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Posted on March 4, 2020, 10:40 a.m. by griffstick
Wait for the board to fill then play Vicious Shadows and then play Blasphemous Act. I love that combo.
Wait for the board to fill then play Phyrexian Scriptures. Next turn play Thrilling Encore.
I love commanders that give you free range to build a deck to however you decide to create it. A good example of this is Queen Marchesa. I built a Queen Marchesa deck with a bunch of deathtouch creatures other dangerous creatures like Michiko Konda, Truth Seeker Ophiomancer and High Priest of Penance. To create a unique pillowfort. Why this kind of pillowfort you ask? Because it's also a planswalker deck with 12 walkers. But that's not all. I also have a plethora of card combos like Protector of the Crown and Shielded by Faith and all the above board wipe combos. And the board wipe combos act like win conditions too.
This is why Queen Marchesa is good. But she gives the monarch. Thats what makes her great. And she has deathtouch and when you dont have the monarch you get deathtouch Assassins that die to Skullclamp or act as good blockers for planswalkers. Creatures with deathtouch work great with Thornbite Staff, Viridian Longbow and Chandra's Ignition. Giving you simple control.
With all that being said. Are their other commanders that you have built around? That has a deck design that seems to be unique? An example of this would be rashmi, eternitites crafter. Rashmi creates no direction to build a deck. A bad example would be Lathliss, Dragon Queen. Clearly you need a dragon tribal. So Lathliss, Dragon Queen gives you a direction to build.
So everyone please share your thoughts and explain what commanders you believe are good for this and share what you did to make it unique.
MagicalHacker says... #3
She looks so worthless, but she makes my Enchantress deck work really smoothly!
March 4, 2020 11:32 a.m.
griffstick says... #4
MagicalHacker, Radha, Heir to Keld enchantress does sound unique. When you built that was it heading in a different direction at first.
March 4, 2020 12:41 p.m.
PhotogenicParasympathetic says... #5
Golos, Tireless Pilgrim - one COULD build big scary expensive-card tribal to abuse his activated ability.
Instead I built scout tribal.
March 4, 2020 1:10 p.m.
Golos, Tireless Pilgrim - one COULD build big scary expensive-card tribal to abuse his activated ability. Other ways are infinite mana and play your deck or lands good stuff.
Instead I built 5c Astral Slide.
March 4, 2020 2:21 p.m.
DrukenReaps says... #7
Mairsil, the Pretender
has been pretty unique for me. I'm sitting in kind of a middling power level group so I'm able to get away with very few instants and sorceries. Instead I'm running a lot of things that he can lock in a cage with a handful of support cards. The deck is effectively a "build your own monster" every time I play it. Some of the cards are the same every time to make things go smoothly but others are different almost every time.
March 4, 2020 3:35 p.m.
MagicalHacker says... #8
griffstick, I had no idea about the commander, but I knew I wanted to get enchantment action in gruul. xD
March 4, 2020 4:03 p.m.
My Sen Triplets deck, Hand Disruptive Behavior, is a spin off your regular Triplets deck. Mainly discard and bounce spells. Plus cards like Raiders' Wake to salt the wound.
March 4, 2020 6:25 p.m.
Talking about commanders without a narrow focus? Yeah, these are great & allow for perennial deck-refining. Queen Marchesa is a prime example. Thantis, the Warweaver would be another one, because do you want death punishment? Spiky pillowfort? Token production for everyone? Go wide for everyone? Various counters? Help opponenents swing tall? Play tap/untap utilities? Play control? Play with 0 control? Nothing on that card really pushes you in a narrow direction. Mathas, Fiend Seeker, just make sure death occurs.
March 5, 2020 8:56 a.m.
triproberts12 says... #11
WB Uncommon tribal? For real, though, it's actually an optimized deck that I'd score an 8/10 based on The Command Zone's updated scoring convention. I find it weird that I've never seen Leonin Relic-Warder+Animate Dead/Dance of the Dead. It's Worldgorger Dragon combo for WB aristocrats, since you want to run every Blood Artist, anyway.
jconeil1988 says... #2
I started with Alela, Artful Provocateur. As I was building her, everyone else seemed to be on the enchantment/stax route or just faerie tribal. I went with the artifact route, specifically, artifact creatures. It's evolved from that first iteration, but still has the same idea. Instead of big dumb artifacts i started with, I've moved onto cheap artifacts and artifact creatures to allow for a stormy swarm of artifacts and faeries.
March 4, 2020 11:08 a.m.