Zaxara - Sultai X / Hydra
Commander / EDH
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May 9, 2020
July 3 2020 update:
Replaced Stonecoil Serpent with Animist's Awakening: Firstoff, Stonecoil Serpent is an amazing card for just X and no colour restrictions. Its got trample and alot of good keywords. Removing it almost hurts my heart. However... I found that his usefulness is restricted to "when I have enough mana", doesnt have enough evasion, and feels really shitty when your casting it for X=3-5. Whereas Animist's Awakening, we can ramp and offers us more option. If you read above, I am not a fan of single function big X creatures...
Replaced Negate with Fierce Guardianship: If you recall, I mentioned that if you don't have infinite mana going for you, you pretty much have to COMMIT with this deck. AKA, pretty much tap out alot of times. This leaves us vulnerable. Fierce Guardianship offers us a no mana counterspell and surprised our opponent when we're tapped out.
Replaced a Forest with Verdant Catacombs: Just some mana fixing.
Cards under consideration as of July 3:
Garruk's Uprising: Card draw is a weakness in this deck, and this thing offers us a chance to draw cards whether we are early or late in the mana ramping stage. (ie. if we already have big creatures out.. it still draws u a card on the turn it comes in.). PLUS giving all our hydra token trample is a big deal!!! STRONGLY CONSIDERING
Branching Evolution - every hydra token is now double in power/defense? Kinda like corpsejack....pass for now
Deadly Rollick - no mana spell for a commitment deck.... again worth considering
June 9 2020 update:
Replaced Mass Manipulation with Blue Sun's Zenith Replaced Split Decision with Delay
May 31 2020 update:
Replaced Demonic Consultation because of the "6 card risk". We lose automatically if we accidentally removed the card we want in the 1st 6 cards. Also realized that we didn't have enough removal, so Oko, Thief of Crowns was put in. Most enemy commanders are quite low power, and changing them to an elk permanently without removing it from the battlefield can be really effective
May 25 2020 update:
Rejigged lands: took out Waterlogged Grove and put in Watery Grave. Underground Sea also works if you have the $.
May 9th 2020 update:
Replaced Condescend with Pact of Negation Replaced Power Sink with Tainted Pact
This deck has to commit, or risk wasting turns. If we don't commit, our opponents will either guess we don't have a play, or know we are saving mana for counter spells.
Adding Pact of Negation as a free counterspell allows us to protect our big spells when we cast them (and commit to them fully). But also allows us to catch our opponents offguard when they assume we are defenseless with our tapped out status. Use only to stop opponent wincons/lockdown, or to defend our own. Precious weapon that must be used only when desparate.
Tainted Pact should theortecially be used with with Thassa's Oracle. But TO on its own isn't very useful without INFINITE MANA mode. This is an extra tutor for us to get to our critical card