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This was one of the most helpful eppisodes I have ever watched. Not because it helped me build a better deck, but it made me realize that it isn't just me that has these problems. I am fairly new to commander, and I keep trying to build new fun decks, but I run into the same kind of issues that you guys described here. I just figured that I didn't have enought knowledge to figure out how to make it work.
But I 100% want to build decks that aren't what everyone else is playing. I want people to see me play my deck, and say "That was so cool. I never thought of that."
I really love all of you videos guys. Such great content for a new Commander player. And I am sure it is for experienced players as well. :-)
The protection from Swords of X and Y not synergizing with the rest of the deck is a really good Challenge. You don't want your equipment to become double edged swords ;)
Agreed. This is why, as Dana did, I made my Ardenn and Esior deck focus on equipment instead of equipment and auras. I like curiosity and Staggering Insight, but I'd rather just have SoFI not fall off.
I also try not to include cards that would be a hard counter to my deck if (and when) they were used against me. For example not using swords with protection against my colors in mono or two color decks.
I really like the swords and the place where I would logically use them is a voltron deck.
The ones that I have at the moment are hearth and home and light and shadow. I play rograkh and Ardenn partners and playing a light and shadow and equipping to rograkh would not allow you to target rograkh with Ardenn’s ability.
I’ll find a home for light and shadow soon though
A possible way to make that 5c exalted deck for Dana is just make the commander Progenitus. Yes, Progenitus would always be the best one to swing with, but 9 games out of 10, you won't be able to summon him. And then it has the flavor of anyone can hold the sword and sometimes win with it, but the big dragon is the ultimate back up plan if the rest of the kingdom fails.
I really wanna make an Isshin exalted deck since he’ll trigger each instance of exalted twice, so each exalted creature on the field will give +2/+2 instead
I'd actually suggest Tazri, Beacon of Unity. There's no red Exalted cards, but the Neon Dynasty Samurai can trigger their single attacker triggers on Samurai or Warriors, which that Tazri happens to be.
@@batman11693 There is. There's a goblin from the origin modern horizons
The new white but 5c dragon spirit would be another alternative i think too, make whatever creature you want get indestructible, or buff itself if it needs to swing
I love that both Command Zone and EDHRec's "decks that didn't work" podcasts have featured Asmira, Holy Avenger. It's just the cursed commander.
Why? It seems not that bad.
You cannot open the show with an amazing Vin Diesel joke like that and expect me to be able to pay attention after that
One of your solutions to your exalted deck could be prismatic bridge as the commander. It isn't a creature so you won't be tempted to attack with it and it lets you get creatures and planeswalkers from your deck at the beginning of your upkeep
A deck I ended up quite disappointed in was Syr Gwyn knight tribal. The conclusion I basically came to was she was not a knight commander, she was an equipment commander that happened to have some trinket text about knights on the side and I scrapped the deck in a fit of frustration after building it and trying it out a few times to find that, as I suspected, I could not fit equipment and a tribal strat in the same place with my building style. I ended up trying to make the deck in Orzhov with Aryel but that kept running into the problem that I just ran out of cards and no amount of card advantage seemed to fix the problem. I ended up stripping the parts I could use elsewhere about the time Crimson Vow released so I could use the lands and generic tribal cards for new Edgar vampires. Which itself is now slated for teardown for similar problems and the realization that I just have tribal decks now that do the aggressive beatdown thing better (thinking of you, Tovolar). Complete opposite end of the scale: I like aggressive decks by Arcades, the Strategist was TOO MUCH and TOO FAST.
Great video. Your comments about your deck hitting the sweet spot for what you want it to do at just that sweet spot of fun, really hit home.
Triad of Fates is the deck that I just couldn't get working for me. It was always just too slow and mana intensive to get a flicker or removal
Wow. I never even knew this card existed until this comment lol. Thanks for making me aware of it, and for the warning about pacing lol
Triad needs Thousand Year Elixir to speed up Triad itself with haste and an untap, and it needs Stax pieces to slow down opponents from getting too far ahead on tempo.
Joey I had the same problem as you when building the Asmira deck. But I figured how how to fix and and now it works great! The solution was to remove all sac outlets and instead make it a self destruction deck, meaning adding only creatures with built in sacrifice (Sakura-Tribe Elder/ Foundation Breaker etc) and creatures with evoke, echo etc. And also adding a couple of more Asmira creatures like Lumberknot and Algae Gharial. Oh and as a bonus im adding a challenge the stats here: "Pure Reflection" only sees play in 3 Asmira decks on EDHREC. Its an enchantment that constantly creates creature tokens that almost guaranteed will get destroyed on each players turns triggering Asmira on every turn. This is a card I really should see more play in Asmira decks :)
I was really inspired by this video to make a Glenn deck with the instants/combat tricks theme and it won me my first ever game of EDH. As a suggestion, leering emblem is a great budget option and a bomb in the deck. So thank you for the inspo!
To Matt’s point, as a newer player trying to keep a budget and doesn’t have greaves/boots, IMHO you’re at a major disadvantage if your commanders ability has a tap symbol and you’re not in a color that provides haste.
As rough as $8 for such a bland utility card seems, it's probably worth it given that you'll almost never have no decks that want it.
@@drpibisback7680 fair enough
@@drpibisback7680 Maybe if your commander is a planeswalker and you don't have many creatures? My Elminster token deck doesn't need them.
But that's very much an exception.
You could also just proxy cards
If your playgroup gets mad at you for proxying boring, expensive staples then I'm sorry but your friends suck.
Asmira IS the commander that led me to my favourite deck.
Because I wanted to make it as commander damage-ocrats, but I encountered exactly the same problems as Joey.
Then Nadier was released with commander legends! And uh, yeah!
I built a Lonis, Cryptozoologoist investigate/venture deck. It is hard to build up but its fun and works decently even though it does want to do a lot. I put in a lot of venture ETBs which works well with Lonis but there isn't a great selection of venture support in UG, hopefully in the new Commander Legends DnD we will get some more.
A deck I've been struggling to get off the ground is Evra, Halcyon Witness. I love lifegain and she's one of my favourite legendary creatures, but something about seeing her in the command zone just invites so much aggression early on you'd think I was running something degenerate like Tergrid or Vorinclex. Totally resonate with this episode, you guys rock, and I hope you can figure out some of these decks.
I hope to someday play against an Evra deck. And cast Sudden Spoiling when the activated ability is on the stack...
I feel the Glen / Wrexial / Lazav / Geth problems. I made a Ghost of Ramirez de Pietro / Armix Filigree Familiar deck, focused on Ramirez getting cards back that I’ve discarded or milled. I meticulously sculpted the cards in it and built it, and played it, and it did its thing! For several turns! And then someone else won the game, because the deck’s thing was just … a little value? Benefiting from discarding cards? The impact on the game was small, and the deck didn’t end up mattering in the game.
a friend of mine build torsten of ursus as selesnia sac deck.
and it works cause himself is a big boy so greater good is something and cause its a vanilla he is mostly not touched xD
ofc you could use Shanna, Sisay's Legacy or Sigarda, Host of Herons or Arahbo, Roar of the World
A tried a while to build a Soul Sisters Karador deck but I was never able to cut the massive pile of cards I wanted to play both lifegain and reanimation down to a 99.
So I eventually split the themes in two separate decks.
Played Wrexial from 2010 to around 18/19. He was my primary deck. I have so many good memories of playing and evolving that deck, but I have trouble rebuilding a list these days, it just isn't good enough.
Glenn could maybe do a thing with dealing damage from toughness.
E. Honda and High Alert, some Auras
Ive had some decks where the strategy revolved so much around the commander that losing it twice meant I couldn't play anymore. For example an atraxa deck that had almost all forms of counters which was fun to proliferate but had almost no synergy with eachother.
Since then I've always tried to put at least one alternative play pattern in my decks. Which are more fun to me anyway.
I succeeded in making Toothy and Pir work, and quickly realized I didn't care much for ridiculous Simic value. I kept a few of the cards as is, then changed it into a Volo (Guide to Monsters. Simic is a really boring color combo, so I needed something a bit more spicy.
Simic is the choice of 🦧
Agreed on Simic. Had Tatyova, took it apart. Got boring fast.
Tried so hard to make Grenzo Dungeon Warden work and in the process realized I hate playing aristocrats
Run it in Kresh with Gurzigost
It took me a couple of different commanders to come to a similar conclusion, but I'm with you: aristocrats is not my jam.
Came to the same realization when i built a Shirei deck. But i do love not caring if my creatures die, like with my Reyhan and my Felisa deck (i also love counters)
Is Grenzo really an aristocrats commander? I always thought of him as more reanimator-oriented.
He's unreal in the new Jodah
Chase is killing it with the post production! I absolutely love Tribal Edh stuff but for some reason Marrow Gnawer was one I could never get to work for me. I tried it with Rat Colony and Relentless Rats. Just never got it to stick right I guess
Anyone jokingly calling a Swamp Mosquito "fearsome" has never faced a real swamp mosquito.
I dont much fear the single skeeter. It's when you start getting into the double digits.
Magical combat may not be real, but Malaria certainly is.
Curious if Matt ever tried cards like angelic page or annointer of champions in his Glenn deck. Skulking under an opponent's board and then increasing Glenn's power with repeatable temporary effects seems like a cool and unique voltron strat. Haven't really looked into the strategy so i dunno if there's a critical mass of this kind of effect that's even good enough to run, but may be worth a look
The Problem with Asmira is that you have a Selesnya commander that wants to do Abzan things. There's almost no support in w/g for anything evenly vaguely resembling aristocrats. There's virtually nothing that cares about your creatures dying and only very limited ways to bring them back. Most recursion in w/g tends to be either back to your hand or bringing back low cmc creatures on your upkeep. Add black and suddenly you have everything Asmira wants.
I have an Anafenza deck where I run Asmira and Shirei in the 99. Get those two on the field and suddenly you have an unending deluge of death triggers and an angel that just.. keeps... getting... meaner^^
I played a Goblin deck back in Onslaught block and loved winning with Skirk Fire Marshal. I never took apart the deck until I began playing Commander just a few years ago. After building a Kamahl, Fist of Krosa deck, as my first attempt, I really, really, really wanted to build a deck around Skirk Fire Marshal. But, not being legendary and not having access to white, meant I needed another Commander. Basically the deck was supposed to look like a janky Boros goblin deck, and then would tutor up the Fire Marshal and unload a hand full of damage doublers, protection spells, and untap effects, and deal 40 to each creature and each player. It theoretically could pull it off, but almost always presented another path to victory faster. Being able to prevent damage to or grant protection for a board of goblin tokens usually means you should just start swinging in. Having your creatures consistently protected means your Blasphemous Act type effects are always one sided. And tutoring for a creature in Boros is just not efficient. I added green, eventually, once I could use Rocco to fetch my secret commander. I built Jared Carthalion, True Heir, and he had a bunch of those damaged based board wipes, too, and I eventually decided that one was more worth my while, combined the two, and gave up on the Fire Marshal. It was the first time I gave up on a deck, and I still feel sad thinking back on it.
Oh man, Lazav, Dimir Mastermind was my first EDH deck ever, and remains my favorite. It's so cool to play with something else every game. And while, yeah a lot of players moved away from huge creatures, I never had a situation when I didn't have at least 1 target for clone/steal effects
Licia... I'm absolutely infatuated with this card, and have built MULTIPLE decks around her with little success. At the moment, she is a life swap deck which seems to be the most fun to play, but needs a bunch of things to work together in order to be effective. We'll see how it goes...
Something for Joey and fellow necromancer aficionados!
When building the Asmira deck there might not be alot of sac outlets in WG but there are alot of cheap cmc creatures that can sac themselves.
Key creatures to run would be Selfless Saviour, Vigilent Martyr, Benevolent Bodyguard type creatures which are able to sac themselves at instant speed and protect Asmira as she gets bigger
Very good call. I might revisit Asmira now.
Exactly how I built it and I love it!
I think it sounds like Joey just wants to play 4 Graveyard decks against each other. Now that'd be a real battle!
Maybe for Asmira you can figure something out with the newer cards with abilities that care about counters? Or move the counters around, remove them for effects, and not so much plan on attacking.
Yeah, there needs to be some kind of payoff for putting counters on her, like Laid to Rest or Swarm Shambler. Do something with all those counters besides relying on Commander damage ...
Great episode! So hyped to get that shout-out thank you all for your amazing work :)
The Tymaret deck really reminds me of one I've desperately been trying to pull off, Subira Infect. The idea was to have a haste enabler, drop a creature with infect, make it unblockable with Subira, then beef it up for leathal, extra points for being able to take out 2 or even 3 opponents in one turn.
It's possible, but it's just not consistent, and looks like a really pathetic mono-red aggro deck most of the time. Half the people that I've played with think I don't understand what mono-red aggro is supposed to look like, because they've never seen it go off. The other half know that I'll spend most of the game as an easy target so they can kill me easily before I go off. On top of everything, Subira has a decent draw ability, but when you're waiting to combo off, discarding your hand for value suddenly stops being as acceptable a price to pay, so I also need someway to work around that.
I'm hoping to make it work someday, but I feel like I need to at least wait long enough for my playgroup to forget about what it is trying to do before I give it another go, which makes me not that motivated to try to brew with it for the time being.
Breakfast and breakfurious? I think that’s the best one yet! Way to go son!
On the subject of exiling in mono green, look up Whippoorwill. Pairs beautifully with fight effects and is a repeatable exile effect. Also prevents regeneration and damage prevention/redirection^^
I'm morally obligated to like any mention of my favourite non-flying bird.
I hope they don't get overwhelmed by the hundreds of submissions they're about to get from all the people that want their decks to work.
it's funny Matt mentions Dimir enchantress because i recently thought about trying to brew the same thing with Lazav, Dimir Mastermind at the helm but just can't seem to get any traction. Also if Dana wants to take a crack at 5 colour exalted there's a new card in Kamigawa called Kyodai, Soul of Kamigawa that only has like 250 decks and gives pseudo protection to a big exalted creature swinging in!
I built Tymaret as a theft deck with plenty of threaten effects to get sac fodder for him. I've since swapped him out for Blim and made it a theft/re-gift and bad gifts deck
Joey if you want to play opponent’s best cards, you could build The Mimeoplasm the way I built it:
Clones, bribery & acquire, etc.
A deck full of choosing what’s on the battlefield or in decks. And for the cool stuff in your opponent’s graveyards, there’s The Mimeoplasm nicely waiting in the C Zone.
Matt Morgan, Big fan of your dad jokes and playstyle. Maybe with Wilds of Eldraine enchantment tokens you can do your Dimir enchantress deck now.
I like hearing the stories of other peoples deck building process, so I can look at my own decks and see where I may have gone wrong.
They really did break Joey.
Can you make Glenn grow bigger after creatures aren't announced as blockers? Like instants
i have a geth deck and the thing you may have been missing is that with get your goal is rarely to actually use anything you steal. just generate absurd amount if mana and flood your board with random garbage until you kill them or mill them. who cares how much mana he costs when your generating 30
oh also - the alters including alter of dementia are very good in case someone doesn’t have enough creatures to keep going, board wipes and hand hate initially fill the yard, and remember gets ability operates at instant speed. you kinda have graveyard hate for creatures and artifacts since you can steal anything they target if you hold up enough mana
I think glen is just nice with skulk because he’s a 1/3 so as long as you buff him evenly he will always have a bigger butt
Vin Diesel is unconfortable in his grave with these dad jokes :P (BTW, thanks for inspiring me an Asmira deck !)
But... He's alive?
A buddy I know had the same problem as Matt does with Glen. His solution was to basically make it an Edric deck with white. Loaded it up with tiny evasive creatures, coastal piracy effects, couterspells, and extra turns. He calls it the salt mine deck because people are always salty about it whether it's the Walking Dead commander pissing people off or how it plays.
this is a GREAT Tonic to get into the weekend!
Wouldn't Glen work well as a clone target in a go wide clone army deck in conjunction with legendary rule negators like mirror box? Add token multipliers like Anointed Procession, or the many populate cards that white has, and might be a viable deck.
With the selesnya aristocrats you could have pit in creatures that sacrifice themselves for value like sakura tribe elder and the like there are alot of creatures that do that in green cause of golgari, you dont have to rely on just sac outlets
Matt I went through the exact same thing you did with your Araumi deck with my Pinger deck. At its heart it is an Izzet deck and I used to run Niv-Mizzet the Firemind as the commander. It FELT perfect. The problem was it was way too slow and needed more untap cards during other's turns that only green could provide. I fought with myself for months because I had never added a color to a deck before (I have gone down colors and that feels different, more ok for some reason?) So now it is Riku of Two Reflections deck. It's still mostly izzet but with the few green cards I needed to make it hum. I almost never cast Riku but there is not really a Pinger commander in these colors so he is just there for color identity, and occasionally I can double up on my pingers so that helped me justify using him as the commander. It is my favorite deck but man, if I can ever have just a few more aoe untap cards in blue, I will revert it to an Izzet deck because that is what it is for me.
I think you were looking at Tymaret infect the wrong way, you don't need to fill your deck with a lot of each mechanic, you actually just want a couple of each with a lot of tutors in an aristocrats shell.
Why did they change proliferate? I remember it used to say to put a "counter of a kind already there" or something. Now it's a counter of EACH kind already there
27:15 :o I have that one in my Chandra trival deck
Had a Tymaret and an Asmira deck. Can confirm: both frustrating.
I had a Tymaret deck too. I went with a theft strategy, but I've changed the commander to Blim and now it's a theft/re-gift and bad gifts deck
tymaret's second ability is actually more interesting to me than going aristocrats tbh, ive been thinking of making a self discard deck where i keep returning him to my hand and discarding him for red rummage and other good value cards
with necromancer's stockpile you can discard tymaret, make a zombie and draw a card, then sac the zombie and use tymarets ability to return him to your hand. 4 mana draw a card, so not very good, but it gives you an etb and death trigger along the way and its an instant speed mana sync.
I couldn't make Mairsil the Pretender work. I loved that it was odd and potentially powerful and combo oriented. The downside is that it's weak to graveyard hate and really weak to artifact hate. Vandalblast, Bane of Progress, and noncreature boardwipes just kill the deck. Kroxa, Titan of Death's hunger was difficult too. Now there's several more cards for that deck than a few years ago. It's just kind of expensive to build.
43:00 you could try to build It around combat tricks, if you attack with a 1/3 skulk Is very effettive, but After blockers are declared you punp him up with some instant combat tricks, you draw lots of cards and refuel for the next Attack, idk if this could be a valutable strategy, but I think it's a unique idea for WU
Edit: I should have waiter 2 minutes...
May i recommend a "Korona the false god" commander for your exalted style!
That way you'd want a lot of creatures sometimes and you wouldn't always have control of your commander. Then your other creatures would have their chance to shine more likely.
Obviously use vows and other cards effects that make you not be able to be attacked or have other players incentivized to be the one(s) attacked.
Fun deck
I knows it's not 5c, but I was thinking about isshin exalted for the double triggers
Asmira is doable.And it is fun if built correctly. Try it!
I think Karona the False God would be pretty awesome as an exalted commander, and super flavorful.
I'm trying to make a Bant Aristocrat deck that's also a bird deck, so any advices are welcome.
Might be time for Joey to revisit Lazav now that we have Xanathar, Guild Kingpin
Hey Dana, are you running Tymaret in Juri? If not, may I recommend Threaten tribal? I played it with a specter sub theme to ensure opponents committed good targets to the board
I mean if Matt is wanting to do something unique with Glen, it strikes me as a potential for a legendary clones deck use stuff like mirror box, Sakishima, helm of the host etc to make a skulking army of 1/3s and attack... I've thought about doing this with the mono blue shrine creature but it just being a mill deck seems kind of boring tbh.
Glacial Crevasses is a favorite of mine!
Tried very hard to make a mono-black "group hug" deck with the My Little Pony Nightmare Moon card that got printed for a charity thing a few years back. Not only does mono-black not work well for group hug, but Nightmare Moon's ability doesn't really work with the Commander format (since "wish" effects don't work). Quite a shame.
I've been trying to make a toolkit lands deck and nothing has quite felt the same as my Golos deck with a flicker shell. I'm still a tad bummed about that ban 😥but I understand why.
I know what you mean. I was going to use him to build a land subtypes matters deck with the Urza lands, Locus lands, and Desert lands. Now I am thinking Kura, Boundless Sky for a mono green shell but then I would only be able to use the colorless deserts
@@dorsalfin22 Yea, having access to multiple colors helps. What really made Golos insanely strong for a lands deck was the ability to put utility lands into play at instant speed. Flickering Golos to get out Bojuka bog in response to someone about to combo with their graveyard always felt amazing. Or flickering to grab Glacial Cavern when someone was going to swing at me for lethal was too fun. Plus the colorless casting cost and the ensured land fetch allowed me to way reduce the cost of the deck (ie, I didn't need fetches and other expensive ways to fix mana since I could always grab World Tree after casting Golos if I needed colors) and it allowed me guaranteed access to some of my wincons (primarily Field of the Dead).
I'll miss that deck for sure. I haven't built or played any other deck that has had the same ability to deal with any kind of strategy without counter magic like that deck could. I literally just took it apart a few days ago to take out key $ pieces to use in other decks.
In general, I have yet to make a Izzet commander deck work for me. Spellslinger isn't something I really have a lot of experience with or really gravitate to, and I would like to have one where it doesn't feel like a pile of goodstuff and that is how every spellslinger deck I look at looks like and it bugs me. The other thing with Izzet commanders, some of them really push you towards artifact decks, and maybe it's because at one point I had a Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain cheerios deck and I just hated how good that deck turned out to be and how long those turns turned into, so I have kind of sworn off artifact decks period. So I am waiting to find an Izzet commander that breathes some fresh air into that guild.
I'm willing to bet, most of these glacial crevasses deck are Svella
Let me tell ya.. No better feeling than turning Lazav into an Avacyn. Easily one of the most satisfying games I have played in the past year.
Been in the middle of trying to make a jund lifegain deck for a while. Secret commanders and inspiration are Gyome and Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar but I never want to be the one to ask for special permission partners and every other jund commander that I've looked at falls into sacrifice matters. So the decklist just has too many themes of food tokens, and discard, and treasure tokens and graveyard reanimator and clue tokens so I just keep getting lost in there being an embarrassment of riches. Hoping the next set will be the one to help me find focus.
Late to the party here.
I've been trying to get Inklings to work in Orzhov, obviously. It has not been an easy task. With Strixhaven being a 1 off plain, there isn't much support specifically for them. But I keep trying!
Mathas is an AWESOME commander! I use him for a political deck, it's not super powerful but it's always fun and has some big impacts on the game. Tons of fun!
I once lost sleep over a Morophon recipe, Persistent Petitioners.
With Sunscape Familiar or Nightscape Familiar in play, alongside Morophon, I'll be casting PPs for free.
Beast Whisperer, Zendikar Resurgent, Soul of the Harvest, Primal Sage, and I'll be drawing and playing and drawing and playing and...
Bloodbond March will mass recur my PPs, and free sac outlets will call for a reckoning.
There are planeswalkers who can untap all my creatures, like Jace, Ingenious Mind-Mage and Gideon, Martial Paragon.
It's a massive troll deck.
But... Personally, cards that allows for any number of copies just don't seem fun in practice. Or rather, I'd get sick of them pretty fast.
Just use defence auras on Glenn or ones that have him assign his toughness instead of power with toughness switching blue instant spells. Like Hero's Resolve for +1/+5 then Twisted Image.
Matt should try out Ramses overdark. Also i understand dana's pain when it comes to having too many moving parts.
Wow, Matt didn't bury the lead on his intro!
17:40 you don't need to make it sultai. you could stick with dimir
Had a phenax mill deck.. people didn't like it. I made it into a saturo umezawa deck.. now they can't block my mill boys.. it's so much more fun.. (had a hard time figuring this deck out though..
The disciples of Lord Phenax are saddened by your apostasy. Return to the mill, brother! (mine has an untap theme, plan B is Konrad/Bloodchief Ascension and plan C is beaters -nothing is allowed in that is just a booty!)
@@dwpetrak mine was pretty much the same. I like the play pattern better with saturo tbh. Way more fun when people don’t know what is coming their way
Joey! How about a Lathiel upgrade deck? 😁
Right now, for me, it's Varina Zombies and Saskia Humans.
I saw Varina around when M21 came out and had those extra draw/mill on draw enchantments, and I've tried/failed to make Varina zombies with a mill sub theme since then. It's weird that Varina is kinda tough to make work in a satisfactory way.
Same. It's like you either have to go all in with the Zombies or you have to go all in with the mill.
I didn't like Varina so I went with Nevinyrral as my zombie commander and take advantage of it's etb
The number of times someone tries equipping another equipment onto their only creature that already has Lightning Greaves equipped…
I’d love to see a fully working Runo Stromkirk deck
Depending on what you mean by "fully working" I've got one that plays well enough in my playgroup. And over 2k decks on edhrec means it can't be that bad to work with depending on your standards.
I'm surprised about your difficulties with Wrexial as I feel like my Wrexial deck performs really well. Maybe it's the play pattern: I usually don't cast my big kraken friend until he's protected and ready to end the game, after I've filled the graveyards and have pieced up the sequence that will lead me to victory (extra turns and extra combats spells are the key). My deck fills up my own graveyard along with my opponents, so if there's nothing meaty in theirs, I can reanimate beefy creatures from my own. I love that the power level of Wrexial scales with the power level of my opponents. I remember a game against a table that had much stronger decks than mine, and once I felt the shields were down, I just sequenced 3 extra turn spells to victory from their graveyards.
I would like to challenge the stats of Reveillark + (any clone effect) + Mirror Entity.
Golos would have made been a great choice for a 5c Exalted Commander
Tymaret is good with the control a creature an opponent has.
I made this deck and even though it works fine it just isn't fun
Please add a advanced filter for first printing akin to scryfalls date
This is why you don't watch edhrec to find out how to win, but for themes. Taking apart good decks because its too good ^_^
For Matt's Glenn deck, I'd love to see it built around as a weird Azorius Maro deck. You'd kind of be ignoring the skulk thing and relying on different unblockability, but having Glen with Double Strike and enchantments and equipment like Righteous Authority and Empyrial plate would allow for some very novel wins out of nowhere when you have a full grip of cards. Glen smashes for 8 in first strike damage, draws you eight cards, then smashes for 16 for the knockout.
Could be pretty cool. I hope Matt finds a way with this one!
I get the Kenrith problem. Finding a playpattern that you do not enjoy and also the instinct to go hipster.
Progenetus exalted?
Landfall in Mono Blue. Cosima the god from kaldheim and by god. Not enough explore or landfall in blue
I just recently played against a Cosima vehicles deck. You can't go pure landfall, but you can just Omenkeel + Oblivion Sower to get like 10 counters on Cosima in one shot.
@@drpibisback7680 ooooh well im definitely going to have try that version. But im keeping eye in blue landfall for time being
No wonder Matt's Araumi did not want to work it's the wrong arrangement of GW
humans are the bad guys not the zombies
The hardest color combination to get work is "four color, no green".
The restriction being absolutely no green cards including green mana.
The hard part is ignoring your deck begging you to add green.~ lol
Chromatic lantern? No.
City of brass? Nope.
The number of thy counting will include no green.
Manna birds? Right out.
My favorite color combination not-green
@@Ixidora this
geth mill?