Great idea using Malcolm and Kediss. I have built a $30 budget deck with Malcolm and Kediss and used Reckless Fireweaver and any of the multiple affects to give it every creature type to combo with Malcolm and win the game. I like the idea of adding Niv Mizzet and curiosity. I wonder if you should add Magda. The deck makes a lot of treasures, and Magda could find Niv pretty easily. Also the transmute tutors are good in budget decks. You should consider them.
First off, Rebell I'm a huge fan of yours and your cEDH-insights and gameplay were always an inspiration for me :) I even had a Sisay+Jegantha list I was playing for quite some time that drew inspiration from yours xD. On topic, I saw the trinket mage video before and I was immediately thinking that the malcolm kediss would be the strongest. Since the hax-strategy came out I played them in cEDH-pods in my lgs and had alot of success with. So when my casual-group decided to test our deckbuilding-forte in pauper, I immediately started brewing and tried to explore that same strategy but with pauper-legal cards and some of my favourite quirky counterspells found their way into the deck. I even discovered that there is a cPDH community and Malcolm Kediss is a big player in the meta and my brew came close to some of the top lists.. Well yadayadah.. the deck turned out to be so strong, that I only can bring it to some fringe competitive pods and I would friendly argue that this version beats yours xD I guess I would have to cut some more expensive cards like petal to fit in the 25$-budget, but in general was I surprised, that you wouldn't opt to go that route. But maybe your goal wasn't to make the "strongest", but a strong or more original deck. Just wanted to share my relating deckbuilding strategy on a budget (in this case more a cardrestriction) by converting a established strategy with less "efficient" cards but by preserving synergy and balance (my cEDH and cPDH-list contain almost the same amount of interaction-spells). Just in case 4 anyone interested, I just updated the list on moxfield: www.moxfield.com/decks/fV3fVXefkUyKGwR8tPr9RQ It was very nice to stumble upon your video and then at the same time browsing through my deck ^^ Have a very nice time Rebell and thank you for your content and inspiration! Looking forward to your next videos :)
Thanks for the idea for the deck. My playgroup plays a lot of interaction so i need to have some protection before playing malcolm but still, its one of my favourite decks
My friend has a super budget deck with the same commanders but has multiple tech combos. He has changeling spells that change fireweaver and stormkiln that will easily finish the game as long as Malcolm is in play.
I'm currently doing a deck challenge with my friends, where we all build 10 $50, not including commanders and basic lands, decks using the guild colors. Malcolm kediss was my first idea before I decided to go ghyrson starn.
Budget/ultra budget decks are delightful to me! Cutting Sol Ring for being 10% of your budget really puts cost into perspective and inspires creativity. One of my favourite budget decks was Prossh sacrifice, where I rediscovered the gem that is Abhorrent Overlord! He's a big flying demon with insane role compression. He swarms flying tokens equal to your black devotion on ETB, then serves as a sac outlet every turn, all for a chunky 4BB and thirty cents! Again, that's board presence, evasive attackers, and a sac engine in one guy. The ramp I had in green made that mana cost easier to bear and recovery cards ala F.Y.O.D. gave me much cheaper recursion (in both regards) to reuse his ETB. Overlord was basically my second commander! Mycoloth was my other bomb card for a bit, but I swear it somehow ballooned from fifty cents to three dollars without me realising, so I had to drop it 😭
The issue that I have with videos that play off of this idea is that it promotes the idea that having consistent mana, interaction, and a plan to end the game are some foreign trait belonging to CEDH decks. I wish the community just promoted better deck building as opposed to referring to what lots of casual players see as the "big bad" that's leeching into their games.
I agree with that overall. The difference of what I explained is the idea of centering around acceleration as a foundation to offset card quality, and support a clear outcome with interaction. I do agree that whenever I talk about making better decks a subset of players will automatically assume it’s only for cedh and not for them which is incorrect and insulting to casual players imo
kinda funny that these partners are used in cPDH, i have some experience with that format but of course you put a lot of powerful noncommon spells while staying below the 25 dollars :3
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Your deck was great thanks again for sending in that deck!
Great idea using Malcolm and Kediss. I have built a $30 budget deck with Malcolm and Kediss and used Reckless Fireweaver and any of the multiple affects to give it every creature type to combo with Malcolm and win the game. I like the idea of adding Niv Mizzet and curiosity. I wonder if you should add Magda. The deck makes a lot of treasures, and Magda could find Niv pretty easily.
Also the transmute tutors are good in budget decks. You should consider them.
Magda is a good add here yea
First off, Rebell I'm a huge fan of yours and your cEDH-insights and gameplay were always an inspiration for me :)
I even had a Sisay+Jegantha list I was playing for quite some time that drew inspiration from yours xD.
On topic,
I saw the trinket mage video before and I was immediately thinking that the malcolm kediss would be the strongest.
Since the hax-strategy came out I played them in cEDH-pods in my lgs and had alot of success with.
So when my casual-group decided to test our deckbuilding-forte in pauper, I immediately started brewing and tried to explore that same strategy but with pauper-legal cards and some of my favourite quirky counterspells found their way into the deck.
I even discovered that there is a cPDH community and Malcolm Kediss is a big player in the meta and my brew came close to some of the top lists..
Well yadayadah.. the deck turned out to be so strong, that I only can bring it to some fringe competitive pods and I would friendly argue that this version beats yours xD
I guess I would have to cut some more expensive cards like petal to fit in the 25$-budget, but in general was I surprised, that you wouldn't opt to go that route.
But maybe your goal wasn't to make the "strongest", but a strong or more original deck.
Just wanted to share my relating deckbuilding strategy on a budget (in this case more a cardrestriction) by converting a established strategy with less "efficient" cards but by preserving synergy and balance (my cEDH and cPDH-list contain almost the same amount of interaction-spells).
Just in case 4 anyone interested, I just updated the list on moxfield:
www.moxfield.com/decks/fV3fVXefkUyKGwR8tPr9RQ
It was very nice to stumble upon your video and then at the same time browsing through my deck ^^
Have a very nice time Rebell and thank you for your content and inspiration!
Looking forward to your next videos :)
Incredible! I’m glad I was able to inspire you all the way back then and you made this cool deck! Great minds
Love this! I have been playing Malcolm Tana for a few months now and it's great fun, so this budget version makes me happy.
Thanks for making such great videos they always make me feel better
Thanks for the idea for the deck. My playgroup plays a lot of interaction so i need to have some protection before playing malcolm but still, its one of my favourite decks
My friend has a super budget deck with the same commanders but has multiple tech combos. He has changeling spells that change fireweaver and stormkiln that will easily finish the game as long as Malcolm is in play.
Love it. I'm inspired to make this work for Francisco now, I've been wanting to build him for a while.
Really cool budget deck, thanks for making it 😎👍
I'm currently doing a deck challenge with my friends, where we all build 10 $50, not including commanders and basic lands, decks using the guild colors. Malcolm kediss was my first idea before I decided to go ghyrson starn.
Budget/ultra budget decks are delightful to me! Cutting Sol Ring for being 10% of your budget really puts cost into perspective and inspires creativity.
One of my favourite budget decks was Prossh sacrifice, where I rediscovered the gem that is Abhorrent Overlord! He's a big flying demon with insane role compression. He swarms flying tokens equal to your black devotion on ETB, then serves as a sac outlet every turn, all for a chunky 4BB and thirty cents! Again, that's board presence, evasive attackers, and a sac engine in one guy.
The ramp I had in green made that mana cost easier to bear and recovery cards ala F.Y.O.D. gave me much cheaper recursion (in both regards) to reuse his ETB. Overlord was basically my second commander!
Mycoloth was my other bomb card for a bit, but I swear it somehow ballooned from fifty cents to three dollars without me realising, so I had to drop it 😭
I didn't know the priesthood of mars played magic, but it doesnt surprise me cedh is their favorite format.
Fucking building now. Malcom is my jam. Also loved your Francisco/Kraum deck. Pirates all day!
Praise the Omnissiah
Praise the omnissiah
I made my buddy a Rakdos hired muscle deck out of bulk. Surprised a lot of that deck is bulk lol. Runs pretty well.
The issue that I have with videos that play off of this idea is that it promotes the idea that having consistent mana, interaction, and a plan to end the game are some foreign trait belonging to CEDH decks.
I wish the community just promoted better deck building as opposed to referring to what lots of casual players see as the "big bad" that's leeching into their games.
I agree with that overall. The difference of what I explained is the idea of centering around acceleration as a foundation to offset card quality, and support a clear outcome with interaction.
I do agree that whenever I talk about making better decks a subset of players will automatically assume it’s only for cedh and not for them which is incorrect and insulting to casual players imo
kinda funny that these partners are used in cPDH, i have some experience with that format but of course you put a lot of powerful noncommon spells while staying below the 25 dollars :3
Wtf I started building a Malcolm (+Breeches/Vial smasher) just today what a coincidence !
First?
But also: ok $25 cedh....im in
can you make some pauper decks?
sounds like 25$ engagement!
I gues glinthorn is too expensive for a 25$ deck :/
Nice
Not using Boing! is a missed opportunity
Go dimir, get specters, win.
am i tripping? why would you ever play Prying Eyes when Oportunity exists?
Yippee
when people still playing tasigur.... damn its been that long?
rocco
This is probably the only time I would respect a Niv/Curiosity combo
first video of yours i watched and i insta bought the deck im new player so hopefully i can become a pro with this deck