Smaug's Everlasting Avarice | Primer
Commander / EDH*
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Sept. 23, 2019
Woo-o-o-oah, hold up hold up, 50 upvotes?! #1 Overall?! Tf?!
Thank you all for your help and upvotes along the way, especially to all you awesome people who commented to help me out with suggestions! Really never thought this deck would go this far, let alone anywhere, so thanks a lot!
As for actual updates, I realized how obsessed I’ve been with Bolass Citadel, so I’m pondering cutting it so I can focus on main combos. Razzmatazz is a super fun guy for any black deck but I feel like the main combos are totally unrelated in every way. I mean, the easiest combo, Dockside Sabertooth, has like, what, 6 tutors already? I mean, holy shit, that’s enough, right? It makes the deck more casual, which I like, because it doesn’t detract from the infinite combos, and makes the deck less linear. Who knows, I’ll ponder it some more. Until next time!
Hey, thanks a lot, I really appreciate it! Thanks again for helping me make the deck better, you’ve probably helped more than anyone else so far! I’m more than surprised that this went anywhere, considering how it’s the first deck I’ve created on my own, with my own limited understanding of less casual EDH. I never thought I’d get more than like 5, even less so in a week! I’m also surprised, because of all the negative publicity my playgroup gave the new commanders. The knight and faerie I understand, but Chulane seems pretty damn great, and Korvold does too. Im surprised that so many people thought otherwise. Anyway, yeah, thanks for helping out, dude.
September 17, 2019 8:17 p.m.
riddlemtgnerd says... #3
maybe swap out Deep Forest Hermit and Mayhem Devil for Ophiomancer and/or Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
September 17, 2019 8:34 p.m.
RNR_Gaming says... #4
The only one that didn't seem breakable was the knight. The Faerie is literally an esper version of that bird from m20 everyone was hyped about. Anyways hope the success continues and if you could teach me how to add background that would be super cool.
September 17, 2019 8:38 p.m.
riddlemtgnerd Thanks for the response and upvote, my dude. Mayhem Devil is actually a wincon, because (had to doublecheck this) Mayhem is the only thing that works as a Zulaport/Artist when it comes to saccing any permanent, not just creatures, andthe deck has a bunch of perpetual sac stuff, but half are only for artifacts (treasures and servos). When I get into the Dockside Sabertooth combo, I can win with Mayhem without even thinking about my commander. Respectfully, I believe Endrek and Ophiomancer to be much too slow. Hear me out: Ophiomancer is basically a worse Bitterblossom because of its '1 at a time' restriction, and Endrek is worse than Hermit because Hermit creates 5 tokens upon cast, whereas Endrek requires 5 more mana to produce the same effect. If I got anything here wrong, please correct me below, and thanks for the input! Everything helps, seriously.
RNR_Gaming Thanks bro, and it's really easy if you know the command. Here you go:
For the background picture:
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September 17, 2019 10:02 p.m. Edited.
Sorry, that was weird. For the picture:
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For the clear background:
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for each, add < and > directly before and after. If I posted it here like that, the code would disappear lol.
September 17, 2019 10:10 p.m.
Holy shit, that’s a lot of suggestions! Thanks for the upvote, dude. Okay:
I totally forgot about Prossh, so thanks a lot for reminding me! Prime token creation right there.
The problem with the increased counter production is that I’m not attacking much, if at all. Also, if I do, it would be with Korvold and he’d be probably the biggest creature on the field so I don’t need to worry about buffing him any more. That being said I like Reyhan a lot, so I’ll check him out. There is a four mana enchant that doubles tokens, from OG Innistrad I believe, that I forgot and need to check out. But overall I don’t really want to cut anything for attack based stuff, thanks though! I’ll have to check it out.
Regarding the aristocrats, that is actually a win on in my deck. I have Mayhem Devil for saccing treasures, lands or other artifacts, and I do actually have Zulaport Cutthroat in there now as a Servo Module wincon.
The Dictate and Grave Pact are a bit iffy. Saccing creatures is a bit unpredictable, and generally if there are creatures worth destroying they might be too slow to deal with them. But the biggest problem is no graveyard recursion; I’m not gonna have a steady flow of creatures to sac to potentially justify inclusion. That being said, again, terribly limited experience irl with the deck, so who knows?
Thanks for all your suggestions, everything helps!!
September 18, 2019 9:33 a.m.
Have you ever thought of Words of Wilding ? Combos pretty nicely with Ashnod's Altar and Korvold . I used it in my list.
September 18, 2019 2:32 p.m. Edited.
BlueBat93That’s really interesting, on one hand it can do a lot but only if you’ve got extraneous mana. I’ll check it out. Thanks for the upvote and comment!
CocoapuffsThing is, it’s kinda slow and there are other things that I could sac instead.. I tried it before but I don’t think it helps enough to warrant a spot. That said I’ll take another look. Thanks for the upvote and suggestion!
September 18, 2019 4:35 p.m.
Fenryr What you need is just one creature to sacrifice and the chain will start. You get from Ashnod's Altar , Words of Wilding and Korvold will trigger instead of drawing you choose to use from The Altar to pay the and you'll get the bear token which can be sacrificed and used to restart the chain.
Worst case would really be to have any kind of permanent to sacrfice and open to pay for the first activation. Afterwards it will be self-sustaining.
I think it's a pretty powerful combo. We get infinite ETBs and LTBs as well as infinite colorless mana. Pair it with Mayhem Devil and we have our win.
September 18, 2019 4:45 p.m. Edited.
Oh I totally forgot about Korvold lol. Yeah thanks for letting me know, only five infinite combos in a deck isn't nearly enough. Hopefully six might make a difference.
No, seriously, I legit forgot about that, and probably wasn't gonna add it because of that. Sleep deprivation lol, thanks for the help.
RNR_Gaming says... #1
Man this deck is really starting to boom lol I remember when it was at like 2 upvotes. You've put a ton of the effort into the whole thing; background, primer, and edits great job man.
September 17, 2019 2:03 p.m.