Vish Kal Wears His Sunglasses At Night | V-OJT

Commander / EDH Beebles

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Creating a curve —May 22, 2017

I was pretty happy with this list, except that the mana curve looked more like a square. So I've been changing the list lately to make the deck more consistent in this regard. It was especially difficult to cut cards from the 6cmc slot. Things I've cut:

• Duplicant: a great card for sure, but with Noxious Gearhulk being more in theme, and duplicant being in so many of my other decks, I decided to cut it here.
• Austere Command: another card that's in pretty much any other white deck I play. Although I really like this card, it was either this or Yosei, the Morning Star that had to leave.
• Skullclamp: this card actually does not synergize in this deck as well as some other decks I play. I decided to cut it here, along with Reassembling Skeleton
• Alhammarret's Archive: this ended up being more like a win more card.
• Vindicate: another hard card to cut, but looking at my large single target removal suite, vindicate is actually less powerful in my meta compared to exile-based effects.

Some cards I've added:

• Myr Retriever: I wanted some more on-curve recursion cards.
• MImic Vat: good overall, but better yet with Vish
• Decree of Pain: slightly different than austere command, but smooths out the curve well and is another draw spell.
• Gray Merchant of Asphodel: I apparently never read this card correctly until recently...

I've also cut some other cards and replaced them with cards with similar purpose but a more fitting cmc.