Building my first WUBRG (almost) creatureless deck on a budget. Could use some suggestions.
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Posted on Feb. 27, 2022, 11:25 p.m. by StopShot
The decklist is in its very early stages of development. It's an Esika, God of the Tree Flip commander deck, but I only want to cast the back-half The Prismatic Bridge to consistently play my pet-card Evershrike as my real commander. Evershrike is not legendary and my playgroup is against the idea of me building Evershrike as the commander due to it not being legendary, which is why I'm using Esika as the commander to build my Evershrike EDH deck legally.
This deck is on a budget - most cards should be under a dollar, with the occasional exception being under two dollars and bombs/must-haves being under five dollars if they're exceedingly good/synergistic with the deck's mechanics. Cards listed over $5 I already own.
Deck:
Evershrike Prototype
Commander / EDH*
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Because of how The Prismatic Bridge works, to ensure Evershrike is tutored 100% of the time it has to be the only creature card in the 99 along with no planeswalkers. I think this is a fair deck building restriction as it's a trade-off to having access to all 5 colors.
I'm not used to building in 5 colors. I don't own any green staple/ramp cards and green is not really a color I want to lean too heavily into. That being said I feel like I might have gone overkill on the mana rocks. Tips on color fixing would be appreciated. I want to cast The Prismatic Bridge consistently, but I want my deck to rely on only two or three colors to cast most spells.
Because of Evershrike's ability to self-reanimate it doesn't need to use a command zone to ensure its longevity. That being said, spot-removal that exiles and graveyard hate is a death sentence for this deck and thus it's important the deck runs many efficient answers around exile effects, such as a high density of 1-mana auras for emergency reanimations and creature sac-outlets to dodge exile and creature-steal spells and abilities.
I'm not quite sure what direction I should take the deck's arsenal of removal spells. Counter magic would be best against exile spot removal whereas destruction spells work best against graveyard hate permanents.
Lastly, cards like Despondency and Launch are in the list to ensure I always have an aura in hand to reanimate Evershrike with.
TypicalTimmy says... #2
I once built a 5c Voltron deck that used Swords to offer protection. I quickly discovered protection means against my auras, as well.
To combat exile effects of all kinds, you don't just want counter spells but bounce and redirection. You likely won't see many of them at first, but local metas have a funny way of shifting to new threats, even if that threat isn't legitimate.
My suggestion is to find several "Commanders", so that if the hate comes - and it inevitably will - you have multiple sources to handle them.
February 28, 2022 1:02 a.m.