u/Substantial_Curve_82

▲ 23 r/EDH

POD problems

Need some advice on my pod situation. Bit of detail to start. So there’s 4 of us in our pod that play Atleast 3 nights a week since we all got into magic about 3 months ago. It’s been great everyone learning what kind of decks they like and for the most part it was very fair.
Myself and let’s call him Jerry have bought the most decks and upgraded them with some more expensive cards compared to the other two. This hasn’t been an issue as we’ve made sure to still keep our decks within the realm of the usual bracket 3 upgraded precon level.
Now Jerry has figured out that his preferred deck style is control / pillow fort. Since he’s discovered this and has about 3 decks that he mainly plays built around this.
He has won every single game we’ve played together over the last 3 weeks. The only games he hasn’t won has been when he isn’t using those decks or he got no lands for half the game. I’ve voiced that I feel like it’s becoming unfair and he just argues back that there no stronger then my own decks and which is technically true as we’ve both spent similar money but because of the style of his decks they are so incredibly difficult to fight against.

Now the biggest problem I have is that the only way to beat him so other people have a chance to win is if either I target him early and only him (which always leads to arguments about me only hitting him). Or our whole pod gangs up on him but both the other two don’t want to do this when I suggest it. One of them won’t due to them being too nice of a person and the other decks they don’t care if he wins yet another game.
But I can see that moral has taken a hit the past few games regardless of what they say, we all show up and then everyone sits in silence as they play the slow game of just deciding if they are gonna die first or die 2nd while Jerry wins.
Do I just suck it up and deal with it because the others won’t do anything about it because there scared to confront Jerry or am I just the only one with a problem? (Just to clarify I want everyone to win not just me, the best games are when everyone is on the edge of there seat and you don’t know who will win)

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u/Substantial_Curve_82 — 8 hours ago
▲ 97 r/EDH

How to counter being targeted early in commander?

Looking for any advice on how you’ve handled making your deck more resilient to being targeted? I play a jund reaper king no more deck that’s been built around just stacking and putting out as many -1-1 counters as possible and then stealing there creatures. Because of this I have the most obvious target on me from the get go which I’m okay with but the second I get a few cards down that start putting out my -1-1 I get singled out before I can use anything and then I’m left the whole game constantly not being able to build up anything decent. Everyone else in my playgroup has really strong decks that come off harmless to start with and then within 2 turns there’s ramp into having multiple creatures or massively strong creatures on the board quickly and so I’m left with nothing to defend myself because no one looks at them as the threat because I’m always the main focus while they build there set up. Any advice? I really like this deck and don’t want to have to avoid using it just because of this but at this point I’m always the first killed every game.
*Edit*
Thanks for the replies it’s all been super helpful. I will put my deck in so any feedback on what I should remove and replace with is appreciated.
https://moxfield.com/decks/qI0ah81PPUGsP5WmDncvZQ

u/Substantial_Curve_82 — 2 months ago