I Accidentally Made a Selesnya Storm Deck... Karametra, God of Harvests EDH Commander Deck Tech 2024
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- I picked up Karametra due to my love of all things green white on holiday to build a deck as I was traveling. But little did I know what a monster Karametra could be, with lands falling left and right adding to the ever-growing storm count.
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see this is the type of stuff i want to see from a casual commander deck. focus, acknowledgment of pet cards that still have a purpose, and doing things off the beaten path you see every other deck do
Most of my white decks have angel of serenity and will continue to until people respect her
@@OnlyCascades Have you considered replacing it with Aurelia's Vindicator? Seems like an upgrade to me, the only downside being 2 toughness. (and, if we include the 3 from casting it face down, it costs more.) You can always run it as a second copy, that way you can run 7-mana Skyfisher loops.
Unyielding Gatekeeper is a great second Disguise to throw them off the scent, too.
Vindicator is probably better thanks to its morph letting us cast it early and being a mana dump, so good shout!
Issue is Angel has a Dr. Who art, so im powerless to replace it :)
Could go over admonition though
@@LibertyMonk
It sounds like you just want people to do stuff your way.
The best part of this video is using the art for the next card as the background and then zooming it into the foreground when it's turn is up.
Basically everyone uses on theme mtg art as backgrounds but the editing here is top notch.
I’m glad you enjoy this style, I like it giving a little preview of what’s to come!
@@OnlyCascadesit is really nice
@@OnlyCascadesmakes the video feel like you're going through a deck, which obviously you are, but like you're drawing the cards from your library.
I loved how you played the lion, then to throw all of the lands agressively into play
I’ve done it in a few games, it feels great
@@OnlyCascades i bet it feels great that you know your combo works so well that you can pull up that play and be like "yeah, next"
@@OnlyCascadesI JUST REALIZED THERE WAS A PIKACHU ON THE LANDS, LMAOOOOO
@@AesirOdinn Someone finally noticed!
Awesome deck tech bro, I love how u get through the cards quickly! All the other deck techs I’ve seen read every single card and explain why they work. U seem like a no bs dude😂 respect 👊
Thank you, I feel the same watching deck techs so that's the style I've gone for with my other videos! I didn't describe every card in the decklist, but enough to know how each part of the deck needs to work.
That said, I am planning to make my next video an over-explainer...I've gotta test those waters too :D But I enjoy making fast-paced videos like this!
It's definitely a better format of deck tech video. Gets right to the point
I paused the video a few times to read the cards myself. Easy enough to do.
Karametra is one of the most versatile Selesnya commanders in the game. I built it around generating +1/+1 Counters, relying on things like Felidar Retreat, Evolution Sage, and other abilities of the like. It's honestly really fun and is built similarly to this storm deck with the exception that there are abilities like Unnatural Growth and cards that grant trample
do you have a list? I want to optimize my brothers deck list and it sounds very similar
This is the first deck tech on a TH-cam video that I’ve ever been tempted to replicate as it does look like a lot of fun. You did a great job man
Thanks! Enjoy if you do :)
Thanks so much for the support everyone it means a lot you’ve enjoyed it 🥳 most of my other deck techs are in a similar style if you want to check those out, and I have many more planned if you’d like to subscribe 💜 I just released another one here! th-cam.com/video/_l478Nq67uQ/w-d-xo.html
I like this, the izzetification of non izzet is what I want
I’m building Izzet voting so the opposite also works 😁
As a combo player I've found that even folks I just met for the first time are pretty good about letting me shortcut a combo once the loop has been demonstrated once or twice. So long as you properly explain it to them and haven't been an ass xD Also they typically want you to play something else afterwords but such is the life of combo player....
Karametra was one of my first Commander decks i buld. i still play her to this day and i just love her mechanics!
Love this. I had something like this (inspired by a deck seen on a Muddstah video) a few years back, but it had some light stax instead of the combo kill.
Subbed. Great stuff.
Stax definitely fits this deck well in a playgroup that accommodates it
built rhis deck when karametra was in standard. Superb deck. Very resilient. Hard to lose.
Amazing deck tech, may have to build this myself (with a few tweaks to make it a bit more budget friendly)
Fun fact this deck started as karametra + spare cards I had lying around then went from there. 15 mana dorks, 37 lands and any other creatures with karametra makes something vaguely cohesive
I built a similar deck recently and I highly recommend amulet and concordant crossroads. Have had games where I just combo off and go craterhoof into concordant crossroads and just get lethal that turn. Finale of devastation also facilitates the haste-y strategy, and since most board wipes are sorcery speed I just swapped out a few of those for the haste, tho that most likely made the deck less consistent since if both hasters were on the bottom of my library I could fizzle and get board wiped the next turn.
I still want to have infinite creatures, but I do wonder if white suns twilight could go if I want to add them and go more all in..
I've played Karametra for years now, and it is by far my favorite and most powerful deck.
It's really cool to see another take on it that isn't enchantress. Great video!
What does your decklist look like compared to the one in the video?
Probably enchantresses @@nficocelli
Believe I'm not the first to mention it, but I'm suprised that there isn't an Amulet of Vigor in the list out the gate. That said, a deck where Panglacial Wurm isn't just a meme include but an honestly good card given the deck's strategy is a win in my book.
Absolutely amulet is near the top of my list, but the best reason not to have tested it yet is I don’t own one 😛 Yet…
This looks incredible, I wish I had had this idea before
Better late than never!
I like running dusk elemental as there's so few decks that it's actually good in
Some of the pet card can be a part of a combo with a sac outlet
I am talking about sun titan and saffi. It is not required to do so, just recommendation in case you want to make them part of the plan.
An actual recommendation that I like when my commander has important keywords is odric lunarch marshal. Giving all your creatures indestructible in every combat is insane. I had a game with atraxa (4 CMC one) and glissa out. I won that game with 6 spells casted because none of the creature decks on board could get through the flying first strike death touch vigilance lifelink squad. It is not the same but straight up indestructible to all your board so no grull player can get over you sounds great
Saffi and Sun are inseparable, in my mind they are pet cards together - if you’re selensya, you can’t play one without the other :D
I have odric in another deck, but here Kramer’s isn’t always a creature so it can’t be relied on as much. And if it’s a creature you’ve got a lot going on already ☺️ But it is a fun card and when it works ooooohh boy
@@OnlyCascadesi love selesnya. i never play those 2 together. i am building a pre edh saffi because karmic guide and revellark is my favorite combo and i actively don't play it in any abzan deck i have. i thought it is cool to have the commander being part of the combo
Cool decking seems powerful, I like your stile of videos.
I wonder if Case of the Locked Hothouse is good enough to make this list, despite it being a non-creature. On the one hand it's not a particularly hard solve for this deck and adds another augur of autumn type effect to the deck, but on the other hand it's a bit underwhelming before it's solved and also isn't a creature...Anyway this deck looks great! You did an amazing job coming up with it, so I think I'll give it a go if you don't mind. Thanks for sharing it!
EDIT: oh and I guess the new card "Eladamri, Korvecdal" is similar to Vizier of the Menagerie. might be worth a look?
Eladamri 100% goes in if I can find a cheap one, so I’m waiting a little. Case is too slow really though I did consider it, but having to wait a turn for it to turn on is rough
Yoooo I've played the core of this deck for years! I'm so happy to see someone else enjoy it!
Only wish I could shuffle less 🤣🤣
@@OnlyCascadesif you end up having many searches to do on the stack without any interruption, it's basically the land dump you just showed with Whitemane and shuffle only ONCE. Though I get it. Going for the s"land dunk" is brutal (I do have a Karametra deck myself, so I'm well aware of Lion slammin', especially during opponent's turns)🤣🤣🤣🤣
Super cool deck tech! Karametra was my first ever legendary and mythic I pulled from a booster back in the days. Just a quick thing: (2:19) you are not allowed to look at the top card of your library, let alone play those spells while the permanent that allows you to is on the stack. These static abilities are in effect once the spell has resolved and the creature is in play.
I don't think so, that would require the card to be both on the stack and on the top of your deck at the same time! Glad you enjoyed tho, she's recent for me
@@OnlyCascades I think he's saying you can only look at the top after Augur is on the battlefield, not when Augur is on the stack
Very nice and well made video man love the idea of the deck
This feels very weak to interaction. Like you removal/protection slots require your engine to already be online. If something goes wrong you have no way to protect Karametra. And without Karametra you gotta rely on having enough dorks to recast her. Plus if a board wipe comes down and you don't protect against it you have no way to rebuild.
I’ve found karametra herself tends to be be pretty hard to interact with - if we’re aiming to cast turn 3, people normally won’t have counter magic, and once on board she won’t be a creature that’s easier to kill until you reach 7 devotion, by which point you’ve already ramped enough to cast her again in most cases. Plus cards like augur mean we can keep cards in hand to cast if we expect a
Wipe.
That said every meta is different so it depends where you bring her of course 😊
i run a karametra cedh deck that uses some similar game plans. its admittedly fringe but its beaten out some tier 1 tables. i HEAVILY recommend finale of devastation. give youre entire board at least +10/+10 and tutor out a protection piece
I'm building this as a Primal Surge deck, which went a lot easier then expected. G/W has a lot of permanent based interaction
Please do more videos on this format!
More coming and made a few similar ones already!
just off the top of my head I think "Rite of Harmony and Aura Shards" would both me good cards
The non-creature slots you can flex a bit but I just enjoy the counter spells in white too much 🤣
I discovered your channel and you may have answered my nagging self inquiry… can I make a GW landfall-ish deck? HELL YEAH!!
Even if you go in a different direction because you want more landfall, can’t go wrong with a commander that gives you lands so readily!
The "Play lion, trigger" part was so effing funny, I was struggling to get out of my bed, was doomscrolling, clicked on this vid and that *slams 30 lands on the battlefield*made me laugh so hard, I felt good enough to get up.
Doomscrolling is the enemy of modern mankind. Glad I helped ☺️ I have done it irl, it is very satisfying
If i may make a couple points as i am upsessed with making the PERFECT karametra deck. If you're playing devoted druid, vizier of remedies is a MUST as it gives you unlimited mana. Also, heliod the sun crowned + walking ballista is a guaranteed win if not countered. Next, winds of Abandon is a huge help as it clears all boards except your own. emeria shepherd + Sakura tribe elder combo gets all your plains out for free, and they're good cards on their own if you're unable to pull off the combo. Finally, elesh norn, mother of machines is a great card to have as karametra and all etb procs twice, shuts down many of your opponents effects, and has great synergy with many cards in the deck such as making scute swarms effect activate FOUR TIMES for every creature you cast, potentially (easily) getting you 1024 scutes in one turn. Any thoughts on these?
So I think a lot of your cards are two card combos which are good if you have tutors, but otherwise you draw them together fairly unlikely is my view. Like Druid is still good but vizier just does nothing. It’s definitely a way you can build the deck and add more tutors but that isn’t how I like to run my decks, plus I’m less keen on tutors and combos in general, so it isn’t how I’d go forward with my build - but it may well be more powerful!
Elesh is also very stax-y, which is an effect I try to keep to a minimum. In cedh karametra sure she can come in though!
Oh I didn't think of it that way! Good points, but there's one card that even for your deck is a must have. Dryad arbor. It's a 1/1 forest creature, meaning you have karametra out, play something like birds of paradise, search for dryad arbor, once dryad arbor comes in, all creature and land etbs activate simultaneously, meaning karametra procs again, and search for another land, effectively getting 2 lands for one, and potentially procing something like scute Swarm twice.
@@kriskolo Sadly Karametra is a cast trigger, not a creature etb trigger, otherwise it'd be in for sure! As it, it's a cute option to fetch a creature, but it has summoning sickness so I don't really like it enough
Starlight parade is one of my fav ways to win due to high creature count
Nice primer!
5:30 Dawn Charm is weeping rn
Mana tithe can weep right next to it 😝
Greenbelt rampager is a 3/4 that gives you 3 creature cast triggers for just 1 green mana 3 times. It's great in Animar, and would be great here too
Yup, that’ll do it! Wonder if there’s any way to dump that energy…
aeve, progenitor ooze and ulvenwald oddity would seem fun in this list
I built this as a creature deck and accidentally made storm, but I could definitely see leaning in heavier on the combo and using all the actual storm cards 😊
The meta of my playgroup is very board wipe heavy (even creature decks kinda HAVE to use a lot of boardwipes to avoid opponents from snowballing) my karametra deck is very similar to this one, but I also play boardwipes that put all creatures back to the bottom of the deck and Great Aurora to reset the field in my favour once I have tons on lands on board.
Considered including Tangleroot? It's another card that enables Whitemane Lion/Kor Skyfisher spamming.
Never seen that card before, might be one for the budget build I’m working on cheers!
Nice glass canon!
As soon as Whitemane came down I was down bad for this build. absolutely broken.
Trash to treasure
Felidar Sovereing + weather the storm can some how be a way to win if u set up karametra fast and a vedalken orrery and a litle bit luck
I basically made this deck back around 2018 out of spite because I was going nuts at the fact that every Karametra deck I saw was an Enchantment deck, which completely ignored her main line of text. My list was a little more mean with using The Great Aurora and Goblin Charbelcher as my primary wincons, assuming I didn't just outvalue the hell out of people with stuff like Tireless Tracker and Bygone Bishop. Also Uncage the Menagerie for X=2 finds any combination of Lotus Cobra, Silvermane Lion, Kor Skyfisher, or if you're just being a terrible person, Devoted Druid, Vizier of Remedies, Duskwatch Recruiter, etc. Also works to just find generically good cards like Selfless Spirit for insurance. Uncage has since become a permanent mainstay in pretty much any Green deck I play due to this deck.
Yup when I started playing this deck I couldn’t fathom the enchantress builds!
Hey man, selesnya enjoyer here. Have my own Karametra list with Primal Surge and no other sorcs/instants but wanted to try something new, found this vid on my recommendations and I really love your take. Will try the list online and maybe brew something similar myself later, thanks for inspiration! Leaving a sub, hope for more similar videos :)
Selesnya for life
Why Saffi instead of Selfless Savior? Karametra doesn't trigger on ETB only cast, and if it's Karametra being removed she's already got indestructable so rarely going to graveyard?
Also, I'm a really big fan of artifact/enchantment hate in decks that have so few. Collector Ouphe seems like a no-brainer, then Bane of Progress as another creature. Also Creeping Corrosion & Seeds of Innocence are great if you want to really mess w people, but not creatures :)
It’s a classic pet combo with sun titan. If sun titan gets destroyed, you sacrifice Saffi, titan dies, then brings Saffi back!
It’s fun when it goes off but. It super broken or anything for sure
Zoran orb and the three green cards that let's you play all your lands taps from your grave yard perfect for this deck
Just finished a list built around Emeria the Sky Ruin, was heavily considering Karametra. Always been a big fan of this card and love the direction you took it in!
Fun decklist, I've always wanted to run karametra as a commander. you've just reinvigorated that desire. Thanks for sharing :)
Another player lent me this deck when I arrived without any cards.
He had to play for two people as I didn't know the combo :(
I (he) also won btw
I both like and dislike knowing what my deck does like this 😂
Give a try to Torens, Fist of Angels, aka "Cast a creature, get a token"
Yo I have this deck! It's hella fun to ramp with if you get the right combos. My main win con for it is Helix Pinnacle as a meme
So many directions to go :D
this sounds a lot like the strat for Chulane, Teller of Tales. Interesting version.
This seems like alot of fun.
It's not what I expected when I built the deck, but I look forward to playing it more!
@OnlyCascades I'd throw an altar of the brood in there for laughs. Gonna get so many mill triggers from lands entering alone. May not win the game, but for 1 mana it sure could inconvenience the rest of the table since it hits all opponents. It's situational, but like I said it's 1 mana. Lol I don't think it's going to set you back much.
Ha you know that's not a bad shout, could definitely try it for fun and it might even be good. If you got whitemane combo, you can mill 60ish cards...then you untap and cast whitemane another 30 times to win! I did consider another version of this deck more 'all in' on the combo, with e.g. worldly tutor and such, but I personally prefer my decks to play differently game to game, and altar only helps opponent unless it wins the game. But now I want to try it at least once 🤩@@StarkEpiphany
@OnlyCascades Yeah mill is always a bit of a gamble in commander unless you go full into it but still it has some uses. I do run Altar of the brood in my Krenko mob boss deck. Which gets silly very quickly. Lol The idea of mono red mill is just hilarious due to one simple artifact.
I used a lor of white mane lion jank back in like 2015 or so. But this by far the most ceeative.
someone cooked here, im gonna borrow this shell for my mass land destruction and mass land resurrection deck im building >:)
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I lihe Dust Elemental because you can save Creatures from removal and cast them again =)
Sigarda, Font of Blessings in exchange for Shalai is great! (IMO)
Og elesh norn would be a great anthem as well
I used to play norn and cut her for ultramarine, both lower and higher mana costs
Hmm. I have a good chunk of the important cards in here. I may have to do some shenanigans
I don't usually watch these types of commander deck videos, although I've played my fair share of commander games, but this vid was great. Short, sweet, and to the point, and it looks fun without being overly complicated, but just complex enough that as someone who plays the game I didn't need to replay the vid to get anything. Fun deck nobody expects. If that's the full list, I'd consider path/swords/nature's claim/ some sort of removal. Doesn't seem like you really need tutors with your redundancies but could consider it.
I ran them for a while but just want more consistency and creatures can offer some help with it, I’m glad I still have my solitudes!
there's a green creature card for 4 mana with landfall that makes 2/2 wolves
Is there a Budget Version? I have a quite expensive Sythisdeck and would Like to use some if the expensive pieces while investing on a Budget for a functioning landfall Deck
I don’t have a deck list made, but this deck can 100% be built for under 100$ and retain the same core concept, possibly 50 at a push.
You should see my Atogatog edh deck that used slivers and changelings…
Theres that new card that stuff comes in the battlefield untapped too...
This deck would get me put down so quickly in the next game, lmao
Whitemane Lion, Trigger... *plops 30 lands*
Panglacial Wurm gaming
Jeremy @scgcommander needs to play this!!! #CMDRVS
Champion of lambholt would dominate in this deck
Cool build fellow hareruya enjoyer
They have taken so much money from me
@@OnlyCascades tokyomtg and singlestar are often cheaper, though they tend to have less stock! Shouts to Amenity Dream too if you like to browse.
@@granite_4576 amenity is the best for sure! Hareruya has some good offers on their displays though. I’ve seen HP cards that are NM in the west 🤣
Wow thank God it’s not another enchantress deck. Really smart design and will definitely be stealing this as I’ve always wanted to make a creature-focused Karametra deck, but could never figure out how to do it as synergistically as you did here. Nice video.
Since I made my own I can't really fathom how people see Karametra and think - enchantments!
Great deck tech. But I think with low mana curve and no tutor, it's very risky to have only Beast Whisperer and 3 look at top library style. And then for scaling, I recommend to have mana doubler or even tripler.
There’s a few others like vampire that can tide you over but there’s less infinite protection yeah. It’s just a shame so many are on non creatures but I was pondering a guardian project
banger vid
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Bro where is your amulet of vigor? Makes the mana even easier to get
Right at the end of the video 😚
If you haven't already updated your deck w/ "Amulet of Vigor" or "Spelunking", I highly recommend that you should.
Spelunking is in, Amulet is on the buy list!
So…why no Earthcraft? Looks so perfect for the deck.Any reason for the cut?
Maybe budget constraints? But you run a Savannah 🤔
Earth craft is 100% great but I hadn’t even heard of the card when I made the video! But yes the budget constrain would stop it - I play savannah because I’ve owned it for 8 odd years before it shot up in price 🤣
Will you give decklist on Moxfield
Check the description!
stop tellin people about all my decks is the the third one already 😭now they'll see it coming
Really 🤣 hope you don’t have a Melek deck planned…
oops I cant believe you built this whoops
Awesome deck tech! And Fantastic editing too!
Will be looking forward to seeing future videos in this style.
I wanna see you play this deck now, perhaps on mtgo
It’s up now!
I’m genuinely interested in this as a stax commander 😬🤣
We play very different games 🤣 cards like collector ouphe are probably good here but I can’t bring myself to
this is a one trick pony in my playgroup, it will work once, then every single other time they see me playing the deck i will be dead before turn 4 lol
Killing before turn 4 is a lot XD
[[Early Harvest]] might be a fun include in this deck? so when you have your whole manabase out and about, you cast this and untap everything
Clouds tone curio should be in the deck so lanowar elves can go infinite with a cobra or landfall/ untapped lands effect
Creature Curio when 🔥
You should play this at a Japanese EDH table, they love this sort of thing ;)
The decks first few games were there! My Karametra card is Japanese 😅
Pretty good video. Ill try that deck when i next play with my group. I'd also go as far as adding a rite of harmony to draw my entire deck just for the memes and some possible failsafes for that secondary plan
That’s crazy- I legitimately JUST made a deck very similarly on Moxfield. It’s a little bit more budget, but incredibly similar. It doesn’t really loop as well but that’s the cost of budget.
This is definitely a deck that converts to a budget pretty well tbh
100%. The most expensive card in the deck is an Amulet of Vigor that I cracked from an LCI box topper. I don’t like to spend more than 50ish dollars on a deck, but if I have a card I’ll use it.
i run something similar in a selesnya landfall deck with maja, bretagard protector as a commander, and karametra carry the whole deck
If you run rootpath purifier you can effectively search for every land in your deck
Sadly not, karametra searches for forests or plains, not basics!
I need this deck in my life ahah
Bro cooked
Cloudstone curio would fit too
Would add aura shards
No Amulet of Vigor ?
admonition angel works incredibly well with flash cards like yeva here as it uses the old formatting for this type of effect with 2 triggers
e.G. admonition angel comboing into 10 flashed out creatures (keeping the landfall on the stack) then lion returning the angel to hand before the exile triggers resolve thus never letting the exiled permanents return
sadly since karametra is a cast trigger we can't just wipe the entire board permanently like this with just lion+angel+commander
Ooh good point I haven’t had this come up yet! I love old oblivion ring wording. About 5 years ago I had an edh deck trying to combo win with oblivion rings 🤣
What a fun list! I'd probably run a couple snow basics just to make more different names for field of the dead! This is a very exciting build!
Yeah I never thought of that, putting it on my to do list to find some snow basics lol
You might live Greensleeves Maro-mancer in this deck. For an unstoppable wave of badgers
I had it for a while, then sold the card 🥲