Food Chain Tazri help
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Posted on May 7, 2017, 12:26 p.m. by Tk4890
So, I have recently been considering a General Tazri deck. It started off as a Turntimber Ranger combo deck that won turn 5-10, then the same deck with a better tutor package, and Food Chain. Now, it is a relatively tuned, full out Food Chain deck, winning between turns 3-6, consistently. It still needs work. Budget suggestions are welcome, and I would still like to keep red out of the picture.
General Tazri FCT
Commander / EDH*
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sonnet666 says... #2
You're pretty far along, so I'll be basing my advice on this: Food Chain Tazri
For starters, Tainted Pact is pretty much an auto-include and isn't too expensive, definitely your first buy. It also gives you enough exile to run Laboratory Maniac as a back-up wincon.
Plunge into Darkness, Mana Vault, Lotus Petal, Chrome Mox, Sylvan Library, Deathrite Shaman, and Carpet of Flowers are all pretty cheap right now, so you should pick them up before anything else. In the meantime Cabal Ritual and Cull the Weak can provide you with extra mana accel. Orcish Lumberjack and Tinder Wall also work if you have red, and you have enough forests for Arbor Elf to function. Cyclonic Rift and Abrupt Decay are also great (and cheap) board control in this build.
Fire Covenant is absolutely beautiful board control at 50 cents. Silence is more of a meta call I think.
However the best thing you could be doing right now is improving your landbase. The quickest way to see results in a deck is to make sure you never have a land coming in tapped.
Get the cheapest lands first: Tarnished Citadel, Llanowar Wastes, City of Brass, Forbidden Orchard, Mana Confluence, Gemstone Caverns(!), Gemstone Mine, Thran Quarry, Reflecting Pool, Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth, Then the rest of your shocks, the cheap fetches, etc. Use checklands like Sunpetal Grove instead of ABUR duals, they're typically the best budget option, although more fastlands can be a viable option too. (All the following are trash that you should cut: Bad River, Flood Plain, Grasslands, Sandsteppe Citadel, Seaside Citadel. The tango-lands like Sunken Hollow are alright for now, but you should cut them as you upgrade.)
Remember to cut Amulet of Vigor, since it won't be helping you.
Once you get rid of the taplands you should also take the deck down to 32 lands. You have enough acceleration to afford it and it will improve your speed.
May 8, 2017 1:09 p.m.