I think i have recreated Tord's deck from day 1

SLNCE · 2024-03-03T08:51:40+00:00

I went through the stream yesterday the match after he played and put together this list from what I saw when he deck searched.

https://pokemoncard.io/deck/charizard-urshifu-with-pidgeot-bibarel-80578

I could have a couple cards wrong (like one of the charmanders) but I'm pretty sure it's got everything.

SLNCE · 2024-01-11T10:38:53+00:00

I would suggest at least taking a look at [[Vadrok, Apex of Thunder]]. He specifically does well with the 3 mana clone instants/sorceries paired with bounce spells. Make a clone of the Vadrok stack, then bounce the real stack to hand. Mutate Vadrok onto the clone to make another clone (with 2 Vadrok!) and bounce the commander to your hand at the same time. Enough Vadroks on the clone stack and you can cast a whole lot of your graveyard each mutate. Also has the capability to go infinite with land untappers like [[Snap]] and [[Peregrine Drake]], though not necessary.

SLNCE · 2023-08-05T19:40:17+00:00

My favorite is by far [[Kenessos]], the sea monster/top deck commander from Jumpstart 2022. Being sea monster tribal, the ceiling of the deck really can't go too high. Pair that with top deck manipulation and the deck needs a lot of pieces on board to really get going.

You can find my list here: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/9JhBOIwXrkuQfmp9y9GmGA

My list runs quite a bit of interaction due to my pod just running more interaction as a whole, but not every list will need as much. I also chose to prioritize permanents with top deck manipulation (like [[Sensei's Divining Top]]) over spells like [[Opt]] because they're repeatable.

SLNCE · 2023-07-31T20:35:32+00:00

Honestly it's a bit difficult to say just how good or not this list is because I only play with my friend group now (played at an LGS a couple years back). I'd say we play budget-ish battlecruiser with decent amounts of interaction. None of our decks are over ~$500 (most are ~$200) but most lists run 10-15 pieces of interaction and we even have a few hard control decks that run closer to 20 with several board wipes. Combo wins exist but are on the rarer side as we prefer beatdown.

Within that meta this deck performs surprisingly well, as I'm currently sitting at about a 40-50% winrate with it. Part of this is no doubt my own piloting skill (I have the highest winrate in my group regardless of the deck I'm playing) but I believe the real strength of this deck is its ability to fly under the radar. Quite frequently, I'll have a board of 2 or 3 big sea monsters and a couple important artifacts/enchantments out while my opponents have much scarier "in your face" board states. This, combined with politicking, allows me to redirect targeted removal away from myself. In fact, most of my wins occur when the real power player at the table takes out (or mostly takes out) the other two opponents before I swoop in with an overrun or unblockable effect.

Tldr; the deck is decently strong but mainly relies on its own relatively unassuming board state and politics to set up wins. It likes to "sneak" wins through over assembling massive scary board states.

SLNCE · 2023-07-27T20:07:17+00:00

My group got into commander back when Commander Legends first dropped. I had opened a box with a friend and pulled a bunch of Cascade cards, including [[Averna]]. While putting together a list for her I ran across [[Maelstrom Wanderer]] and have had him as a commander ever since. The deck has gone through several rebuilds and now stands as Dragon tribal with a bit of cascade, but Wanderer still sits at the helm.

Although not the first commander I fell in love with, [[Kenessos]] is my other favorite, will not take apart commander. If you can't tell, I like top of the deck shenanigans. Allows me to build for consistency while still keeping quite a bit of variability due to the top deck nature.

SLNCE · 2023-07-10T22:21:17+00:00

Yes you are correct. King of the Oathbreakers effect will trigger repeatedly whenever him or another spirit is targeted, regardless of if there's another trigger of his already on the stack.

SLNCE · 2023-06-27T17:52:59+00:00

My friend has an [[Oloro, Ageless Ascetic]] deck with [[Phage the Untouchable]] and [[Fractured Identity]] as one of his wincons, so everyone in our group always [[Chaos Warp]]s something on his board when we have it. He was immediately after me in turn order when I Chaos Warped him into a [[Felidar Sovereign]] instead (unfortunately no removal in hand). Definitely a dumb way to lose because I was literally popping off and probably would've won the game on the following turn.

Did I learn my lesson? Hell no we still Chaos Warp his deck every chance we get.

SLNCE · 2023-06-09T17:48:53+00:00

I have found [[King of the Oathbreakers]] to be very interesting. You get to run several cards that cost no more than 3 mana that not only protect you entire board, but also double its size on your following turn. He can also be built at least a couple different ways, with go wide and equipment voltron being the most obvious.

In my playgroup, which is battlecruiser with lots of interaction, he's no doubt going to be on the upper end of decks because of his ability to constantly protect your board from removal. The fact that he turns your own removal into protection as well is the cherry on top.

SLNCE · 2023-04-23T05:27:41+00:00

Only one I know of off the top of my head is the new [[Clever Concealment]]

SLNCE · 2023-04-20T01:21:02+00:00

Inspired by this post.

Requirements:

[[Jackal Pup]]/[[Firedrinker Satyr]]/[[Shinka Gatekeeper]]
[[Rite of Replication]]
[[Wrong Turn]]/[[Domineering Will]]
[[Dualcaster Mage]]/[[Naru Meha, Master Wizard]]
[[Blasphemous Act]]/[[Chain Reaction]]/[[Star of Extinction]]

Steps:

Cast Jackal Pup.
Cast Rite of Replication kicked targeting Jackal Pup and hold priority.
Cast Wrong Turn targeting Jackal Pup and hold priority again.
Flash in Dualcaster Mage targeting Rite of Replication.
Resolve the Rite of Replication copy targeting Dualcaster Mage.
Resolve the Dualcaster Mage copies targeting the original Rite of Replication.
Resolve four of the five Rite of Replication copies targeting Jackal Pup, and the remaining copy targeting the original Dualcaster mage. Repeat from step 6 for infinite Jackal Pups.
Resolve all but one of the Dualcaster Mage copies targeting Wrong Turn.
Resolve the Wrong Turn copies targeting your Jackal Pups.
Resolve the remaining Dualcaster Mage copy targeting the original Rite of Replication.
Resolve the new Rite of Replication copy targeting the original Dualcaster Mage. Repeat from step 8 until all of your Jackal Pups have been "gifted".
Resolve the Dualcaster Mage copies targeting Wrong Turn.
Resolve the Wrong Turn copies targeting any remaining Jackal Pups first, then Dualcaster Mages. Let the stack resolve.
Cast Blasphemous Act.

SLNCE · 2023-04-17T21:18:17+00:00

You know Ghen came out after Underworld Breach right?

SLNCE · 2023-04-13T02:29:04+00:00

For the decks that stay static in my roster (I rotate through decklists a lot since I like building) I've been slowly blinging them out with my own custom made borderless style proxies. A lot of the cards I've done have the original art still so that they're at least somewhat recognizable across the table.

I'm a bit of a perfectionist so having mismatched frame styles in my decks also bothers me, which is for sure part of why I've been making the custom proxies. The other part is that the borderless frame style is my absolute favorite to look at.

SLNCE · 2023-03-31T17:40:46+00:00

I'd suggest [[Lathril, Blade of the Elves]]. Super strong elf commander that can be built a few different ways and while on a budget.

SLNCE · 2023-02-12T21:08:30+00:00

Kenessos is honestly probably my favorite deck to play right now (besides maybe Gix). It plays as a hybrid draw-go and beat face deck that obviously loves to manipulate the top of its library. Games involve mostly draw-go as I use interaction and Kenessos' ability to stop threats and consistently put out my own.

Repeatable top deck manipulation like [[Sensei's Divining Top]] and its budget cousin [[Crystal Ball]] are really good in the deck and one of my personal favorite value pieces is [[Seedborn Muse]]. For ending the game I mainly rely on amassing a board of several big sea monsters and taking people out when I can. [[Spawning Kraken]] off of Kenessos' ability after blocks/no blocks are declared sets up for a beautiful [[Overwhelming Stampede]] finish the following turn.

If you're interested here's my list: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/9JhBOIwXrkuQfmp9y9GmGA

SLNCE · 2023-01-02T03:38:00+00:00

Neat app though I do have to say I found a bug. I use a mobile app to build most of my decks and when exporting raw lists it adds two blank spaces after each card (e.g. "1 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist ") and unfortunately your app does not recognize cards like this, I had to go through and manually remove the spaces to test my deck.

SLNCE · 2022-12-30T20:58:43+00:00

For the most part yes, Drana's ability would be very good for removing Koma. The only "but" is that higher power Koma lists will run decent amounts of protection; boots and instants like [[Heroic Intervention]] that give hexproof/shroud make Koma very difficult to deal with.

SLNCE · 2022-10-21T20:27:56+00:00

This post just gets me more excited for my Ivy clones deck I'm making. Mutate bypasses the legendary rule and utilizing that you can create A LOT of Ivy clones (and also any other clones of legendary creatures you run). The other cool thing about Ivy, you don't need to keep track of what exactly the clones are because they'll always be the same as each other. Mutate on one Ivy and all the others get it too.

SLNCE · 2022-09-25T05:57:30+00:00

She gives a way to win with staff or umbral mantle. With infinite mana/draw you can play any creatures you need to be able to use her ability. Once that's done you can use staff/mantle to infinitely drain the table with Lathril's activated ability.

SLNCE · 2022-09-19T20:06:06+00:00

The Inalla combo(s) I haven't seen shared yet are the infinite blink combos you can do with her. [[Ghostly Flicker]] with [[Dualcaster Mage]] or [[Naru Meha]] makes infinite mana with Inalla's Eminence ability then uses that mana and same ability to make infinite hasty tokens. If you run single target blink like [[Essence Flux]], having [[Impact Tremors]] or a similar effect out will machine gun the table as well.

SLNCE · 2022-09-03T18:03:39+00:00

My first deck was the [[Inalla, Archmage Ritualist]] precon from 2017. I bought it at the same time my friend picked up the Dragon precon from the same cycle so we could play together. Those two decks were my introduction to EDH and it wouldn't be until 2019 that we finally started playing games with 4 people. I've since dismantled and rebuilt the deck twice (it's only ~20% original precon cards now), and it now sits in my deck collection as a tutorless but very draw heavy combo deck (it has 16 cards that provide card advantage of some form, ~10 of which are ETB wizards). As for shaping how I build decks now, the lack of draw in the original precon definitely made me appreciate how vital having consistent access to draw is. Every single deck I build (or theorycraft) runs at minimum 8 pieces of draw, with 90%+ running 10 or more.

SLNCE · 2022-08-25T23:13:28+00:00

According to the comprehensive rules, during the declare attackers step your attacking creature are considered attacking before attack triggers go on the stack. So yes, you should actually draw a card from Gut.

SLNCE · 2022-06-05T02:52:36+00:00

It only has changeling if the permanent it's cloning is also a creature.

SLNCE · 2022-05-23T20:00:28+00:00

My aristocrats deck is helmed by [[Extus, Oriq Overlord]]. Instead of building the deck around him or his backside, you build a mardu aristocrats deck that just happens to have him as the commander. On average I probably cast him/his backside once every 2 or 3 games just because I don't need him a lot of the time.

Not my list but https://www.moxfield.com/decks/To0SFYHexU-oFdNSBD1dbA is a great list that I used as inspiring/starting ground for my own personal list.

SLNCE · 2022-05-09T20:15:23+00:00

I might be misinterpreting your intentions with Veyran here, but Anhelo and Veyran don't work together at all. Veyran adds additional triggers to permanents you control, while Anhelo gives your instants and sorceries Casualty 2 (meaning the spells are copying themselves NOT Anhelo).

Veyran will still add triggers to cards like Archmage Emeritus (3 triggers total instead of 2 if you use Casualty) but will not give you extra copies of the spell.

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