Hey folks,
Lookin for a fun all gas no brakes build for the god of war. I had a friend play it, it went well but i know we can brew it better. Besides anger & the new anger from reality fracture, what else do ya have?
Thanks!!!
75$ brew for Xenagos god of revels. I’m looking for key cards that aren’t to expensive I got the secret lair with the Spanish title of it and it’s sick and I want a deck that can win occasionally of be a threat but not break the bank so if you have any suggestions for high synergy stuff I would love you opinion.
This year I picked up the Strix Have, TMNT, and Reality Fracture precons.
Here's a couple things I've observed with new precons:
1). The mana bases are decent to good. I don't think I'll even need to buy a land at this point.
2). Reprint quality, specifically good generic cards, shows up in every deck.
3). As always, there's powerful cards included in these decks.
Makes me think I won't need to branch out from my precon pool for deck building.
Anyone else building decks just from precons?
I was trying to build a control deck with [[chromium, the mutable]] as a commander, although that’s subject to change. The idea is just control the game until no one has any resources, and smack them with Chromium for the win. But when constructing the deck, I thought, “man, this is really generic.” I‘ve never built a control deck, so I just picked cards I know would be good, you know, your generic counterspells and removal in esper, some card draw like [[archmage emiritus]] and [[voracious tome-skimmer]]. But it was just too basic. Do yall have any ideas for subthemes I could put in my chromium deck, or ideas for an interesting control deck in general?
When you are looking to build a deck, how many pieces for the strategy you're planning do you want available? How many cards need to show up in a scryfall search for you to think "This deck will function".
Example: I am building Francisco, Fowl Marauder partnered with Malcolm. I want to attack with pirates. I search in BU with type "pirate" and get 100 results. I think, that is enough pirates. Pirates can be a theme. I will prob even have enough that I can choose my fav pirates from among several good options.
I suspect at ~20 results, you end up with mostly the same cards as every other deck with that strategy, and have a very tough time trying to assemble something viable.
Thank you again for your help!
I'm needing help to find a Dimir Commander to build and play in a bracket 2-3 pod and be able to pull off some cool combos if possible. I'm not sure what to build around exactly.
I'm open to any suggestions!
I've been tweaking this deck for over three years now, nearly the day this commander was announced - and it's slowly settled into a janky budget mess you see before you, sitting just north of $100 per TCGplayer pricing, and figured I would take the opportunity to share. After posting about my Morcant deck, which is just mean spirited even when aimed at casual play, I went back to focus on tweaking an older deck I'm a bit more comfortable with in my favorite play style; trash gimmick decks teetering on the precipice between bracket 1 and 2.
The Deck:
https://moxfield.com/decks/M7DqYdbXAE-cI-ZNCTp2jw
Mono-blue jank treasure voltron horse-typal is pretty self explanatory, I'd say. The goal of this deck is to play horses, dress things up like horses, and do some good ol' fashion swindling, of course.
Bill is cheap, and wants to be blocked - when he is, you get a choice of creating a treasure token, or, giving your opponent a horse, removing him from combat, and creating three treasure tokens. He boils down to either smacking our opponents in the face, or giving them a horse and getting rich - this is really a win win for us in either direction.
With that hard earned money, we're looking to load him up with cool stuff. The more stuff, the strong her he gets, and the more our opponents start thinkin' that horse isn't such a bad deal after all.
Used horses, like new:
We're here to buy and sell used horses, so let's talk horses. There are a whopping 15 available in our colors, and we probably don't want to run any of them. The worst thing Wizards has ever done was not giving bill access to white.
We attempt to run as many purebred horses as we can -- [[Phantom Steed]], [[Surge Mare]] or [[Wavebreak Hippocamp]] for example, are all "ok", but at the surprise of no one, we do supplement our horse inventory with cheap changeling cards like [[Changeling Wayfinder]] or [[Universal Automaton]]. After all, anything can be a horse if you squint hard enough.
We also have a few build your own horse options available with [[Birthing Boughs]] and [[Maskwood Nexus]]. Perhaps not the best value, but anything to get horses on the field - speaking of bad value, this is possibly the one and only time you will see someone play [[Reflections of Littjara]] and name "horse", or [[Moonlit Meditation]] to make bill spit out three [[Diamond Mare]] every turn.
The value of our horses doesn't really come from the creatures themselves, so much as having fodder to be able to trigger bill. While he can nab us a treasure when blocked, we really want that 3 treasure boost by dishing out shitty horses, so whatever cheap junky horses we can get, we take. Plus, giving players horses is just dumb and I love it.
Oh, last thing, horse related? Horse adjacent? [[Lu Xun, Scholar General]] and [[Sun Quan, Lord of Wu]]. Can't have a horse deck without a lil' horsemanship, as a treat.
Horses for sale:
Smell that? nothing better than that new horse smell. Now that we've got the horses, and 3 potential buyers sitting in front of us, we want to get them in the seat of some serious horsepower.
We run just about anything we can that will force a block. [[Nemesis Mask]], [[Grappling Hook]], [[Magnetic Web]] etc. will all force a sale, or at the very least let us target some unsuspecting creatures with the worlds worst commander.
Even if we don't force it, running equipment like [[Quietus Spike]], [[Orcrist, Goblin-Cleaver]] or [[Rogue's Gloves]] can certainly help persuade opponents to want to block, turning Bill into a bit of a "pick your poison" situation as the game progresses.
Sometimes, opponents just won't take the bait - and so for those stubborn buyers, we have a few tricks up our sleeve like [[Sudden Substitution]] or [[Mystic Reflection]] to force a horse, of course. There is truly nothing more satisfying than responding to an opponents commander being cast with reflection, turning it into a [[phantasmal mount]].
We buy used horses:
So you've burnt through your inventory, and need some horses to sell? In addition to cards like [[Callous Oppressor]], [[Dissipation Field]] or [[homeward path]] to snag our horses back, the interaction we run is largely in the form of bounce. Both to use against opponents creatures, or our own to get them back in our hand in a pinch.
This makes our best mass removal options cards like [[Aetherize]] or other wide-bounce spells like [[Devstation Tide]], or [[Consuming Tide]]. You could, of course, stick [[Cyclonic Rift]] if you've got the real world money to spend, but pretty embarrassing to do for a Bill Ferny deck.
[[Coveted Falcon]] and [[Meneldor, Swift Savior]] also come in handy here, both targeting creatures you own and returning it right to the field**.**
Winning the Game:
So you've been buying and selling used horses, possibly the worst interaction you've ever played in your life, now what? How does this deck actually win?
Don't get your hopes up, pal - it probably doesn't. But, if you get lucky, primarily you're gonna win through commander damage. The usual suspects like [[Access Tunnel]], [[whispersilk cloak]] or [[Rogue's Passage]] can get the job done.
Alternatively, you just beat down your opponents and Bill makes his own way through. Cards like [[Nettlecyst]], [[Adaptive Omnitool]] and [[Tarrian's Soulcleaver]] are our heavy hitters, synergizing really well with our treasure tokens. There are honestly just a ton of equipment cards you can choose to run that make Bill hard to deal with, and this is where you can adjust to your budget and play preferences accordingly - though I highly recommend [[Kusari-Gama]] as some solid removal, paired with our many forced-to-block cards.
You may have also been asking "what is it we're spending all the treasure on"? The deck doesn't have a crazy curve, but realistically, you'll be spending treasure to re-cast Bill or move around equipment as needed. Don't forget you can trick out your ponies, and turn those otherwise bland cards into something that is annoying to deal with.
But, hey, that's no fun- so in our back pocket, we're running [[Mechanized Production]] and [[Rise and Shine]] to give us a bit more to do with our treasure tokens.
Tie it all together:
So there you have it. Mono-blue horses. The TL;DR is make Bill an annoying threat, you either punch your opponents in the face, or give them a horse. Everything in the deck is centered around the idea that we want horses on our field, and Bill to be a pain to deal with each turn, peppered with some fun little horse-related interactions along the way. It's probably being a bit generous to call this a bracket 2 deck, but hey, it's certainly a good time for any casual table, and the world needs more janky semi-functional themed decks.
For some less trashy ideas, I've previously shared a Xu-Ifit budget deck that cheats in Eldrazi and other big ass creatures, and a Tellah deck that plays Balatro to blow up the entire table at once, if you're looking for some more budget-friendly builds. All (including this Bill deck) include a detailed primer as well.
As always, appreciate any feedback, and if you've made it this far, thanks for reading!
Recently brewed a budget [[Tom, Bert, and William]] and had a blast, it became one of my favorite decks.
All the big Golgari creatures that I could never find a home for (e.g.[[Sheltering Ancient]] & [[Yargle and Multani]]) all fitted perfectly in this brew, albeit as sacrifice fodder.
What the deck does:
Best cards in the deck:
I wrote a compact primer on Moxfield:
https://moxfield.com/decks/1kPBwEUd_Ue7s33pPRjt6Q
Deck is tuned for my playgroup:
But still feels very competitive.
Give it a try and let me know what you think.
If I wasn't on a budget I would have 100% included [[Endurance]] ==> Stops you from decking and is free instant-speed hate against graveyard strategies
[[Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire]] would also be a great addition
This card as a commander has only 244 decks on Moxfield and 243 decks on EDHREC. Know that there's probably a better commander for this type of deck, but I really want to try something that I think will be fun and weird. I understand that the strategy would revolve around exiling and have them re-enter the battlefield while also getting advantage by attacking my opponents mid-game. Though I might also be wrong about this strategy. Suggestions/tips?
This is my current version of the deck: https://archidekt.com/decks/27043062/izzet\_iron\_man\_budget
I’m looking for feedback and a tune up for the deck, optimized within a budget. I can get the commons and uncommons in a bulk bin at my LGS since bulk is free there. But am curious if the expensive cards have alternatives. As of now, the deck currently sits at $162 from Card Kingdom but I want to bring that price down sub $100.
Really want to upgrade the deck to be Bracket 3 and was hoping for some tips
Hey everyone!
I recently picked up and upgraded the Counter Intelligence commander deck and wanted to share my current list for a review. I'm aiming to keep the power level right around a casual, powerful Level 3-ish bracket.
I’ve taken it out for 4–5 games so far, and honestly, it plays really well. The engine feels smooth and I haven’t run into any major bottlenecks or issues during actual gameplay. However, looking over the decklist on paper, I worry that my card draw might be a bit light—even though it hasn’t actually felt like a problem in the matches I've played yet.
Here is what I’m hoping to get details for:
\\\* General Deck Review: How does the current list look for a Level 3 casual environment? Any lacking things in my deck and anywhere I can improve the overall deck?
\\\* Card Draw & Budget Upgrades: I'm looking for cheap, budget-friendly upgrades. One card I was thinking about adding is Shimmer Dragon—do you think that's a good fit? What other budget options should I consider to shore up draw or improve the 99?
Moxfield Link: https://moxfield.com/decks/yC7mGqsTgUWvErjq0dMwPw