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Meren’s Thousand-Eyed Army [Primer]

Commander / EDH Control_Train

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Further Tweaking and Cutting Bitter Ordeal —March 4, 2019

RIP Bitter Ordeal. It is a lovely card I will keep forever, but it's a dead card in 99% of games. I just win with Izoni tokens anymore, and mostly I don't even have to do that. People just scoop after a certain point.

IN

  • Adventurous Impulsefoil - good early filtering for lands or relevant creatures and decent late game to pseudo-Brainstorm
  • Grapple with the Pastfoil - very excellent at any stage of the game; it's an instant speed Regrowth effectively that has the bonus of milling over three cards first
  • Grisly Salvagefoil - it's Satyr Wayfinder but on an instant
  • Liliana, Heretical Healerfoil  Flip - this is essentially a craeture that flips into a better Liliana of the Veil; insanely good if it sticks around
  • Noxious Revivalfoil - instant speed free graveyard protection or pseudo-Regrowth
  • Silhana Wayfinderfoil - ah it's a slightly worse Satyr Wayfinder; still good at filtering lands early or finding creatures later
  • Vivien Reidfoil - a great value engine; finds lands, creatures, or acts as removal
  • Yahenni, Undying Partisanfoil - just a cheaper free sacrifice outlet that can sometimes steal games OUT
    • Bitter Ordealfoil - a lovely card, multifaceted, and eloquent; however, it's just unnecessary
    • Bontu's Last Reckoningfoil - wow who let me sleeve up this garbage, seriously
    • Deathrite Shamanfoil - a fine mana dork, but I hate mana dorks in this deck
    • Glowspore Shamanfoil - the fact that this puts the land on top of the deck instead of into my hand is what killed it for me
    • Kraul Foragersfoil - Savra does all the work I need
    • Phyrexian Plaguelordfoil - a fine card, good at sniping the occasional creature, but it's too heavily costed
    • Razaketh, the Foulbloodedfoil - now you might ask why I would cut such a seemingly powerful card on paper; the answer is that in practice, he's win-more 99% of the time
    • Vampire Hexmagefoil - a card specifically to hate planeswalkers is nice, but mostly irrelevant