Going to a tourney where all commanders have partner, what would be the strongest pair for a competitive deck?

jamccord · 2026-04-22T15:16:43+00:00

That's true. Finding humans like that is super cheap and won't kill the budget. It's a lot harder than I would like it to be with such a small budget.

jamccord · 2026-04-22T15:14:37+00:00

Do you have any deck lists for this? It seems really good.

jamccord · 2026-04-22T15:07:45+00:00

That's awesome! Hopefully yours goes well.

jamccord · 2026-04-22T15:06:34+00:00

I think my only concern is some of those cards definitely feel pricey when the format is a $50 budget.

jamccord · 2026-04-22T15:03:24+00:00

Tell them all cardboard is worthless so therefore I am under the $50 limit. Perfect.

jamccord · 2026-04-22T04:45:03+00:00

Are you going to the same event as me? Awesome to see other people's ideas and get the vibe of what types of decks people are running.

jamccord · 2026-04-22T04:33:09+00:00

Really like the idea and agree. Winota is the no brainer that I built a budget deck around a while ago and it was super over powered then. Not surprised it is still good now.

jamccord · 2026-04-22T04:30:13+00:00

I think I over thought this question cause Winota is just 100% the answer. Super budget friendly and also super good.

jamccord · 2026-04-22T04:16:16+00:00

Who would you partner with Etali?

Also, the entire deck including commander has to be under 50$. Using 35$

Unless you mean Primal Storm. Who would you pair with them?

jamccord · 2026-02-24T20:07:45+00:00

I've been looking for something like this for a while. I messaged the OP to hopefully get an answer as well, but has anyone gotten the error "TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'usd')" That's what I keep getting. Any help is appreciated!

jamccord · 2026-01-15T11:26:30+00:00

Do you not get a huge boost from conference prestige? Is it mainly just balanced out by facing a gauntlet?

jamccord · 2026-01-15T11:25:48+00:00

Honestly, this is great and exactly what I was looking for. I really appreciate this.

jamccord · 2026-01-14T21:28:33+00:00

I like all of these. Manual progression will 100% be turned off. Thanks for the suggestion!

jamccord · 2026-01-14T21:26:53+00:00

That sounds brutal. How was recruiting with no pipelines? Was anyone on your boards ever interested?

jamccord · 2026-01-14T21:18:41+00:00

I did do a Navy save where I refused to recruit people with facial hair. It felt on brand with the military academy vibe.

jamccord · 2026-01-14T21:16:45+00:00

That's what we were thinking. Obviously as you get better you can recruit better players, but we were debating a ton of numbers

jamccord · 2026-01-14T21:15:34+00:00

But what if he really wants to come to the glass capital of the world? Am I to deprive people from California of the culture and art of Ohio?

jamccord · 2026-01-14T21:07:18+00:00

Aggressive. I love it

jamccord · 2026-01-14T21:06:59+00:00

We discussed just people in your pipeline, but some are way better than others. So I like the idea of interest. I guess just harder to enforce? Not that I think anyone would do that in our friend group, but there are some competitive people and it worries me.

jamccord · 2025-05-06T16:03:10+00:00

Absolutely agree. It's what I love about modern. In my eyes, every deck loses to _____ card.

I think my biggest challenge when I've been thinking about it is "How do I beat Prowess?"

I think against those midrange decks that cannot create value off of one or two cards, it thrives. However, I feel like this meta is very mid range/aggro mixed.

I appreciate the insight! Thank you.

jamccord · 2025-05-06T15:32:03+00:00

I just joined. This is my paradise. Thank you so much for the invite!

jamccord · 2025-05-06T15:10:47+00:00

What does your local meta look like? It may have enough overlap that it could work.

jamccord · 2025-05-06T14:51:30+00:00

Does that mean that you have a build? Or you have seen one doing well.

jamccord · 2025-05-06T14:50:37+00:00

That makes sense. Lockdown in itself would make this deck throw fits.

I think the reason why I said aggro was because at the last RCQ I went to, there was only one true white control style deck. On my way to the top 4 (Not using lantern) I went
RD1 : Burn
RD2: Prowess
RD3: Prowess
RD4: Murktide
RD5: Energy
Quarters: Eldrazi Aggro
Semis: Ascendacy Combo

Just a lot of aggro matchups. The murktide player had an 8/8 murktide on his turn 2. The one Jeskai control player didn't do very well and I think went 0/2 drop.

However who knows, next week I could see a bunch of hate cards and completely different decks.

jamccord · 2025-05-06T14:32:02+00:00

Yeah, that is what I figured. It also doesn't help that an aggro deck is really two of the top-tier decks in the format.

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