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Gingerbread Beatdowns

Commander / EDH Aggro Bracket 3 Equip Food Food Sacrifice Voltron

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Creature (28)

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Planeswalker (1)

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Commander: Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender

Land (34)

Ever been smacked upside the head by a gingerbread woman wielding a Buster sword?

Welp, now you can be, among many other varied weapons and comedy moments. Long story short, while putting together another deck for a friend i decided to throw together another mono-colorless deck as a "Tamer" version of my Kozilek-based deck

Basically, mono-colorless voltron/aggro built around Syr Ginger, because it amuses me. Smack people, eat her to gain her powers, summon nightmares from beyond human comprehension and give them big swords because you can, y'know, an average Tuesday for a discerning planeswalker.

Still an ongoing WIP, the original list was literally thrown together in a couple hours and had a lot of placeholders for upgrades (EG: Clockworks) so expect to see updates getting listed below once i decide what i want to swap around as i play & playtest it more. This has rapidly become one of my favorite aggro decks next to Flamewar and i love it

Never used these before, but first times for everything (apologies for the lack of card links in general)

Basically, we've got a super cheap, Super fast, Very edible commander. Ideal hands have a couple of lands and either some cheap equipment, or some ramp, or both, ideally. The best is a couple lands, commanders plate, and stuff that continues the curve. Or just cheap creatures to keep feeding the beatings.

Plate simply because T1 plate, T2 Ginger, T3 equip & Start the beatings is pretty darn good (5c protection is basically unblockable in most games)

The funny business starts when you get things like smokestack & Vending machine out, Or one of the walkers and things like extruder. With the trio (Nuka, Manufactor, Smokestack) you can go up to THREE soot counters safely, and they're all artifacts for the sake of Gingers ability, as she doesn't state "Non-token". This also works with ravager/extruder.

Few other tricks, Forgemaster is just a great card, the XX walkers give us both more creatures for counters, and they draw or make tokens on death (Or just shoot things with ballista), Apple and Armory Auto give us a couple cards to steal creatures/equipment from other voltron decks or just steal goodstuff/opposing commanders, and Strixhaven stadium gives us an additional win-con in longer games since you can pop out a bunch of fliers with hangarback and go wide, or shoot opposing creatures with Triskelion or Ballista

Additional support from things like Unwinding clock, Ultima, Monument & Overseer give us some additional boosts in both mana and counters/buffs to keep the beats coming

In short, All will be cookies, whether they like it or not. And Syr Ginger brought the whole darn factory like she's playing factorio

Basalt Monolith + Forsaken Monument = Infinite mana

Nuka Cola + Academy Manufactor + Sacrifice outlet (Extruder, ravager, etc) = Infinite +1/+1 counters/Mana, Infinite scry & +1/+1 on Syr Ginger + Infinite mana if Ironworks + Infinite draw

Above + Marketback/Iron spider/Walking Ballista/Triskelion for the infinite draw/damage

Pretty basic artifact combos & synergies beyond these main ones, but these are the game-enders

For anyone unfamiliar with how the combo works here for the vending machine:

Make a food or have any of the "Food" artifacts out with vending & manfactor -> Sacrifice a food to the sacrifice outlet -> Get a treasure + new food + clue token, if Ginger is out you scry 1 and she gets a +1/+1

Then, sacrifice the new food token to repeat, each food gives a new food + the scry & counter, so you use the scry to dig for a combo piece like trisk/ballista and extruder or ravager if that's not who you're sac'ing to already

When you get a combo piece on top, you can use 2 treasures and a clue to draw that single card, rather than drawing the deck entirely which prevents someone from just using temple bell or a mass-draw on you and decking you out (It also gives another 3 +1/+1's on ginger and scry's you can ignore, you just leave the card on top)

Then, just pop foods and spare clues/treasures (specifically keeping a 2 treasures per clue ratio for stability) to feed the ammo on ballista or triskelion and everyone explodes, a commanders plate can also be grabbed so your now eldritch horror ginger can swing at someone basically unopposed if you can't target them with abilities

Or just all is dust everything, very few decks are running colorless sources of player hexproof anyways.

Update #1: Clockworks removed, replaced with more interesting alternatives (Dauntless, Traxos, Retrievers, etc). Sugar increased by 22.3%

Update #2: More changes, more draw, more control, More comedy (Extruder, Manufactor, Nuka, etc). Gumdrop Button production increased by 13.37%

Update #3: More lands! Swapping back to 35 lands with some classics (Myco garden, Tyrite, Etc) in place of some wastes (-4 wastes, +6 total lands) Added a Forsaken monument over conscription, Walking ballista replaces Marvin. Icing Production efficiency increased by 8.675%

Update #4: -1 wastes to 34 lands, Updated from some spider man pulls, Dropped Myriad construct for liberator for more flash, Spider suit replaced excalibur as the replaceable equipment since it at least gives a P/T bump for the same 1 & 3 costs (Less 0-boost T3 swings). Cookie shaping improved 30.9%

Update #5: Spider suit swapped for Tarrian's Soulcleaver 1+2 mana for something that gives more overall value for the deck. Cookie Spices improved by 3.77%

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(11 months ago)

-1 Spider-Suit main
+1 Tarrian's Soulcleaver main