Peer throught time update or not?
Commander Deck Help forum
Posted on Sept. 14, 2017, 4:09 p.m. by Lycanion69
I bought the commander mono-blue deck and i would like some advice on the direction to go with the deck
Do i keep teferi as the commander ?Do i use another general?
Add more combo?More control engines?
Ok, so peer through time is a very interesting deck because it was intended to be the Big Creature type deck in its year's lineup but the competitive community broke Teferi and made him out to be a busted general when he's in the helm of a stax combo deck.
That's not realistically something that you should aim to do, however. If you're into casting big stuff, Teferi's fine and you can keep the deck mostly the way it is until your local meta starts feeling a little too competitive for you and this deck starts lagging behind.
Basically, as the deck is, it's pretty low in power, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. If you like the general theme of the deck, you can easily upgrade even on budget. Think of a card like Azure Mage from the precon. That's hardly the most efficient way to draw cards in blue. You can contrast it with something like Fact or Fiction. That card also costs cents but its effect is pretty powerful. Likewise, many of your bomb creatures like Sphinx of Jwar Isle are actually quite bad while really cheap creatures like Stormtide Leviathan are much better.
Get better ramp, draw, and threats.
September 14, 2017 5:06 p.m.
Hyperalgialysis says... #4
Figure out what you want the deck to do first. How do you intend to win. Then upgrade accordingly. The deck is already pretty control oriented, so going off that including Time Warp and other extra turn effects is a cool direction to head.
Stuemke says... #2
Peer Through Time is easily my favorite pre-constructed EDH deck. It's perfect for what it is and contains the tools to go in a bunch of different direction, which I have the feeling you've noticed that. If you want to keep Teferi as the commander, my opinion is that the deck is already right where it needs to be strategy-wise, so your safest and most efficient bet is to start off with "strictly better" adjustments. Swap out bounces, counters, draw spells, etc.. with cards that do the same thing, only better or geared more towards your playstyle. Swap out some of the big blue baddies with strong, more efficient, or more hilarious big blue baddies. You get the idea.
It's not a popular opinion, but in my eyes if you're going to change out more than 15-20 cards in a pre-constructed deck, you're not really upgrading anything, you're just scrapping the deck, especially with the 2014 series (They were so synergistic as-is!).
On the other side of the spectrum, blue is wide-open in regards to commander options. Pick a playstyle or gimmick that you like and there will be a solid commander available to you.
September 14, 2017 4:57 p.m.