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>Most recent bracket system update
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/commander-brackets-beta-update-october-21-2025

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>Former Commander website, where you can learn the basics, and read the format philosophy laid down by the rules committee
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>Statistically see what everyone else puts in their commander decks based on what is posted to the internet
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https://www.tappedout.net

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TQ: What's your favorite commander from the EDHREC top 100 list?
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>TQ
I go out of my way to not use any of the top 100.
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>>97480791
>What's your favorite commander from the EDHREC top 100 list?
Pic related, although she's being replaced in Strixhaven and I don't know how I feel about it.
New Killian goads shit and draws you a card when a creature you goaded attacks.

I'm not sure how good he will be. The goad doesn't have to be on a creature you enchanted, and theoretically it could draw you 3 cards per rotation (or 4 if you goad your own shit, but you have to find a way to untap it too). But the goad also only lasts a rotation which means you have to constantly shit out auras which is much harder than you'd think, having played Eriette.

I dunno man, it's so close to being my perfect enchantress. If it was rakdos and goaded shit as long as it was enchanted, I wouldn't even care if the draw wasn't attached.
In white black I just don't think theres enough cards that will keep shit goaded and you're going to get punched in the face by cards you enchanted yourself, unless you play something like No Mercy and Ghostly Prison to avoid being targeted, which I think is going to be a bit of a waste of resources.
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>>97480818
>when a creature you goaded attacks.
*when a goaded creature you enchanted attacks
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>bought this precon at a bargain at around 25 bucks because why not
>its awfully painfully durdly
>the Sam Hyde energy deck from MH3 runs circles around it
Brown women not even once holy shit
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>>97480851
>gee why are these MH3 precons that retailed for double the price of a normal precon so much better????
A true mystery.
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>>97480851
It's 25 dollars for a reason.
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>>97480855
To be fair the Omo deck is whatever too out of the box. Its only good for the pushed lands like Talon Gates
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>>97480791
Meren, it's the only one of the top 100 I've had assembled for any amount of time. Also, as far as graveyard decks go it doesn't feel like it forces a traditional 'reanimate a big threat asap' as much as other decks do.
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>>97480855
Why didn't they use the art on the box?!
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>>97480885
Because one piece of art can't be in two places at once.
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>thousands of commanders, who should I build
>why, the most popular one that tells me how to build it and how to play it of course
Why are people like this?
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Alternate thread objective:
Write a greentext story from the POV of one of your opponents playing against your deck and how they feel about it.

It didn't need to happen, by the way.
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>>97480921
They arent. The top commanders are all UB or versatile enough to have a gigantic number of theory craft builds. Popular doesnt mean common. It means dorks keep making decks online about them.
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>>97480953
Anyway here's my unique Atraxa deck (it's poison or superfriends)
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>>97480885
Probably because it was commissioned later and the artist never drew a background for it
I also doubt that WotC is the kind of company to tell an artist that their work won't be used on a card because they made a woman too ugly
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>>97480953
I play at the lgs. I see the slop first hand.
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>>97480966
Are you stupid? If the deck existed, it wouldnt need to be built; it would be copied. Because atraxa is 4 colours and works broadly with a gigantic card pool, almost every deck is unique. This is why so many people brew it.

You're mostly showing off your limited understanding of how aggregation works to get cool guy hipster points.
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>>97480802
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>>97480855
>big booba on the cover
>look inside
>flat chested bitch with mistery meat skin and cheaply made artwork
Is this fraudolent advertising?
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>>97480981
>he thinks atraxa poison/superfriends is unique
lol
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>>97481078
Yes, I think 10 billion lists with one card different because 4c has a massive cardpool with broad themes are all unique to an aggregator. This is neither confusing nor an insult.
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>TQ

>look through EDH top 100
>Get sad

I just want to play my goofy "Literal who" legendary creatures.
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>>97481164
Tell us what super special commanders you are running so we can berate you for your terrible choices.
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>TQ
Why would I look at the most popular commanders amongst idiots who are just circlejerking?
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>TQ
Only entry in the top 100 I ever built was kenrith and it was a tokens deck that I wanted a literal king at the helm of for flavor. I technically had an oloro deck at one point but I bought the precon when it came out so Im not sure if it counts
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>>97480791
>What's your favorite commander from the EDHREC top 100 list?
It seems there are lot of precon commanders... so, Y'shtola, Teval, Hakbal, Hearthhull, Xyris, Zaxara, Zurgo, Galadriel and Tovolar are my favorites.

And of the commanders in top 100 list, I also have a few in the 99 in some deck: Lathril, Giada, Isshin, Muldrotha, Chatterfang, Necrobloom, Wilhelt, Meren, Teysa, Korvold, Alela and Queen Marchesa

>>97480818
I still plan to build Eriette and new Killian will be just secondary in the deck, for extra goad hijinks, if I happen to get lucky. You really cannot beat the pacifism effect and slowly draining everybody of life. But maybe there will be second commander that will have more aura focus, so, I am patient and my wallet is ready.
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>>97481136
>>97480981
An impressively stupid post. You dont even know what the words youre using mean.
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>>97480953
>ur dragon
So true! Lots of versatility here. Dragon A or dragon B. So many builds!
>Edgar markov
See above!
>atraxa
See above! 75% of atraxas decks are split across 3 obvious themes.
>krenko mob boss
See above!

I could go on. The top 20 are definitely not even remotely versatile and open ended like you suggest. And even less so when you actually look at the number of decks per theme.
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>>97480821
>>97480818
Youre both wrong. Its just when a creature you have enchanted attacks. Goad is a one turn effect, auras arent.
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>>97481222
>multicolour decks
>in the largest tribes that constantly get new cards
>and a 4c anything counters deck
Atraxa is. Those? They just get a new deck for every single new card printed, which is every set.
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>>97481236
Imagine claiming atraxa is open ended when there's tymna thrasios
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>tq
Miirym because I have a soft spot for both Worldgorger Dragon and Astral Dragon.
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I built a merfolk tribal deck.
The commander?
Atraxa.
I'm heckin' valid.
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>>97481236
Did you mean to reply to someone else? This makes no sense. You were simply wrong anon.
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>>97481328
Whoops, misclicked you. You're alright. Keep on enchantressing.
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>>97481228
It doesn't change much because people will simply not attack with a creature that draws you cards. It's not like a Rhystic Study where people need to be casting spells and dedicating mana to that rather than paying taxes. The goad is necessary to get people to attack with shit
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>>97481288
What on earth do you need black for? I'd just run Tocasia so you can still attack with your fish and also get their goofy tap effects on demand. Throw a Quest for Renewal in there and you're really tapping those fish.
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>>97481362
So true no magic player would ever think giving an opponent a card is worth getting their huge combat damage or attack trigger off, or letting their wincons swing. Youre right anon xD
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Thirty (30) starting life is objectively superior to fourty (40)
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>>97481422
You're kinda spitting facts there anon. Commander players frequently will be retarded and give away wins.
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>>97481422
>B-B-BUT WHAT ABOUT IN MY CAREFULLY CRAFTED EXCEPTIONAL SCENARIO WHICH CLEARLY JUSTIFIES AN ACTION A PLAYER WOULD NOT NORMALLY TAKE?
Unironically kill yourself.
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>>97481445
>carefully crafted
>simply the presence of very common game mechanics
>well he has an attack trigger... he has a huge beater and oh he has this 1/1 token ill goad the token teehee
Yes. You get to choose who to goad. Goad the ones that want to attack. Youre genuinely awful at this game anon.
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>>97481427
Unfair towards black players, you know how many things I can do with 10 lives?
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I want to learn to play magic because my friends play commander. My friends made the game even more confusing than I thought it would be when we tried to play together and said to go to the card shop they go to. I went to the card shop to try and learn but they had me talk to a guy that basically told me to try the computer game despite us haveing two good games. Should I really be playing the computer game magic or does everyone I know hate me?
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>>97481517
>does everyone I know hate me?
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>>97481517
They probably just don't want to be your teacher and don't realize you want to play because you want to play *with them*.
If you just wanted to play the game but didn't know the full rules and everything, the online game is automated so it would be easier for you.

Just emphasize that you want to play the game because you like spending time with them and you'll pick up the rules over time. The game isn't that complicated. Maybe watch some gameplay on youtube so you can see how they handle phases, steps, and triggers, and how some universal mechanics work. Ultimately you should be enjoying the game enough that you wouldn't mind watching some other people play.
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>>97481517
Arena's tutorials are very good for learning the basics of the game and a lot of the more complex interactions can be made easier to understand by seeing them represented visually. It's good for learning priority and the stack, for example, because the game will show you at what points you're allowed to act.
It isn't perfect with several things often shortcut for convenience and some complex interactions that come up rarely not really explained, but it will give you a foundational understanding that will make games go more smoothly.
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>>97481517
Learning via commander can be challenging since it's it's a FFA format and there's a lot more factors to consider at any given time. Arena is good for learning what cards do and how things work especially since it's an automated simulator
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"this crazy bitch to my right"
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>>97481574
>>97481565
>Arena is good for learning what cards do and how things work especially since it's an automated simulator
Thats basically what he said but I thought he was calling me stupid

>>97481546
I just want to be involved
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>>97480791
>TQ:
Bello for turning all my junk ass do nothing enchantments into something.
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>>97480791
>TQ
I play him as stupid big ramp and I love it
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>>97481586
Players who start with commander are notoriously bad with the rules. Last year they made a change to how damage is assigned to blocking creatures and I saw tons of post on various sites from people who said they thought the new simplified way was how it always worked.
People who start with yugioh often think that the stack is like the chain in that once it starts resolving new things can't be added to it or that you can only respond to the most recent thing added to it.
Playing with someone who doesn't know the rules means either stopping the game every other turn to explain basic interactions or you sitting there without knowing what's happening. I've played with new people before, and either way someone is going to get frustrated.
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>>97481455
>Goad the ones that want to attack
Have you even real the conversation you're jumping into?

>this card might not pay off as much as you think because it triggers when a creature you goaded attacks and it is hard to keep them goaded in those colors
>actually it triggers when a creature you enchanted attacks even if not goaded
>you're right but that won't change much because in most cases they will just choose not to attack then
>WHAT IF THEYRE GONNA ATTACK TO WIN THE GAME HUH????
>that's clearly not the scenario we're talking about
>YOU GET TO CHOOSE WHAT TO GOAD!!!!!
See the start of the fucking conversation
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>faglord supreme izzet player puts offer you can't refuse onto a scepter.
>I'm helping you bro buy giving you ramp!
>Counters everything anyway with different spells
>Keeps recycling his counters out of his graveyard into his library or back into his hand
>Finally get rid of the scepter though it doesn't really matter as all he is doing is playing counters,
>Another player somehow gets spiderpunk onto the board
>Play my grand abolisher so I could combo off.
>Guy tries to counter it
>He's been spamming counter spells all game
>Just look at him dead in the eyes.
>"It resolves"
>Notices I put GA onto my Battlefield instead of into my graveyard.
>He asks what I'm doing
>"Spells can't be countered."
>Then I want to take it back because if he knew that he wouldn't have crifted instead.
>Flatly tell him no.
>You should have reminded me!
>Flatly tell him its not my job to remind him of the board state and its not even my effect that is stopping it from not being able to be countered.
>Says I'm going against the spirit of the format
>Tell him to suck it up and then combo off for the win.
Controltards, not even once.
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>>97481629
>People who start with yugioh often think that the stack is like the chain in that once it starts resolving new things can't be added to it
So THAT'S why that one guy insisted on that in one of my games haha. I explained to him that if that was how that works than split second spells would become so much more important.
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>>97481728
why do combo players write like theyre a toddler being denied a toy
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Suggestions for making thise dude head an artifact deck?
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>>97481747
just tutor reaver cleaver
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>>97481747
Why would you see this effect and think "artifacts"
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>>97481649
This is very embarrassing for you. Following from the start (which i did) doesnt change my sentiment, nor does it make it wrong.
>win
I mentioned other things :) people play draw spells into Smothering Tithe, they play non creatures into remora etc. Each player NEEDS to advance their gamestate or they lose. And yes if I have some attack trigger that lets me cheat out a permanent or maybe draw 2+ cards or literally anything I need, I will give you that card to do so. And any good player will as well (see cedh games)
>scenario we are talking about
Yes it is? The scenario is about using the commander and how it functions. Youre fucking retarded. Also blocked so dont waste my time
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>>97481736
I've seen so many people saying their group has played that way for years before someone new shows up and explains how it really works. Ironically I think the misconception might mostly come from magic players who are only vaguely aware of the chain and don't know about that rule telling yugioh players that the stack is the same thing.
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>>97480791
>none of the commanders I play are on the top 100
>somehow, Yawgmoth isn't on the top 100
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>>97480791
>TQ: What's your favorite commander from the EDHREC top 100 list?
I love this lil homie like you wouldn't believe.
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>>97481763
You're way too stupid to be this smug.

>if I have some attack trigger that lets me cheat out a permanent or maybe draw 2+ cards or literally anything I need, I will give you that card to do so
Again, a carefull crafted scenario. 99% of the time, attacking with a creature does not do that and it is not worth letting your opponent draw to attack.
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>>97480791
>TQ: What's your favorite commander from the EDHREC top 100 list?
I'm an EDH hipster, so I only have two out of my 14 decks in the top 100.
>Choco
>Xyris
I used to have a Kaalia deck when I got the Commander precons back in 2011. Took it apart because people didn't like playing against it, understandably. I'm surprised she became so popular.
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>>97480885
>>97481058
Listen here Chuds

What you are referring to is called the “Male Gaze” and it’s a tool of bigotry and white supremacy. It doesn’t matter that white people are only 6% of the human race.

Enjoy the immigrants and the future is female.
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>>97481833
Combat and attack triggers are two of the most common mechanics in the game. Combat damage is the most common wincon. Its not "carefully constructed" its an example of a VERY COMMON INTERACTION. Whats carefully constructed is this fantasy land where 0 of your 3 opponents have a single creature they want/need to attack with yo develop their board. Awful awful player.
>99% of the time they dont
AHAHAHA GENUINELY AWFUL
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>>97481862
>Combat and attack triggers are two of the most common mechanics in the game.
BECAUSE THEY USUALLY DON'T DRAW YOUR OPPONENTS CARDS
AS SOON AS THEY DO YOU THINK ABOUT WHETHER IT'S WORTH IT
MOST ATTACK TRIGGERS ARE DOO-DOO GARBAGE AND YOU KNOW THIS, THAT'S WHY YOU HAD TO MAKE YOUR EXAMPLES TO ABSURD LIKE WINNING THE GAME OR CHEATING SHIT INTO PLAY
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>>97481858
I wish white people were even less of the population. Evolutionary dead ends should be put out to pasture.
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>>97481762
Because i have a shitload of artifact cards and I want to make a deck with the red ones.
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>>97481843
>Choco
Honestly surprised at how well he's performed, though I should definitely had seen it coming
>have a bunch of birds/bird tokens out
>swing with a lot of them
>get 5+ free lands every turn
>all these fucking landfall triggers godDAMN
>windmill slamdunk all these fucking cards down with like 20 goddamned lands
It's great fun
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>>97481867
>retard lashes out cause hes wrong
There are like 50k unique cards. Yes lots of triggers suck, people dont put those ones in their deck.
>absurd
In my combat triggers deck literally every creature draws cards, removes enemy pieces, or cheats stuff into play. I would attack with all of these still even if it drew you a card. You are so bad at this game its genuinely hard to believe you aremt trolling.
>KELLAN ONLY DRAWS ONE CARD OFF GOADED ATTACKERS
>actualy its draws off any attacker you enchanted
>WELL NO ONE WOULD EVER DO THAT NUHUH
>here are some common triggers people definitely would do that for
>CAREFULLY CONSTRUCTED!!!! NO FAIR!!!! MY ARGUMENT WHERE THERE ARE NO GOOD TARGETS? NOT CAREFULLY CONSTRUCTED XD SUPER FAIR
>youre a retard anon
This is our conversation btw you are awful atmagic
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>>97481903
>Yes lots of triggers suck, people dont put those ones in their deck.
Good triggers still become worse when they also say "and your opponent draws a card"

You're either retarded or trolling, I don't care which I'm done with you.
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>>97481917
And yet they would still be used. Evidence (which you ignored):
People play draw spells into tithe
People play noncreatures into remora

People will advance their gameplay. Post a deck i am fairly certain you do not play magic.
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Giving a single opponent a draw isn't that bad, you just put two of your other opponents behind in card advantage while probably advancing your gameplan. (This is why FFA is unsalvageable and why Rhystic needs to be banned)
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>>97481927
>>97481934
Samefag
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This machine kills fascists.
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The power of cards scales with your opponents. The better your opponents, the worse it is to give them draws. And if your opponents suck? It doesnt matter.
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The funniest part is all I did was correct him and provide examples for when the correction might matter. Kellan cares about enchanted creatures attacking, not goaded ones. And there are circumstances where people will still attack even if it'll draw the Kellan player a card. At which point he started sperging
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The funniest part is I play off that I don’t care and that I win and yet I’m the one posting without replying to anyone at all about how not mad I am
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The funniest part is if you won you wouldnt give bad advice.
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>TQ
For me, it's Teval.
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>>97481995
>>97481984
>>97481974
>>97481942
samefag shitting up the thread
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>>97480791
>TQ: What's your favorite commander from the EDHREC top 100 list?
I like getting a little foolish at times
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>>97480791
>TQ
Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na
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>>97482038
I still have no idea how you're supposed to play him or how you're supposed to win. Do you just always want to have 0-1 cards in hand at all times? Is the gameplan just "spend all your mana every turn and draw your entire deck ASAP"?
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>>97482047
I'm still so mad we didn't get more radiation stuff in EoE. I want to build him but there's not enough rad counter support, and cheesing it with a dozen proliferates every turn sounds so lame
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>>97481728
>bragging about not reminding your opponent of the board state in a casual game and not allowing a quick rollback
weird flex but ok
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>>97482092
He doesn't need radiation outside of the one he provides each turn. Drop him with any mill engine out and hold up protection while he grows himself.
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>>97482106
>not accepting you made a mistake and suffering the consequences in a casual game
cuts both ways
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>>97481747
Equipment with attack triggers, plus generic artifact support for them.
That's enough to justify a general artifact theme.
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>>97482106
>wanting himself and others to remain as shitty plays forever because he expects a do-over for ever oopsie-poopsie fucky-wucky he makes.
weird flex but okay
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>>97482119
>not accepting you made a mistake
He did though. He asked for a quick rollback so he could pay a different spell because he recognized his mistake.
>suffering the consequences in a casual game
It's a casual game. Have you never had to take a play back because the board was clogged before and you missed a trigger or didn't notice an effect in play?
You're expecting professional level play out of some guy at a casual table because you're salty about being interacted with. Get over yourself.
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>>97482152
That's not accepting your mistake, thats whining and begging you shouldn't have to accept your mistake.
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>>97482152
It's just bait
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>>97482178
>anything thing that pushes against my beliefs is bait
So we have "i shouldn't have to live with my mistakes" and flat out a denial of reality.
Congrats, you're an idiot.
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>>97480791
Meren by default since nothing else makes the cutoff.
Also post decks
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>>97482106
>>97482152
Why do zoomers make everything worse?
>oh youre gunna win the game? Aha I made a mistake lemme roll that back real quick B)
>have you ever
If i make a mistake, i live with it. How else will I improve as a player? Furthermore how are you accepting your mistakes if youre demanding they be erased.
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>>97482152
>It's a casual game.
yeah so losing a card because [I] was too stupid to read cards isn't a big deal and i can tank the loss. it cuts both ways.
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>>97482197
>ritual of the machine
My man
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>>97482152
>Its a casual game
>That's why I need a take back so I can win and you can't.
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I'm honestly tired of the gaslighting angle-shooting of "its just a causal game bro"
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Any commanders that are about sacrificing your stuff that are NOT tokens?
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>>97482310
crybullies dominate the format
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>>97482109
I don't want to build mill, I want to build radiation. Mill is just the by-product of radiation. I want a "poison your opponents and let the damage-over-time slowly kill them" experience
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Looking for input on this Howler list
>https://archidekt.com/decks/19526681/notstorm
My goal for it was to make those treasure producing tormenting voice cards go mana positive and rifle through my deck until I hit an extra combat spell and make a beater big enough to hit for lethal, but I'm overloaded on tormenting voice cards and am trying to decide what cuts to make. Want to make my turn feel like desperate dig to see if I can even swing or not. And this is gonna be bracket too, hence why its a cheap list. I know I can run the medallions, choosing not to cause of budget
I'm thinking I should cut all the instants that only pitch one card at a time first
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>>97482364
Mothman isn't the commander for that kind of deck. He gets big too fast for anyone to be dying slowly. I guess you could do some combination of blink and clones as the closest thing, but unless you're actively choosing not to put the counters on him you can't really avoid the deck wanting to end the game with combat damage. Not counting the cEDH version with food chain, that is.
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>>97482086
I made one when he came out and just put a bunch of play extra land and impulse draw effects. It basically just plays like a landfall storm deck and my friends hate it.
https://archidekt.com/decks/8788156/flubs
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>>97482004
What kind of Teval do you play?
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>>97482364
Maybe do something like red pingers?
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>>97482420
>Mothman isn't the commander for that kind of deck
His other ability would be completely ignored. He's the de facto best commander for this kinda deck because most of the radiation cards are in his colors. I'd only use him because he's there to be used, I wouldn't build the deck to make him the center of focus
>you can't really avoid the deck wanting to end the game with combat damage
The wincon would 100% be "killed via radiation damage" and barely anything else. Combat damage would only help get to that point. I have an Ognis haste tribal deck and dumping 30+ treasures into Nuclear Fallout is one of the greatest things ever
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>>97482086
There's a couple different ways to play him but it all revolves around becoming hellbent and non-deterministically playing a shitton of cards. It's honestly pretty fun to build and play but will put the rest of the table to sleep as you take long as fuck turns
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i dont wanna have to redo a lot of my amalia deck, but i really wanna make astarion the commander, but the deck doesnt synergize with him
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>>97481728
>>Says I'm going against the spirit of the format
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>>97481728
Putting An Offer You Can't Refuse on an iso scepter is based casual EDH gameplay. Grand Abolisher into combo is gay slop and you were the villain here.
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>>97482270
somehow this card oneshots a player way more than it should
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>>97482540
ok
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>>97481728
you sound like an annoying person
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This deck absolutely needs a few flashers that redirect/deter combat. The games where it draws too much aggro early it gets deleted because Control Bad, even when my being out of the game is to the detriment of the players going after me.

But I love long-ass games, and this deck is dragging games into the longest slugfests.
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>>97481858
Not even white though. I just like hot or cute women.
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>>97481728
>"Woah, this is a casual format just for chill sessions"
>Says they guy spamming counter spells on everyone so they likely are barely playing the game
Yeah, I don't get the mentality of people who do this shit. If you are playing control or hard stax, that's not really casual as that's an oppressive competitive deck type in general.
Not that it doesn't have a place on commander, but you lose the right to argue it's just casual when you clearly want to make everyone have a bad time.
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>>97482653
Counters only make you an enemy if your opponents don't know how to play around them. A single iso scepter counter per turn rotation (which gives two treasures to the caster in question) isn't even a good play. Makes me wonder what the fuck the other players were even doing.
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>>97481586
>>97481517
Are you a girl?
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>>97482622
She's not good, awful even, but she's trying her best.
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>>97482441
>He's the de facto best commander for this kinda deck because most of the radiation cards are in his colors.
He's actually terrible for rad counters. Frank Horrigan or Xavier are strictly better because proliferate is stronger for rad counters.
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>>97481517
Commander is by far the worst way to learn how to play. If no one is willing to teach you one on one with prebuilt decks, it's not a bad suggestion to hop on Arena and going through the tutorial and playing some Jumpstart events.
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>>97481517
So EDH/commander is rough to start learning because it involves practically evrey card ever printed. You can learn on it, but your friends need to bring low-power jank decks and teaching/showing people how to do things is hard especially for autistic nerds.

The mobile/computer game Arena is good because it's a smaller amount of cards and can teach the basics pretty quickly, and can be tried for free.

Alternatively, ask your friends specifically to play some starter/learner games with you and walk you through the basics.
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>>97482653
>that's not really casual as that's an oppressive competitive deck type in general
Next you'll be telling us that aggro is actually also really good and way too opressive in commander.
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>>97482653
stax is not competitive, it's terrible in cedh.
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>>97480818
Killian isn't a replacement it's a 99 addition.
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>>97482339
the one and only
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>>97481517
I don't know you but I hate you.
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>>97482934
Well I don't know you but I hate him too.
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>>97481858
Greasy brown hands typed this post
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If I have Galian Beast on board and cast a successful board wipe, when Galian Beast returns face up as Vincent will he see the deaths of my opponent's cards and trigger?
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>>97482622
12 cents my nigga
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>hurr durr commander is hard to learn as a new player because of large board states
nigga the entire game is hard to learn for a new player, it really doesn't matter where you start. the only real difference between edh and regular magic is the multiplayer aspect, where people diplo constantly, meaning that you even get constant hints about the board state from other players if you are new. I play with literal sub 70 IQ subhuman gorillas and comprehending big board states is not one of their problems.
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>>97483028
gallan dies, along with all other creatures
gallans trigger goes on stack
gallans trigger resolves
all creatures are already dead
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>>97483069
That's what I figured but I wanted to make sure. I've never played with auto regenerators before so I wasn't 100% sure.
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>>97483046
>press X to doubt
Dont be silly.
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Help, which would make me the most not homofag
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I FUCKING HATE MONO WHITE!!!! JUST STALLING THE ENTIRE GAME UNTIL YOU HAVE 3000 LIFE IS A GAY WAY TO PLAY!!!
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>Order tainted remedy
>It arrives
>Go to the lgs
>But a single pack because why not
>crack this
FORFUCKSAKE
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>>97483410
>as soon as I pull two of these I lose track of where my stranglehold is
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>>97480969
>the artist never drew a background for it
That is literally not an excuse anymore in this world of AI art. It's one thing to use it for the foreground, but backgrounds are basically perfected technology at this point.
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>>97483410
>tutor enchantment removal
nothin personnel, kid
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>>97482106
He has autism, just be proud he at least gets out of the house occasionally.
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>>97480851
This deck's problem is that it expects you to cast all these 6 cmc artifacts and creatures that ask 8 energy for something, not realizing what made Temur Energy in Standard back in the day so dumb was that in only asked 2-3 pips of energy to do something stupid. You have no way to ramp up effectively too. Compare that to the Satya deck where it goes for a more control route and you have cards like Localized Destruction in there. Pretty obvious the DFT precons were just as half assed as the main set was
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>>97483495
>AI backgrounds
You called?
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>>97483349
My mono white likes to basically make myself unkillable and untouchable without you killing me in one hit.
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>>97480791
>TQ: What's your favorite commander from the EDHREC top 100 list?
Having quickly checked, I don't have any decks built around a top 100 commander. The closest is Windgrace at #173.

I have been thinking about building an angels deck with the foil Giada I pulled at the SNC prerelease though so that would put me well into the Basic Bitch Zone.
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>>97482429
Self-Mill/Graveyard/Reanimator Teval. I can makes lots of Zombie Druid tokens that way. Also, the deluge of lands helps me cast big spells.
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>>97483574
Yeah exactly, I'd take that shit any day when the alternative is maliciously intentional ugly art.
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>>97483349
Not true, some mono white is aggro, Voltron or tokens or big creatures like angles.
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>>97483333
Kindbinding, because Cathar's Crusade is always played by drooling retards who can't track their counters properly and I don't know what the custom card on the left does.
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>>97483657
>Custom card
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>>97483667
time to play the game?
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>>97483667
Rooms are arena design and I do not count them as real magic cards.
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>>97483696
Its okay for you to deny reality in your personal life, but you need to accept your delusions are delusions.
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>>97483034
>>97482703
The problem is how "worth it" those effects are, and it's hard to gauge. Because they go from saving your ass to doing absolutely nothing.
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>>97483333
Kinbinding because Lorwyn is the least gay plane of those featured. Then the Stranger Things plane, then the Twilight plane as the gayest of the three (naturally).
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>>97483657
>drooling retards who can't track their counters properly
You play with people that don't use dice?
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Im having a bit too much fun with this deck. It's very successful when running equipment, protection, and ring triggers. It feels a bit like a solo infiltration for Frodo, which is cool and I love.

But for people without removal, this is a very unfun card with short games. What are some commanders I could run for a stealth-esque experience that's a bit more chill for people?
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Building a talrand deck as part of an effort to make the most quintessential mono colored decks. Whats some funny mono blue jank to throw in this that never gets to work anywhere else?
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New to the format, so there are cards that essentially do the same thing as other cards. What is the attitude around running both (or more), and if it is frowned upon, what are some examples where it wouldn't be?
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>>97483884
I don't know about jank but what about astral dragon and go for dragon token spam
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>>97483887
That's just consistency. There might be some purist here who insists its not EDH unless its a 100 card chaff pile but in my opinion, finding a mechanic that has enough support to be a pattern but is too weird to work in other formats is what the spirit of EDH is all about. This is my list that is all about turning spitemare creatures into damage reflectors for my own spells cause I really love spitemare effects
>https://archidekt.com/decks/18185275/railgun
When you design a deck around a specific interaction you want to make happen, it makes a good deck
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is pantlaza fun or does it get boring fast
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>>97483884
blocks you're path
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>>97483932
Already got him. Am more looking for things like Floodgate which you wouldn't see outside of a monoblue deck thats getting played amongst friends
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>>97483924
So whats the line with consistency is it all just vibes, like running wizard lighting and lighting?
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>>97483943
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN1RJF55NXI
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>>97483887
Like Llanowar Elves and Fyndhorn Elves? Nobody will give a shit about this, ever. Play them all.

If your deck is 60 counterspells and 39 lands? Fuck you, because what are you even doing?
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>>97483953
Wizard's lightning and lightning bolt would be completely fine man, nobody would have a problem with that. In fact it's cool to see how your strategy would make wizard's lightning playable. The 1-of-every-card restriction isn't a philosophical tenant, its how you make a consistent deck IN SPITE of that singleton restriction that makes the process cool
>>97483982
This guy said it better
>>97483970
This shit is actually hilarious, and its in common too so I can put it in my pEDH deck. Awesome pick
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>>97480791
>tq
Squeaked in at 97. I love chocobos that's really it
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>>97481728
>playing with strangers
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Surge foils are so fucking ugly why do faggots soiface fornthem
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>>97483581
>I don't have any decks built around a top 100 commander.
That wasn't the question though. It was which your favorite was. Whether you built it or not is irrelevant

Dumb Chad
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>>97484170
This but "old" borders
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>>97483887
It's more like common sense really. Most cards you'll see used by most people, especially modern ones, boil down to, "do thing, get effect." Of course if you have a very specific strategy in mind you'll use "duplicates" of whatever thing that is to get the job done if you have access to them. You have a heart of gold, don't let any "cookie cutter" arguments take that away from you.
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I want to build her, is she fun?
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>>97483932
Wow this is like a glow-up version of the virgin that's often paired with that Chad.
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>>97480791
>TQ: What's your favorite commander from the EDHREC top 100 list?
WEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLL
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>>97484170
I would soiface to a valuable surge foil because then that means I could easily trade it away for a bunch of normal cards like God intended.
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>>97484346
HE AIN'T MY BOY BUT THE BROTHA IS HEAVY
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>>97480791
>TQ
The queen of EDH
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skullbriar or yurlok for my next deck
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>>97484364
Skullbriar with a sticker voltron package
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>>97484352
GAVE AWAY MY POSSESSIONS AND MOVED INTO A CHEVY
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>>97484363
>new to EDH again after decade hiatus
>find out about this card
>perfect aggro keywords, proliferate, and the best colors, don't like red except for WoF
>I could use all planeswalkers and the best board wipes and counterspells and it would be perfect
>find out this is one of the most popular commanders and everyone already does that

FUCK. A commander like this didn't exist when I first played and now I'm FUCKED.
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>>97484384
Why do Goblins and Gremlins always have sharp little shivs and look like they are about to stab a mf?
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>>97484386
You're dodging a bullet anyway. Commander players are horrible at threat assessment and will gun down Atraxa players before anyone else.
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>>97484386
You'd be fucked anyway. It's not a question of timing, it's just that you have basic bitch taste.
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>>97484404
And what do you like?
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>>97484364
>Skullbriar when Auntie and a -1/-1 counter focused set just came out
You're cruisin' for a bruisin', m8
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>>97484404
>it's just that you have basic bitch taste.
How so? Back when I first played EDH, there wasn't enough planeswalkers to even really build a "superfriends" deck, and if there was it was prohibitively expensive because all the planeswalkers were expensive. ALL OF THEM. So you'd need all of them, then a five color general, and there as only a handful of them, then you'd definitely need all the fetches, duals and shocks to make it even remotely playable. I just couldn't justify it back then, but always dreamed of playing a deck where you just had a bunch of plansewalkers out and got to slowly build up your board state, having all these options each turn and watching everyone squirm.
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>mostly just play grixis, mardu, mono red and mono white
>don't really have any green cards
>decide to make sultai commander
>copying a decklist for a bracket 2/3 ramp/recursion/counters slop pile is a fucking grand
why the everliving fuck is every playable green card $50?
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>>97484453
If I had to venture a guess I'd say Amulet Titan being a dominant modern deck, and that needs green cards.
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>>97484339
Hermes is a turbo virgin. He had to create bird loli tulpas to fuck because he was too much a pussy to talk to women. He also unironically turns into the chud billions must die wojak the second he gets any pushback.
Great card though. WotC being too chicken to print Meteion tokens was funny though.
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>>97484444
none of my friends play blight stuff, im the only person who built morcant
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Which card would you cut for Natural Order, and why? I can't decide...

https://archidekt.com/decks/14384222/azusa_lost_but_46_land
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>>97484547
Triumph easily. Few of your cards guarantee wide boards, and when you do have one Craterhoof is better for being a tutor target.
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>>97484547
How about Rofellos you cheating faggot?
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>>97484446
Planeswalkers in EDH aren't great, the other 3 people tend to just swing at them to take them off them out or just as a "guilt free" target for the board they amass
What you actually want for that style of deck isn't a commander that proliferates or powers them up further, it's unironically a pillowfort one
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>>97481164
Then do so? What's stopping you?
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>>97484571
I've been testing out banned cards to test their power level. I switch them out if someone isn't ok with it.

>>97484566
I win probably 1/3 of my game due to that card. Honestly I was almost thinking about Seedborn Muse, just because I hardly win by taking out one opponent and then needing defense. Sylvan Tutor is my other choice, as even though it's cheaper, it doesn't cheat it into play.
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>Dumb slut, 2RW
>Haste
>Tap: Dumbslut does damage equal her power to target creature. When a creature is dealt damage this way, you may pay 2, if you do, dumb slut becomes a copy of that creature except they have this ability.
>Whenever a creature you control is dealt lethal noncombat damage, gain that much life.
>2/2
This is a boros card or a mardu card?
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>Annex Familiar, {W/B}
>Artifact Creature - Phyrexian Bird
>Flying
>Sacrifice Annex Familiar: Counter target instant or sorcery unless its controller pays {phyrexian white}.
>1/1
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qtpt 1WR
creature - human citizen
when qtpt enters, you and target vote to kiss, if kiss wins more votes you both kiss and win the game
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>Big Chad Chud (BRW)
>Orc Warrior Mercenary
>Bad Chad Chud can't be sacrificed
>Hexproof
>tap: destroy target creature controlled by another target player. Create 3 tapped treasure tokens. That player gains control of Big Chad Chud.
>3/3
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>>97484591
I think this is a selesnya card
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>>97483696
Take off your pink and blue thigh highs because we don't consider you a real woman.
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Tournament! 1WR
Sorcery
The players split into groups of two and each play a subgame of magic the gathering. The winners of those subgames play subgames play games with the winners of subgames until one player has won the most subgames. That player wins the game.
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What are some good commanders for a Christian/religion themed deck?
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>cheap cards I want aren't available
Fuck man don't want to order a couple singles online and get raped by shipping.
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>>97484766
>Christian/religion themed
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>>97484768
Ever considered not being a broke bitch living outside of the US like a fag?
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>>97484672
Why though?
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>>97480791
Hmm quite a few. Makes sense for the precon ones.
Top 100 - Y'shtola, Sauron, Nekusar, Hakbal, Necrobloom, Hashaton, Caesar, K'rrik, Atraxa, Grand Unifier, Sisay, Weatherlight Captain, Marneus Calgar, Stella Lee
Non Top 100 - Lucea Kane, Anrakyr, Abaddon, Drafna, Auntie Ool, Kambal, Profiteering Mayor, The Mimeoplasm, Megatron, Terra, Herald of Hope, Terra, Magical Adept, Momir Vig, Endrek Sahr, Zedruu, Ellivere, Teval, Arbiter of Virtue, Prossh, Tawnos, Winota

I might have one or two more I never play.
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>>97480791
>What's your favorite commander from the EDHREC top 100 list?
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What's the best colorless 1mv grave hate artifact?
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I just realized my most played deck is unironically a control deck with no wincons
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>>97484842
Depends. Either
>Soul-Guide Lantern
>Ghost Vacuum
>Stone of Erech
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>>97484842
pauperbros...
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>>97484842
I like Soul-Guide Lantern the best because it saves my graveyard.
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>>97481747
Shouldn't it be "marked by fire and reborn in water"?
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>>97480791
>TQ
Easily Teval, although Kuja barely hanging in at 100 makes me want to say him since he's the only Rakdos commander I didn't instantly take apart. He'll probably be overtaken by Etali soon.
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>>97484802
the activated ability is a bite stapled to a clone, which is UG. haste is in green.
the last ability is white (aggressively anti-red).
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>shocks will never be cheaper than they are right now
>own none
>should just buy one of each and be done with it
>still have the urge to get a lorwyn box instead because i might get multiple
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>>97484957
You won't get multiple. You might not even get one. Don't buy a box unless you're planning to draft it.
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>>97484957
I mean, I could see them dipping farther
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>>97484766
Muscle Jesus with vaguely religious Bant stuff. Just say "Jesus saves" whenever you use his regenerate.
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>>97484981
>>97484766
Forgot pic.
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>>97484952
Seconding
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>>97484983
>>97484981
That's... actually not a bad idea, dude
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>>97485007
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIkBJruoxG8
Here's a quote mine for when you play it out.
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How do I destigmatize myself when it comes to "high quality" cards for my archetype? Not generic shit like Rhystic, but things like Storm-Kiln Artist in a spellslinger deck or Viscera Seer in aristocrats, things that have a niche but are almost universally played in that niche
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>>97485028
What does this gibberish even mean
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>>97485028
you deleted some info when you were editing your post, or something. what's the stigma exactly? you want to use these cards in other archetypes? you want to stop hating them for no reason? what are you stigmatizing?
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>>97485007
Bant also lets you run a lot of angels.
And more importantly, Crusade.
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>>97485037
>>97485045
I'm retarded sorry
I mean I feel some irrational aversion to using them. If I'm putting together an aristocrats deck I get the urge to not put Zulaport and Blood Artist in there simply because they're too blatantly good and in every single deck so it feels paint-by-numbers, and I end up making the deck worse just to have an excuse to not use them
I understand this is stupid but do not understand why I feel it in the first place
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>>97484766
>your commander is the demiurge
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>>97484944
It exists though
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>>97485076
oh, whoops, I thought you were >>97484591. not sure how I didn't see that properly.
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>>97485073
Begone Gnostic
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I want to make a sea monsters deck for all the usual Simic stuff but also Sultai for the Dimir things like Wrexial and Runo. How would you suggest building for a casual, mana-greedy deck besides good giant dudes and a paranoid amount of ramp? I'll even reluctantly sub out Sin as a convenient type-themed commander if it helps get the ball rolling.
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>>97480818
Just run nuKillian in the 99 as a CA engine you can draw.
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>>97485142
BASED
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>>97484766
Wrong game, Christcuck
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Holy fucking based...
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>>97485200
now post the ff6 cid
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>>97484957
I bought 2 of each of the double sided ones and have 0 regrets. Only wish the EoE shocks were better looking.
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>>97484453
If it's good in standard and mythic, $20. If it says the words "double" or "twice" it will be $40 eventually because those words cause a Pavlovian reaction in commander players that makes them drool and take out the wallet.
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>>97484573
>Planeswalkers in EDH aren't great, the other 3 people tend to just swing at them to take them off them out or just as a "guilt free" target for the board they amass
The amount of games I've won in my Amanatou deck because people swung at her to prevent her ult that I'm never going to use is staggering.
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>>97485417
distraction carnifex
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>>97484453
What crack are you smoking? Green is notorious for having some of its best cards at common and uncommon?m. Theres only a couple dozen really excellent green cards that break the bank
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>>97485412
>If it says the words "double" or "twice" it will be $40 eventually
+1 master race reporting in
still too expensive imo
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Does anyone else just feel empty whenever they look at new sets? It really feels like the "unlimited games but no games" where we're getting 6+ sets a year but 99% of the cards fall into the same loop of already-explored design space. So many creatures now are setup and payoff on the same card to the degree it feels like WotC is afraid of asking the player to do anything. It feels like it's all just endless snowballing valueslop. Looking at cards now consistently makes me ask "why does this have a second effect when the first one was already strong enough to be a build-around?"
It never feels like something new either. Wow simic big mana. Never saw that one before. The powercreep feels so blatant because the design niche is exactly the same as over a dozen other cards. So many commanders now can just be swapped around in the same deck for almost no real playstyle change. So much shit has to be removed instantly now or it will snowball out of control and it really just makes me wonder what it's all in service of. New sets don't make me feel excited. They just make me question what I even like about the game.
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>>97485602
Then stop playing if new sets make you feel that way. Either the feelings will pass and you'll want to play Magic again or they won't, which means it's time to leave for good. Why resist?
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>>97485690
maybe he's a WOTC shareholder suing the company
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>>97485602
It's sobering to see long requested things like a Jund -1/-1 counters commander finally come into existence and it's done in the most brainless way possible that creates no new angle for the archetype, just an engine to feed it cards.
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>>97485602
>99% of the cards fall into the same loop of already-explored design space

This is a good thing adhdtard. It's impossible to keep making new shit without it either becoming horribly unbalanced or total garbage nobody pays attention to (which is what's already happened in this game).

The problem is they kept re-releasing shit for the same few deck types. Artifactfags and counterfags and graveyardfags and landfallfags eat good several times a year.
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This is not a $20 card
This is not good in Standard
It is too situational and dependent on playing elementals
It will be a $1.50 Commander card in 2 months once parasitic """investors""" have realized that just because a card saw tournament play doesn't mean they should jack up the price.
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>>97485602
I only looking at new sets for upgrades for my budget decks. Especially if they use weird mechanics.
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>be me
>have no hobbies or pass times besides ©Magic the Gathering
>get burnt out on the game
>instead of taking an extended break or leaving entirely I remain as an unpleasant tumor constantly complaining about how new cards are being made for newer/still interested players instead of unpleasable burnt out hipster pseuds like me

wew glad none of you bros are like this though!
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>>97485797
Imagine crying this much about other people voicing their dislike for something.
How about you take your own advice?
You're burnt out on /edhg/ you should take an extended break or leave entirely
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whenever you do the thing draw a card
whenever you draw a card do the thing
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whenever an opponent does a thing draw a card
whenever an opponent draws a card do a thing
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>>97485786
Oh shit it's whelming wave
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>>97485821
Investors gonna whale tho
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>>97485797
I do this and I act like this unironically while being not burned out by magic and while having a million other hobbies.
Maybe the problem is people like (you), anon. Living in denial about the truth.
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>>97485797
Based. Look at the called out faggots getting asshurt
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>>97485869
>screaming into the void complaining about something you are literally in the process of doing
>"haha!!! so based!!!!!"
Samefag?
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>>97485819
Found the white player.
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>>97480791
I hate to admit it but y'shtola is one of the most fun decks I have ever piloted
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>>97485883
Get next day delivery on those programming socks, nonny
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Made some edits to my deck for future testing before bed.
Dreamed that the edits were all excellent and made my deck 100x smoother.
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>>97484435
I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price.
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>>97484397
>horrible at threat assessment and will gun down Atraxa players before anyone else.
>t. Butthurt atraxa player
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>>97482416
my input is to focus less on beaters/creatures in your deck and entirely on doing a voltron.
your gimick only works with howler out anyhow, so you might as well focus entirely on him.
i'd recommend some enchantments that make him unblockable, flying, and/or make non-legendary copies. one of my funniest commander games ended when I smacked my friend with a unblockable 42-power captain howler (who began the turn with 6 power).
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>>97482416
>input
>>97486024
>input

Put it in, put it in, put it...in! Great job! You did it!
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Scooped up Blight Curse and I refuse to pay $10 for a niche uncommon, any advice on if/when the prices will normalize?
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>>97485752
Auntie Ool was indeed a lame and gay dissapointment. I instead built an Oros blight deck with chaff because I liked slumbering walker and reaping willow the most out of all the blight synergy in new lorwyn. It's absolute dogshit but putting a blight sickle on Oros to put counters on stuff is pretty funny in shitty bracket 2 games.
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Alright /edh/ what's your most fun commander? I'm looking at making a new deck and looking for something fun. My most fun is probably Aikido Marchesa just because no two games look the same
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>your LGS opens a bar
What do you order at commander night?
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>>97485752
While I agree about Auntie, I’m moderately okay with The Reaper, King No More just because it has a restriction on the theft ability. In all fairness a decent part comes from thinking Scarecrows as a type are peak soul
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>>97485772
>this is a good thing
>because its hard to do otherwise
What a retarded post. Remember, when given the opportunity, zoomers will simp for corporations every time.
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>>97485199
*Tips fedora*
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>>97485786
>a 2-4 mana 5/5 with flying that clears your opponents board is bad!
Its hilarious watching dogshit edh players talk about this game. Its not EDH singleton, you have 60 cards, 4. Copies of stuff. If you want to create a certain boardstate, you design your deck so that it'll appear most games.
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>>97483884
Actually perfect synergy with this card
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>>97486061
>I refuse to pay $10 for a good uncommon that's a key part of many combo decks.
>When will this combo card be cheaper?
Lol. Lmao even.
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>>97486061
>if/when the prices will nromalize?
When it gets reprinted in a set or precon
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>>97486107
>>a 2-4 mana
It's isn't 2-4 mana unless you already have a 5-7 mana elemental on board. How often does that happen in Standard?
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>>97486045
I thought wanting input meant wanting advice or help, as in you wanted our advice regarding howler as commander.
Nevermind, I guess.
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Diceroll tribal seems like such a retarded deck but I really want to make it
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>>97486158
It is other anon is just having a melty about it for some reason
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>>97486155
Who cares about standard, that's a format for retards. But it works with all the scam tech just fine.
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>>97486166
It mostly boils down to tutoring out d20 dice rolls like those dragons and shitting out a million tokens with token and effect doublers. Not bad, but IMO it's far more boring than it sounds like.
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>>97486073
Nothing, then I whip out my proxy beer.
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>>97486155
Very often. Again, youre an EDHOnly retard who genuinely cannot fathom how 60 card formats work. The decks are designed to create a certain boardstate with consistency, yknow 60 cards. 4 copies of whatever you want. Personally dont care about the costs but anyone calling it bad, especially outside of EDH, is retarded.
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>>97486166
>guys looks like it's my turn again
>roll
>create tokens
>roll
>create tokens
>roll
>create tokens
>roll
>create tokens
>roll
>create tokens
>roll
>create tokens
>roll
>create tokens
>roll
>create tokens
>roll
>...
>create tokens
>sorry guys, my turn takes a while haha
>roll
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>>97480791
Only Henzie and Flubs. Henzie because i get to play all the big jund retards i want to, and Flubs needs no explanation. All my others sit as low as 300s and as high as 1500s
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>playing arena to main hate/counter or pull off a search your library gimmick with all basic lands
wow, you're so cool
i probably get more fun out of it than you do from the kek of imagining you doing this all day
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>>97486202
Still quicker than the average hearthhull faf
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>>97486202
i'm glad i have actual friends for whom this kind of behavior is not only expected but encouraged
what's the point of playing the game if you aren't talking about cool shit or shit testing the weakness out of your friends?
do you actually like putting cardboard on the table in a specific order or something?
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>>97486251
>I dont actually like the game my friends and I just have a fickle connection and cant communicate without something to congregate around
You realize you can just talk to your friends right? Do you think speaking negatively about the game will garner support from strangers who like the game?
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>>97486268
dis nigga dont have friends to play magic with lmao
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>>97486251
>flaunting having friends to play a game with that you don't like as something that makes you superior to others
do you realize how sad you sound?
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>>97486273
It is hard to fathom how dumb someone would have to be to interpret my post that way.
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>>97486171
>Who cares about standard,
Well since Standard is the reason the card 10x'd in price over the weekend, I care.
>>97486199
Winmore
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>>97486326
Oh, you're a cardboard stock market watching standard player mad about a $20 card? Seems to me like you're trying to speed run the faggot checklist, and you're doing so in record time.

It's $20. Buy it. Or dont. And it's $11 as of today on mtggoldfish; less than a fast food meal. And funnier still, the deck that runs it in standard is $800 for some godforsaken reason.
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>>97486326
>Winmore
Exclusively an EDH term
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>>97486072
Purphrous Bronze Blooded and/or Tannuk. They go from 0 to 100 out of nowhere
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>>97486359
I've heard it outside of magic
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>>97486326
>win more
No... its simply "win". Stop talking about formats you clearly dont play or understand.
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>>97486359
>>97486371
>i-i-if I stack my grave with FIVE instants and sorceries, I can reduce the mana value of THIS elemental to UU!!!! THEN I can can cast Sunderflock for UU, and (if it resolves) I have TWO 5/5s and my opponent has...0 or more creatures depending on if they played any elementals or shapeshifters...
Sunderflock is a great Commander card, but it is wildly too situational in Standard.
I don't have to convince you now because when it's back down to $2 max in a couple months you will know I was right.
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>>97486410
You dont have to be retarded. This is a choice. You have 7 mana turn 3 or 4, you hardcast deciet vibrance or whistfulness for the full payoff, double the effect with roaming throne, and play a 3/4 mana 5/5 flier with upside that's also an asymmetrical board wipe. Idk what's in standard right now, seems bretty gud if you ask me.
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>>97486410
>ITS TOO SITUATIONAL THATS WHY IT WENT 9-1 AT THE PRO TOURNEY
Edhonlies need to be banned from talking about this game. Especially when irs literally just a contrarian view because they are insecure and want to set themselves apart.
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>>97486430
This didn't happen by the way
>>97486432
Note how you don't say that the player pulled it off every game, because that didn't happen
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>>97486435
>this didnt happen by the way
That is the literal 9-1 deck i referenced that anon is posting.
>every game
Sunderflock was a game winning card in 7 of his 9 wins. You clearly didnt watch it, and have no idea what youre talking about.
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>>97486435
My mistake, the insanely cracked deck with cavern if souls that went 9-1 was obviously wrong compared to the budget 5-0 choice from the 5-0 decklist dump.
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Are the new Lorwyn precons worth picking up for $30 each?
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>>97486199
What's even funnier is that the deck that caused the spike isn't even running eddymurk, it's basically lorwyn block constructed
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>>97486460
IMO any deck is worth picking up if its 30 bucks. Hard to beat that value.
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Any commander that costs over 4 mana is unplayable outside of green
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>>97486475
Are you trying to start some shit by calling best boy a bad commander?
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>>97486475
they loved him because he was right and correct about what he said
also
>playing a commander without Ward or several defensive abilities on hand/equippable for a low cost
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>>97486475
[Laughs in Rituals]
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>>97486475
If youre playing in pods where removal is regularly tossed at commanders, you play in retard pods and shouldn't be giving advice.
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>>97486475
I've been having fun with Tellah as a 3UR commander. But I play a ton of rituals and had to build an extremely heavy ramp package to make him run well since the payoff is making him explode while I play big kickers and X spells.
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>>97486511
Anon you started strong, veered left, and are now a double retard.
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Three times now I've tried getting a precon and the store just increased the price (doubling it in some cases) before the deck wasn't even out, which I found out is pretty common.
Have no idea about the game, so building my own is out of the question
Copying a deck that someone created somehow sounds even worse than getting a precon

As someone who's never played before, genuinely how do I get into commander?
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>>97486511
is that a pod with players who have higher than room temperature IQ? obviously a big threat should be removed, even if it's the commander and that may hurt someone's feelfeels.

the main reason I only have a handful of voltron decks and decks built entirely around the commander is because I realised that it's feast or famine - either I get my commander out, "do the thing" and easily win. or peopl realise that, don't let me win by removing the commander, and it's famine - I don't do anything at all all game and it's just boring either way.
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>>97486524
Start with a precon. DO NOT buy from stores, because as you saw, they'll try to scalp you. Look on tcgplayer for mpre reasonable prices.

You'll also want sleeves for your cards sp yoy can shuffle them and not destroy them in the process. I personally like dragon shield mattes.
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>>97486524
Which precons? Depending on the value and demand stores sometimes sell them for more than MSRP but I've never seen them go for double unless they're out of print. Just go on TCGPlayer and buy one of the Ixalan decks (not the pirate one, it's cheap because it isn't good) or maybe the Duskmourn landfall deck.
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>>97486518
>>97486532
>let me remove this thing that they can play again for free
Bad players are everywhere whew.
>the.... tempo!?!?!
Bigger tempo loss is removing something they can't get back or have to spend another card to get back reanimating/recurring it.

Its okay to be new to magic, im happy to help you learn ^.^
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>>97486524
A precon is just copying someone's deck, except the deckbuilder is a retarded scammer selling a prepackaged way to milk you. Goldfish a bit; test online through the playtest function to see how the deck works. Write down what you like, what cards seem crazy, what dont you, what you find confusing. Do this for like 20 or 30 decks until you get the basics and compare them to eachother. You can even do this with various precons.

Then, pick a list and play in TTS or some shit for free with your friends. Practice, try it out, write down what you like, what you dont like, what's cool, what sucked. Then from there, either buy a deck that does the things you like, or proxy it if you want to be cheap about it. No regrets, online funtimes.
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>>97486524
Starting with a precon is fine, I would recommend something with 2 colours and a straightforward plan. If you overcomplicate the game from the start you will just get overwhelmed and not enjoy it. (Hopefuly people you play with can adhere to that too.
Ask them to play a similar bracket (power level) to your deck - which is probably a 2 like most precons are.
And yeah, you will want to order something online, or purchase a deck 2nd hand, or it might be more expensive than it's worth.
I hope you find something fun to play!
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>>97486451
Referring to the line you laid out, retard
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>>97486556
Pretending to be retarded and being retarded are the same thing. If you want to learn I can explain it for you, but this is low quality bait.
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>>97486556
>play again for free
>ignoring the original cost
>ignoring that it increases by 2 for each time they cast it
Sure, tempo doesn't matter as much lategame or once you already have a ton of resources on the field, but if I have to choose something to remove I will obviously remove the engine the entire deck is built around, that has negative effects for me.
I'm not saying remove commanders just because they're commanders, I'm saying remove the biggest threat on the board, regardless of if that's a commander.
>I cast Krenko for 4
>kill Krenko
>I cast Krenko for 6
>kill Krenko
repeat until Krenko is unaffordable or there is a bigger threat on the field.
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>>97486569
>>97486576
Im not reading either of these as well. You've both been educated, move on.
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>>97486588
>>97486582
Clicked wrong one my bad fellas!
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>>97486556
What mythical pods are you playing in where people are running manabases competent enough to recast their commanders without an issue next turn? And even in that scenario they're still having to deal with another cycle of summoning sickness, no longer building whatever resources their commander has access to on their entry turn, and spent on average 4 mana despite being in a position where the only cardboard they can touch was what was established in earlier turns. Removing a commander on curve is a really good way to take most EDH players out of the game and send them to the reels dimension while they fiddle with their phone for the rest of the game.
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Go ahead, remove my commander. I already barfed my entire deck onto the table.
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>>97486556
*kills your tranny spaceship commander when you station it* nothin' personnel, kid
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>>97486326
I don't understand how Standard still influences prices so much when fucking no one plays Standard anymore
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>>97486803
Generally prices are made and broken by standard because they need x4 of a card. That leads to standard eating up the supply.
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>>97486475
Black and red get rituals. Every color gets treasures
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>>97486511
I don't see any advice being given there
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>>97486668
>mythical pods
>literally ANY deck that has ramped +1 mana at any point in the game and is hitting their land drops
:-|
>>97486829
A "truth nuke" implies its proper play/theory which is advice. Youre just low IQ anon.
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>>97486848
>A "truth nuke" implies its proper play/theory which is advice
No it isn't.
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>>97486818
I guess that makes sense but the Standard scene has dwindled so much and supply as increased with more people than ever playing Magic that I'm surprised prices still swing so hard based on a protour weekend
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>>97486569
Oh you mean the exact line that happened in his 5th win?
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>>97486861
Refer to the last sentence of the post youre replying to :)
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>>97486875
While commander takes first place easily these days, standard is in (albeit distant) second place. The x4 requirement with obscene prices is why I no longer player standard and modern.
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>>97486848
Command tax is 2 mana. You don't get to cast it again next turn just from land drops if cast on curve. A huge chunk of the playerbase has no plans for hitting their land drops after their commander gets cast, has no concept of holding the cast for when they can hold or bluff instant protection, and doesn't play fast mana to close the land gap. You're time walking most opponents if you counter or remove their commander on curve.
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>>97486913
Re read dipshit! Literally ANY deck that has ramped +1 (vast majority of decks do this!) and is hitting its land drops.
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>>97486943
If you're casting your commander over and over, you arent doing anything else, which means you arent winning. This isnt rocket appliances. And if casting your commander over and over makes value that's winning, there are other solutions.
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>>97486890
You're kind of flagging to everyone that you're losing and you're mad about it when you add the ":)" to your posts
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>>97486886
What happened in the other 9 games anon?
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>>97486971
And if youre using your removal and half your mana every turn to remove it youre also losing. Youre almost there buddy ;)
>>97486973
That doesnt follow at all, I like emoticons ^.^
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>>97486943
4CMC
>land
>land + ramp 1
>land (cast commander, it gets removed)
>land (can't cast commander, would need fast mana or a ritual to cast now)
>land (can now cast commander)
If your deck requires its commander to function you just got time walked once and potentially twice if your 99 or luck of the draw was bad. One of the reasons people don't remove commanders as much as they should in casual is because it almost always removes that player from the game.
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>have a bunch of the Strixhaven JP cards because they're cool looking
>one guy at my LGS constantly seethes about them since "he can't read them"
>offer to show the text on scryfall
>refuses and claims I could be showing him something else
Has anyone experienced this flavor of autism before? Am I in the wrong for running these cards?
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>>97487009
I have a JP showcase copy of Starfield Vocalist and I keep a normal copy in my tokens to swap it out if someone needs to read it. No one wants to look at your phone so having a copy, even if it's just a printer paper proxy, makes it a lot easier to deal with complainers.
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>>97486999
Your math and game theory are abysmal anon. The only time walked person is the one who didnt develop his board and removed something that will be immediately replayed. Very basic stuff, forcing your opponents to 2 for 1 themselves to get value back is far superior
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>>97486990
>^.^
Seething
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>>97487009
It's not autism. It's real fucking annoying to stop the game to go look up your shitty animu-loving nip cards.
They might as well be blank. Would you do that? Would you play with blank proxies?
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>>97487034
Ironic shitposting is still shitposting.
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It occurs to me that Magic is missing a friendslop format. Some sort of PvE environment that gets through the politics and whining. The problem is all the current PvE games are hard to retrofit to commander (i.e. horde) because there are too many things in Magic that would break the game.
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>>97487009
Tell him to cry some more then hit em with a Cryptic Command
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>>97487073
This is funnier than any silver border.
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>>97486990
Not true. You are paying an escalating amount of resources to do the same thing (nothing). Much removal is free, cheaper, or comes with upsides, and decks improve as the begin to do multiple things a turn, but it also depends on the type of removal. Darksteel mutation is removal that stops this whole fiasco for 1W. EDH is more about stopping key cards than card advantage. You commander, by nature of the level of access, is a key card and while repeatable, stopping it and making it cost more reduces deck efficiency, limiting your gameplan. Some commanders dont need to be removed; all good ones must be.

I dont think you really play magic, seems like you just want attention.

>>97486999
Exactly.
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>>97487009
They are legal cards. So you are not in the wrong. Tell him to fuck off to yugioh
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>>97484384
https://youtu.be/lDeThz30JtQ
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>>97487009
>Am I in the wrong for running these cards?
Sort of? You should at least carry a copy of each in English to easily show what's on the card. Having to take out your phone and look up each card every time there's a question on what any of the cards say would slow a game down. And understandably he annoying to deal with. Especially if you have multiple.
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>>97484352
>>97484384
>>97487123
May I have a crumb of context (outside Krenko and what gobbos are usually in his decks)
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Elder Dragon Highlander
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>>97487353
Hell yeah, brother
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>>97486024
Noted, and very fair. does make the damage threshold much lower when its commander damage. Did you find cycling cards actually add something or is it better to focus on wheels?
>>97486158
That wasn't me, it was good advice. You have your old list for how you made him?
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>>97487058
feels bad to be a retard with no memory.
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>>97487353
>>97487369
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>>97487353
>>97487370
>Dragon Lotus
>0
>Legendary Artifact
>{t}, sacrifice Dragon Lotus: Add 5 mana in any combination of colors. Spend this mana only to cast an Elder Dragon commander.

WotC pay me
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>>97487382
Sure bro lemme just remember this card I've never seen before
Or do you mean YOU will remember it when YOU play it? And I'm supposed to take your word that you're recalling the exact text of the card? Fuck off.
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>>97487414
>5
make it the full 8, man
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she counts
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>>97487435
Not on a 0 cost artifact, you're not having an Elder Dragon turn 1. Knocking you down to 3 mana is extremely reasonable and basically puts you on curve for average commander cost these days.
How about this, the mana can also be spent to pay the upkeep cost of an Elder Dragon too, so if you bring DL back you can pay those retarded upkeeps for a turn?
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>>97487450
she cute!
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>>97487372
>it was good advice
Thanks non-schizo anon, that is reassuring. I was trying to help, you see?
Anyhow, your deck mainly has everything that I do as far as discard goes, but I will post my own favourites beneath:
>refute (counterspell while attacking for an addition "no fuck you lol that lets you discard even more before the dmg happens)
>security bypass + aether tunnel (make howler unblockable)
>rubblebelt maaka (1 mana, discard to give a creature +3/+3, effectively giving a creature +5/+3 for 1 mana)
>anje's ravager + goblin lore (just good discard stuff, it's beneficial. idk if you had these already, or better alternatives. ravager can be cast with madness, so you can use it even after discarding it.)
>ill-timed explosion (TLDR: discard, deal boardwide creature dmg according to the highest mana cost discarded. discard a 3 cost to kill a lot of small things but keep howler alive, maybe buffing him while removing all blockers someone had)
and last of all
>vesuvian diplomacy
now this is where the fun begins
>Whenever you cast a spell that targets only a single artifact or creature you control, create a token copy that's non-legendary
essentially, whenever you cast buffs on Howler you create another Howler ... and his ability stacks. Once you have several Howlers out, just discard your hand and you'll ideally have an unblockable commander with 20+ power.
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>>97487451
>summon commander on 1
>dies to tax next turn
you aren't cadting your commander until turn 2, and won't swing until turn 3
a 7/7 that blanks your next 2-4 turns is very fair in current edh, and if nobody can remove a 7/7 with no protection, that's on them
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>>97487466
OH fuck I didn't even think about bloodrush abilities, thats huge. Amazing stuff, thank you
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>>97487414
Consider a cycle of these to go with it:
>Palladia's Roost
>1G
>Enchantment
>At the beginning of your upkeeep, add WRG.
Or maybe they could be lands that don't tap for mana but just have an upkeep trigger like this and you give them the lair subtype because it is fitting.
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>>97487489
>>dies to tax next turn
Theres way to get 3 colors of mana turn 2 if you spent literally nothing to cast your commander turn 1
Even if you didn't pull it off, Reanimate is still right there, effectively making Dragon Lotus a 0 mana Entomb for Elder Dragon commanders.
>>97487531
I like the enchantment idea
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>>97487466
Love that Ill timed explosion tech, not sure if vesuvan duplimancy is worth it just because I don't have much pump to be worth building around but it still is a fun interaction.
I really want to scratch that itch of vomiting out a bunch of spells and not really knowing if I'll have enough to keep chaining it but still recklessly swinging at someone out of nowhere. Like regular voltron feels too obvious and safe to line up the shot, I want to balls to the wall out of nowhere
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The only dragons that matter are Ugin and Bolas.
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>>97487633
Ur Dragon mate
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>>97487466
Also do you run those dicard savers like picrel? cause doing the math I just have to discard 8 cards to smack for lethal so I'm thinking it'd be better to just cut them cause we aren't really worried about burning through the deck
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>>97487521
nta but fuck. now I wanna build Howler cuz that sounds neato as fuck
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Is zethi fun to play? It's one of those decks I've been thinking of building for a while
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>>97487450
Is this just for the colors? I've seen this card a few times and I've never understood why it works as a commander
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>>97487854
I thought she was fun, but my regular pod refused to play against the deck anymore because putting boots on her and getting cyclonic rift and high tide into exile was "too powerful" for their ur-dragon decks to deal with.
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>>97487875
>plays sweaty bullshit
>friends don't like it and refuse to play against it
Wow anon I'm so fucking shocked.
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>>97487854
She's like a shaved down prowess Narset. The amount of fun I had piloting my friend's deck with her in the command zone came down to how early I was able to find and cycle Lorien Revealed.
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>>97487885
>miss the point that they are also playing sweaty bullshit
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>>97487854
I get sad she's not red every time I think about her. Would've been so cool doing a voltron build and watch her get hella fucking buffed every time she attacked
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>>97487888
I'm just now realizing we both fucked up and she doesn't say instant or sorcery. I'm giving him shit next time he tries to play it.
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>EDHrec podcast talking about cards that take too much "mental load"
>entire podcast griping that they have to keep track of their own cards
>...the initiative? I'd never run a card with that effect as a one-off, it's too much bookkeeping
>how am I supposed to know what counters my cards have without infinitokens?
>coat of arms? you mean I have to keep track of how many creature types are in play
rofl THESE are the people running the edhrec site?
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>>97487904
That site was so much better when people just used it for deck guides/advice, and not social media/influencer bullshit
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>>97487904
Does anyone actually read any of the articles or whatever that are on EDHrec? I thought the site was only used as a deck list comparison site.
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>>97487904
I bet you ten eurodollars they could not resolve this card properly.
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>>97487941
This isn't complex, it's just worded really badly. You just have to destroy two nonblack creatures that are the exact same color.
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>>97487904
They were right on this point. Eliminating cards that might add load to a turn is an obviously good thing for casual pods since no one wants to watch you struggle with Mathar Crusade at 7PM on a Friday night after a long work week. If it's a clear game winning math bomb I'll just tell someone to shortcut and say he's got it. But stupid shit no one signed up for like dungeons and you trying to figure out what the ring tempting you actually does isn't fun. Even the Monarch is kind of annoying unless it's the whole point of your deck by having Marchesa in the command zone.
That said, the EDHRec podcast hosts are annoying reprobates. The gay one constantly bringing up how much he smokes cock is offputting and the fat hicklib activist has universally bad takes, Magic related or not.
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>>97487955
You sound like a lazy faggot
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>>97487816
>discard savers
no :D by the time they realise what you can do you are a target. this is (usually, depending on the pod and who gets focused) not a commander you win games with - this is a commander you deal 100% commander dmg to take someone out and then smile after you get focused down because you got to "do your thing" with.
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>>97487009
>play game that involves a good ammount of reading
>insist on using game pieces your or your opponent cant read
>pretend they're at fault
Your cards aren't performing the single function they were made for anon
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>>97487904
Yup. Remember, hipster posting, bracket autism, and almost all misunderstandings are from people like this. Just get a counter and use different colour dice, or write it on some scrap, it's not complicated. Inituative is stupid as a mechanic, but none of those are "mental load" problems, they're accounting problems.

Now keeping track of every card in your deck, every card in your opponent's deck x3 and using real magic skills to determine which lines are available, what your outs are, what their outs are, and whar knowledge is known between all players? That's mental load.
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>>97487953
Well we're talking about people who don't have the mental bandwidth to track coat of arms here.
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>>97487904
They shittalked my beloved stickers, so they can kill themselves.
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>>97487980
Not him, but print those dope as fuck designs in English then. Why the fuck are there unique designs that are JP only?
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>>97488001
>stickers
YOU should be doing the self-killing here anon
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>>97487904
they made EDH, not CEDH content.
pic very much related.
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>>97487972
>then smile after you get focused down because you got to "do your thing" with.
This is so many of my games and I'm completely, 100% satisfied every time. My winrate is easily sub 5% and it doesn't matter at all to me because I get to be the holy-shit level threat of the game
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>>97488020
Filtered
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>>97487904
>rofl THESE are the people running the edhrec site?
The main guy cant help but make a cringey comment in every video about "im a fag btw"
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>just finished making a new deck
>already thinking of making another
HELP
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>>97488001
>stickers
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>>97486524
Learn how the game is played, find a nice easy basic bitch commander to build around from edhrec top 100, don't go under 38 lands until you have a solid grasp of deck building, and proxy the fuck out of it because your first deck(s) will be terrible and you might not like the game in the first place so you don't want to sink money into something you may just want to toss in a month.
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>>97487965
I remove annoying to track stuff out of my decks because I wouldn't want to play against them despite not being overly powerful. Game feel matters and watching someone fiddle with extra steps is annoying. My higher powered decks mostly end on deterministic infinites and my low powered decks win on simple overruns or big mana spells.
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>>97488141
>My higher powered decks mostly end on deterministic infinites and my low powered decks win on simple overruns or big mana spells.
>I'm boring and my decks are boring
ok
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>>97487009
His problem if you're using well known cards people should be aware of if they've been playing for more than a month. You're problem if you're using lesser known cards.
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>>97487904
This is half a based take doe

Garage like initative and monarch and other shit that adds gay little minigames to the format should be banned like most of the unfinity mistakes were

Coat of arms is retarded take if you play it thats on you to keep track of
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>>97488156
Fiddling with dice and trying to remember which order your tokens came in for Mathar Crusade is more boring than interaction and more unique effects. Everyone has sat through an opponent failing to manage their tokens properly or struggling with math. It's interesting maybe once. Building up to game shots and denying the opponents' is the actual engaging part of the game. The most fun I can have in a game with someone struggling with their third grade math problem is denying the subsequent swing out with a fog then winning on the crack back.
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how strong can these be as commanders?
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>>97488156
Please hipsterfag feel free to share your hyper interesting totally unique fun to play against decks with their practically unheard wincons at anytime.
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>>97488224
lol
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>>97488218
I like Pep. Gruul Etali sans Food Chain seems like a fun play pattern. Thorna would be a nightmare in Abzan. Not sure how good she is in Mardu.
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>>97488210
Mini games are fun you joyless faggot
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>>97488218
For me, it's this paper playable badboy.
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>>97488170
Last I checked. The JP Strixhaven cards are all big stuff like Demonic Tutor, Lightning Bolt, Teferi's Protection, and so on.
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>>97488286
i feel like this can get busted pretty quick
not sure tho which colors to play him
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>>97488285
not if they are forced on you. that's rape
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>>97488327
>mini-games are rape
I am going to rape you
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>>97488344
doesn't need tracking, not a mini-game
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>>97488218
What the hell is Pep even doing that would necessitate this being an alchemy card? All you need to do is rewrite the perpetually clause: "Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, exile the top card of that player's library. If it's a nonland permanent, it is an artifact in addition to its other types" or "If it's a nonland permanent, it is an artifact and loses all other types" depending on the intent of the designer.
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>>97488218
You know, they could've made a genuinely REALLY interesting commander if they swapped the perpetual bullshit from the right one and made it so that next creature that ETBs this turn gets X + counters on it, but no. They had to sacrifice decent ideas on the altar of arena
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>>97488015
To make you weeb incel even more awkward and embarrassing lol
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>>97488410
>To make you weeb incel even more awkward and embarrassing lol
Sar?
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>>97487868
Piru is mostly just a one off "what if?" of an older style wedge elder dragon.
And unironically, it works really well, since at the time the OG elder dragons were made, lifegain was MASSIVELY overvalued in terms of how strong it was, so that mana cost for a 7/7 flying lifelink (It wouldn't be lifelink back then, but it'd be the reminder text for lifelink) that explodes on death is kinda in line with what they'd do back then. Though it dealing 7 to EVERY creature with lifelink would likely have been viewed as insanely strong back then, even if it had to die to do it.
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So what was with the Prints Charming secret lair they just did? Is Wizards trying to feel around and see just how much they can actually make people pay for these? I assume the last couple of secret lairs not selling out like previous ones have spurred this dumb test of theirs.
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>>97487868
It's game plan is Repercussion.
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>>97487868
Because you can pay 3 mana for repercussion or alternatively you can pay 5 mana for sanguine bond.
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>>97488462
Oh, wizards does occasionally just throw out random one-off secret lairs.
Though there's a non zero chance it was intended to be in tandem with the monster hunter one, it feels like it's been a WHILE since the last real wave.
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>>97488488
No, I mean what was with the price tiers they were doing? It released in at least five different prices each ten dollars more than the last and they claim each version had nothing the others didn't. That there would be no difference in product between whichever you get. All the advertising around it made it seem like it was either a joke or some public experiment.
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>>97488488
Oh, I just noticed the weird graded pricing thing.
I have a feeling they're trying to recapture the FOMO from before by offering cheaper prices to the first people to roll up and buy. But the issue is that them doubling down so aggressively on FOMO is part of the reason why people aren't paying attention to secret lairs anymore. I used to buy them pretty regularly, but stopped due to a combination of half of them being crap, (Either in terms of contents or presentation) and the ones that aren't crap selling out instantaneously, so I don't even fucking bother to check anymore except maybe once every other month when I remember "Oh hey, what happened to those things?"
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>>97488524
See >>97488533
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>>97488533
That's what I was figuring as well. It just rang so odd. They announce this new secret lair and release it the same day that has no reprint value and at multiple tiers of pricing that all have the same exact product? This just sounds pointless. Unless they were testing something. Like perhaps how many people jump at just the word Secret Lair regardless of product and pick them up. The majority of the secret lairs lately haven't sold out anywhere like the previous ones all and I imagine that must really bother them. Enough to start trying weird marketing strategies to poke around and see what works or see how much they're guaranteed from scalping or boting. Without of course realizing they could have just gone print on demand again and/or print better value in these.
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>>97488533
>>97488556
At first they were neat. Quickly they became annoying unreadable garbage. Faster still they became a giant neon signal that whoever you're playing is a knob. Clean readable ones formatted like mtg cards? Cool. Unreadable unintelligible bullshit ones that look like an offbrand tcg from 1997? Pointless, garish, and offensive.
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>>97488556
Unironically, the best option would be to switch back to the time gated release with print to order. It literally guarantees that they won't have any dead stock since they're printing to order, and it solves half of the issue I have where every secret lair that's actually interesting sells out in less thn half an hour.
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>>97487888
I wanted a fun spellslinger kind of deck. I built kuja but that's just cast 3 cantrips and everyone dies
Narset also seemed like she would be fun, I just like how zethi looks, but not really worried about power since my friends play whatever and no one gives a shit
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>>97488429
Thank you for your concession
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>>97487868
it's a reference to the original elder dragons with the stats, casting cost and, upkeep tax
there is no concrete plan, but you can build around the lifelink and death trigger or just punch people to death
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>>97488580
It probably would be the best of both worlds. That they moved away from it is bizarre and I can't help but wonder what the fuck was the point. What they have now feels like the result of a short term market strategy and now they're stuck with the post bubble pop result of no one buying anymore. Print depending on demand and they can't get as fucked by overstock.
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>>97488574
>Quickly they became annoying unreadable garbage
Barking like MTG players read their cards in the first place
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You now remember Andrew swordbro
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>>97488625
It's cause some brainlet suit saw that deliberately underprinting to cause FOMO worked well for other companies, so they swapped to that. Except that they fucking forgot that they were already DOING FOMO with secret lairs. And then some other retard said that they needed to protect the reprint value so they swapped to making most secret lairs chaff.
So now they're stuck in a retarded situation where, in order to create a sense of FOMO, they're only printing a limited quantity of secret lairs, but most of them are garbage, so the one good one sells out in ten minutes, meaning most people know to just not bother, and the rest of them are crap that no one wants so they just sit in stock for months.
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>>97488642
Yes, they do. Once. And memorize the picture. So when someone plays like snapcaster their reptile brain goes "ah yes blue ching chong wizard guy" or someone plays lightning bolt and they go "of course, bzap". No one knows what the fuck this is.
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Any advice how to build deck with visual direction? I want to have phyrexian decks where everything is glossy, oily and shiny and ready to be compleated. How do you find cards with such themes?
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>>97488708
I know it's the miku snapcaster. Try again.
You had a point until you started complaining about the most basic of alternate art secret lairs, then you lost all credibility.
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>>97488708
>What's tha-
>Snapcaster mage alt.
>Oh, okay.
Not very hard.

This is why I support Secret Lairs and UB that do reprints, but not ones that do entirely new cards with new shit to learn and memorise.
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>>97488732
You can use the scryfall art tags but they seem to miss a few cards sometimes. Still your best bet besides having encyclopedic knowledge of all phyrexian art.
https://tagger.scryfall.com/tags/artwork/phyrexian-oil
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>>97488734
It says a different name in the textbox. It looks like a proxy. Just because you know something doesnt mean it's legible, inuitive, or reasonable. That's why it's a thousand dollars; no one has this card, and playing it if you arent a miku fan you have no idea.

This has the opposite problem where it clearly tells you what card it is, but if you're unfamiliar you need to flip it over and figure it out in in the bottom corner below a nonsense game.
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>>97488732
Take all your cards and rub them against your greasy forehead until they shine like an oily lighthouse.
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Do you think that we will ever get a yawgmoth, father of machines card of him at full completion rather than just an early thran doctor one? We've had like four different Urzas at various power levels at this point.
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>>97488739
Eh, fair. I was recently bamboozled by those god awful avatar second print sheet cards. You're right about that, live and you learn. But for less iconic cards that actually require inspection, it's a pain. Everyone should know what snappy does.
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>>97488768
Double sided cards annoy me to no end. How the hell am I supposed to flip a card when it's double sleeved?
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>>97488685
That guy was such a faggot for putting Chains of Mephistopheles in every black deck he had just to show off for the thread. Completely and utterly performative tripfaggotry
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>>97488795
He's going to be a "universes within" reprint of another card and you're not going to like it
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>>97488708
>I play Encore Electromancer!
>What's that card?
>Oh, it's Snapcaster
>Carry on.
This is just not the insurmountable gap you make it out to be
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>>97488708
How this would go in real life
>I cast snapcaster mage, any responses?
>Nah it resolves. Can I see that? Wow is this real or a proxy...

How Anons think this would go
>*holds up card* I'm playing this *slams it on table*
>OH FUCK WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT IS AND CAN'T ASK WHAT IT IS OR WHAT IT DOES! WE DON'T KNOW IF WE SHOULD RESPOND TO THAT OR NOT? NOW HE'S CASTING A CARD FROM HIS LIBRARY?! JESUS CHRIST WHAT IS GOING ON I DON'T RECOGNIZE THAT SPECIFIC ART AAAAAA I'M GOING TO GO ON A MASS SHOOTING SPREE AAAAAA
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Convince me not to spend money building the black waifu.
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>>97488833
Saga management will make other people seethe.
Beyond that, I got nothing.
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>>97488818
>>97488816
When it's cast or on the field it's not an issue. When it's incidentally revealed or tucked in a graveyard or just chilling in a big boardstate you cant tell what it is a glance, and while you can ask, it's much easier to forget when the art is fucked.
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>>97484972
The box i drafted with had 4
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>>97488911
ironically, this one is more notable amd easier to keep track of than the genuine art
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I like the weird hard to read cards
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>>97488941
No? Maybe in opposite land where you have to say "the fuck is that" but in a deck full of these cards they all look the same.

>>97488957
Hold my beer.
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>>97488833
>>97488837 is correct. I have a Narci deck and there's like 20-30 fucking triggers every turn. Casting enchantments, sac'ing enchantments, saga triggers, creatures dying (saga creatures), I feel bad making everyone sit through all my bullshit every turn
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>>97488997
I can read this just fine
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https://moxfield.com/decks/S0k-GSKuyEGe8YgwL70Hjw

How does this deck look?
This is a 70 iq commander but I swear I must be 60 iq because nothing I ever build with him plays right. I usually just get run over in the first few turns or I have my whole board pinged down on turn 3 onwards.
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Has anyone built this alien waifu? I think i am going to throw all my unused dredge and aristocrats golgari cards in to a pile and use her as a CA engine.
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>>97488997
post the lotr ones
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>untap
>upkeep
>board wipe

It's Commander Time.
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>>97489053
Not enough mana, not enough ways to win, not enough ways to protect yourself, seemingly no ways to benefit off your opponents getting draws outside of them maybe ignoring you which probably won't happen because they'll expect something swingy out of you since you're in Simic. Edric also has a bit of a reputation for being unassuming until you belt out a bunch of overruns and win. I'd suggest tagging your cards in Moxfield and figuring out what the purpose of every card is and make cuts from there.
>>97489096
She's a pretty decent role player in my lifegain Betor deck as a passive source of counter growth with Seymour. Her and Betor keep snowballing counters with each other and if I have a lifeloss engine in play I can sacrifice cards like Zack Fair and Selfless Spirit to get draws before they come back in the end step or mess with blockers by signaling a successful death block would give me cards. I want to spin her off into her own deck but I already have too many +1+1 counter decks and would probably throw her in Felothar instead since she lays up into Felothar's attack trigger perfectly.
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>>97488833
She's so fucking cute bros. Do it anon, build a glorious deck in tribute to the nubian cutie and last hot girl WotC will print in a UW product ever again.
>also, think about how much money WotC is leaving on the table by not printing marvels rivals waifu alt cards. If they can't get actual rivals art, pay good artists to create cheese cake full art pinups they do have licenses for. The set would sell billions. WotC printed gay bearscape and big dick bulge oko so they aren't against printing sexualized art.
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>>97488833
If they all looked like this I wouldn't be racist
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>>97489182
Bulk rare Eshki was cute.
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>>97489096
I've built it.
Everyone tries to tell you that it's mutant tribal but it's not, it's a one-on-one counters deck.
The card advantage is insane although you do have to make sure you have a good sacrifice engine going. And most of your plays happen on your turn
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>>97489208
You're right. The art of this was cool. I thought about building her but she just sucks too bad. A sad case of great art wasted on a bad card.
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>>97489208
Sadly she's bad compared to her other version
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>remove banlist
>bring back tuck rule
>bring back old legendary rule
>ban all UB cards

There. I fixed EDH.
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>my brother talks shit
>mad shit
>he BEGS to play against my good decks
>I understand this is a terrible idea; he has been playing under a year and I know his friends are not very powerful, whereas my best deck is about as degenerate as it gets and I'm an autistic penultimate gamer
>tell him if he can beat this deck I just made (a little stronger than the training wheels deck I normally play) and the revision that's slightly stronger, I'll play my good deck
>he accepts the challenge
>win 19 times in a row over 2 weeks with the slightly-stronger-than-training-wheels deck
>he's genuinely confused, he legitimately thought he was going to cake walk me
I dont have the heart to tell him I was playing at a out 75% capacity. He's learning, he made his own decks, I'm proud of him, but the hubris.
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>>97489500
What was he playing and where were the mistakes he was making? Was it a deck building short coming or was it about choices made during the game?
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>>97489483
Ban all nonbasic lands that don't have a nonbasic type. Only caves/gates/deserts/etc are allowed. No more sweaty ass shock/fetch/surveil lands
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>>97488911
>Posts an SLD thats way easier to track than its normal printing because it's not disguising itself as a basic land like the normal printing
Do you even understand your own argument, you mental midget?
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God I love reprints so fucking much
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>>97489483
Ban more cards.
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>>97489500
Some people just don't have the brain to play strategic games like this. If you're not good within a few months of playing, you'll never be good.
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>>97489512
Both at the same time. His one deck only ramps until he has 5 mana, and then he tries to set up a janky combo that doesnt win the game and costs a shitload of mana that's about as fragile as it gets if the commander is removed. His other decks? Same problem, abysmal fixing, low impact cards everywhere, basically zero removal, and an extreme focus on whatever the commander says. Constantly manascrewed because his fixing is so bad. Folds to any interaction. Like... he's running all the good tutors. He can proxy anything he wants and even has them. Instead? Shitty taplands, no fetches (I bought him a full set with shocks, surveils, and proxy ABUR duals), weird ratios, no removal or interaction at all. Using instants as sorceries. Tunnel vision in an extreme. Poor threat assessment.

He is improving. Slowly. I'm being patient. He plays like he's been playing for 3 or 4 years despite having just less than one year experience. He builds his own decks. But he isnt diagnosing what works and what doesnt. Maybe he will one day, I get it's a work in progress, but I'm running a versatile but fragile deck that needs to be interacted with, and the main way to beat it is to slow me down and have good fundamentals.
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>>97489601
glad I sold mine
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>>97489737
Were they expensive for a while? I thought they were always cheap budget trash.
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>>97489769
it was a 3+ dollar card
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I think "do thing draw card" commanders are good actually. If your commander exists primarily as a source of card advantage, it pushes you to lean on your 99 for wincons, and away from winning or losing based on your commander's ability to stick to the board
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Does this make token creatures into nontokens?
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>>97489850
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>>97489850
This is only true if those people running draw in the command zone also put draw in their 99. Too many of them treat having a commander that draws you cards as license to run minimal draw in the 99, not understanding that they have merely cycled back to the problem of doing nothing without the commander.
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>>97489897
why would you think that could be a thing
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>>97489897
No.
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>>97489850
I only play commanders with zero rules text.
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>>97489897
they'll enter with the copiable traits of the token while not being tokens. being a token isn't copiable.
so they can be white 4/4 flying angel creatures named "Angel" with no mana cost, or black 0/1 thrull creatures named "Thrull" with no mana cost, or blue 1/1 flying and “this token can block only creatures with flying” faerie creatures named "Cloud Sprite" with no mana cost.
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>>97490094
>when I had a pirate themed deck, full of treasure, nautical themes, and sea monsters/creatures
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>>97490129
Have you ever built Sir Shandlar? I like him the most out of all the vanillas from Legends.
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>>97490207
>Sir Shandlar
Negative. Selesnya is one of my favorite dual colors so I want something interesting to play, like Saffi. My Saffi decks smashed when Prime Time was legal.

>Saffi + Prime Time + Emeria, the Sky Ruin + Privileged Position and Sterling Grove gave you an unbeatable board position
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>>97487414
*Casts a Strixhaven Elder Dragon*
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>>97490303
I'd take a free Hraesvelgr any day.
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>>97490303
Good point. What if you discarded cards equal to the mana spent with the lotus if the creature you cast with it had a mana value lower than 8? Then it would still work as intended while allowing the freedom to do something else with it at a price.
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Cool Kid Lotus 0
Artifact
T, Sac: Add any amount of mana of any color to your mana pool. For each mana you add this way, send a check to MaRo for $100.
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Is she still playable in this day and age?
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>>97490413
it's not unplayable but it's not good
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bros we're on page 10
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I picked this thing up cheap mostly for the Jeska's Will, got to give it a whirl today and hot damn it went off

Can't believe how much value the cards in there are worth, i wanted to use it for parts but now I'm a little torn
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>>97490461
Do something about it then
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Before this thread autosages, I am enjoying a book quite a lot. I am also using a magic card for a book mark.

I did not expected piss to kill 260,418 grown men, excluding women and children.
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>>97490620
Gunpowder was derived from piss. Gunpowder has killed hundreds of millions. Piss is humanity's curse
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>>97490566
>Jeska's Will
It's in the fucking deck list???? What the fuck, you'd be stupid not to bu--
>everywhere is $125 or above
oh okay
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>>97490669
Wow. Didnt know that. I was reading Gargantua and Pantagruel and I got to the part where Gargantua was swarmed in Paris for being a giant, and pissed so violently it killed exactly that number of dudes. Now here I am learning of piss warfare and gunsmithing, eating mashed potatoes in bed.

What an age to be alive. At least I dont wipe my ass with a live gooseneck, which is apparently a magical experience.
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>>97490566
>>97490688
jesus what'd you pay for it? I looked at the deck list and you'd be turning a profit even if you got it for $100
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>>97490566
I want so many cards from the mind flayer deck
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Which SLop commander should I build?
>Aloy
>one of the Dwights
>one of the Eddies
>one of the Sonic characters
>Deadpool
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Is he the most based little red guy?
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>>97490718
Sonic with energy token so you can zap to the extreme
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>>97490740
He's up there for sure
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Chainer, Dementia Caster
>WG
Legendary creature - Minion
As an additional cost to cast this spell, circumcise 2 and create a foreskin token.

Protection from Chuds, Incelwalk

>Dementia Paladin
T: change target players pronouns and cut off that players dick. Then turn turn target players library upside down, they play with their deck face up.
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>>97490718
Play Shadow, putting split second on every spell is hilarious, I wish it wasn't restricted to a UB Secret Lair (even if it's relatively cheap). A split second massive Torment of Hailfire or Exsanguinate is absolute archenemy kino.
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>>97490413
baneslayer angel and many other popular silver/bronze age mtg cards (mirrodin 2003 to ravnica allegiance 2018) will only find a real home again not in edh, but in a new 60 card closed format similar to premodern
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I've been working on this goddamn deck on and off for almost a year now and I can not for the life of me figure out what the last few cuts should be. Can you guys please advise? I need to lop off seven, though I could potentially only do six if the curve looks right.
https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/27-05-25-zethi/?cat=custom&sort=name&cb=1762740654
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>>97484453
like any deck, you start out small then work your way up if you like it.
My Goreclaw deck started as a $30-40 budget deck before it became a $450 deck 10 months later.
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>want a brainless smash face commander that fuels extra combats for itself and grows stronger while doing so
>Tifa gets released
>cute but her buffs are temporary and she wants lots of people attacking with her
>wish there was a more focused extra combat permanent upgrade commander
>get one
>it's dual faced temur capeshit

Be careful what you wish for lads.
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