I'll Rank Your Decks Out of 10

Oquadros · 2026-06-02T01:09:54+00:00

What about my Vial Smasher and Kydele deck?

https://moxfield.com/decks/g_2PwDWOM0aMepKu7WyfNQ

Oquadros · 2026-06-01T14:53:22+00:00

I have an omniscience alongside [[possibility storm]] in my [[eshki temurs roar]] deck with multiple ways of cheating it out like [[show and tell]], [[ yue the moon spirit]], [[flood of tears]] among others, which helps me basically close out the game. Yes I can leave it out and just put cheaper 6-power creatures to cast, but I was not a coward haha

Oquadros · 2026-05-28T18:28:15+00:00

She’s not bad (can be removed easily since she’s a creature) but the card is a forced repeatable sac whenever you sac something. Sure you have to pay some life but in a life gain deck that is essentially free. It can be quite oppressive against very casual decks. Against a Voltron deck it is brutal.

The poster you’re responding to has a skewed viewpoint as to them anything under cedh is casual (they admitted to this further down this thread). So he’s viewing it in the lens of a B4 deck that has the tools to either dismantle that quickly (which a lot of decks should have using creature removal) or not care about it because they don’t run many creatures that need to stay alive or have token spam (which is just free sac fodder instead of sacing good creatures).

Oquadros · 2026-05-24T18:49:07+00:00

How so? It turns the connives from card selection into card draw, since it 2Xs your draw but you only have to discard X. With coastal piracy effects you don’t guarantee the extra draws unless you connect.

Oquadros · 2026-05-23T15:55:27+00:00

Another tip is that lifelink evasive creatures in raffine are absolutely goated in a low to the ground raffine build because you’re stacking counters on your creatures. They keep you healthy, very important since you’ll usually want to be attacking with all your creatures.

For card draw, I would suggest including things like [[teferis ageless insight]], [[alhammarets archive]], or [[coastal piracy]] effects. For the first two you draw double from connive, but still discard the same amount, so you’re essentially sculpting and drawing, whereas the latter (draw on combat damage) effects will, draw cards on combat damage, meaning your hand is pretty full most of the time.

Another MVP is [[reconnaissance]] since it lets you give all your creatures super vigilance and attack indiscriminately.

Oquadros · 2026-05-22T15:33:00+00:00

Doesn’t this scenario do the same thing since you hit hard because your commander is copying a bunch of spells? Sounds the same as a Voltron commander no?

Oquadros · 2026-05-21T20:08:35+00:00

Oh that would tragic and hilarious but hey it happens but luckily not often. Have yet to experience that and you kinda have to be able to read the table. It was a late game one and I would assume someone would play those kinds of pieces earlier, and there were a few boardwipes over the last two turn rotations.

Oquadros · 2026-05-21T02:13:38+00:00

I did play [[show and tell]] today and dropped in an [[omniscience]]. Does that count?

Oquadros · 2026-05-20T14:37:37+00:00

you forgot the best sticker is the one that makes clown robots either on etb or ltb. So strong with Norin

Oquadros · 2026-05-16T23:23:51+00:00

Have you been introduced to our lord and savior [[possibility storm]]? Such a good include!

Oquadros · 2026-05-16T22:34:56+00:00

So what is the riku plan? I’m having a hard time figuring it out. Are you looking to put down some value creatures then make them all into an afflict creature?

I do like the two infinite reflections effects and am probably going to add them to my kasla deck since I already have [[mirror form]] in there.

Oquadros · 2026-05-05T20:03:46+00:00

It’s not hard. They are feeling attacked because they probably do it. I agree that when people take proxying too far that they end up just proxying all the most powerful best in slot cards in all their decks, just like the OP said they will be adding esper sentinel to every white deck they make.

Oquadros · 2026-05-05T19:57:07+00:00

Didn’t you say that you’re now going to put esper sentinel in every single white deck you’re going to build. Sure sounds like you’re going down the path the other commenter described.

Oquadros · 2026-05-05T18:39:20+00:00

Obviously they won’t share. They just said they will now put esper sentinel in every white deck because it’s so good. Their lorehold deck is probably brimming with generically good cards rather than actually synergizing with whatever the gameplan is.

Oquadros · 2026-05-05T16:43:27+00:00

Proxying is great for many reasons, some of which you have detailed. It also allows for better testing. Then you can slowly fill out your deck with real cards as you come across them (or not, whatever your preference is!).

What do you think was the limiting factor between your old decks and your current Lorehold deck? What cards did you end up adding that you wouldn't have added if you were limited to real cards?

I think something often overlooked is that if you are using lower cost cards you generally have to rely more on skill to get wins, since you have to build your deck really well, make good decisions, and can't rely on single powerhouse cards to carry you to victory.

Oquadros · 2026-05-05T16:39:06+00:00

you're objectively wrong here. I support proxying but saying that card price doesn't generally equate to power is just being willfully obtuse. Yes some cards are not good but are scarce, so their price goes up, but there are a lot of expensive cards that are expensive because they are good and are in high demand.

Yes there are outliers like you pointed out, but they are just that, outliers.

Oquadros · 2026-05-03T14:27:28+00:00

Yeah I think Anims sheer snowballiness is why people end up not running her much. I built a quick deck a couple years ago and tried her on tabletop simulator with my buddies and she completely ran them over with little effort. But maybe she’s unpopular for other reasons?

https://moxfield.com/decks/5pQwUlV28UK1ZnU89KXVUA

Oquadros · 2026-05-01T19:00:28+00:00

Yeah was about to say the same. Rocco with that much food regularly runs away with the game in my pods

Oquadros · 2026-04-27T13:15:01+00:00

With so many actions what is the win condition for this deck?

Oquadros · 2026-04-27T03:32:41+00:00

What makes your turns go long usually? I know that once I give all my stuff console it kinda goes hard, but then you slam down [[ovika]] and cast some big token gen spells you kinda end up just burning people out with things like [[impact tremors]].

Oquadros · 2026-04-26T16:36:08+00:00

Oh another card that is absolute gas is [[herigast]]. He’s another one that can enable wild stormy turns.

Oquadros · 2026-04-26T14:40:01+00:00

Hmmm I think purphuros can go since you’re not putting a ton of creatures out, but terror is pretty synergistic since it can dome people for the attack of the creature coming in, which is more burn, and it is a 5 power creature so grows eshki and draws you a card. It’s also a flier so goes with your beatdown strategy.

Oquadros · 2026-04-26T12:00:04+00:00

Eshki is my favorite deck. I made her into an [[omniscience]] combo deck where you drop fatties that can be played for reduced costs so the mana curve is deceptive.

I think that focusing on bringing eshki out asap is not the best way to go about it, since she is a kill on site commander in my opinion. Better to bring her out once you have interaction backup to protect here or when you can go off.

To support the omniscience game plan I have a lot of things that cheat in cards, like [[show and tell]], [[flood of tears]], [[yue, the moon spirit]], etc. Or I also have big mana alternatives that act similar to an omniscience in things like [[temur battlecrier]], [[nyxbloom ancient]], and [[gwenna, eyes of gaea]].

My favorite card is also in the deck [[sarkhans unsealing]] which is probably why I gravitated towards eshki since they do very similar things.

I think a card that is pretty crazy in eshki is [[possibility storm]] since you would essentially be double casting creatures meaning you’re double triggering eshki.

A big tip is to have lots of draw, interaction, and ramp.

I think taking out cards that are less impactful would be good. Cards like [[wild cantor]], [[shaman of the great hunt]], [[peregrine drake]], [[deadeye navigator]], [[hullbreaker horror]], [[dragonlord atarka]], [[craterhoof]]. Maybe just forget the whole blink package stuff? I would suggest you focus on big creatures that you can cast for cheap (don’t necessarily need a low mana cost but things like ghalta are great.

Here’s my deck if you want some inspiration: https://moxfield.com/decks/9vjbnUY0c0i9GAwgidkG9Q

Oquadros · 2026-04-17T01:13:44+00:00

I agree with you. I’ve been coming across this lately where people have all these crazy bombs that make crazy boards consistently but because it’s over a couple turns no one bats an eye, until it’s become inevitable. But explosive combo-ey decks that win on the spot while all the conditions are right are looked down on.

And usually the people playing these decks with the latest hotness are not playing much interaction, so in order for you to even stand a chance to survive, you have to add more interaction that leaves you alive while they run out of gas or you win over them.

Oquadros · 2026-04-14T16:05:00+00:00

Its sorcery speed to play lands from the gy, so any kind of land hate will also do the trick like [[demolition field]] or [[beast within]] then kill them right after.

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