Feather Redeems Boros in EDH [Primer]

Commander / EDH Control_Train

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New Changes —Sept. 4, 2021

This changelog is not associated with a new set drop, just been reevaluating some old cards and trying some new ones! Let's dig in!

IN

• Chrome Mox - I wanted this in for a long time, it costs 0 and makes colored mana, couldn't ask for better
• Dragon's Rage Channeler - this card will be considered by some to be a strict downgrade to Burning Prophet, however, with Past in Flames and Underworld Breach in the list, alongside card:Movina, Students' Advocate, being able to filter extra land drops to the graveyard to fuel Breach or simply skip past an excessive mana rock feels valuable to me; as an aside, I'll be completely honest, I just love this card and it works somewhat well in this deck so I shoved it in, but I do genuinely think it has value
• Esper Sentinel - this deck doesn't struggle with card draw, but dropping this turn 1 is a game changer and will probably draw you an immense amount of cards that your opponents simply won't be able to recover from; plus, this works really well if players get into counter wars around you often
• Flagstones of Trokair - this one was weird for me, because I usually cut lands, not add them, but the deck has been struggling with hitting early land drops, so I went up one, and may go up another in the near future if I feel it's necessary
• Heal - the slow-trips are back because for one mana they're just too good, and they also bumped my cantrip count up by one, so that never hurts; they are objectively the worst ones in the deck, but unless you're behind or in a pinch, they do the job
• Panic - see Heal
• Urza's Saga - this is one I'm not sold on yet, but the Karnstructs aren't going to be small in this deck, and it can fetch any of the 0 drop mana rocks or Sol Ring, so it's never going to be mana negative; play this one at your own discretion because I'm not sold on it yet, but I think it's worth testing further so I'm including it

OUT

• Accelerate - put in Panic for this, 1 mana versus 2 makes a huge deal
• Chaos Warp - honestly I just hate this card; it's one of the best cards in red objectively, but I hate it, so I cut it
• Rionya, Fire Dancer - too slow, win more, 5 mana, I could go on, but the card just wasn't performing
• Sentinel Tower - an excellent win condition and removal piece for this deck, but it's just too slow and tapping out for it feels atrocious
• Thought Vessel - cut this for Chrome Mox because the Reliquary Tower text isn't worth it making colorless mana and costing mana to do it
• Tibalt's Trickery - this card is good, but this deck has enough ways to be proactive, and my meta has a lot of decks where you can have your opponent flip into something way worse than whatever you're countering, so this had to get the axe
• Volcanic Torrent - 5 mana is just too slow and requires too much setup similar to what I'm talking about with Empty the Warrens in the latest comment, if a card wants to have Storm and be in this deck, it's got to be cheap