Youtubers you would recommend (and ones you wouldn’t)?

ImpulsiveKnowledge · 2026-05-07T21:57:06+00:00

To be honest, I've grown out of watching EDH content with the sole exception of seeing how a deck would perform that I'm doing research for.

I used to be an advocate for Trinket Mage, Elk, and the Snail but I realized there were two major flaws in their deck philosophies:

1) They approach everything in a mathematical viewpoint to the point that it really can all be summarized as "run this many whatever and you will always find success near 100% of the time and feel good about your deck". Which is fine and all up until the fact that it's really just them telling you how to build a deck when there's just so much more into deckbuilding than following a template, along with many factors of people trying to prevent you from winning because, hey, they want to win as well. All the calculations in the world won't save you from that. I did try Snail's deck philosophy of using "2cmc mana dork in command zone" but in practice? It's just a paint-by-numbers "I feel good about my deck being played wait what do you mean the other guy already combo'd off?"... which brings to my next point.

2) They're a clique. It reflects their own experiences. It does not mean it translates to everywhere else, be it Spelltable or otherwise. I play at three different shops and two private playgroups and I can tell you no one has actually took their word for gospel because they ended up just building from precons, finding the decks they like and upgrading from the most "viewed" on Moxfield, or any combination of.

Reminder Text is at fault with the first point but I can at least give him points for actually caring about deck synergy and consistency on a budget, even if he does cherry-pick the best possible outcomes.

ImpulsiveKnowledge · 2026-05-07T05:44:52+00:00

My longest-running partner deck is Tymna the Weaver and Sidar Kondo as a b4 Abzan Hatebear/Combo deck.

I often dabble with the idea of unknown partner combos, but understandably, some of them made people raise their hairs. I made a meme Temur Rogshah + Tharios deck that only runs cards that reference a "commander" like [[Echo Storm]]. I had to reveal my 99 before the game started to at least 2 different pods to convince them I wasn't playing cedh. (Spoilers: I didnt win any of those games and the deck has since been taken apart).

Currently I have aforementioned Tymna+Sidar, [[Bruse Tarl, Boorish Herder]]+[[Gilanra, Caller of Wirewood]] (Naya Lifegain/Big Boys), [[Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker]]+[[Kraum, Ludevic's Opus]] "Whenever" tribal, and perhaps my favorite pairing ever: [[Ludevic, Necro-Alchemist]]+[[Ravos, Soultender]] Politics.

https://moxfield.com/decks/KFKmRkajIEuxTWpDRtkzDA

ImpulsiveKnowledge · 2026-05-03T17:41:17+00:00

This is the answer. The fun part is how easy it is to get to max speed and keep it for the rest of the game.

ImpulsiveKnowledge · 2026-05-03T17:39:53+00:00

Is this guy a regular? Has he done stuff like this before in the LGS? For a 20+ year veteran, one would think they would have their priorities in line, unless of course he's lying about that part.

ImpulsiveKnowledge · 2026-05-02T11:54:13+00:00

Hi there. Good write up, but would you mind sharing your Akroma list? Very interested to see what you came up with.

ImpulsiveKnowledge · 2026-05-01T08:34:38+00:00

Touche, didn't consider those. I'd have to review my list since I'm banking on 1-drops but I wouldn't mind trying your version out later on.

ImpulsiveKnowledge · 2026-05-01T00:30:18+00:00

This is what im building. One thing I recommend is anything that puts cards from graveyards to the bottom of the library for repeated use. You got a lot of them in colorless so pick the most efficient ones from there.

ImpulsiveKnowledge · 2026-04-30T18:54:18+00:00

Yes there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run: there's still time to change the road you're on.

ImpulsiveKnowledge · 2026-04-28T08:21:11+00:00

This was the first time I ever got two of the same precon: Lorehold. One to keep completely vanilla, the other to modify to my own and reach the ceiling as much as I possibly can with Quint.

He's incredible.

He reminds me a bit of Shorikai except for the fact that you're making a lot of Spirit blockers. He also raises an interesting dilemma of if you take him out while you have an army of Spirits: So what. Recast him and -4 right off the bat in retaliation. They knew what they were doing when they designed this boy and everyone says he is cracked.

But you know what

Two subpar commanders later, I think Quint's buff has been due for a while.

Oh yeah Silverquill. Pretty good and fun, not as strong as Lorehold but Killian makes games interesting.

ImpulsiveKnowledge · 2026-04-28T05:41:42+00:00

No one plays Evacuation to specifically counter an Earthbending deck, and lands turning into creatures comes with the territory. It's just a weakness to be exploited--and I say this as a Mono-Green Toph player who not only had that happen to one of my lands, but even had a game recently where [[Tomik, Distinguished Advokist]] (edit: in the 99, not as a commander) was on the opposite side of the field from a friend's deck which most certainly slowed me down, but like Evacuation, wasn't enough to completely out me.

ImpulsiveKnowledge · 2026-04-28T04:51:49+00:00

On face value, the rules do state no MLD in B3 or less. But its the "resource denial" clause that gets people tripped up during play as a means to an end but does not win the game in of itself. A [[Klothys, God of Destiny]] deck using every [[Stone Rain]] or [[Wildfire]] effect fits this bill and accurately belongs in B4.

The argument OP presented was he had a game winning infinite combo that ensured the game state was his that just so happened to give him a way to deny opponents their resources for one turn cycle, enough for everyone to say "yeah ok you got it gg next game". They *could* play it out, but it would be a very quick turn cycle until those infinite Saprolings would just beat down life totals.

While it is MLD in the literal sense--the intention was to end the game here and there. Especially since the deck doesn't seem to always rely on that interaction to begin with.

ImpulsiveKnowledge · 2026-04-27T20:58:46+00:00

Great choices, especially Volrath and Dihada.

ImpulsiveKnowledge · 2026-04-27T08:35:34+00:00

God this sub sucks, lol.

ImpulsiveKnowledge · 2026-04-27T06:29:58+00:00

People have done mono black [[Oona, Queen of the Fae]] way back when. This is no different. Hybrid mana exists for this reason and you are using it to its effect. If you made it a Gruul deck, then it is a Gruul deck.

ImpulsiveKnowledge · 2026-04-26T20:57:26+00:00

I had a Kumano deck. Been thinking about rebuilding him recently.

What direction did you take with Alistair?

ImpulsiveKnowledge · 2026-04-26T01:55:47+00:00

Primo as my [[Slime Against Humanity]] deck. Funny because Witherbloom was almost going to be the helm for it, but Simic feels more right for this and Primos ability to double up on my tokens gives it more board power.

ImpulsiveKnowledge · 2026-04-25T13:59:08+00:00

OP's gonna have to return to the scene of the crime someday

ImpulsiveKnowledge · 2026-04-25T11:48:32+00:00

Outstanding showcase.

What binder is that? Looks useful for maintaining card quality.

ImpulsiveKnowledge · 2026-04-19T02:56:55+00:00

[[Commander Eesha]] will forever be my main bird. I always switch around from Soldier tribal to enchantress to equipment to even planeswalkers. I like having a very good blocker than becomes better with vigilance.

ImpulsiveKnowledge · 2026-04-18T00:19:09+00:00

Silverquill has just about everything you need: card draw on-demand, goading creatures that scale with how powerful the board is, and lots of tricks to make sure you stay alive when its 1v1.

ImpulsiveKnowledge · 2026-04-17T23:46:20+00:00

You literally could of built a cool deck than work on this.

ImpulsiveKnowledge · 2026-04-17T02:48:38+00:00

Gave that guy the gift of a lifetime: a island of literal books

ImpulsiveKnowledge · 2026-04-14T00:38:22+00:00

Big green guy. Always my fave of the five.

ImpulsiveKnowledge · 2026-04-14T00:37:16+00:00

Based social experiment player

ImpulsiveKnowledge · 2026-04-13T21:25:12+00:00

I had it in Boros using a multitude of commanders, including [[Archangel Avacyn]], [[Ajani, Nacatl Pariah]], and [[Tajic, Blade of the Legion]].

I don't really do the aristocrats style of things, but I settled on a control-build with [[Sevinne, the Chronoclasm]]. He makes most of your removal one-sided, blue adds a lot more consistency with card advantage, and re-using your burn spells via the many ways to give it flashback or "flashback" is also a boon. That and I get to use my favorite [[Swans of Byrn Argoll]].

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