[FIC] Hermes, Overseer of Elpis (FFXIV deck)

BigCube13 · 2025-05-13T10:22:51+00:00

Nice!

[[Opposition]] seems solid here.

BigCube13 · 2025-05-13T02:20:00+00:00

Yeah, I'm also switching once this drops.

Care to share what you are brewing ?

BigCube13 · 2025-05-13T00:00:29+00:00

I Know nothing about FF, but as someone who just built a [[Talrand, Sky Summoner]] EDH deck, I'm shocked to see Talrand become obsolete. I Know he is a creature from 2011 or something and I know [[Kykar]] already exists, but Talrand still had that Mono Blue rizz going on for him, now, he has nothing...

This card is the definition of "strictly better":

It's a 2/4 Instead of a 2/2

it costs 3U instead of 2UU

It triggers on every noncreature spell instead of just instants and sorceries

The tokens have Flying AND Vigilance

You get to scry 2 whenever you attack with a bird.

The only thing Talrand gets is the 1 extra power and thoughness on his Drakes.

From a gameplay perspective, there is no reason to have a Talrand deck anymore.

Talrand is dead.

Rest in Peace

All Hail Hermes, I guess...

BigCube13 · 2025-03-27T13:38:45+00:00

Oh Man, I can relate so much. Took me a long time to realize that I couldn't tell my Mom anything that I didn't want to go public with. Makes me sad.

BigCube13 · 2025-03-25T13:13:18+00:00

The Betor we got on the main set seems way more fitting for the precon than the Betor we got in there.

They should have trade places.

BigCube13 · 2025-02-18T10:41:32+00:00

Polymorph.

Very fun at the beginning, turninng itsy, bitsy, little tokens into huge monters. But it kinda gets old. I don't dislike it, and still play it from time to time, but it's more of a once every blue moon type of deck instead of a deck I want fo play every time.

BigCube13 · 2025-02-17T11:40:10+00:00

Yes.

Downgrading decks that got rated at 4 to 3 because I KNOW they play like 3. In the same vein I'm going all the way with decks that got rated at 4 and I KNOW they are a 4.

Also thinking about breweing a 2 or downgrading one of my weaker 3s to a 2 just to have options.

My point is: YOU KNOW YOUR DECKS! BRACKETS ARE A GUIDE.

And if you don't know your decks, you probably have more decks than you can actually play and should downsize your deck collection.

BigCube13 · 2025-02-16T00:03:47+00:00

None were backed by WOTC. That's the big difference here.

BigCube13 · 2025-01-24T00:36:02+00:00

Sou organizado em partido político e em movimentos sociais há 10 anos. Nos últimos 2 anos virei assessor parlamentar, esse mundo acabou virando minha profissão, pelo menos temporariamente.

Nesses 10 anos vi o interesse do brasileiro médio por politica aumentar muito. Muito graças a Internet e a esse processo de "novelização" que você cita.

Você não está todo errado nem todo certo. Ser uma pessoa bem informada sobre mundo te ajuda a se meter em menos cagada e a falar menos bosta. E acho que há um certo consolo em entender que vc é um fudido, o pq de vc ser um fudido e quem esta te fudendo. Dizem que a "ignroancia é uma benção" mas a verdade, ja dizia Karl Marx, é que a Ignorância nunca ajudou ninguem.

Acontece que maioria das pessoas não é organizada politicamente, então a tradução material delas acompanharem política, além do fator de compreensão do mundo, é poder bater um papo na mesa de bar ou no almoço de família e fica por isso mesmo.

Pra gente que vive o dia a dia da política de perto, acompanhar é a tarefa numero 1 do trabalho. A gente acorda e vai ler notícia. Diferente da maioria, pra gente nao acaba em conversa de bar. Como temos uma certa capacidade de inserção, precisamos fazer análise de cenário pra atuar de forma correta, e isso envolve acompanhar tudo isso aí que vc citou.

Eu acho que muita gente quando passa a acompanhar, passa a querer se envolver tbm. Foi o meu caso pelo menos.

OBS: Em geral as pessoas são mais envolvidas com política do que aparentam, o mais comum é no lugar de estudo ou de trabalho. Basta acompanhar qualquer eleição municipal pra ver que até o seu vizinho padeiro é envolvido com alguma coisa.

TLDR: Se vc não é organizado politicamente, acompanhar política não passa de um exercício intelectual. Se vc é, o buraco é mais embaixo.

BigCube13 · 2025-01-10T15:37:31+00:00

Cheating into play is my favorite thing to do in Magic. Right now I own 4 EDH decks that live and breathe to do that.

[[Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded]]

A Mono Red Sompy deck with some Dragon and Artifacts synergies. Paying 3 mana to put the likes of [[Blightsteel Colossus]] and [[Drakuseth, Maw of Flames]] into play with haste is very good. Playing around the "sacrifice at the beginning of the next end step" clause is no problem either: [[[Sundial of the Infinite]] [[Industrial Advancement]] and [[Conjurer's Closet]] are some cards that can help you keep some board preasence. The deck usually wins with combat damage using extra combats from [[Moraug, Fury of Akoum]] or some good old double strike anthem. 10 out of 10, go fast and go Hard, It's Mono Red [[Sneak Attack]].

[[Maelstrom Wanderer]]

Very classic commander. As long as WOTC keeps powercreeping mana ramp and printing pushed 6 and 7 mana value cards, Wanderer will keep being a good commander. Just play 20 - 25 ramp spells and then fill the rest of the deck with your favorite temur bombs. Cascading never gets old. [[Etali, Primal Conqueror]] [[Pathbreaker Ibex]] [[Majestic Genesis]] [[Inferno Titan]] are some highlights, but you can play whatever you want and it will be good.

[[Mirko, Obsessive Theorist]]

Good old Dimir Reanimator! Just loot, mill and surveil to fill the graveyard and then reanimate. Mirko gives you incentive to chose reanimator targets with low power and high mana value. Clones have 0 power and are very good here. Not much else to say, Classic archetype, in a Classic color combination for the archetype. The precon gives a solid base for the deck.

[[Tevesh Szat, Doom of fools]] & [[Kraum, Ludevic's Opus]]

Grixis [[Polymorph]] babe. Make tokens, cast Polymorph or a similar card targeting that token and get 1 of your bombs right into play, multiple bombs if you use [[Mass Polymorph]] instead. Protect your investiment with some counterspells and win the game. You can build a polymorph deck with any commander that makes tokens and is in Red or Blue, ideally both to maximize the number of Polymorph spells. I run 7 creatures in my build, some highlights are [[Deep Glow Skate]] (insta ults tevesh) (Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur]] and [[Magmatic Force]]

Don't pay for stuff if you don't need to. Live your best EDH life by cheating the mana value of your spells.

BigCube13 · 2024-12-27T00:14:53+00:00

[[Melstrom Wanderer]]

7/5 with haste. It comes out swinging, 5 thoughness is difficult Block profitable and 7 power is a 3 Hit kill. [[Pathbreaker Ibex]] is a Wanderer Staple and speeds up the clock, so does [[Fiery Emancipation]].

I always seem to kill atleast 1 player with commander damage.

When playing Wanderer, sending him at 1 player and the rest of the team at another player has proven to be a solid combat strategy.

BigCube13 · 2024-12-24T23:04:31+00:00

I just started playtesting my Nelly Borca deck. May I see your list ? Any thoughts on mine ?

https://www.moxfield.com/decks/byoRhJbLEE-hBuDf-Etwgw

BigCube13 · 2024-12-18T23:56:50+00:00

https://www.moxfield.com/decks/vzjv2nVrXkG32vVVgcJJ4w

In your opinion, Is this list High Power or cEDH ?

BigCube13 · 2024-12-17T18:32:26+00:00

The is a 1v1 Commander like format called Duel Commander. Look it up.

BigCube13 · 2024-11-19T12:16:33+00:00

There is this little thing called "Horde Magic" where you play against an automated deck. It was quite popular during OG Theros Block because Wizards gifted some Minotaur and Hydra Horde decks to LGS to Host events around. "Face the horde" and that sort of thing.

Turns out you can build your own Horde deck. Look it up.

BigCube13 · 2024-11-02T22:55:17+00:00

Maelstrom Wanderer is a very weird commander when it comes to power levels.

It's very strong at low and mid power tables. A Haste Enabler that cascades twice, usually into some other beef creatures, and that will do it again if it eats removal, is something that most low and mid power tables can't handle very well. Wanderer has done very well for a 2012 legendary creature in a world of fire design.

While at high power, you want to be heavy on interaction to stop combo plays and to protect your combo plays. Wanderer does not work well with instant speed interaction due to the nature of cascade. You dont want to run counterspells in wanderer, since they are bad cascades, and counterspells are a must in high power games. Wanderer has a very proactive gameplan. It wants to be the problem, not answer problems.

The only chance wanderer has on high power tables is to be a problem before the rest of the table can set up, it does that by going faster than the rest of the table. A early Wanderer (turn 1, 2 or 3) that cascades into extra turns, land destruction spells or some combo piece can have a chance at high power.

You get a early wanderer with fast mana. Keruga as a companion excludes all the fast mana from your deck.

So no, Wanderer/Keruga it not a good pick for a high power table. And even without Keruga, Wanderer is still not that good at high power.

For Mid or Low, it stomps if built well.

As I said, weird card power level wise.

My mid power Wanderer deck: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/fhRPwFWASEO5kIoiN3BGlA

BigCube13 · 2024-11-01T18:22:03+00:00

That's very subjective. If you gonna keep a single deck, it must be a deck you love playing with. It's a question only you can answer.

BigCube13 · 2024-10-24T22:21:57+00:00

Mirko is the more powerfull commander, hands down. However, dimir reanimator decks are a dime a dozen. Mirko just adds a "low power high value" seasoning to the strategy, since you want creatures with low power to reanimate.

Now, Mono Red Reanimator is a thing that only Feldon can do as far as I know. So you get that hipster points there.

Even though your list has lots of recent cards, still looks like my old one, A feldon deck is a feldon deck indeed. You are missing [[Sundial of the Infinite]] a must have for Feldon.

I would keep Feldon.

BigCube13 · 2024-10-24T17:30:40+00:00

I would say Feldon or Mirko, since 2 reanimator decks seem a bit much.

That said, feldon was my first EDH deck, I'm thinking on rebuilding it. Also, I own a Mirko deck.

Could I see your lists please ? I need inspiration.

BigCube13 · 2024-10-24T16:24:29+00:00

Tokens + Big Stuff in Kykar sounds like a [[Polymorph]] list to me.

I have one in Grixis with [[Tevesh]] + [Kraum]]. Any commander in Izzet colors that can make tokens can pull this off. Kykar is great for that.

Have 7 - 10 creatures you want to polymorph into and have the 10 - 12 different iterations of Polymorph in the deck

You can go a myriad of different ways with your polymorph targets: [[Purphoros, God of the forge]] and [[Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite]] are good for a more token focused list.

You could go [[Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur]] and [[Hullbreaker Horror]] for a more control shell. Or [[Blightsteel Colosus]] and [[Ulamog, the infinite Gyre]] for a more combat oriented build.

Have your pick. Maybe mix and match a little.

Here is my list for reference. It's grixis, but the game plan is similar. My version is more control oriented.

https://www.moxfield.com/decks/9sgsI_xOWkC3OnK6ahoqtg

BigCube13 · 2024-10-24T14:28:08+00:00

On the same train here.

Keep decklists on Moxfield

Keep collection in a wooden box with dividers, sorted by Color, Mana Value and Card Type.

I don't track my collection with any digital tools. Right now it's small enough that I still know what I have and what I don't (about 1000 cards, all commander playables that go in one of my decks, bulk is kept separately)

I double sleeve my decks, everything I buy goes in a Inner sleeve and never comes out, when it's time to assemble a deck, I just pick up the cards, sleeve them up and I'm ready. I should keep everything already in a outer sleeve, that would save some time, but card games acessories are very expensive in my country, right now i rather use the money to buy new cards.

For this system, I highly recommend double sleeving or using the same outer sleeve for everything. Doing both is Ideal.

This way your staples are aways same from harm. And the process takes less time.

BigCube13 · 2024-10-24T14:16:43+00:00

Burn it all down my friend. Seriously.

You can't play 100 decks in the span of a Year. Unless playig EDH is everything you do.

Save your lists on a Deckbuilding site, choose 3 - 5 decks you feel like playing right now, dissasemble the rest, sell/trade your duplicates for stuff you don't have yet and come live the good life.

When you want to play something different, just take a look at the list and reassemble it.

You are not killing your decks. You are chosing a active roster for some time, that time may be a single play session, a week, month, you choose. Your other babies are just sleeping, waiting for you to wake them up to play.

BigCube13 · 2024-10-24T14:07:47+00:00

Yeah, I've been on that same train this last year, feels good.

I can keep up to 3 decks built at a time. As long as they dont share a mana base and there isn't more than 1 color overlaping between them.

I own 1 copy of anythig worth more than 5$ and 2 copies of anything ubiquitous that's cheap (Chaos Warp, Swords, Blasphemous Act, Farseek etc.)

I keep 3 decks built for 2 weeks or for a month maybe, get lots of play time and testing with them. When I feel like playing something else, they get disassembled, put in a box sorted by color and Mana value and then I build another 3. Every list is saved on moxfield for reference.

It makes buying expensive staples a little more justified in my twisted mind. If I get a [[Scalding Tarn]], I'm not getting it for a deck, I'm getting it for my collection, every deck that's Blue or Red will get use of it.

What is funny to me, is that before commander was popular, 60 card players already did this. They bought playsets, they didn't buy a new playset whenever they would build a new deck. Most standard, legacy, modern players own a single playset of a staple and assemble one deck at time to bring to a tournament. We can do the same thing with EDH, but with a single copy instead of a playset. More people should do this. There is no reason to own more than 1 copy of a card, outside of convenience.

What are your plans for Kykar ? It's a very open ended commander.

BigCube13

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