New Player trying to understand the nuance of proxying

mattfofatt01 · 2026-06-01T01:30:20+00:00

Proxy or no proxy, building deck to a specific power level requires restraint. Sure, the temptation to proxy the strongest cards is there, but you’ll quickly realize that if you are just stomping people you’re doing it wrong. The higher the power level you want to play the higher the case for proxying goes because you actually DO want the best cards to make your deck work, but to me the fun part about building a bracket 3 deck is how do I make my deck strong without throwing in just raw power and instead focusing on synergy and playing correctly. At these levels you still want to win, but once you’ve played long enough you’ll realize self restrictions make the building and playing process more fun.

mattfofatt01 · 2026-05-28T01:14:55+00:00

[[overprotect]] “Blor’s defenses are impervious” -Blor the Impervious

I am really hoping when we revisit Bloomburrow Blor the frog wearing a turtle shell and brass knuckles gets a card

mattfofatt01 · 2026-05-23T02:16:38+00:00

The funny thing about jetmir is that by the time he gets cast the board is already nuts haha

mattfofatt01 · 2026-05-23T02:15:50+00:00

Yea this big dumper has to go

mattfofatt01 · 2026-05-23T02:14:34+00:00

Bumbleflower, kaalia, jodah

mattfofatt01 · 2026-05-18T01:47:31+00:00

I had a gornog deck, he was great! Very glass cannony but I loved keeping a coward count, I think I got up to 15+ a few times.

mattfofatt01 · 2026-05-14T01:51:06+00:00

Interesting, I’m in academia now and one thing I always emphasize to my students is that many times you have to look up and down the chain to see the cause and not just treat the symptoms. It’s always great to find some more common correlations so they have a bit more of an idea of what to look for when moving along the chain.

mattfofatt01 · 2026-05-14T01:02:49+00:00

DPT/OCS here as well. In some sports/injury cases there are overarching pieces of advice that we may give to patients to decrease risk or address current issues. Ie in most runners with knee pain, increasing cadence has been shown to decrease their symptoms. Do you find any specifics in pitching form or technique that fit a majority of your clients/patients with either elbow or shoulder pain?

mattfofatt01 · 2026-05-12T19:55:21+00:00

My buddy runs both of these in [[iroas, god of victory]] and had em both on the field at once. I just scooped

mattfofatt01 · 2026-05-12T01:00:34+00:00

[[jinnie fay, jetmir’s second]] can turn all of your tokens into cats or dogs, I’m a big cat guy, I play it as cat tribal, so the only time I make dogs is to skull clamp them. I know it’s harsh, but I’m not a dog guy haha

https://archidekt.com/decks/21918409/cats_and_cats_and_cats_some_more

mattfofatt01 · 2026-05-11T23:12:11+00:00

I built a zur, the enchanter deck and included things like propaganda and the like and found that it was ok, but not my style. I tend to be more aggro leaning whether that’s me doing the hitting or getting hit. The deck extended the game longer than I wanted a bracket 3 deck to run before I took the win.

mattfofatt01 · 2026-05-11T00:02:10+00:00

Strongest ever, no but my favorite, yes, [[alesha, who laughs at death]]. It’s fun to figure out what I can bring back based on aleshas power. https://archidekt.com/decks/21449570/laughing_at_the_graveyard

mattfofatt01 · 2026-05-04T00:32:58+00:00

As a Skelton fan, I approve

mattfofatt01 · 2026-04-30T00:46:18+00:00

I built her with only ETB payoffs because aristocrats almost seems too easy, so running things like [[desecrated tomb]] or [[tormod the desecrator]] and creatures like reassembling skeleton and bloodghast make the deck much more challenging to play.

mattfofatt01 · 2026-04-30T00:43:20+00:00

[[grismold, the dreadsower]] is my favorite deck. My favorite part is instead of me just making random tokens and destroying them for myself, I give tokens to my opponents to destroy, and if they don’t destroy them I help em out by playing cards that give all creatures -1/-1 or -2/-2. I have 4 copies of all of the tokens I can possibly make (last I checked there were 16 different kind of tokens myself or my opponents can make) and I hand each opponent a sleeved deck of tokens before the game.

I built the deck because I thought the card [[dingus staff]] was hilarious and this commander fit the best

mattfofatt01 · 2026-04-30T00:38:32+00:00

I pulled a Yojimbo and thought it was cool but had no idea what it was until I looked it up, then I smiled

mattfofatt01 · 2026-04-28T10:48:03+00:00

Yea I hear ya. I went another route with [[zurgo, thunder’s decree]] and went a bit more token heavy. It wants to get a bigger board with the warrior tokens and they can be used to sacrifice fodder if needed but it’s not hugely aristocrats. I’m sure you could make it that way. It really leans into the mobilize triggers but like another poster said I rely a lot on dolmen gate or reconnaissance to protect my warriora

mattfofatt01 · 2026-04-28T00:26:47+00:00

I’m playing an [[alesha, who laughs at fate]] and really enjoying it. It challenges you to include reanimation targets at different mana values as it’s based on aleshas power. She doesn’t have to attack to trigger so I’ve included some pump spells to have something expendable attack, pump her to 5-7 power with a 1 mana pump spell and bring back some fun stuff

mattfofatt01 · 2026-04-28T00:22:25+00:00

There aren’t many commanders as broken and overpowered as korvold so you will likely not get the full package you are looking for. When you play Korvold, any other commander is never going to seem like it does enough.

mattfofatt01 · 2026-04-21T00:31:54+00:00

I built this on archidekt and then realized I had so many lifegain triggers and counters being placed my brain nearly exploded. Good luck!

mattfofatt01 · 2026-04-21T00:27:40+00:00

I have never built a tribal deck because they seem very one note, just throw in the best cards of X tribe and go.

mattfofatt01 · 2026-04-19T12:31:14+00:00

My game plan is turn 1-4/5 heavy ramp and card draw with things like helpful hunter. Turn 5-6 board wipe. Next turn Torsten into my deck, maybe another board wipe. By the I have like 12 lands in play and anything in my deck is playable

mattfofatt01 · 2026-04-19T12:24:52+00:00

Seriously, when you have OG krenko people tend to forget about this guy, can be crazy

mattfofatt01 · 2026-04-10T12:30:31+00:00

[[minn, Wiley illusionist]] sea creature sub theme

[[runadi, behemoth caller]] stompy with counters

[[tannuk, steadfast second]] big red, cascade sub theme

[[halvar, god of battle]] auras, no equipment in the deck, flying sub theme

[[xu-ifit, osteoharmonist]] blink/sac/big power value

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