MTG - A Guide To Sygg, River Guide Commander / EDH for Magic: The Gathering
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Hey Prof, I always come back to this video. It’s literally the best!
Have you ever thought about making an updated video on your own Sygg deck?
Or an offshoot, making a lore video about the Merrow of Lorwyn and Ixalan?
I came back to this video for tips on how to build my own version of sygg!! Ever since i found your channel i've loved merfolk as a tribe and always wanted to build sygg and i finally have!!
Hey Prof just a suggestion but could you start uploading these to Tappedout and leaving the link in the description?
Someone help, my friend won’t stop saying my Sygg deck is insyggnificant, please help
Don't mind him, it's the game you want to play. Your deck. Your heart & soul you put into the deck. The experiences you make along the way are important
His opinion on the matter is insyggnificant
You need to tell them that it's syggnificant to you. ❤🌹
Just wanted to say thank you for all the great videos I recently went to a local card shop for Friday night magic and saw someone with a signed mat thought it was awesome of you to sign it, I know it made his day, keep up the great work!
Hey Prof,
Thanks for being awesome and renewing my love for Magic.
I'd love to see this deck on Game Knights
maybe a precursor to Game Knights since Jimmy and Josh spoiled that the next episode was with Prof and Wedge? (shot back when they did the Iconic Masters sealed)
They did?! Nice! Wedge and Professor are my favorite guys, even though Cassius is growing on me as of late.
SaSSolino They said it on the most recent poscast, yeah. Cassius is like the coolest but spikiest player I’ve seen
SaSSolino yaaaaaaas
Well, guess I got what I wanted! Woho!
A fantastic deck tech Professor! Can we see more EDH content in the future?
I just feel like I need to say this.
I’m so proud of how far you come Professor. It was because of you I got into commander and built my first deck with your guides. First video I’ve ever watched was your guide to Slivers, first time being introduced to them and I loved everything about them! Since enrolling to Tolarian Community College all those years ago to now you building your dream deck box! I’m so happy for you and you deserve it. I’ve never been crazy about merfolk but I am a fan of you. In your honor, I want my first Academic deck box to home a Syggs Riversguide deck.
You are loved, you are appreciated and beyond. I wish you nothing but the very best.
Thanks for everything you do.
I ran a sygg cmdr deck for 3 years. It was slow out the gate but if unchecked was overwhelming versatile and combo. Months ago i converted it into a 3 color merfolk tribal , Derevi @ the helm. Incorporates stax to build the board ramp heavy tap and untap abuse and around 28 plus merfolk spells for flavor and beats
I personally love the combo of Grimoire Thief+ Aura of Dominion. Like Codex Shredder it disencourages people to use tutors that go on top of their deck but it can blank as many of those as you have mana instead of just one a turn.
Then Grimoire Thief can eat any other spells with the same name.
Sometimes you also just get to the point were you can actually mill a player with this
Aura of Dominion also gives you another thing to help create 1/1s with Stonybrook Schoolmaster and can combo with a heap of other cards. Best is that the activation cost is colourless.
I'm just getting into commander, and I've always loved Merfolk, and this deck looks really fun! Thanks for the detailed explanations, I'm definitely going to try this out!
Just built a sygg deck a week ago and it's the most fun I've had. Like ever in edh. I think merfolk are now my favorite. Now after watching this it gave me some ideas thank you!
Yay. I’m building UW merfolks and will compare lists. Thanks Prof!
Yeay! THE professor is becoming more competitive. Love it.
Just remember that once you give Sygg protection from either white or blue, you can't use his ability on him anymore.
His ability is white, so only protection from white?
abilities don't have colors themselves. Protection cares about the color of the SOURCE:
Sygg is WU, so giving either pro W or pro U makes Sygg unable to target himself again
Protection does not care about colors in the mana cost, only the color of the source
The professor just went over it, "Targeted by spells or abilities of chosen color"...
Lies! You CAN activate his ability in response at instant speed to add another color, but it has to be on the stack. If white or blue is added in response, then the first one will not resolve is another thing to keep in mind. Go ham with red, black or green though.
I finally understand why Prof loves merfolk so much. I was not a particular fan of this creature type before, but now I'm sold.
I so wish there was a bant merfolk commander.
DoubleHelixGamer yeah, so much needed, since Ixalan, those are the three colors that merfolks need for a commander :/
You can use Derevi. Its on flavor with its ability.
Thrasios/Tymna is by far the best commander for Merfolk.
You can always run Thrasios and Sidar Kondo to have access to Bant colors. That and Thrasios is a Merfolk while Sidar Kondo grants evasion if that's your thing.
Could always run Jodah/Ramos to make it a 5 color merfolk deck. (There are red merfolk)
I just about instantly purchased this deck from Card Kingdom. (I did remove the force of wills and a couple other expensive cards...). Looks like a ton of fun.
Sygg RG has been my commander for several years. He is, as you point out, flexible and innocuous looking.
I've been wanting to make a Noyan Dar, Roil Shaper commander deck for a while and this is an amazing template! Good stuff as always, Professor!
Good video, I like to hear the professor's opinion on cards, I hope we'll get more in the future!
One thing I'd like to see is Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons. It's a different kind of Golgari commander, and one I plan on building soon
Yes i would love more of These like Kumena and other commander decks
You should definitely do more of your EDH deck techs. These are some of my favorite videos that you post, Prof.
Slip a Rite of Replication in there and kick it on Master of Waves with a lot of devotion... gonna be a fun time. Also try putting a Paradise Mantle on your Stonybrook Schoolmaster when you have Intruder Alarm out to enjoy infinite mana and tokens.
I'd love to see a Rakdos the Defiler deck tech! Let chaos and debauchery reign!
Thanks prof! I had a sygg for ages but didn't like the untap theme. Now I can have one of my favorite creatures at the helm
If you like the voltron aspect of Sygg, I'd love to see your take on a deck that goes all-in on it's voltron strategy, like Rafiq or Bruna.
Professor, I just started watching your videos a couple weeks ago. Thanks for being youerself and being so damn entertaining. Best, Skid
Why........why does sea hunter put the merfolk into play without sacrificing them at the end phase or something? That flavor text would suggest something like that but it doesn't.
Hello Professor!
The commander I would love to see in one of your deck tech videos would have to be Najeela, the Blade-Blossom.
After battle bond came out i started to look at the others cards that I wasn't able to draft with and see if any were commander worthy to me, and that was Najeela. She is a 3/2 legendary human warrior that is one red, and two colorless so I figured she was a mono red deck commander which was fine since I built an Etali, the primal storm EDH deck and found it really fun. So I read further and found that whenever a warrior attacks you get another 1/1 attacking warrior, pretty neat mechanic, but its her next ability that really gave me goosebumps. Tap one mana of every color to untap all attacking creatures and give them trample, lifelink, and haste until end of turn, then after this phase there is an additional combat phase, holy cow. Not only does Najeela give all attacking units combat buffs but also allows another combat phase that can be continuously paid for if enough mana is available, meaning if I have three of every color ready to go then there is going to be three combat phase in one turn. This sounded wonderful as I've always wanted to make a beat down deck but didn't know which way to go with it and didn't know what colors to go with, Najeela answered both of my questions as she gave me my beat down and allows me to use every color since every mana symbol is in her text like Jodah, the eternal arch mage, which I have also made into an EDH deck. So, the deck I want to make will be warrior themed to maximize Najeela's ability and keep it a mainly RED, WHITE, and GREEN with a splash of BLACK and involves every card that gives additional combat phases like Aggravated Assault, Breath of Fury, and Relentless Assault to really commence a beat down.
TLDR: The commander I would love to see in one of your deck tech videos would have to be Najeela, the Blade-Blossom.
I'll provide my concoction of a deck here, but would love to see what you come up with!
Thanks for taking the time to read!
Deck list
Creatures: 33
Najeela, the Blade-Blossom /Commander
Figure of Destiny
Mardu Woe-Reaper
Mogg Sentry
Norin the Wary (For fun)
Warden of the First Tree
Wild Nacatl
Ash Zealot
Blood-Chin Rager
Bramblewood Paragon
Brightearth Banneret
Champion of the Flame
Chief of the Edge
Chief of the scale
Den Protector
Hidden Dragonslayer
Radha, Heir to Keld
Rip-Clan Crasher
Alesha, Who Smiles at Death
Arashin Foremost
Archetype of Aggression
Champion of Lambholt
Civic Wayfinder
Combat Celebrant
Devoted Crop-Mate
Mirri, Weatherlight Duelist
Grand Warlord Radha
Iroas, God of Victory
Jazal Goldmane
Jor Kadeen, the Prevailer
Lovisa Coldeyes
Samut, Voice of Dissent
Aurelia, The Warleader
Artifacts: 18
Infiltration Lens
Sol Ring
Stoneforge Masterwork
Conqueror's Flail
Konda's Banner
Lightning Greaves
Swiftfoot Boots
Sword of the Animist
Treasure Map
Chromatic Lantern
Darksteel Ingot
Darksteel Plate
Heirloom Blade
Obsidian Battle-Axe
Sword of the Paruns
Coat of Arms
Prismatic Geoscope
Vanquisher's Banner
Sorceries: 9
Cultivate
Diplomacy of the Wastes
Far Wanderings
Harvest Season
Relentless Assault
Seize the Day
Waves of Aggression
World at War
Fury of the Horde
Instants: 1
Savage Beating
Enchantments: 11
Brave the Sands
Path of Mettle
Aggravated Assault
Chaosphere
Dense Foliage
Radiant Destiny
Breath of Fury
Crescendo of War
Glory of Warfare
Raider's Spoils
True Conviction
Lands: 28
Forest x6
island x1
Mountain x11
Plains x7
Swamp x1
Mystifying Maze
Windbrisk Heights
9:02 -- I like to think that this card is actually on flavor with the deck. He's not hunting merfolk, but instead simple fish. And when the local merfolk notice this happening, they step in to stop the cruelty and that's why we have merfolk entering the battefield.
That was my chosen deck from Lorwyn! I think it's time to make a commander from it!
A Ghave, Guru of spores deck or a Slimefoot, the stowaway deck would be super fun to see! Saproling tribal all day!!!!
I just built a Lazaav Dimir Mastermind deck and I'm loving it. it would be really cool to see what direction you take with it because there's a few different ways you can go. I chose a pseudo mill theme in order to give Lazaav lots of choices for copying but the win condition isn't to deck your opponents. milling everyone slowly and then slamming down a Rise of the Dark Realms is a pretty fun way to win.
I kept reading all the card abilties and mechanics and I just kept saying " Oh Jesus, Oh Jesus" what a terrifying deck this is.
A great video! I enjoy seeing deck techs for lesser used Commanders. There are so many interesting white merfolk that don't get nearly enough attention due to people thinking merfolk are mostly blue, with green being added in Ixalan. Great video! Thank you for sharing.
Also, glad you can admit that you're a dirty person for playing Infect!
You should do a commander video on Surrak Dragonclaw. Fighting is such a fun mechanic, and Surrak I feel gives us good opportunities for that theme. He protects our creatures, is a big guy himself, and makes our creatures more dangerous with trample.
Love it. Perfect merfolk build for me.
Hello Professor! Thank you very much for this insightful video. I love your channel! I have been learning a lot of quality game-playing thanks to your posts. :) I love Merfolk too and have been playing them since I very first started playing MTG back in high-school. This time I would like to ask for your insights about a mono-blue Merfolk Commander DeckTech. Is there any video on the theme coming anywhere soon? Thank you very much! And please, continue with this wonderful work yo do to all the MTG playing community!
I'd love to see your take on a colorless Eldrazi "tribal" deck
Evolved Dinosaur How about a ‘Rakdos, Lord of Riots’ built as colorless-tribal?
Just keep going with edh deck techs! So inspiring!
Good to see a commander video again A+ job
Pretty cool prof, you should take this deck to the next game knights you are invited to.
While not a commonly used commander, I'd like to see how you'd build a colorless deck with Hope of Ghirapur at the helm!
I had a Sygg EDH drck back in the day. He is very enjoyable to play.
I play a voltron deck with Sygg, River Guide as the commander. Works amazing.
If you have door of destinies AND coat of arms (essentially does the same thing for only one more mana) your merfolk is going to power up when faster
Love this deck, will be building this soon
Thank you for the great video!
Regarding the next one, I'd personally be really interested in a Muldrotha, the Gravetide deck!
I am updating mine soon with new merfolk that have been printed. Mine has a wizard sub tribal theme. The wizard interaction is very powerful once online.
It's finally here!
I would love to see a deck tech based on Omnath, Locus of Rage. I'm usually an Aggro player, and I've been really interested on building an aggressive Gruul deck, but I didn't know which one to use until recently. I think that it would be a great deck that many people can enjoy.
Alright professor! I have finished building my own Feldon deck. That is what i waited for before i politely ask you to show yours in a EDH deck tech now :)
(so i can tell people i had a feldon deck before the professor talked about it)
In my deck, i chose to research Feldon's background story and do a very flavor-heavy build (Worn Powerstone, Mouth of Ronom and obviously Feldon's Cane -to me- are just heartwarming to see in play).
So i am very curious to see how your Feldon build turned out :)
A deceptively evil deck, Professor. Very nice! Hope to see you play this on Game Knights!
Since you have a ton of wizards and ton of sweet sweet Wizarding ATB effects, you might want to squeeze in Naban, Dean of Iteration as one of your 99.
Great video, i missed your edh deck techs
With the token generation and cards that activate from being tapped a good inclusion for a more grindy control build would be opposition. Tap a school master to tap your permanent... oh look! Two more Merfolk to tap stuff down.
Is this the commander you played in the upcoming game knights Prof?
who spoiled that in witch game knight episode id like to find it thx
uprun42 Command zone mentioned they played with Prof in the upcoming game knights and they used personal decks
thx
Fluffy Derg
Lol I just read your comment on game knights
I loved sygg river guide in tiny leader. I played it with a lot of cards you suggest in this video, it was strong competitive fast and in flavour. It doesn’t seem so effective in regular commander
Great stuff Prof! Nice to see the Merfolk getting some love!
As to what commander to deck tech next how about a concept instread. I would love to see your take on a simic deck that cheats things into play
so, i decided to make 2 changes, i took out the 2 phantasms for Stormtide Leviathan, because it practically stops everyone from attacking, and Aquitect's Will, to insure that i can use islandwalk, and will basically give me another win con
I would love to see you make a deck tech with Urgoros, the Empty One prof
i would love to see a competitive vampire tribal led by Olivia Voldaren, or a pillow fort aristocrat led by Obzedat, Ghost Council, maybe even a creature heavy stompy Surrak Dragonclaw deck.
do Riku of Two Refections next! I would love to see the different ways you could completely abuse his copying effects
I’m so playing this at my next commander night
Oh my, that's a good deck. Nice work Professor!
A Ghave, Guru of Spores deck tech would be great since it's a commander that can be built multiple ways.
Nice thing, this Merfolk EDH. I want to see about a Sen Triplets Deck. Greetings
I know it would be the third esper deck of the series but a Merieke Ri Beriet commander deck would be very interesting, I've been waiting for a deck analysis about her since the "underrated commanders" video from which 4 out of 5 of those commanders had a dedicated video
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord..I think since thelore is leading to his death at the hands of Vraska he deserves a farewell gift.
Hey professor, I love your deck tecs.
I wonder if you would do a deck tec on Mistform Ultimus.
It’s a very bizarre build and it’s actually really cheap to build. When ever I play Misty it becomes quite the conversation peace on the board.
Queen Marchesa? It introduces the monarch each game, and if paired with No Mercy/Maze of Ith/ etc, you can make your opponent's spend resources on others while they still feel in control. Like a chess game, it's not about the best move, but the move worst for your opponent.
Maybe Shu Yun? This commander lets me play Opt and Ponder and others, while still supporting an aggro theme. Maybe add Soulfire Grandmaster and Battlefield Thaumaturge for burn. Jeskai control also sounds fun, with Torpor Orb/ Containment Priest/ Rest in Peace/ etc.
How about an azorius spirit deck for modern? With cards like Drogskol Captain and Rattlechains. I'm not a fan of modern, so a detailed deck tech from someone more engaged and practiced in modern would be the best.
Can you do your next deck tech on Marchesa the Black Rose please? Counters would definitely be a fun mechanic to explore.
id love to see the proffesor build a mogis commander deck
I love your videos Professor!!
Great video Prof! I would love to see a Zurgo voltron as your next one!
im really happy to see a commander video! idk if id call this powerful. but its definately looks fun
We need more deck guides for commander please
I would like to see what you would do with either Arahbo, Roar of the World, or Mirri, Weatherlight Duelist. Or a Muldrotha deck could also be really cool :). BTW love your videos :).
Beautiful artwork on these cards would like to play with this deck
It would be nice to see this brew in action.
The problem with this deck - as I saw it in the Game Knights video - was lack of interaction and answers to the other players in the game, and heavy reliance on wide board of creatures - which can be easily hindered in cases of board wipe. Since you're running white already - maybe splash in some removels? White has the best answers to almost everything - be it creature removels, enchantment, artifacts or even selective board wipe and balancing cards. Sword to Plowshares or Path to Exile could have been a great answer to Josh's Edgewalker
Would love to see a Jodah Archmage Eternal deck tech
Cool to see deck tech here. Teneb would Be interesting to see.
I love it. Great deck professor.
Never got this early in your vids, prof. Keep up the good work!
I want to see decks with Oloro or Arabo like Commanders please Professor.
I would like to see you take on a Dino Tribal deck with Gishath, Sun Avatar. I've built a really mean one but the deck has a big weakness through first 5 turns where I'm wide open
I strongly disagree about Kumena, he is not quite that repetitive. Yes his abilities are played most every game, but wouldn't Sygg's as well? And wouldn't you be going off with the same wanderwine prophets or lullmage's and others most games, durdling around with other merfolk until getting a combo piece? Kumena is, in a way, a lot like Sygg to me. He can give himself unblockable and turn voltron when needed, as can Sygg, and while he can't give his team protection he can tap them for value before hitting the bin, essentially the same thing when you're also in the colors to recure cards from the graveyard. Sygg is very strong but I feel he is too narrow, not fulfilling a lot of needs during game play more than protecting creatures. But Kumena can make your small team big and swing in, draw cards with your team during a stalemate, or just go off with his draw ability and intruder alarm or paradox engine.
I've been playing Kumena now since he was spoiled and I gotta say, I still find brand new interactions in my deck each game. While I don't agree with your take on Kumena being reptitive, I do feel that the choice between him and Sygg are choices dependent on your game play style and color preferences. But I don't feel either of them are paling to the other in terms of strength or enjoyability. Either way I just want to cast some merfolk and smash some face.
I pulled Kumena in my Rivals prerelease and made a commander deck right away, and I agree with everything you said. Yes, he's "repetitive" in the sense that you will always want him out to abuse his abilities, but the deck can be so much fun. And same here, each game I get to find new interactions with all the cards. I built mine to really emphasize tap/untap shenanigans more than +1/+1 counters or Voltron, and the amount of card draw is insanity. Once the engine gets going, it's hard to stop. And sooner than later you're gonna be controlling the board since you'll draw answers to everything, making your creatures increasingly huge, and going ham on everyone.
Not to mention the total lock of the whole board with a lullmage and intruder alarm out. Counter everything? Get more Merfolk? Why not do both
I loved this video! Of course I'm partial to Sygg. 😋
Honestly I've just gotten into edh. I'm playing a krrik deck and I'm not having fun with it as much as I thought. Great deck but not for me. Just built a deck around this commander last week and it's just clicking. Hard to describe. Glad to know there's someone like me that is enjoying the merfolk. Had a playgroup laugh him off. Oh how the mighty fell
Kinda like my favorite deck, Ghave, with the new fungi from Dominaria. It can be so many things, and change completely tacticwise midgame or even midcombat.
*Pick a legendary from this Dominaria Set (preferably an uncommon) and go wild on a budget build?* :) ... what about *$40,- max for the whole deck* , as that's what a pre-con costs ( ? ~ it's €40,- anyways) ... and yeah, we know it will be hard to match powerlevel of the pre-con's as you can not just print cards, but give it a shot. Seeing more budget options pass our eyes will hopefully open up some eyes in regards to certain budget cards for commander. (and maybe not consider Slimefoot ? ... likely tons of lists for him already, then again, it's probably also the commander from this set that people would love to see a budget build for, but clearly there are more options ^^ )
I love Sygg. He is the best
:If you really want to get dirty, and I do..." Lol :)
Love this deck❤️ and I will be building something similar soon, thanks again professor for inspiration and great video content.
My favorite commander is Roon of the Hidden realms, I would love to see how you would build around such a versatile commander as there are so many different ways to build a great deck with him.
And since we all know you love cheap commanders, and White/Blue, how about Daxos? I have a voltron-ish, combat tricks and misdirection build and would enjoy seeing how you would build around him.
"I'm here to eat fish food and kick butt, and I'm all out of fish food." 😂😂😂