Top of the Food Chain

Commander / EDH Hickorysbane

SCORE: 10 | 51 COMMENTS | 5409 VIEWS | IN 2 FOLDERS


Additions —Dec. 26, 2015

Cardname --replacing--> cardname

Sol Ring --> Mountain

Lightning Greaves --> ???

Phyrexian Arena --> Deadbridge Chant

Bearhemoth says... #1

Is this budget or no?

April 28, 2014 7:17 p.m.

Hickorysbane says... #2

Bearhemoth: I tried, so it is to a certain extent. But if I want it bad enough I'm willing to splurge. What have you got in mind?

April 28, 2014 7:39 p.m.

AffinityJesus says... #3

Skullclamp is a must for this deck in my opinion. It's essentially this; pay 1, sack a 0/1 dork, draw 2. It works so well for this deck it's stupid. Also Descent into Madness can be just hilarious for the deck. If you can get it out early enough, & your deck pumps out dorks quick enough, unanswered it will exile all of each of your opponent's cards in hand & on the field before they can even touch you, & you can just exile it to itself before it begins exiling more then just tokens. Fair warning though, people usually rage quit before it's gone up to even 4 Despair counters. lol

April 29, 2014 12:06 a.m.

Hickorysbane says... #4

Both of those look nice, we'll see about Skullclamp cause sometimes I don't mind paying that much but I try to avoid it. And if I did that for half of this deck that'd really add up. But I'll definitley find a spot for Descent into Madness because until I looked at it closely I never saw the "or" right next to "and" haha. Those two little letters make that card soo much better

April 29, 2014 5:23 p.m.

Hickorysbane says... #5

AffinityJesus: Okay, so I know double posts aren't usually acceptable but this is my own deck and the more i check out Descent into Madness the more I love it. I might try and use it in another deck too. Also I dunno if you'll find your way back here if I don't mention your name, so that's another reason for it. Thanks again cause I just love that card and it'll be perfect in here

April 29, 2014 10:27 p.m.

AffinityJesus says... #6

No problem! His synergy with Descent into Madness is one of several awesome synergy's I've found over the course of running him as my commander. & I've found it odd that I never see it in any other Prossh decks. So I'm glad you enjoy it! If you want to check out my Prossh EDH for more ideas, you're more than welcome to. Though I'm new on this site & I've forgotten how to link you to it, so I guess you'll have to go to my page to find it. But I've only gotten two decks posted so far, so it shouldn't be hard to find. lol

April 29, 2014 11:01 p.m.

Bearhemoth says... #7

Doubling Season Lets planeswalkers ult right when they get out.

Black Market Lets you play anything after one or two turns.

Eldrazi Monument turns all of your tokens into nasty, indestructible flying threats.

Attrition Lets you fling your creatures to straight up pick off theirs.

Defense of the Heart is a bomb that only costs four mana and can lead to game ending combos.

Purphoros, God of the Forge Can pump your creatures and make every single token hurt.

If you want to look at more of my ideas/suggestions, I would take a look at my Prossh deck.

April 30, 2014 7:32 p.m.

Hickorysbane says... #8

Bearhemoth: My favorites out of those (ones I'll try to hunt down) have to be Doubling Season , Purphoros, and Defense of the Heart . The others I can see why they're useful but the three I listed are just personal preference. Season is already in my useitifIcangetaholdofthem-board and I'm looking for Purphoros but never added him to the list. I'll look for around for a Defense of the Heart though, I like that. Also I'm guessing that +1 is from you so thanks for that too

April 30, 2014 10:50 p.m.

Bearhemoth says... #9

It was, I don't know why people are so stingy/I always help out a fellow prossh player. Did you check out my deck? It seems like yours is along the same line, but I rely on prossh/ramp.

May 1, 2014 4:52 p.m.

Hickorysbane says... #10

Yessir and I tried to keep my suggestions ramp oriented cause I know yours is more that as opposed to tokens. I forget exactly what it was but I saw another style of Prossh and was surpirsed there's so many ways to play him. Anyways...thanks again for the +1 and suggestions, and I looked at your deck earlier I was just in a rush and didn't have time to comment, but I got back to it so it's all good

May 1, 2014 5:26 p.m.

gufymike says... #11

Goblin Bombardment , Doubling Season , Primal Vigor and Tooth and Claw are very good cards in here (iirc everything but d-season was included in the deck). Also, haste enablers like Anger and Ogre Battledriver do work. So does Eternal Witness . Also, Food Chain is a must to enable so many things.

I made a prossh deck and it came out like this There are so many interactions and combos I can't name them all. But I share to give you ideas.


it's prossh Playtest

Commander / EDH* gufymike

SCORE: 2 | 3 COMMENTS | 252 VIEWS

My description is not complete, I update it once a week or so. I'm trying to find all the interactions in everything...

May 14, 2014 5:23 p.m.

Hickorysbane says... #12

gufymike

Tooth and Claw can combo off with some (or probably several) things but I really don't like what id does on it's own so I doubt I'll run that. D-season and bombardment are in the addifigetone-board, and you were right about Primal Vigor already being included. I like the idea of Ogre Battledriver though less so Anger , not sure why it's just a personal preference. I also like Food Chain cause it's just insane with Prossh

May 14, 2014 9:58 p.m.

Hickorysbane says... #13

Also I am using E-Witness in the current version (which is a casual deck consisting of the "foil" cards and a few others that fit fairly well)

May 14, 2014 10:02 p.m.

CampbellStev says... #14

Hey, just a heads up for your commander deck in the official EDH rulings it states that:

"A card's colour identity is its colour plus the colour of any mana symbols in the card's rules text. A card's colour identity is established before the game begins, and cannot be changed by game effects.The Commander's colour identity restricts what cards may appear in the deck."

This means that you can only use cards in your deck that share the same colour as your commander. Also if a card has a hybrid mana cost but only shares one of the mana symbols that your commander can produce, it is an illegal card to have in your deck.

This is taken from the official ruling page for the commander game at http://mtgcommander.net/rules.php but, mind you you don't have to play this if your playgroup has there own house rules.

Here was the Prossh deck I used to run, it relied on sack engines, token/counter overloads, board-clears that kept my guys safe, and sometimes even funny infinite mana combos!

All in all I'm just trying to help and I hope that you are successful with your deck! +1


Prossh, Skyraider of EDH Playtest

Commander / EDH campbellstev

SCORE: 2 | 5 COMMENTS | 375 VIEWS

June 1, 2014 10:48 p.m.

erabel says... #15

For the tl;dr version of what campbellstev said: because of either hybrid mana or mana symbols in rules text, you can't run Cemetery Puca , Spitemare , or Jungle Shrine .

June 1, 2014 10:52 p.m.

Hickorysbane says... #16

I was unaware of the thing about the hybrids, thanks for that I'll take those out now. But I was under the impression that the Jungle Shrine just worked like a Gruul Guildgate . I thought that if you tried to add a color outside of your commander's color identity you just got colorless. So Jungle Shrine could give me red, green, or colorless. I'll take it out though. I'm gonna get a Savage Lands or Command Tower soon enough

Kinda funny how that worked out though, that I'm looking to put two cards in and I happen to have two illegal cards (Plus Jungle Shrine but that's an easy fix)

June 1, 2014 11:46 p.m.

JoeKickazz says... #17

Awesome deck. Harmonize and Garruk Wildspeaker would probably fit in nicely.

September 20, 2014 11:14 p.m.

Hickorysbane says... #18

JoeKickazz, thanks for the suggestions! I like the idea of Garruk but I prefer my draw engines to be continious (Staff of Nin , Deathreap Ritual , Deadbridge Chant , et cetera)

September 23, 2014 7:31 p.m.

Komamura says... #19


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Commander / EDH Komamura

SCORE: 10 | 0 COMMENTS | 1566 VIEWS

If you look at the win cons on my deck there are multiple cards that win the game as soon as they resolve and you attack with prossh. Your more then welcome to use them. Most of the cards are not expensive ether. Share +1's?

September 30, 2014 6:09 a.m.

eeriekiller says... #20

November 7, 2014 1:49 p.m.

eeriekiller says... #21

mainly for dictate of erebos

November 7, 2014 1:50 p.m.

Hickorysbane says... #22

eeriekiller, (it's so odd having to call you that, like I never say eeriekiller to get your attention. It just feels weird) Or cause Annihilator is just boss :P If I get one I can guarantee it'll find a slot. It'll go on my secondary list because that one above may take a while to get all of them from just trading, and you know I'm too cheap to just buy 40 or 50 $$ worth of cards xD

November 7, 2014 2:55 p.m.

I have had some wild success with my Prossh build: "That was fast...". Check it out, maybe you can get some great ideas. If I were you, I'd definitely put Food Chain in. It is full on incredible with Prossh.

Also, I just recently actually dropped my Craterhoof Behemoth. I could be willing to trade him away. Do you have a binder linked? Let me know if you're interested.

November 17, 2014 10:38 p.m.

Hickorysbane says... #24

DreadnoughtMTG, here it is, and thanks for the Food Chain reminder! I completely forgot about that one.

November 17, 2014 10:47 p.m.

MagicalHacker says... #25

Sorry about the wait! I've been pretty busy lately, and I didn't initially plan on actually discussing my deck choices, but c'est la vie.


So looking through your deck, I saw it was very much a good-stuffs deck with a good bit of token producers, whereas mine is full-fledged infinite combo. That's not to say one will always be better in every scenario, but from the standpoint of synergy, infinite combo is as good as it gets. For reference, here's my decklist: MagicalHacker - Prossh, Skyraider of Kher.

On that page, you will see my most recent comment, which was copy pasted from the other Prossh deck posted in the deck help forum. Please check out the comment to understand why I am making the following suggestions:

If you like any of these suggestions or the cards in the aforementioned comment on my Prossh deck, I'd love to be of assistance in taking out cards as well.

November 25, 2014 2:16 p.m.