Richard Garfield EDH Help
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Posted on April 17, 2017, 3:57 p.m. by vbfabled
I want to build a joke EDH deck around Richard Garfield, Ph.D. and honestly I'm not too sure what to do with it. I know I want to use it as the ultimate budget deck, using things like Ornithopter and turning them into Lotus Bloom and things like that, but I'm not sure what all cards I should put in and what they should be able to turn into. Any suggestions are appreciated!
MagicalHacker says... #4
Make the deck with 31 cards with mana cost (Pili-Pala and Lightning Greaves), 31 cards with mana cost (Grand Architect), and lands. These can be played with only six lands if you tap the Architect to play the Greaves and attach them to Pili, tap an island to make Pili blue, then you proceed to make infinite mana, then follow it up by making a Surestrike Trident or Ambassador Laquatus while holding up "countermagic" for . (Equip the Trident to Pili, tap Pili to deal damage, untap with its ability, repeat.)
April 17, 2017 8 p.m. Edited.
The card Richard Garfield, Ph.D. literally just let's you play an old variant called "mental magic" that we used to play at card shops in the 90's. In addition to the Richard card's ability, in that variant any card can be played face down instead and it would be a City of Brass that didn't hurt. Playing mental magic was always like an unending war of counterspells and cantrips. The big difference from that variant is that when your commander isn't out the cards are actually what they say they are. I would start with a basic shell of effects that just draws cards and builds up your mana so you can get the doctor down asap. I think I would probably make a short list of favorite cards for each casting cost. Cards that control, cards that draw, that make infinite mana. Maybe if its organized somewhat you should be able to move quickly enough to keep folks from bitching while you think of a card to win with. If you have a great memory you can just learn some combos that do crazy stuff and pick a different one each time. I suppose you should try and research combos you want to include and find budget cards that don't suck with the same casting cost. Good luck, I'd love to see what you come up with. If you think of sharing it with me I'll give you more feedback. Happy gathering!
April 17, 2017 9:24 p.m.
MagicGALAXY says... #6
I would have more fun with this. You could use broken cards for this deck, but, unless your opponents will be using broken cards, you should make your own cards that are very silly but interesting. Make it a strange but interesting way to interact with the table. Like a instant that tells the targeted opponent if he/she doesn't give you a high five, then your creatures can't be untapped during their next untap step. If they do high five you, ignore this effect and untap those creatures instead (this is for something like multiplayer commander. I think it would be more fun that way).
aholder7 says... #2
well you can make a list of the most powerful blue/colorless cards in magic, then put in cards with the same cost.
April 17, 2017 7:40 p.m.