Not Your Average Bears: A Story Lost to the Ages

Commander / EDH* MachoGau

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1st Quick Card Update —Nov. 9, 2016

First Update:
Notable Removals: -1 Brago, King Eternal, -1 Darksteel Ingot, -1 Solemn Simulacrum, -1 Karametra, God of Harvests. -1 Eidolon of Blossoms, -1 Dolmen Gate

Additions: +1 Chaosphere and +1 Emeria Angel are most notable here, allowing us to deal with flyers amazingly well. Chaosphere may turn into Spidersilk Armor though.

+1 Hoofprints of the Stag replaced Eidolon of Blossoms. The reason for Hoofprints over something like Luminarch Ascension is because Luminarch Ascension is a card that causes opponents to make bad decisions. Someone else may be set up to win the game on their following turn but all of a sudden your opponents have decided to attack you because omg pls no have angels. And then we all get craterhoofed.

+1 Assault Formation and +1 Nature's Lore have also come in.

Dolmen Gate was doing pretty much nothing most of the time and has been swapped into a +1 Fellwar Stone

Waterseas says... #1

How do you not have Life from the Loam in here...? The card is actually just insane, and honestly better than even Crucible in this deck.

November 6, 2016 1:52 a.m.

MachoGau says... #2

@Waterseas I'm glad you asked! It was chopped in the painful, painful process that is getting the deck to 100 cards. While it is amazing that it basically guarantees our land drop off of Kynaios and Tiro and any other additional land effects we have in play, I decided that Dredge 3 wasn't something I was willing to do (even though it works SO well with Kynaios and Tiro's end of turn ability). The deck does have ways to recur things from the graveyard, namely Emeria Shepherd, Sun Titan, and Eternal Witness but these cards are here to retrieve threats that have been removed by opponents. I don't feel secure enough in these cards to actively drop cards from my library into my graveyard. In that way, I find Crucible of Worlds is a stronger inclusion.

That said, I do suggest Life from the Loam as a budget alternative and I'm definitely going to test more with it. While it won't be taking the Crucible's slot, Karametra and Splendid Reclamation are both potentially on the chopping block. Thanks for your input :3

November 6, 2016 2:52 a.m.

NathanJS1293 says... #3

I can't even begin to explain how helpful it was reading through all of your notes on this deck. I can't seem to figure out how I want to build with these guys, and I think this will point me in the right direction.

November 6, 2016 10:28 a.m.

urgumflux says... #4

your only artifact/enchantment removal is Sylvan Reclamation. maybe a Nature's Claim or Council's Judgment would work?

November 7, 2016 1:39 a.m.

MachoGau says... #5

@racemaster
Hey thanks, glad that it was of help!

@urgumflux
Thanks for pointing this out. I was actually debating whether Seal of Cleansing, Return to Dust or Krosan Grip would be worthwhile inclusions. I'm currently finding Brago, King Eternal quite lacking with the shortage of mana rocks and etb creatures in the deck. He's strong but I'm not sure he fits into my card criteria. SO long story short, several card slots are looking to open up and I think some more removal is in order.

November 7, 2016 5:19 p.m. Edited.

Folcon says... #6

November 8, 2016 7:19 p.m.