Omnath Locus of Rage VS. Omnath Locus of Roils
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Posted on Jan. 9, 2020, 1:22 a.m. by Arcaneful
Hey all!
I'm going through my collection after thinking about going to Commander Nights at my LGS again, and need help deciding something.
I'm really interested in making a landfall deck and would love to use on of the two newer Omnaths, I just can't decide which is better. I'm on a fair budget, but would love some suggestions and decklists!
Thank you, Arcaneful
As someone who has all three Omnaths built and sleeved, I think they're all super fun!
For a while I thought Omnath, Locus of Rage was my favorite. Then I felt Omnath, Locus of Mana was the king. Then after building Omnath, Locus of the Roil I thought I'd found my new favorite. Honestly although the newer two do have some overlapping synergies, you can have all three built and feel the flavors are different.
I did go a more budget friendly route with Omnath, Locus of the Roil and having a heavy elemental theme. I run the other two omnaths in the 99. I do also run the Deadeye Navigator / Palinchron combo for the insta-win
For my Omnath, Locus of Rage deck I run seven fetch lands which hurts the budget (nine can go in temur). I also run a Perilous Forays combo suite in that deck
Mono G for me is straight beatdown
I'd say Omnath, Locus of the Roil is probably the "easy" commander, since you have removal and card advantage in the command zone. This is assuming you have the land base for 3c
Gruul is a good direction if you see a lot of boardwipes in your meta. The Lightning Bolt effect is nothing to scoff at. I occasionally win by crapping out tokens then using my own 'wipe to finish the table
Just my $0.02
Have fun!
January 9, 2020 10:16 a.m.
I have Rage in my Roil deck. Omnath is SUPER fun when his value engine gets going. Fertilid , Mina and Denn, Wildborn , Wayward Swordtooth , etc. allow for some rapid card draw, and Conjurer's Closet can allow Omnath to deal some nasty burns.
Idk if that's Temur done right, but if it's wrong, I don't wanna be right.
enpc says... #2
Omnath, Locus of the Roil is just better. Having access to blue means that you have more options for card advantage and landfall gets much stronger with blue available to it.
Not to mention that you can run a very compact win condtion with Omnath, Locus of the Roil + Deadeye Navigator + Palinchron which can be deployed through Tooth and Nail if you were so inclined.
January 9, 2020 2:04 a.m.