Pre-Built Commander Decks
Commander (EDH) forum
Posted on Jan. 20, 2014, 8:41 a.m. by sonicizslow
Hello everyone! I just picked up the Nature of the Beast to get into commander, as the games I watched looked like fun. Got to play the deck yesterday too, one on one against a friend who built his own. Did anyone else get the pre-built decks? Which deck did you buy, if you did? Anything you subbed in once you opened it?
Magiclover318 says... #3
I bought Nature of the Beast as well. I wanted the Grixis one, but they were gone, no surprise there, and I love Marath, he is a great commander. I did remove some cards I thought didn't fit, and I uploaded the deck here sonicizslow. You can check it out below.
It's my first commander deck as well haha I love it so far, though I haven't played it yet.
January 20, 2014 9:51 a.m.
lookoutimscary says... #4
I took Nature of the Beast, made Gahiji, Honored One commander and completely overhauled it, haven't lost a game yet!
January 20, 2014 4:59 p.m.
I got Mind Seize for my girlfriend and Evasive Maneuvers for myself. We played an unedited game, and we had a lot of fun. I eventually edited my deck, but she never did.
January 20, 2014 7:31 p.m.
firstxdegree says... #6
our playgroup has seasoned EDH decks that have been tweaked a lot to "perfection" and in a 6 player free-for-all, the 6th person opened one of the new commander decks and cleaned house!
Not sure if we "tweaked" our decks to the meta game too much or if the commander decks, when piloted correctly, are a force to be reckoned with!Congrats to Wizards for building solid pre-con decks
January 23, 2014 2:40 p.m.
nobu_the_bard says... #7
My rebuilt Nature of the Beast is here: Mayael, Friend of Monsters EDH. You will see I changed the Commander to Mayael, and have made a large number of revisions by now- these are all recorded in the deck updates below, mostly so that I understand the reasoning I had when I made the change, so I can keep track of how my understanding and objectives with the deck evolve. It does alright, I have not won with it yet (though I have gotten close a few times), as there are a large number of finely honed Commander decks in my local group.
The prebuilt Commander decks are alright but have some strange choices; probably the reason is they are meant to be able to be refined into a number of different concepts, based on what you discover you like. I'm not sure, but they may also have been made to encourage you to buy more than one of them, as each contains cards that would suit the decks with related colors well. All of them need a lot of changes to narrow their focus down to a more realistic objective though.
January 23, 2014 4:03 p.m.
drpeppercan says... #8
Made the bant deck into a Roon of the Hidden Realm deck Roon and hide! which focuses on enter the battlefield and leaves the battlefield effects for some fairly interesting play, wasn't too expensive to do either.
Currently working on putting the cards together for a Nekusar, the Mindrazer deck Pain and Gain which focuses on... you guessed it, pinging the opponent to death through draws. I know, not exactly unique :-P
Currently theory crafting an Oloro, Ageless Ascetic pillow fort deck, and a Sydri, Galvanic Genius artifact deck from the esper commander pre-con.
Haven't gotten my hands on the other two pre-cons but I think that Marath, Will of the Wild could make a very fun token generating deck, maybe not as powerful as Ghave, Guru of Spores but could be fun.
January 23, 2014 8:27 p.m.
sonicizslow says... #9
I haven't changed mine... yet. A group of my friends and I are playing commander tonight, after that I might make changes.
January 24, 2014 4:45 p.m.
I bought the Derevi, Empyrial Tactician deck. I turned it into a Bant evasion /politics deck. Evasive Action Derevi! It's a Trap! I liked how they included things like how much mana is spent to cast it abilities like Jeleva, Nephalia's Scourge . I thought that was fascinating and have never seen abilities like that until now.
January 24, 2014 10:16 p.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #11
I haven't had the time to sit down and edit any of the new Commander decks, but I already have ideas for what I want to do. One will become a Rubinia Soulsinger deck, another will be built around Sydri, Galvanic Genius , and another will be totally revamped to feature Lord of Tresserhorn as the leader.
Ohthenoises says... #2
I got one of each but mostly for specific cards and value.
I took Derevi, Empyrial Tactician and made an artifact voltron deck: I Vant, my burd...
I took Nekusar, the Mindrazer and built around him: Oprah Magic!
For the most part I didn't keep the lists anywhere near stock but I hear Derevi tribal birds/wizards works VERY well. Marath is a combo general as he can be HUGELY abused.
January 20, 2014 9:14 a.m.