Epochalyptik says... #2
What is your budget?
Are you trying to build a combo deck or something else?
How much experience do you have with EDH?
August 19, 2012 1:54 p.m.
I have plenty of experience with edh and I am aware of all the possible tutors, better dual lands and other stuff.
For this deck my goal was to basically build a board state ideal for an Overrun effect and ghave seemed to be the perfect general for that job in the colors I wanted to play.
As for budget I don't plan on spending any money on any of my edh decks (well I did for my kaalia, but I really wanted that angelic vs. demonic akroma...) but if some really good trade options come my way for my edh decks I'll usually take them (like when I traded a foil Temporal Mastery for a Plateau and Primeval Titan ).
Lingering Souls does seem to be lack luster in edh, but it's unusual for the word redundant to be thrown around in edh as a bad thing, especially in a deck with very few tutors (all my other edh decks got the tutors I own).
Also the comment on Mikaeus, the Unhallowed seems strange, you say edh is full of kill spells and board wipes yet you suggest cutting a good anti board wipe creature?
Greel, Mind Raker has a ton of interactions with my deck, mostly with the reanimation spells also he's an instant speed Mind Twist on a stick, instant speed discard is pretty good.
August 19, 2012 10:29 p.m.
I've found that Juniper Order Ranger and Sigil Captain provide you with two more cards that combo to give you a lot of counters.
April 17, 2013 11:18 p.m.
more descriptive comments say more.
As for the suggestions that have a little more words with them, I did add the ranger mostly due to a standard deck I'm trying out needing the garruk, it had taken me awhile to get the deck down to a playable number.
April 18, 2013 4:20 a.m.
Obscurity: 8/20, the main win cons of the deck are fairly common combo's so low points here
Effectiveness: 18/20, you won all the playtesting for multiplayer but lost Vs. Hello Sweetie in the 1v1 part
Flavor: 15/20: It feels like a combo deck but isn't the wacky feel this contest was looking for
Overall 41/60
Ohthenoises says... #1
Chances of Lingering Souls being useful in edh are slim. Cloudshift is fairly redundant with card:Conjurer's Closet. Natural Affinity and card:Nature's Revolt are redundant with Kamahl, Fist of Krosa . Bojuka Bog is better than Nihil Spellbomb IMO.
In my experience there are so many killspells/boardwipes/edict effects/ bounce effects in EDH that counter based strategies are slow/clunky and can be easily stomped down so you could safely cut Mikaeus, the Unhallowed . (There a lot I didn't mention because they go well with your general.)
Greel, Mind Raker really doesn't jive with the rest of your deck.
Hope this helps
August 19, 2012 1:38 p.m.