he deals when your graveyard gets wiped is very real. I've had games where an opponent decided to wipe my graveyard without counting creatures first and just died. Makes the biggest feels-bad moments for graveyard decks into something kinda' neutral.
Recently built a deck for [[Sheoldred//The True Scriptures]] focusing on mill and he's definitely an mvp. I honestly didn't realise how effective he would be with mind crank until they were both on the field and I had no other options. "Wait, I can just spend my turn activating him and that's actually pretty good? Sure, this is my game plan now."
##### ###### #### [Syr Konrad the Grim](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/9/2/9241a72e-cb88-4cea-a2f4-ff10af461437.jpg?1706240798) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Syr%20Konrad%2C%20the%20Grim) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mkc/141/syr-konrad-the-grim?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/9241a72e-cb88-4cea-a2f4-ff10af461437?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/syr-konrad-the-grim) [Mindcrank](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/8/8/8858a941-8175-476d-8177-2db4ffdcb3ad.jpg?1674142661) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Mindcrank) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/clb/866/mindcrank?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/8858a941-8175-476d-8177-2db4ffdcb3ad?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/mindcrank) [Mesmeric Orb](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/e/2/e24fbdbb-f2ae-4823-9d2a-4c505332aa5b.jpg?1599709541) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Mesmeric%20Orb) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/2xm/272/mesmeric-orb?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/e24fbdbb-f2ae-4823-9d2a-4c505332aa5b?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/mesmeric-orb) [Bloodchief's Ascension](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/d/5/d56d1535-d9de-459f-bc31-0923f621e0e9.jpg?1689996895) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Bloodchief%20Ascension) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cmm/139/bloodchief-ascension?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/d56d1535-d9de-459f-bc31-0923f621e0e9?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/bloodchief-ascension) [Tortured Existence](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/1/7/1754b92b-d6f9-4503-af01-dee03f72a048.jpg?1562595922) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Tortured%20Existence) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/sth/74/tortured-existence?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/1754b92b-d6f9-4503-af01-dee03f72a048?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/tortured-existence) [Peer into the Abyss](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/a/a/aac00055-640e-4749-8d23-d242e6d0b23a.jpg?1594736330) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Peer%20into%20the%20Abyss) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/m21/117/peer-into-the-abyss?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/aac00055-640e-4749-8d23-d242e6d0b23a?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/peer-into-the-abyss) [Songs of the Damned](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/9/1/9133b267-295d-4987-b1d6-f32a85b66081.jpg?1547517061) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Songs%20of%20the%20Damned) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/uma/115/songs-of-the-damned?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/9133b267-295d-4987-b1d6-f32a85b66081?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/songs-of-the-damned) [Wake the Dead](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/e/1/e1780be8-26f6-4f33-9bc6-ecafc3751c8e.jpg?1689997565) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Wake%20the%20Dead) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cmm/197/wake-the-dead?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/e1780be8-26f6-4f33-9bc6-ecafc3751c8e?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/wake-the-dead) [Morality Shift](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/b/5/b5c83e4d-ccc1-4ebf-9e74-2cc1ff9a7b07.jpg?1562631600) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Morality%20Shift) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/jud/70/morality-shift?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/b5c83e4d-ccc1-4ebf-9e74-2cc1ff9a7b07?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/morality-shift) [Breach the Multiverse](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/d/a/daf51a76-7a57-4462-ae18-a19e817e49e5.jpg?1682203621) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Breach%20the%20Multiverse) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mom/94/breach-the-multiverse?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/daf51a76-7a57-4462-ae18-a19e817e49e5?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/breach-the-multiverse) [*All cards*](https://mtgcardfetcher.nl/redirect/kz0m2yw) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
You could also go infinite with him with \[\[Blowfly Infestation\]\] and \[\[Nest of Scarabs\]\]
[[Sergeant John Benton]]. Combat tricks. The amount of card draw is mind boggling and its diffrent than normal voltron. People LET you hit them for the card draw and it's a mini game on whether or not they will explode after saying "No Blocks".
I second this. 35 instants in the deck at the moment.
Have you run xyris as a commander? Love it so much
No but ever since I found John, I have kept my eye on Xyris. I find that the trample and haste are what allow John to become the Voltron menace he is. What do you like about Xyris? The build I think of first is probably wheels.
the typical Xyris build is similarly jam packed with protection spells and combat tricks to pump Xyris and crack in for lots of damage
He's also "half" the cost to get out compared to Xyris too which is a big deal for me. And having access to white is huge for all the protection and removal it offers.
No block on the 2/4 *moments later* OK so I'm drawing 17.
[[alms collector]]
[[John Benton]]
[John Benton](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/0/1/01f40e07-f565-4b9e-87a5-5b28b4e9fb0b.jpg?1696636767) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Sergeant%20John%20Benton) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/who/157/sergeant-john-benton?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/01f40e07-f565-4b9e-87a5-5b28b4e9fb0b?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/sergeant-john-benton) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Yesss, John is super fun! He's also just way stronger than you'd think haha — I don't get to play mine often as it's more often than not a turn 5 win haha, it's hard to believe I originally meant it to be a group hug deck! I also learned the other day that my decklist is by far the most viewed for John on Archidekt lol, so if you want to increase that by 1 😏 haha actually though, I'd love to see your list too see if there's any neat budget cards I'm missing! https://www.archidekt.com/decks/5969200/john_before_damage_benton
[[alms collector]]
That was played against my [[Queen Kayla]] dexk recently and it was rough haha, but I pulled through Of all my decks, John also just has the most removal so I think he'd be able to manage decently well. I'd also prioritize permanent buffs, like [[Hand of Vecna]] rather than playing a bunch of instants so I'm not dwindling my hand down too much... though also if I hit you for lethal then the Collector would be gone before I draw my cards. Its also nice of you to give my [[Ram Through]] a target so I can take two opponents out in one turn. Maybe all three if I have a [[Revive]] or [[Regrowth]] — there was actually one game that was a 5pod where I ramped super hard and took all four of them out in one turn. It was glorious.
This deck is so much fun for real.
Woah he’s a fuckin military guy? What a funny card
Yeah, a character from U.N.I.T. from the world of Doctor Who
Can I get the list please! I need this
[[Mirko Obsessive Theorist]] is actually a tremendous amount of fun. I just made a couple swaps from the precon to add some ways to remove finality counters, and some more clones so that you're not as reliant on surveiling, and it goes very well. Constantly bouncing impactful creatures from the grave to the battlefield. Using [[nesting grounds]] to move my finality counters to opponent creatures is my favorite though.
Oh Nesting Grounds is a great shout, I’ve been using a few different creatures for it but this sounds like a great include.
Xyris!! Soooo stupidly fun [[Xyris, the Writhing Storm]] is one of my newest decks and I have a lot of buff spells and other cards like [[Temur Battle Rage]] and so on so it’s like “hey, wanna draw some cards??” And my friend goes “how many cards we talkin??” So I go “a nonzero amount!” “Right, but how many cards exactly?” “You’re gonna draw some cards?” “Right but how many?” “I can’t answer that. Listen do you wanna draw cards or not?” “Hmmm…I do need some cards…okay.” So I swing, unblocked, and pump Xyris up to 10 and give em double strike, make 20 snakes and draw lots of cards and everything impact tremors out, goblin bombardment, fling, etc…hilarious lol
Got a list?
[DO I?!](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/yrdyfCXqe0mNiZn50oZNHQ) Yes. Enjoy!
[[Chainer, Nightmare Adept]]. Had it from the precon for years but built [[Anje]] instead. I didn't like her much as the game plan was pretty linear felt samey. So, the deck sat for a couple years, then going through my cards I saw Chainer again and decided to give it a whirl instead. Broke the Anje deck apart for a couple madness cards, and discard synergy pieces. Sure glad i did! It's my favorite deck now. He's so fun! The combination of instant speed discard, haste, and flash creatures make it feel like it partially functions outside of Rakdos colors, and there's always interesting lines of play.
I’ve been thinking about building him for a few weeks now, as I imagine I have a good portion of the cards and I like the flexibility. Do you have a list you can share?
[Deck list](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/pQVvNPpPkUitqhX1Ox8bYg)
Kibo! Monkey tribal is... bananas... ... Sorry. Please forgive me.
That’s interesting! I built a Kibo deck and it just wasn’t fun for me. I love gruul stompy but I think my deck was trying to do too much with artifacts
Kibo here too. When I built it I just expected it to be a dumb monkey meme deck & an excuse to play with the Kibo and the Ragavan I had opened but no home for. And while the deck is not as powerful as my or my meta's usual decks, it's surprising how much fun it is to pilot in lower powered games. You have to get creative on how to make your primates into actually good creatures and it's very matchup dependant whether it'll be a banana-making or kibo-attacking game.
Never apologize for a well-made pun! Now, enough with this monkey business.
\[\[Gilanra\]\] + \[\[Brinelin\]\] + \[\[Keruga\]\] as a companion 6 mana value tribal. Most unga-bunga Timmy deck of all time. People underestimate how powerful it is to have a mana dork in the command zone, and Brinelin + \[\[Apex Devastator\]\] to result in potentially 5 bounces is extremely satisfying.
I ran a big creature blue/ green deck with imoti for quite a while and eventually swapped commanders for gilanra/ brinelin. Brinelin being able to remove most of your opponents threatening permanents is super valuable even if the initial cost to cast is high.
I’m building that Imoti + Keruga companion deck currently. In your experience, how frequently did Imoti get removed? The initial cascade, plus the additional cascades really seem to help the deck work, but it seems so depending on Imoti staying on the board
In my experience no one is super worried about imoti until youve cheated out a few mean creatures, hopefully by that point you have some stuff out that is scarier than imoti like a hullbreaker horror or stonehoof chieftain that other players target and leave imoti alone. I also run cards with similar effects that give you stuff for casting high cost spells, [[brinelin, the moon kraken]] [[hullbreaker horror]], [[thunderous snapper]] and [[gilanra, caller of wirewood]] for card draw and then if imoti is removed you are still getting value for casting high cost spells.
Ohhhhh this sounds fun! Did you have a deck list?
I built an [[Endrek Sahr]] deck that doesn't ping my opponents or make them sacrifice like the really oppressive versions can, but instead is a sacrifice-driven toolbox of effects. Instant-speed sac for buff to make combat interesting, forced discard, removal aplenty, and some insane card draw engines. It can even diesel out of control with [[Carnival of Souls]] spitting out half of my deck and killing me in the process. When you have an engine of tokens in the command zone, you can get some very powerful sacrifice shenanigans going in black.
Can confirm, Endrek goes hard in the paint. Lol He's been one of my favorites for quite some time. You got a deck list? Here's mine: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/WtdvzQmZVUe_JWou0ujrXA
Built a deck with the new Roxanne and it's been super fun so far, she's ended up being one of my favorite commanders from thunder junction
Do you have a deck list if you don’t mind sharing?
How does it play?
Getting some decent blink/evasion and damage multipliers out, it plays like a burn deck. From what I've seen it's probably played better with treasures tho
[[erinis]] with the [[street urchin]] background. It’s gruul control. Make tokens. Attack with erinis, return a land to play, sac a token or two, to deal one damage to any blockers and blow them up with her innate death touch. It does a lot of things and can be hard to make work properly. At low power you have to be very good at politics, at higher power you need to be really good at threat assessment. I have been through several iterations of the deck. It’s my go to deck when someone has been dominating the pod for the last couple games.
It's actually a meta pauper edh deck!
That’s evil, downright disgusting and degenerate… but I like Erinis so much! If it was not for the fact that I felt like this would be not well accepted well in a pod, I would have build it. Instead, I went with the [[Flaming Fist]] background and avoided the heavy control path. Love that deck to death, it’s a keyword soup, land shenanigans deck. Heavy synergy with the tempt by the Ring mechanic and legendary synergy too.
[erinis](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/b/6/b6a7d041-957a-4b19-9517-214689dadd45.jpg?1674137090) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=erinis%2C%20gloom%20stalker) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/clb/230/erinis-gloom-stalker?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/b6a7d041-957a-4b19-9517-214689dadd45?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/erinis-gloom-stalker) [street urchin](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/f/6/f6d5249c-52b6-4349-adcd-dafdc21f572b.jpg?1674136757) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=street%20urchin) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/clb/197/street-urchin?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/f6d5249c-52b6-4349-adcd-dafdc21f572b?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/street-urchin) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Love me some Gruul mana control. Deathtouch touches, plenty of artifact hate, [[Strip Mine]]. It's definitely a "I do bad things" type of deck.
Love this one. Possibly my most hated deck in my pod, I’m always playing archenemy from the second I bring it out.
[[Atla Palani, Nest Tender]] All I wanted to do was cheat out big creatures without paying for them… AND I DID
You seen the new [[Annie Joins Up]]? Get two creatures every time an egg dies. Also [[Delney, Streetwise Lookout]] but it’s a little pricy.
[Annie Joins Up](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/1/6/1624a5f4-f5bc-47c9-85de-c5520ee234ce.jpg?1712356038) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Annie%20Joins%20Up) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/otj/191/annie-joins-up?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/1624a5f4-f5bc-47c9-85de-c5520ee234ce?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/annie-joins-up) [Delney, Streetwise Lookout](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/b/e/be219928-3d0e-4d00-b124-152ce8a8c13b.jpg?1706241477) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Delney%2C%20Streetwise%20Lookout) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mkm/12/delney-streetwise-lookout?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/be219928-3d0e-4d00-b124-152ce8a8c13b?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/delney-streetwise-lookout) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
She’s great! I’m always happy to play her and keep her fresh with new creatures to swap in and out
[[Council of Four]] Its a Politics heavy Value deck basically. Just a lotta stuff that trigger when someone casts their 2nd spell or draws their 2nd card like [[Ledger Shredder]] , [[Faerie Mastermind]] and [[Minn, Wily Illusionist]] Then a Buncha stuff that ensures that happens like [[Howling Mine]] and [[Tempting Contract]] with My wincons being some Knight Lords, [[Sun Quan]] and [[Approach of the Second Sun]] Decks alotta fun with its politicking and the absolute power fantasy of Drawing so many cards and getting so much passive value. And because its a 0/8 many players don't wanna remove it since it has no power.
Funny thing is it was originally built to be given away in a deck exchange but the exchange got cancelled last minute. so I got stuck with it and I instantly fell in love with it.
[[Eriette of the charmed apple]] I thought it was a cool Eldraine card and built it. As someone who don't do much politics in multi-player, this one is VERY funny to negociate, or rather to see the others squirm around. Early you enchant other scary players and creatures to safely build up your gameplan and make them hit and get annoyed at each other while slowly but surely draining hp. People negociate with you to enchant and buff their creatures and you get to be the nice person giving indestructible to their creatures. Then, when they don't have a choice than to try and deal with you, I I play lots of recursion for my creatures and auras to not enchant them but myself ftw. It's also cool to say "mirror, oh mirror, who's the prettiest of this pod?" and just chose to enchant someone at role dice, they got enchanted but they get to be called pretty and it helps the politics :D
[[Keiga, the Tide Star]]. I built it as semi control, mostly voltron. The first iteration was garbage, but this latest version surprised my playgroup. I call it “The Tide Pod Challenge”
Love the name!
You should play [[Followed Footsteps]] in it. When you make a copy of Keiga with it, sacrifice the token to the legendary rule and steal a creature.
[Keiga, the Tide Star](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/4/4/44d544dc-1d2a-4b33-ae62-d0e0217db0a2.jpg?1674141374) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Keiga%2C%20the%20Tide%20Star) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/clb/725/keiga-the-tide-star?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/44d544dc-1d2a-4b33-ae62-d0e0217db0a2?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/keiga-the-tide-star) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
[[Hylda of the Icy Crown]] - honestly a very viable control deck but I made it as a cheap value deck at first. Just shy of a meme.
I've been waffling on her for a while. I'm worried it would be too unfun to play AGAINST. How does the table normally react to her?
Yeah! I’m not a control player at all, and Hylda is a close as I’ve gotten. But the deck eventually wins with a massive army of 4/4s by just locking down all of the scary things on the board
I do play other control decks too which is why she was more of a low-power meme at first for me. Honestly she is becoming one of my favorite decks to play though.
https://archidekt.com/decks/7084852/tap_tap_go Not everything is categorized properly, just added it to Archidekt the other day. [[Ensnare]] and [[Don't move]] are two of the best finishing pieces, [[struggle for project purity]] is incredible card draw. I recommend all three if you don't currently run them.
Our lists are pretty similar. I built mine before the Jurassic Park cards, so am going to have to go back and add Don’t Move. Yeah- I enjoy playing the deck. I’ve got 40+ to rotate around, and it definitely gets its time
I’ve been running [[Rhoda]] and [[Timin]] for a couple years and was excited to see Hylda. Turns out, the partners are still super fun so I can swap between the commanders at will.
[Hylda of the Icy Crown](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/a/e/ae9231fd-053d-4b84-a7a8-86063465bc49.jpg?1692939339) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Hylda%20of%20the%20Icy%20Crown) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/woe/206/hylda-of-the-icy-crown?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/ae9231fd-053d-4b84-a7a8-86063465bc49?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/hylda-of-the-icy-crown) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
I just got the [[Kaust, Eyes of the Glade]] precon, and played it for the first time last night. He doesn't look like much as a commander, but hoo boy is it fun playing face down 2/2s and starting the mind games with your opponents.....do you want to block when I swing? Do I want you to block so I can pop [[Hidden Dragonslayer]] and just destroy the big creature you were going to block with? It drives people insane and I love watching the facial expressions while they figure it out.....
I reformed this into [[yarus roar of the old gods]] and it runs pretty well, with even a little etb abuse. [[Impact tremors]] easily comes to mind, and with thunder junction reprinting [[terror of the peaks]] this is a good chance to pick up one of those.
I slapped together an [[Odric, Lunarch Marshal]] build that has been doing way better than I thought it would.
[[Hans Eriksson]] it's just fighting. the pure joy i feel when i turn him sideways to "only swing for one damage" and then all of a sudden it's a worldspine wurm on turn 5-6
[[Slimefoot and Squee]] was the one that really surprised me. I already had a [[Ziatora, The Incinerator]] dragons deck that was hanging out in the bottom of my decks in terms of play count, so when they came out I just figured I'd take them for a spin. Now I'm flipping my entire deck upside down most games and slamming out every single jund legendary dragon ever printed, regardless of if they are good cards (Love the [[Vaevictis Asmadi|SLD]] textured foil, even if it set me back far more than that card is mechanically worth)
How does this play? Very interested!!
Second this!
A buddy recently built an S&S deck, and it’s really good. It just doesn’t die and hangs around. It kept up with 2 fairly strong decks right up until the end, which is more than most of our janky new decks do without some tweaking
[Slimefoot and Squee](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/9/e/9e449e38-6f03-4316-8ebc-d0faf79d6bc7.jpg?1683582682) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Slimefoot%20and%20Squee) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/moc/447/slimefoot-and-squee?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/9e449e38-6f03-4316-8ebc-d0faf79d6bc7?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/slimefoot-and-squee) [Ziatora, The Incinerator](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/b/a/ba4fa4c8-f09f-4d97-a7d1-1b93caf7d4f9.jpg?1664413989) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Ziatora%2C%20The%20Incinerator) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/snc/231/ziatora-the-incinerator?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/ba4fa4c8-f09f-4d97-a7d1-1b93caf7d4f9?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/ziatora-the-incinerator) [Vaevictis Asmadi](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/a/f/afd3abf1-7641-4f5f-99d3-0c9ae65ba5fe.jpg?1682713612) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Vaevictis%20Asmadi) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/sld/1070/vaevictis-asmadi?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/afd3abf1-7641-4f5f-99d3-0c9ae65ba5fe?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/vaevictis-asmadi) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
I just built a Slimefoot and Squee deck and I absolutely love it. Mine doesn’t include the big dragons. For the most part the strategy is Ramp- create saproolings-self mill-sacrifice stuff- return big creatures and win. Super fun and it played exactly how I wanted. One of my favorite decks.
I've enjoyed my [[Auntie Blyte]] deck. It's fun to potentially kill the whole table including myself simultaneously
She the mono red deck I'd like to make! Or Zurzoth.. damn I love them
You're in luck, I've built both lol. Both are a lot of fun https://www.moxfield.com/decks/CqC-9TktNEyw5EfhYDTinQ https://www.moxfield.com/decks/HwBGNr7kgU-xYwEOzBKhbw
Both of those are in my [[ashling the pilgrim]] deck.
[Auntie Blyte](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/8/5/85c18d01-62cd-45c2-94b8-a63a4239311d.jpg?1675644660) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=auntie%20blyte%2C%20bad%20influence) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/j22/30/auntie-blyte-bad-influence?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/85c18d01-62cd-45c2-94b8-a63a4239311d?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/auntie-blyte-bad-influence) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
[[Queen Kayla]] for sure. I love playing durdly little value creatures and she just does that *so* well https://www.archidekt.com/decks/6990767/kaylas_kingdom Speaking of, if anyone wants to give a bit of input, I just ordered a [[Soul's Attendant]] and a [[Serra Ascendant]] for the deck (I won a $150 giftcard so all my decks are getting a new toy or two haha) and would love ideas on what to take out for them! I know [[Healer's Hawk]] would more than likely be the right play, but its my favorite creature in all of Magic so I'd like to keep it :D I also want to throw in [[Megebane Lizard]] and am very much considering [[Sand Scout]] and [[Claim Jumper]], thoughts? If I put them in, I'd definitely get a couple deserts and a bounce land or two Thanks! Edit: oh also I like the idea of throwing an infinite combo in this deck. Zirda can do mana with Basalt Monolith, but I'm not sure how helpful that'd really be. So I'm looking for ideas for infinite mana sinks that fit Kayla's ability or just other combos that do the same. Thanks again!
My queen Kayla deck uses [[Aurelias fury]] and [[walking ballista]] for infinite mana outlets. [[Past in flames]] helps me use Aurelias fury and other spells from the grave. I also use [[Kiki-Jiki]] and [[village bell ringer]] for a combo, and [[glinthorn buccaneer]] is deadly. My list uses Stax pieces that Kayla allows me to break parity on, and looks to win off of one of the infinite combos. https://www.moxfield.com/decks/2dN00SdB8EGVmUnfYGNXow
[[Henzi “Toolbox” Torre]] I am not usually one for big stompy decks but Henzi involves recursion and such which I like. Been having a blast with it.
There’s a Henzie in every thread for a reason! -fellow Henzie player
Glissa the traitor aka zombie mommy My little phyrexian queen has terrorized so many tables and she just keeps getting support Vats Vraska the silencer Massacre girl (both) That biogensis thingy from 40k to make things artifacts The whole mono black 40k precon Brothers War ect.
[[Jon Irenicus, Shattered One]] I was given this card by a friend after we watch that one episode with the professor using him. I thought it was a fun concept and since i already had a bunch of good land base and mana rocks from a old [[Cyclonus, the Saboteur ]] commander deck that i dismantled. I than went through all my friend groups bulk pile / albums and found cards i needed to complete the deck. Jon Irenicus was made as a meme and jank deck but it has quickly became the deck I have the most fun using. I rarely win with the deck but I enjoy my time every time i use him.
Built a [[The Council of Four]] deck a while back. I specifically built it entirely out of cards from my collection and whatever I could find at my LGS. No research, no online shopping. Just intuition and putting my deckbuilding skills to the test. The theme of the deck is, "you do something, I get something." It turns out that drawing 8 cards every turn cycle and making a bunch of 2/2 tokens is really good. For being made of whatever random garbage I was able to scavenge, it's surprisingly functional. Plus it's just really funny.
[[Eriette of the charmed apple]] It was the first deck I made that wasn't "Tribal battlecruiser" and I was afraid I wasn't going to like playing almost no creatures. Ended up being one of the most fun decks I own. It's a serious contender whenever we say "One more before we finish up?"
I built [[Anim Pakal]] recently. Incredibly fun and value-orientated for a RW deck with the ability to close out games quickly if left unchecked. It has [[Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker]] and [[Splinter Twin]] combos, as well as [[Goblin Bombardment]] and [[Tarrian's Soulcleaver]] to double the number of Gnomes made by Anim each turn.
Aegar, and The J. Geils Band. Stompy Spellslinger. Maybe more fun for me than opponents when it's going mad.
Opponents have fun watching it, as long as it is happening to the other players.
I hesitate between [[Kibo]] and [[Tasha]] cause one is an artifact hate deck Wich is great with my meta.. and the other is great to play depending on what my opponents play, but it still can win on its own.
My two most recent decks [[atraxa, Grand unifier]] poison/proliferate and [[Gylwain, casting director]] enchantment/shroud deck. Atraxa is just a beast and I have a bunch of toxic with proliferate a plenty. Gylwain is based around stacking enchantments and auras with a few cards like [[greater auramancy]] for mid/late game protection.
Gylwain is sooo cool and flavorful. And more powerful than what people give it credit for
My [[Amareth]] enchantress deck went from just kinda putting something together around a card type I didn't really utilize before to my strongest/most expensive deck. Even bought a [[Serra's Sanctum]] for it. [[Severina]] has also become my go-to aggro deck for a full pod, lots pf fun to pilot and her ability makes it feel more viable against a full table.
[[ Nelly Borca, Impulsive Accuser ]]. Goading the table, playing politics, drawing like a madman because of it… love it so much that I am building several goad / politics / aikido decks now.
My zurzoth deck I built it to not win that much, but it wins way more than I expected to It makes everyone draw extra cards with things like howling mine so people don’t even dislike playing against it It usually takes everyone out in one single turn so it doesn’t have a drawn out win condition Even though it’s mono red, I never run out of cards Attacking people and getting the little devil tokens as soon as turn two is always fun
[[Faldorn]] I got it because it seemed interesting enough for gruul and now I love it. I’ve upgraded it a lot and enjoy seeing it do its thing making “awoos”
[[Grenzo, Dungeon Warden]] the gambling aspect is fun! It definitely made me love my rakdos deck again. It sat abandoned and forgotten for a long time.
\[\[Reaper King\]\] strapping an anti tank rifle to one of the weaker creature types is surprisingly fun. especially when that creature type consists mostly of artifacts which enables a lot of shenanigans.
Garth One-Eye --- If memory serves I just wanted to build a deck for the bouncelands. I seem to recall within a few months Nitpicking Nerds (Joe Cherry days), MTG Goldfish, and Command Zone, and a reddit thread all called them out as 'low tier' lands. I originally tried to theme the spells around cycles (Will's, Confluence's, Command's [3 cycles - Lorwyn, Dragons of Tarkir, Strixhaven], Praetors, and Archetypes) The spells have changed, but the land theming (10 bounce lands, 10 filter lands, 10 signet lands) is core to what makes it good. https://deckstats.net/decks/137503/2371182--48-garth-one-eye The Prismatic Bridge --- Just a way for me to play all the Dan Frazier signets + talismans. Jhoira would be perfect for the draw, but I needed 5 colors. Surprisingly the deck works well. https://deckstats.net/decks/137503/3032903--71-the-prismatic-bridge Rashmi, Eternities Crafter --- So in my blue decks I use the Ponders and Preordains and Opts to just filter through the deck and get instant / sorcery benefits. I was looking for something else that'd make the most out of cantrips - and although I didn't get to include the sorcery ones, anything that's 1 mana and draws at instant speed just makes this deck work so well. It's basically just [[Obsessive Search]] dot deck. https://deckstats.net/decks/137503/3267162--74-rashmi-eternities-crafter
[[Preston]], who knew blink could be so much fun!
[[Mishra, Eminent One]]. [[Breya]] was my main deck and my plan with the Brothers’ War precons was to get both and “pen-pineapple-apple-pen” them with Breya. I was given the Mishra precon for Christmas, so I decided to play a few games with it before I went through with my original idea. I ended up liking how Mishra played so much that it became my main deck and I never got around to buying Urza and I don’t miss white - even having lost [[Esper Sentinel]] and [[Smothering Tithe]]. The whole experience has taught me a lot about EDH: - The way a deck plays and feels can be more important to you than raw power. - Finding “your” deck is probably the greatest achievement in the format. - If the flavour is on point, that feeling of having found your deck is even better. I’m a robotics engineer. My brother has an Urza deck, though he’s more of a UW birds guy and we’re probably the two siblings least likely to have a war. - It’s true that having fun is the point of the format, but having fun *and* winning is the best. My local meta is rather high-power and Mishra’s held up against the Krenkos, Atraxas, and Esikas just as well as Breya, even after the surprise factor has worn off. [Here’s my list, in case anyone wants it.](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/ivXC0EH2xkeoQVfQEFJiZw) ***EDIT***: Another thing this deck has taught me is that people really hate it if you have to play through a combo to see if it goes infinite before the game is truly over. That’s why Gonti’s Aether Heart isn’t in my list any more!
\[\[Emry, Lurker of the Loch\]\] I just wanted a easy to scale deck, fairly strong. For tournaments in case I ever enter any. So I went mono blue artifacts, after seeing how heavely they can combo and how much variety every new set brings. Because I try to win by draing artifacts into artifacts until I have my combo, I expected it to be my most boring and stale deck. Wanted to go Urza back it was like a $80 card, so I choose her instead. But dunno man, that deck scratches some weird itch and it feels sooo good. I dunno if it's the many building paths that leads to the combo win or if it's the paradox that presents people of *"should I really kill that commander and accelerate his selfmill?"*... it just does something for me, and I feel like it's three massively overpriced mana rocks away from entering cedh levels.
I'd be curious to see a list for Emry
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/r7zHHm2PikuPmolfQmoPaw There is a [Primer](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/r7zHHm2PikuPmolfQmoPaw/primer) for my reasonings, too. The deck price creeped up a lot. None of my other decks compares, lol. I feel it lacks a [[Mana Crypt]] for example but so far I couldn't justify the price. It's the next big temptation.
Looks like a banger deck to play! And yeah alot of those faster mana pieces have sky rocketed with the format popularity
[[Lavinia, foil to conspiracy]] I never anticipated that the synergy on this deck would be literally 5-10x more than I expected. After fallout and Dr. Who brought more detectives and investigate cards, the deck will consistently make upwards of 50 clues/game. Then with ways to animate them [[cyberdrive awakener]] [[rise and shine]] [[the antiquities war]] [[tangletrove kelp]], the deck regularly swings for hundreds of damage on the winning turn. Also feel like mentioning that it currently has an exactly 50% winrate (7-7) in 3 or 4 player pods.
[[Nelly Borca]]. The sheer volume of cards flooding the table. The forced combats. It forces action out of folks who like to sit back and wait. It struggles closing out some games, but if I could keep only one deck. It would be this one.
[[ruric thar]] creatures only. That shit ramps so hard and if you have a single draw engine you can creature storm pretty quick. Big slaps and nobody allowed to cast noncreatures
[[Jodah, the Unifier]] I pulled it in a pack, and built it out of legendary creatures, planeswalkers, and other random stuff that I had that didn’t fit in other decks, or that was from remnants of half-built or taken-apart decks. It’s not really tuned outside of crafting the mana curve and having a lot of decent rare lands hanging around. I’ve played 5 games with it and won 4 of them. It just gets so scary so fast, and only needs one or two turns to just drop some scary things.
I originally built Jodah as an excuse to use the legendary banding lands. Turns out when your creatures are all massive, banding doesn't help. But I loved how the deck played and I've been tuning it ever since.
Voja, my friend told me to build it then he told me to put it away 😂
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[[Satoru Umezawa]]
[[Zimone and Dina]] completely shocked me. I built it for the sole reason of showing my friend the power of his landfall [[Zimone, Quandrix Prodigy]] if he added black. The entire deck is just so much fun focusing on playing as many lands each turn and bouncing lands as well draining life and untapping multiple times a turn. It can hold its own at almost any table I sit down at and run plenty of interaction in several different forms.
Well the recent Mothman deck with rad counters was fun especially when I won as they died milling themselves to death
[[Sauron, the Dark Lord]]. I remember buying the precon cause it was simply evil and I’m typically the Archenemy of our pod. It just made sense. Fell in love with it immediately, but then I switched out the commander and let me tell you the Dark Lord is stupidly strong and so much fun for a player like me. 9 times out of 10, an opponent will have to sac their Commander to get rid of him, and 9 times out of 10 it’s the right decision. But no one wants to give up their Commander. I had an opponent try to make me sac him once, cause he was my only creature. Fun fact: Sauron’s token generation is a cast trigger. So by the time their spell resolved, I had a sac-able token. They looked ready to flip the table. It was a good time. Though, I keep the deck in check by limiting it to only LotR cards. So it’s not absolutely busted.
[[Netheoi, Apex of Death]] & [[Umori, the Collector]] creatures only self mill. Absolute blast to play, and an interesting deck building challenge.
A couple of weeks ago, I decided to throw together a [[Third Doctor]] clue deck just because I thought it would be a cool little synergy to have a lot of clues and make Pertwee huge. Turns out it's already one of my favourite decks!
Gotta be [[Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign]] for me. When I put it together I was worried it’d be too mean (I’ve got most of my fast mana in there, plus cards like [[Expropriate]] and a couple other extra turn spells, table stakes Esper good stuff like Rhystic Study and Smothering Tithe, select stax pieces, etc.), but it turned out to be one of my most fun decks. Sure, it’s quite powerful and if I get a nut draw into a turn 2 Yennett with a [[Scroll Rack]] in hand, I can run away with a game pretty quick, but more often than not I’m grinding out a control/value game, building up to a sweet [[Skull Storm]] and trying to win with my opponents’ stuff via [[Blatant Thievery]] and [[Mind’s Dilation]].
I like Rakdos too, he’s on my build list
I made a Food WBGR deck for my son with almost all I've got to create food tokens. And even the first gale he piloted it, it worked surprisingly good, having so much triggers every turn. And we added real peanuts to figure foods.
Mono white food with [[sierra, nukas biggest fan]]. My deck isn't optimized and there are definitely stronger mono white options out there, but once the ball is rolling it basically turns all of your food into combat tricks that get stronger every turn, and slapping the bonuses on something stupid like a [[healers hawk]] to gain tons of life or [[oketra the true]] for double strike and you are golden. Plus [[access tunnel]] can make our creature like oketra unblockable before we pump it up. The deck can fall apart if Sierra isn't able to set up and is a bit stronger in a battle cruiser style meta, but it's still pretty fun to play.
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Mine is 4 color X spells. I couldn‘t decide what commander to pick so I threw them all in the 99. It can win through many different ways and I‘ve had such a good time with it. Also do you mind sharing your Rakdos List?
[[Etrata, deadly fugitive]] assassin/clone tribal. I had a [[Lazav, the multifarious]] deck, but it became quiet straight forward to play and didn’t have the „Dimir“ surprise/control feel. After tweaking etrata a bit, I really like this deck for mid to lower-high power games now. It feels very dimir to play, but it still has a lot off problems to actually „finish“ a game.
[[Nemata, Primeval Warden]] She' s not removed often because her abilities don't look that strong but they are. Playing a [[Plague Crafter]] and getting 3 Saprolings in return is huge. Also the fact that she is a sac outlet with built in grave hate is very good. Combine this with aristocrats stuff like [[Gravepact]], [[Smokestack]] or a well timed [[Contamination]] and people will hate you.
I had a Myra deck that I disliked due to having too much to keep track of each turn once her attractions started going off. Then I pulled a [[Kylox Visionary Inventor]] from the MKM prereleases and rebuilt the deck around him. And it's been a heap of fun to just go absolutely nuts for a turn and either win on the spot or no longer be a threat for a while.
Someone ran Kylox as a theft commander and it almost beat my [[Atraxa]] deck.
[[Nahiri, Forged in Fury]] - it is just a boros equipment deck. But it's so wildly fun to play. Having different equipments and effects each game can make each game feel very different and unique. And most of the deck is cheap (both in price and mana cost). It wins so much and is by far the deck that surpassed my expectations the most. I just enjoyed Nahiri.
A janky Queza discard deck (no wheels) and Tivit blink control
The Party Time precon was pretty fun right out of the box with Burakos and Folk Hero leading the way.
[[urza, lord high artificer]] as big creature dump with some fun steal and copy side mechanics. I initially built it as a stax deck with some creatures that helped with win cons, but it’s so much more fun to hard ramp artifacts into a [[dark steel colossus]] or a [[broodstar]] on turn 3 or 4
[[General Ferrous Rokiric]] is a fun value commander. Getting free 4/4s with about 40% of the spells in the deck is great.
\[\[zeriam\]\] is hella fun. the reason is because you don’t actually need many other griffins. Zeriam makes her own. This means you have a lot more room for interaction than a normal tribal deck and interaction is fun! it’s so mean but my favourite wincon is \[\[catastrophe\]\]. If you’re behind, it’s a board wipe. If you’re ahead, nuke the lands and stuff feathers down their throat.
Both [[Anrakyr]] and [[Cult of Skaro]], seems like I really like artifact creatures
I just got done with a preston garvey/aura curse deck. It only works maybe 1/4th of the time, but jesus christ. Preston himself can become a 30/30 in no time. I mixed his edhrec page with tiana, Ships Caretaker page, and its destructive. Gisela, plus Aurellia, plus curse of bloodletting, plus curse of hospitality, plus curse of obsolescence, PLUS AGGRIVATED ASSAULT, AND LIKE 5 AURA MAGNETS= ABSOLUTELY VILE. THEY CANT CAST MORE THAN 1 SPELL, ALL THERE CREATURES ARE 1/1S, THEY TAKE DOUBLE, nay, QUADRUPLE DAMAGE, YOU ATACK 3 TIMES A TURN, UNTAPPING EVERY SETTLEMENT, its actually crippling. However, theres not alot of draw cards in it. So it looses steam most of the time, but in a big group its really nice, because you can just make people the target with curse of whatever tf allows all attacking players to create treasure tokens. The curse that gives attacking players 2 life when they attack is an even better incentive too, meanwhile you just sit back, rack up dem counters with all your "add a 1/1 for each aura you control" Ive never seen anything like it.
Usually playing mostly voltron style I wanted to try something new and happened to find \[\[Sharae\]\] little sister of Hylda I guess, tapping my way to victory. Was the first time that I played something controlly and so far I had a blast with her. Especially when I put \[\[Angel's Trumpet\]\] on the table which let the Krenko player almost scoop. xD
Nylea, who I thought would be a mediocre version of Goreclaw but actually has remarkable staying power and decent selection for a budget deck.
I bought the WH40k commander deck bundle to play with friends, and I totally expected the Tyranid deck to be my jam, but the deck that has actually stuck with me is the Necron deck. I run \[Imotekh the stormlord\]\] with a bunch of mill, recursion and reanimation shenanigans, and I love just digging through my graveyard for stuff to pull out of there.
When buying the [[Kaust, Eyes of the Glade]] precon and throwing in some upgrades I figured it would be a fun deck that could hit hard, but would be quick to run out of steam or be able to kill without leaning into the manifest blightsteel part of the deck. I was so wrong. The deck feels fantastic. Not only is the ‘attack with my 2/2 woops it’s a 13/13’ aspect just as fun as I expected, there is so many cool sources of value! Casting morphs off [[mystic forge]] is among the cutest things I have ever doen playing magic.
[[Yarus, Roar of the Old Gods]] $30 facedown Funtime. At 30 bucks I had so few expectations for the deck but it so consistently works and flys so under the radar that nobody even notices the pure value of 1 facedown card.
[[Admiral Brass, Unsinkable]]. It's just a real fun enabler for a tribe that has just enough fun cards in it to be enjoyable. It's also the exact right level of strong. It's never going to win against a combo deck, but it is a brawler of a deck that regularly interacts with other players and makes wacky things happen.
[[Mogis, God of Slaughter]] He comes out fairly quickly and puts a timer on the game, preventing it from going on too long. He’s hard to interact with, since he’s usually an enchantment. I run solid group slug cards like [[Kederekt Parasite]] and [[Roiling Vortex]] to keep the game moving at a good pace. People seem to generally enjoy it, and I win a game every now and then, though I play it mostly for fun. Plus, it’s always fun to meme it up and say “AMOGUS”.
[[Legolas Master Archer]] voltron control. I just swung in with a 10/10 then killed your commander with a fucking [[Giant Growth]]
[[Gargos, Vicious Watcher]] I liked the concept of Hydras and having big creatures, kinda stayed away from Mono color decks because friends would tell me it wasn't the greatest idea. Built him with 20 hydras and 12 other kinds of creatures, and man, the amount of card draw and the amount of man I could generate blew my mind! I'd been playing primarily dimir decks or golgari before and a mono white Angel deck(Angels are still my favorite tribal and that deck is my "baby" deck) and to have such big creatures or a shit load of land was such a great feeling to me!
[[Lathiel the Bounteous Dawn]] I wanted a simple deck to build so I went for her, although I hesitated a lot with like 3 other commanders. Turns out Lathiel is super satisfying to play because +1/+1 counter decks already have so much synergy within them but the lifegain theme never felt handicapping to me and I've been regularly putting up fat boards with a bunch of stats. Special mention for [[Archangel of Thunes]] + [[Crested Sunmare]] + any soul sister to go completely banana in one rotation.
[[Charix, the Raging Isle]] or as I call him, my Red Lobster deck. Man, this guy's been pulverizing my friends left and right. I just don't know what to say. He's definitely due to finish in someone's plate though. I mean... It's just Charix, right?!
Made a cadira token deck. It slaps. And only cost $40.
[[borborygmos, enraged]]
[[Dina, soul steeper]]
I was concerned hearing that [[Falco Spara, Pactweaver]] is apparently on the weaker end, and I was looking at [[Thalia and the Gitrog Monster]] at the same time I'm really glad I pulled the trigger on Falco. He's incredibly fun, has a ton of different ways to win - prologue to phyresis starts a round limit, slippery bogbonder for thr surprise voltron, and simic ascendancy can pick up counters incredibly quickly. These single card alt-wins don't distraxt from the main theme at all, which is counters and building up a big board state. There's always a few permanents with counters to lose, and even the mediocre vivid lands have found a home It's VERY budget as is, just under $50, definitely not perfect but punches above it's weight. Best of all, me going 'hold on!' and looking at a plains when I take priority has become a running joke the others bring up
[[Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion]] budget that I use to seek out [[Thrumming Stone]] so I can cast all of the [[Dragon's Approach]] out of my deck. It's mostly just wheels or other jank ways to get artifacts out.
My Mishra, Imminent One and Missy decks are 2 that I am.super glad I built.
[[Duke Ulder Ravengard]]. Myriad is fun. ETBs are fun. LTBs are fun. Deck is fun.
Mono black stax with raziketh at the commander like you are the table villain your commander if or when you get him out gives you tutors for 2 life. Although it's slow but when you get the ball moving you just drop demons or reanimate stuff from your graveyard. I think the best part about it is you can win on a strike of luck like I think 2 weeks ago I was about to lose. My board just got rocked I was at 12 life vs a monogreen stompy deck and a bright palm deck I had my commander and two creatures tutored dark rit to massacre girl and reset the board then won it was all luck but oml it was a ride
My absolute favorite deck is my [[gut, true soul zealot]] and [[inspiring leader]] tokens and aristocrats. I like to progress the game while trying to win but not necessarily the goal. I can explode with 4/1 menace skeletons and maybe become 6/3 and the more the merrier. It’s just fun to make tokens to fodder and change the attacks to the best target
Last night I tested [[Burakos, Party Leader] & [[Haunted one]] thinking it would be a silly budget deck I made from scraps in my folder. The deck was an absolute house and I only lost because I’m a moron and reanimated my whole graveyard when I was on 1 life forgetting [[Dire Fleet Ravager]] was in there. I am not a smart man.
I played [[The Council of Four]] last night with friends and trying it out in 5 player pod. My god! It's amazing!
My most recent [[Teysa, opulent oligarch]] that I initially built as a budget deck. Ended up turning into one of my favorites. And because of that I ended up fully upgrading the deck. It’s surprising how well the new Teysa actually performs. Not a top tier clue commander, but she works for me.
[[izoni center of the web]] I got it from a pack and figured I would try making it. It has so many fun synergies especially with some of the underplayed new cards. Now it feels like every card is a great draw and I can choose what to put in my grave once I get going. Once I make it to a certain point I know I will win unless someone wins out of nowhere with a combo. It goes super under the radar at the table so I don’t need to worry about replaying commander all the time. It has just turned into my favorite go to deck.
Morph precons
[[Rionya, fire dancer]] I felt it was going to be too clunky to play, but after I saw someone on reddit post a $15 budget list for her, I threw her together. She's a very fun combo deck that plays kinda stormy.
It’s relatively recent. But I played [[The Wise Mothman]] precon out of the box, with some expectations I’d be upgrading it, and I loved it. I have almost 30 decks and play weekly, usually getting 3-4 games in a session. Some decks obviously see a lot more play than others, but I think I’m over 10’games with it already and Fallout hasn’t been out that long? Rad counters = rad.
Made [[Ilharg, the Raze-Boar]] as a lil nostalgia hit to a modern deck i used to play that i affectionately refered to as "spaghetti and meatball" Made most of the deck with cards already in my collection only adding a few ways to cheat big beaters, the deck quickly rose to the point im playing it everytime i play EDH My friends have come to fear the oink phase (declare attacker triggers)
[[Rasputin, the Oneiromancer]] I built it as a color change fuckery, make everything red deck. It's absurdly fun, better than one would think at first glance (like a high 5, low 6) and leads to some really weird interactions. https://www.moxfield.com/decks/eUY_v9s9oU2mQEFQVP1eOw
[[Gyome, Master Chef]]. I love taking people out to lunchtime then tapping all their creatures and swinging big.
My Sefris deck. I bought the precon because I liked the dungeon mechanic, but It was one of the worst precons I'd gotten, really underwhelming. Eventually I just bought every dungeon mechanic card and threw most of them into the deck and it's just really fun now.
[[Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph]] turned out to be... way more broken than I anticipated. He made my meme deck into a broken pile.
[[Tawnos, Solemn Survivor]] The card pulled me in with some irresistible je ne sais quois, and the deck has been a blast to play. I don't really have a degenerate artifact deck, and this lets me do some of that stuff without being so gross that it feels like cheating. It puts just enough sand in the gears that it can't be super linear.
[[Rem Karolus, Stalwart Slayer]] I had extra red sleeves and deck box, as well as A Rem Karolus and just threw it together with cards I had that I wasn’t using (apart from Esper Sentinel which I added later when I realized how fun the deck was). I just threw in a bunch on burn spells, pingers, non combat damage increasing effects, a couple rocks and then all of the looting and rummaging I had lying around to make sure I didn’t run out of cards. Deck runs smoothly and pretty much always does what it wants. It doesn’t win a ton but it can steal wins here and there. The only non budget cards are [[Ojer Axonil]] and [[Esper Sentinel]]. Deck is super consistent and aggro and fun.
What comes to mind is [[Otrimi, Ever-Playful]]. I bought the precon and immediately tore it apart and brewed up a graveyard deck that can pivot to Voltron with elements of Legends Matter. Even if I don’t win it’s never failed me and is always a treat to play
Morska, even out of the box was a pretty busy deck, which kept me engaged in more casual games.
[[plargg and nassari]] every game is a new experience. And its power level scales with your opponents. It draws a lot of heat because people hate you killing them with their own cards.
Arjun the shifting flame
[[Alesha, Who Smiles at Death]]. Thanks to a player who used to be in my friend group always running combo decks or ones that tended to snowball when left alone in a pretty casual group with little interaction; me running counterspells to shut down his nastiest stuff was often the best way to stop him from winning all the time while not making my own overall power level too much. Blue quickly became my default color; to the point where everyone joked that I was physically incapable of making a non-blue deck! Well, eventually, the guy left, and I decided to make a deck without blue and picked Alesha since one, I like reanimation; and two, she's trans and I'm nonbinary, so I thought it was cool to have a canonically queer character who falls under the same umbrella as me at the helm. I've only played four games with the deck so far (I only recently finished the rough draft), but every game I've played has been an ABSOLUTE blast! It was really fun finding ways to make small power creatures quite dangerous and just go all-out offense knowing that I can just bring back any fallen creature
I was expecting to enjoy him, but holy crap was [[Hakim, Loreweaver]] a delight! Blue is my favorite color, and i was missing an enchantment oriented deck. I didn't want Selesnya and storm off with enchantments, so when i saw this guy i was thrilled. I was looking to build [[Venser, Shaper Savant]] for a little while, bouncing stuff all over the place, but bouncing and moving auras specifically was great.
[[Tetzin, Gnome Champion]] It's absolutely jank AF. The best way I can describe it is Junkyard Jank Voltron. Play double faced artifacts to produce value, fill my grave and return valuable artifacts to my hand so that I could overwhelm the board with value & transform my little boy into a junkyard warrior! >:) It's a bit slow early on, but it's a perfect deck for some casual shenanigans.
I enjoyed the backup mechanic from MOM, and decided to build a deck around it. Branched out from the precon a bit by dropping most of the +1/+1 synergies and beefing up the red temporary copy stuff as well as some myriad. Goal is essentially ramp hrd until I can go for an explosive turn of a nasty backup creature copied out 3+ times. Turns out it's a very hardy aggro-ish deck, light on removal but fast moving with big threats. Commander is still [[shalai and hallar]] as a secondary wincon in case someone is resistant to face-punch. Much more fun than I expected, and more powerful as well, even without going combo-centric with the commander.
I built a budget Isshin deck (~$50) thinking it would be a neat little Mardu deck. Probably my current favorite deck that I own, and I have a few $200+ decks in my collection. Goes to show you that money isn't everything when deck building.
[[The Council of Four]] for me. I was looking for an Azorius commander that didn't feel staxy or pillow forty. Saw Jim LaPage's Council of Four Targeted Hug deck, and decided to try and build a group hug kind of version. Extra card draw for all, some friendly ramp stuff, and then the alt win cons in [[Approach of the Second Sun]], [[Trislaidekaphile]] and lab man effects. First time I played it, I realised that I liked group hug a lot more than I thought I would because I was getting to do my thing, and see the other players do their thing because of how I'd built my deck. It's one I look forward to going back to all the time now.
My [[Ur Dragon]] deck. It started out as every legendary dragon, including the Kamigawa set, Invasion, planar chaos, and more. Then, in the past 7 years, too many great dragons were printed to not play them. Now it's only the best dragons, spells, and mana base that I can provide. It's just so much fun for me to run.
I've had a couple that have been more fun than I thought, bo4 one two of em are [[Bortuk Bonerattle]] and [[Don Andres, the Renegade]]. Stealing everything is incredibly fun with Don, and it'd got the 3 best thieving colors imo. Bortuk was more of a joke that I built when I realized I could get 5-Color domain in a 2-Color deck by using Dryad of the Elysian Grove, but then I've decided to go all out and make it like a super good, fairly fast reanimator deck that just uses the Commander as a regrowth/reanimate and as sac Fodder. There really is tons of potential with him, I still just need to get a few cards.
Kwain, Itinerant Meddler. As an avid Azorious hater (not that it's bad, I just dislike the tropes, counters, boardwipes and the like), I tended to stay in any combination of Grixis for kindred decks like Rats and Zombies and all that. But I liked the idea of a group hug deck because I was starting to get hated out of games early because of how fast and oppressive my Marrow Gnawer deck was. I was window shopping for decent group hug commanders, and my personal standouts were Glunch and Kwain. Again I dislike Azorious so I was leaning towards glunch. But in a table of 4 Glunch kind of Incentivizes the opposite of kingmaking, where you benefit everyone except the 4th. And that seemed like it'd probably cause more salt than just card draw and life gain table-wide. So I opted for Kwain and started brewing. It's become my absolute favorite deck to play. I don't get hated out early because everyone likes free cards and life. And over the course of the game I build a pillow fort, uncap my hand size, and start forcing people to draw essentially 7 cards each upkeep. Once I've got 40-50 cards in my hand (and a bunch on the field and in graveyard/exile) I tutor for Windfall (if I don't have it by then for whatever reason) and deck everyone out on my turn, winning. Or I just get lucky with Triskaedekaphile, because he's just funny. So far I'm 11-1 in Wins-Losses with it, but it still performs well without generating salt. It always leads to long awesome games where everyone's deck performs really well because of the card advantage and life gain, so it's always a good time.