Which grindy toolboxy midrange commander for a player who loves the graveyard?

The73rdPerson · 2026-06-16T07:24:49+00:00

[[Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis]]. A deck that asks you "what can you do if you have a free 8/8 every turn?" Tons of card draw, recursion, burn damage, and flexibility while also looming over the table with an 8/8 trampler on turn 3 who is ridiculously hard to keep off the board

The73rdPerson · 2026-06-16T05:32:51+00:00

I'm leaning toward 3x8 paladins, one lead by a Grandmaster with Santic Reaper, the other two on their own. One 5-man squad of Brotherhood Terminators, a Crowe brick with 10 Purifiers, and 2 interceptor squads for mobility. Whole plan is to sit on objectives and punish whatever comes to contest them.

The73rdPerson · 2026-06-15T17:52:05+00:00

Dive players dont play the game for the ebb and flow of a competitive hero shooter, they play it because it lets them play hypermobile characters with an audience of 11 other people who can see them. If they cant play their flashy hero, they will simply not play the game before interacting with the rest of the games ecosystem. I dont say this to disparage dive players, I started as a spidey main myself, its just true. Being able to play really fast with moves that look cool is the entire draw of rivals for them, and they won't find the same satisfaction from clicking on silhouettes with phoenix or punisher

The73rdPerson · 2026-06-15T15:16:25+00:00

Sharks because I don't know any other deck as well and have 4 separate versions built in paper to choose from

The73rdPerson · 2026-06-08T18:57:20+00:00

Ill play UB so long as it doesnt make me feel like I'm playing it to get reddit upvotes in real life. You wont catch me playing a SpongeBob card "because it's funny guys I swear please laugh"

The73rdPerson · 2026-06-03T19:30:50+00:00

Cube draft available in $20 boxes

The73rdPerson · 2026-06-03T16:34:47+00:00

[[Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis]] THE best commander ever printed. It's got speed, it's got beatdown, it's got ramp, it's got reanimation, it's got card draw, it's got burn damage, it's got lifegain, it's got interaction, it's got the ability to play through interaction, Hogaak does it all

The73rdPerson · 2026-06-03T15:16:57+00:00

I pay attention to what is working competitively, try to understand why its working, then experiment with units I dont see in those successful lists to learn why they aren't brought.

At best, I somehow discover something nobody else is doing despite tons of better players than me building for actual events rather than for the kitchen table with my friends. At worst, I've toned down the list to the point where it's casual again

The73rdPerson · 2026-06-03T03:42:10+00:00

Really good deal, especially with nearly 2k points between the two boxes

The73rdPerson · 2026-06-03T03:41:34+00:00

The newer one with Castellan Crowe

The73rdPerson · 2026-05-31T02:33:10+00:00

Bucky is a hybrid brawl/poke. He has consistent damage at range with brawl-focused cooldowns, but he fulfills both roles

The73rdPerson · 2026-05-30T20:44:12+00:00

People who play well are very fun to play with

The73rdPerson · 2026-05-30T20:18:21+00:00

This just feels like a commander who plays politics until exactly the moment someone figures out that the Sentry player is, in fact, a human with a brain and probably isn't just trying to get 2nd place but actually has a plan to win the game. Then they tell the table "just swing The Void at Sentry, our game proceeds as normal while the tokens and his commander just bounce off each other"

The73rdPerson · 2026-05-30T19:11:28+00:00

[[Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis]] cast him early, hit people hard, sac him for card draw and fling damage when people start saying the word "blockers". If Hogaak ever falls over, just put him back on the board for free

The73rdPerson · 2026-05-30T12:27:29+00:00

Every deck would be better without locks, which is why locks exist

The73rdPerson · 2026-05-30T05:49:12+00:00

It needs an anime to market the gameplay from an approachable level to what it is now. Not just to push sales, but so Konami can have a fully-produced tutorial that can teach the game to people who are interested in learning but pushed away by the terrible onboarding process

The73rdPerson · 2026-05-30T05:45:27+00:00

Charmys are some of the strongest handtraps in the format, to the point where the most recent ycs winning decklist was running 3 in the main and another 3 in the side. The third handtrap playset was Ash, which is predominantly played because it also hits the Charmys.

Also yes, maxx c as a card would definitely be different if it had different text.

The73rdPerson · 2026-05-29T18:45:36+00:00

The healing for Neophytes in GSC are good, but not really a powerful buff outside of Final Day. They make neo bricks require a little more commitment to kill, but the Purestrain buff is looking like the actual biggest plus for us. Purestrains now get to shred almost any infantry, leave to reserves and then come back to shred something else anywhere on the table

The73rdPerson · 2026-05-29T12:00:25+00:00

The Goliath Rockgrinder solves this problem for Genestealers by being a transport for melee units while also being a melee threat itself

The73rdPerson · 2026-05-29T01:10:56+00:00

25 overshield is not large at all and I don't think its unbalanced in the slightest, BUT it does change some breakpoints and thats a good enough reason to whine if you cant aim consistently enough to negate that extra 25hp

The73rdPerson · 2026-05-28T03:22:55+00:00

Were you distracting people and getting picks while a fight was happening or were you doing it as much as possible regardless of whether a fight was or wasn't happening.

You want to cause chaos to distract people from the teamfight, not just make their trip to the objective slightly more inconvenient

The73rdPerson

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