Tasigur buildaround?
Commander Deck Help forum
Posted on July 12, 2015, 6:52 p.m. by thewyzman
Some say Tasigur, the Golden Fang is a strong commander, and I have a deck built for him mostly using card advantage and mill/delve effects, but I'm curious as to ways/cards that TRULY make him a powerful commander in a primarily-multiplayer meta?
What kind of build around Tasi could synergize with him and make a strong deck?
Tasigur is strong because anything with the word "graveyard" on it is strong. He can come out super early with some self-mill cards like Satyr Wayfinder, Grisly Salvage, Sultai Ascendancy etc. He also comes in the three best colors in the format. You can use him as a value support package for basically any Sultai strategy, put some swords on him and clock people in the teeth, etc.
July 12, 2015 9:14 p.m.
I took a similar approach and built in combos: Bloodchief Ascension+Mindcrank, Exquisite Blood+Sanguine Bond; but I'm realizing I've got too much fill and not enough delve to junk out the crap I don't need in the yard.
I've seen a couple videos on youtube and whatever, where it looks like people just use him for the colors and just build unsynergetic decks like Sultai goodstuffs and just use him as a cheap 4/5 body.
I guess fetching out combo pieces seems one of his better buildarounds. I wasn't sure if I should just play lots of recursion/flashback spells and let them delve themselves out so opponents are forced to give me back more important things like the abovementioned pieces.
July 12, 2015 9:17 p.m.
MagicalHacker says... #5
Yeah goodstuffs is what people do, but I haven't seen anyone focus on infinite mana combos into Goblin Cannon/Whetstone, but it seems like the best one cause as soon as you get the combo (blue and green have the most and black has the best tutors, so...) you get Tasigur for 
, then just win.
July 12, 2015 9:22 p.m.
I don't have Demonic Tutor or pretty much anything to make infinite mana, and I often use at least one tutor on getting Prophet of Kruphix because using Taz twice is twice the fun. I feel like Kiora's Follower is a piece to a puzzle?
July 13, 2015 5:35 a.m.
MagicalHacker says... #7
July 13, 2015 11:25 a.m.
@MagicalHacker, you do realize if you have infinite mana and Goblin Cannon you can just activate Goblin Cannon a million times to start with right? You don't need to activate Tasigur in between. The damage will still get dealt regardless of whether Goblin Cannon is still on the battlefield.
July 13, 2015 7:42 p.m.
To be fair though, I'd rather run some infinite mana win-cons that are useful on their own. Prosperity, Blue Sun's Zenith, Braingeyser, Exsanguinate, Oona, Queen of the Fae and Geth, Lord of the Vault all come to mind. The first three would also let you draw your deck if someone locked you out of using Tasigur somehow.
July 13, 2015 9:04 p.m.
Darksteel Mutation is pretty popular in my meta. I run Lignify myself.
With Prosperity are you just trying to make everyone draw their deck?
MagicalHacker says... #2
Infinite mana combos into a single copy of Goblin Cannon. With Tasigur, you do his ability until you have all the nonlands in your deck in your hand, including Goblin Cannon. Then, play Goblin Cannon (you still have infinite mana after all), play its ability, play Tasigurs ability to get back then rinse and repeat. If someone has hexproof, I guess technically you could do Whetstone instead, but that doesn't kill people right away, and really you should just pick one so as to not waste precious deck space.
Been meaning to build it myself, but I'm just unsatisfied with the mtgsalvation combo database and have been putting off making my own since I don't know how I would do that, but I digress.
July 12, 2015 8:58 p.m.