Untapped Potential - Dragonlord Ojutai
Commander / EDH
SCORE: 11 | 14 COMMENTS | 3826 VIEWS | IN 5 FOLDERS
Update #1 —July 14, 2017
I've gone through so many tweaks the last few days, this deck looks quite a bit different from when I first made it. The biggest cuts were all aura cards, and adjusting which artifacts and instants I run.
Steel of the Godhead was a quintessential choice of this deck, the dilemma in my mind of Voltron decks having balance. Lifegain has relatively low value in Commander, and if Ojutai isnt on the field, SotG is a dead card almost 100% of the time. I have quite a few neccesary artifacts/creatures that are like that already.
Redundancy is commonplace in Commander. But, for a Voltron deck, there's totally such a thing as too much redundancy. I think of it as too much fluff, with middling value cards sneaking their way into decks that would probably be better off being more balanced. So SotG doesn't make the grade, nor do any WU auras in my opinion. You can make a case for indestructiblity auras, but... Darksteel Plate holds far more value than any of them.
Speaking of value, Haunted Cloak is an undervalued card for Ojutai. It's better than swiftfoot boots by a country mile for him. Voltron decks place a high value on haste as well, so I have no qualms running both.
Appreciate all the views peoples. I anticipate more adjusting to come, especially once the new commander sets drop.