Gods' Hall Guardian
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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Alchemy Legal
Archenemy Legal
Arena Legal
Block Constructed Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander / EDH Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Gladiator Legal
Highlander Legal
Historic Legal
Historic Brawl Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Pauper Legal
Pauper Duel Commander Legal
Pauper EDH Legal
Pioneer Legal
Planar Constructed Legal
Planechase Legal
Pre-release Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Standard Legal
Standard Brawl Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Gods' Hall Guardian

Creature — Cat

Vigilance

Foretell (During your turn, you may pay and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

multimedia on

3 years ago

Hey, well done for a first deck on such a low budget. I haven't seen this Commander before.

When you're just starting out building decks in Commander it can be helpful to have some basic deck structure guildlines to follow.

This is just a basic structure to get things started. It doesn't cover everything and your final deck may have different numbers for each part of the structure such as you might have more creatures. Some cards can cover more than one area such as Palace Jailer who is creature removal and can be repeatable draw which is really helpful.

Ramp is something all Commander decks need since you don't want to only rely on lands/land drops to make mana. You have Sol Ring which is really good, but that's where the ramp ends here. Only Sol is not enough ramp.

I always explain to new Commander deck builders that you need to be able to sacrifice (cut) some of the fun cards to add ramp to your deck. Since doing this will help gameplay so that you can more easily cast your Commander and the other big fun cards you want to play. In the case here my advice is consider cutting at least 9 cards to add more budget ramp?

Some cards to consider cutting to add more ramp are creatures who don't do enough for their mana cost: Gods' Hall Guardian, Living Tempest, Dread Rider, Shepherd of Heroes, Kor Celebrant, Ronom Unicorn, Brinebarrow Intruder

Like ramp all decks also need draw that comes from single draw effects and more importantly repeatable draw sources. Currently your deck has three good single draw effects Baleful Strix, Champion of Wits, Cloudblazer and one repeatable draw source Jace, Wielder of Mysteries. There's a reanimation theme here that can get you more draw from these creatures which is good, but consider more draw?

Jailer and Rose can be repeatable draw sources with the Monarch Emblem. When you have the monarch then you draw a card at your end step. Only one player in the game at one time can be the monarch and it can change players. As long as you are monarch you get the repeatable draw at your end step which is a big advantage.

For an opponent to become the monarch they have to do combat damage with a creature to you or play a card/effect that makes them the monarch. When this happens you loose the monarch and that opponent becomes the monarch. You can get back the monarch though by doing combat damage with a creature to the opponent who is the monarch or playing a card/effect that makes you the monarch.

Some cards to consider cutting to add more draw: Withercrown, Grave Endeavor, Arcane Endeavor, Smite the Monstrous, Extract Brain, Wand of Orcus

The area of your deck that you have a lot of is removal. I count 23 single effects of removal here. You can afford to cut some removal to improve other areas of your deck: Withercrown, Befuddle, Iron Verdict, Smite the Monstrous.

If you're interested I offer more advice in another comment. Including explaining how blink from single effects or repeatable such as Soulherder and Brago, King Eternal can be powerful here. Would you like me to continue with more advice?

Good luck with your deck.

Sorin_Markov_1947 on Ragnarok

3 years ago

Nobody really plays Necromentia (or similar) so that shouldn't be a concern. And if they do, you still have 56 cards to kill them with. You're hampering your deck in a major way to counter only a very very small amount of players, and a small effect of those players' decks at that.

The value in having multiples of a card is in consistency. Put it this way, would you rather be drawing Goldspan Dragon or Gods' Hall Guardian ? If you take out Guardian for another Goldspan Dragon, you will get Goldspan Dragon twice as often. That's a 4/4 with big upside for 5 mana when you would've been playing a much worse card for more mana! You don't want to be playing low-value cards, you want your best pieces and your best combo. There's a reason Commander decks are slow and don't win against regular Constructed decks.

Consistency is crucial in Magic, so for cards that are essential to your gameplan, you want as many as possible. If I have a 60-card deck and I win as soon as I draw one specific card, if I only have one of that card, on average I'll win on turn 27. If I have 4 of that card, on average I'll win on turn 8 (if my math is correct). That's a very big difference!

I just noticed you only have effectively 18 land sources (it's hard to tell when the decklist is organized like this). That is not nearly enough for a 60-card deck. Most decks have between 22 and 28. Yours should probably have 25 or 26.

onua1 on Ranar

3 years ago

Foretell Cards:
Alrund's Epiphany
Augury Raven
Cosmos Charger
Depart the Realm
Doomskar
Doomskar Oracle
Glorious Protector
Gods' Hall Guardian
Kaya's Onslaught
Mystic Reflection
Shepherd of the Cosmos
Spectral Deluge
Starnheim Unleashed
Tales of the Ancestors

Karfell Harbinger