The most unique deck I've ever built is a "Plants vs Zombies" themed deck using the partner commanders 'Tormod the desecrator' and 'Kodama of the east tree'
@Damien Brandle As a Hydra Tribal Rosheen is better, because Gargos should be seen as a commander with "targeted spells matter" theme in mind. Mine started focusing more on Auras so I've incorporated Enchantress strategy for card draw and Instant speed targeted protection like Vines of Vastwood.
As a Gargos player, I totally agree with the strategy being used here especially the fight trigger. However, I pulled the plug and played Selvala as a commander for my Hydra tribe because it cost a lot less to cast, but I still have him in my 99.
Mutates work really well with Gargos, cause you're casting a spell that targets a creature, so it will trigger it. I run Gargos in my mutate deck and it always works wonderfully as removal
oh my sweet lord, I just loved seeing Ixidor here. Onslaught was the first set I ever played with, and I vividly remember thinking Ixidor was a very cool character. HE HAD CREATED AN ANGEL!!! HE COULD SCULPT REALITIES!!!! A few weeks ago I was looking around to see if someone had a cool idea for an Ixidor commander deck, and now I want this manifest idea do be a thing SO BADLY
Fun deck idea for people to steal if they're interested: Hakka, Whispering Raven Voltron. The best way for your voltron commander to not get removed is for them not to be on the board. You can use Lightning Graves and Swiftfoot Boots for haste of course, but blue gives you access to flash in cards like Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir (who himself has flash); Leyline of Anticipation; and even Thryx, the Sudden Storm (MDFC cards use the CMC of the front side of the card, so this works). You can use any equipment you want, but I find one hugely underrated voltron card is Hero's Blade, and here, I feel like it would be even more effective given that every time Hakka enters, it equips for free. That being said, maybe for whatever reason, you don't want Hakka to leave the battlefield. You can also run Sundial of the Infinite, Discontinuity, and Time Stop. Just end the turn with the trigger on the stack. As for evasion, Hakka has flying innately, but in case that's not enough Thassa, God of the Sea, on top of many other cards in blue, can give Hakka unblockable. Seems like it could be a fun deck.
I love building decks that take commanders in an unconventional direction! I would love to see more episodes like this in the future. One of my favorit decks (though not exactly budget) is a Golos deck, that doesn't use Golos' activated ability at all, instead uses the tutor ability to be secretly an Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth "swamps matter" deck, taking advantage of all the old cards that care about swamps like Angry Mob, Roots of Life and Karma.
I've been retooling a vehicle deck "wheel," deck around vadrok, apex of thunder, and the new ships/runes from kaldheim are just what it needed (fun fact, since runes can be put onto permanents, you can rune up a vehicle before you pilot it, then when it becomes a creature it gains the rune buff), vadrok and a few other key mutates bring back low to the ground vehicles, spells that create tokens to pilot, or wheel spells to refuel. Its like a voltron deck where the commander is the thing you're suiting things up with
I always thought that Budoka Gardner was a fun and unique commander, essentially allowing you to make a deck where almost all of the cards in it are lands
@@wustenfuchsgaming1226 i mean you could still build the deck and when you meet up to play just ask if that woulf be ok. You would be surprised by how many people are curious about decks like this and let you play with it anyway
Olivia Voldaren. I built an Olivia Voldaren deck that is designed to steal opponents creatures, then sacrifice them. I did build it around Vampire tribal, but you don't have to. In black, there are many creatures with a sacrifice ability. I even have Ashnod's Alter in it. The deck is a little pricey due to the fact that I have an older Sol Ring and an older Ashnod's Alter, because why not. At the time, Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet was $20. Now the deck doesn't seem much play because my friends will automatically target me whenever I pull her out.
Love seeing these! I love decks that are built thinking "outside of the box". I myself have a Sliver Hivelord mutate deck, people always think that there's a sliver-tribal coming 🥴😅
For atla palani, my build around her utilizes wheel of sun and moon along with a ton eggs, infinitely sac'ing them to get an arbitrarily large board. The mirror entity tech is really useful though, as it is another card I can use both as a sac outlet and as an egg itself, meaning I can use creature tutors to find wheel of sun and moon for the deck to work, such as academy rector.
I've done lots of unique ones. Some of my favorites are mono-red infect with Subira, a super convoluted changeling tribal deck with Morophon that gets infinite ETBs off a Cloudstone Curio or similar effect, and, above all, my Tajic, Legions Edge deck that tries to one shot everyone at once with Skirk Fire Marshal.
My Rakdos, Lord of Riots deck is all about exiling from the top of the library. Once he gets going, especially with Experimental Frenzy, he churns through the deck casting eldritch horrors and robots, top first. Big hitters include Doom Whisperer, Conduit of Ruin (tutors to the top, not hand), Galvanic Relay, Tectonic Reformation to cycle unwanted lands away, and my favorite dorky sleeper card, Madblind Mountain. As long as you control two red permanents, you can use it to shuffle your library. And it’s fetchable! There’s conventional draw power in the deck too, but impulsive draw works well with the cost reduction. Plus, a card like Sire of Insanity becomes one-sided, forcing opponents to topdeck a boardwipe or die within three turns max. It’s miserable, but not for very long.
Its always great to see different takes in Commander. It can get really boring when all you see the same things. I really like my decks because they are different. Whenever I make someone go "do what now? or hmmm didn't see that coming" its a win. Every time I say Tribal Thopter Commander deck I grab people's attention and I love it.
I love playing and building decks with underrepresented abilities or tribes. I’m building a curse deck with Ardenn right now bc I can move curses around :D
Thank you for the ideas for Nylea and Gargos. I've been wanting to build mono-green artficats for a while so definitely will adapt your angle. Gargos I want to build on a budget and avoid going Hydra. This seems like the perfect commander!
I have an adventure tribal deck with kenrith as my commander where I play every adventure as well as the support cards for adventures and things like kess, baral, niv mizzet, ral, etc. Although im now inspired to add boune cards to the deck so i can recast some of the better ones
I read recently about using The Scarab God for a rogue tribal deck. Pretty much just get value off your low to the ground unblockables and then when they die, reanimate them into 4/4 unblockables. I thought that was a pretty neat take on TSG.
My most unusual build is Siona, Captain of Pyleas. People usually build it as a Selesnya weenies deck using Gift of immortality, but I took it into a completely different direction by building a deck that tries to find Reins of the Vinesteed and Altar of Dementia. Reins has a triggered ability that makes it attach itself to a creature that shares a type with enchanted creature when that dies, so you cast Reins targeting a Soldier token created by Siona, make another Soldier, sacrifice the enchanted one to the Altar to mill someone for 3, return Reins from your graveyard and attach it to previously created Soldier, which creates another Soldier, and you probably see where this is going.. Nobody expects a Selsnya mill deck!
I love trying to do any sort of crazy things. I found a Red pillow fort any creatures that attack better have protection from Red or be indestructible. Another is using phage's etb to kill the opponents instead of her attack.
Not budget but extremely powerful! (I have a similar problem watching this show sometimes. My decks are like my little pets and over the years I buy them all the pretty toys…)
@@emilysmith2965 hmmm... not budget? Did any of these cards spiked recently or it just regional price differences? I remember that back when I bought these cards the most expensive one was Vigor for like 10 BR bucks (currently about 2.50 US money). Also, I miss my Polukranos deck, it was my first commander deck, but I disassembled it to build Mazirek Insects, I bought some cool new stuff for Polukranos but I can't bring myself to tear down my insects deck haha
That's really fun! My favorite I've seen is Zur the enchanter, but you don't make everyone hate you with stax. You fetch up Astral slide in a cycling deck and make everyone hate you by blinking stuff faster than brago.
I’ve made an obeka brute chronologist deck, where I had a bunch of in tappers and when someone did something I’d ask them to end their turn multiple times, and there are ways to infinitely untap her, so you have to ask each one, everytime, until they say yes
My friend has an atla scrambled eggs deck! It's amazing and he tends to pull it out when others we are playing with are pubstomping or playing ridiculous decks. It has like a 90% win rate!
I use two cards mentioned in this in one of my more unique builds. I made Atla Palani Enrage with Kamahl Fist of Krosa as my finisher. The deck is full of cards that deal one damage to each creature (which kills eggs and triggers my enrage creatures) to then get Kamahl and destroy everyones lands.
Mitch I’m so glad you highlighted ixidor for manifest tribal! Not many realize but the C18 aminatou deck was secretly a manifest deck and my hope is that one day we can get more support.
I personally use Gargos' second ability as a focus of the deck, but there are some cool hydras worth considering to utilize it's first ability: Hydra Omnivore - secondary voltron, which might end games on its own Some cool X-costed Hydras: Lifeblood Hydra - powerful lifegain and card draw ability, especially combined with Greater Good effects Steelbane Hydra - repeatable artifact and enchantment hate Voracious Hydra - incidental removal spell on a creature (especially useful on a creatures bigger than Gargos or with some form of Deathtouch/Wither)
I've built an alesha who smiles at death deck only using cards from before 8th edition and timeshifted cards as a gimmick, the main combo is a mountainwalking Combined with mystic compass and radiant dragoons for 5 health per turn, I also have graveyard recursion on etb as well as sac machines.
I built a celestial Kirin deck that only plays 4 and 1 cmc permanents and is packed with spirits of all the other cmcs up to 6. Kirin is 4cmc and tends to blow itself up unless you give it indestructible, which some players do. But I decided just to not add any 4cmc spirits. Now I can safely play 4cmc spells! Tokens win con cuz tokens can't be blown up with Kirin's ability.
I built the Marwyn deck tin the past, but ultimately changed the commander to Yurlok. Same strategy with big/infinite mana, infinite combos and commander damage, but with three colors and added redundancy. For those who want to experience mana burn and subject it on their friends without playing stax I recommend this rout
I play Kazuul as a Commander for monored Turbo Fog, which I guess is unexpected for any commander and most fitting for him. My Gyome is Cat and Artifact themed, using the Cat Tribal and Artifact destruction synergies like Qasalis Slingers with Liquimental Coating to have cats push artifacts from the table. Verazol is a great Mutate Commander too, just as a base to mutate on with the counters. Kynaios and Tyro are at the helm of my 4 Color Moonfolk deck, to help me replay lands.
My take on Atla was inspired by your lord tribal deck. I made Atla into all tribes including every card I could find that allows creatures to become all types until at least the end of turn then a bunch of the best tribal cards I could find allowing me to cycle through the entire deck with sacrifice effects or mirror entity. It's just chaos but so fun
I love these. I recently took apart my Narset, Enlightened Master Minigame deck. Spells that either helped everyone, or helped in one way and punished in another, or voting cards. Just a general nuisance. And then I let the other players choose the targets for any of my effects unless it targets my stuff. It was pretty fun.
I have a super budget Xyris, the Writhing Storm Voltron deck, it costs under 40€. Mostly its pump combat tricks and a few equipments like Stoneforge Masterwork. The deck is brutal.
So most unique decks I’ve designed/built/played against… I’m currently building an Akroma+Sakashima Clones deck, I’ve built a Brudiclad Reanimator and designed Brudiclad Goblins, and probably one of the most unique decks I’ve played against was a Parley Selvala Mill list. I also built and played a lot of a deck I call Shirei Dies at the End, where everything has power >2 and toughness of 1, and the goal is to use Heartless Summoning to always instant kill everything and have it constantly come back every end step (I actually need a lifeline for that deck since I’ve read the errata text). Those are just a few. I’ve grown tired of playing only combo decks, but I am working on a Grist combo deck that uses Maskwood Nexus, The Chain Veil, and any of the 4 ‘Put any number of creatures from your graveyard on top of your library’ cards to win. It’s a pure value deck with a combo finish. However idk if this counts. My pet deck is always my Alesha who Summons Legends deck. Every card in the deck is Legendary. All the creatures have to be power 2 or less. It’s one of the funnest restrictions I’ve ever done, and it’s never a T1-2 deck. It’s always like T3.5. But it’s fun to play, and sometimes that’s all that matters. Love the content, and keep up with the silly decks! P.S. totally stealing Gargos’s Fight Club.
A Morophon voltron where since it is all creature types, using creature type cost reducers like Gargos to make your commander free to cast (even if it dies a few times) then voltron it for a commander damage takedown. Also if you want to mess with your library and graveyard a lot, I built a deck with Morophon as if it were Red/Green that played more like a Blue/Black deck because nothing would stay dead including my instants and sorceries, and Morophon was only cast from my hand or deck after the first cast out of the command zone.
I made a Kaervek the Spiteful deck that is similar to Kataki in this video. Its all 1 toughness creatures you’re supposed to flood for. Find Shirei Shizo’s Caretaker and you have a turnly revival and death loop for things like the etb/ltb discard rats. Blood artist, zulaport, etc.
Sevinne the Chronoclasm looks like a Flashback value commander who uses Damage based board wipes , but it's actually an extra-turns-i-win combo commander in disguise. With Time Warp, Mystic Retrieval, and Pull From Eternity in your graveyard, you can combo off for the win if you have Sevinne in play. So essentially, you just flashback the Mystic Retrieval which returns the Time Warp to your hand, but it's copied by Sevinne so you also get the Pull From Eternity as well. You cast the time warp, and pass the turn to yourself. On your second turn, you cast Pull From Eternity on the Mystic Retrieval in exile, and return it to your graveyard. Then you cast the Time Warp to get an extra turn. On that extra turn all three cards are back in your graveyard, and you are back at the beginning again. The way you get to this combo is by a self-mill strategy as the pieces are so obscure nobody will fit them together into a combo. This combo isn't even recognized on EDHrec, it's that obscure. So anyways, I hope you enjoyed this combo. So essentially, once you take infinite turns you can draw your deck and win from there, probably by using a pinger like guttersnipe, or electric wall. One of the strongest cards in this deck is Oona's grace, second to Throes of Chaos. Both of them are bad spells on the face, but when you get to copy them (and cast them over and over for discarding a land) they get really good. Also, I run two tutors in my deck, but those are expensive. Also Also, the original version ran Thousand-Year Storm, but that just got silly.
For me it's my Kwain Voltron deck. I get Assault Suit on him asap and load him up with equipment that helps ramp, then start Goading him to get people to tap him for me. I'll use the card draw to either turbo mill (as expected) or set up a Cyclonic Rift into Armageddon and give the Bun a Demotion so they have to make him swing in for the kill before they can rebuild. It's supplemented with the usual Azorius stuff, but the fact that I help my opponents dig into answers and out of durdles makes it digestable. Apparently a Rabbit's foot is all it takes to make the stax and pillowfort go down.
My favorite deck that I ever designed was called Death by Boredom, it had no win conditions and mostly spammed peace talks and similar effects (like orims chant) - with isochrom scepter... basically everyone plays forever and you just keep wiping the board. It was also group hug with howling mines... some hard to find cards these days like Energy Barrier, glacial Chasm, and Gaea's blessing to keep you from dying to mill, Gerrard's wisdom... just a really fun deck... don't know if it would work in a singleton format though... might try to build a commander version
I play a really unique Mogis deck using cards that hit the whole board (Like pyrohemia) combined with creatures that have triggers when damaged (Like coal swine) along with urza's armor and witchbane orbs. It's actually an incredible deck that's a lot of fun to play and to play against. It lets everyone play the game, but has a lot of ways to punish them (Mana barbs, Polluted bonds, etc.)
I have been dying to make kataki interesting, this is great. Also I use a ton of manifesting in my kadenamorph deck while ixidor is in the 99, but idk how spicy that tech is
One of my favorite commanders that I never see is Stitcher Geralf. He was my first commander ever and I loved him so much even tho I made him with all the bargain bin garbage that I had.
Geralf is really good… he just needs cheap big things with huge drawbacks to be your mill… how about Lupine Prototype? A 5/5 for 2 that can’t attack or block unless somebody’s hellbent? Throw it in!
it is undoubtedly one of the best video on the edh format! I love the original decks like the ones presented! I hope for another ep! and if anyone sees my com and other deck offers i'm a taker!
I designed a Palladia Mors the Ruiner deck utilizing equipment and buffing spells to manipulate combat. Cards like Aurelia the Warleader, Master Warcraft, and Akroma Vision of Ixidor are some of the win cons. Basically, instead of Naya landfall and beats with Palladia, I used a different combat strategy instead.
Yes!! This is the content we watch Mitch for: janky budget brews!! Grothama, Horobi and Rionya are some of my favourite oddball decks I've built. Currently working on a political Nevinyrral deck that gives people creatures then wipes the board and turns them into zombies.
I like playing tergrid as a kind of group hug deck, everyone draws Then make everyone discard and now I have lots of stuff, only downside is I don't believe black has a wheel.
I've made a fight deck too and it was using the Tarrasque from forgotten realms as the commander and then a bunch of other things that synergie with it
Braids, Conjuerer Adept: Unapologetic, take no prisoners, Blue Aggro. Roalesk, Apex Hybrid: a Mortal Kombat Deck that fights any creature that hits the board and eventually overwhelms you with blue prowess attacks and mid-game creatures that have suddenly become late-game level threats. Archelos, Lagoon Mystic: Slows you down while flooding the board with relentless attacks from green weenies (mostly frogs) and combat tricks (mostly deathtouch/indestructible/evasion), using oodles of fog effects for defense. I call it Turbofrog.
I have an Atla Palani deck that is a landfall deck. Essentially I use atla to get the creatures with landfall abilities and I use the lands to power more plays. It's not great, but I like it.
With all the interesting weird decks I’ve seen and after seeing a couple cards now that turn artifacts into creatures. Got thinking of building a deck around mana rocks that kill, either as creatures or with bludgeon brawl as equipment. Using dalakos as the commander
Most unique deck I have is using house to roll dice, but I have all 7 bobbleheads and the 3 ancient dragons that house's colors can use. I just made a Ygra deck with a bunch of food synergy and im even making a black/white spirit deck I call the plot armor deck with King of Oathbreakers as commander. Its also a soul eater proxy deck cause I couldn't find anyone who's made that and I like designing them.
I think I just made a budget deck never seen before; Malcolm and Kediss as Partner Commanders. Malcolm the flying pirate dealing damage then Kediss making the damage hit all opponents. It's a little janky right now but I am working on it.
I noticed that a lot of token spawning cards so so when they enter the battlefield, so I turned my Yarok deck into a token deck with cards like Myr battlesphere, hornet queen, avenger of zendikar, ferocious cub, basically anything that spawns in tokens when it enters the field to turn Yarok into a pseudo parallel lives. Turned out to be more fun than just using excessive ETB value to sorta ruin the game for everyone else.
i have a "tribal elf" marwyn build, that uses altar of the brood, altar of dementia, and the ozolith, marwyn out, i vomit up a ton of elves, and altar of the brood mills everyone for each, then once that is dealt with, i sac all the elves and marwyn to altar of dementia to grind someone down further (usually to lethal by that point) and with Ozolith and all of the mana i made from marwyn, i just bring her back, go to combat and she is right back to where she was, sac again, and boom another player down. i havent gotten my hands on one yet, but Omnath also sits pretty in this setup. so yea, mono green mill... its one of my favorites.
I see my girl Atla in the thumbnail, that's a easy click for me. My Atla helmed dino/Enrage theme deck was the first deck I built 100% from scratch for EDH, and I still love playing it. It is so strong and can come out of nowhere. Nobody considers the guy sitting there making 0/1 eggs a threat until you have 5 or 6 of them and they all the sudden become a board of big stompy dinos with a slew of Enrage triggers.
I have 2 decks that I haven't seen anyone else do, I may be wrong but still. First one is a Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools paired with Prismatic Piper (used for white) for a Thrull tribal deck. Then my second one is a Derevi, Empyrial Tactician doing artifact vehicle stuff
The most unique deck I've built was Kwain Theft. It uses group card draw to allow my opponents to dig into their decks so I can steal their best stuff so I can use it against them.
Two wild decks I enjoy are Codie but it's a gates deck, fine land, find land find land win no one expects you to diabolic tutor for land xD And Secondly a tatsunari toad rider deck, but it focuses on mutate, make a kami mutate the frog now it's not a kami make another mutate them repeat. Then eventually you play a enchant enough for your enemies to die.
I made a Rarity Clone/ETB deck that my playgroup regretted allowing. Make clones of Rarity with cards like Spark Double to bypass legendary rule. Everything g gets cost reduced everything gets protection from most colors if I can find my daughter's MLP toy, and we use a lot of ETB and bounce effects to abuse the cost reduction.
I know blim is just terrible, but when I built him I threw in a bunch of spells that make me gain control of an opponent's creature, and then I pass them off to another player before the turn ends 😈😈. It never won, but it did make for some great fun.
Kodi permanent donation is actually a lot more popular in my playgroup than a typical Spellslinger Kodi deck. My playgroup likes playing jank and bizarre combos that can somehow work and Kodi donate is basically one of those.
I actually play a coddie donator deck now after that video, my favorite (and most evil) thing to do is play phage the untouchable, the fractured identity targeting phage
Sen triplets means everyone will hate you and attack you first. So instead of stax, build Sen Triplets basically like Selenia Dark angel, as life total swap tribal, with mirror universe, axis of mortality, reverse the sands, tree of perdition, tainted remedy, and so on.
My favorite unorthodox deck was Glissa, The Traitor. Only one card wasn't a permanent, Primal Surge. Play the whole deck and win by infinite turns, mill, or combat damage 👍
I think my unique deck is niv mizzet goblins. Basically cast a ton of draw cards and token creation for goblins and flood the board and ping opposing creatures after thr battle phase to kill them
Mitch, and others, for the ixidor deck idea, consider swapping out for marchesa the black rose. It is my favourite morph deck. People never see it coming 😄 and then you start sacking 3/3 for omniecense and the like.
I also thought about the Manifest "tribal", but with Kadena as the commander since you have access to some more manifest cards like Wild Call, Ethereal Ambush and Qarsi High Priest, but I think it's still not enough cards with the mechanic to make it into a full deck around this strategy.
a thing you can do w/ morophon is play maskwood nexus which makes every crearure every creature type and than just play a bunch of powerful creatures with absolutely no synergy
Not sure it's quite as off the wall as these, but I just couldn't get an Alesha Aristocrats build to work, since I've found it's pretty hard to get aristocrats to work great without one of a) cheap creature generation, b) sac outlet or c) death triggers in the command zone (ideally more than one of those), unless you have something that's such a force multiplier like Teysa's death-harmonicon effect, and one cheap reanimation per turn (assuming you draw yet another card that lets you get in profitable attacks with Alesha) just isn't enough, in my experience. But since I had the deck, and wanted to make something work with it, I found Mardu aggro infect works pretty well with her. Infect makes her "power 2 or less" restriction a lot less restricting, and lots of infect creatures are already power 2 or less. Add in some anthems, some ways to get damage through, ect, and I think she works better that way than with aristocrats. You just need to make sure you won't become archenemy the moment you reveal you're going the infect route, which is probably the trickiest part.
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The most unique deck I've ever built is a "Plants vs Zombies" themed deck using the partner commanders 'Tormod the desecrator' and 'Kodama of the east tree'
Do you have a decklist?
Please make a mtggoldfish deck list and share the link…
No way! Post the link!
Mitch you are an inspiration for budget builders. These go toe to toe with some of the best.
He's an inspiration to non-budget builders as well.
Congrats on 69 likes! Noice
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I'm convinced Mitch himself made a burner account solely for this.
@@renemenjivar1141 I get that a lot :)
Nice to see you, gladly i have 5 of you from the Time you were brandnew.
Oooh I noticed a card I own in the thumbnail. I smell a new deck on it's way!!
Last time I was this early commander edh itself was unique!
Gargos was my first edh deck when my play group transitioned to edh rather than modern (best decision we made)! Very fun :)
Gargos Gang rise up
Gargos is just awesome. I just got done building a Commander deck with him and it’s so much fun and fun summoning Hydras for 1-2 mana 😁
@Damien Brandle As a Hydra Tribal Rosheen is better, because Gargos should be seen as a commander with "targeted spells matter" theme in mind. Mine started focusing more on Auras so I've incorporated Enchantress strategy for card draw and Instant speed targeted protection like Vines of Vastwood.
As a Gargos player, I totally agree with the strategy being used here especially the fight trigger. However, I pulled the plug and played Selvala as a commander for my Hydra tribe because it cost a lot less to cast, but I still have him in my 99.
Mutates work really well with Gargos, cause you're casting a spell that targets a creature, so it will trigger it. I run Gargos in my mutate deck and it always works wonderfully as removal
oh my sweet lord, I just loved seeing Ixidor here. Onslaught was the first set I ever played with, and I vividly remember thinking Ixidor was a very cool character. HE HAD CREATED AN ANGEL!!! HE COULD SCULPT REALITIES!!!!
A few weeks ago I was looking around to see if someone had a cool idea for an Ixidor commander deck, and now I want this manifest idea do be a thing SO BADLY
Fun deck idea for people to steal if they're interested:
Hakka, Whispering Raven Voltron.
The best way for your voltron commander to not get removed is for them not to be on the board. You can use Lightning Graves and Swiftfoot Boots for haste of course, but blue gives you access to flash in cards like Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir (who himself has flash); Leyline of Anticipation; and even Thryx, the Sudden Storm (MDFC cards use the CMC of the front side of the card, so this works). You can use any equipment you want, but I find one hugely underrated voltron card is Hero's Blade, and here, I feel like it would be even more effective given that every time Hakka enters, it equips for free.
That being said, maybe for whatever reason, you don't want Hakka to leave the battlefield. You can also run Sundial of the Infinite, Discontinuity, and Time Stop. Just end the turn with the trigger on the stack.
As for evasion, Hakka has flying innately, but in case that's not enough Thassa, God of the Sea, on top of many other cards in blue, can give Hakka unblockable.
Seems like it could be a fun deck.
I love building decks that take commanders in an unconventional direction! I would love to see more episodes like this in the future. One of my favorit decks (though not exactly budget) is a Golos deck, that doesn't use Golos' activated ability at all, instead uses the tutor ability to be secretly an Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth "swamps matter" deck, taking advantage of all the old cards that care about swamps like Angry Mob, Roots of Life and Karma.
Do you also have spells that are free if you control a Swamp? And are you putting the land that makes everything Forests in it?
These are exactly the episodes I love the most, Mitch. Underrated, unusual, unheard of decks! Thank you!
I've been retooling a vehicle deck "wheel," deck around vadrok, apex of thunder, and the new ships/runes from kaldheim are just what it needed (fun fact, since runes can be put onto permanents, you can rune up a vehicle before you pilot it, then when it becomes a creature it gains the rune buff), vadrok and a few other key mutates bring back low to the ground vehicles, spells that create tokens to pilot, or wheel spells to refuel. Its like a voltron deck where the commander is the thing you're suiting things up with
That is extremely weird and I love it very much
I really liked the deck idea for Dalakos! I like how he is already a unique type of Commander on his own
Kataki and mycosynth lattice 😎
Mitch, you get me. I recently built garagos as fight tribal, and was looking at building kataki because he's so cheap!
I always thought that Budoka Gardner was a fun and unique commander, essentially allowing you to make a deck where almost all of the cards in it are lands
Sadly he cant be a Commander.
@@wustenfuchsgaming1226 i mean you could still build the deck and when you meet up to play just ask if that woulf be ok. You would be surprised by how many people are curious about decks like this and let you play with it anyway
@@benturtl9076 Houserule ftw^^
just play Rocco Cabaretti Caterer as the commander to tutor him from the deck
The egg build is absolutely disgusting
I think the wildest thing I made in a while was building Akroma, Vision of Ixidor as a slivers deck.
Ok that egg one was pretty cool. I thought you would go with a bunch of on death effects just going off
Olivia Voldaren.
I built an Olivia Voldaren deck that is designed to steal opponents creatures, then sacrifice them. I did build it around Vampire tribal, but you don't have to. In black, there are many creatures with a sacrifice ability. I even have Ashnod's Alter in it. The deck is a little pricey due to the fact that I have an older Sol Ring and an older Ashnod's Alter, because why not. At the time, Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet was $20. Now the deck doesn't seem much play because my friends will automatically target me whenever I pull her out.
That is absolutely the direction I took Gargos, love Gargos fight club. Im normally not big on Green as a color, but this is so much fun.
Love seeing these! I love decks that are built thinking "outside of the box". I myself have a Sliver Hivelord mutate deck, people always think that there's a sliver-tribal coming 🥴😅
Deck tech?? PLEASE🙏🙏
For atla palani, my build around her utilizes wheel of sun and moon along with a ton eggs, infinitely sac'ing them to get an arbitrarily large board. The mirror entity tech is really useful though, as it is another card I can use both as a sac outlet and as an egg itself, meaning I can use creature tutors to find wheel of sun and moon for the deck to work, such as academy rector.
I've done lots of unique ones. Some of my favorites are mono-red infect with Subira, a super convoluted changeling tribal deck with Morophon that gets infinite ETBs off a Cloudstone Curio or similar effect, and, above all, my Tajic, Legions Edge deck that tries to one shot everyone at once with Skirk Fire Marshal.
Ogre Menial found his home ♥️
@@emilysmith2965 Yep! Nothing like making a copy or two of him, making them unblockable, and then just smiling while you drop Mana Geyser.
My Rakdos, Lord of Riots deck is all about exiling from the top of the library. Once he gets going, especially with Experimental Frenzy, he churns through the deck casting eldritch horrors and robots, top first.
Big hitters include Doom Whisperer, Conduit of Ruin (tutors to the top, not hand), Galvanic Relay, Tectonic Reformation to cycle unwanted lands away, and my favorite dorky sleeper card, Madblind Mountain. As long as you control two red permanents, you can use it to shuffle your library. And it’s fetchable!
There’s conventional draw power in the deck too, but impulsive draw works well with the cost reduction. Plus, a card like Sire of Insanity becomes one-sided, forcing opponents to topdeck a boardwipe or die within three turns max. It’s miserable, but not for very long.
Its always great to see different takes in Commander. It can get really boring when all you see the same things. I really like my decks because they are different. Whenever I make someone go "do what now? or hmmm didn't see that coming" its a win. Every time I say Tribal Thopter Commander deck I grab people's attention and I love it.
I love playing and building decks with underrepresented abilities or tribes. I’m building a curse deck with Ardenn right now bc I can move curses around :D
Thank you for the ideas for Nylea and Gargos. I've been wanting to build mono-green artficats for a while so definitely will adapt your angle. Gargos I want to build on a budget and avoid going Hydra. This seems like the perfect commander!
Tomer from mtg golfdfish made a budget version of gargos, I built it, its a very cool deck to play, you should check it out
@@antoinevoiement5835 Oh awesome. I'll definitely look for it. How long ago did he make that deck?
I have an adventure tribal deck with kenrith as my commander where I play every adventure as well as the support cards for adventures and things like kess, baral, niv mizzet, ral, etc. Although im now inspired to add boune cards to the deck so i can recast some of the better ones
I read recently about using The Scarab God for a rogue tribal deck. Pretty much just get value off your low to the ground unblockables and then when they die, reanimate them into 4/4 unblockables. I thought that was a pretty neat take on TSG.
My most unusual build is Siona, Captain of Pyleas. People usually build it as a Selesnya weenies deck using Gift of immortality, but I took it into a completely different direction by building a deck that tries to find Reins of the Vinesteed and Altar of Dementia. Reins has a triggered ability that makes it attach itself to a creature that shares a type with enchanted creature when that dies, so you cast Reins targeting a Soldier token created by Siona, make another Soldier, sacrifice the enchanted one to the Altar to mill someone for 3, return Reins from your graveyard and attach it to previously created Soldier, which creates another Soldier, and you probably see where this is going.. Nobody expects a Selsnya mill deck!
I love trying to do any sort of crazy things. I found a Red pillow fort any creatures that attack better have protection from Red or be indestructible. Another is using phage's etb to kill the opponents instead of her attack.
This is the kind of content that made me an instant follower to begin with Mitch. Love these builds and concepts. Keep up the creative work.
Hah, I got exactly that Gargos + Magebane + Foe-Razer pack in my Polukranos Unchained deck! Would definitely recomend adding Vigor to this fight pack.
Not budget but extremely powerful! (I have a similar problem watching this show sometimes. My decks are like my little pets and over the years I buy them all the pretty toys…)
@@emilysmith2965 hmmm... not budget? Did any of these cards spiked recently or it just regional price differences? I remember that back when I bought these cards the most expensive one was Vigor for like 10 BR bucks (currently about 2.50 US money). Also, I miss my Polukranos deck, it was my first commander deck, but I disassembled it to build Mazirek Insects, I bought some cool new stuff for Polukranos but I can't bring myself to tear down my insects deck haha
That's really fun!
My favorite I've seen is Zur the enchanter, but you don't make everyone hate you with stax. You fetch up Astral slide in a cycling deck and make everyone hate you by blinking stuff faster than brago.
I’ve made an obeka brute chronologist deck, where I had a bunch of in tappers and when someone did something I’d ask them to end their turn multiple times, and there are ways to infinitely untap her, so you have to ask each one, everytime, until they say yes
My friend has an atla scrambled eggs deck! It's amazing and he tends to pull it out when others we are playing with are pubstomping or playing ridiculous decks. It has like a 90% win rate!
I use two cards mentioned in this in one of my more unique builds. I made Atla Palani Enrage with Kamahl Fist of Krosa as my finisher. The deck is full of cards that deal one damage to each creature (which kills eggs and triggers my enrage creatures) to then get Kamahl and destroy everyones lands.
I ship it
My favorite unusual deck I built was Neheb, the Eternal. As an unabashed green player, I turned him into a big mana stompy deck.
Mitch I’m so glad you highlighted ixidor for manifest tribal! Not many realize but the C18 aminatou deck was secretly a manifest deck and my hope is that one day we can get more support.
That atla palani deck blew my mind lol
I personally use Gargos' second ability as a focus of the deck, but there are some cool hydras worth considering to utilize it's first ability:
Hydra Omnivore - secondary voltron, which might end games on its own
Some cool X-costed Hydras:
Lifeblood Hydra - powerful lifegain and card draw ability, especially combined with Greater Good effects
Steelbane Hydra - repeatable artifact and enchantment hate
Voracious Hydra - incidental removal spell on a creature (especially useful on a creatures bigger than Gargos or with some form of Deathtouch/Wither)
I've built an alesha who smiles at death deck only using cards from before 8th edition and timeshifted cards as a gimmick, the main combo is a mountainwalking Combined with mystic compass and radiant dragoons for 5 health per turn, I also have graveyard recursion on etb as well as sac machines.
Yes! Atla is one of my top 3 decks, winning by cracking literal eggs is such a great representation of Naya. Cheers.
Same here. My Atla deck is mean
I felt so bad crushing a huge Atla play with Containment Priest last time I faced her 🤦♂️
I built a celestial Kirin deck that only plays 4 and 1 cmc permanents and is packed with spirits of all the other cmcs up to 6. Kirin is 4cmc and tends to blow itself up unless you give it indestructible, which some players do. But I decided just to not add any 4cmc spirits. Now I can safely play 4cmc spells! Tokens win con cuz tokens can't be blown up with Kirin's ability.
I built the Marwyn deck tin the past, but ultimately changed the commander to Yurlok. Same strategy with big/infinite mana, infinite combos and commander damage, but with three colors and added redundancy. For those who want to experience mana burn and subject it on their friends without playing stax I recommend this rout
I play Kazuul as a Commander for monored Turbo Fog, which I guess is unexpected for any commander and most fitting for him.
My Gyome is Cat and Artifact themed, using the Cat Tribal and Artifact destruction synergies like Qasalis Slingers with Liquimental Coating to have cats push artifacts from the table.
Verazol is a great Mutate Commander too, just as a base to mutate on with the counters.
Kynaios and Tyro are at the helm of my 4 Color Moonfolk deck, to help me replay lands.
My take on Atla was inspired by your lord tribal deck. I made Atla into all tribes including every card I could find that allows creatures to become all types until at least the end of turn then a bunch of the best tribal cards I could find allowing me to cycle through the entire deck with sacrifice effects or mirror entity. It's just chaos but so fun
I love these. I recently took apart my Narset, Enlightened Master Minigame deck. Spells that either helped everyone, or helped in one way and punished in another, or voting cards. Just a general nuisance. And then I let the other players choose the targets for any of my effects unless it targets my stuff. It was pretty fun.
I have a super budget Xyris, the Writhing Storm Voltron deck, it costs under 40€. Mostly its pump combat tricks and a few equipments like Stoneforge Masterwork. The deck is brutal.
So most unique decks I’ve designed/built/played against… I’m currently building an Akroma+Sakashima Clones deck, I’ve built a Brudiclad Reanimator and designed Brudiclad Goblins, and probably one of the most unique decks I’ve played against was a Parley Selvala Mill list. I also built and played a lot of a deck I call Shirei Dies at the End, where everything has power >2 and toughness of 1, and the goal is to use Heartless Summoning to always instant kill everything and have it constantly come back every end step (I actually need a lifeline for that deck since I’ve read the errata text).
Those are just a few. I’ve grown tired of playing only combo decks, but I am working on a Grist combo deck that uses Maskwood Nexus, The Chain Veil, and any of the 4 ‘Put any number of creatures from your graveyard on top of your library’ cards to win. It’s a pure value deck with a combo finish.
However idk if this counts. My pet deck is always my Alesha who Summons Legends deck. Every card in the deck is Legendary. All the creatures have to be power 2 or less. It’s one of the funnest restrictions I’ve ever done, and it’s never a T1-2 deck. It’s always like T3.5. But it’s fun to play, and sometimes that’s all that matters.
Love the content, and keep up with the silly decks! P.S. totally stealing Gargos’s Fight Club.
Last time I was this early... Comedy is hard
A Morophon voltron where since it is all creature types, using creature type cost reducers like Gargos to make your commander free to cast (even if it dies a few times) then voltron it for a commander damage takedown.
Also if you want to mess with your library and graveyard a lot, I built a deck with Morophon as if it were Red/Green that played more like a Blue/Black deck because nothing would stay dead including my instants and sorceries, and Morophon was only cast from my hand or deck after the first cast out of the command zone.
I made a Kaervek the Spiteful deck that is similar to Kataki in this video. Its all 1 toughness creatures you’re supposed to flood for. Find Shirei Shizo’s Caretaker and you have a turnly revival and death loop for things like the etb/ltb discard rats. Blood artist, zulaport, etc.
Sevinne the Chronoclasm looks like a Flashback value commander who uses Damage based board wipes , but it's actually an extra-turns-i-win combo commander in disguise. With Time Warp, Mystic Retrieval, and Pull From Eternity in your graveyard, you can combo off for the win if you have Sevinne in play. So essentially, you just flashback the Mystic Retrieval which returns the Time Warp to your hand, but it's copied by Sevinne so you also get the Pull From Eternity as well. You cast the time warp, and pass the turn to yourself. On your second turn, you cast Pull From Eternity on the Mystic Retrieval in exile, and return it to your graveyard. Then you cast the Time Warp to get an extra turn. On that extra turn all three cards are back in your graveyard, and you are back at the beginning again. The way you get to this combo is by a self-mill strategy as the pieces are so obscure nobody will fit them together into a combo. This combo isn't even recognized on EDHrec, it's that obscure. So anyways, I hope you enjoyed this combo.
So essentially, once you take infinite turns you can draw your deck and win from there, probably by using a pinger like guttersnipe, or electric wall. One of the strongest cards in this deck is Oona's grace, second to Throes of Chaos. Both of them are bad spells on the face, but when you get to copy them (and cast them over and over for discarding a land) they get really good.
Also, I run two tutors in my deck, but those are expensive. Also Also, the original version ran Thousand-Year Storm, but that just got silly.
For me it's my Kwain Voltron deck. I get Assault Suit on him asap and load him up with equipment that helps ramp, then start Goading him to get people to tap him for me. I'll use the card draw to either turbo mill (as expected) or set up a Cyclonic Rift into Armageddon and give the Bun a Demotion so they have to make him swing in for the kill before they can rebuild. It's supplemented with the usual Azorius stuff, but the fact that I help my opponents dig into answers and out of durdles makes it digestable. Apparently a Rabbit's foot is all it takes to make the stax and pillowfort go down.
I just got to play Gyome Master Chef as a fight theme yesterday and I loved the way it performed. Dropped that apex altisaur 3 times yesterday
My favorite deck that I ever designed was called Death by Boredom, it had no win conditions and mostly spammed peace talks and similar effects (like orims chant) - with isochrom scepter... basically everyone plays forever and you just keep wiping the board. It was also group hug with howling mines... some hard to find cards these days like Energy Barrier, glacial Chasm, and Gaea's blessing to keep you from dying to mill, Gerrard's wisdom... just a really fun deck... don't know if it would work in a singleton format though... might try to build a commander version
I play a really unique Mogis deck using cards that hit the whole board (Like pyrohemia) combined with creatures that have triggers when damaged (Like coal swine) along with urza's armor and witchbane orbs. It's actually an incredible deck that's a lot of fun to play and to play against. It lets everyone play the game, but has a lot of ways to punish them (Mana barbs, Polluted bonds, etc.)
Full episodes on these decks please , they all sound awesome
I have been dying to make kataki interesting, this is great. Also I use a ton of manifesting in my kadenamorph deck while ixidor is in the 99, but idk how spicy that tech is
One of my favorite commanders that I never see is Stitcher Geralf. He was my first commander ever and I loved him so much even tho I made him with all the bargain bin garbage that I had.
Geralf is really good… he just needs cheap big things with huge drawbacks to be your mill… how about Lupine Prototype? A 5/5 for 2 that can’t attack or block unless somebody’s hellbent? Throw it in!
it is undoubtedly one of the best video on the edh format! I love the original decks like the ones presented! I hope for another ep! and if anyone sees my com and other deck offers i'm a taker!
Yeah my friend took Kahmal the land destruction route. It's brilliant but very deflating as an opponent.
I’ve had a dalakos deck for a while and I run alena in there! With staff of domination she goes infinite pretty easy
I designed a Palladia Mors the Ruiner deck utilizing equipment and buffing spells to manipulate combat. Cards like Aurelia the Warleader, Master Warcraft, and Akroma Vision of Ixidor are some of the win cons. Basically, instead of Naya landfall and beats with Palladia, I used a different combat strategy instead.
Yes!! This is the content we watch Mitch for: janky budget brews!!
Grothama, Horobi and Rionya are some of my favourite oddball decks I've built. Currently working on a political Nevinyrral deck that gives people creatures then wipes the board and turns them into zombies.
Alta is fun. Paying 1 to Mirror Entity in response to a board wipe is the best
I use Shields of Velis Vel, Blades of Velis Vel and Maskwood Nexus for the same thing
I like playing tergrid as a kind of group hug deck, everyone draws Then make everyone discard and now I have lots of stuff, only downside is I don't believe black has a wheel.
Dark deal is a black wheel
Dark deal dude!
Thanks! I'll add that, and probably some tutors for it.
There is also mind slicer which is a creature that when the day is everyone discard their hand not a wheel but has the effect you want
*when it dies
I've made a fight deck too and it was using the Tarrasque from forgotten realms as the commander and then a bunch of other things that synergie with it
I have a similar Atla deck and it's a blast. I made custom H. R. Giger-style egg tokens because, why not.
Braids, Conjuerer Adept: Unapologetic, take no prisoners, Blue Aggro.
Roalesk, Apex Hybrid: a Mortal Kombat Deck that fights any creature that hits the board and eventually overwhelms you with blue prowess attacks and mid-game creatures that have suddenly become late-game level threats.
Archelos, Lagoon Mystic: Slows you down while flooding the board with relentless attacks from green weenies (mostly frogs) and combat tricks (mostly deathtouch/indestructible/evasion), using oodles of fog effects for defense. I call it Turbofrog.
I have an Atla Palani deck that is a landfall deck. Essentially I use atla to get the creatures with landfall abilities and I use the lands to power more plays. It's not great, but I like it.
With all the interesting weird decks I’ve seen and after seeing a couple cards now that turn artifacts into creatures. Got thinking of building a deck around mana rocks that kill, either as creatures or with bludgeon brawl as equipment. Using dalakos as the commander
Most unique deck I have is using house to roll dice, but I have all 7 bobbleheads and the 3 ancient dragons that house's colors can use. I just made a Ygra deck with a bunch of food synergy and im even making a black/white spirit deck I call the plot armor deck with King of Oathbreakers as commander. Its also a soul eater proxy deck cause I couldn't find anyone who's made that and I like designing them.
I think I just made a budget deck never seen before; Malcolm and Kediss as Partner Commanders. Malcolm the flying pirate dealing damage then Kediss making the damage hit all opponents. It's a little janky right now but I am working on it.
I noticed that a lot of token spawning cards so so when they enter the battlefield, so I turned my Yarok deck into a token deck with cards like Myr battlesphere, hornet queen, avenger of zendikar, ferocious cub, basically anything that spawns in tokens when it enters the field to turn Yarok into a pseudo parallel lives. Turned out to be more fun than just using excessive ETB value to sorta ruin the game for everyone else.
i have a "tribal elf" marwyn build, that uses altar of the brood, altar of dementia, and the ozolith, marwyn out, i vomit up a ton of elves, and altar of the brood mills everyone for each, then once that is dealt with, i sac all the elves and marwyn to altar of dementia to grind someone down further (usually to lethal by that point) and with Ozolith and all of the mana i made from marwyn, i just bring her back, go to combat and she is right back to where she was, sac again, and boom another player down. i havent gotten my hands on one yet, but Omnath also sits pretty in this setup. so yea, mono green mill... its one of my favorites.
I see my girl Atla in the thumbnail, that's a easy click for me. My Atla helmed dino/Enrage theme deck was the first deck I built 100% from scratch for EDH, and I still love playing it. It is so strong and can come out of nowhere. Nobody considers the guy sitting there making 0/1 eggs a threat until you have 5 or 6 of them and they all the sudden become a board of big stompy dinos with a slew of Enrage triggers.
I have 2 decks that I haven't seen anyone else do, I may be wrong but still. First one is a Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools paired with Prismatic Piper (used for white) for a Thrull tribal deck. Then my second one is a Derevi, Empyrial Tactician doing artifact vehicle stuff
The most unique deck I've built was Kwain Theft. It uses group card draw to allow my opponents to dig into their decks so I can steal their best stuff so I can use it against them.
Two wild decks I enjoy are
Codie but it's a gates deck, fine land, find land find land win no one expects you to diabolic tutor for land xD
And Secondly a tatsunari toad rider deck, but it focuses on mutate, make a kami mutate the frog now it's not a kami make another mutate them repeat. Then eventually you play a enchant enough for your enemies to die.
a muldrotha landfall deck that utilises fetch lands and a creature called "world shaper" that returns all your lands to the battlefield when it dies
I made a Rarity Clone/ETB deck that my playgroup regretted allowing. Make clones of Rarity with cards like Spark Double to bypass legendary rule. Everything g gets cost reduced everything gets protection from most colors if I can find my daughter's MLP toy, and we use a lot of ETB and bounce effects to abuse the cost reduction.
I know blim is just terrible, but when I built him I threw in a bunch of spells that make me gain control of an opponent's creature, and then I pass them off to another player before the turn ends 😈😈. It never won, but it did make for some great fun.
That cycling Cody deck is the most fun thing!
Kodi permanent donation is actually a lot more popular in my playgroup than a typical Spellslinger Kodi deck. My playgroup likes playing jank and bizarre combos that can somehow work and Kodi donate is basically one of those.
I was just thinking about making unique commander deck because I was bored of the usual decks I play. It's like you read my mind or something.
I actually play a coddie donator deck now after that video, my favorite (and most evil) thing to do is play phage the untouchable, the fractured identity targeting phage
Sen triplets means everyone will hate you and attack you first. So instead of stax, build Sen Triplets basically like Selenia Dark angel, as life total swap tribal, with mirror universe, axis of mortality, reverse the sands, tree of perdition, tainted remedy, and so on.
I brewed a deck with 3 commanders. Jeska/reyhan and obosh companion. All Odd mana. And yes doubling season costs 5. It's so nutty!
Ooh I’ve been looking for a new commander
I have a 5 color angel tribal deck with Golos as the commander. This one surprised all my friends lol
My favorite unorthodox deck was Glissa, The Traitor. Only one card wasn't a permanent, Primal Surge. Play the whole deck and win by infinite turns, mill, or combat damage 👍
I think my unique deck is niv mizzet goblins. Basically cast a ton of draw cards and token creation for goblins and flood the board and ping opposing creatures after thr battle phase to kill them
Mitch, and others, for the ixidor deck idea, consider swapping out for marchesa the black rose. It is my favourite morph deck. People never see it coming 😄 and then you start sacking 3/3 for omniecense and the like.
I also thought about the Manifest "tribal", but with Kadena as the commander since you have access to some more manifest cards like Wild Call, Ethereal Ambush and Qarsi High Priest, but I think it's still not enough cards with the mechanic to make it into a full deck around this strategy.
a thing you can do w/ morophon is play maskwood nexus which makes every crearure every creature type and than just play a bunch of powerful creatures with absolutely no synergy
Not sure it's quite as off the wall as these, but I just couldn't get an Alesha Aristocrats build to work, since I've found it's pretty hard to get aristocrats to work great without one of a) cheap creature generation, b) sac outlet or c) death triggers in the command zone (ideally more than one of those), unless you have something that's such a force multiplier like Teysa's death-harmonicon effect, and one cheap reanimation per turn (assuming you draw yet another card that lets you get in profitable attacks with Alesha) just isn't enough, in my experience. But since I had the deck, and wanted to make something work with it, I found Mardu aggro infect works pretty well with her. Infect makes her "power 2 or less" restriction a lot less restricting, and lots of infect creatures are already power 2 or less. Add in some anthems, some ways to get damage through, ect, and I think she works better that way than with aristocrats. You just need to make sure you won't become archenemy the moment you reveal you're going the infect route, which is probably the trickiest part.