Blood-Braided Beatdown (Primer)
Commander / EDH
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Paper deck complete! Braiding in progress. —Aug. 18, 2017
This brew is all sleeved up, and blood is already staining the walls of my house. And I love it.
I've barely learned to French braid, and already Kresh has made Oloro obsolete, has annihilated Akiri *f-etch*, rampaged through Rashmi, terminated Talrand, irked The Ur-Dragon, nullified Nekusar, and gi-slayed Gisela.
I cannot recommend Kresh highly enough to 75% EDH players who are tired of boring Triumph victories, tired of losing to Triumph, or tired of taking Magic too seriously: this deck has teeth, and will win games, but you and your friends will never be able to get too cutthroat about a deck whose win condition is Fatal Frenzy, because it's just too beautiful and absurd.
landofMordor says... #2
Thanks for your feedback, KuraiU! In fact, I was thinking about adding in something like Pestilence Demon or Sanguine Praetor for those mass-removal effects, but the unconditional edict effects like Dictate of Erebos aren't quite the direction I want this deck to head, especially considering I've got some edicts in my Karador deck and I don't love double-dipping on cards too often. But thank you for the suggestion! I really appreciate it.
March 24, 2017 3:08 p.m.
UnleashedHavok says... #3
Have you considered Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief? I feel like she is a great add for any deck that wants to get rid of opponent creatures and had access to black.
April 4, 2017 9:13 a.m.
UnleashedHavok says... #4
I'm having some thoughts about making use of Xathrid Necromancer for the tokens he produces to sacrifice to the braided man. Do you think it would be possible to make this deck idea work with more humans?
April 4, 2017 4:52 p.m.
landofMordor says... #5
UnleashedHavoc, Human sacrifice tribal is probably possible in Jund colors, though I expect it'd be weaker without W. Deranged Outcast, Obsessive Skinner, Tooth Collector, Skirsdag Flayer, Falkenrath Aristocrat, off the top of my head. Anything Skirsdag, really. And there are probably plenty of human warriors, too. You could add to that by putting in demons like Ravenous Demon Flip, I think. Does that sound like a direction you're leaning? It's less of a go-wide, and more of a "buff up individual creatures really really big". Which is still valid, for sure.
April 4, 2017 9:51 p.m.
UnleashedHavok says... #6
Hey friend! So I've veered away from my human tribal thought process. I might go back just to try it out for grins, I'm not sure yet. I do have a suggestion for a fun seeming budget token generator. Mitotic Slime. I think this card would do great things in your deck. Mitotic plus a free sac engine with Kresh on the board would be pretty damn amusing. It would be even more hysterical with Corpsejack Menace on the field
April 8, 2017 7:28 p.m.
landofMordor says... #8
mad_hatter_md01, are you offering to make a donation? (;
Top four changes would be Bloodspore Thrinax, Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest, Rishkar, Peema Renegade, and Reyhan, Last of the Abzan. Those are the ones that would really oil the gears in this deck. They'd probably go in for things like Vein Drinker and Varolz, the Scar-Striped, Curse of Stalked Prey, Skirsdag Cultist, and so forth.
Past that, it's really up to you. Doubling Season, Meren of Clan Nel Toth, Atarka's Command, Damnation, Sarkhan Vol...just whatever floats your boat. They wouldn't be in my ideal deck, necessarily, but you can certainly find ways to spend money on a counters-and-tokens-and-reanimation build.
Hope that helps answer your question. Let me know if I can clarify. Cheers!
May 20, 2017 4:13 p.m.
guiseppe111 says... #9
Definitely using this to modify my kresh budget deck, thanks for the recommendation!
KuraiU says... #1
Dictate of Erebos?
March 24, 2017 9:04 a.m.