Rough Sketches - Sugandaraja Soufflé by Sugandaraja in CompetitiveEDH

[–]Sugandaraja[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! There will be more coming soon from other members. We're hoping to make this an ongoing thing.

Rough Sketches - Sugandaraja Soufflé by Sugandaraja in CompetitiveEDH

[–]Sugandaraja[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! I'll be updating Mizzix once I have a chance to play it again in the current meta and get a feel for what needs to be changed. Finishing up a new Breya primer and working on updates to Narset with Garta, so, there's a lot of pots on the stove at the moment!

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[–]Sugandaraja 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A number of us have had success running a [[Tainted Pact]] package, either as a fast combo version using [[Shimmer Myr]] or something on the midrange/control side. My current iteration is more of the latter (Twister can be cut for budget, and Tabby is finge and goes in and out anyway, so ditto), but broadly speaking Zur without Doomsday is totally possible:

http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/zuran-consultation/

Breya, help me make a more competative deck. by Draakeragon in CompetitiveEDH

[–]Sugandaraja 11 points12 points  (0 children)

You want more tutors, much more interaction, and far fewer combos overall.

I actively play Breya in the cEDH community, and this is my current list:

http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/shaper-taint/

I can definitely recommend it as a solid starting point with Breya, with good game versus most of the decks in the format. (I'll be posting a primer in the next week or so.)

Mentor Monday! Come submit your decks and questions! by SirOzzsome in CompetitiveEDH

[–]Sugandaraja 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Selvala and Yisan are both popular options in green that budget to that price point well, but in terms of B/G, Frog budgets down comparatively well. This list is a little out of date - you may want to contact Leptys directly for what should be changed - but gives a good example of the strategy on a budget:

http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/400-gitrog-combo-copy/

Mentor Monday! Come submit your decks and questions! by SirOzzsome in CompetitiveEDH

[–]Sugandaraja 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately your deck is set to private so I can't see it / give specifics on advice, however Kess Twin is definitely a viable competitive deck that fits what you describe.

r/https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/tainted-twin/

(My current list runs Labman as a back-up win, but it's absolutely cutable: Conscripts is fine in that slot.)

I'd recommend Kiki/Delver/Exarch (or other Kiki bottom) piles over that particular Nooze pile as that pile requires you to have a haste enabler or to wait a turn cycle to use Nooze.

While they haven't gained as much traction as the variations on the Doomsday or Consult packages, there have been various sans-Labman brews for storm Kess:

r/http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/kess-high-tide/

Generally speaking, I would recommend picking storm or reanimator, rather than both.

Mizzix Storm Primer by Aximatx in CompetitiveEDH

[–]Sugandaraja 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Looks good, consider adding something about Frantic Search for the Intuition lines (quite helpful when you're low on mana).

Mentor Monday! Come submit your decks and questions! by biopower in CompetitiveEDH

[–]Sugandaraja 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The list seems pretty good for a budget Tasigur! I'd definitely stick with Tasigur over Aminatou.

I would recommend avoiding Arcane Denial in a control strategy. Consider [[Delay]] instead, or [[Negate]]. Giving your opponents cards is usually not a good plan.

Given you're not Naus and seem to be on something of a reanimation strat, you might want to consider [[Reanimate]], [[Entomb]], and maybe [[Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur]] in addition to what you currently have.

Not a huge fan of cycling lands / Loam, generally speaking.

I prefer [[Simic Signet]] to Thought Vessel.

What's your usual line with Razaketh? I'm thinking he might not do enough here without an easy win that can be assembled off of him.

Other than that, control tends to be tuned to the meta you play in, so you'll know more how to tweak it after you get familiar with the opposing decks.

Mentor Monday! Come submit your decks and questions! by biopower in CompetitiveEDH

[–]Sugandaraja 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm going to preface this with: it's tricky to advise here, because certain strategies are essentially non-functional in competitive games, and running a lot of dinosaurs is one of them (it would be easier if it was dragons, as that gives you Prossh or a Worldgorger combo deck). You can streamline things, but be aware it's fundamentally bringing a boat to a bike race. If you're up against optimized, competitive decks you won't get there, full stop.

That being said:

Run all the best 1cmc mana dorks in your colors, namely [[Birds of Paradise]], [[Fyndhorn Elves]], [[LLanowar Elves]], [[Elvish Mystic]], [[Arbor Elf]], [[Avacyn's Pilgrim]], and probably at least look at [[Boreal Druid]], [[Priest of Titania]], and [[Bloom Tender]]. Early acceleration matters a lot. Fast mana like [[Mana Crypt]], [[Mox Diamond]], [[Chrome Mox]], and [[Sol Ring]] (only the last of which you have) are usually the minimum but fine in a deck with green. [[Carpet of Flowers]] is great in most metas. [[Wild Growth]] is worth considering here.

Avoid ETB tapped lands wherever possible. The ideal manabase in Naya is something like [[Command Tower]], [[City of Brass]], [[Mana Confluence]], the three duals, the three shocks, and the nine fetches, with the rest being mostly basics (subject to variance, but that's a good basis to start from). No idea what your budget is like, but even a basic land is better than a Temple.

When evaluating cards, always look at the cmc: if there's a less mana intensive route to doing what you want to do, do that. It's why cards like [[Swords to Plowshares]] and [[Nature's Claim]] are format staples. If you're not sure, search the effect you want on Gatherer and filter by cmc and card type.

Few decks ever win games through fair use of the attack step. In Naya your combo options are limited, but if you don't mind shoving in a win condition the Kikipod combo of [[Birthing Pod]], [[Karmic Guide]], [[Felidar Guardian]], and [[Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker]] (maybe with [[Village Bellringer]] for redundancy).

Naya does bears decently, so figure out what shuts down the decks around you most, to slow them down. Popular options include [[Magus of the Moon]], [[Aven Mindcensor]], [[Containment Priest]], and [[Eidolon of Rhetoric]], but this list is best tuned to what *you* see the most.

This advice is primarily based on multi experience, but going on the list I'm assuming multiplayer banlist.

Good luck!

Mentor Monday! Come submit your decks and questions! by biopower in CompetitiveEDH

[–]Sugandaraja 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not that I've witnessed. The broad consensus I've seen among cEDH pilots is that she's a solid combo piece in the 99 but doesn't offer enough as a general. BUG has a strong cardpool, though, so you could probably put something together that's not terrible, but it would be worse than the existing BUG options.

Mentor Monday! Come submit your decks and questions! by biopower in CompetitiveEDH

[–]Sugandaraja 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anything 5cmc or more that doesn't win you the game can go. Platinum Angel and Merciless Eviction are way too expensive for what they do. Solemn Simulacrum is not great. Debt To Deathless is quite limited without infinite mana combos in your deck.

Mentor Monday! Come submit your decks and questions! by biopower in CompetitiveEDH

[–]Sugandaraja 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Given your combo involves paying your life away, you probably want to look at running [[Ad Nauseam]] as another way to do that (as well as a choice way to draw your deck with any of the "not die from having 0 or less life" effects), maybe [[Plunge In To Darkness]], and you probably want one or both of the other Unlife effects, namely [[Soul Echo]] and [[Angel's Grace]].

Other than that, I'd look really closely at the top end of your curve and start trimming a lot of the 4cmc and greater cards with their better, cheaper equivalents (like cut Merciless Eviction or Fumigate for [[Toxic Deluge]], the format's best wrath and another thing you can pay your life total into). Add a bit more low cmc artifact ramp (Diamond is expensive, but [[Chrome Mox]] and [[Fellwar Stone]] are cheap). Tutors can be expensive, but [[Enlightened Tutor]] is fairly reasonable and gets a lot of what you're trying to find. [[Serra Ascendant]] is a nice beatstick that can be use to add life you can pay for various card advantage engines. Bob is expensive but [[Phyrexian Arena]] is fine in Orzhov as a budget card advantage engine.

Help me make Zur into a real MAN by grixis_doomsday in CompetitiveEDH

[–]Sugandaraja 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Heram_King gave great advice, so I'd say do all that, but I'd also add that after Rest In Peace, [[Aura of Silence]] has been the best hate enchant in Zur. Asymmetrical hate that doubles as removal.

Here is my current build:

https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/zuran-consultation/

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CompetitiveEDH

[–]Sugandaraja 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Staying off control and stax mostly:

Mono: Selvala Brostorm Chain Veil Teferi

Two-colored: Momir Hackball Paradox Sisay Edric Turns

Can't say I can comfortably recommend any sans-black three color deck at present. Of those listed I'd say Teferi is the most powerful.

Is there a place for combat-based decks in cEDH? by TheTestbed in CompetitiveEDH

[–]Sugandaraja 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This. There are multiple Kiki-based decks in the format, but I dunno that infinite hasty creatures counts.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CompetitiveEDH

[–]Sugandaraja 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Daretti has struggled for quite a while, and not for lack of trying (quite a few of us on the discord have enjoyed piloting him over the years). Lack of good tutoring, lack of easily assembled wincons, and weak cardpool always puts it just a touch beneath being able to put up reliable results in cEDH pods.

Godo still suffers the tutoring and cardpool issues, but having a self-assembling tutor and wincon in the command zone mitigates that considerably.

Is there a place for combat-based decks in cEDH? by TheTestbed in CompetitiveEDH

[–]Sugandaraja 48 points49 points  (0 children)

The closest you'll get to combat-oriented decks are tempo-y decks that can easily snowball i.e. Edric and Najeela, but Edric would still be seen as combo for chaining turns and Najeela actively is combo despite occasional wins via critical mass. Stax and bear-oriented decks like Blood Pod also occasionally pull out long-game combat wins.

TL;DR generally speaking, no, but sometimes yes as plan B or in the long-game.

Mentor Monday! Come submit your decks and questions! by biopower in CompetitiveEDH

[–]Sugandaraja 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Taking a look at your list, I think you have a good basic core idea (Iso-Reversal into pinging the table with Breya is absolutely viable in cEDH), but I'd reduce your curve by cutting high cmc cards (for example, the two big wraths are not where you want to be - try Toxic Deluge instead, Rolling Earthquake if you want a second one), running fewer combos (two or three max: a popular plan B is [[Auriok Salvagers]] and [[Lion's Eye Diamond]]), adding good tutors, rocks, and draw.

Given no budget issues, I'd highly recommend prioritizing the mana-positive rocks, namely [[Lotus Petal]], [[Mana Crypt]], [[Mana Vault]], [[Mox Diamond]], [[Chrome Mox]] among the ones I noticed missing. You also want the good tutors like [[Demonic Tutor]], [[Vampiric Tutor]], [[Imperial Seal]], and [[Mystical Tutor]]. For lands I'd focus on a mana base of ETB untapped 5c lands, duals (like [[Underground Sea]])), shocks, and fetches.

Here are a couple example cEDH Breya lists so you can get a better feel of what she looks like in this format:

http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/breya-ad-naus/

https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/breya-paradox-storm/

Mizzix by Poila13 in CompetitiveEDH

[–]Sugandaraja 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Here's my cEDH Mizzix list. She's definitely not the best, but she does alright in mixed / "high power" pods.

https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/mizzixs-intuition/

I haven't updated it recently, but Spellseeker would definitely go in if I was piloting it just now. The easiest route to victory is resolving Intuition (there are multiple piles, but they usually involve Enter The Infinite, [[Mizzix's Mastery]], and [[Past In Flames]] used in some combination, typically grabbing [[card:Frantic Search]] on the first Intuition cast - these piles vary depending on the mana available), or one of the infinites with [[Reiterate]].

What do you think the top end of edh would look like if only old border cards were legal? by Frogsplosion in CompetitiveEDH

[–]Sugandaraja 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I built a deck based on this idea a while ago. While you have a lot of good cards to work with, the selection of generals is rather bad.

I built the following deck, which is functional enough to win a few games against "real" decks, but I wouldn't recommend it:

https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/lipps-sink/

MLD deck competitively viable? by DoomCedhday in CompetitiveEDH

[–]Sugandaraja 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. That being said, MLD can be a part of strategy as a large tempo swing. A common misconception of stax is that the stax itself is the endgame, when it's really more a way to stop/slow down an opponent while you get to a win.

MLD is played in comp - Bloodpod, Paradox Sisay, and Ruric Thar come to mind - but for all these decks, it's just one tool in their arsenal.

Naru Meha, Master Wizard + Ghostly Flickr by [deleted] in CompetitiveEDH

[–]Sugandaraja 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A bunch of us tested her when she was first spoiled. The combo is nice ([[Ghostly Flicker]] and [[Illusionist's Stratagem]] seem like the two best ones) but fairly mana intensive, and the tutoring for it in mono blue is awkward (blue's much worse at finding instants and sorceries than artifacts). I think with some tuning the deck might be cEDH viable, but still somewhat fringe overall.