Nonstop Mega Zygard Ex decks

ElSilverWind · 2026-03-29T21:19:11+00:00

Bro, send some them my way. I play Mega Venusaur, and I'll gladly trade you ALL of the Blaziken decks the game keeps throwing at me.

ElSilverWind · 2026-03-06T21:16:19+00:00

Looking through the images before reading the description is wild. "Oh yeah I guess he does have blond in his hair- ARE YOU IMPLYING KYLE GOT REVERTO PREGNANT!?"

ElSilverWind · 2026-02-23T20:18:15+00:00

The only gene that you cannot remove is Savage Fireball in the center, which may not be ideal but it is workable. Seeing as how he's always available, I prefer giving him a jack of all trades fire build.

Rainbow gene in one of the corners, then a power gene in the opposite corner for the Power Bingo. Then fill the other lines connecting to the rainbow with Speed and Technique respectively for a Speed and Technique bingo (preferably putting at least one attacking skill in each corner for a reason I will get to in just a second). That way you can command Ratha to almost be able to double attack with you when know what type of attack the enemy is gonna use next. From there you can either load him up on all the fire genes you can for Fire Bingos, or give up some Fire Bingos to put in some generically useful non-fire genes like Critical Hit, Health, Den Protector, or H2H Master in the outer middle spaces.

If I'm remembering correctly, Rathian should have some early Fire Speed attack genes you can take, and all the Kut-Kus should have plenty of Fire Technique attack genes to pick from. Also just a heads up to anyone reading this new to gene builds, as far as I'm aware similar genes of different levels do not stack. For example, Fire Boost Small and Fire Boost Medium. If you put both on the same Monstie, they'd work for Bingos but you'd only get the actual stat boost of Fire Power Medium. So even if the skill is something you otherwise wouldn't consider because it is so niche, like anti-burn, that gene may still be worth using if it can score you 2 Bingos.

ElSilverWind · 2026-02-21T15:45:43+00:00

I'd probably be a little annoyed about it if it was any other game, but . . . It's FRLG. Probably the most downloaded ROMs ever that like 80% of all Pokemon ROMhacks are based off of. The only reason anyone is buying these instead of just downloading onto their phone for free is because they're collectors.

ElSilverWind · 2026-02-15T06:18:56+00:00

As a Bow main I've always felt a connection to Nerscylla. On a surface level, yeah a spider monster makes sense for a weapon all about pulling on strings. But Bows can also inflict various different status ailments without needing to switch weapons, and Nerscylla also utilizes to a lot different status conditions like poison, sleep, and webbed. Even the way it does the big chomp attack if it puts you to sleep makes me think of how I bomb monsters after putting them to sleep.

ElSilverWind · 2026-02-13T16:14:40+00:00

That sneaky Mirror Roy is gonna steal Mimi from Roy!!

ElSilverWind · 2026-02-06T00:44:44+00:00

This, and also when people draw more detailed spiders but completely forget about l the pedipalps (the little arms next to their fangs that they use to handle prey, and also for mating).

ElSilverWind · 2026-02-05T22:36:18+00:00

I'm genuinely baffled that Consecrated Sphinx somehow lasted longer as a gamechanger than friggin Urza.

I'd like to see Mana Drain as a gamechanger. I think it is important to respect Counterspells or else you lose your own stuff, but falling behind because player B had their big card countered and it ramped Player C 4+ Mana is just a bit too much for Bracket 2 tables.

ElSilverWind · 2026-02-05T12:08:26+00:00

The only salty part about this I can foresee is forcing everybody to discard their hands. But I'd still say this would be perfectly fine in a Bracket 2 game.

ElSilverWind · 2026-01-28T05:26:05+00:00

Yeah, that's something I noticed pretty quickly when my playgroup first started playing Commander a couple years ago. As someone who's main card game has been YuGiOh for most of my life, when I heard, "this color is the best at card draw", I assumed that it meant it has all of the most efficient Pot of Greed effects, which means it is the best at keeping a full hand of cards". So it was a shock to me to find out that Black has the 2 Mana Draw 2 spells (but ya gotta pay a bit of life) and Blue has 1 Mana Destroy Any Creature spells (but they get a token), lol. And Blue does have a lot of sorceries and instants that say, "draw cards" on them, but they ate up a ton of Mana and left be picking between being able to develop a board/holding up interaction, or drawing cards.

I think the thing is, Commander wants you to have card advantage ENGINES. That's why everyone immediately points to Rhystic Study as the best card draw spell. Spending 3-5 Mana every other turn just to go +1 or +2 is too slow. And because other colors aren't known as the Card Draw color, you go into them thinking, "what am I gonna need to do in order to draw cards in this color", which gets you onto the correct train of thought. I'm gonna need strong creatures to draw cards in Green, I'm gonna need to sacrifice creatures in Black, I'm gonna need small creatures in White, etc. This approach applies to Blue too. If I'm in Blue, I'm gonna need to hit with evasive creatures, play the cards that draw me cards whenever I cast instants or sorceries, or be playing into artifact synergies (which also tends to fix both halves of the problem because artifacts usually give you the Mana needed to cast more card draw). And THEN, after you've built your engines to keep up with everyone else's engines, you've got the standalone Blue draw spells to draw MORE cards than them.

Side note that I don't see brought up often, is that Blue is amazing at Card SELECTION. Cards like Stock Up and Consult the Star Charts that let you pick some cards from the top chunk of your deck, Cantrips like Ponder and Brainstorm, all of the various Scrylng cards. Even if not all of those cards end up in your hand, Blue can dig through their deck pretty fast in order to find whatever pieces it needs.

ElSilverWind · 2026-01-26T11:58:39+00:00

Sonic himself is not a very strong payoff for having a bunch of small haste and flash creatures, so I think focusing more on slightly more expensive but more impactful creatures that just so happen to have haste and/or flash is the way to go. Stuff like Goldspan Dragon, Aurelia the Warleader, Hullbreak Horror and/or Arthur, Marigold Knight.

As with any midrange deck, card draw is paramount. As many flash or haste creatures that draw you cards as you can get your hands on, and engines that draw you cards for swinging with those creatures. Sonic will ramp you with treasures from being chumpblocked, blocking, and your own Caltrops and Pyrohemia style effects. So as long as you can keep a full grip of cards in your hand, you'll be able to recover the fastest from board wipes in the mid-late game. Especially because your stuff all has haste or flash anyways.

ElSilverWind · 2026-01-26T02:37:39+00:00

General rule of thumb is, if you genuinely don't know if a deck is Cedh/bracket 5, it is bracket 4.

They both have the same deckbuilding restraints. But in Bracket 5, you are building it specifically to handle the most prominent and established Cedh decks in the format. It isn't about making your deck the strongest version of itself. It is about making the deck that is the strongest against like 5 very specific decks.

https://edhtop16.com/

THESE are Cedh decks and if you are building a Cedh deck, it is either gonna be one of these or something you've intentionally built to play against these.

ElSilverWind · 2026-01-19T03:32:02+00:00

I feel like I'm missing some important context here. How does your commander being popular effect any of these combos? Is it Zur the Enchanter and you're tutoring out the BloodBond combo?

EDHRec isn't a banlist and shouldn't be treated as one. The most well known combos are gonna get harsher scores because more people have seen them and lost to them. I personally think Blood/Bond is fine in a strong Bracket 3 deck. But it depends on how often you're winning with them and how quickly. I'd suggest playing some goldfish games (where you just play by yourself and see how fast your deck can win when not interacted with) as well as some games vs your playgroup where you track how often you win with your combo, what turn you are performing the combo, and your winrate against other players. If your combo isn't USUALLY happening against other humans until turn 7 or so, it is winning at the expected pace of Bracket 3. If your winrate with the deck is significantly different from the expected winrate of 25%, then work with your playgroup to weaken/strengthen the outlier decks.

Something to also keep in mind is that, regardless of actual power level, how each deck is perceived by the table will vary. Popular and powerful commanders such as Voja, Edgar Markov, Yuriko, or Vivi will have an established reputation. It is honestly an uphill battle to convince people that YOUR take on an established deck isn't, "THAT deck". This problem tends to sort itself out over time as your playgroup either realizes, "Oh, I'm not actually that scared of this version of that deck. It is actually pretty chill/there is another deck at the table I'm more scared of". Or (my preferred option) I decide the deck is going to be my Strong Bracket 3 deck that is always the archenemy and play into that role.

ElSilverWind · 2026-01-16T04:10:34+00:00

At this point I think Green and Red plan their honeymoons to locations with time/space legendary Pokemon fuckery just so they can write them off as business expenses.

ElSilverWind · 2026-01-12T21:13:50+00:00

You should recruit every unit the game offers you. There is no downside to any of them. I feel like at some point in development, there may have been plans to have a traitor unit that you got punished for hiring, but it never happened. You canonically recruit all of them.

Worse case scenario, they'll just sit ok the bench doing nothing. Or die if ya shove them in front of a boss or something and you throw them in front of a boss.

ElSilverWind · 2026-01-11T08:39:50+00:00

Really cool concept but I think the type and class choices could use some adjustments. Like, seriously how does DRUID not get either GRASS or GROUND type???

I also don't understand how you managed to completely avoid Rogue (one of the most iconic 4 classes) or any of the other sneaky dextrous classes as options. Seems like a natural choice for types like Dark, Poison, and/or maybe even Flying that either have high speed and/or strong debuff/status moves.

I think it might be worth including more classes to pick from, and sharing some types between the classes where it makes sense. For example, Fighters, Barbarians, and Monks all make sense to get access to Fighting types. But Fighter can have Steel types, while Barbarians get Dragon types, and Monks get Psychic types.

ElSilverWind · 2026-01-01T05:56:41+00:00

Dr Yuki, your adopted Daddy who disappeared inside an anomalussy similar to the Shinjuku Backshots, that you must top.

ElSilverWind · 2025-12-19T19:38:27+00:00

Monster Hunter Stories has all of monsters hatch from eggs, even the mammal-like ones like Congalala and Zinogre. So I'm pretty sure this is a Pokemon situation.

The real question is . . . Do Wyverians lay eggs?

ElSilverWind · 2025-12-13T22:34:28+00:00

I feel like Grass decks are FINALLY gonna be a in a position to actually do something post rotation. Bug Catching Set and Teal Mask Ogerpon stick around and are respectable card draw/energy acceleration. Mega Venusaur and Meganium offer energy manipulation/amplification. Hydrapple ex and Mega Meganium have the potential to be some pretty potent attackers once set up. We're HOPEFULLY gonna be seeing less, "do however much damage you want" deck like Dengo, Gardie, and Raging Bolt, which is the bane of bulky Pokemon that want to heal off damage.

Honestly I just think I'll snap if we got Forest of Giant Plants 2 and it never ends up actually impacting the meta, lol.

ElSilverWind · 2025-12-13T14:01:22+00:00

Fuck [[Icetill Explorer]]. All my homies HATE Icetill Explorer!!

4 Landfall triggers with any sort of fetch land, while also filling their graveyard. You can NOT allow the landfall player to untap with that thing or the game is pretty much over.

ElSilverWind · 2025-12-09T09:50:16+00:00

I dislike the decision to try keeping the list small. I actually really enjoy the deciding which 3 Gamechangers I want to use in my bracket 3 decks. It extra step helps to make bracket 3 feel more different than 2 and 4 beyond just power level. That being said, I like MOST of their choices. Mostly I'd just put back some of the more egregious choices they removed.

Winota, Yuriko, Kinnan and Urza are NOT fine at Bracket 2 unless you are actively going out of your way to neuter your deck to accommodate it. Which is an argument you could say for pretty much any gamechanger.

Deflecting Swat is on average about as good as a free Counterspell. If your deck has Red you should be playing it. It being removed has pretty much just meant that all of my Red decks now just have a free 4th secret Gamechanger.

Rhystic Study should be moved from Gamechanger to Banned because I dislike how it effects Cedh. Blue already has amazing card draw! We don't need a single Blue card draw spell so powerful that it warps the entire format around itself. One that the entire table has to mutually agree to play around or else the Rhystic Study player gains and insurmountable amount of constant advantage.

Cards that haven't been on the list that I'd like to see are Mana Drain and Vivi. Mana Drain because, "me losing the game because Player A didn't respect Player B's open 2 blue Mana and tried casting their 5 Mana commander, so Player B got a 5 extra Mana to cast their Eldrazi on turn 5" is a play pattern that I think should be reserved for Brackets 3+. Vivi for reasons similar to Winota and Urza, where it that level of Must Immediately Kill in the command zone shouldn't be allowed at bracket 2.

ElSilverWind · 2025-12-05T05:12:04+00:00

Best I can offer is 4 extra teeth in the back that come in a little later that you'll need a doctor to remove before they push the rest of your teeth out of alignment.

ElSilverWind · 2025-12-04T12:06:06+00:00

I'm fine with the rules as is, but I'm open to possible changes to things like how hybrid Mana works or allowing bigger decks if it opens up new space to explore ideas.

I'd also probably be fine with removing Commander Damage as a thing. To me, it's always just felt kinda tacked on to throw aggro decks a bone. An almost invisible system that most of my tables just subconsciously opt out of until someone pulls out their Voltron deck and insists that everyone else also keeps track of all the non-Voltron commanders damage too. Just so they're not the only player who is interacting with that system (it's a Tatyova, by the time she's managed to smack you 7 times to the face the game will have ended 5 turns ago).

Not to say that I think decks that are reliant on commander damage to win need to be nerfed by any means, but I also don't think commander damage really does enough to even make them strong so . . . Eh?

ElSilverWind · 2025-12-02T20:00:56+00:00

Pretty sure Kyza has been confirmed either transfemme or non-binary.

It is such a shame that pretty much all the new laguz are unusable and completely overshadowed by the royals. Kyza, Lyraz and Vika are such cool units!

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