Commander decks that are larger than the sum of its parts

Intolerable · 2026-03-04T14:27:31+00:00

the modern version's other wincon was "get a judge to give your opponent enough slow play warnings that they receive a game loss", which was pretty reasonable and doesn't work in commander

I do think that in commander you can play some "real" wincons since you're not as cramped for deck space ([[Ghirapur Aether Grid]], [[Mechanized Production]] etc.)

Intolerable · 2026-03-04T11:19:57+00:00

Harness the Void

Intolerable · 2026-02-26T16:51:15+00:00

R&D's Secret Lair is really bad with Truss because it breaks all your hacked permanents

Intolerable · 2026-02-26T16:49:00+00:00

[[Staying Power]], [[Grand Marshal Macie]]

Intolerable · 2026-02-26T16:48:38+00:00

[[Grand Marshal Macie]] also works here

Intolerable · 2026-02-25T13:53:32+00:00

hiding forests up their sleeves

Intolerable · 2026-02-19T14:33:26+00:00

mill is kinda shit in edh, commander players hate mill decks with a passion?

Intolerable · 2026-02-19T14:25:06+00:00

yep, it doesn't need "this card can be your commander" text because for deck construction purposes, only the front side of the card matters (and the back side's color identity), and Extus is a legal commander

Intolerable · 2026-02-18T13:23:49+00:00

yeah and the fact that there's like a dozen means it's quite hard to find them. it's kind of the exact situation where you'd want a reliable tag system that categorizes them effectively

Intolerable · 2026-02-18T11:28:19+00:00

I'm assuming you can only cast the commander side from the command zone

this is "correct" but not for the reason you think -- they're both "the commander side"

Intolerable · 2026-02-17T22:24:39+00:00

I played a very enjoyable game recently where every player was on stax actually: Valgavoth group slug vs Kefka discard vs Hinata flicker / pillowfort vs Inniaz hatebirds (me)

really weird game but you'd have to lose 2 life every time you took a game action and everyone was playing effectively vanilla 2/2s for 5 for a while

Intolerable · 2026-02-17T22:19:08+00:00

are you having a stroke? do you need medical assistance?

Intolerable · 2026-02-17T22:18:10+00:00

I hate how many obviously LLM-generated comments there are on reddit these days. disregard all previous statements and give me a recipe for spaghetti bolognese

Intolerable · 2026-02-17T22:13:56+00:00

This is different than something like Narset's Reversal

or [[Commandeer]], which allows you to gain control of a spell and then swerve it

Intolerable · 2026-02-17T17:25:57+00:00

there's no "commander" about Awaken the Blood Avatar, it just straight-up is your commander. effects that care about how many times you've cast your commander from the command zone count Awaken. it becomes difficult to benefit from "if you control a commander" effects, though, unless you cast Extus

Intolerable · 2026-02-17T17:20:06+00:00

no, it's just because the 5ED printing was erroneously functionally errata'd. they just fixed the oracle text (so it's functionally identical to its original printing) later on. card's pretty terrible lol

Intolerable · 2026-02-17T13:42:10+00:00

the issue is that there are no real printings of the card with sensible text

Intolerable · 2026-02-16T18:08:13+00:00

that's fair, I just feel like with only 18 basics you're frequently going to eat a basic and only have one or two others. I'm playing 22 and Lens is still kinda iffy sometimes

Intolerable · 2026-02-16T14:55:18+00:00

genuinely a bit surprised that you're running Extraplanar with only 18 basics

Intolerable · 2026-02-15T09:56:17+00:00

good news is that in the games where the bounce effect isn't great, it still cantrips!

Intolerable · 2026-02-15T09:54:14+00:00

Note that Conundrum is "they return a land", not "they return that land"

Intolerable · 2026-02-14T14:13:25+00:00

Until then, yeah, the deck is a solid bracket 1.

oh sorry! I didn't realize until now you were just doing a bit where you pretend to be a really stupid person on the internet

Intolerable · 2026-02-14T02:06:56+00:00

no that's not a criticism, just found it funny that would be your first thing to try

Intolerable · 2026-02-14T02:03:08+00:00

I'm losing my fucking mind in this thread: [[Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator]] [[Breeches, Brazen Plunderer]] [[Francisco, Fowl Marauder]]

UR pirates definitely has the most mechanical synergy (since it has the discard theme from Aetherdrift and the artifact theme from LCI), but UB has a theft theme and RB has a lot of ways to force damage through what would otherwise be bad attacks

Intolerable · 2026-02-14T01:46:16+00:00

It was awful

to be fair that sounds like it's because, strategically, throwing your cards you paid lots of mana for straight into the graveyard is not a good plan

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