Artifact Storm
Commander (EDH) forum
Posted on July 5, 2021, 7:37 p.m. by ABunchofPigeons
So I have a Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain solitaire deck that I don't really play with my play group because of how it performs. I just pulled an Urza Lord High Artificer out of an MH2 pack. I know that thing is busted so I'm torn between building Urza from pieces of my Jhoira deck OR just going full tilt on Jhoira and doing busted stuff with Urza in there and keeping it my god tier deck for my playgroup (I figure Jhoira/Urza/Birgi could lead to some crazy wins). Thoughts?
enpc has a good point, if you loop dump into a fast play grabbing your combo peaces into a gg, if not urza is just another boring solitaire deck and you would have no benefits by switching.
July 6, 2021 9:26 a.m.
Urza, Lord High Artificer
is the most competitive artifact commander, by a mile. If you wanna do dumb stuff, play him.
Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain
is still good, but I tend to find that red adds a certain amount of fun (probably because it is the most chaotic) to a commander deck which makes it a really good add for less competitive decks
July 6, 2021 8:27 p.m.
Urza is definatly the strongest among the ones that you have mentioned but is also the most expensive to tune out of all of them too. The cost of the spells that make urza shine are expensive imo. If you want a deck to beat up on others jhoira will work very well but won't be great at a table with other high power decks so I guess the answer is what are you going to use it for? That being said, what play style do you want to play? Urza has strong stax synergies so that's his optimal build with artifact combos to finish. Where the other two options you listed are storm combos, with jhoira being more consistent. I guess it all depends on what you want to do.
enpc says... #2
I'd say build Urza. While losing a colour sucks, the benefit of Urza is that you're still playing combo but since he acts as an infinite mana outlet, you don't have play solitaire to win which A) means less chance of whiffing and B) means that the other players don't have to sit there watching you play solitaire.
It also means that you can free up a lot of cards that are only in there to help you not whiff on solitaire. More space for counterspells.
July 5, 2021 8:34 p.m.