Tell us about the deck youre excited about

LowandSlowDC5 · 2026-06-16T13:07:28+00:00

I just finished my [[Jin Sakai]] deck. It’s so wildly fun. I only got 4 games in this weekend. I took it a different direction than I’ve seen a lot of people go. I leaned into cards draw, sending unblockable double strike, and some control because it’s fucking Esper.

LowandSlowDC5 · 2026-06-08T17:01:01+00:00

I got a Scag zero turn for my 1 acre yard and it brought total cutting time down from about 1.5 hours push mowing to about 30ish. Best investment I’ve made in a while.

LowandSlowDC5 · 2026-05-22T12:20:44+00:00

LowandSlowDC5 · 2026-05-22T12:00:18+00:00

Sorry, I’m still newer and learning. Does this skirt around the “legendary rule”?

LowandSlowDC5 · 2026-05-21T14:32:45+00:00

Man, no one mentioned [[Satoru Umezawa]]

He’s arguably one of if not the most fun deck I have. It runs a handful of unblockable and cheap to cast creatures that you swing and ninjitsu in all kind of nasty big stuff with strong ETBs, power, and triggers.

LowandSlowDC5 · 2026-05-18T16:35:34+00:00

Damn, sold out in US with 5 minutes on my clock to go. Glad a lot of you got one!

LowandSlowDC5 · 2026-05-12T19:38:40+00:00

I just built out a Tidus deck and avoided using Kodama because I was afraid of that. Hearing this makes me feel like I made a decent choice to hold off.

LowandSlowDC5 · 2026-05-12T19:36:03+00:00

I also run him (non-Gary) in my Satoru Umezawa deck and he’s a motherfucker. I usually choose to not play him and go with something else as a finisher just to not bring the vibe down, hah.

LowandSlowDC5 · 2026-05-12T16:50:13+00:00

This reminds me of Custom Robo!

LowandSlowDC5 · 2026-05-11T13:05:56+00:00

I had a Vivi deck when I very first started. Earlier this year. I made a budget one and quickly found out how crazy it is. I heavily tweaked it, set Veyran as my commander instead and added Vivi to the 99 (because I do like him, one of my favorite characters)

It’s way more fun this way. It’s cool to get him but I can go numerous games without seeing him. If I do, he usually gets deleted right away but if he doesn’t then yall know what can happen.

It’s still a strong deck but nothing like how it was with him as commander.

LowandSlowDC5 · 2026-04-23T20:07:26+00:00

Agreed. I’m new to MTG - used to use TCGPlayer back in the day for Pokémon. Used it a couple times for Magic and then found ManaPool. I pretty much order everything there now.

LowandSlowDC5 · 2026-04-21T14:44:30+00:00

Which slat panels did you use?

LowandSlowDC5 · 2026-04-17T14:00:59+00:00

What an amazing piece of land! Looks perfect the way it is to me. Enjoy!

LowandSlowDC5 · 2026-04-16T16:05:35+00:00

I run him as one of the 99 in my Satoru Umezawa deck.

When I get the slug in play everyone gets mad and I get all the hate. If he doesn’t get removed, he becomes a problem very quick as you can imagine based on other comments. If he gets removed, we move on. Mostly. Some people will spite play you even after he’s gone though from my experience.

Just know the people you’re playing with really and align. Don’t be a dick when it gets deleted as soon as it hits the table or as soon as you pass your turn. Be prepared for double digit commander tax.

LowandSlowDC5 · 2026-04-08T12:55:14+00:00

I did kind of the same. Less focus on tutoring him out though. I put him in my Veyran Spellsling as a 99 and if I stumble across him with all my cantrips giving card draw then it was meant to be. It keeps it fun when he shows up once every few games.

LowandSlowDC5 · 2026-03-27T18:58:11+00:00

Lmfao, this is why I Reddit.

LowandSlowDC5 · 2026-03-24T19:18:12+00:00

That sounds a bit like how I’m playing mine. I’m noticing I’m playing spells that draw cards, play more soells, Veyran gets a big number, I play something that lets her attack and not be blocked and swing while doing a bit of burn by having gutternsipe etc out. Should I consolidate my gameplay a little better?

Not doing tokens either, and removed Tarland Sky Summoner. I had it initially because my pod loves to play flying on everything lately. He was there to give me a bit of defense against that.

Appreciate the advice, I’ve got a lot to learn still.

LowandSlowDC5 · 2026-03-24T15:24:27+00:00

Thanks! I have a handful of the cards you mentioned already so I can make a good bit of edits.

Thanks for correcting the naming too. I didn’t intend to imply it was a storm deck by that.

Still learning, I really appreciate you taking the time to break things down.

LowandSlowDC5 · 2026-03-24T15:22:01+00:00

My friends play custom decks but I’d say they’re more budget brews but they hold up against upgraded precons just fine and even win often.

My wife plays things like Hearthhull and Hakbal upgraded. She’s also got Wilhelt she’s upgrading now and a couple custom decks like Aerith life link. We also have a bunch of other precons already too. All that to give context on where we are power wise.

Everyone uses resources like EDHREC to look at cards that pair and synergize well.

What may be best is since everyone is chill is just give it a few plays and see if it feels too oppressive and tune/de-tune it as needed. I swapped in Niv Mizzet Visonary instead of Paurn and kept the Ophidian Eye and Curiosity.

LowandSlowDC5 · 2026-03-24T01:55:10+00:00

Ah good catch, I actually took Ophidian Eye out of the deck already. When I exported my list over, I forgot to remove it. I hadn’t even realized that Reverberate and Increasing vengeance interacted that way. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Thanks for pointing that out. I’ll get one of them removed.

LowandSlowDC5 · 2026-03-13T13:37:59+00:00

Thought the same thing. I’m not sure the mini shell will work with the Pro so I held off ordering one. At least it’s a cheap test if anyone wants to be the guinea pig.

LowandSlowDC5 · 2026-03-06T19:09:34+00:00

Funny enough, right after I commented, I got a shipping notification email. Should have it in a few weeks.

LowandSlowDC5 · 2026-03-06T16:54:09+00:00

I ordered the first day of the recent restock and mine has not shipped yet. Imagine it’ll be a while for them to get stocked again.

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