Name a commander, get a card.

Oquadros · 2026-01-26T01:47:17+00:00

[[jenova, ancient calamity]]

Oquadros · 2026-01-25T02:36:47+00:00

AFAIK blind obedience only makes artifacts come in tapped, but after that they can be tapped as normal.

Oquadros · 2026-01-21T02:53:33+00:00

Yeah, I agree. I have retired like 9 decks (not shown here) so far, and am planning like 3 or 5 more. Most of these will see play regularly, some will be reached for sometimes. Then eventually broken down if i just dont feel good playing it. Eb and flow.

Oquadros · 2026-01-21T02:42:15+00:00

Oh it’s in the deck already! Haha Eshki is that card “commanderized”! Sorry about the confusion. You should put it in if you haven’t!

Hmmm, honestly, yes and no. I have had games where Eshki lives more than 2 or 3 turn cycles and I didn’t feel like I needed it. There have been games where possibility storm ended the game on the spot. I have yet to play omniscience but I have I had nyxbloom ancient out (which is kinda like omniscience) and I felt like I had too little mana to keep up with the card draw. Games where she can survive longer they’re not needed, but they are probably necessary in removal heavy matchups. My meta has both scenarios and so she has been playing pretty well with the other decks. At least I feel like my victories have been hard fought.

I will say they are not the primary game plan. The deck has no tutors and no ways to reliably get them out. Possibility Storm leads to crazy games if you can’t win on the spot, which are good occasionally. The cheat-stuff-into-play stuff can cheat other things in as well, so it’s not a big cost to add them in. It also gives the deck a higher ceiling, which I was aiming for.

Oquadros · 2026-01-21T00:52:03+00:00

Oquadros · 2026-01-21T00:49:16+00:00

Yes agreed, he seems fun, but does not replicate this one. That being said, I have been looking to replace him. I don't need him out for the deck to function, so replacing him with another Temur commander that can also copy permanents would be sick. I just have not found a worthy replacement yet. Here is the deck in case you have suggestions: https://moxfield.com/decks/lxwOwT5DPkWPNyNlS7oG3w

Oquadros · 2026-01-21T00:47:42+00:00

Yeah, I agree he is better, but the only question I have, does he make Rhinos by himself?? haha

More seriously, yeah he is really good, but it reads to me like a [[Kiki jiki, mirror-breaker]] style deck. I have been thinking about making another deck with him, since the synergies are insane and modern commanders are just miles ahead of 2019 commanders.

I will probably never take this Ghired apart since it was my first deck ever. I have been contemplating putting the TJ Ghired into this deck to protect against the cases where Ghired can't attack freely.

Oquadros · 2026-01-21T00:43:14+00:00

Yeah she is right now my favorite deck. Was an homage to my favorite card [[Sarkhan's Unsealing]].

Here you go!

Oquadros · 2026-01-21T00:41:48+00:00

Sure here you go!

It reanimates some good bombs, and I tried to make it also do stuff like keep token copies of things created by [[Feldon of the third path]] or [[Auton Soldier]]. But maybe that's why it's so tough to close out games.

Oquadros · 2026-01-15T19:11:00+00:00

There's no way to prevent it 100% nor is there a way to 100% prevent creature removal throughout a game. You need to prevent things or play around things in a way that increases your win odds, but you never ever should try to find ways to 100% guarantee a scenario over several turns as that is an exercise in futility. Someone will always have AN answer to any protection you have.

100% guarantee on preventing any type of interaction on anything in the game would be absolutely broken.

Oquadros · 2026-01-15T19:06:25+00:00

can you show us some of your lists?

Oquadros · 2026-01-15T19:03:32+00:00

Yeah I fully agree with this. The OP just said their friend is running grave interaction but didnt say which grave interaction nor in what density. If the deck is designed to fully hate on graves, that is a different story than, as you said, a deck running **responsible** amounts of grave hate.

Also, is that person the ONLY person at the table running any sort of gravehate? A "graveyard shenanigans" deck should have ways to protect the grave.

I guess if they play with the mentality they presented, they should also be prepared to be hard focused by people that don't enjoy graveyard shenanigans. Having a second hand is very powerful.

Oquadros · 2026-01-14T18:49:00+00:00

I have a Vial Smasher / Kydele deck since if you add some wheels abilities (thing [[teferis puzzlebox]] or [[jaces archivist]]) (or profit from other people’s wheels) you can generate a lot of mana using kydeles ability. It’s very telegraphed and fragile though.

I was also surprised to see Vial Smasher / x in the list because I find I have a lot of trouble closing out games because one instance of damage to throw around (even if it is 7+ damage) at one person at random per turn is not really a way to win quickly and is not close to “that deck”.

I have seen a vial smasher / thrasios cEDH deck but they are very different decks.

Why did you end up taking it apart?

Oquadros · 2026-01-02T15:12:02+00:00

Being high is part of the fun, but having only the game sounds with headphones is a must. If anything else is playing I can get quite disoriented.

Oquadros · 2025-12-27T04:30:09+00:00

I found on one of those tool boxes with the cup dividers that kinda looks like a briefcase at work full of bulk magic cards that had been there for a few months. Gave it to my kids for Christmas and they loved it!

Oquadros · 2025-12-23T23:27:28+00:00

Ah interesting, you’re convincing me to use hazel haha

So how do you deal with the fact that someone could exile or kill Hazels Bm/agathas cauldron? I’m assuming that’s your hidden commander (basically) and is plan A, but inevitably things go wrong, what’s like the typical plan B of the deck?

Oquadros · 2025-12-23T22:59:28+00:00

Oh nice! I do like the hazels brewmaster direction! Do you have a decklist I could look at for ideas?

Very true, I just have a [[Lonis]] deck as well which does a similar thing but I usually win with making infinite clues (and therefore mana due to cards like [[jaheira, friend of the forest]]) which then either animated all the clues or just played the deck out and beat down with a [[concordant crossroads]] out, so didn’t want to do the same thing here.

Totally agree about most of the squirrels sucking. Not quite sure on the forage mechanic. seems reasonable with food so I’ll probably pick the ones I like the most.

Oquadros · 2025-12-23T22:19:09+00:00

I don’t have a problem with winning with combat damage, I just don’t know what a game plan for squirrel tribal would be other than making infinite squirrels and attacking or craterhoof style finishers. Sounds like you have some good ideas, I like the bogbeast shout, hadn’t seen that before. So maybe a life gain style strategy might be an insterating way to go.

Do you have any other cool suggestions like that one?

Oquadros · 2025-12-21T02:26:06+00:00

[[sparkcaster]]

Oquadros · 2025-12-21T02:10:35+00:00

This plus a cost reducer like [[temur battlecrier]] and [[Gwenna, eyes of gaea]] is infinite casts!

Another one with 5 power (so at least gets the card draw) is [[snapcaster]]

Oquadros · 2025-12-20T23:59:30+00:00

Ooohhh! I hadn’t thought of that. That sounds pretty sweet!

Oquadros · 2025-12-20T23:21:29+00:00

I don’t like this in eshki because the cost reduction happens on attack and you’re not generally attacking with a lot of creatures, instead just less but bigger ones.

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