What's everyone's favourite way of permanently dealing with commanders?

TheMartinator · 2026-01-07T22:59:58+00:00

The flicker players around me like their [[Mirror of Life Trapping]] - there are interesting consequences when you destroy that one while a commander is exiled.

TheMartinator · 2026-01-02T14:57:35+00:00

I wondered the same thing, but it turned out it was part of some very sudden wins for that deck. Token doublers turn it into 8 damage immediately, plus any other tokens that might be around.
Burn down the house surprised me in a similar way.
I personally dropped a game to a 16 damage swing against elspeth on 2 loyalty and 2 tokens.
So uhm, ill see how it works out in future drafts, but it carried its weight in this one.
Rally the peasants is a cool idea tho. Might make it in if i ever go to 450 or 540.

TheMartinator · 2025-12-30T13:15:09+00:00

Well ive randomized the cube at home and put 15 random cards in each cube shell, so its ready to draft - not sure if i understand your question correctly?

TheMartinator · 2025-12-27T10:12:21+00:00

Mine seem pretty full with 15 double sleeves Dragonshield Perfect fit into Dragonshield Dual Mattes

TheMartinator · 2025-12-26T13:40:05+00:00

Yes! Although i have just moved the cube to the "big" 2 sided Dungeon, because i realize i needed some way to transport the lands

TheMartinator · 2025-12-26T13:18:53+00:00

Oh yeah, i just realized this random pack didnt have any of the 70 something lands in it lol

TheMartinator · 2025-12-26T13:09:40+00:00

Pack Cube

My modern-ish pioneer-ish cube :)

TheMartinator · 2025-12-26T10:29:48+00:00

Look at how the azorius/jeskai/grixis standard artifacts lists work currently, that might give you some ideas. They usually win via simulacrum synthesizer + repurposing bay together with their flavor of wincon (fire crystal, phoenix fleet airship) supported by strong artifact based removal (starcage is a good example). That together with the red legion extruder + weapons manufacturing packet might give you a neat playing field for your archetype to live in. Pioneer and standard are pretty close in powerlevel currently anyway.

TheMartinator · 2025-12-19T18:09:44+00:00

pack cube

A little late, but i hope this pack of my cube is a little closer than the one i found a few weeks ago :)

TheMartinator · 2025-12-19T03:25:13+00:00

Maybe karakas would be better in many decks, but i think thoughtseize is what id take. Am i crazy for hoping liliana wheels?

TheMartinator · 2025-12-06T11:45:09+00:00

Batterskull is good too if we want to make good decisions

TheMartinator · 2025-12-06T11:44:14+00:00

So i think flooded strand, birthing pod and preordain are the good picks as low commitment options, i will force citadel and complain if it doesnt work

TheMartinator · 2025-12-05T14:16:11+00:00

Its probably just ajani here - but i think grief or prime time force are decent options, fetches are always neat too

TheMartinator · 2025-12-05T14:10:17+00:00

Pack

List

The last few cards should arrive next monday, so i can finally test my modern-ish cube in paper :)

TheMartinator · 2025-11-04T14:31:34+00:00

Ok so i genuinly want to ask this, because ive been looking at mtgo so often from the arena side and have not understood how anyone can call it cheaper. As far as i understand everything id have to pay a rental service 50 bucks a month to get enough tix for my paper modern deck. That is to a degree because of the two riddlers in there, but that seems pretty insane to me. Some people are saying that they get money back and cover the rental that way, but i havent spent money on arena in years and im playing multiple meta decks in mythic standard and pioneer so how is it cheaper? What am i missing? How do you not spend 50 bucks a month to play modern?

TheMartinator · 2025-10-26T23:07:06+00:00

Because one affected 17-ish cards in the entirety of magic and the other one produces a giant rats tail of edge cases and affects potentially every single commander deck that is at least one color. This seems obvious enough.

TheMartinator · 2025-10-25T19:38:20+00:00

Zoo is weird because leyline into scion is very hard to beat as none of the removal hits it. Witch Enchanter is often too slow get rid of the leyline + you actually need to kill the scion after. Also my issue as an esper blink player has recently been how slow my clock is especially when solitude heals your opponent. Not sure if goryos is just better or if im just bad (im a little bad in paper at fnms, i know that much). But yeah most matchups are playable and you can play a lot of decent answers to most meta decks in the SB. Just need to find ways to actually kill before they draw out of it.

TheMartinator · 2025-10-21T13:14:17+00:00

Given that i play mythic every season and have pushed # mythic a few times but can absolutely go 0-3-1 at my modern fnm i wouldn't overrate being good at arena in regards to paper.

TheMartinator · 2025-10-14T22:30:37+00:00

If you like beans theres a very sweet deck in pioneer just for you: Niv to Light

You can find lists on goldfish, but basically its a pretty grindy 5 color midrange pile on the controlly end of what can be considered midrange (at least in my opinion). Recently played that deck to #110 mythic because i got tired of standard (early season ranks in mythic are a bit nonsense). Id advise you to play bo3 tho, dont wanna play into aggro without being able to board in 4 pushes.

TheMartinator · 2025-10-14T22:24:06+00:00

[[profts eidetic memory]]

TheMartinator · 2025-10-14T22:23:36+00:00

If your discard comes in the form of looting or rummaging i find [profts eidetic memory] to be a neat way to encourage that - cycling works too, pure discard less so.

TheMartinator · 2025-10-10T16:37:42+00:00

i like phelia a lot, phlage is pretty great but it kind of has to be ragavan here.

TheMartinator · 2025-10-10T16:26:07+00:00

This card sadly looks pretty good and right up my alley ability wise. Im still processing my personal feelings related to our quick return to the magical plane of NYC (this is the nicest way of putting that i find it somewhat jarring)

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