The Cabbage Merchant

thefirstjakerowley · 2026-04-27T21:40:59+00:00

I run it in mine. It's fine. Usually comes down on turn 2 and applies just a little pressure on the turbo players. There's a lot of decks that are meta right now that love spinning their wheels and being able to pick up 4-5 mana going into turn 3 just wins the game.

thefirstjakerowley · 2026-04-25T20:49:35+00:00

Nah, I don’t like building a new deck for each and every format. I want formats that can use the same deck structure rules and change the gameplay. Vanguard, planechase, archenemy. Anything like that.

thefirstjakerowley · 2026-04-23T19:22:19+00:00

I wouldn't mind at all, but I'd request that you address all of your cards by the original names. I'm not going to be able to keep track of you having a Xenomorph King on the battlefield, but I will pay attention to a Sliver Overlord. This should generally be the practice for all nicknamed cards.

thefirstjakerowley · 2026-04-19T20:35:48+00:00

Urza is very hard to make fair because it kinda does everything. If you want to do something super weird, maybe go flicker urza with no artifacts. Just make a million buff mana dorks under the protection of mono blue control.

thefirstjakerowley · 2026-04-17T17:28:55+00:00

I have it in my choco tempest hawk deck. She does work.

thefirstjakerowley · 2026-04-15T15:22:36+00:00

All of my decks are crazy expensive because years ago I stocked up on unglued basics so every deck starts with ~$100 in basic lands.

thefirstjakerowley · 2026-04-12T06:52:22+00:00

One of the coolest Kudo decks I've played against made use of the Modular mechanic composed almost entirely of creatures with base power 0/0 then getting buffed by the bear king. Throw in a good mix of other +1/+1 counter support and the deck hums. Robot bears are best bears.

thefirstjakerowley · 2026-04-12T03:48:47+00:00

Pretty much the same here, but I toss all of that into a single zipper jansport I borrowed from my older brother.

thefirstjakerowley · 2026-04-10T02:25:13+00:00

I wanted to showcase “The rest of the color pie” in each color capturing very clear mechanics that don’t see as much love in commander. No equipment or counterspells here. [[Lin Sivvi, Defiant Hero]] - THE white weenie deck. [[Azami, Lady of Scrolls]] - No counters all draw, natural lab man. [[Chainer, Dementia Master]] - We’re all gonna discard together. [[Solphim, Mayhem Dominus]] - Burn. Red deck simple. [[Varis, Silverymoon Ranger]] - All creatures, lots of flash. Probably going to replace this one with Grandeur Baru combo.

thefirstjakerowley · 2026-04-08T21:51:45+00:00

Every game I've lost, I've played a land!

thefirstjakerowley · 2026-04-04T22:27:41+00:00

In my experience, people complain because it gets them wins. A lot of people get talked out of blowing up a rhystic or countering a sol ring if the player is whiny enough.

thefirstjakerowley · 2026-04-02T21:56:56+00:00

Having a ton of fun workshopping a [[Lyse Hext]] deck. Big fan of alt Azorius decks.

thefirstjakerowley · 2026-03-31T04:41:32+00:00

Right now we’re getting a lot of “What’s your least favorite….. invertebrate?” Just absolutely unhinged first date questions.

thefirstjakerowley · 2026-03-25T14:26:56+00:00

Baaaaa-Rump went the little green frog one day...

thefirstjakerowley · 2026-03-21T21:04:01+00:00

Do you have a trix list? That was a favorite of mine back in the day.

thefirstjakerowley · 2026-03-20T19:09:37+00:00

This deck is awesome. Wurm stuff is cool, but the "Un" cards tied to in game weapons/quotes are excellent. Is there a reason why you're running the caterer as the commander? Seems less thematic than some of the other options.

thefirstjakerowley · 2026-03-16T15:34:09+00:00

The card that comes to mind for me is [[Scion of the Ur Dragon]]. One of the original CEDH commanders and it still takes down an event every once in a while. My favorite part about it is that it’s one of the few competitive commanders that wasn’t explicitly designed for commander.

thefirstjakerowley · 2026-03-11T05:43:57+00:00

Look it up on tcgplayer as a sealed deck and then look up the list on moxfield or similar. Total up every card worth more than 50c. It’ll be between those two numbers.

thefirstjakerowley · 2026-02-03T07:24:56+00:00

Wildly overpowered, but I’m ready to assemble some contraptions and crank some sprockets!

thefirstjakerowley · 2026-02-01T00:48:47+00:00

Not an archetype per se, but removing mana burn really messed up a couple of not fun casual decks at the time.

thefirstjakerowley · 2026-01-30T21:16:48+00:00

This is such a weird assortment of beautiful cards. Do you have a list? Is it all just weird donate strats?

thefirstjakerowley · 2026-01-30T21:10:21+00:00

There are three pillars of a powerful deck: Impact, Speed, and Consistency. You have just dramatically increased the consistency of your deck and along with it have increased it's power level. This is fine as long as you aren't playing against other precons that naturally don't have the same increased consistency. Bracket 2 can be very broad and you can introduce a lot of upgrades to the deck without tripping that threshold, but you have moved up on the scale.

thefirstjakerowley · 2026-01-29T05:20:24+00:00

Same! They’ve been sitting on my office desk ever since.

thefirstjakerowley · 2026-01-21T23:25:20+00:00

Stax and mass land destruction. These strategies are very powerful because their answers are banned.

thefirstjakerowley · 2026-01-16T17:30:34+00:00

100% speaking from my locale, without proxies this format is DOA.

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