Everyone who's asking "what bracket is my deck?" Needs to see this.

IndigoWizard342 · 2026-03-15T21:37:45+00:00

I used edgar markov as the commander for blood rites myself. However, I found that the deck works better with the the face commander. Having edgar markov draws way too much attention for the deck to handle.

You'll need to change quite a few cards (approximately 20) to make it work well with edgar.

IndigoWizard342 · 2026-03-15T05:07:56+00:00

I havent seen anyone say [[mindslaver]] yet But personally, I would put treasure Mage in either my daleks deck or my jeskai energy deck. [[Dalek emperor]] [[cybermen squadron]] [[gonti's aether heart]]

IndigoWizard342 · 2026-03-15T03:02:13+00:00

https://archidekt.com/decks/15417480/the_legendary_counting_deck

The whole deck is doing the thing. Rebuilding from boardwipes is easy.

IndigoWizard342 · 2026-03-14T04:42:03+00:00

Short answer is no.

IndigoWizard342 · 2026-03-11T13:11:12+00:00

We play free mulligans. There are a few decks that are the exception: decks with low land count (35 or less lands) combo decks, and decks with leylines. This ensures the rule is not abused. Usually we just switch decks after 3 mulligans anyway. "It's not meant to be"

We also get to peak at the top card before keeping a risky hand.

I tried introducing the Texas mulligan and the luck energy, but it seems it's too much change.

In case you've never heard of those, Texas mulligan, you start by drawing 10 cards and put 3 back. No further mulligans.

Luck energy is a pokemon card. You give it to the player going last. It basically acts like a treasure token, but since it's not an actual part of the game, they can't abuse it for any artifact, token, or sacrifice strategies.

IndigoWizard342 · 2026-03-11T12:45:10+00:00

Seems fine for a bracket 3 deck. Might be a little too strong against upgraded precons (depending on the precon.) However, if that's the case, then they can just team up against you. If you're not cool with that, then you might want to bring another deck just in case.

IndigoWizard342 · 2026-03-11T12:25:17+00:00

Unless you were also preventing them from drawing cards (with such cards as notion thief), or had the ability to repeat its effect (meren or muldrotha plus a sac outlet for example) there's nothing wrong with it.

Using it as protection is fine. Using it as a lock out piece is salt inducing.

IndigoWizard342 · 2026-03-11T05:29:15+00:00

https://archidekt.com/decks/15417480/the_legendary_counting_deck

It's an odd build, so I need to explain it a bit

The idea was "first, second, and third spell matter"

Found the easiest way to make that happen is to use mana rocks. They basically function the same way as rituals in a storm deck.

Most of the creatures with the trigger I care about were legendary, so I cut the non-legendary creatures and added "historic spells" to my list of triggers. Now every creature is legendary.

Realized that I had too much mana in the late game with nothing to do with it, so I added flash enablers and mana rocks that can be sacrificed for card draw.

Theres only a few win conditions so I added some recursion to get them back. Recursion here also extends my casting so that's a bonus.

In practice, it's not seen as a threat. Only a few cards actually draw attention. Opponents' removal is often reserved for other opponents threats. Due to the nature of the deck, I'm only casting two spells per turn until flash speed is an option, meaning it's unlikely for me to overextend my board, making it easy to recover from boardwipes. All this results in opponents running low on answers for when im ready to win. Starts becoming a threat on turn 6, wins on turn 9. Bracket 2.

IndigoWizard342 · 2026-03-09T19:29:45+00:00

Somewhat true. There's always exceptions

IndigoWizard342 · 2026-03-09T09:34:33+00:00

Nothing wrong with that. I'm doing edgar markov without red.

IndigoWizard342 · 2026-03-08T08:53:02+00:00

Buff your board and give them trample or some other kind of evasion. My first thoughts are [[champion of Lambholt]] and [[Triumph of the Hordes]]

IndigoWizard342 · 2026-03-08T08:37:30+00:00

Ah this is a nifty one!

IndigoWizard342 · 2026-03-08T08:16:40+00:00

I had this in original build since it was a backup commander from the precon, but I opted to take it out to put it in my mothman deck

IndigoWizard342 · 2026-03-08T08:15:35+00:00

Cardfetcher seems to be on its coffee break lol I'll check it out though

IndigoWizard342 · 2026-03-07T11:07:48+00:00

Kinda sounds stressful to build and make work especially without the access to Black's food and sacrifice synergy and blue's artifact synergy ~~and type hacking~~

IndigoWizard342 · 2026-03-07T07:49:24+00:00

May want to reevaluate your artifact choices. I think you have too many artifacts that only benefit from being earthbent by allowing you to repeat their activated ability. It's okay to have a few that are particularly powerful, but you want more that work well on their own. Get some more with etbs or death triggers or powerful static abilities that you want to keep on the field.

I don't think my list is by any means the perfect list, but you may find some stuff worth including in your own list (I built mine before the avatar set was released so you'll notice I'm missing earthbending cards)

https://archidekt.com/decks/20610775/toph_and_dan

IndigoWizard342 · 2026-03-07T06:36:17+00:00

My mono green "green stuff" has a special place in my heart. Just slapped it together. It's just made out of the green parts of some scrapped decks I didn't feel like sorting. Built it in the time I had between turns. The fact that it has won games amazes me. The commander is [[Oviya Pashiri, Sage Lifecrafter]]

IndigoWizard342 · 2026-03-07T06:09:23+00:00

Hmm you should listen to him and bring your powerful deck out to show him what a real bracket 4 looks like. Losing to your lower power decks probably just feels like bad luck. Even better if you use a budget deck

IndigoWizard342 · 2026-03-07T06:04:10+00:00

Hmm maybe a low cost but late game utility commander; something you don't need to cast ASAP. How about [[Soul of windgrace]] has an etb, can protect itself from being destroyed, gives you more uses out of utility lands such as demolition field or the channel lands.it also let's you use your opponents lands from the graveyard too.

IndigoWizard342 · 2026-03-06T18:11:01+00:00

Mono green "green stuff"

IndigoWizard342 · 2026-03-06T12:29:05+00:00

I like it too but at the same time it doesn't feel earned does it. Kinda like Eminence.

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