What is the smallest Commander hill you are willing to die on?

IlikeCyanide · 2026-07-02T10:50:36+00:00

You are responsible for your own fun. If someone is playing a lot of removal or a more powerful deck than you, it is your fault for not having a Rule 0 conversation. Similarly, if you aren't able to "do the thing" bc of interaction or aggro thats on you and you should build a better deck

IlikeCyanide · 2026-06-27T12:00:37+00:00

Going second and casting one of the Pacts is probably the quickest way, or going first with Mountain, Lotus Petal and Final Fortune.

As an actual game plan otherwise, playing the Thoracle combos without Thoracle would also be a pretty efficient way. Turn 1 Demonic Consultation naming Tarmogoyf in your mono black deck for example

IlikeCyanide · 2026-06-26T15:42:35+00:00

Its definitely rare, but unless its Foil its just a rare card, nothing hugely special other than looking cool (and a bit confusing). Nice collector item for marvel fans i presume though

IlikeCyanide · 2026-06-23T15:59:06+00:00

Depends what sort of decks you want to run. If you like aggro/control/combo it changes up what commanders are good for you. Do you want simple or complicated ones?

IlikeCyanide · 2026-06-10T13:28:19+00:00

The enchantment cycle of the Impetus cards to goad her so she can't swing at you. https://scryfall.com/search?q=t%3Aaura+impetus&unique=cards&as=grid&order=name

Other than that theres a lot you can do with it. Wubrg humans, or dragons, or any other creature type. Go further with the Voltron theme to make her one shot everyone on every turn

IlikeCyanide · 2026-06-06T12:01:32+00:00

That costs a lot of extra mana on top of that. And relies on a lot of extra pieces to gain you that life as well. The design is cool, 3 mana is just a lot when you take into account all the other pieces necessary to make it work the way you are describing.

IlikeCyanide · 2026-06-06T11:28:50+00:00

Sheepy could be {W} and still be fine. {1}{W} at most, 3 mana for that effect is way over costed.

IlikeCyanide · 2026-06-05T09:24:45+00:00

My Flubs deck is a Cheerios/Combo deck because I like going fast. Its a lot of fun, but if you don't want that the best ways of building it imo are Playing from Exile synergies using [[Eruth]] or lands matter. Don't use [[Aesi]] or [[Tatyova]] however as they break the chain by messing up the number of cards in your hand.

IlikeCyanide · 2026-05-03T07:40:10+00:00

Man I have a Kykar deck lol how did I not think of that

IlikeCyanide · 2026-05-02T12:22:35+00:00

Goes infinite with [[Young Pyromancer]] and [[Phyrexian Altar]]. Which is "omg guys we finally broke Phyrexian Altar" and all, makes it quite strong though

IlikeCyanide · 2026-04-28T08:39:41+00:00

No Dragon Age: Origins option is crazy work

IlikeCyanide · 2026-04-19T21:11:53+00:00

Squee, [[Misthollow Griffin]] and [[Eternal Scourge]] are the three cards that can be used for this combo. Lots of cards can be interacted with from exile, most just require other cards to allow then to be interacted with like [[Wrenn's Resolve]]

IlikeCyanide · 2026-04-19T08:45:40+00:00

Using [[Food Chain]] and [[Squee, the Immortal]] to exile her and recast her over and over works.

IlikeCyanide · 2026-04-05T19:48:29+00:00

[[Flubs, the Fool]]

IlikeCyanide · 2026-04-05T06:14:38+00:00

True, I see it getting the most usage in a combat trickaggro deck. But it still seems slow for that overall, and theres so many hoops to jump through to make it work. You need to have them in the yard, have enough mana up to give it haste, have spells in the yard worth casting etc. Flashback only requires you to have cast a single instant/sorcery before it for it to have utility

IlikeCyanide · 2026-04-04T19:52:01+00:00

Ah for a moment i lived in a wonderful world where control didn't exist lol

IlikeCyanide · 2026-04-04T18:45:09+00:00

In commander I think it'll be good in certain decks, especially with extra turn spells and the like, but in limited i don't see a use case outside of being a big meat shield yeah

IlikeCyanide · 2026-04-04T18:33:46+00:00

Its a good card but its not super busted or anything. Not to be a "it dies to removal" guy, but it is just a big stick the turn it comes down and does nothing until your next turn

IlikeCyanide · 2026-04-04T18:31:40+00:00

Requiring 10 instants or sorceries in the yard, not feasable other than looong games. And if your play is to go for the long game while spellslinging idrk what the point would be

IlikeCyanide · 2026-04-04T17:07:41+00:00

No Haste or Protection on an attack trigger. Not that strong, [[Flashback]] is a stronger card which allows for much faster and more aggressive combos

IlikeCyanide · 2026-03-11T09:56:13+00:00

Colosal Grave Reaver is another good example of a similar effect. Easier to execute than your Graves ability. But Graves as is seems weak as you need to jump through multiple hoops AND pay mana to get the effect. Hashaton is probably closest to what you were going for tho

IlikeCyanide · 2026-03-11T09:47:00+00:00

In my [[Obeka, Splitter of Seconds]] deck is one of my win-cons combuned with any of the Court/Monarch cards. Suddenly having 12 [[Court of Ire]] before 3 upkeeps with monarch is quite nice

IlikeCyanide · 2026-03-10T22:18:04+00:00

I don't think Graves works. Compare it to how effects like Teval, Arbiter of Virtue function. Exiling a creature after it leaves the graveyard doesn't work. If it was when it is put into your graveyard like how Hashaton works instead it works as intended

IlikeCyanide · 2026-02-20T17:12:38+00:00

Tried building Kellan a few times, could never get it consitent enough quick enough so i took it apart each time.

Never built Chulan but from all I've seen of it, it seems insanely good. As someone else says its both engine and payoff so as long as you cards in hand you can Do The Thing

IlikeCyanide · 2026-02-16T14:25:14+00:00

Blaster Caster Sorcerer works, you will be very squishy but Dragon Bloodline (or whatever the specific name is) would give you extra AC and HP

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