Howdy! I’m Alex and this is my youtube channel. I make videos about EDH deckbuilding from an analytical perspective, and I aim to help people to get the most out of their decks for the time and money they put into them. New uploads on the 10th, 20th, and 30th of each month.
My first deck i built was a gates/ child o alara, it was ok but never won with but it moved well, now my favorite deck Ashling the Pilgrim. When i blow her up, i can only be stopped by commander damage, poison counters or a i win card card. i will have lifelink and will have a ton of life. It wins about 35% of the time
I was inspired by this video to build my own Radha deck, and one card that truly shined for me is Magmatic Force. I think it fits the idea of "big creature with removal stapled," is dirt cheap, and very similar to Drakuseth. I thought it might not have been on your radar and I hope you consider adding it to your own deck!
It's funny that people are so against it because it would make things too tedious to have work. As if they've never run a strategy that isn't viable because they find it fun rather than good.
i was just about to type in a comment and wanted to ask you about the commander 2019 precons. but then came 7:21 this slide lol you have inspired me to try and rebuild my C19 Kadena morphs deck with a different commander
I play with a group of mostly newer players, so I always try to explain gow my deck works, if it has any big combos to look out for, etc. I feel like it's common courtesy to let newer players know my Midnight Guard is one Presence of Gond away from giving me a whole lotta infinite.
That's what I hate about modern EDH. Because of edhrec and WotC pushing commander so hard, lots of decks feel very boring and same-y because they have a lot of the same cards/engines. Commander was a much more fun format when it was in its wild west era of people making whatever they wanted with cards made for modern and standard rather than just netdecking the latest OP Commander.
So I as a person whose friend got the precon that dockside was in who traded for it because I thought it looked cool realized two months later that "Hey, that's a $100 card" Maybe I should sell it Or maybe it says something that it was in my lowest power EDH deck ever
So I play an Anim Pakal the Thousandth Moon list... Selfless Spirit is insane - The threat of activation means trading one for one with five 2/2 gnomes is not only a losing proposition, but a laughable one. It also happens to be great for deterring kill spells
I think the biggest takeaway from all this info is that - Edhrec tells you what cards *could* be good. It’s user judgement to decide if any given card works or not
I think you have some good points when it comes to discussing card power level and deckbuilsing, but I don't agree with the whole sol ring being bad for the game. Good game pieces should be affordable.
There's a lot of words being said but I'm not understanding any of it. Are you saying that high power cards put your deck in a league where counterplay is more prevalent and therefor should not play them?
i dont think Korvold is a good exemple at all for commander that build themselves. The most played cards in korvold are only in 50% of deck. You can play him arsitocrate, sacrifice, treasure, voltron, +1/+1 or just good stuff. Its definitely one of the most flexible commander. But the rest of the video is totally true.
This thought process is exactly why I built a low power kami of the crescent moon commander deck to make my friends draw too many cards for their hand after they cut reliquary tower
Excellent post. In our playgroup if you can't get rid of opponents' Enchantments, you'll be hurting soon. Your decklist has a couple of cards that address that, but adding Silverback Elder helps with that (as well as having other handy bonuses) and is under $4.
Hi! I'm considering adding Mizzix's Mastery to the deck. Do you think it's a good idea? I'm worried that the overload cost might be prohibitive in a three-color deck. Additionally, I was thinking of adding Shared Animosity, which could be a great finisher if I manage to create a lot of tokens.
why isn't there any graveyard tutors such as buried Alive because cards like Final Parting get a card into your hand and graveyard for a turn 6 commander
I'm building this deck, but I'm adding up the beanstalk, along with 4 mana cascade spells and violent outburst. That way, whenever I hit a 4 mana or 3 mana cascade spell, I'm guaranteed to get one of my card drawing engines on the field.
Friend and I did a Winston draft with a stack of over 120 cards. OTJ, MKM, mixed in with some cheap Dr. Who rares that he bought off someone. We both hadn’t played either set, nor read or played with any of the cards. The entire draft portion was a headache! We both passed on piles without reading some cards eventually and just focused on the low cost commons and said we’d figure out the complicated stuff during deck building. lol Afterwards I genuinely felt like building a core set cube and never looking back and just play that for the rest of my life and forget about all other MtG sets moving forward. 🥲😂
Old twin was also a tempo deck, with the backdoor plan of Bolt Snap Bolt etc. But this is harder to do in edh, so I see why you'd say it leans towards pure combo.
My favorite pet card is helm of the host and I've built several decks both on arena and in paper to get as much out of that card as possible. I've put helm every permanent type imaginable and learned in the process some hilarious rules interactions, like if you turn anything into an artifact with liquimetal coating then elk it with oko you can put a helm of the host on anything. Also if you turn blood moon into an artifact and then elk it with oko the blood moon effect STILL PERSISTS, because effects that change basic land types take place on layer 4 while oko's elk polymorph happens on layer 6. So you'll have a 3/3 elk with no effect that makes all nonbasics mountains. My favorite helm decks are both on arena, a 100 card brawl deck with gideon of the trials as the commander that seeks to use helm to duplicate the commander as well as runs an Oswald artifact toolbox fetching things like book of exalted deeds for as many "you can't lose and your opponents can't win" effects as I can possibly cram onto the board at once. And the other is a timeless WURG deck that runs sigardas aid and stoneforge mystic to fetch helm and Luxior Giadas Gift to stick helm on random planeswalkers like oko, 3 mana teferi, gideon of the trials, sarkhan the masterless. Both of these decks get really silly. TL:DR you DEFINITELY will get more fun from your pet cards flexing your creative muscles and building decks that they shine in
