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Love that Zada deck! It's different than mine but a lot of great ideas.

Our designs have a lot in common although I think you have a much better interaction package. There are some creatures I would like to suggest though, and I’d be interested in your thoughts on them - if you’re interested in doing more flicker than sacrifice, Flaming Fist Officer or Ninth Bridge Patrol are nice supplements to Carrion Feeder, and Mortis Dogs is also a great sacrifice target, particularly if it just attacked (and hopefully connected). Because my subthemes are flicker and first/double strike I also like to run Gulping Scraptrap (and all the other Orzhov proliferate) to try and ramp counters. The weirdest thing I run are a bunch of cards with return-to-hand activated effects like Cage of Hands, Conviction, Mourning, Shackle and even a card from my childhood, Foul Familiar. Deep down, I know that they’re both expensive for what they do and slow. But what’s PDH without a little eccentricity?

Such a unique game!

whats the website the decks are shown from at 01:00

I put a significant amount of ramp into my mono white deck, but that's partially expecting it as a voltron deck to be put in positions where I simply cannot protect my commander from 3 people at once when it's the obvious interaction magnet and will need to try and keep up with both commander tax and re-equipping everything to Kemba. Also, recruit the worthy, allay, and change of heart all acting as lategame buyback options is a kinda nice thing to have I think.

Those stickers look really powerfull, almost all of them have ETB or LTB triggers, which go crazy in a flicker deck

I wish UR would get flicker as a draft archetype in future sets. A red flicker with a randomized re-entry might be the way to do it. Not sure how they'd do it aside from a Journey to Nowhere like enchantment that gets destroyed on the creature's re-entry.

Yeah, take that Jack

hahahaha "best goodest boy" sent me XD

Stickers, my beloved <3

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Its so Nice to see PDH contents on TH-cam. Would be Nice If you add the deck lists on description

I also have a Minthara pEDH deck. However, I don't have a pEDH scene where I live. I just wanted to try building a pEDH deck and went with Minthara because there were too many Orzhov decks I wanted to build. I have played it against regular EDH decks and it can put up a fight and even win games as long as the table isn't full of fast decks ^^ I would like to suggest Gilded Pinions as a possible replacement for Commander's Sphere. It doesn't draw a card or add mana more than once, but it can help you get Minthara out a turn early while supplying your experience counter on the same turn. Then it sits there and provides flying as needed. Zentharim Bandit can do a similar thing. Play him on 2, then swing on 3 and make a treasure. Also, Blood Pet is a neat 'free' spell that can grant or benefit from your experience counters. Also a better option than the Fog Kami when sacced on your turn. Advance Scout has been another fun one for me where the threat of activation makes me hard to block or attack into.

Great video! What is the program Abby uses to play?

Love the deck tech been looking around for minthara flicker builds and this is the first one I've liked👍👍

I appreciate everything about this video: the decks chosen, the pod of PDH players, Daxx's "what went wrong" confessional, Brad's expert narration, and big red pigs!

hahahahahahaha I'm legitimately losing it @9:10 this is AMAZING

I'm in trouble

"big pain pig" haha

Ugh I suppose I’ll build that Springjack Shepherd deck now. Is it bad? Maybe. BUT, Eventide goat tokens cannot be beat.

I wasn't actually familiar with the non Arena version of Minthara. Really interesting to see how they changed her. As a commander, it seems far better to have that ward than the permanace of Intensity. Also interesting to see how they just sort of get around the whole intensity thing by just having the player gain the counters instead.

White card art always goes so hard 🔥

Tried to find a link to the discord and couldn’t, is it behind a patreon tier or available to join for free? 🤓

Fierce Empath into Treasure cruise is such bull***. It can only tutor creatures and especially drawing that spell would make me doubt the character of my opponent. I hope Ruff had no such intentions...

Some weeks back, I put together a Minthara deck using only scryfall for help since I'm pretty ignorant on Orzhov. Our lists differ by about 40 cards due to some choices I made to go against with normal EDH precons, but I'm glad I mostly came to the same strategy conclusions. She's fun to play!

11/10 video 🤩 I think Hive had the right idea in that game against Mayhem Devil. Step 1 is kill the combo player and step 2 is kill the Mayhem Devil player. Drawing interaction helps

Great PDH deck tech Brad, I'll take a hundred more of these!

I feel like this one has been a long time coming!

I've tried countless times to build a Minthara deck but always end up with 200+ playables and give up before getting it down to 100. Thanks for sharing your brew!

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Good stuff

I'd love to find more folks that want to play. Seems like the online presence is pretty small rn.

Stream starts at 8:19.

I think you're right that white doesn't want the non-creature artifact but lately I've been running Ornithopter of Paradise, Gold Myr, Manakin, Flywheel Racer, and Guardian Idol. The 2 mana ones fit really nicely in a curve and I like protecting them with anthems like Silverflame Ritual. They also both fuel and benefit from big Steadfast Unicorn turns too.

I don't think Reinforcements is as awesome as you think it is. "Shuffled into my library" is approximately the last place I want my cards to go during a game. They're pretty inaccessible there. You can access them eventually by drawing cards, but "maybe I'll draw a creature next turn" is *always* true of your white weenie deck, regardless of whether or not you've spent a card to shuffle three cards back into it. If I'm on Rebels, Reinforcements is *outstanding*. It lets me re-use Samite Censor Bearer, which, topically, can completely blank a Breath Weapon. Outside of Rebels, I'm not spending a resource as precious as a "one card in hand" to move things from my graveyard (where they're moderately accessible with Last Breath and Remember the Fallen) into my Library (where they're not accessible at all). Also, I'm impressed (and a little jealous) of your occurrence-rates for the board wipes! I see at least one of them in about 50% of my games; hearing these "twice in 100 games" numbers is wild. The general message though - that board-wipes are preventable and recoverable - is hella on-point. Great work.

This is good stuff XD I didn't entirely realize that you were the reason folks were talking about ramp in the discord servers a couple weeks back, but I jumped into those conversations to mention that "Ramp is for decks with bad curves." (That said, I definitely have white decks with bad curves that run a bunch of ramp. I regret nothing.) Glad to see we're on the same page here XD

First: the Scrollshift <-> Quick Study comparison is *on point*. Great work. That said: "How have you managed the problem of card draw?" is, I think, VERY close to the right question. I prefer to frame it as a running-out-of-gas question. Blue solves it's running-out-of-gas questions by drawing more cards, because it spends it's cards on individual game actions (like counterspell) and needs to put more cards into hand to be able to keep taking game actions. White, being more based in permanents like you say, has other answers to the running out of gas question. For example, if you have 8 mana up, you don't need cards in hand if you've got Dawnglare Invoker online. A lot of white permanents give you access to game actions even on an empty hand. Like Rebel tutors. The other thing I dearly love about white is that it has some of the best Cards-you-get-to-use-twice. Stuff like Recruit the Worthy, Ephemerate, Pegasus Guardian, Prismatic Strands - None of these have the text "draw a card" but they're all really elegant and powerful solutions to the problem of card draw. Great video!

I'm *WAY* behind on watching these (Sorry!) but I wanna say: Ephemerate and Scrollshift are absolutely *garbage* tier protection pieces in any voltron list. (Also why Center Soul over Emerge Unscathed?)

There might be a decent amount of wipes that you have to plan for but I can assure you there's enough protection you can pack to make it a nonissue and like Brownie said as well, you definitely won't be running in to them every single game. Best way to avoid boardwipes is to target the player that's running the most as well. Player removal is the best kind of removal

With all of that white card draw, your gonna draw your protection or reload before they even draw their wrath’s 😂

Love these little vids, keep em coming!

This is very much the case in my voltron Balan commander deck, but not in my Angel deck. I guess they require something else lol.

Hear me out, what if we flicker Abdel with a bunch of things that say ETB draw card?

🤍🤍🤍 Time to revisit my Discerning Financier PDH list and look closer at White cantrips!!

WHITE HAS TOO MUCH CARD DRAW - Archonmage

These videos are like mono-white ASMR - and I'm all about it.

This card is nuts. I play it in Kutzil sometimes!

Only the Malcom + Breeches decklist is working. I'm very interested to look at the Scarland Thrinax one!

Another classic example of White having too much card draw

Nice find. In Pauper Benevolent Blessing sees play sometimes. What would your assessment be over negating an opponents spell with Flash versus replacing the card in your hand with the draw effect for one more mana?