Untapped Potential - Dragonlord Ojutai

Commander / EDH redace10

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Taigam was fun, but his lord kept calling... —Dec. 20, 2017

I didn't want to abuse the quintessential extra turn spells Taigam wins with, it's not how I want to win, so my iteration of a Taigam deck had trouble finishing. Ojutai called me back, he is a super strong finisher.

I've modified this deck heavily since. It has a tighter spell-slinger subtheme and more creatures to equip things with. I want to add more creatures but it's hard finding things to cut at this point. Cutting Loxodon Warhammer and Reconnaissance was hard enough.

I'm definitely keeping Taigam in the back of my mind as new cards come out, but I'm happy with his role in this deck for now.

soulaha says... #1

If you want to reanimate your artifact maybe you could play Open the armory?

July 24, 2017 4:41 p.m.

soulaha says... #2

or recall also is a solid option too

July 24, 2017 4:42 p.m.

Temur_Frontier says... #3

Yep this is the way to build Dragonlord Ojutai: straight voltron with a dash of control. My first iterations of Dragonlord Ojutai were strong for my weak meta at the time. But the meta got much stronger and faster and my deck wasn't voltron enough and too focused on control; basically really clunky and slow with not enough finishing power. I'm not a fan of straight voltron and what I wanted was a spellslinger control deck, so I switched commanders and now run Taigam, Ojutai Master for the double use of instants and sorceries. Ojutai's Mystification is the name, if you're interested, though it's not finished. It's close just needs to cut several cards down to 100 and I'll be good. Anyways, Dragonlord Ojutai will always hold a good place in my heart because of his lore and the fact that he was my first real EDH deck, and the one I had the longest. Looks like a good deck, so +1 from me.

September 9, 2017 12:02 a.m.

USMCTempest says... #4

I'm not sure how creature heavy your meta is, but Fumigate might be better than Wrath of God a lot of the time. I play a UW Taigam control deck that has a low creature count, and I find myself taking a beating early game, I'd have to imagine a voltron deck such as yours with 14 creatures + commander probably would too.

October 10, 2017 7:24 p.m.

redace10 says... #5

You're right USMCTempest, I very much wanted to keep both Wrath of God and Fumigate, but the latter is a strict upgrade in almost all scenarios. Thanks for pointing that out.

I've also decided to swap in Monastery Mentor over Assault Suit to combat the problem of having a low creature count in a voltron deck. Taigam sure uses mentor a heck of a lot better, but he'll due for my deck as well. I like that he fits under Sun Titan too.

Appreciate the comment, thanks very much :)

October 10, 2017 9:54 p.m.

USMCTempest says... #6

No problem man, it's a cool deck

October 12, 2017 11:53 a.m.