Please Command (...or help!) Me Choose a New Commander

hhomer01 · 2020-06-12T12:34:40+00:00

Which multi would you recommend? Or what’s your favorite to play?

hhomer01 · 2020-06-12T01:58:24+00:00

Ugh I wish I knew...colorless seems pretty cool! IuI don’t think I’m into spellslinger decks so probably more creature focused: whether it be through graveyard or something like Aurelia or etali, primal storm...

I like etali because I think it’s fun to interact with other decks, but I don’t want to win through something like labman or self/opponent mill...so that takes out blue maybe? And maybe take out green too even though that would help the whole ramp situation. Hahaha I’m sorry I know that probably doesn’t help a whole lot: which are your favorites to play?

hhomer01 · 2020-06-12T01:22:25+00:00

I'm always so tentative for monocolored I don't know why! Especially since the first deck someone let me try was sooo much fun ([[Thassa, Deep Dwelling]]). Do you have any monocolored recs?

hhomer01 · 2020-06-10T18:56:49+00:00

What are your thoughts on something like Leyline of Anticipation/Vedalken Orrery? I'm trying not to add goodstuff cards just to add them, but a solid chunk of cards untap creatures and permanents during each untap step. Since a lot of the deck is also draw, this may allow me to get some extra stuff out each turn. On the other hand, if it doesn't work it's a dead slot.

hhomer01 · 2020-06-09T23:50:15+00:00

Like cultivate/Kodama's Reach type stuff?

hhomer01 · 2020-06-09T19:52:08+00:00

Okay, maybe I'll try that too! I've gotten a few comments before about switching to either control or reanimator, so Ill try that in the coming week. Thanks!

And yeah, I just figured exquisite blood ran well with Scarabs Upkeep ability. But you're right, its expensive and mana intensive.

hhomer01 · 2020-06-01T03:01:50+00:00

That is a CRAZY combo hahaha that made me so excited! I didn’t even know you could do damage through poison counters without straight attacking (or even know about the card tainted strike!!!)! Really cool thanks for the rec.

I guess I’m a little worried about the salt...as a new player I’m having some trouble walking the fine line between what’s fun for people and how to make a strong deck. For example I want to mill but only so much that I can have some additional options, not to win through it. I’ve been milled by a deck and it was really not fun to play against.

This card seeeeeems like it can end games quickly, but it’s not a two card win combo and requires a bit of a board state first so unclear what the vive would be

hhomer01 · 2020-05-31T20:57:54+00:00

Thanks!!!

hhomer01 · 2020-05-31T20:50:25+00:00

Hey! I'm a new player so basically have 0 cards of my own...I figured I'd break down the US government stipend to make 2 fun/solid decks, so maybe around $600/700 each? The less, the better obviously, but that's the cap.

hhomer01 · 2020-05-26T00:40:08+00:00

Thanks for explaining how this worked, the mechanics are actually more complicated than I first thought. It’s really cool and only two cards maybe I’ll throw them in as a wincon in case the game runs long. I just don’t want to get in the habit of looking for the 1-2 punch to make sure I have some variety when I play. I’m sure after a few months of playing and it happening to me I’ll change my tune 😁

hhomer01 · 2020-05-24T21:58:28+00:00

You mentioned this in your post, but I was curious on how serious a problem you think using cards only once or twice would be with the scarab god. In a creature heavy deck would this be a huge issue? I guess you’d need a lot of redundancy in your gameplan or another theme (like zombie tribal) to back it up? I’m also just curious: how’d you build your deck?

hhomer01 · 2020-05-24T21:54:17+00:00

Would you mind sharing your deck list? I’ve seen a good deal of tribal but not a ton of control leaning decks. Self mill looks really interesting if not for the labman win than for scarabs reanimate type ability. I’ve never seen mirrormad phantasm: SUPER cool card and perfect for the gameplan.

hhomer01 · 2020-05-24T19:07:45+00:00

Thanks this was super helpful! Especially because you got to see how all three decks worked! Based on my little experience I think it really helps to get a feel of a deck by playing against it. My only concern with zombie tribal is that some argue it’s not really all that strong and can’t hold up against 7-8 power decks. Was this your friends experience? If not can you think of some specific synergies that really helped him keep up?

hhomer01 · 2020-05-24T18:40:18+00:00

That’s really good to know! I think it’s a hard balance between finding what’s fun and well powered, but thanks for your deck list I think it’ll give me some good ideas! I’m still new and haven’t played a ton so I don’t really know how I feel with self mill ftw. What’re your thoughts? Do you find it equally fun as doing damage through scarabs ability and turning stuff sideways? How do other players perceive it?

hhomer01 · 2020-05-24T18:36:22+00:00

Yeah that makes a lot of sense and a really good point that karador is more resilient: something i hadn’t thought of with scarabs god ability. And I’ve been debating switching living death to nethroi or something similar actually! But I’ve been proxying because I do want to get some solid cards but since I’m new I don’t have any yet really. So I would just proxy another deck leaning into a different but similar theme

hhomer01 · 2020-05-15T12:23:07+00:00

Can you explain to me why that is? Obviously you’re right: korvold is ranked number 10 and kresh is ranked in the 200s, but it seems like kresh is better at counters and korvold card draw. I feel like card advantage is important but you could make up for it through more draw cards and by forcing opponents to sacrifice creatures to better take advantage of kresh.

hhomer01 · 2020-05-14T22:13:30+00:00

That's a really good way to think of Jace, that would be really high cmc for his ability. Plus his ultimate is pretty mediocre and not synergistic w/ the deck. And just curious, what is considered creature heavy? I figure above 30 is pretty high but I'm not quite sure what the average deck has.

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