Reconnaissance is one of my favorite adds to my Kaalia deck as there's no such thing as enough protection for a kill on sight commander like her and helps get those triggers without risking her. I doubled down with Giver of Runes too. Love some of the other stuff you put in though got a good amount of inspiration off this, awesome stuff!
I have started watching you for the Kaalia! I am still here for the Kaalia and I can not be happier to see a Kaalia content. I am currently rebuilding a Kaalia into high power EDH deck and I am happy to see a list somewhere between high power and casual that I can take a lot of inspiration for balancing the power of my deck and the power of my pod that is slightly behind my ideas for now! Thank you!
I have a kaalia deck thats angel tribal. Designed it based on my mother who was a red head. In tribute to her of her passing i made it angel only. Things like earthquake i use for one sided board wipes. And cards akeen to it. I also made it with reanimators so whichever angels or even kaalia can keep coming back to fight. Things like teferi’s protection. Guardian of faith. Akroma’s protection, loran’s escape. The boots. Darksteel. To keep kaalia alive. And akroma’s will for the “ima hit y’all really hard” card. It isnt super high end in terms of proper cdh. Cause no dragons or demons. But totally works for me!
@blad3br3aker at one point or another I did have an all angels version, Avacyn and all, it schmacked but then Giada came out and the secret lair angel deck so most of my top tier Angels went to that deck now. But yea, it was pretty cool.
I have a kaalia deck, and an unloved dragon mage just sitting there that I just didn't have a spot for. And poof, now I do. Also love that dracuseth call out because I am running that in my deck. Great stuff. My deck is very near this, including the land base. I've had the issues you bring up having dumped my hand and no cards, and also protection. It's very common for me when I pull this deck out the table goes: "Well, we know who archenemy is."
@@commanderbydaenen im not hating on kaalia but my pod runs a high variety of very cruel removals like darksteel mutation, oko, song of the dryad...etc. and its always reserved for that KoS commander like kaalia. i feel that the deck is just so so so reliant on kaalia that facing the kind of removals and hate she is supposed to get wont make it fun for the kaalia player. our kaalia player only ever got to fire off once and since then he's gotten so miserable playing kaalia that he never really bothers to bring it out again unless there is a more degenerate commander on the table to take the attention away
I decided to change out Master of Cruelties for the Ancient Gold Dragon + Dragon Tempest combo. 55%(ish) chance of killing everyone at 40 life, which I think is far more funny and no one feels bad for being targeted with MoC.
I love seeing these video i get so excited just to see what you come up with. Keep up the awesome work !Cant lie i would like to see a update bruvac deck.
This looks like a very solid list. It's nice that you are explicitly stating you're going having on the ramp as your alternative/resilience strategy in the event Kaalia gets hated out. I have been wondering about an alternative strategy, namely swapping some of the protection for reanimation and drawing for looting. What do you think of this? Doom whisperer & ripples of undeath for draw and mill, faithless looting, bitter reunion and cathartic reunion for draw and loot, reanimate, animate dead, necromancy & Corpse Dance for reanimation, and swap one of the boardwipes for Living death to simultaneously wipe and bring back all the big stuff. Something along those lines.
Reanimation can be great with Kaalia. I ran Reya Dawnbringer for many years. I'd recommend Wheel effects. There are several budget wheels, so you don't have to run out and drop $350 on a Wheel of Fortune. They can help fill your graveyard and refill your hand.
@@commanderbydaenen Thanks for the reply! Kaalia of the Wheel, hadn't thought of that, but I like the idea :) In that case, phyrexian reclamation and unburial rites might also be solid picks.
Your Kaalia video inspired me to make my own deck. Do you ever review other ppl’s decks and give pointers on how to improve? I would love your feedback on my Kaalia deck
I have been tweaking my Kaalia for a long time now, and I've finally settled on leaning hard into the extra combats. Still working on including the right amount of interaction though! But like you, I also jammed in tons of card draw.
Out of curiosity, which cards are you including that are for the extra combats? And perhaps which are your combat all-stars? I just added the 3 ancient dragons to mine :)
@markvandergiessen3158 I've had my eye on the ancients, just never tried them. How are they working for you? For extra combats I have [[Hellkite Charger]], [[Aurelia, the Warleader]], [[Bloodthirster]], [[Scourge of the throne]], [[response // resurgence]], [[Relentless assault]], [[seize the day]], and [[aggravated assault]]. There are a few more that could be included but I get weird with themes. Like [[Great Train heist]] is a really cool card, but my brain won't allow trains in my picture of Kaalia murdering people with Dragons, Angels, and Demons lol. Id say my all stars for this deck are [[Avacyn, Angel of hope]], [[Aurelia, the war leader]], [[gisela, Blade of goldnight]], and [[rakdos, patron of chaos]]. Any of those paired with Demons that take more life like [[bloodletter of aclazotz]] and [[Archfiend of despair]] can drain people really quick.
@markvandergiessen3158 doesn't look like my comment went through initially so posting again, sorry if you get alerted twice! I've been curious about the ancients, how do they work for you? Extra combat spells I run are Aggravated assault, Relentless assault, seize the day, and response/resurgence. Then I run creatures like Bloodthirster, Scourge of the throne, hellkite charger, and Aurelia for more combats too. I'm weird with themes, so even though great train heist would be amazing, I don't run it because it breaks the immersion in my head. My all stars outside of the extra combat creats would have to be Avacyn, Gisela, and Demons that double life loss like Bloodletter and Archfiend of Despair.
@@whitelawrencea Thanks for the reply! The ancients are a bit RNG because of the roll. Sometimes they do nothing, sometimes they win the game on the spot. I like them though :) Ancient Gold Dragon with dragon tempest is often a win right there. Ancient Brass Dragon has gotten me my own Avacyn from my grave after a forced discard, or things like sheoldred AND archfiend of cruelty from the black player, in one go. Ancient copper suddenly rolling a 20 allowing you to drop your entire hand feels great too...when it works. I don't really focus on extra combats. Just yesterday though I closed a game with Aurelia and Bloodthirster. I got confused by the extra combats, but felt good :)
Reconnaissance is one of my favorite adds to my Kaalia deck as there's no such thing as enough protection for a kill on sight commander like her and helps get those triggers without risking her. I doubled down with Giver of Runes too. Love some of the other stuff you put in though got a good amount of inspiration off this, awesome stuff!
I have started watching you for the Kaalia! I am still here for the Kaalia and I can not be happier to see a Kaalia content. I am currently rebuilding a Kaalia into high power EDH deck and I am happy to see a list somewhere between high power and casual that I can take a lot of inspiration for balancing the power of my deck and the power of my pod that is slightly behind my ideas for now! Thank you!
I have a kaalia deck thats angel tribal. Designed it based on my mother who was a red head. In tribute to her of her passing i made it angel only.
Things like earthquake i use for one sided board wipes. And cards akeen to it. I also made it with reanimators so whichever angels or even kaalia can keep coming back to fight.
Things like teferi’s protection. Guardian of faith. Akroma’s protection, loran’s escape. The boots. Darksteel. To keep kaalia alive. And akroma’s will for the “ima hit y’all really hard” card.
It isnt super high end in terms of proper cdh. Cause no dragons or demons. But totally works for me!
@blad3br3aker at one point or another I did have an all angels version, Avacyn and all, it schmacked but then Giada came out and the secret lair angel deck so most of my top tier Angels went to that deck now. But yea, it was pretty cool.
I have a kaalia deck, and an unloved dragon mage just sitting there that I just didn't have a spot for. And poof, now I do. Also love that dracuseth call out because I am running that in my deck. Great stuff. My deck is very near this, including the land base. I've had the issues you bring up having dumped my hand and no cards, and also protection. It's very common for me when I pull this deck out the table goes: "Well, we know who archenemy is."
I've been asked to bring it out, was turn 1 Archenemy, still won. Kaalia is such a beast and I love her.
@@commanderbydaenen im not hating on kaalia but my pod runs a high variety of very cruel removals like darksteel mutation, oko, song of the dryad...etc. and its always reserved for that KoS commander like kaalia. i feel that the deck is just so so so reliant on kaalia that facing the kind of removals and hate she is supposed to get wont make it fun for the kaalia player. our kaalia player only ever got to fire off once and since then he's gotten so miserable playing kaalia that he never really bothers to bring it out again unless there is a more degenerate commander on the table to take the attention away
I decided to change out Master of Cruelties for the Ancient Gold Dragon + Dragon Tempest combo. 55%(ish) chance of killing everyone at 40 life, which I think is far more funny and no one feels bad for being targeted with MoC.
Need AGD for my Kaalia deck. Im just going to have both so my friends hate me.
I love seeing these video i get so excited just to see what you come up with. Keep up the awesome work !Cant lie i would like to see a update bruvac deck.
This looks like a very solid list. It's nice that you are explicitly stating you're going having on the ramp as your alternative/resilience strategy in the event Kaalia gets hated out.
I have been wondering about an alternative strategy, namely swapping some of the protection for reanimation and drawing for looting. What do you think of this? Doom whisperer & ripples of undeath for draw and mill, faithless looting, bitter reunion and cathartic reunion for draw and loot, reanimate, animate dead, necromancy & Corpse Dance for reanimation, and swap one of the boardwipes for Living death to simultaneously wipe and bring back all the big stuff. Something along those lines.
Reanimation can be great with Kaalia. I ran Reya Dawnbringer for many years. I'd recommend Wheel effects. There are several budget wheels, so you don't have to run out and drop $350 on a Wheel of Fortune. They can help fill your graveyard and refill your hand.
@@commanderbydaenen Thanks for the reply! Kaalia of the Wheel, hadn't thought of that, but I like the idea :) In that case, phyrexian reclamation and unburial rites might also be solid picks.
Your Kaalia video inspired me to make my own deck. Do you ever review other ppl’s decks and give pointers on how to improve? I would love your feedback on my Kaalia deck
I have been tweaking my Kaalia for a long time now, and I've finally settled on leaning hard into the extra combats. Still working on including the right amount of interaction though! But like you, I also jammed in tons of card draw.
Out of curiosity, which cards are you including that are for the extra combats? And perhaps which are your combat all-stars? I just added the 3 ancient dragons to mine :)
@markvandergiessen3158 I've had my eye on the ancients, just never tried them. How are they working for you?
For extra combats I have [[Hellkite Charger]], [[Aurelia, the Warleader]], [[Bloodthirster]], [[Scourge of the throne]], [[response // resurgence]], [[Relentless assault]], [[seize the day]], and [[aggravated assault]]. There are a few more that could be included but I get weird with themes. Like [[Great Train heist]] is a really cool card, but my brain won't allow trains in my picture of Kaalia murdering people with Dragons, Angels, and Demons lol.
Id say my all stars for this deck are [[Avacyn, Angel of hope]], [[Aurelia, the war leader]], [[gisela, Blade of goldnight]], and [[rakdos, patron of chaos]]. Any of those paired with Demons that take more life like [[bloodletter of aclazotz]] and [[Archfiend of despair]] can drain people really quick.
@markvandergiessen3158 doesn't look like my comment went through initially so posting again, sorry if you get alerted twice!
I've been curious about the ancients, how do they work for you?
Extra combat spells I run are Aggravated assault, Relentless assault, seize the day, and response/resurgence. Then I run creatures like Bloodthirster, Scourge of the throne, hellkite charger, and Aurelia for more combats too. I'm weird with themes, so even though great train heist would be amazing, I don't run it because it breaks the immersion in my head.
My all stars outside of the extra combat creats would have to be Avacyn, Gisela, and Demons that double life loss like Bloodletter and Archfiend of Despair.
@@whitelawrencea Thanks for the reply!
The ancients are a bit RNG because of the roll. Sometimes they do nothing, sometimes they win the game on the spot. I like them though :) Ancient Gold Dragon with dragon tempest is often a win right there. Ancient Brass Dragon has gotten me my own Avacyn from my grave after a forced discard, or things like sheoldred AND archfiend of cruelty from the black player, in one go. Ancient copper suddenly rolling a 20 allowing you to drop your entire hand feels great too...when it works.
I don't really focus on extra combats. Just yesterday though I closed a game with Aurelia and Bloodthirster. I got confused by the extra combats, but felt good :)
I'm just starting and this video help me A LOT!, Thanks.
Do you think Iroas, God of Victory is worth it as protection?
Up to you! Depends on your meta and your pod. Some, I would say it is worth it. Others, not so much.
@@commanderbydaenen Thank you! Appreciate it.
no extra combat ? I assumed to keep mana up to protect your board ?
Thanks!!
Roaming throne!
W deck
? you can't run blue in the deck...
Fetch lands don't have a color identity so you can play them in any deck.
lmao why is your twitch plug you eating xD
Friend of mine is a streamer who is too embarrassed to eat while streaming. So I did it to tease her.
Just play Commander sphere over Savai crystal, no?
no hall of the bandit lord?