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Learn the game wrong! Red edition

Commander / EDH Boar Control Flashback Mono-Red Sacrifice Theme/Gimmick

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Time (20)

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Commander: Jaya Ballard, Task Mage

Boars and Spellshapers (19)

This series of instructional decks are designed to help new players learn the strengths of each color. Each one will discuss two major themes and two major creatures types in that color. This one focuses on red, , the color of selflessness, time control, and advancement.

As mountains rise above the surrounding landscape, so red takes the high ground of generosity. Red is filled with creatures and enchantments that sacrifice themselves to help you and your other creatures. Whether it's a buff from Embereth Veteran, or a pop of mana from Catalyst Elemental, or a recovered important spell from Pillardrop Warden, there's a red card ready to make that happen.

Of course, it's easy for red to be generous when it's also the master of time magic. It can pull spells from the past with flashback and cast more spells in the future with suspend and foretell, using cards like Reckless Charge and Dwarven Reinforcements. Warp World and Glimpse of Tomorrow can even project the color into alternate timelines with shuffle-and-replay effects.

Boars are a major creature type in red. Solid and unflinching, quick to action, prepared to put their lives on the line, boars make a strong mascot and provide the offensive core of red. Spellshapers also represent red well. They all have activated abilities that give you a benefit if you pay a cost and discard a card, effectively exchanging the effect of the discarded card for their own. Spellshapers change the cards in hand that you actually have into the cards that they should be.

Red is a paradox of change and stability, always shifting away from what isn't useful and locking into what is. Creatures enter and leave play as they're needed, spells can be precast, recast, and turned into other spells, and this all works toward outmaneuvering and overcoming your opponent's defenses and into victory.

Disclaimer: Do not use this deck to teach the game unless you want your learner to be very confused later.

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(5 months ago)

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