Love this channel! As someone who likes making and deconstructing decks often, I'm always looking for ideas! Plus after 20+ years, sometimes I'll see a card in a video and realize "hey, I have that card!" 😂 Keep up the good work, happy to sub!
As one of the tribes that I wish got more support, Scarecrows suffer from having a commander thats way too good, even when the rest of the tribe is relatively tame. Before the new Duskmourn support came out, I had to use him as a secret commander in order to play the deck.
Seems like an interesting series you have here. I love tribal decks in EDH. If you're going for spooky tribes for Halloween, could I request a Spider or Insect tribal? Been trying to make spiders work for a while, but it never seems to click.
Have you tried Shelob, Child of Ungoliant from the lord of the rings set? She is a house by herself, and makes your board both hard to deal with, and really dangerous, which helps pump up the spider threat. Couple that deathtouch with trample and suddenly you can swing through almost any boardstate. Will keep spiders in mind though, they are an interesting tribe.
I've had a couple attempts to try and make a tribal themed Reaper King deck, but the inherent destruction built into the commander kind of forces you to be aggressive with your removal if you even just want to start playing scarecrows. I'm not too great with threat assessment either so it ends up with quite a lot of feels-bad moments that no one is really happy with. Because I don't have a fantastic budget it ends up just turning into a kingmaker deck. I'm so happy with the new Rendmaw cause it finally lets me make a more consistent low power deck with a more passive playstyle. Also it's Golgari :)
One of my favorite unloved tribes is gargoyles. I've been working on a Silas Renn and Rebbec list for them. The artifact creature theme of scarecrows reminds me a lot of them, but scarecrows are definitely stronger.
Please Please Please do foxes! My favorite tribe (and animal) in mtg and I have a super nasty 60 card mono-white pillowfort deck. But I want to know if they can be made fore commander too
YESSS! THEMMM!! my deck is a bit of a weird mix, its a reaper king deck with many inefficient scarecrows played for flavor, and some classic scarecrow combos (farmstead gleaner, pili pala, painter's servant) to end the game if need be. People react to it with either a lot of respect or leave it be not realizing that scarecrows are even a tribe usually.
Reaper King always has my attention at a table, them flashing out a now 0 cost scarecrow to remove a combo piece on the stack has happened too many times, just to lose to pila pala combo on their upkeep 👌👌 always fun though watching the gears turn
Y'know, on the topic of an artifact creature tribal, has Juggernaut tribal ever been a thought? It would also be interesting to see you do the "halfpoint" tribals, where its not vampire/angel/dragon/goblin level popular but still semi-popular, like wizards!
*sees thumbnail with OG Nightmare and Nethroi *Gets ready for an "um, akshually" about parameter defining abilities *Starts to watch video, realizes Nightmare is just being used as a good-ish body
Honestly i'm really happy to see this question be answered. When Ikoria came out I was interested in making this particular deck work, but it wasn't possible at the time. Now though? A whole lot more options.
It's nice that you are still making this videos, I like that you put focus on both flavour and mechanical playability. If you accept suggestions, I would go with Avatars. I love seeing the type mixed with other tribes (Making all the Maiars into Avatars was one of the biggest flavour wins of the LotR set).
turn 3, shouldve dropped the 1 cost creature, swing with 3 then use titan strength on the blocked creature. the direct damage couldve been used later to hit the face.
game 1 turn 2, shouldve dropped only 1 firedrinker satyr, swing with the goblin with 1 open mana, your opponent will hesitate to block with their ramp, taking 2 damage, before dropping the send satyr during MP2.
Too rare to matter honestly. Also targeted land destruction is pretty common these days. Also worth noting that most of these types of cards have alternatives that already do similar functions and aren't gamebreaking.
I reaaaly don't agree with cutting Thought Monitor Most of the time, it's either 1 or 2 mana and it's a flying artifact body that draws two. It's one of the best cards in the precon imho
You know you can also build a competent mercenary tribal deck now thanks to outlaws of thunder junction having cards that support "outlaws" with mercenaries being among the card types considered outlaws
Got into magic a year ago. Now learning commander to have some real fun! It's hard though not knowing much and just borrowing info from videos like this or trial running precons. Anyways.. I got a commander tribal deck and I want it to be a little more flexible. I love Wurms, I love Dune, I like green and white mana.... Maybe there's a way to incorporate more politics and quirks to win without just trampling the opponents?
Im doing a brew with the new gisa, I REALLY wish she made skeletons instead of zombies. so close. Im gonna put in maskwood and conspiracy to make the zombies skellies at least
