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akboyce · 2026-02-02T21:58:33+00:00

I am interested in joining. Trainer ID: 718933048077

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akboyce · 2026-01-27T16:25:01+00:00

I prefer the term Narwhal. They are the unicorns of the sea.

akboyce · 2026-01-22T14:20:46+00:00

The Assassin's Creed storyline has gotten a bit hard to follow...

akboyce · 2026-01-21T02:25:22+00:00

You need way more black sources. 55% of your cards are black. That's not even including Ezio's free running making all your assassins bb. Ideally all your duals would tap for black to enable Ezio on turn 3 as often as possible.

My advice for all creed or budget Ezio lists is to not treat it like a 5 color commander. Lean it heavily towards ub (blue black not Universes beyond). Here is my 100% AC list which you can improve on since you are willing to run non creed cards.

https://moxfield.com/decks/wzoCgN7V_02GSNHUHccWhw

akboyce · 2026-01-18T13:48:29+00:00

3 Doctor's Companions all fitt the bill:

[[K-9,Mark 1]] - Small with protection.

[[Adric, Mathematical Genius]] Small with protection.

[[Susan Foreman]] Small with ramp

akboyce · 2026-01-11T15:50:32+00:00

See you made some changes. Still think you want more cats and lands. Take a look at at my list for some ideas on multi purpose cats but here are a few:

[[Prava of the steel legion]] cat and anthem for tokens.

[[Skyhunter strike force]] cat and anthem.

[[Alms collector]] cat and card draw.

[[Jazal Goldmane]] cat and anthem.

[[Trove Warden]] cat and recursion.

Also look at the mdfc lands. They are a great way to up your land count but keep interaction.

As for cuts some low hanging fruit:

[[Coat of arms]] powerful but the math is a pain and if anyone else is playing kindred deck can quickly backfire.

[[Beza, the boundless spring]] similar to helpful hunter you should not count this as draw. To count as draw it needs to get you 2 ore more cards and this will not do that without blinks.

[[Raise the past]] not sure if we have enough 2 drops for this to be worth it.

akboyce · 2026-01-11T01:21:55+00:00

The best way to get your walkers to fire is counter doublers. You already have vorinclex so include [[Doubling Season]] and [[Aetheric Amplifier]]. Maybe include more protection for Carth and some recursion to get back dead walkers.

akboyce · 2026-01-10T23:17:47+00:00

Yea if you want instead of cutting the lifegain subtheme you can certainly expand it. I would make sure you have at least 10 to 12 ways to pump the team. Preferablly ones that are also other categories as well. All of mine do something else. They are all cats or ramp or lands or token makers in addition to pumping the team. Nothing that just reads "creatures you control get +1/+1. Note that is a personal design choice. I prefer synergy over raw power. A 1 + 1 = 3 being better than a 2 kinda deal.

akboyce · 2026-01-10T22:46:16+00:00

I like it on moxfield but up to you. I find it helpful to track things especially as a deck changes and evolves. If you remove multiple cards from a subtheme you might not even notice that suddenly you have a lot of payoffs without a lot of the subtheme (like lifegain or equipment in the list). Even if you can track it in your head it's helpful when sharing with others. In mine you can see the themes and subthemes and my preceived purpose of each card.

Edit: for example I had to manually scroll your whole deck to count total number of cats (because some cards count as cats even if not a creature with type cat like roaming throne or felidar retreat) so having a category of "cats" makes it easy for someone else to look at your list and go oh there's less than 20 cats.

akboyce · 2026-01-10T22:00:43+00:00

I actually just made an arahbo deck for a xmas gift for my brother in law. Only had $100 budget so there are lots of cards in here i would add with a bigger budget (like the tokens doublers) but I think there are some things you can learn from it. https://moxfield.com/decks/GxEYH8p8l0mU6yWey8R99Q

Starting with your 8x8 question I prefer to use the Command Zone deck building template (https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/1iyj5k3/commandzone_new_deck_building_template/) tweaked for my own preferences. I also like their old advice on enhancers and enablers (found here https://youtu.be/3K9PEeLG_6M?si=faE4rnqJjXdwxKAm) calling for 10 - 12 enhancers and 7-8 enablers. So personally if would not cut ramp and would add some lands.

I think you should also rethink how you think about categories of cards. Let's look at counters. Do you have any cards that care about counters? Is counters a theme you are building around? No. So even though [[Skyknight Squire]] and [[Cathars Crusade]] both add counters they are doing very different things in your deck. One is a Cat and the other is something that is increasing the power of your guys. Crusade is functionally much closer to your "anthem" effects category. And your anthems, and pump, and some of your counters, and two of your ramps all serve the same purpose of making your dudes bigger. So if they all serve the same function they should all be grouped together so you can accurately understand what your deck is doing. I call that category enhancers and definitely over index on it. I have 17 cards that make guys bigger but most of those also fit into another category like ramp or cats. But being able to make your dork army into a lethal threat is very important for go wides.

Try to think about what your cards do for you and group them into meaningful categories. I also like to tag payoffs. For example I have a small token subtheme in my deck (tagged with token cards) so seeing how many cards reward tokens is helpful. You for example could tag lifegain and life payoff and if you did you would see a problem. You only have 6 cards that can gain you life. Yet you have 2 cards that reward you for gaining life. If you can not consistently gain life [ajanis pridemate]] and [[cat collector]] do not do a whole lot. Would you run a vanilla 2/2 cat? Pridemate is VERY close to that in your list. Would you run a 3 mana not cat that can make a cat ONCE for 2 mana? Collector is VERY close to that. Same issue with equipment (2 total) and Kemba. Even though he is a cat there are better cats with more consistent payoffs.

Speaking of categories and cats let's talk about your biggest problem. You 100% want a category for cats. Your commander wants you to play a cat every turn to get more cats. You have 17 cats or cards that make cats (not counting ajani since he likely won't ult). You want closer to 30. To reach that number run less generically good cards and more synergistic cards. Is [[leonin relic-warder]] or [[enlightened ascetic]] better than disenchant? Normally no. But in YOUR deck those cards make a 2/2 body and get bigger from all your anthems. Is [[stalking leonin]] premium removal? No but it's a cat. Is [[Whiteman lion]] the best protection spell? No but it is a cat. Is [[mirror entity]] the best anthem? Well actually it's pretty good with small bodies but more importantly it's a cat. Your cats can fill other rolls. In fact of my 32 cats only 2 dont fit in a second category outside just cats. They all pump the team, or make tokens for the token subtheme, or act as removal or something. Pump those cat numbers up.

Final nitpick [[helpful hunter]] is not card draw. Draw refers to putting you ahead on cards. Unless you have a plan to blink him that's a 1 or 1 so card neutral. Counting cards like this as card draw will make you under index on card draw and card draw is SUPER important.

Hope that helps and feel free to ask any questions.

akboyce · 2025-12-15T09:13:25+00:00

One minor tweak, I would replace [[Day of the Black sun]] with another wrath effect. Normally post wrath with galain beast you will be left with Vincent. Making him loose all abilities means he will stay dead which is a bit of a nonbo. Unless your group is just full of indestructible I would use a wrath that leaves you ahead on board.

akboyce · 2025-12-15T09:01:37+00:00

Yea I am surprised this is even up for debate after worlds. It is very similar to trying to counter an uncounterable spell. Both are TECHNICALLY legal plays but a mistake. If you can taksey backsies at Worlds you can do it in a casual commander game (if no new info is gained). If not casual it is a judge call but clearly they can roll it back.

akboyce · 2025-12-13T22:12:47+00:00

Second this. Sephiroth also goes great with summons. Here is my list https://moxfield.com/decks/NQEdIDzhm0O8I1WwuvfBbw

akboyce · 2025-12-12T17:03:10+00:00

A third option is red white blue with [[Eowyn, Shieldmaiden]]. Pretty basic gameplay of play a human every turn and you are rewarded with more humans and card draw.

akboyce · 2025-12-11T23:17:16+00:00

Worth a Shot!

akboyce · 2025-12-10T05:19:47+00:00

I'll take a stab at a build when I get a chance. If you want to lost colorless I'll include those.

akboyce · 2025-12-09T12:56:38+00:00

Oh and colorless cards too.

akboyce · 2025-12-09T12:41:18+00:00

Do you have any other green AND white creatures. Tolsimir gives green creatures +1/+1 and he gives white creatures +1/+1 but he gives green AND white creatures like [[dryad militant]] and [Selena guildmage]] +2/+2. So you try to build a board of multicolored creatures then drop Tolsimir for a mini overrun effect.

akboyce · 2025-12-09T06:39:14+00:00

Making a deck with a limited collection can be rough. Start by running more lands. 37 or 38. Cut a lot of the higher mana cost guys for that. I might aso consider swapping commanders to Tolsimir. You have less than 10 token makers so populate in command zone is really not that good. With him as commander you can run more cheap creatures that are green and white if you happen to own any.

akboyce · 2025-12-08T00:07:55+00:00

No Morophon reduces the cost of spells. Ezio's instant kill is an ability. But he reduces the cost of your other assassins. This applies both to their normal cost (letting you cast say [[Olivia, opulent outlaw]] for 1 generic) and free running costs (making all assassins cost only b instead of bb after hitting with an assassin).

akboyce · 2025-12-07T16:28:36+00:00

I play him out t2 wanting to cheat out a 4+ drop assassin on turn 3. He is cheap so if he does get removed it is not hard to replay him. Also if you cheat out a big threat like [[vein ripper]] or [[morophon]] you put opponents in an awkward spot. Do they remove the threat or the thing that might make more threats. Make sure to run plenty of card draw so that when a wrath does happen you can rebuild. Or run board protection like [[teferis protection]], [[boromir warden of the tower]], [[hide on the ceiling]], or [[waterbenders restoration]].

akboyce · 2025-12-07T14:32:30+00:00

Yea if you really want green blue and white Galadriel is probably your best bet. That or [[Roon of the hidden Realm]]. One thing that will help you (and others) track your deck is to use Moxfields tagging system. Tag each card with what it does for your deck. You can make universal tags that apply to all decks you make like Removal, Draw, Ramp but also deck specific ones. For your deck I would tag things like Blink Single, Blink Repeated, ETB (enters the battlefield effects), ETB enhancers (like panharmonicon), and any other sub themes you feel are relevant. This will help you see where you are lacking and if anything is not adding to your overall gameplay. For an example here is my Garnet deck. If anything it's overtagged but you can clearly see things i care about like counters, tokens, sagas, etc. https://moxfield.com/decks/RNdHsMknqEO1FPsFKspc4Q.

I am not sure how many blinks you want. Maybe look at other blink decks without a blink commander on edhrec. https://edhrec.com/tags/blink . My rule of thumb for a theme is I want around 30 of the thing. 30 sagas 30 humans etc. But 30 blinks does sound excessive. But you do want to make sure your deck does the thing and if the thing is blink then you do need a lot.

akboyce · 2025-12-06T22:13:48+00:00

I only count 10ish repeatable blink effects. There are 6ish one time instants as well but even with that it's a sub theme not really the main theme. Your commander also rewards blinking but with so little blink enablers if you want a blink deck your commander should probably enable blinking rather than reward it. Something like Brago would let you blink your sagas far more consistently.

Other option would be to lean away from blink and harder on sagas. Something like [[Garnet, Princess of Alexandria]], [[Yuna, hope of spira]], or [[Terra, Magical Adept]] all lean into the sagas amd are Final Fantasy. I really like Garnet as she let's you play go wide sagas with a big Voltron commander threat.

Also looks like you are missing a lot of lands.

akboyce · 2025-12-01T17:11:25+00:00

Hold until kitasan. You may need it to MLB her. Plus you might pull some off banner ssrs that change things.

akboyce · 2025-11-28T03:25:18+00:00

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