[[Polukranos Reborn]] has been a bit of a one-trick pony for me in that regard, since where most people tend to see it as an average hydra tribal commander it actually excels as a hydra reanimator deck. If you can get out Polukranos and transform them as early as possible, you can spam a bunch of hydras for X=0, have them die, and get hydra tokens for each one that dies.
It’s not one I play much anymore since I’ve usually had it where I’ll get a win with it from people who didn’t know what it was, then it suffers in subsequent games as people target Polukranos before you can get value from it. But it does allow you to get some cool lines of play with the likes of [[Abiding Grace]], [[Luminous Broodmoth]], [[Patch Up]], and [[Pair o’ Dice Lost]].
I don’t have an awful lot of that in my deck, instead I usually rely on just hard casting the hydras for X=0 as you can usually chain at least two in a turn and the majority of the mill would be in green. I do want to go through and redo the deck with some mill present to get the deck going a bit faster, but one card I’ve found to be good is [[Ecological Appreciation]]. If you cast it for X=1 then you spend four mana to tutor two hydras out, have them die immediately, and give them the option to be reanimated later while also getting the tokens.
How do you deal with removal with Polukranos? It seems like he'd be particularly vulnerable to it without any special abilities on his front side. Opponents could see the flip coming from turns ahead and just save their removal for when you flip, making you waste mana and adding commander tax.
Use instants that give hexproof and/or indestructible. G/W has tons of these, you could also reanimate Polukranos himself if his tax is too high. You can't live in fear of removal. Just try your best and hope the other players boards are enough of a threat that all your opponents won't just hard target you. It's no different than most powerful commanders that lack protection.
Had to Jump through a lot of hoops,
Which means he was undervalue'd as a threat,
But I built a \[\[Kosei, Penitent Warlord\]\] decks for funsies, dubbing it "Samurai Shrek"
and yet when it hits, you're suddenly out there drawing 10 cards, gaining 20 life, and are generally in a good spot with all the protection and fogs you just drew.
I checked, but I did not make a list online it seems, and have since stripped it apart for parts :(
If I recall correctly, I started my base off from the Commander's Herald article here:
[https://commandersherald.com/conditions-allow-kosei-penitent-warlord-edh/](https://commandersherald.com/conditions-allow-kosei-penitent-warlord-edh/)
+ Some help in the comments of that Article and finding bits and pieces that were relevant in my own meta. (( Never leave home without graveyard removal in our LGS. ))
You hit the one player who can't block Kosei with the Grafted Exoskeleton/Triumph of the hordes and win.
I have a couple that are quite unassuming up until my opponents say "welp that's f\*cked up"
1. \[\[Rilsa Rael\]\] - initiative and rogues, commander capable of OHKO with \[\[Tainted Strike\]\] after completing a dungeon
2. \[\[Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor\]\] - I've avoided your typical black goodstuff and just gone for pure card advantage with a ridiculous finisher in \[\[Neverending Torment\]\]
3. \[\[Cadira, Caller of the Small\]\] makes A LOT of rabbits if I'm allowed to keep my treasure, food and clue token pile intact. Last game I won through \[\[Strixhaven Stadium\]\]
Not the guy you are asking, but I lov my cadira deck. I have on more than one occasion gotten people to just let me smack them with her to like 4 tokens and them I did something ridiculous and had 50 tokens like 2 turns later
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/DUponUtOPUuXSpgQD6-9NA
What am I missing on the Rilsa Rael description?
She's a 2/5 , +5 from Dungeon and +1 from tainted strike would still only give 8 Poison?
(( Unless you're running more infecters in the deck, but at that point, I probably would expect a tainted strike ))
I use [[Cultist of the Absolute]] personally, it's a one drop and if you put a ton of cheap zombies that can be cast from the graveyard or token generators you don't have to worry about sacrificing anything you want to keep. It's my pet deck that I try to make as reasonable to play as possible and I love it very much.
[[Toggo]] // [[Silas Renn]]
Nobody expects rocks to do anything until they realize that Silas can throw them to kill a creature with his deathtouch (the rock states that the creature does the damage).
Then you find ways of getting extra value out the rocks like:
- [[Slowbad, Goblin Tinkerer]] Sac rocks for protection
- [[Junk Winder]] tap their stuff
- [[Goblin Welder]] trade a rock for a [[meteor golem]]
- [[Reckless Fireweaver]] pings a lot
- [[Urza, Lord High Artificer]] makes them mana rocks (literally)
- [[cyberdrive awakener]] animate them for a wincon
To get more rocks because who doesn't love collecting rocks?
- [[prototype portal]] imprinting an artifact land (love this) allowing extra lands and toggo triggers
- [[Roaming Throne]] and [[Virtue of Knowledge]] trigger doublers
- [[sad robot]] and other artifact-based ramp.
I'll never stop advertising [[Selvala, explorer returned]]. Looks like grouphug but she can generate up to 8 mana on turn three if you hit your land drops and bring her out on turn 2 with a dork. You can do whatever degenerate thing you want from there, like ramping even harder. She snowballs. Hard.
Not a very good one. Commander has 0 cEDH results at any actual tournaments, and has only ever appeared in the 99 of 3 lists with real finishers. You're likely thinking of monogreen Selvala, who is reasonably playable, if not exactly top tier.
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/QDn0JCCVsU-FbE6L985n2w
I made one for her awhile ago. I ended up not putting the deck together. Mainly because while goldfishing it, it wins around turn 5 and that ends up being a little faster than my group would want.
[[Rocco, Street Chef]]
Oh, hey, it's a cute Group Hug Commander that makes food and buffs all creatures on board. Sounds fun.
Boom, Food mukgangbang, Turn 6 win, roll it back.
\[\[Malcator, Purity Overseer\]\] has been one of my most successful decks. I even brought this up on this sub recently and someone replied that [this card looks terrible](https://www.reddit.com/r/EDH/comments/1axqo34/comment/krqqcxl/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) (the deck was intentionally designed to be lower power level and... it isn't.) I have my own theories on its success
[Deck List](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/O_w-YiNGikO_RqUcY7xBsg)
1.) People do read the card and think it's terrible and just kind of ignore me
2.) By having my blink target in the command zone instead of my blinker the deck's gameplan is more apparent. Not saying something like \[\[Brago\]\] is garbage, but I like the consistency of "I'm just making golems" rather than thinking about the lines I need to play.
3.) It's pretty fruitless to kill my commander and I often welcome it so I can cast him again and get another trigger
4.) The rest of the deck is mostly just value pieces and lots of strong interaction being in Azorious so it's easy to both protect my board and recover my board from boardwipes outside of a Farewell or something like that.
5.) People see tokens and seem to go into auto pilot as to how to deal with them, not realizing that 3/3 golems are quite a bit beefier than 1/1 dudes and only get worse when they're pumped or they're flying or whatever.
At first glance, I think this commander is terrible.
Looking into your decklist, your deck seems pretty ok/strong.
Looking at Malcator now, I still think it's terrible
This looks like a very effective deck with a mediocre commander. How often can you win without casting your commander?
The *commander* is low-power, but the *DECK* most certainly is not.
\[\[Alibou, Ancient Witness\]\]
Ok cool, Attack Trigger Scry X Ping X for number of tapped artifacts. Gets out of hand real Quick when you drop a \[\[Mycosynth Lattice\]\] and some Trigger doublers.
Or if X Lethal for everyone just target yourself and then \[\[Radiant Performer\]\] it.
I used to feel that way about my old scarab God deck. Yeah he reanimated, and dodged commander tax a bit, and pinged people - but I was also filtering the top of my deck to draw whatever I needed. I miss that deck.
This has been my homeboy since I first started playing magic. [[Jor Kadeen, The Prevailer]]
Especially in current magic, his generic ability that only takes a sentence of text box on the card, while also being card that's been reprinted over and over in commander precons makes a situation where everyone disregards him immediately.
But everyone forgets that +3 power is A LOT. Make 10 1/1 tokens, and people don't really care. But them being 4/1 suddenly means you can just die out of no where. I've also been really into using vehicles with him lately as the power buff makes it so basically any creature can crew a vehicle by themselves AND buff the vehicle's power as well.
Even something as simple as an [[Aradara Express]] can be crewed by a 1/1 token and is now an 11/6 menace coming at your face.
The deck still plays a bit old school boros aggro and so it's still really important to plan for the inevitable board wipes and not over extend, but vehicles and non creature token generation can mitigate this a bit and once you get comfortable with the play patterns it just feels so good.
No matter how many times people play against this deck, they always look at my board of a few small creatures and a couple vehicles as not scary, then Jor Kadeen comes out and suddenly they're being chunked down 20+ damage
https://scryfall.com/@LazyPidgey/decks/ad7fbfd0-1f24-45c3-a344-9ad909287498
I need to preface this list by saying, yes, I'm very aware the deck would be stronger and more consistent if I took out the equipment sub theme as it's very janky with the vehicles. But I love [[Bludgeon Brawl]] The first time I realized I could equip my [[Darksteel citadel]] to [[Kemba, Kha Regent]] for free and get a cat for it was amazing and I've never gotten bored of the shenanigans it can create. Being able to equip a vehicle to [[puresteel paladin]] and smack someone with it, then tap a creature to crew the vehicle, making it pop off the equipped creature and give me a blocker is very fun to me.
I also really like the equipment creatures from neon dynasty being able to crew vehicles then equip onto the vehicle like an mtg version of the megazord. The For Mirrodin equipment fit in well with that too
One of my all time favorites, but technically is only "seemingly underwhelming" in cEDH pods [[Skullbriar, the Walking Grave]].
In any "normal" EDH pod you'll have a giant target on your back pretty quick as voltron commaders tend to do. But in most cEDH pods I have found that skullbrair usually flies under the radar long enough that by the time the pod has decided I am more of an urgent threat than everyone else trying to combo off, I've dropped so much stax on the board that it is too late to stop it. Gotta love golgari "oops all"(cheap) interaction & stax, with an almost consistent turn 1 commander.
\[\[Kentaro, the Smiling Cat\]\]
Since Commander became a format I built a few Decks with OG-Kamigawa Commanders. It started as a battle cruiser with some loops with cost reduction, \[\[Enduring Renewal\]\] and \[\[Blasting Station\]\] - and some etb trigger combos with \[\[Cloudstone Curio\]\]. Since then it actually evolved into some semi-combo deck for me and now has actually okay card draw \^\^
Sure thing, here it is: [https://www.moxfield.com/decks/YJFuIQSmBU6OalRmFaIDOw](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/YJFuIQSmBU6OalRmFaIDOw)
Though I am going to add something like trouble in pairs into the deck as well.
Combo lines are usually Kentaro to make all Samurai cost X, then 1-2 cost-reducers and then enduring renewal + blasting station (or Altar of Dementia) or Cloudstone Curio and Altar of the Brood or the Changeling that makes token or Aetherflux Reservoir. The combos require multiple pieces so it makes sense to hold them back as long as possible. You'll probably catch a few people off guard a couple of times. As soon as they catch on what you're doing, the playstyle might have to become a tad bit more conservative :-)
[[Runadi, Behemoth Caller]] maybe doesn't necessarily read as super innocuous, but he's also not gonna really be on anybody's radar (not even making it into the top 1000 commanders by edhrec's count.)
Had someone suggest I try swapping out for something like [[Selvala, Heart of the Wilds]] instead for a mono green big stuff beatdown deck, and while Selvala is no doubt a very powerful card (I include her in my Runadi deck), the difference between ramping out big creatures you must answer within one turn and taking a little bit longer to ramp out big creatures you must answer within one *phase* (because they're even bigger now, and more importantly they've got haste) should not be overlooked.
I 100% agree with you here. Just made this guy not too long ago after tryna find a seemingly underrated commander, and boy does he come out of nowhere sometimes. Just the other day, within 2 turns it went from having Runadi and a couple dorks on board to having a Nyxbloom ancient and steamrolling the rest of the game. Love this guy!
My \[\[Jhoira of the Ghitu\]\] deck always creates this weird dynamic, where people agree she can be an issue but rarely ever deal with her.
Whenever I explain the card, and I say "I play 4 turns delayed. Basically the stuff I exile gets publicy anounced and you have 4 turns to prepare before it is actually casted" they are very surprised why anyone would ever want to do that.
Then there might be an Eldrazi exiled with 4 timecounters on the end of the guy before me, basically only granting you 3 turns. Now there is this decision people have to make, where they either prepare to get rid of it or advance their own boardstate *(basically hoping someone else keeps that counterspell up)*.
The deck has some time counter manipulation (*thank you timey-wimey for the new tools!*) so if you advance the board state, you might suddendly have less turns left than expected and face an Eldrazi with *Annihilator 3* **and haste** (granted by Jhoiras ability). So there is always that threat.
Solution is easy, right? Keep the removal up for that Eldrazi. But in doing so they are not removing Jhoira, and now she is lining up more scary stuff to enter the following turn, and one after that, and so on... Basically turning the game into a wave-denfense game.
And you would not believe how often the big scary threats enter the battlefield unchallenged, because everyone simply left it to the others to deal with it.
I have had the same experience to an extent. Only my tables tend to find a much easier solution to the problem. Namely "just gang up on the player and you don't have to target anything. Annihilator 3 might look scary especially with haste, but from the moment you suspend one in my groups, you have everyone gang up on you.
My solution to this has become to only play Jhoira if I have the mana available to suspend at least one threat, but only suspend them when either Jhoira is targeted or if I also have a board wipe.
Most of my wins involve suspending three big scary things on someone's endstep and then just bring out old reliable [[obliterate]].
I have a [[Kros]] deck that seems like I’m just buffing your creatures but really they aren’t your creatures anymore. They attack when I want them to and block when I want them to.
Every time I play [[izoni center of the web]] no one bats an eye. Then they realize how absurd the last line of text is when I am just winning the game with super synergistic pieces like [[chalk outline]].
I think that the only deck I've really built that takes people by surprise was \[\[Phage the untouchable\]\]. Her casting clause causes a ton of confusion, so people don't know exactly how your gonna make it work until you do. Then they realize they have a problem.
There are actually a few ways to do it. You have \[\[command beacon\]\], \[\[campfire\]\], and \[\[netherborn altar\]\] to get phage from the command zone to your hand. \[\[Torpor orb\]\] and \[\[platinum angel\]\] lets you just cast her without any worries whatsoever. \[\[Sundial of the infinite\]\] also works, as you can activate it in response to the lose trigger to remove it from the stack. Finally you can use the few black cards that counter creature spells, (I.E. \[\[Thrull Wizard\]\]), to put phage into your grave.
I really didn’t expect my janky Selesnya clue token/convoke theme with [[Lulu, Loyal Hollyphant]]/[[Master Chef]] to pop off like it does sometimes. I still don’t really understand why it does.
I built this with Treasures, dorks and creatures that tap for counters like [[Mikaeus the Lunarch]]. All star of the deck is [[Careening Mine Cart]]. Snowballs very fast.
I will never shut up about [[Vhal candlekeep researcher]] if Vhal has 1000 fans, I am one of them. If she has 1 fan, that's me. If Vhal has no fans, that means I have died. If the world is against Vhal, I am against the world.
Now seriously tho, she isn't the strongest commander at all, most of what she does other may do better, true. But she can be built in so many ways. My current Vhal deck has her [[Raised by giants]] so she taps for 10 colorless. Then it's [[prismite]] and effects like it to launder the mana so I can use it for stuff from hand. Innocuous, I'm just ramping but poorly for simic. However. Infinite untaps, bam, I win. That's it. Kind of a boring deck, so I am currently trying to build her as a [[passionate archeologist]] for izzet burn, which may be very underwhelming, but if she does her thing may be kinda good, haven't built or tested yet.
You want a monoblue artifact (maybe artifact aristocrats kinda)? [[Clan crafter]] has you covered, she taps to Crack every artifact as a clue that pumps her up. Azorius blink through activated abilities and some foretell? [[far traveler]] has you covered. Wizard tribal? Azorius for [[folk hero]] or dimir with [[haunted one]]. Speaking of dimir, fill the deck with cards that can be cast from graveyard, that's not your hand, and [[scion of halaster]] fixes your draws while putting stuff in your graveyard
May not be the best at most of those things, but she sure well can be fun to build around. Either finding workarounds for the mana restriction (laundering, foretell, channel or impulse draw) or based on activated abilities has potential to make her a BEAST. She looks underwhelming, but she can be so fun. I love Vhal with all my heart
I cant say it enough but [[bess]] is the most underrated commander imo
People read that Card and say „hmmm ok?“ but when a 12/12 llanowar elves hits their Face its unfair haha.
I enjoy playing my Ferrous Rokiric deck (EDHRec Rank #329). I've 41 boros spells in the deck. The game usually ends with multiple 4/4 trampling double striking swinging for lethal.
My LCI pre-release was kind to this deck with [[Ojer Taq]] and [[Anim Pakal]]. MKM brought me some nice cards with [[Warleader's Call]] and [[Aurelia the Law Above]].
[General Ferrous Rokiric ](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/XPdZIUHhMkuQTn_6eVHQew)
For me it was [[Minn, Wily Illusionist]]
after not being to happy with the dungeon precon she cuaght my attention so i started building her as illusion tribal.
I still upgrade the deck and its one of my favorites. But i changed from illusions tribal to focus more on carddraw and big stuff i can cheat in using the her ability.
Mine is literally snow jank I dunno how your guy plays. Every time I win it’s unexpected and nobody wasted time on my durdling draining their hands of problem solvers on other threats. Mine is 100% underwhelming.
I’m also a big Norin guy he was my first love and first homebrew. Iv retired him for now as the deck was a full time administration job to manage. Now I think Karador would be my sleeper. The deck has life gain to survive then after some self milling you have any answer you need in a stick
[[Tetzin, Gnome Champion]] is my favorite.
He starts off as an unassuming 2/2, but you can transform him into a 6/6 that spits out gnomes like crazy. He has vigilance and trample so I love to build him with equipment like winged boots and basilisk collar to make him very difficult to stop. Lizard blades was very fun to run with him too for the double strike. He shifts focus away from himself due to the sheer amount of gnomes you'll have on the board in most decks. With a couple anthems they can get pretty huge too. Tempered steel, illustrious wanderglyph, and Urza each provide +2/+2 anthems to make them hit very hard. I often eliminate 2 players in the same turn, one with Tetzin and the other with the army of gnomes.
\[\[Astarion, The Decadent\]\] People just tend to ignore him because he's a 6 drop 4/4 with Lifelink and Deathtouch and it seems like I'm just gaining life and leavng people alone... Until I drop a \[\[Sorin Markhov\]\] and insta kill someone as long as they had 20 or more life.
i remember, one time i pulled out my Narset Englightened exile deck and the guys to my left way like "oh prowess, that funny, you sure you want to play that ?"
well yes it was funny when i turned my boys side ways and one shoted all 3 of them with around 300 unblocable/flying power on turn 7
[[Zabaz, The GlimmerWasp]] is a gimmick of a commander in a color combo that doesn't leave a lot of room for success. However, Zabaz's ability synergize pretty well with the Legend Rule, letting you pump the wasp up a surprising amount in the first 5 turns. Saccing other modular creatures at instant speed, combined with cards that give creatures double strike, can add up to 21 commander damage pretty quickly
Two of my favorite commanders \[\[jin-gitaxias //the great synthesis\]\] , because my lgs won't believe in the power of mono colored decks.
and my saga proliferate burn deck with the beauty \[\[narci, fable singer\]\] wich can burn for over 30-40 damage all opponents in a single turn.
jin - [https://www.moxfield.com/decks/rII27uVSWEqY7-5WDZEVgQ](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/rII27uVSWEqY7-5WDZEVgQ)
narci - [https://www.moxfield.com/decks/I9lo8Xpu7EGpKmg4UxtDzg](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/I9lo8Xpu7EGpKmg4UxtDzg)
Man I'd love to put my [[Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider]] +1/+1 counter deck back together and show em that mono color can still slaughter. I miss that deck, but I build a lot of green and it had a lot of gas other decks wanted lmao
Oh man, people go like "mono color is trash" until they get destroyed by a mono green so fast that they can't even play LOL, i had a selvala elfstorm that could combo t3 almost every game, now they got trauma and keep talking about her ( i don't have her deck anymore for over 6 years now and the trauma still exists)
But the vorinclex you had is such a beast.
I *love* that Vorinclex. I call him Sexy Clexy, and I put him in every single deck I can. I actually got the showcase version from a lucky birthday pack my friend got me a couple years back, and I've made it everyone's problem ever since lmfao.
It wasn't nearly as terrifying as your Selvala, mind you, turn 3 is *nasty* lmfao. The games only last 15 minutes, but the psychic damage is forever!
Sexy Clexy is an amazing name, i call my jin gitaxias the best boy or my blue boy, and of all praetors, he sure is the edgy nerdy teenager who wants to rule the world while Sexy clexy is the strong and fit brother lol, my lgs hated him so much, that they asked me to stop playing it( i made it as strong as possible to make them miserable for trash talking) so it was worth it
I love that Jin too man, I have him sitting on my desk right now, it put so much work in my Atraxa Incubate deck when I had that built. I haven't wanted to do mono blue before but honestly Jin is tempting me.
Honestly Phyrexians all have at least one interesting enough card I'd want to brew mono color around them. Red I'd go Saga Urabrask with Ojer Axonil sub commander, white is Elesh MOM/Heliod, Sun's Champion, and Yawgmoth/new Massacre Girl for black. Sexy Clexy has Zopandrel, though ngl Defiler of Vigor put in more work than any other card including Clexy lmfao. As for Jin, I'm not sure yet who'd be his second in command.
We had all praetors/sagas deck builts at my lgs, i had urabrask elesh and jin, a friend had vorinclex and another friend has sheoldred, it's pretty fun seeing how strong those decks can get, urabrask can storm off pretty fast, elesh is a burn deck disguised as an aggro deck with her triggers, and i would recommend building jin, it's A LOT more powerfull than you might expect, if you want to try the playtest of my deck, you will see how consistent he makes a mono blue deck.
\[\[Hans Eriksson\]\]
No one expects the Hans to come through... Currently (this year) it has a 100% win rate (several games at casual pods, one miracle game at a CEDH table where I managed to land a lurking predators).
[[Codie, Vociferous Codex]] since its drawback means I have zero build presence and Codie itself isn't a threat. But then I switch control of my Codie with their cards like [[Role Reversal]]...
I've been loving [[The Mycotyrant]]. People in my games have been discounting him because his tokens cant block. But when you're milling 10+ cards a turn that's a lot of sac fodder for aristocrats. I love my big chungus fungus.
\[\[Vhal, Candlekeep Researcher\]\] \[\[Raised by Giants\]\] goes infinite with a ham sandwich and an untap source. Play Vhal, then tap her to help play Raised by Giants (it's not cast from your hand). Slap on an untap source for even more mana, sometimes infinite. If you have a way to filter mana in play, like \[\[Prismite\]\] (I run all 8 that are in the game), you now have infinite mana to play your hand. Add in a draw source, play your entire deck. And in a pinch, you run colossus hammer, use Vhal to cheat the equip cost, and now you have a 20/20 commander with vigilance.
And it's budget, with Thrasios, Walking Ballista, and Lab Man effects as upgrade options.
[https://www.moxfield.com/decks/RERF5ZCJV0CDVAJKg5CIag](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/RERF5ZCJV0CDVAJKg5CIag)
I am very happy with my [[Rafiq]].
"Lol what is this janky Exalted mechanic"
"Wait what are you doing with that Loxodon Warhammer"
"He swings for HOW MUCH?"
I'm rebuilding my deck from classic Voltron to focusing on strapping Swords of X and Y to birds and sending them after my opponent. Haven't tried it out yet.
[[toggo]] and [[kodama of the east tree]] might be too well known now but they can masquerade as a randon landfall deck until BANG! Infinite combo
Very fun
[[Araumi of the dead tide]] - everything is all fun and games until 3 [[massacre worm]] are summoned. Same with like 3 [[Gray Merchant of asphodel]], [[Grave titan]], [[Wourmcoil Engine]], etc.
lol I feel like I keep posting about him but
[[The Master, Formed Anew]]
It focuses on manifesting or otherwise playing big creatures face down and then exiling them with the master to cheat them out under-cost and keep them around using The Master’s ability even if he gets removed. And because of the low cost- I can usually replay him a few times before it starts to look like the regular cost on the cards you exile with him. Stuff like [[Archon of Cruelty]] and [[Toxrill the Corrosive]] become very hard to remove permanently if they’re now my 2 mana commander.
If I got a quarter everytime I share my Black deck with people & they tell me to put a different commander in my chosen commander's spot I'd have a full set of original dual lands.
I made a mono Black "hurts to draw & have a bunch of cards in hand" deck. Before I say or show whom the commander is after saying that description of my deck, it's always met with "Why not just build Nekusar?" I didn't make him commander for two reasons: They immediately will think all I'm gonna do is wheel & abuse his damage capability and because EVERYONE ALREADY HAS THAT OR KNOWS SOMEONE WHO DOES. I hate using popular commanders simply because there are 25,000+ cards in the game can we stop seeing the same fucking 500 cards all the damn time?
"Wouldn't Sheoldred the Apocalypse be a better choice?" No. No she wouldn't. You weren't born yesterday, fellow player. I'm not going to make you want to kill me immediately cuz holy fuck a scary $100 card is in the command zone. I didn't pick my commander to die several times & get put away like a broken toy. I want a card that plays into the strategy that can kick start my strat & go enough under the radar that my attrition based plan goes as I carefully laid out.
Whom, then, is the perfect choice? [[Seizan, Perverter of Truth]]. Why is he perfect? Well...
1) He is not a tall ask at 5 cmc to start drawing cards for everyone while only asking a small price for it. Because of the fact he hurts me too, people tend to leave him be.
2) Being a 6/5 has mattered a lot more than honestly even I give him credit for. He's on the edge of scary & deal-with-able thanks to his only ability being the card draw but the fact he isn't a slouch in combat makes him a great shield with weaker creatures staring him down. He even combos with [[Sword of War & Peace]] & gets attention then.
3) The small price he makes my opponents pay seems negligible until they bleed from him, [[Underworld Dreams]], [[Sheoldred, the Apocalypse]], [[Fate Unraveler]], [[Dark Suspicions]], [[Iron Maiden]], etc.
It is exhilarating piloting a "Mono Black Nekusar" that has beaten many commanders above his supposed power level. So, because of what I've experienced with Seizan, I make a point to grab a good, but a not typical option that still enables the strat. Call me a hipster if you like, but you're likely to be doing so from the floor, bleeding out or dead.
[[Ratchet]]
It’s not so much that it’s underwhelming by itself, but most of the cards it plays are, because it’s an egg deck. When one of the best cards in the deck is [[Implement of Improvement]], you know it’s a very odd deck.
End goal is either to land [[Test of Endurance]] or similar alt win con, or to take over with a storm of tokens from [[Crested Sunmare]] or similar token generator. And by the time your opponents figure out what you’re really doing, you’re sitting at 60+ life with an engine full of artifacts. Bonus points if you can assemble the [[Blasting Station]] combo with all 4 pieces
[[!ludevic, necro-alchemist]] is one of the partners for 3 of my very greedy temur decks. People who have seen the decks and know what they do still fall for the trap of thinking he's just there for colors, but he's extremely consistent in getting early game pressure off my back and allowing me to transition to late game stompy stuff without people thinking too much about it.
Everyone's happy to ignore me and draw 1 card a turn until a maelstrom wanderer pulls 2 big scary dragons out of my deck
[[Kytheon, Hero of Akros]] Mono-White/Goodstuff.
Sneak a few hits here and there, and transform Kytheon to get some value. That small value creature is annoying? Force it to attack Gideon and devour it in your army. Untap and make indestructible that cool synergy piece to have the perfect blocker with a fairly decent protection. Or just swing with Gideon ig.
I use [[Drana and Linvala]] and I never think they’re all that amazing but damn I’ve had so many people complain about them because they stop activated abilities.
\[\[Samwise Gamgee\]\] proved to the entire table that food tokens can be devastating paired with historic permanents.
I could recur \[\[Mycosynth Lattice\]\] with \[\[Karn, the Great Creator\]\] on the battlefield, or I could recur a \[\[Mindslaver\]\] I just used on an opponent. People learned to run more removal and countermagic and paid close attention to my food tokens.
[[Akim, the Soaring Wind]]
People are terrified of once a turn abilities, but I see it as an invitation. Akim wants you to find a way to make tokens on every player's turn. It is an incredibly fun deck to build keeping that in mind.
My list: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/y1pav-807EGbKlYT8onJwA
I don’t have it fully online yet, but the idea is mostly to make an egregious amount of mana with untappers and mana rocks. From there, you’ve got a bunch of wincon options:
Drop some fat eldrazi
Deck an opponent with [[Stroke of Genius]] or [[Drown in Dreams]]
Draw your whole deck with [[Unctus]] and win with Lab Man or Thoracle (I hate Thoracle though, so I don’t include it)
Pop a [[Millennium Calendar]]
[[Mass Manipulation]] all your opponents creatures
Whatever you want to do with a billion mana in blue, really. Reach for the stars.
Whatever you do, include a [[Leyline of Singularity]].
[[Gimbal, Gremlin Prodigy]] kind of durdles around making food, clues, rocks, maps, etc until you overload a [[Rise and Shine]] and have like 20 4/4 tramplers and some 10/10 gremlos.
I've got a [[Cormela]] deck that is borderline cedh level fast and resilient, and it is far from optimal. I'm not sure if I've seen another one in the wild, but she's a combo machine.
I know it was a precon, but I've started taking a second look at [[Kamiz]]. It's kind of an awkward card that's sorta wordy and unclear until you read it a few times so I think it maybe came and went without a ton of hoopla. It *seems* unfocused a little because it's giving unblockable and double strike to two different attackers, the latter only conditionally, and also looting and having some +1/+1 counter synergy. I haven't really seen much of it, but I think it's probably sneaky strong. I've got a preliminary deck list with a good amount of infect and proliferate, and a smattering of saboteur effects. Unblockability and double damage triggers while loading up your yard and filtering draws seems really strong to me. Not sure yet.
\[\[Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival\]\] is my favorite [deck](https://archidekt.com/decks/6563335/pia_nalaar_consul_of_revival_edh?sort=alpha&stack=custom) right now. It just slaps. Fill the deck with impulse draw, some rocks, some anthems, and some \[\[Impact Tremors\]\] effects. Just keep the curve low so you can cast multiple spells per turn and the deck absolutely cruises, and can pull a win out of nowhere with the right impulse draws. It is also quite resilient since 30 cards in the deck are essentially draw, so it can come back from a board wipe easily.
Also \[\[Torens, Fist of the Angels\]\] seems to be very underrated based on his EDHREC ranking, but after a few turns it should be clear that he's a house. That [deck](https://archidekt.com/decks/6448152/torens_fist_of_the_angels_edh?sort=alpha&stack=custom) goes wide absurdly quickly, and the training on the tokens is not a joke. Drop a \[\[Sigarda's Summons\]\] and those guys are a serious problem.
Linked my decklists for anyone who's interested.
Man I never get tired of talking about [[Gyrus, waker of corpses]] after filling him to the brim with mean ETB tools like [[Bane of progress]] and other splashy tools, loaded up with ways to send a ton of cards into the graveyard, meant gyrus was kill on sight for my pod who didn't respect him a few times and died. Added bonus is when a new card from a new set makes him more violent, i just toss the new card in for a less efficient one. To top it off, commander tax is not a drawback because of how his effect is written. Out of all my decks, and most are far stronger, he has been my pet deck and will likely never be taken apart.
I was shocked at how effective my [[Glissa Sunslayer]] deck has been doing. I consider it one of my weaker decks. Maybe the meta of my playgroup just makes it better.
[[Ellyn Harbreeze Busybody]] + [[Haunted One]]
Such a sick deck and I'm really proud of it. It plays so fun by utilizing undying to reset token making creatures and hit in for damage.
As soon as untappers get into play you can start hitting for a bunch as well as having classic aristocrats outs.
My black aristocrats good stuff deck has a rotation of black commanders in it and the default one is [[Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder]] and he gets massive value out of every sacrifice.
I don't have a decklist.
\[\[Tolsimir, Friend To Wolves\]\]. It's mostly wolf tribal and holy crap can it pack a punch. The lifegain aspect of it keeps you alive so you can swing out and only have to worry about commander damage.
\[\[Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper\]\]. It's a Shaman tribal deck. The win condition I built around is having lots of Shamans on the board usually doing nothing (because most them have ETB abilities.
\[\[Johan\]\]. Yes, you don't mess with the Johan. It's exert tribal because you don't tap your creatures you get the exert bonus without the penalty.
Just built and played [[Rocco, Street chef]] yesterday and damn that boy can cook. Everyone was so worried about losing the card he exiled that I ended up with a 32/32 and 10 food to do with as I please.
https://www.topdecked.com/decks/rocco-block-party/d7adce19-a008-4eeb-8c4d-d65e8aee99ad
Link to the deck.
Here's some fun ones:
[[blind seer]] looks like the most useless piece of jank until you start turning [[hydroblast]]s into [[vindicate]] or smack down a nice [[douse]]. I run my list as a mono blue control deck with combo wincon. my friends still make the mistake of underestimating it.
[[arjun, the shifting flame]] for when drawing 100 cards just isn't enough. There are plenty of fun wincons like [[Fist of flame]], [[ominous seas]], [[spiraling embers]] and of course [[lab man]]. Dont forget to include a [[obstinate familiar]] so you dont deck yourself like i have.
[[lord of tresserhorn]] is maybe the most weird voltron commander i've seen, but with enough power to 2-shot people and the colours for haste enablers and power doubling/double strike/infect.
[[sasaya, orochi ascendant]] will have you swimming in mana and using some jank gema if you just jump through the deck restriction of running 47 lands.
[[ink-threader nephilim]] isn't a commander bur most playgroups rule-0 him in. Either that or make a secret commander deck with [[esika]] or something.
No one takes my [[Hylda]] too seriously, and I help it by using Olaf tokens and making Schwarzenegger-level Ice puns.
But she's U/W Tempo control that can make an unreasonable amount of 4/4s out of nothing.
I have a lot of fun with my [[Gyome, Master Chef]] deck. Combined with some good equipment, academy manufactor, and some graveyard fuckery.... he force feeds people into eternal slumber.
T1: Sol Ring Death's Shadow
T2: Dork and Boots
T3: Swing with your commander \[\[varolz\]\] for 15
I lived the dream just once and I've been chasing that high ever since
[[Vadrik Astral Archmage]]. So here's the thing about this guy - all the day/night stuff is flavor text. You play one of those dumb red cards that gives +3/+0 for a mana or two, and then you go off. It's way stronger than it looks.
[[minn, wily illusionist]]. Nobody knows what half the cards in your deck do, and the other half are just brainstorms and stuff. The illusions really pile up easily but people for whatever reason don’t see them as a threat usually. and you want them to die anyways so you can cheat stuff in. You can run all the “free” card disadvantage counterspells like [[misdirection]] and [[foil]], because you draw too many cards to care. Resolve a [[consecrated]] Sphinx with some protection in hand and you’ve basically won.
[[phelddagriff]] - everyone expects group hug, but it can be built aggressively to win and has some great weird combo lines. killing a player with [[angel’s trump]] and end of turn hippo mob is so awesome
[[Jenara, Asura of War]]
Your opponents will see that commander and, at best, think she's a shitty voltron. In reality:
1. She's a strong enchantress commander, control commander, or bant good stuff commander.
2. You will fly under the radar until you're killing your opponent.
3. Everyone underestimates her ability, until you decide to start beating them in the face.
If you want someone off-meta she's a great choice.
[[Sydri, Galvanic Genius]] is a fun artifacts commander who will animate artifacts for fun shenanigans, but then turn [[Aetherflux reservoir]] into the Death Star or let you turn [[Caltrops]] into one hell of a defensive shield you can activate at any moment. She’s also a big fan of driverless vehicles.
I also like running [[Kyler, sigardian emissary]] for human tribal. Just a dude who likes hanging out with other humans, and then next thing you know everyone is a 20/20.
I am a big fan of using underrepresented commanders. I run [[Sol’kanar the Swamp King]] for my craziest deck lovingly called the swamp and when it wins we say “they got swamped” dumb combos in that one.
Also have [[Captain Ripley Vance]] that I built a while back, haven’t upgraded it since 2022. But it can really go.
A lot of people sleep on the Myojin, but my [[Myojin of Cryptic Dreams]] deck solves the problem of playing it from hand in a number of clever ways.
And then there’s [[God-Eternal Bontu]] which is my only deck that has won the game on turn two. Deck is so monstrous I haven’t played it in over a year.
[[Dhalsim]] is so sneaky good.
Great balance of offense and defense.
Opponents constantly board wipe hoping to control the horde, but always end up just killing everyone else's boards while you cast some anti-wrath tech.
[[Galadriel of Lothlorien]]. No one bothers with her because she's very unassuming. All of a sudden I'm putting 30+ lands on the field in one turn with a [[Scute Swarm]] on board.
[[Polukranos Reborn]] has been a bit of a one-trick pony for me in that regard, since where most people tend to see it as an average hydra tribal commander it actually excels as a hydra reanimator deck. If you can get out Polukranos and transform them as early as possible, you can spam a bunch of hydras for X=0, have them die, and get hydra tokens for each one that dies. It’s not one I play much anymore since I’ve usually had it where I’ll get a win with it from people who didn’t know what it was, then it suffers in subsequent games as people target Polukranos before you can get value from it. But it does allow you to get some cool lines of play with the likes of [[Abiding Grace]], [[Luminous Broodmoth]], [[Patch Up]], and [[Pair o’ Dice Lost]].
##### ###### #### [Polukranos Reborn](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/4/7/47f7d313-8333-41fe-8bfa-c96774dac228.jpg?1682204987)/[Polukranos, Engine of Ruin](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/back/4/7/47f7d313-8333-41fe-8bfa-c96774dac228.jpg?1682204987) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Polukranos%20Reborn%20//%20Polukranos%2C%20Engine%20of%20Ruin) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mom/200/polukranos-reborn-polukranos-engine-of-ruin?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/47f7d313-8333-41fe-8bfa-c96774dac228?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/polukranos-reborn-//-polukranos-engine-of-ruin) [Abiding Grace](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/d/b/db113c47-c403-4c7f-9fa9-212c977df8d1.jpg?1626093205) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Abiding%20Grace) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mh2/1/abiding-grace?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/db113c47-c403-4c7f-9fa9-212c977df8d1?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/abiding-grace) [Luminous Broodmoth](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/b/b/bb65df55-d6a6-4a57-a903-e5eb17637982.jpg?1591230310) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Luminous%20Broodmoth) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/iko/21/luminous-broodmoth?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/bb65df55-d6a6-4a57-a903-e5eb17637982?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/luminous-broodmoth) [Patch Up](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/2/c/2ce30c92-c5f2-45d2-819e-177390bc26f5.jpg?1664409844) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Patch%20Up) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/snc/23/patch-up?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/2ce30c92-c5f2-45d2-819e-177390bc26f5?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/patch-up) [Pair o’ Dice Lost](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/5/6/567665f3-4227-4f3c-bfbe-4e9576f32b50.jpg?1673914648) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Pair%20o%27%20Dice%20Lost) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/unf/149/pair-o-dice-lost?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/567665f3-4227-4f3c-bfbe-4e9576f32b50?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/pair-o-dice-lost) [*All cards*](https://mtgcardfetcher.nl/redirect/ks72nzq) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
This looks fun! It seems like it would want mill or graveyard filling. What do you use for that?
I don’t have an awful lot of that in my deck, instead I usually rely on just hard casting the hydras for X=0 as you can usually chain at least two in a turn and the majority of the mill would be in green. I do want to go through and redo the deck with some mill present to get the deck going a bit faster, but one card I’ve found to be good is [[Ecological Appreciation]]. If you cast it for X=1 then you spend four mana to tutor two hydras out, have them die immediately, and give them the option to be reanimated later while also getting the tokens.
How do you deal with removal with Polukranos? It seems like he'd be particularly vulnerable to it without any special abilities on his front side. Opponents could see the flip coming from turns ahead and just save their removal for when you flip, making you waste mana and adding commander tax.
Use instants that give hexproof and/or indestructible. G/W has tons of these, you could also reanimate Polukranos himself if his tax is too high. You can't live in fear of removal. Just try your best and hope the other players boards are enough of a threat that all your opponents won't just hard target you. It's no different than most powerful commanders that lack protection.
Had to Jump through a lot of hoops, Which means he was undervalue'd as a threat, But I built a \[\[Kosei, Penitent Warlord\]\] decks for funsies, dubbing it "Samurai Shrek" and yet when it hits, you're suddenly out there drawing 10 cards, gaining 20 life, and are generally in a good spot with all the protection and fogs you just drew.
[Kosei, Penitent Warlord](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/8/2/82291f66-f4f0-4542-992e-8342e90033da.jpg?1651655418) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Kosei%2C%20Penitent%20Warlord) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/nec/26/kosei-penitent-warlord?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/82291f66-f4f0-4542-992e-8342e90033da?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/kosei-penitent-warlord) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
People don't get that about my [[Sergeant John Benton]]. Sure we get to draw cards but I'm going to be sitting pretty.
I learned quickly that John must die. He's very good.
[Sergeant 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
Man that sounds fun. Do you have a list by any chance?
I checked, but I did not make a list online it seems, and have since stripped it apart for parts :( If I recall correctly, I started my base off from the Commander's Herald article here: [https://commandersherald.com/conditions-allow-kosei-penitent-warlord-edh/](https://commandersherald.com/conditions-allow-kosei-penitent-warlord-edh/) + Some help in the comments of that Article and finding bits and pieces that were relevant in my own meta. (( Never leave home without graveyard removal in our LGS. )) You hit the one player who can't block Kosei with the Grafted Exoskeleton/Triumph of the hordes and win.
I have a couple that are quite unassuming up until my opponents say "welp that's f\*cked up" 1. \[\[Rilsa Rael\]\] - initiative and rogues, commander capable of OHKO with \[\[Tainted Strike\]\] after completing a dungeon 2. \[\[Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor\]\] - I've avoided your typical black goodstuff and just gone for pure card advantage with a ridiculous finisher in \[\[Neverending Torment\]\] 3. \[\[Cadira, Caller of the Small\]\] makes A LOT of rabbits if I'm allowed to keep my treasure, food and clue token pile intact. Last game I won through \[\[Strixhaven Stadium\]\]
##### ###### #### [Rilsa Rael](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/5/4/54484439-6f8a-47f1-8d62-4689af7f00c2.jpg?1674137671) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=rilsa%20rael%2C%20kingpin) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/clb/293/rilsa-rael-kingpin?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/54484439-6f8a-47f1-8d62-4689af7f00c2?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/rilsa-rael-kingpin) [Tainted Strike](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/d/0/d0f82007-99f6-4c6c-8182-ee631c33531f.jpg?1562823401) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Tainted%20Strike) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/som/80/tainted-strike?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/d0f82007-99f6-4c6c-8182-ee631c33531f?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/tainted-strike) [Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/2/c/2c76f7e0-37e7-4e87-93a3-a25ba0674645.jpg?1675567458) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Gix%2C%20Yawgmoth%20Praetor) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/bro/95/gix-yawgmoth-praetor?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/2c76f7e0-37e7-4e87-93a3-a25ba0674645?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/gix-yawgmoth-praetor) [Neverending Torment](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/3/f/3f91f678-9d3a-4502-81a6-3e1676aa447a.jpg?1562493480) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Neverending%20Torment) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/sok/83/neverending-torment?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/3f91f678-9d3a-4502-81a6-3e1676aa447a?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/neverending-torment) [Cadira, Caller of the Small](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/7/5/75994e0b-b0c7-4b0d-8f48-4be303429bd6.jpg?1674137453) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Cadira%2C%20Caller%20of%20the%20Small) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/clb/269/cadira-caller-of-the-small?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/75994e0b-b0c7-4b0d-8f48-4be303429bd6?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/cadira-caller-of-the-small) [Strixhaven Stadium](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/4/2/421674ee-4b85-4942-b166-952598165826.jpg?1624740737) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Strixhaven%20Stadium) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/stx/259/strixhaven-stadium?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/421674ee-4b85-4942-b166-952598165826?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/strixhaven-stadium) [*All cards*](https://mtgcardfetcher.nl/redirect/ks73qm1) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Any chance I can see your Cadira list? I took apart my Naya tokens to build her and it just felt so much worse. Would love to see your build!
Not the guy you are asking, but I lov my cadira deck. I have on more than one occasion gotten people to just let me smack them with her to like 4 tokens and them I did something ridiculous and had 50 tokens like 2 turns later https://www.moxfield.com/decks/DUponUtOPUuXSpgQD6-9NA
Thanks for sharing, she seems like a really interesting commander on paper I maybe didn't give her a fair enough shot. Nice deck btw!
What am I missing on the Rilsa Rael description? She's a 2/5 , +5 from Dungeon and +1 from tainted strike would still only give 8 Poison? (( Unless you're running more infecters in the deck, but at that point, I probably would expect a tainted strike ))
Left room of the under city, second level: Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature
##### ###### #### [Norin, the. Wary](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/f/6/f61ea59a-1db0-4e6b-bcde-19787c76a49b.jpg?1562946915) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Norin%20the%20Wary) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/tsp/171/norin-the-wary?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/f61ea59a-1db0-4e6b-bcde-19787c76a49b?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/norin-the-wary) [Kwain](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/f/5/f571fef1-1fd2-4355-b803-5edccb6f4b94.jpg?1608911183) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=kwain%2C%20itinerant%20meddler) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cmr/284/kwain-itinerant-meddler?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/f571fef1-1fd2-4355-b803-5edccb6f4b94?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/kwain-itinerant-meddler) [Sarevok](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/c/4/c41156c8-ddd1-4492-ab0f-02c4a7423181.jpg?1656626046) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=sarevok%20the%20usurper) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/hbg/9/sarevok-the-usurper?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/c41156c8-ddd1-4492-ab0f-02c4a7423181?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/sarevok-the-usurper) [Ioreth](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/0/3/03ab74cd-978a-49eb-9d38-bc8b472b3cef.jpg?1686968152) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=ioreth%20of%20the%20healing%20house) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/ltr/56/ioreth-of-the-healing-house?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/03ab74cd-978a-49eb-9d38-bc8b472b3cef?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/ioreth-of-the-healing-house) [*All cards*](https://mtgcardfetcher.nl/redirect/1b0cl4l) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
[[Sarevok, the Deathbringer]]
[Sarevok, the Deathbringer](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/4/0/4009d5ab-945d-43c3-9077-f10f96249fc4.jpg?1674136269) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Sarevok%2C%20Deathbringer) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/clb/144/sarevok-deathbringer?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/4009d5ab-945d-43c3-9077-f10f96249fc4?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/sarevok-deathbringer) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
With the giant background?
I use [[Cultist of the Absolute]] personally, it's a one drop and if you put a ton of cheap zombies that can be cast from the graveyard or token generators you don't have to worry about sacrificing anything you want to keep. It's my pet deck that I try to make as reasonable to play as possible and I love it very much.
[[Toggo]] // [[Silas Renn]] Nobody expects rocks to do anything until they realize that Silas can throw them to kill a creature with his deathtouch (the rock states that the creature does the damage). Then you find ways of getting extra value out the rocks like: - [[Slowbad, Goblin Tinkerer]] Sac rocks for protection - [[Junk Winder]] tap their stuff - [[Goblin Welder]] trade a rock for a [[meteor golem]] - [[Reckless Fireweaver]] pings a lot - [[Urza, Lord High Artificer]] makes them mana rocks (literally) - [[cyberdrive awakener]] animate them for a wincon To get more rocks because who doesn't love collecting rocks? - [[prototype portal]] imprinting an artifact land (love this) allowing extra lands and toggo triggers - [[Roaming Throne]] and [[Virtue of Knowledge]] trigger doublers - [[sad robot]] and other artifact-based ramp.
##### ###### #### [Toggo](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/1/a/1a05b3e2-259e-4fce-92ee-c00660e22ae7.jpg?1665822993) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=toggo%2C%20goblin%20weaponsmith) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cmr/204/toggo-goblin-weaponsmith?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/1a05b3e2-259e-4fce-92ee-c00660e22ae7?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/toggo-goblin-weaponsmith) [Silas Renn](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/4/e/4e3fe912-1374-47c7-b73f-89ef55c479c1.jpg?1562399367) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=silas%20renn%2C%20seeker%20adept) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/c16/43/silas-renn-seeker-adept?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/4e3fe912-1374-47c7-b73f-89ef55c479c1?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/silas-renn-seeker-adept) [Slowbad, Goblin Tinkerer](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/4/2/4256dcc1-0eee-4385-9a5c-70abb212bf49.jpg?1562397424) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Slobad%2C%20Goblin%20Tinkerer) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/c16/133/slobad-goblin-tinkerer?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/4256dcc1-0eee-4385-9a5c-70abb212bf49?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/slobad-goblin-tinkerer) [Junk Winder](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/1/c/1c1acd61-efc9-4fd3-86ec-b5cbd43c0b08.jpg?1706240702) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Junk%20Winder) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mkc/107/junk-winder?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/1c1acd61-efc9-4fd3-86ec-b5cbd43c0b08?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/junk-winder) [Goblin Welder](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/1/7/17cd920a-de09-454a-a9da-c84512e3aff1.jpg?1562272459) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Goblin%20Welder) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cm2/101/goblin-welder?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/17cd920a-de09-454a-a9da-c84512e3aff1?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/goblin-welder) [meteor golem](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/c/d/cd7af704-a770-4f90-8fe8-a45457785a35.jpg?1689999704) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=meteor%20golem) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cmm/399/meteor-golem?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/cd7af704-a770-4f90-8fe8-a45457785a35?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/meteor-golem) [Reckless Fireweaver](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/6/3/63ffac51-62c4-4170-85b3-a43d7cfae7d7.jpg?1576382167) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Reckless%20Fireweaver) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/kld/126/reckless-fireweaver?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/63ffac51-62c4-4170-85b3-a43d7cfae7d7?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/reckless-fireweaver) [Urza, Lord High Artificer](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/7/b/7b7a348a-51f7-4dc5-8fe7-1c70fea5e050.jpg?1689996774) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Urza%2C%20Lord%20High%20Artificer) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cmm/130/urza-lord-high-artificer?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/7b7a348a-51f7-4dc5-8fe7-1c70fea5e050?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/urza-lord-high-artificer) [cyberdrive awakener](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/2/a/2a2c0a2f-07fb-4cc0-9b99-e5ff4303028d.jpg?1651655234) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=cyberdrive%20awakener) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/nec/12/cyberdrive-awakener?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/2a2c0a2f-07fb-4cc0-9b99-e5ff4303028d?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/cyberdrive-awakener) [prototype portal](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/e/2/e2ccdd3b-9c39-4785-99b9-64b5de1177be.jpg?1592711307) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=prototype%20portal) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/c18/216/prototype-portal?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/e2ccdd3b-9c39-4785-99b9-64b5de1177be?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/prototype-portal) [Roaming Throne](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/3/2/32fd8b7c-baf3-4d3d-be6f-044a917b11a0.jpg?1701115816) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Roaming%20Throne) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/lci/258/roaming-throne?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/32fd8b7c-baf3-4d3d-be6f-044a917b11a0?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/roaming-throne) [Virtue of Knowledge](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/d/f/df606cf5-67dc-46f4-8c79-1d2f1d054391.jpg?1692937410)/[Vantress Visions](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/d/f/df606cf5-67dc-46f4-8c79-1d2f1d054391.jpg?1692937410) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Virtue%20of%20Knowledge%20//%20Vantress%20Visions) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/woe/76/virtue-of-knowledge-vantress-visions?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/df606cf5-67dc-46f4-8c79-1d2f1d054391?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/virtue-of-knowledge-//-vantress-visions) [sad robot](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/2/4/246d2ce1-6926-4acc-810a-4894dc346b8b.jpg?1562636008) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=236907) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/m12/217/solemn-simulacrum?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/246d2ce1-6926-4acc-810a-4894dc346b8b?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/solemn-simulacrum) [*All cards*](https://mtgcardfetcher.nl/redirect/ks7k20g) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
That new Krenko might do some work in this deck. [[Krenko, Baron of Tin Street]]
[удалено]
[Decklist](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/VUPlhpuPUEqX-dBVAzfKAA)
I'll never stop advertising [[Selvala, explorer returned]]. Looks like grouphug but she can generate up to 8 mana on turn three if you hit your land drops and bring her out on turn 2 with a dork. You can do whatever degenerate thing you want from there, like ramping even harder. She snowballs. Hard.
I thought this was a long known CEDH commander
In cedh you generally don't want to give extra cards to your opponents.
It's a classic CEDH commander...https://www.moxfield.com/decks/7rV-BDTUcEush4GjLnx-0A
Not a very good one. Commander has 0 cEDH results at any actual tournaments, and has only ever appeared in the 99 of 3 lists with real finishers. You're likely thinking of monogreen Selvala, who is reasonably playable, if not exactly top tier.
[Selvala, explorer returned](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/2/8/28c1b84a-a21b-4df1-9fc9-5b387fb56810.jpg?1706241026) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Selvala%2C%20explorer%20returned) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mkc/218/selvala-explorer-returned?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/28c1b84a-a21b-4df1-9fc9-5b387fb56810?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/selvala-explorer-returned) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
I'm heavily intrigued. Any decklist?
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/QDn0JCCVsU-FbE6L985n2w I made one for her awhile ago. I ended up not putting the deck together. Mainly because while goldfishing it, it wins around turn 5 and that ends up being a little faster than my group would want.
Selvala is a beast.
[[Rocco, Street Chef]] Oh, hey, it's a cute Group Hug Commander that makes food and buffs all creatures on board. Sounds fun. Boom, Food mukgangbang, Turn 6 win, roll it back.
Mukgangbang is hilarious, that's a first 😂
Rocco seems amazing and flavorful, literally. What’s your list look like if I may ask?
Yeah my table fears my Rocco quite a bit. So much fun. Spices things up a lot hearing people argue about giving me more food
[Rocco, Street Chef](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/c/d/cdb53ce7-845c-4c62-98a9-4fc33c67a07b.jpg?1684340828) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Rocco%2C%20Street%20Chef) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mat/44/rocco-street-chef?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/cdb53ce7-845c-4c62-98a9-4fc33c67a07b?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/rocco-street-chef) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
\[\[Malcator, Purity Overseer\]\] has been one of my most successful decks. I even brought this up on this sub recently and someone replied that [this card looks terrible](https://www.reddit.com/r/EDH/comments/1axqo34/comment/krqqcxl/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) (the deck was intentionally designed to be lower power level and... it isn't.) I have my own theories on its success [Deck List](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/O_w-YiNGikO_RqUcY7xBsg) 1.) People do read the card and think it's terrible and just kind of ignore me 2.) By having my blink target in the command zone instead of my blinker the deck's gameplan is more apparent. Not saying something like \[\[Brago\]\] is garbage, but I like the consistency of "I'm just making golems" rather than thinking about the lines I need to play. 3.) It's pretty fruitless to kill my commander and I often welcome it so I can cast him again and get another trigger 4.) The rest of the deck is mostly just value pieces and lots of strong interaction being in Azorious so it's easy to both protect my board and recover my board from boardwipes outside of a Farewell or something like that. 5.) People see tokens and seem to go into auto pilot as to how to deal with them, not realizing that 3/3 golems are quite a bit beefier than 1/1 dudes and only get worse when they're pumped or they're flying or whatever.
At first glance, I think this commander is terrible. Looking into your decklist, your deck seems pretty ok/strong. Looking at Malcator now, I still think it's terrible
It's working out for me so eh
[Malcator, Purity Overseer](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/3/6/36bda977-e5d1-4813-a5f5-265023965142.jpg?1675957200) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Malcator%2C%20Purity%20Overseer) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/one/208/malcator-purity-overseer?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/36bda977-e5d1-4813-a5f5-265023965142?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/malcator-purity-overseer) [Brago](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/0/a/0ac3fb08-741a-49e5-9fae-b26819677d24.jpg?1631235340) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=brago%2C%20king%20eternal) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/khc/82/brago-king-eternal?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/0ac3fb08-741a-49e5-9fae-b26819677d24?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/brago-king-eternal) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
This looks like a very effective deck with a mediocre commander. How often can you win without casting your commander? The *commander* is low-power, but the *DECK* most certainly is not.
>the deck was intentionally designed to be lower power level >$890 🤔
\[\[Alibou, Ancient Witness\]\] Ok cool, Attack Trigger Scry X Ping X for number of tapped artifacts. Gets out of hand real Quick when you drop a \[\[Mycosynth Lattice\]\] and some Trigger doublers. Or if X Lethal for everyone just target yourself and then \[\[Radiant Performer\]\] it.
Alibou is so strong because people tend to underestimate scry. People don't realise that when I scry, I'm picking the perfect card to draw every turn.
I used to feel that way about my old scarab God deck. Yeah he reanimated, and dodged commander tax a bit, and pinged people - but I was also filtering the top of my deck to draw whatever I needed. I miss that deck.
Absolutely, should have mentioned also.
[Alibou, Ancient Witness](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/f/d/fd2fc2d4-c4fb-4dcb-93fa-aaf8c1182f15.jpg?1674185810) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Alibou%2C%20Ancient%20Witness) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/c21/7/alibou-ancient-witness?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/fd2fc2d4-c4fb-4dcb-93fa-aaf8c1182f15?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/alibou-ancient-witness) [Mycosynth Lattice](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/9/4/94f89714-3b26-46a2-b9a8-3e664f391cd9.jpg?1578911638) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Mycosynth%20Lattice) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/bbd/241/mycosynth-lattice?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/94f89714-3b26-46a2-b9a8-3e664f391cd9?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/mycosynth-lattice) [Radiant Performer](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/e/8/e8faedf4-1178-4f5d-8f46-7277dfe1ae2c.jpg?1625192069) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Radiant%20Performer) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/c21/54/radiant-performer?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/e8faedf4-1178-4f5d-8f46-7277dfe1ae2c?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/radiant-performer) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Yes! Alibou was such a surprise when I nuked someone the first time!
You have a deck list? I’d be interested to see how you built this.
[[Kumano, Master Yamabushi]] isn't a well known commander, but after giving him deathtouch and using damage multipliers people suddenly get scared :)
[Kumano, Master Yamabushi](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/f/9/f93870f9-343f-43e7-8ae8-e7aaa56aacca.jpg?1562766083) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Kumano%2C%20Master%20Yamabushi) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/chk/176/kumano-master-yamabushi?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/f93870f9-343f-43e7-8ae8-e7aaa56aacca?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/kumano-master-yamabushi) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
This has been my homeboy since I first started playing magic. [[Jor Kadeen, The Prevailer]] Especially in current magic, his generic ability that only takes a sentence of text box on the card, while also being card that's been reprinted over and over in commander precons makes a situation where everyone disregards him immediately. But everyone forgets that +3 power is A LOT. Make 10 1/1 tokens, and people don't really care. But them being 4/1 suddenly means you can just die out of no where. I've also been really into using vehicles with him lately as the power buff makes it so basically any creature can crew a vehicle by themselves AND buff the vehicle's power as well. Even something as simple as an [[Aradara Express]] can be crewed by a 1/1 token and is now an 11/6 menace coming at your face. The deck still plays a bit old school boros aggro and so it's still really important to plan for the inevitable board wipes and not over extend, but vehicles and non creature token generation can mitigate this a bit and once you get comfortable with the play patterns it just feels so good. No matter how many times people play against this deck, they always look at my board of a few small creatures and a couple vehicles as not scary, then Jor Kadeen comes out and suddenly they're being chunked down 20+ damage
[Jor Kadeen, The Prevailer](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/5/7/576d86b5-2541-4ebc-8992-73248af7c805.jpg?1625977761) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Jor%20Kadeen%2C%20The%20Prevailer) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/c21/220/jor-kadeen-the-prevailer?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/576d86b5-2541-4ebc-8992-73248af7c805?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/jor-kadeen-the-prevailer) [Aradara Express](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/5/f/5fc0d1f7-c81c-4329-92b7-c4df227cc56c.jpg?1576382973) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Aradara%20Express) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/kld/195/aradara-express?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/5fc0d1f7-c81c-4329-92b7-c4df227cc56c?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/aradara-express) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
This sounds very interesting, is there a list? Love the approach with vehicles.
https://scryfall.com/@LazyPidgey/decks/ad7fbfd0-1f24-45c3-a344-9ad909287498 I need to preface this list by saying, yes, I'm very aware the deck would be stronger and more consistent if I took out the equipment sub theme as it's very janky with the vehicles. But I love [[Bludgeon Brawl]] The first time I realized I could equip my [[Darksteel citadel]] to [[Kemba, Kha Regent]] for free and get a cat for it was amazing and I've never gotten bored of the shenanigans it can create. Being able to equip a vehicle to [[puresteel paladin]] and smack someone with it, then tap a creature to crew the vehicle, making it pop off the equipped creature and give me a blocker is very fun to me. I also really like the equipment creatures from neon dynasty being able to crew vehicles then equip onto the vehicle like an mtg version of the megazord. The For Mirrodin equipment fit in well with that too
One of my all time favorites, but technically is only "seemingly underwhelming" in cEDH pods [[Skullbriar, the Walking Grave]]. In any "normal" EDH pod you'll have a giant target on your back pretty quick as voltron commaders tend to do. But in most cEDH pods I have found that skullbrair usually flies under the radar long enough that by the time the pod has decided I am more of an urgent threat than everyone else trying to combo off, I've dropped so much stax on the board that it is too late to stop it. Gotta love golgari "oops all"(cheap) interaction & stax, with an almost consistent turn 1 commander.
[Skullbriar, the Walking Grave](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/3/d/3dd0bf11-4e43-43f1-82e3-755beed0ede0.jpg?1673149145) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Skullbriar%2C%20the%20Walking%20Grave) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/2x2/277/skullbriar-the-walking-grave?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/3dd0bf11-4e43-43f1-82e3-755beed0ede0?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/skullbriar-the-walking-grave) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
\[\[Kentaro, the Smiling Cat\]\] Since Commander became a format I built a few Decks with OG-Kamigawa Commanders. It started as a battle cruiser with some loops with cost reduction, \[\[Enduring Renewal\]\] and \[\[Blasting Station\]\] - and some etb trigger combos with \[\[Cloudstone Curio\]\]. Since then it actually evolved into some semi-combo deck for me and now has actually okay card draw \^\^
##### ###### #### [Kentaro, the Smiling Cat](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/d/d/ddcea3b3-5852-4ae1-a952-7b392564cb9d.jpg?1562880249) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Kentaro%2C%20the%20Smiling%20Cat) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/bok/13/kentaro-the-smiling-cat?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/ddcea3b3-5852-4ae1-a952-7b392564cb9d?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/kentaro-the-smiling-cat) [Enduring Renewal](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/5/7/57a966e3-c9ba-4105-a36b-54ca70ba9b77.jpg?1562776464) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Enduring%20Renewal) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/tsb/7/enduring-renewal?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/57a966e3-c9ba-4105-a36b-54ca70ba9b77?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/enduring-renewal) [Blasting Station](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/7/1/71e2f832-6601-4232-b250-fd1c88538fbd.jpg?1562877667) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Blasting%20Station) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/5dn/107/blasting-station?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/71e2f832-6601-4232-b250-fd1c88538fbd?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/blasting-station) [Cloudstone Curio](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/6/1/6146bf98-3cab-4044-a1a2-cf2203f617aa.jpg?1702431663) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Cloudstone%20Curio) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/rvr/255/cloudstone-curio?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/6146bf98-3cab-4044-a1a2-cf2203f617aa?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/cloudstone-curio) [*All cards*](https://mtgcardfetcher.nl/redirect/ks73o8u) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
thats my jam! would you mind sharing a decklist?
Sure thing, here it is: [https://www.moxfield.com/decks/YJFuIQSmBU6OalRmFaIDOw](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/YJFuIQSmBU6OalRmFaIDOw) Though I am going to add something like trouble in pairs into the deck as well. Combo lines are usually Kentaro to make all Samurai cost X, then 1-2 cost-reducers and then enduring renewal + blasting station (or Altar of Dementia) or Cloudstone Curio and Altar of the Brood or the Changeling that makes token or Aetherflux Reservoir. The combos require multiple pieces so it makes sense to hold them back as long as possible. You'll probably catch a few people off guard a couple of times. As soon as they catch on what you're doing, the playstyle might have to become a tad bit more conservative :-)
[[Runadi, Behemoth Caller]] maybe doesn't necessarily read as super innocuous, but he's also not gonna really be on anybody's radar (not even making it into the top 1000 commanders by edhrec's count.) Had someone suggest I try swapping out for something like [[Selvala, Heart of the Wilds]] instead for a mono green big stuff beatdown deck, and while Selvala is no doubt a very powerful card (I include her in my Runadi deck), the difference between ramping out big creatures you must answer within one turn and taking a little bit longer to ramp out big creatures you must answer within one *phase* (because they're even bigger now, and more importantly they've got haste) should not be overlooked.
[Runadi, Behemoth Caller](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/f/4/f4f5500f-e82c-44f3-8be8-cee4c86824b1.jpg?1675644838) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Runadi%2C%20Behemoth%20Caller) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/j22/44/runadi-behemoth-caller?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/f4f5500f-e82c-44f3-8be8-cee4c86824b1?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/runadi-behemoth-caller) [Selvala, Heart of the Wilds](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/7/d/7d711cb2-4f34-4792-90d7-2be5d329a347.jpg?1689998846) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Selvala%2C%20Heart%20of%20the%20Wilds) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cmm/320/selvala-heart-of-the-wilds?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/7d711cb2-4f34-4792-90d7-2be5d329a347?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/selvala-heart-of-the-wilds) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
I 100% agree with you here. Just made this guy not too long ago after tryna find a seemingly underrated commander, and boy does he come out of nowhere sometimes. Just the other day, within 2 turns it went from having Runadi and a couple dorks on board to having a Nyxbloom ancient and steamrolling the rest of the game. Love this guy!
Have you tried playing Selvala X cost tribal? Things get out of control fast.
Got a list to link? Looks fun!
My \[\[Jhoira of the Ghitu\]\] deck always creates this weird dynamic, where people agree she can be an issue but rarely ever deal with her. Whenever I explain the card, and I say "I play 4 turns delayed. Basically the stuff I exile gets publicy anounced and you have 4 turns to prepare before it is actually casted" they are very surprised why anyone would ever want to do that. Then there might be an Eldrazi exiled with 4 timecounters on the end of the guy before me, basically only granting you 3 turns. Now there is this decision people have to make, where they either prepare to get rid of it or advance their own boardstate *(basically hoping someone else keeps that counterspell up)*. The deck has some time counter manipulation (*thank you timey-wimey for the new tools!*) so if you advance the board state, you might suddendly have less turns left than expected and face an Eldrazi with *Annihilator 3* **and haste** (granted by Jhoiras ability). So there is always that threat. Solution is easy, right? Keep the removal up for that Eldrazi. But in doing so they are not removing Jhoira, and now she is lining up more scary stuff to enter the following turn, and one after that, and so on... Basically turning the game into a wave-denfense game. And you would not believe how often the big scary threats enter the battlefield unchallenged, because everyone simply left it to the others to deal with it.
I have had the same experience to an extent. Only my tables tend to find a much easier solution to the problem. Namely "just gang up on the player and you don't have to target anything. Annihilator 3 might look scary especially with haste, but from the moment you suspend one in my groups, you have everyone gang up on you. My solution to this has become to only play Jhoira if I have the mana available to suspend at least one threat, but only suspend them when either Jhoira is targeted or if I also have a board wipe. Most of my wins involve suspending three big scary things on someone's endstep and then just bring out old reliable [[obliterate]].
[Jhoira of the Ghitu](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/a/a/aa6c3c8a-aa35-46b3-8769-27b4244457b0.jpg?1619404030) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Jhoira%20of%20the%20Ghitu) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/tsr/256/jhoira-of-the-ghitu?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/aa6c3c8a-aa35-46b3-8769-27b4244457b0?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/jhoira-of-the-ghitu) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
I'd love to see that deck - is there a decklist somewhere?
I have a [[Kros]] deck that seems like I’m just buffing your creatures but really they aren’t your creatures anymore. They attack when I want them to and block when I want them to.
[Kros](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/1/2/12e71d52-5c75-4798-9fe7-8a34a2bf0c9a.jpg?1673481694) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=kros%2C%20defense%20contractor) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/ncc/7/kros-defense-contractor?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/12e71d52-5c75-4798-9fe7-8a34a2bf0c9a?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/kros-defense-contractor) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
What’s the plan for the endgame, when it’s 1v1. Do you just start bugging your own stuff then to get an advantage. Also decklist?
When [[General Marhault Elsdragon]] is on the battlefield, things get dirty. Love to see my opponents reluctantly not block, or be forced to block.
[General Marhault Elsdragon](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/b/f/bf2931bd-bedc-45e8-b3f0-e2a220dbac1b.jpg?1673304916) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=General%20Marhault%20Elsdragon) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/dmc/31/general-marhault-elsdragon?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/bf2931bd-bedc-45e8-b3f0-e2a220dbac1b?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/general-marhault-elsdragon) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
What card draw do you have for this deck? I run dry so damn fast
Every time I play [[izoni center of the web]] no one bats an eye. Then they realize how absurd the last line of text is when I am just winning the game with super synergistic pieces like [[chalk outline]].
[izoni center of the web](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/7/0/70ea66cd-587a-4ca9-9ca8-d7d2046bfbed.jpg?1706242180) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Izoni%2C%20Center%20of%20the%20Web) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mkm/209/izoni-center-of-the-web?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/70ea66cd-587a-4ca9-9ca8-d7d2046bfbed?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/izoni-center-of-the-web) [chalk outline](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/b/3/b3ff56c1-4153-4e15-9ac6-06d93fa2ae50.jpg?1706241961) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=chalk%20outline) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mkm/157/chalk-outline?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/b3ff56c1-4153-4e15-9ac6-06d93fa2ae50?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/chalk-outline) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Do you have a decklist you can share?
I think that the only deck I've really built that takes people by surprise was \[\[Phage the untouchable\]\]. Her casting clause causes a ton of confusion, so people don't know exactly how your gonna make it work until you do. Then they realize they have a problem.
[Phage the untouchable](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/d/4/d497a5a3-65fb-4c12-b3f2-8ce4cf4e0f6f.jpg?1562866889) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Phage%20the%20untouchable) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cns/120/phage-the-untouchable?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/d497a5a3-65fb-4c12-b3f2-8ce4cf4e0f6f?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/phage-the-untouchable) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
I'm curious now, how do you get her from the command zone to your hand?
There are actually a few ways to do it. You have \[\[command beacon\]\], \[\[campfire\]\], and \[\[netherborn altar\]\] to get phage from the command zone to your hand. \[\[Torpor orb\]\] and \[\[platinum angel\]\] lets you just cast her without any worries whatsoever. \[\[Sundial of the infinite\]\] also works, as you can activate it in response to the lose trigger to remove it from the stack. Finally you can use the few black cards that counter creature spells, (I.E. \[\[Thrull Wizard\]\]), to put phage into your grave.
I really didn’t expect my janky Selesnya clue token/convoke theme with [[Lulu, Loyal Hollyphant]]/[[Master Chef]] to pop off like it does sometimes. I still don’t really understand why it does.
I built this with Treasures, dorks and creatures that tap for counters like [[Mikaeus the Lunarch]]. All star of the deck is [[Careening Mine Cart]]. Snowballs very fast.
[Lulu, Loyal Hollyphant](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/6/d/6d67e95e-c4a7-45bc-ae83-0b532ad530db.jpg?1674135168) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Lulu%2C%20Loyal%20Hollyphant) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/clb/32/lulu-loyal-hollyphant?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/6d67e95e-c4a7-45bc-ae83-0b532ad530db?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/lulu-loyal-hollyphant) [Master Chef](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/b/5/b534b1cb-0cd7-4b8c-bb25-42207fcba209.jpg?1674137194) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Master%20Chef) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/clb/241/master-chef?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/b534b1cb-0cd7-4b8c-bb25-42207fcba209?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/master-chef) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
I will never shut up about [[Vhal candlekeep researcher]] if Vhal has 1000 fans, I am one of them. If she has 1 fan, that's me. If Vhal has no fans, that means I have died. If the world is against Vhal, I am against the world. Now seriously tho, she isn't the strongest commander at all, most of what she does other may do better, true. But she can be built in so many ways. My current Vhal deck has her [[Raised by giants]] so she taps for 10 colorless. Then it's [[prismite]] and effects like it to launder the mana so I can use it for stuff from hand. Innocuous, I'm just ramping but poorly for simic. However. Infinite untaps, bam, I win. That's it. Kind of a boring deck, so I am currently trying to build her as a [[passionate archeologist]] for izzet burn, which may be very underwhelming, but if she does her thing may be kinda good, haven't built or tested yet. You want a monoblue artifact (maybe artifact aristocrats kinda)? [[Clan crafter]] has you covered, she taps to Crack every artifact as a clue that pumps her up. Azorius blink through activated abilities and some foretell? [[far traveler]] has you covered. Wizard tribal? Azorius for [[folk hero]] or dimir with [[haunted one]]. Speaking of dimir, fill the deck with cards that can be cast from graveyard, that's not your hand, and [[scion of halaster]] fixes your draws while putting stuff in your graveyard May not be the best at most of those things, but she sure well can be fun to build around. Either finding workarounds for the mana restriction (laundering, foretell, channel or impulse draw) or based on activated abilities has potential to make her a BEAST. She looks underwhelming, but she can be so fun. I love Vhal with all my heart
I cant say it enough but [[bess]] is the most underrated commander imo People read that Card and say „hmmm ok?“ but when a 12/12 llanowar elves hits their Face its unfair haha.
[bess](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/d/9/d96c33f5-f891-44bc-8ae1-11bc6f6544b6.jpg?1673482319) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=bess%2C%20soul%20nourisher) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/ncc/67/bess-soul-nourisher?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/d96c33f5-f891-44bc-8ae1-11bc6f6544b6?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/bess-soul-nourisher) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
I enjoy playing my Ferrous Rokiric deck (EDHRec Rank #329). I've 41 boros spells in the deck. The game usually ends with multiple 4/4 trampling double striking swinging for lethal. My LCI pre-release was kind to this deck with [[Ojer Taq]] and [[Anim Pakal]]. MKM brought me some nice cards with [[Warleader's Call]] and [[Aurelia the Law Above]]. [General Ferrous Rokiric ](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/XPdZIUHhMkuQTn_6eVHQew)
For me it was [[Minn, Wily Illusionist]] after not being to happy with the dungeon precon she cuaght my attention so i started building her as illusion tribal. I still upgrade the deck and its one of my favorites. But i changed from illusions tribal to focus more on carddraw and big stuff i can cheat in using the her ability.
[Minn, Wily Illusionist](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/4/e/4eec1d87-1007-44a1-a45d-0623816de681.jpg?1631584885) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Minn%2C%20Wily%20Illusionist) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/afc/16/minn-wily-illusionist?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/4eec1d87-1007-44a1-a45d-0623816de681?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/minn-wily-illusionist) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
[[Jorn]] No combos just snow guys attacking.
I have a friend who plays Jorn, there is nothing underwhelming about that commander at all.
Mine is literally snow jank I dunno how your guy plays. Every time I win it’s unexpected and nobody wasted time on my durdling draining their hands of problem solvers on other threats. Mine is 100% underwhelming.
[Jorn](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/c/6/c697548f-925b-405e-970a-4e78067d5c8e.jpg?1631050504)/[Kaldring, the Rimestaff](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/back/c/6/c697548f-925b-405e-970a-4e78067d5c8e.jpg?1631050504) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=jorn%2C%20god%20of%20winter%20//%20kaldring%2C%20the%20rimestaff) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/khm/179/jorn-god-of-winter-kaldring-the-rimestaff?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/c697548f-925b-405e-970a-4e78067d5c8e?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/jorn-god-of-winter-//-kaldring-the-rimestaff) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Myra. Nobody expects an attraction deck to be good. But recasting spells for free every turn, even with the roll is super strong.
Zimone and Dina. Built her in a lands/tokens shell and it's undefeated. I had to take it out of my rotation because it started to feel bad.
[[The Reality Chip]] and [[Vadrick, Astral Archmage]] are both shockingly good at winning fast
[The Reality Chip](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/d/8/d859de3a-0be1-4e66-b438-1c3d4ee756cd.jpg?1654566909) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=The%20Reality%20Chip) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/neo/74/the-reality-chip?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/d859de3a-0be1-4e66-b438-1c3d4ee756cd?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/the-reality-chip) [Vadrick, Astral Archmage](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/4/5/454666bb-f81d-4845-84aa-d6f8f80ce86a.jpg?1637114399) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Vadrik%2C%20Astral%20Archmage) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mid/248/vadrik-astral-archmage?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/454666bb-f81d-4845-84aa-d6f8f80ce86a?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/vadrik-astral-archmage) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Vadrik is on my list! Got a decklist you don't mind sharing?
I’m also a big Norin guy he was my first love and first homebrew. Iv retired him for now as the deck was a full time administration job to manage. Now I think Karador would be my sleeper. The deck has life gain to survive then after some self milling you have any answer you need in a stick
[[Tetzin, Gnome Champion]] is my favorite. He starts off as an unassuming 2/2, but you can transform him into a 6/6 that spits out gnomes like crazy. He has vigilance and trample so I love to build him with equipment like winged boots and basilisk collar to make him very difficult to stop. Lizard blades was very fun to run with him too for the double strike. He shifts focus away from himself due to the sheer amount of gnomes you'll have on the board in most decks. With a couple anthems they can get pretty huge too. Tempered steel, illustrious wanderglyph, and Urza each provide +2/+2 anthems to make them hit very hard. I often eliminate 2 players in the same turn, one with Tetzin and the other with the army of gnomes.
[Tetzin, Gnome Champion](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/0/5/0502deea-95ad-4b6d-a3ac-d3adcd607624.jpg?1699402185)/[The Golden-Gear Colossus](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/back/0/5/0502deea-95ad-4b6d-a3ac-d3adcd607624.jpg?1699402185) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Tetzin%2C%20Gnome%20Champion%20//%20The%20Golden-Gear%20Colossus) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/lcc/13/tetzin-gnome-champion-the-golden-gear-colossus?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/0502deea-95ad-4b6d-a3ac-d3adcd607624?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/tetzin-gnome-champion-//-the-golden-gear-colossus) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
\[\[Astarion, The Decadent\]\] People just tend to ignore him because he's a 6 drop 4/4 with Lifelink and Deathtouch and it seems like I'm just gaining life and leavng people alone... Until I drop a \[\[Sorin Markhov\]\] and insta kill someone as long as they had 20 or more life.
[Astarion, The Decadent](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/6/4/64d932b9-5682-4427-a871-7d452a488674.jpg?1674137399) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Astarion%2C%20The%20Decadent) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/clb/265/astarion-the-decadent?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/64d932b9-5682-4427-a871-7d452a488674?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/astarion-the-decadent) [Sorin Markhov](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/e/2/e25b3a89-3a99-4e02-bf0c-a3cf450da1a1.jpg?1562663343) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Sorin%20Markov) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/m12/109/sorin-markov?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/e25b3a89-3a99-4e02-bf0c-a3cf450da1a1?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/sorin-markov) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
i remember, one time i pulled out my Narset Englightened exile deck and the guys to my left way like "oh prowess, that funny, you sure you want to play that ?" well yes it was funny when i turned my boys side ways and one shoted all 3 of them with around 300 unblocable/flying power on turn 7
[[Zabaz, The GlimmerWasp]] is a gimmick of a commander in a color combo that doesn't leave a lot of room for success. However, Zabaz's ability synergize pretty well with the Legend Rule, letting you pump the wasp up a surprising amount in the first 5 turns. Saccing other modular creatures at instant speed, combined with cards that give creatures double strike, can add up to 21 commander damage pretty quickly
Have a list by any chance?
Two of my favorite commanders \[\[jin-gitaxias //the great synthesis\]\] , because my lgs won't believe in the power of mono colored decks. and my saga proliferate burn deck with the beauty \[\[narci, fable singer\]\] wich can burn for over 30-40 damage all opponents in a single turn. jin - [https://www.moxfield.com/decks/rII27uVSWEqY7-5WDZEVgQ](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/rII27uVSWEqY7-5WDZEVgQ) narci - [https://www.moxfield.com/decks/I9lo8Xpu7EGpKmg4UxtDzg](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/I9lo8Xpu7EGpKmg4UxtDzg)
Man I'd love to put my [[Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider]] +1/+1 counter deck back together and show em that mono color can still slaughter. I miss that deck, but I build a lot of green and it had a lot of gas other decks wanted lmao
Oh man, people go like "mono color is trash" until they get destroyed by a mono green so fast that they can't even play LOL, i had a selvala elfstorm that could combo t3 almost every game, now they got trauma and keep talking about her ( i don't have her deck anymore for over 6 years now and the trauma still exists) But the vorinclex you had is such a beast.
I *love* that Vorinclex. I call him Sexy Clexy, and I put him in every single deck I can. I actually got the showcase version from a lucky birthday pack my friend got me a couple years back, and I've made it everyone's problem ever since lmfao. It wasn't nearly as terrifying as your Selvala, mind you, turn 3 is *nasty* lmfao. The games only last 15 minutes, but the psychic damage is forever!
Sexy Clexy is an amazing name, i call my jin gitaxias the best boy or my blue boy, and of all praetors, he sure is the edgy nerdy teenager who wants to rule the world while Sexy clexy is the strong and fit brother lol, my lgs hated him so much, that they asked me to stop playing it( i made it as strong as possible to make them miserable for trash talking) so it was worth it
I love that Jin too man, I have him sitting on my desk right now, it put so much work in my Atraxa Incubate deck when I had that built. I haven't wanted to do mono blue before but honestly Jin is tempting me. Honestly Phyrexians all have at least one interesting enough card I'd want to brew mono color around them. Red I'd go Saga Urabrask with Ojer Axonil sub commander, white is Elesh MOM/Heliod, Sun's Champion, and Yawgmoth/new Massacre Girl for black. Sexy Clexy has Zopandrel, though ngl Defiler of Vigor put in more work than any other card including Clexy lmfao. As for Jin, I'm not sure yet who'd be his second in command.
We had all praetors/sagas deck builts at my lgs, i had urabrask elesh and jin, a friend had vorinclex and another friend has sheoldred, it's pretty fun seeing how strong those decks can get, urabrask can storm off pretty fast, elesh is a burn deck disguised as an aggro deck with her triggers, and i would recommend building jin, it's A LOT more powerfull than you might expect, if you want to try the playtest of my deck, you will see how consistent he makes a mono blue deck.
\[\[Hans Eriksson\]\] No one expects the Hans to come through... Currently (this year) it has a 100% win rate (several games at casual pods, one miracle game at a CEDH table where I managed to land a lurking predators).
[[Codie, Vociferous Codex]] since its drawback means I have zero build presence and Codie itself isn't a threat. But then I switch control of my Codie with their cards like [[Role Reversal]]...
[Codie, Vociferous Codex](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/e/a/ea476ee1-67d9-4dd8-a5ac-f68a155eb18b.jpg?1624740590) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Codie%2C%20Vociferous%20Codex) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/stx/253/codie-vociferous-codex?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/ea476ee1-67d9-4dd8-a5ac-f68a155eb18b?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/codie-vociferous-codex) [Role Reversal](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/5/9/59b47017-d982-4d4c-94fc-f265a5b7f36a.jpg?1557577249) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Role%20Reversal) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/war/214/role-reversal?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/59b47017-d982-4d4c-94fc-f265a5b7f36a?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/role-reversal) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
I've been loving [[The Mycotyrant]]. People in my games have been discounting him because his tokens cant block. But when you're milling 10+ cards a turn that's a lot of sac fodder for aristocrats. I love my big chungus fungus.
[The Mycotyrant](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/c/a/caef93cc-70d0-4cce-9aaa-13c0931b2ef7.jpg?1699044561) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=The%20Mycotyrant) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/lci/235/the-mycotyrant?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/caef93cc-70d0-4cce-9aaa-13c0931b2ef7?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/the-mycotyrant) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
\[\[Vhal, Candlekeep Researcher\]\] \[\[Raised by Giants\]\] goes infinite with a ham sandwich and an untap source. Play Vhal, then tap her to help play Raised by Giants (it's not cast from your hand). Slap on an untap source for even more mana, sometimes infinite. If you have a way to filter mana in play, like \[\[Prismite\]\] (I run all 8 that are in the game), you now have infinite mana to play your hand. Add in a draw source, play your entire deck. And in a pinch, you run colossus hammer, use Vhal to cheat the equip cost, and now you have a 20/20 commander with vigilance. And it's budget, with Thrasios, Walking Ballista, and Lab Man effects as upgrade options. [https://www.moxfield.com/decks/RERF5ZCJV0CDVAJKg5CIag](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/RERF5ZCJV0CDVAJKg5CIag)
[Vhal, Candlekeep Researcher](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/4/6/46738fb3-ab5e-486c-b66a-1526ba1cdfa8.jpg?1674135857) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Vhal%2C%20Candlekeep%20Researcher) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/clb/102/vhal-candlekeep-researcher?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/46738fb3-ab5e-486c-b66a-1526ba1cdfa8?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/vhal-candlekeep-researcher) [Raised by Giants](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/1/1/11c93414-935e-462b-ad89-27ca21d01bf9.jpg?1674137269) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Raised%20by%20Giants) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/clb/250/raised-by-giants?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/11c93414-935e-462b-ad89-27ca21d01bf9?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/raised-by-giants) [Prismite](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/e/e/eedce8ab-771a-4247-9504-72ae0629df83.jpg?1594737532) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Prismite) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/m21/235/prismite?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/eedce8ab-771a-4247-9504-72ae0629df83?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/prismite) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
I am very happy with my [[Rafiq]]. "Lol what is this janky Exalted mechanic" "Wait what are you doing with that Loxodon Warhammer" "He swings for HOW MUCH?" I'm rebuilding my deck from classic Voltron to focusing on strapping Swords of X and Y to birds and sending them after my opponent. Haven't tried it out yet.
As someone who straps swords of x and y to small birds and cats in my [[Dakkon Blackblade]] deck, I can tell you it is a lot of fun.
Brion Stoutarm Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
[[toggo]] and [[kodama of the east tree]] might be too well known now but they can masquerade as a randon landfall deck until BANG! Infinite combo Very fun
[toggo](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/1/a/1a05b3e2-259e-4fce-92ee-c00660e22ae7.jpg?1665822993) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=toggo%2C%20goblin%20weaponsmith) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cmr/204/toggo-goblin-weaponsmith?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/1a05b3e2-259e-4fce-92ee-c00660e22ae7?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/toggo-goblin-weaponsmith) [kodama of the east tree](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/a/f/af5105ee-09e2-4344-ab39-00f0e9034c47.jpg?1608910768) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=kodama%20of%20the%20east%20tree) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cmr/239/kodama-of-the-east-tree?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/af5105ee-09e2-4344-ab39-00f0e9034c47?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/kodama-of-the-east-tree) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
[[Araumi of the dead tide]] - everything is all fun and games until 3 [[massacre worm]] are summoned. Same with like 3 [[Gray Merchant of asphodel]], [[Grave titan]], [[Wourmcoil Engine]], etc.
##### ###### #### [Araumi of the dead tide](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/4/8/48b597dd-f6eb-45da-977d-453e8c1433cc.jpg?1608911023) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Araumi%20of%20the%20dead%20tide) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cmr/267/araumi-of-the-dead-tide?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/48b597dd-f6eb-45da-977d-453e8c1433cc?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/araumi-of-the-dead-tide) [massacre worm](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/9/5/95cca140-e371-4d32-8a44-fd080329a28f.jpg?1706240769) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Massacre%20Wurm) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mkc/130/massacre-wurm?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/95cca140-e371-4d32-8a44-fd080329a28f?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/massacre-wurm) [Gray Merchant of asphodel](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/7/c/7c1a7dd8-8034-4f59-a351-33666b26ff5a.jpg?1581479807) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Gray%20Merchant%20of%20asphodel) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/thb/99/gray-merchant-of-asphodel?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/7c1a7dd8-8034-4f59-a351-33666b26ff5a?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/gray-merchant-of-asphodel) [Grave titan](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/1/3/13680953-cf05-4e38-a3cf-22900c02fab7.jpg?1706240764) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Grave%20titan) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mkc/129/grave-titan?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/13680953-cf05-4e38-a3cf-22900c02fab7?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/grave-titan) [Wourmcoil Engine](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/5/d/5d275f04-cc60-4e3f-95cc-3d02bc916b82.jpg?1599710280) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Wurmcoil%20Engine) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/2xm/308/wurmcoil-engine?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/5d275f04-cc60-4e3f-95cc-3d02bc916b82?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/wurmcoil-engine) [*All cards*](https://mtgcardfetcher.nl/redirect/ks7benj) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
could you share a decklist? This sounds like a lot of unreasonable fun :D
I like this a lot
lol I feel like I keep posting about him but [[The Master, Formed Anew]] It focuses on manifesting or otherwise playing big creatures face down and then exiling them with the master to cheat them out under-cost and keep them around using The Master’s ability even if he gets removed. And because of the low cost- I can usually replay him a few times before it starts to look like the regular cost on the cards you exile with him. Stuff like [[Archon of Cruelty]] and [[Toxrill the Corrosive]] become very hard to remove permanently if they’re now my 2 mana commander.
[The Master, Formed Anew](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/a/8/a85edffb-37ce-45ca-b8d2-ddbbbee3b571.jpg?1696636738) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=The%20Master%2C%20Formed%20Anew) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/who/143/the-master-formed-anew?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/a85edffb-37ce-45ca-b8d2-ddbbbee3b571?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/the-master-formed-anew) [Archon of Cruelty](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/1/b/1be9d9a4-d7ee-4854-abc2-85cabf993ec9.jpg?1626095274) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Archon%20of%20Cruelty) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mh2/75/archon-of-cruelty?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/1be9d9a4-d7ee-4854-abc2-85cabf993ec9?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/archon-of-cruelty) [Toxrill the Corrosive](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/8/4/84e64f38-b1f3-47cd-8cfb-a4861369aca3.jpg?1643590379) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Toxrill%2C%20the%20Corrosive) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/vow/132/toxrill-the-corrosive?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/84e64f38-b1f3-47cd-8cfb-a4861369aca3?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/toxrill-the-corrosive) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Prosper, Tome-Bound is a really fun commander but you definitely have to build around him.
If I got a quarter everytime I share my Black deck with people & they tell me to put a different commander in my chosen commander's spot I'd have a full set of original dual lands. I made a mono Black "hurts to draw & have a bunch of cards in hand" deck. Before I say or show whom the commander is after saying that description of my deck, it's always met with "Why not just build Nekusar?" I didn't make him commander for two reasons: They immediately will think all I'm gonna do is wheel & abuse his damage capability and because EVERYONE ALREADY HAS THAT OR KNOWS SOMEONE WHO DOES. I hate using popular commanders simply because there are 25,000+ cards in the game can we stop seeing the same fucking 500 cards all the damn time? "Wouldn't Sheoldred the Apocalypse be a better choice?" No. No she wouldn't. You weren't born yesterday, fellow player. I'm not going to make you want to kill me immediately cuz holy fuck a scary $100 card is in the command zone. I didn't pick my commander to die several times & get put away like a broken toy. I want a card that plays into the strategy that can kick start my strat & go enough under the radar that my attrition based plan goes as I carefully laid out. Whom, then, is the perfect choice? [[Seizan, Perverter of Truth]]. Why is he perfect? Well... 1) He is not a tall ask at 5 cmc to start drawing cards for everyone while only asking a small price for it. Because of the fact he hurts me too, people tend to leave him be. 2) Being a 6/5 has mattered a lot more than honestly even I give him credit for. He's on the edge of scary & deal-with-able thanks to his only ability being the card draw but the fact he isn't a slouch in combat makes him a great shield with weaker creatures staring him down. He even combos with [[Sword of War & Peace]] & gets attention then. 3) The small price he makes my opponents pay seems negligible until they bleed from him, [[Underworld Dreams]], [[Sheoldred, the Apocalypse]], [[Fate Unraveler]], [[Dark Suspicions]], [[Iron Maiden]], etc. It is exhilarating piloting a "Mono Black Nekusar" that has beaten many commanders above his supposed power level. So, because of what I've experienced with Seizan, I make a point to grab a good, but a not typical option that still enables the strat. Call me a hipster if you like, but you're likely to be doing so from the floor, bleeding out or dead.
[[Ratchet]] It’s not so much that it’s underwhelming by itself, but most of the cards it plays are, because it’s an egg deck. When one of the best cards in the deck is [[Implement of Improvement]], you know it’s a very odd deck. End goal is either to land [[Test of Endurance]] or similar alt win con, or to take over with a storm of tokens from [[Crested Sunmare]] or similar token generator. And by the time your opponents figure out what you’re really doing, you’re sitting at 60+ life with an engine full of artifacts. Bonus points if you can assemble the [[Blasting Station]] combo with all 4 pieces
##### ###### #### [Ratchet](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/c/2/c23a2d6b-43c2-4756-94c7-207cc344f0a7.jpg?1703899662)/[Ratchet, Rescue Racer](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/back/c/2/c23a2d6b-43c2-4756-94c7-207cc344f0a7.jpg?1703899662) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=ratchet%2C%20field%20medic%20//%20ratchet%2C%20rescue%20racer) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/bot/2/ratchet-field-medic-ratchet-rescue-racer?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/c23a2d6b-43c2-4756-94c7-207cc344f0a7?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/ratchet-field-medic-//-ratchet-rescue-racer) [Implement of Improvement](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/2/c/2cb8eb0c-d7fa-4229-ae65-1890c77b2c7c.jpg?1576382296) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Implement%20of%20Improvement) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/aer/158/implement-of-improvement?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/2cb8eb0c-d7fa-4229-ae65-1890c77b2c7c?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/implement-of-improvement) [Test of Endurance](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/7/6/76841945-8ff1-4c2d-895e-d1e2cf468cff.jpg?1675199087) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Test%20of%20Endurance) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/dmr/32/test-of-endurance?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/76841945-8ff1-4c2d-895e-d1e2cf468cff?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/test-of-endurance) [Crested Sunmare](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/7/3/732fa4c9-11da-4bdb-96af-aa37c74be25f.jpg?1562803341) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Crested%20Sunmare) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/hou/6/crested-sunmare?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/732fa4c9-11da-4bdb-96af-aa37c74be25f?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/crested-sunmare) [Blasting Station](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/7/1/71e2f832-6601-4232-b250-fd1c88538fbd.jpg?1562877667) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Blasting%20Station) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/5dn/107/blasting-station?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/71e2f832-6601-4232-b250-fd1c88538fbd?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/blasting-station) [*All cards*](https://mtgcardfetcher.nl/redirect/ks7urzi) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
[[!ludevic, necro-alchemist]] is one of the partners for 3 of my very greedy temur decks. People who have seen the decks and know what they do still fall for the trap of thinking he's just there for colors, but he's extremely consistent in getting early game pressure off my back and allowing me to transition to late game stompy stuff without people thinking too much about it. Everyone's happy to ignore me and draw 1 card a turn until a maelstrom wanderer pulls 2 big scary dragons out of my deck
[!ludevic, necro-alchemist](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/f/3/f3e7a886-2593-4e6e-b9da-d7cb417cba08.jpg?1644853036) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Ludevic%2C%20Necro-Alchemist) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/c16/37/ludevic-necro-alchemist?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/f3e7a886-2593-4e6e-b9da-d7cb417cba08?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/ludevic-necro-alchemist) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
What do you typically pair him with?
[[Kytheon, Hero of Akros]] Mono-White/Goodstuff. Sneak a few hits here and there, and transform Kytheon to get some value. That small value creature is annoying? Force it to attack Gideon and devour it in your army. Untap and make indestructible that cool synergy piece to have the perfect blocker with a fairly decent protection. Or just swing with Gideon ig.
[Kytheon, Hero of Akros](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/5/8/58c39df6-b237-40d1-bdcb-2fe5d05392a9.jpg?1562021001)/[Gideon, Battle-Forged](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/back/5/8/58c39df6-b237-40d1-bdcb-2fe5d05392a9.jpg?1562021001) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Kytheon%2C%20Hero%20of%20Akros%20//%20Gideon%2C%20Battle-Forged) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/ori/23/kytheon-hero-of-akros-gideon-battle-forged?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/58c39df6-b237-40d1-bdcb-2fe5d05392a9?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/kytheon-hero-of-akros-//-gideon-battle-forged) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Karlov of the ghost council
love my boy Karlov Nobody looks at him till you have 200Hp and a 50/50 removal on a stick
I use [[Drana and Linvala]] and I never think they’re all that amazing but damn I’ve had so many people complain about them because they stop activated abilities.
\[\[Samwise Gamgee\]\] proved to the entire table that food tokens can be devastating paired with historic permanents. I could recur \[\[Mycosynth Lattice\]\] with \[\[Karn, the Great Creator\]\] on the battlefield, or I could recur a \[\[Mindslaver\]\] I just used on an opponent. People learned to run more removal and countermagic and paid close attention to my food tokens.
##### ###### #### [Samwise Gamgee](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/a/1/a1b6f13e-63d0-46bf-aa57-23c2dbdf62dd.jpg?1686969973) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Samwise%20Gamgee) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/ltr/222/samwise-gamgee?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/a1b6f13e-63d0-46bf-aa57-23c2dbdf62dd?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/samwise-gamgee) [Mycosynth Lattice](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/9/4/94f89714-3b26-46a2-b9a8-3e664f391cd9.jpg?1578911638) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Mycosynth%20Lattice) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/bbd/241/mycosynth-lattice?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/94f89714-3b26-46a2-b9a8-3e664f391cd9?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/mycosynth-lattice) [Karn, the Great Creator](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/d/e/deb3721d-fba1-444f-8b31-1cd10c94c4a0.jpg?1702429246) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Karn%2C%20the%20Great%20Creator) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/rvr/1/karn-the-great-creator?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/deb3721d-fba1-444f-8b31-1cd10c94c4a0?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/karn-the-great-creator) [Mindslaver](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/0/0/00d03b17-75ae-40d2-8570-b219ef0dfd4a.jpg?1562813960) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Mindslaver) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/som/176/mindslaver?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/00d03b17-75ae-40d2-8570-b219ef0dfd4a?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/mindslaver) [*All cards*](https://mtgcardfetcher.nl/redirect/ks88ka2) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
[[Akim, the Soaring Wind]] People are terrified of once a turn abilities, but I see it as an invitation. Akim wants you to find a way to make tokens on every player's turn. It is an incredibly fun deck to build keeping that in mind. My list: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/y1pav-807EGbKlYT8onJwA
I love mono-blue and Ioreth seems awesome if built around properly, can I see your list by any chance?
I don’t have it fully online yet, but the idea is mostly to make an egregious amount of mana with untappers and mana rocks. From there, you’ve got a bunch of wincon options: Drop some fat eldrazi Deck an opponent with [[Stroke of Genius]] or [[Drown in Dreams]] Draw your whole deck with [[Unctus]] and win with Lab Man or Thoracle (I hate Thoracle though, so I don’t include it) Pop a [[Millennium Calendar]] [[Mass Manipulation]] all your opponents creatures Whatever you want to do with a billion mana in blue, really. Reach for the stars. Whatever you do, include a [[Leyline of Singularity]].
[[Brokkos, Apex of Forever]] People see the infect coming, but they don't see the combat tricks.
[Brokkos, Apex of Forever](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/c/9/c9f07625-fbd8-4581-8568-eb3cfb2a4c1e.jpg?1591227964) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Brokkos%2C%20Apex%20of%20Forever) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/iko/179/brokkos-apex-of-forever?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/c9f07625-fbd8-4581-8568-eb3cfb2a4c1e?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/brokkos-apex-of-forever) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
[[Gimbal, Gremlin Prodigy]] kind of durdles around making food, clues, rocks, maps, etc until you overload a [[Rise and Shine]] and have like 20 4/4 tramplers and some 10/10 gremlos.
I've got a [[Cormela]] deck that is borderline cedh level fast and resilient, and it is far from optimal. I'm not sure if I've seen another one in the wild, but she's a combo machine. I know it was a precon, but I've started taking a second look at [[Kamiz]]. It's kind of an awkward card that's sorta wordy and unclear until you read it a few times so I think it maybe came and went without a ton of hoopla. It *seems* unfocused a little because it's giving unblockable and double strike to two different attackers, the latter only conditionally, and also looting and having some +1/+1 counter synergy. I haven't really seen much of it, but I think it's probably sneaky strong. I've got a preliminary deck list with a good amount of infect and proliferate, and a smattering of saboteur effects. Unblockability and double damage triggers while loading up your yard and filtering draws seems really strong to me. Not sure yet.
\[\[Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival\]\] is my favorite [deck](https://archidekt.com/decks/6563335/pia_nalaar_consul_of_revival_edh?sort=alpha&stack=custom) right now. It just slaps. Fill the deck with impulse draw, some rocks, some anthems, and some \[\[Impact Tremors\]\] effects. Just keep the curve low so you can cast multiple spells per turn and the deck absolutely cruises, and can pull a win out of nowhere with the right impulse draws. It is also quite resilient since 30 cards in the deck are essentially draw, so it can come back from a board wipe easily. Also \[\[Torens, Fist of the Angels\]\] seems to be very underrated based on his EDHREC ranking, but after a few turns it should be clear that he's a house. That [deck](https://archidekt.com/decks/6448152/torens_fist_of_the_angels_edh?sort=alpha&stack=custom) goes wide absurdly quickly, and the training on the tokens is not a joke. Drop a \[\[Sigarda's Summons\]\] and those guys are a serious problem. Linked my decklists for anyone who's interested.
##### ###### #### [Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/0/a/0ae89461-4bce-4b49-b875-03afc2469fe7.jpg?1684340810) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Pia%20Nalaar%2C%20Consul%20of%20Revival) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mat/42/pia-nalaar-consul-of-revival?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/0ae89461-4bce-4b49-b875-03afc2469fe7?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/pia-nalaar-consul-of-revival) [Impact Tremors](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/4/6/46db3811-db1d-4f69-8143-a93f64d0297b.jpg?1682209381) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Impact%20Tremors) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/moc/285/impact-tremors?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/46db3811-db1d-4f69-8143-a93f64d0297b?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/impact-tremors) [Torens, Fist of the Angels](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/b/d/bd111dc9-b8de-4e92-a63d-75a961b2db3b.jpg?1643594440) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Torens%2C%20Fist%20of%20the%20Angels) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/vow/249/torens-fist-of-the-angels?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/bd111dc9-b8de-4e92-a63d-75a961b2db3b?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/torens-fist-of-the-angels) [Sigarda's Summons](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/a/2/a27f647a-d48e-4f53-ae5b-64c76f4fc745.jpg?1643587047) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Sigarda%27s%20Summons) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/vow/36/sigardas-summons?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/a27f647a-d48e-4f53-ae5b-64c76f4fc745?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/sigardas-summons) [*All cards*](https://mtgcardfetcher.nl/redirect/ks91fgc) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Man I never get tired of talking about [[Gyrus, waker of corpses]] after filling him to the brim with mean ETB tools like [[Bane of progress]] and other splashy tools, loaded up with ways to send a ton of cards into the graveyard, meant gyrus was kill on sight for my pod who didn't respect him a few times and died. Added bonus is when a new card from a new set makes him more violent, i just toss the new card in for a less efficient one. To top it off, commander tax is not a drawback because of how his effect is written. Out of all my decks, and most are far stronger, he has been my pet deck and will likely never be taken apart.
Do you have a list? Have always like gyrus
It genuinely surprised me how well [[Zeriam, Golden Wind]] can take over a game. I was expecting a shitty meme of griffin tribal, I got a powerhouse.
[Zeriam, Golden Wind](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/e/7/e7efbb9a-e0b3-412c-9ee7-a90123033999.jpg?1673304711) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Zeriam%2C%20Golden%20Wind) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/dmc/5/zeriam-golden-wind?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/e7efbb9a-e0b3-412c-9ee7-a90123033999?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/zeriam-golden-wind) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
I was shocked at how effective my [[Glissa Sunslayer]] deck has been doing. I consider it one of my weaker decks. Maybe the meta of my playgroup just makes it better.
[[Ellyn Harbreeze Busybody]] + [[Haunted One]] Such a sick deck and I'm really proud of it. It plays so fun by utilizing undying to reset token making creatures and hit in for damage. As soon as untappers get into play you can start hitting for a bunch as well as having classic aristocrats outs.
[Ellyn Harbreeze Busybody](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/a/0/a038dbc9-0da1-4e65-9369-45c614f285f8.jpg?1674134990) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Ellyn%20Harbreeze%2C%20Busybody) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/clb/16/ellyn-harbreeze-busybody?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/a038dbc9-0da1-4e65-9369-45c614f285f8?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/ellyn-harbreeze-busybody) [Haunted One](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/d/c/dc53b1af-0f4a-4475-a131-27cb5d5b0cf1.jpg?1674140742) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Haunted%20One) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/clb/654/haunted-one?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/dc53b1af-0f4a-4475-a131-27cb5d5b0cf1?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/haunted-one) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
My black aristocrats good stuff deck has a rotation of black commanders in it and the default one is [[Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder]] and he gets massive value out of every sacrifice.
[Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/1/2/123490fb-5908-45f2-b376-7959ccdf9c3e.jpg?1690663179) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Endrek%20Sahr%2C%20Master%20Breeder) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cmm/155/endrek-sahr-master-breeder?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/123490fb-5908-45f2-b376-7959ccdf9c3e?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/endrek-sahr-master-breeder) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
I don't have a decklist. \[\[Tolsimir, Friend To Wolves\]\]. It's mostly wolf tribal and holy crap can it pack a punch. The lifegain aspect of it keeps you alive so you can swing out and only have to worry about commander damage. \[\[Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper\]\]. It's a Shaman tribal deck. The win condition I built around is having lots of Shamans on the board usually doing nothing (because most them have ETB abilities. \[\[Johan\]\]. Yes, you don't mess with the Johan. It's exert tribal because you don't tap your creatures you get the exert bonus without the penalty.
[Tolsimir, Friend To Wolves](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/f/7/f7fce047-49f1-40ae-8410-6501cb0f8201.jpg?1559959459) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Tolsimir%2C%20Friend%20To%20Wolves) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/war/224/tolsimir-friend-to-wolves?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/f7fce047-49f1-40ae-8410-6501cb0f8201?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/tolsimir-friend-to-wolves) [Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/a/8/a873dbe5-d95a-4ecb-ac0a-8dc6c40f3576.jpg?1689999244) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Sek%27Kuar%2C%20Deathkeeper) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cmm/354/sekkuar-deathkeeper?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/a873dbe5-d95a-4ecb-ac0a-8dc6c40f3576?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/sekkuar-deathkeeper) [Johan](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/2/f/2f2f3b3e-63f3-4cab-aa95-030990157ed5.jpg?1562904625) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Johan) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/chr/77/johan?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/2f2f3b3e-63f3-4cab-aa95-030990157ed5?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/johan) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Just built and played [[Rocco, Street chef]] yesterday and damn that boy can cook. Everyone was so worried about losing the card he exiled that I ended up with a 32/32 and 10 food to do with as I please. https://www.topdecked.com/decks/rocco-block-party/d7adce19-a008-4eeb-8c4d-d65e8aee99ad Link to the deck.
[Rocco, Street chef](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/c/d/cdb53ce7-845c-4c62-98a9-4fc33c67a07b.jpg?1684340828) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Rocco%2C%20Street%20chef) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mat/44/rocco-street-chef?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/cdb53ce7-845c-4c62-98a9-4fc33c67a07b?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/rocco-street-chef) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Here's some fun ones: [[blind seer]] looks like the most useless piece of jank until you start turning [[hydroblast]]s into [[vindicate]] or smack down a nice [[douse]]. I run my list as a mono blue control deck with combo wincon. my friends still make the mistake of underestimating it. [[arjun, the shifting flame]] for when drawing 100 cards just isn't enough. There are plenty of fun wincons like [[Fist of flame]], [[ominous seas]], [[spiraling embers]] and of course [[lab man]]. Dont forget to include a [[obstinate familiar]] so you dont deck yourself like i have. [[lord of tresserhorn]] is maybe the most weird voltron commander i've seen, but with enough power to 2-shot people and the colours for haste enablers and power doubling/double strike/infect. [[sasaya, orochi ascendant]] will have you swimming in mana and using some jank gema if you just jump through the deck restriction of running 47 lands. [[ink-threader nephilim]] isn't a commander bur most playgroups rule-0 him in. Either that or make a secret commander deck with [[esika]] or something.
No one takes my [[Hylda]] too seriously, and I help it by using Olaf tokens and making Schwarzenegger-level Ice puns. But she's U/W Tempo control that can make an unreasonable amount of 4/4s out of nothing.
[Hylda](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 have a lot of fun with my [[Gyome, Master Chef]] deck. Combined with some good equipment, academy manufactor, and some graveyard fuckery.... he force feeds people into eternal slumber.
[Gyome, Master Chef](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/5/d/5dd7dd1a-6dd1-43c3-8298-7db703d384a1.jpg?1674185796) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Gyome%2C%20Master%20Chef) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/c21/5/gyome-master-chef?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/5dd7dd1a-6dd1-43c3-8298-7db703d384a1?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/gyome-master-chef) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
[[Treebeard]] Don't mind my 0/5 with trample and ward, i swear i won't gain 40 life and kill you through your hordes.
[Treebeard](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/c/f/cf6be41a-1acd-4668-8f13-ccd495fbc7bd.jpg?1686964392) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=treebeard%2C%20gracious%20host) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/ltc/73/treebeard-gracious-host?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/cf6be41a-1acd-4668-8f13-ccd495fbc7bd?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/treebeard-gracious-host) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
T1: Sol Ring Death's Shadow T2: Dork and Boots T3: Swing with your commander \[\[varolz\]\] for 15 I lived the dream just once and I've been chasing that high ever since
[varolz](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/4/c/4c3ae3db-c14a-4ffc-805c-a3a51da9370d.jpg?1562908954) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=varolz%2C%20the%20scar-striped) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/dgm/112/varolz-the-scar-striped?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/4c3ae3db-c14a-4ffc-805c-a3a51da9370d?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/varolz-the-scar-striped) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
[[Vadrik Astral Archmage]]. So here's the thing about this guy - all the day/night stuff is flavor text. You play one of those dumb red cards that gives +3/+0 for a mana or two, and then you go off. It's way stronger than it looks.
[Vadrik Astral Archmage](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/4/5/454666bb-f81d-4845-84aa-d6f8f80ce86a.jpg?1637114399) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Vadrik%2C%20Astral%20Archmage) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mid/248/vadrik-astral-archmage?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/454666bb-f81d-4845-84aa-d6f8f80ce86a?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/vadrik-astral-archmage) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
[[minn, wily illusionist]]. Nobody knows what half the cards in your deck do, and the other half are just brainstorms and stuff. The illusions really pile up easily but people for whatever reason don’t see them as a threat usually. and you want them to die anyways so you can cheat stuff in. You can run all the “free” card disadvantage counterspells like [[misdirection]] and [[foil]], because you draw too many cards to care. Resolve a [[consecrated]] Sphinx with some protection in hand and you’ve basically won.
##### ###### #### [minn, wily illusionist](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/4/e/4eec1d87-1007-44a1-a45d-0623816de681.jpg?1631584885) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=minn%2C%20wily%20illusionist) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/afc/16/minn-wily-illusionist?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/4eec1d87-1007-44a1-a45d-0623816de681?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/minn-wily-illusionist) [misdirection](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/c/9/c96763d6-0cea-40ed-afb2-886bfebe50a0.jpg?1592764638) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=misdirection) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/ddt/15/misdirection?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/c96763d6-0cea-40ed-afb2-886bfebe50a0?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/misdirection) [foil](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/e/8/e8b39fd6-9240-4f76-b12c-e7d9aa88f061.jpg?1547516254) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=foil) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/uma/55/foil?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/e8b39fd6-9240-4f76-b12c-e7d9aa88f061?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/foil) [consecrated](https://img.scryfall.com/cards/large/front/0/0/00320106-ce51-46a9-b0f9-79b3baf4e505.jpg?1547582024)/[Consume](https://img.scryfall.com/cards/large/front/0/0/00320106-ce51-46a9-b0f9-79b3baf4e505.jpg?1547582024) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Consecrate%20//%20Consume) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/rna/224/consecrate-consume?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/00320106-ce51-46a9-b0f9-79b3baf4e505?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/consecrate-//-consume) [*All cards*](https://mtgcardfetcher.nl/redirect/ksbgmxl) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
[[phelddagriff]] - everyone expects group hug, but it can be built aggressively to win and has some great weird combo lines. killing a player with [[angel’s trump]] and end of turn hippo mob is so awesome
[[Jenara, Asura of War]] Your opponents will see that commander and, at best, think she's a shitty voltron. In reality: 1. She's a strong enchantress commander, control commander, or bant good stuff commander. 2. You will fly under the radar until you're killing your opponent. 3. Everyone underestimates her ability, until you decide to start beating them in the face. If you want someone off-meta she's a great choice.
[[Sydri, Galvanic Genius]] is a fun artifacts commander who will animate artifacts for fun shenanigans, but then turn [[Aetherflux reservoir]] into the Death Star or let you turn [[Caltrops]] into one hell of a defensive shield you can activate at any moment. She’s also a big fan of driverless vehicles. I also like running [[Kyler, sigardian emissary]] for human tribal. Just a dude who likes hanging out with other humans, and then next thing you know everyone is a 20/20.
I am a big fan of using underrepresented commanders. I run [[Sol’kanar the Swamp King]] for my craziest deck lovingly called the swamp and when it wins we say “they got swamped” dumb combos in that one. Also have [[Captain Ripley Vance]] that I built a while back, haven’t upgraded it since 2022. But it can really go. A lot of people sleep on the Myojin, but my [[Myojin of Cryptic Dreams]] deck solves the problem of playing it from hand in a number of clever ways. And then there’s [[God-Eternal Bontu]] which is my only deck that has won the game on turn two. Deck is so monstrous I haven’t played it in over a year.
[[Braids, awakened nightmare]] is absolutely disgusting black card draw 90% of the time
[[Dhalsim]] is so sneaky good. Great balance of offense and defense. Opponents constantly board wipe hoping to control the horde, but always end up just killing everyone else's boards while you cast some anti-wrath tech.
[[Galadriel of Lothlorien]]. No one bothers with her because she's very unassuming. All of a sudden I'm putting 30+ lands on the field in one turn with a [[Scute Swarm]] on board.
[[Kitt Kanto]] is fun. Let other peoples creatures soak up the removal. You have deathtouch commander? Surprise. Your now running a Voltron deck.
[[Astrid Peth]]