Changing commanders help
Commander (EDH) forum
Posted on July 16, 2019, 4:25 a.m. by Zetalpa
Greetings! I have an Izoni/Savra commander deck, and it is reasonable, won me a few games, but I recently traded for a Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons. On Edhrec I think it says that Hapatra is the third best Golgari commander, so I've been thinking of perhaps switching commander to Hapatra instead of Izoni, as I think she is more and competent(and who doesn't just like threatening your opponent with an army of death touchers:)! My Izoni deck has a sacrifice/mill strategy, and I would still like to keep a bit of this strategy in a Hapatra deck. Any idea how I could best come about this? Any help would be appreciated;)
I was wrong about the synergy cards being cheaper. A good number of cards that were designed to work with wither spiked when hapatra was spoiled and are now $5-10:
https://www.mtggoldfish.com/price/Eventide/Crumbling+Ashes#paper
They're not played anywhere else so the prices are the result of some combination of low supply because they're old and artificially low supply controlled by speculators
July 16, 2019 5:58 a.m.
I play a pretty nice Hapatra deck that can win pretty early. It doesn’t mill itself but sacrifice and token army is a thing. Take a look at the list if you want to, maybe you find some cards for your deck
July 16, 2019 11:57 a.m.
pizzagod13 says... #5
Yeah Haparta is not a sac/recur commander. Her ability is entirely based on building your deck out of janky -1/-1 counter cards. It can be strong, but only in the right build.
zelian12 says... #2
Edhrec ranks cards by popularity not strength. Izoni and savra have a lot of overlap in terms of the cards they synergize with. If you want to use mostly the same cards, switch to meren. She's probably the golgari sac/recur commander with the highest power ceiling. Hapatra on the other hand is very unique and wants to have a deck of weird cards that are weaker in a vacuum but synergize with her. The good news about synergy cards that arent played anywhere else is that they'll tend to be cheaper
July 16, 2019 5:47 a.m.