Ib Halfheart, Goblin Sac-tician [PRIMER]

Commander / EDH Liquidbeaver

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It's Ib's Birthday! —Nov. 25, 2017

For Ib's birthday you all decided to pitch in and get him the #1 Most-Viewed & Most-Upvoted deck on TappedOut for November 25th!

He spent the day reveling in himself, and wondering why people even give thanks for each other on Thanksgiving when they could be giving thanks for him instead two days later.

17k+ views, 25th on the list of TappedOut's Top EDH Decks, and 240+ upvotes... Ib is very pleased, and in turn will shed a tear* for each one of you that is sacrificed on the battlefield.

*Limit one tear per battle.

budlaorf says... #1

I really like the deck man. Have you considered adding in War's Toll?

November 4, 2017 9:52 a.m.

Liquidbeaver says... #2

budlaorf: Thanks a lot!

I actually had War's Toll in the deck for a while, and while I liked the first effect, the second effect actually caused me to get focused a lot even when people had no creatures. Most players took it as "I'm hesitant to play my big creatures or my small utility creatures if I don't get to attack with them how I want/protect them, so I'm going to focus Liquidbeaver to until that effect is gone.". The other thing I realized is that, even though War's Toll gives me an opportunity to kill opponent's creatures, I actually killed a lot fewer that way than if I had gotten the opportunity to be the one on the attack and doing block shenanigans, which the deck is a lot better at doing.

After playing with it for a while and not getting the effect out of it that I wanted, I found and tried Mana Web, which I still sideboard in from time to time, and I am probably going to end up mainboarding very soon. I get predominantly the same effect, for cheaper (not needing R is really nice), and just as much hate, but a different kind. With Mana Web players still focus me, but since they don't have to attack with everything, they are also still leery about using creatures to do so, which means I'm still mostly in control, or at least in their heads. Forcing them to play at sorcery speed like I already do isn't something they are as suited for deck-wise or playstyle-wise, especially the blue players.

November 17, 2017 11:43 a.m.

Liquidbeaver says... #3

Out: Curse of Opulence

In: Mana Web

Curse is a great card for its cost, it just hasn't really had an impact with my deck. I almost never find myself needing more mana than I have, and the people that know my deck will forego attacking the cursed player to deny me the resources anyway. I've been looking for a slot to bring Mana Web back in anyway, so it was an easy swap.

Also removed Strip Mine and Great Furnace in favor of two basics. I like Strip Mine, and it is especially powerful with Crucible of Worlds, but I noticed that more often than not I would have rather had the flexibility of the basic land on the field to up my number of pairs for Ib, or an extra land for Glacial Crevasses to stall one more turn. Great Furnace was in there for fuel for Goblin Welder and when I ran Kuldotha Rebirth, and just wasn't needed anymore.

November 21, 2017 11:31 a.m.