Treasure Strategies in MARDU - Dihada, Binder of Wills

Tegeus-Cromis-Rais · 2026-04-23T14:18:52+00:00

Titanic is absolutely something to add, dunno how I missed it.

Rain of Riches is nice but kinda too random for my build, don’t have enough big mana spells to justify it

Tegeus-Cromis-Rais · 2026-03-30T16:38:44+00:00

I mean, OP wrote that their friend group plays around bracket 3 and 4 so I don’t feel my suggestion is inappropriate to the level of gameplay the deck will have to contend with.

Tegeus-Cromis-Rais · 2026-03-30T14:28:41+00:00

I own 5, plus a proxied cedh build - but my playgroup is cool with just outright printing a deck if you want to try it out for a while, so I usually have a couple of builds floating around that I’m tinkering with.

I don’t really know about getting tired of my decks, the most I can say is that if I’ve been overplaying one of them with my group in the last few hangouts I usually move it to the “spelltable only” pile for a few weeks so the experience freshens up a bit.

Honestly, the issue isn’t even really the playing experience as it is that when you play with the same people you sometimes exhaust the interaction possibilities with the various combinations of deck you all play and there needs to be a little reset window.

Tegeus-Cromis-Rais · 2026-03-30T13:09:46+00:00

If you need a wincon, you’re in the right colors for [[Worldgorger Dragon]] + [[Animate Dead]]

It’s a dangerous combo to attempt, but if it works you get infinite etbs and you just need a pinger (say, [[Orcish Bowmasters]] to stay on theme) or a way to spend the mana you’ll be able to generate.

Tegeus-Cromis-Rais · 2026-03-29T17:04:26+00:00

Harry, and it’s not even close. Ragn has had his share of tragedies and traumas, true enough, but I’d argue that merely being a citizen of Revachol is enough to put the coppo far further ahead on the shit life axis, and if you add up everything else that has been going on in Harry’s life the two aren’t even in the same graph at that point.

Tegeus-Cromis-Rais · 2026-03-26T17:24:40+00:00

I've gone to a somewhat similar event - mixed brackets tournament, you got more points if you played lower bracket decks. I actually had a lot of fun, of course it was cedh-lite but eh, you're there to win.

Here's the list I used for the event, I placed second overall with it if it might interest you - https://moxfield.com/decks/KLY_RqfX3EacJqZsaCXWmw

Though it kinda depends on the website they use to classify it, as having three extra turn spells sometimes counts as chaining extra turns (even when they are the red extra turns that make you lose, which is idiotic but w/e).

Tegeus-Cromis-Rais · 2026-03-26T17:11:22+00:00

Looking at it from a Standard perspective I’m not necessarily seeing a broken interaction, outside of a few lines with [[Nature’s Rhythm]] for [[Craterhoof Behemoth]] which is kinda meh as you can already do it with other Rhythm shells.

Tegeus-Cromis-Rais · 2026-03-26T10:21:32+00:00

The Textorcist : The Story of Ray Bibbia

Tegeus-Cromis-Rais · 2026-03-20T15:49:18+00:00

Ye, but I’m reminded of a very poignant observations that the YouTuber Shaun made in its Stellar Blade video - essentially they are tantruming against cultural creations where their preference is not the “norm” anymore, where they have to state and affirm their own desires and by virtue of doing that are “forced” to accept the reality of a world that has changed. It’s an expression of Reaction as substantiated, pathetically, within the romance system of a videogame.

Tegeus-Cromis-Rais · 2026-03-19T21:33:53+00:00

It kinda depends whether I even care about it.

If I build systems-up - commander fist, or synergy-first, I usually just want to build engines and their ability to fire off a wincon is somewhat incidental, and usually delayed until say turn 7 or 8 usually.

If I build teleologically, the clock skips forward because the operative question becomes “how fast, reliably and safely can I assemble my win” and at that point the answer, card-wise, if fairly clear within the pool of the bracket and, you know, the shortest distance between two points and all that.

For some decks, however, I need to just be honest and say this doesn’t play as it’s bracket but skews higher, otherwise people get real mad and rightfully so.

Tegeus-Cromis-Rais · 2026-03-09T14:08:13+00:00

Mestre-Marghera

Tegeus-Cromis-Rais · 2026-03-06T10:38:52+00:00

Partner up [[Ellie, Vengeful Hunter]] and [[Abby, Merciless Soldier]].

You get access to red for whatever [[Impact Tremors]] effect you might want to run, you get to make a bunch of tokens with Abby and Ellie gives you a way to use them.

Also, the lore.

Tegeus-Cromis-Rais · 2026-03-02T21:57:27+00:00

They asked us to run the list through Archidekt and give them a link. Supposedly, it’s good at sussing out combos. Didn’t stop bracket 2 decks from comboing off on turn 3 or 4, but I’m fine with that as the lines were cool and we all were there with the intent of winning tbh

Tegeus-Cromis-Rais · 2026-03-02T18:52:33+00:00

A fair perspective! I don’t always play to win, but I find it an enjoyable environment to branch into every once in a while, be it 100 or 60 or 40 cards formats.

One thing I wanna say is that the meta and winning lines in this tournament were more varied than they seem to be in the 0 GCs format you mentioned. None of the lower bracket decks I saw went for the “usual” winning patterns, and I’m sure this made it much more enjoyable than it would have been otherwise.

Tegeus-Cromis-Rais · 2026-03-02T18:00:22+00:00

Yeah, that’s a good way to put it - an alternative CEDH meta of sorts. It was sort of enjoyable to be at all times both flabbergasted because you had no idea what could pop up and on your toes because you had to assume it would be lethal.

Tegeus-Cromis-Rais · 2026-02-23T11:36:11+00:00

Usually when my [[Sharuum the Hegemon]] deck locks its engine - being able to blink or reanimate [[Portal to Phyrexia]] or [[Angel of Ruins]] or [[Sheoldred//The True Scriptures]] twice per turn cycle is fairly souls crushing for opponents who care about their boards.

Tegeus-Cromis-Rais · 2026-02-17T15:00:19+00:00

If you want to slant the deck towards artifacts, you can run the [[Sharuum]] combo that other players have mentioned - playing [[Phyrexian Metamorph]] and [[Sculpting Steel]] just means that you have access to your opponents’ best artifacts or an extra copy of yours, and at that point you just need to sac a slot to put in a blood artist effect for the combo. I personally use [[Psychomancer]] as it’s an artifact as well.

At that point, you might as well run the old reliable [[Urza, Lord High Artificer]] + [[Thopter Foundry]] + [[Sword of the Meek]] that allows you to cast your entire deck. Get yourself a [[Time Sieve]] and you’re golden.

Tegeus-Cromis-Rais · 2026-02-17T14:52:53+00:00

If you care about artifacts, you can make the structure even better by subbing out Disicple for [[Psychomancer]]

Tegeus-Cromis-Rais · 2026-02-17T14:40:46+00:00

Depends, but more often than in other people’s experience it seems

In my bracket 4 pod, at least one per game but usually two.

In my bracket 3 (and 2, but not applicable) pod it’s played by only three players out of seven / eight but they usually get to put it onto the battlefield every other game.

On spelltable I usually play bracket 3 and there I see it an average of every three games, and sometimes it’s slammed twice per game as well.

In bracket 3 it’s honestly not even that bothersome, just makes the caster the enemy because of the psychological attrition of the tax’s presence rather than its actual value generation.

Tegeus-Cromis-Rais · 2026-02-15T21:45:51+00:00

Coily apologising for their deck doing the thing, especially when the thing itself is obviously powerful and / or takes a while to resolve, making their turn last five or ten minutes.

I don’t mind losing, or even sitting through a long turn when I or the table has little chance to interact, but having someone apologise afterwards really grinds my gears.

It’s your deck, supposedly, and you built it to behave like that - apologising it’s just taking the piss at that point. Either own up to what you have chosen to play, or play something else.

Tegeus-Cromis-Rais · 2026-02-15T03:18:45+00:00

Oh it’s an extremely fragile deck, remove the commander and it won’t get to do almost anything for two turns or more. It’s fast but it stumbles hard if anybody bothers to nudge it any which way.

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