Samurai Local #42
Commander / EDH
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Commander 2014 and a seeming contradiction. —Nov. 12, 2014
Having played a few games with this deck since the release of the new 2014 Commander decks, I've had several games where Deflecting Palm was in my hand, and had it been Comeuppance instead, I would have either won the game outright or had an actual answer to the thing(s) I couldn't interact with pummeling me for turns, rather than a cute trick that only delayed the inevitable, and so I have added Comeuppance to my deck. I look forward to crushing people's dreams with it.
On another topic, in my description of this deck I told the tale of how it came to be, and mentioned I bought pretty much the entire thing for like $60, but as I type this if you glance over at the TCG checkout price you might notice it says $200, which while not "expensive by the standards of some EDH decks" is definitely not what I would consider "budget". The thing is both of those figures are correct - this deck did only cost me $60 to construct, but I've subsequently replaced almost every card in the deck with a shiny version of the original (and a few cards just got replaced). So if you don't care about blinging decks out, this really is about as cheap to build as I suggested it is.
gildan_bladeborn says... #2
Yeah, I really wish that guy wasn't a green card, or that they made more than one samurai in green, and if this wasn't an EDH deck with the hard and fast restrictions on colors I'd absolutely be splashing for him somehow (the various black samurai, not so much).
As for the archetype of trampling, while I agree the effect is pretty dope (particularly with a commander who already makes attacking creatures nigh-unkillable and hard/impossible to block depending on circumstances), he doesn't fit the self-imposed criteria for off-tribe creatures that I've set for myself, that being "off-tribe creatures must be legendary (and preferably from Kamigawa block)". I don't really have a good reason for that particular restriction (well, other than making Day of Destiny better), it just amuses me to make up arbitrary rules as I set about building decks.
September 22, 2014 4:39 a.m.
gildan_bladeborn says... #4
I only own the one Sol Ring , and that's sitting in my Oloro deck; Sol Ring is one of those cards that sit firmly in the "cards I happily acknowledge are useful, but not enough that I'm going to go buy one for the price folks charge for it" mental filing cabinet - it's a solid card and a staple of the format for a reason, but at the end of the day it's just a mana-rock that taps for colorless, and that's... not particularly exciting. Putting one into this deck would probably make the deck better, but then I'd have to cut something more interesting, and interesting pretty much always trumps "good, but boring" when it comes time for me to narrow down just what's going in a deck.
Also worth noting: if my goal was to make a "good" Boros deck, I wouldn't be running one chock full of samurai; their presence in this deck actively makes it worse than it needs to be, and I'm okay with that, since it's kind of the point.
September 22, 2014 10:07 p.m.
freezerboy says... #5
Upvote for a concept that I'm completely on board with...I've got a ninja deck that I tried to grab as much from the set as I could...even though there are better cards out there. Hopefully they will do a throw back to Kamigawa sometime in the future so we can get some more Asian warriors in the mix.
enpc says... #1
I love it. My first ever deck was a samurai deck so its nice to see them still getting played. I only have one concern with the deck - you're missing the greatest samurai of them all, Isao, Enlightened Bushi (I appreciate that he is green though). One other card you could consider though, Archetype of Aggression . Giving trample is awesome with Bushido.
September 22, 2014 3:30 a.m.