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Commander / EDH
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After a few games. —Oct. 24, 2015
Played a few games last night to test out the wheels of the deck. Card draw is insane, managed to get through 90% of the deck by the end. Even without the following cards (as they hadn't arived yet):
Seedborn Muse
Sheoldred, Whispering One
Oath of Druids
Forbidden Orchard
Birthing Pod
Oversold Cemetery
Played vs Teferi, Temporal Archmage commander deck, and a janky Child of Alara mass destruction goodstuff.dec.
I found the following cards to not hold their weight, or I had not wanted to play them.
Void Attendant
Phyrexian Plaguelord
There didn't seem to be any place to play these creatures. As Void Attendant had hardly any targets until using it was not worth the mana as it was game closing. Phyrexian Plaguelord just seemed to not be strong enough to warrent using at the time.
Here are my changes for the list after the games.
- Removing Deathrender has a few nice niche situations but a few other issues needed to be addressed.
- Removing Phyrexian Plaguelord didn't have enough utility in this build when deathtouch is so prevelant
- Removing Void Attendant felt too weak when the ability became viable
- Adding Ward of Bones adds another degree of board control
- Adding Loaming Shaman very much needed recursion
- Adding Tilling Treefolk not as powerful as Life from the Loam but much more in budget
@Kratos1810: Sylvan Offering looks pretty cool actually! Very political which is always great in EDH. The only issue dropping that many tokens on someone is only viable when win cons are out. Which will really hurt me as well. It seems quite risky, Though if I ran Sangromancer (Is currently a options I'm considering to combat any life loss it could work, or Tajuru Preserver to stop sac effects. Ashnod's Altar though powerful, like Phyrexian Altar, is very strong, but Like you say quite boring. AEther Snap is Excellent, if it where only destroy all tokens. Deathrender is like you say a bit weak, it does seem to just get destroyed when it drops. But if it sticks with a creature in hand and on the battlefield with Evolutionary Leap It becomes quite a way to cycle through ETB Effects. But is a bit weak. I am tempted to go more defensive and replace it for Ward of Bones and add Crawlspace in.
Thank you very much for your continued input!
October 16, 2015 3:03 p.m.
Love this deck style. I feel like Blood Artist would be a logical fit in this theme as well. Since it only targets one opponent, it allows you to assign damage politically as well.
October 16, 2015 7:49 p.m.
@Mitrian Thank you for your comment! Blood Artist is going to be in this build just for what it does Falkenrath Noble does the same for a 5th of the price :p
Kratos1810 says... #1
There is also Sylvan Offering from the recent Commander 2013 that gives X tokens and a beater to boot. It's a bit boring, but Ashnod's Altar is a solid mana generator. I feel Deathrender is a rather weak card in this deck. It's cute to drop Massacre Wurm for free, but the slot could be used for something else. AEther Snap maybe?
October 16, 2015 11:54 a.m.