Genuinely surprised to see how few subscribers you have after watching this excellent deck tech! Excellent video that has made me consider building this deck (and I really enjoyed your Narfi one too!)
I like how you also thought, this needs an Elesh Norn :D I didn't want to go aristocrats route since Silverquill is suppose to not be Orzhov. Going for more of a token army/ +1/+1 strategy, kill players with commander damage.
I do like Embrose, and it would provide even more potential for card draw out of the command zone in Orzhov than Shadrix does, even if it would also require more setup. I'll certainly take a look and see if I can come up with something, but I can't make any promises yet. I don't like to build decks that are already well-known - e.g. if you go to Embrose's commander page on EDHREC and go to 'Average Deck', I wouldn't want to build anything similar to that. I wonder if it might be reasonable to build a cleric tribal deck with Embrose. He's not a cleric - Shaile is, but I don't think you'd ever cast Shaile. But they do have the right colors, and a moderate number of clerics deal with +1/+1 counters. Clerics also have a lot of death trigger synergies. I'm pretty sure Embrose/Shaile would not be as good of a cleric commander as Orah, but it would atleast offer some different advantages - like easier access to card draw, and generally bigger creatures from the +1/+1 counter synergies.
You very well could include it in the Shadrix list itself, especially in a more go wide strategy, as a single resolution of the third ability would boardwipe proof your entire deck.
I like the deck idea and believe that the following cards could be useful additions for the deck. The first bunch of cards contains Toshiro Umezawa, Syr Konrad, Tainted Aether and Idol of Oblivion. These cards profit of creature token either entering the battlefield or dying. The second bunch of cards contains March of Souls, Crib Swap and Forbidden Orchard. These cards do something (e.g. exile a creature) and give one or more creature token to an opponent. The third bunch of cards contains Teysa Karlov and Illusionist’s Bracers. Teysa Karlov triggers all on-death effects (e.g Dingus Stoff) an additional time and Illusionist’s Bracers could copy Shadrix’s ability, which seems great. I hope, that at least some of my suggestions are helpful to you.
Awesome suggestions again, thanks (and thanks for continuing to watch my videos)! I think Syr Konrad is probably the easiest inclusion as a redundancy for Massacre Wurm and Dingus Staff. Tainted Aether sounds pretty good too, especially since if we have a -1/-1 effect (like Night of Souls' Betrayal), then the inklings Shadrix generates will die instantly before Tainted Aether's triggered ability resolves, so the opponent will need to sacrifice another creature or land. I like the synergy with crib swap, but I'm also not sure I like that it costs 3 mana and only hits creatures. I'm unsure about Teysa...it's really powerful, but it doesn't do much unless you have both token generation (like Shadrix) and a payoff (like Dingus Staff) on the battlefield. I do like Illusionist's Bracers here, I think this one will be pretty easy to include a get a lot of value from. Anyways, good suggestions again, I appreciate it!
Illusionist Bracers don't work on triggered abilities anyway. Only activated abilities. Shadrix says "At the beginning of combat". At, when, whenever indicates a triggered effect.
Genuinely surprised to see how few subscribers you have after watching this excellent deck tech! Excellent video that has made me consider building this deck (and I really enjoyed your Narfi one too!)
I like how you also thought, this needs an Elesh Norn :D I didn't want to go aristocrats route since Silverquill is suppose to not be Orzhov. Going for more of a token army/ +1/+1 strategy, kill players with commander damage.
Hey Thanks for this. I was wondering how many of basic land cards you would recommend I add to the commander deck? Like how many white and swamp?
Could you do Embrose, Dean of Shadow. With death triggers.
I do like Embrose, and it would provide even more potential for card draw out of the command zone in Orzhov than Shadrix does, even if it would also require more setup.
I'll certainly take a look and see if I can come up with something, but I can't make any promises yet. I don't like to build decks that are already well-known - e.g. if you go to Embrose's commander page on EDHREC and go to 'Average Deck', I wouldn't want to build anything similar to that.
I wonder if it might be reasonable to build a cleric tribal deck with Embrose. He's not a cleric - Shaile is, but I don't think you'd ever cast Shaile. But they do have the right colors, and a moderate number of clerics deal with +1/+1 counters. Clerics also have a lot of death trigger synergies.
I'm pretty sure Embrose/Shaile would not be as good of a cleric commander as Orah, but it would atleast offer some different advantages - like easier access to card draw, and generally bigger creatures from the +1/+1 counter synergies.
You very well could include it in the Shadrix list itself, especially in a more go wide strategy, as a single resolution of the third ability would boardwipe proof your entire deck.
I like the deck idea and believe that the following cards could be useful additions for the deck.
The first bunch of cards contains Toshiro Umezawa, Syr Konrad, Tainted Aether and Idol of
Oblivion. These cards profit of creature token either entering the battlefield or dying.
The second bunch of cards contains March of Souls, Crib Swap and Forbidden Orchard. These cards do something (e.g. exile a creature) and give one or more creature token to an opponent.
The third bunch of cards contains Teysa Karlov and Illusionist’s Bracers. Teysa Karlov triggers all on-death effects (e.g Dingus Stoff) an additional time and Illusionist’s Bracers could copy Shadrix’s ability, which seems great.
I hope, that at least some of my suggestions are helpful to you.
Awesome suggestions again, thanks (and thanks for continuing to watch my videos)! I think Syr Konrad is probably the easiest inclusion as a redundancy for Massacre Wurm and Dingus Staff. Tainted Aether sounds pretty good too, especially since if we have a -1/-1 effect (like Night of Souls' Betrayal), then the inklings Shadrix generates will die instantly before Tainted Aether's triggered ability resolves, so the opponent will need to sacrifice another creature or land.
I like the synergy with crib swap, but I'm also not sure I like that it costs 3 mana and only hits creatures.
I'm unsure about Teysa...it's really powerful, but it doesn't do much unless you have both token generation (like Shadrix) and a payoff (like Dingus Staff) on the battlefield. I do like Illusionist's Bracers here, I think this one will be pretty easy to include a get a lot of value from.
Anyways, good suggestions again, I appreciate it!
Illusionist Bracers don't work on triggered abilities anyway. Only activated abilities. Shadrix says "At the beginning of combat". At, when, whenever indicates a triggered effect.