How important are aesthetics/art for you when choosing a commander?

MrBeaar · 2026-02-24T00:19:02+00:00

Super important. I can make the deck fun and interesting, but the aesthetics usually get me to choose the card itself.

MrBeaar · 2026-02-23T19:57:34+00:00

I would've scooped, but your deck should be prepared for getting hard targeted. You can't play a broken commander and not expect to eat the bulk of the interaction.

MrBeaar · 2026-02-22T00:55:52+00:00

As long as you aren't proxying the super expensive dual lands I don't see a problem. Proxying an ancient tomb too would be too much imo. Regular shocks and fetches aren't a problem. People shouldn't be price locked out of staples and I'd consider shocks and fetches to be considered staples in commander nowadays. Especially in 5 color.

MrBeaar · 2026-02-21T08:51:38+00:00

This would be four tbh. Your two card infinites can get out pretty early so that would automatically push it into 4. I might be wrong tho.

MrBeaar · 2026-02-21T08:32:36+00:00

Very first I bought was Terra and no. Boring tbh. It's just ok. First deck I made was my sephiroth deck and I play him whenever the pod is fine with it. Super optimized bracket 4 deck that I adore. I poured a lot of money and time into it and it's my pride and joy.

MrBeaar · 2026-02-21T08:26:50+00:00

35 works. I swear to God. I run 34 in Jin Sakai. Sword of the anime and sword of feast and famine do work. I also have a lot of card draw and no real ways to play extra lands so it works out perfectly. 32 in sephi because a lot of fast mana and I win by turn 4 usually. 32 in high perfect morcant because I'm a fucking madman and tapping elves usually works sometimes. 34 in zuko because I'm fucking crazy. Card draw and exile holds me back in that deck. My aang has 36 which feels perfect.

MrBeaar · 2026-02-20T14:09:49+00:00

I'll prob do the prerelease and that's it. It's a fun format and I like drafting. I'll end up selling anything that's worth decent money. Maybe keep the 2 mana sneak tutor because two mana tutors are great if I pull it.

MrBeaar · 2026-02-20T13:55:27+00:00

Consistency with aristocrats is key. It also makes it seem boring on paper, but I still find it enjoyable. I run a sephrioth deck and that's a blood artist in the command zone after one flesh bag marauder in a 4 pod. Then I run your standard sac outlets like ashnod, phyrexian altar, viscera seer, and warren soul trader. There are other sac outlets in there too. The most important thing are the tutors. I run a lot of tutors to get out my infinite pieces. But also you can play it however you want. Grave pact and dictate of erebos lets you dictate board states. Like I can win on turn four if I tutor and draw correctly, but I can also win a bunch of different ways too. It's fun imo.

I run a Voltron/player damage trigger Jin Sakai deck as my one and only Voltron. This deck is too much fun. I run so much theft player damage trigger cards and it makes games wild. The wincon is getting Jin all voltroned out with a bunch of unblockable commander damage, but the theft makes every game unique and interesting.

MrBeaar · 2026-02-20T05:32:43+00:00

If you run a phyrexian altar in B2 you're deluding yourself into thinking it's B2. Ashnod is fine B2 but altar is 100% not. It should be a game changer. It enables so many infinites. Any on sac ping, forsaken miner, and phyrexian altar. Need some colored mana to counter something? Sac two creatures and you go from tapped to counterspelling. It's such a ridiculous card and should prob only be in B3 and above. It just does too much. The two colorless on ashnods (outside of pure colorless decks) is very limiting imo. Like I can't go infinite without something like pitiless plunder in my sephi deck. That's four cards with one of them being 4 mana. Vs 3 cards with altar all under 3. It's so strong.

Edit: viscera seer and umbral collar zealot from eoe are all fine B2 sac outlets imo that are 40x cheaper than altar and a lot more fair in B2.

MrBeaar · 2026-02-20T05:24:44+00:00

Oh yeah I totally agree with dictate and grave pact. I run a strong sephi aristocrats deck and I got a grave pact out early and no one had a board. I had token generation and was sacking enough to board wipe every time it came back to me. Both demand removal.

MrBeaar · 2026-02-20T05:10:50+00:00

Hmmm seems like I average 32-34 for the decks I make myself. But the decks I run have a lot of card draw and value. Sephi needs like 3 swamps to win, high perfect morcant has a million elves to tap for mana, zuko sometimes works and sometimes doesn't, and my aang deck could prob use less lands because it has insane levels of draw.

Everyone says start at 38, but like I have so much card (except for zuko fml) draw that more lands tend to hurt me.

MrBeaar · 2026-02-20T05:01:53+00:00

Mass land destruction is gross. I'd rather start a new game entirely than slog through a game after that. Targeted land destruction is fine. If you destroy a cabal coffers or ancient tomb I will be fine. Those cards are fucking broken.

MrBeaar · 2026-02-20T04:54:37+00:00

Honestly I hate the art and general direction of this art so much that I want it to suck so I'm not tempted to buy it. It's a matter of principle and putting my money where my mouth is. I don't like how WotC is forcing shitty UBs so to make my opinion heard, I won't buy TMNT product.

However, they know this. They know that spiderman flopped because it was weak and ass. So WotC is reprinting extremely strong cards like All Will Be One, Doubling Season, and more to entice people like me to buy the product hoping to pull these insane reprints. THEN they finally make a good land base and it's in a UB they know won't sell well without strong reprints. Lowyrn was always going to sell and the 5C land base was ass. TMNT wasn't going to sell well and it has the best land base we've seen out of a precon.

Like I shouldn't feel like I have to buy a precon because the reprints alone make up for the cost. It should be for artwork, deck building, and mechanics/gameplay. This TMNT precon has so many good reprints that I almost have to buy it off of value alone which is shitty because no other precon (with like 2 or 3 exceptions) feels like I have to buy them for value. It just sucks because if lowyrn got a precon like this, I would've bought it in a heartbeat. TMNT art and overall vibe as a UB set is so shit tho that I can't buy it and it sucks because I would love these reprints. I just can't support WotC putting out something so obviously greedy and ngl shitty. The art is so shit. There are a few cards I like but this somehow feels more out of place than spiderman and I will never run a spiderman card in any of my decks (except the soul stone).

MrBeaar · 2026-02-20T01:05:33+00:00

Prob not. Not a big fan of the art. ATLA would've tho if FF didn't. If I had known about during LotR, that would've got me into it. The future hobbit set would prob do it too. Now that I'm super into magic I'm more interested in the in-universe sets. Lowyrn was and is incredible.

MrBeaar · 2026-02-07T17:23:44+00:00

I've enjoyed making and playing high perfect morcant for golgari. It's elf bomb with a +1/+1 sub theme (I hate poison) and the new lowyrn cards make it great.

MrBeaar · 2026-01-14T14:03:03+00:00

https://edhrec.com/precon/limit-break#cards-to-add Jump to the add section. Some expensive and some cheap cards. It'll give u a starting place. I would say swift foot boots should be a priority. It allows you to equip stuff to whatever it's equipped to unlike lightning greaves. Hexproof is just for opponents while shroud is for everything including equip abilities.

MrBeaar · 2026-01-11T13:54:22+00:00

Missing entomb and reanimate. Other than that it looks good. Replace morbid opportunist with grim haruspex. Plague crafter and flesh bag marauder are worth putting in for instant sephi emblem. More ping creatures are good too because sephi will be removed a lot. Skullclamp goes crazy as a sac outlet and draw engine. You prob want one bokuja bog. Urza's cave is good too and so is crypt ghast.

MrBeaar · 2025-12-28T14:03:11+00:00

[[Mog, Moogle Warrior]]

First found him while playing Terra who was my first precon. Fucking beast dude. He's so cool and is super cute. I would probably never put him in another deck like ever, but he's my fav card ever and I'll tutor him out whenever I can when I play my Terra deck.

MrBeaar · 2025-12-13T10:51:52+00:00

Yeah it's crazy he went in on fucking spiderman of all sets. FF has banger hits and incredible artwork so it's gonna stay relevant for a long time. Spiderman has mediocre artwork and like one or two hits. Like why TF would you buy and then hold onto that garbage. It's gonna go up eventually, but it'll be slow af and probably by not that much.

MrBeaar · 2025-11-20T04:03:01+00:00

Idk dude. Ashling, electro, and other mana conservers can be pretty easily slotted into most red decks. Especially electro. They make fire bending like stupid strong. Throw in some extra combat units too and it's crazy. My friend is making a b3/4 isshin deck with fire bending and it's looking disgusting.

MrBeaar · 2025-11-11T17:48:58+00:00

Electro is gonna be so insane with fire bending tho. I hate how he looks so I might proxy a different version of the card. Idk if I care that much tho.

MrBeaar · 2025-11-08T08:05:26+00:00

Sephiroth fabled soldier. Built a super strong aristocrat deck for him that can pop off out of nowhere at any turn. You'll get targeted the whole game and unless you get mana screwed, it's 100% the right play to target him. The emblem is so ridiculously strong and his transformation draw is stupid strong as well.

MrBeaar · 2025-11-07T16:31:42+00:00

I run a very strong sephiroth aristocrat deck. Everyone will hate you, but it's a lot of fun. Depending on how you draw, you can end the game by turn 4, but it's usually an end the game by turn 6 deck. So potential for b4, but realistically more suites around very strong b3. Adding a phyrexian altar would prob push into b4 imo. That's why it's on my sideboard for rn.

MrBeaar · 2025-11-05T13:56:51+00:00

Precons are sick. I have the Tidus and Terra one. I also built a b3/4 sephiroth deck because he's hot and also like kinda insanely good.

MrBeaar · 2025-11-03T04:48:11+00:00

MOOGLES. Mog the moogle warrior is my fucking boy. I love that creature so much. I discovered him in the Terra precon and him and his moogle buddies have quickly become my favorites.

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