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Gotcha with Xantcha! (New C18 Commander)

Commander / EDH* Aggro BR (Rakdos) Budget Enchantment Voltron

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Commander: Xantcha, Sleeper Agent

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The deck has gone from a discard sub-theme to a major enchantment based deck. There are plenty of tweaks that need to be made to the deck. But this is in a decent place to start off. It being ~$65 is very attractive as well. The idea is pretty simple. Give the commander to an opponent. Load it up with enchantments. Then let them kill your opponents by draining them and getting cards for it. And if you are lucky, you can get a Vampiric Link on it and get some of that free damage.

Now where I need help is:

  1. How do I deal with my commander dying and the enchantments getting destroyed?

  2. How do I deal with getting those enchantments back?

  3. What do I do when the opponent that had my commander dies, then I get her back? How do I give it back to my opponent without dealing with the two previous questions? Harmless Offering type cards seem the way to go. But that is risky and takes away card slots.

  4. Any other problems that people see. The plan for me to win is for it to passively happen. And hope that I get cards that make it so people do not attack me. Or at least deter them.

  5. How to deal with literally any removal...

I would like to keep the curse's in the deck as I think it is a fun mechanic and I want to try it out. I will also be figuring out a better mana base soon. Thanks!

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Direction of the deck — July 30, 2018
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It seems that the best way to go forward with this deck is to give it a enchantment based theme. The discard seems to be strong, however, you will be discarding too many of your own cards for it to give you the advantage needed.

So what I will be doing in the next couple of days is give the deck an enchantment theme. This will be with many of the cards that I have put in the Maybeboard. I will also have some graveyard recursion and at least a couple of ways to sack my commander for the times that it will be given to me. There are many, many different ways you can go with this deck. But I think this one is one of the more unique ways and something that could be a little more fun.

I am still looking for suggestions and any other help if people would like to suggestion something. If you do, thank you! If not, then I hope you found the deck interesting. Give it a +1 if you did so maybe someone that might have a suggestion for the deck can find it.

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Revision 6 See all

(5 years ago)

+2 Agent of Erebos main
+1 Archetype of Finality maybe
+1 Aspect of Gorgon main
+2 Baleful Eidolon main
-1 Bloodchief Ascension side
-1 Burning Inquiry main
+1 Burnished Hart main
-1 Cabal Interrogator main
+2 Cavern Lampad main
-1 Chaos Warp side
+1 Charcoal Diamond main
+1 Contaminated Bond main
-1 Crawlspace side
-1 Cruel Reality main
+1 Crystal Chimes main
-1 Cunning Lethemancer main
-1 Curse of Bloodletting side
-1 Curse of Chaos side
-1 Curse of Misfortunes side
-1 Curse of Oblivion side
and 100 other change(s)
Top Ranked
  • Achieved #34 position overall 5 years ago
Date added 5 years
Last updated 5 years
Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)

16 - 0 Rares

25 - 0 Uncommons

24 - 0 Commons
Cards 100
Avg. CMC 2.95
Tokens Ogre 3/3 R, The Monarch
Folders Xantcha Techs, Interesting
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