The results where pretty decent. Played against Kydele+Thrasios three games. This guy plays with cards like Mishra's Workshop. Usual amount of mana available on turn 3 is 10+. I still went 2-1 in my favor.

I have serious doubts about Paradox Engine. It just feels not in place. I am pretty sure that tonight I will remove him and perhaps a few other limping cards...

• Neat, sounds like your opponent was trying to combo out but you got him with commander dmg too early.

• I'm not sure about Dox Engine either. There are some solid plays but I don't think this deck has the same vast amount of tap-to-activate abilities that GREEN/white would field.

• Do you play this duel commander a lot then? Usually I play in 4 player format.. He still performs well, even with the highly focused nature of the deck/lack of ability to spread the love.

• I'm excited about Dowsing Dagger: 1) Equip, 2) Damage w/ Sram, 3) MLD, 4) Transform dagger and reset the game with a 3 mana production

Indeed. He played artifact heavy, with lots of new hands and extra turns to find wincons. Like playing Karn in turn 3 and such. I must say I did pretty well. It's a real competitive deck he has. But I felt that with Sram, we can do a little better than I saw last night. We have to be more focussed on cards that end up being vital all day long. A dead card midgame could be the difference in winning and losing against such decks. You gotta get momentum and reach the 21 before things turn to the worse. Tunnel vision might be happening for myself...

Well, I prefer to do the dual Commander alot during the weeks to stress test decks, cause there is no hiding in single player. Its fun, fast and gives you plenty of hands to get a good feel about what is working and what isn't.

Dowsing Dagger was on my maybelist as well. But in the last update I decided to let him go. What felt lacking was that I do not want my commander to 'shrink' while I have momentum. But playing MLD gives it a whole other perspective. I do not play the MLD path. Did you try this already?

A new deck update has been posted on the top. Thanks SFCD, MegaMatt13 and Gleeock for your recent contributions so far!

@ PartyJ : Yep, my initial construction of Sram was just an evolution of a VERY equipment heavy Nahiri construction, so it was stacked full of MLD to try to effectively ult. my walker/commander. I had some Mass Creature Destruct as well, but MLD + Staxy stuff was choice for me for a couple of reasons:

• Mono White. My opponents all play 3+ colors often, so I was seeing large advantage to bottlenecking everyone's color selection while enjoying low-color demand or colorless plays (especially fun when players already sac-landed to get duals & whatnot). This also meant I had a much stronger likelihood of bounceback after MLD.

• Metagame. My meta LOVES their sorceries & instant turnaround plays. MLD reinforced keeping my playgroup honest by making sure they fielded some early permanents or risked being closed out if they tried to 'wait-&-play'.

• High Permanent Usage. I often field permanents early, sometimes with free equip, usually I have the nastiest commander, who can really work disproportionately when MLD sets everyone back.

• Combat Tricks. MLD often allowed me several turns to hit a couple of nasty combat triggers (which our equipment provides bunches of) whilst not worrying about having no mana.

• Card Draw. Sram's ridiculous hand replenishment often put me ahead of the competition after MLD or wipe

• ALL the above theories have been put to practice as my deck was built with some stax & MLD since the beginning. The MLD was not a SURE thing, but I found that more often than not they made for a strong or useful move. The kind of artifact + mana rock heavy deck you played against would be more dangerous to play MLD however.

You deck is looking great!

I recently added Dowsing Dagger to mine and I am finding it very useful. I understand what you mean about losing some of Sram's power, but I have found ramping by 3 mana to outweigh that. It makes equipping so much easier.

MegaMatt13 : I'm going to follow you and going to give the Dowsing Dagger  ^Flip a try. I feel this could get interesting :)

Gleeock : Had some good games lately? I am giving Extraplanar Lens a second try. If it serves me well, then I will find enough snowcovered lands, just to be safe in my meta. How is Nahiri, the Lithomancer doing for you? When I tried it, it always felt underwhelming or sometimes just a dead card in hand.

Curious! 2 changes mentioned incoming for next weekend.

People fear the deck here now, as it can go nuts in the right setting xD

@PartyJ Nahiri, the Lithomancer has been good in my boardwipe-heavy meta. Also, heavy with "opponents sac creature" triggers. So she has made for good leave-behind for creaturewipes, she has been great with my MLD, and she makes some fodder.... All those specifics are very meta dependent though. Yes, sometimes she feels like a dead draw for me too, I'm tempted to just replace her with more raw power or just increase the manabase. I had a game with Hammer of Nazahn that basically became "GG". For whatever reason my biggest waste-card has proven to be Celestial Mantle

People also fear Sram at my table, He was ridiculous during a "chase" subformat game

Any strong Sram showings lately? He absolutely mopped the floor in my last 4 player FFA. A mono-blue fellow said he was gunning for me (due to earlier saltiness :)) so I chose Sram as my usual best response to threats of constant counterspell + targeting. I was on winning streak so when I did my turn 1 Enlightened Tutor I tried to lighten things up by searching for Sword of the Animist - for more of a "long game" approach... Then I immediately pulled Armageddon blew everything up, and the opponents just couldn't match up to the consistency of me constantly landing tapped plains onto the battlefield for each attack... Also had puresteel paladin, so it looked like I was goofing around when I put 2 equipment on the field but I was just building to threshold.