Commander In General is a Magic the Gathering channel where in general, we talk about Commander... idk what you were expecting.
Building a new Deck? I do lots of deck techs for upcoming sets as well as some of my favorites, and I think you'll find I do it a little bit differently. Got an EDH deck you would like a deck tech for ? Let me know !
That's a good point. I was excited about Cyberman Squadron because it's new and shiny and also it itself is an artifact. But ya legion loyalty would also be great 👍
Wyll and barbarian class don't necessarily double dice rolls. If an effect would have you roll 2 or more dice, you'd only get one additional dice for the roll
Biggest compliment I could get lol. The greatest high is when you play a strange commander, and you can make an otherwise really jank card sing in a hyper specific deck
As someone in the business, I can see how much post production love and finesse you putting into these videos. it adds such a level of professionalism! Subscribed!
This deck tech is just supposed to give people ideas of ways they could build their own deck. I think you'll find that if you look at the cut version of my deck that the CMC is low and there is a good amount of ramp and lands. But thank you for the critique
Should consider cards like Memory Lapse. Protection and a way to steal an opponents big threat. Also Commandeer might be worth a slot. Basically free to steal a noncreature spell
Anyway, did some maths. You can get around with adding dice for quite a while. Your chances of rolling exactly seven sixes start slowing down at around 27 dice, and then max out at 42, then start going down. But yeah, rolling more than seven hurts emotionally.
It is pretty interesting, it's only 3 mana and has a few good keywords which I like. It has a strange combination of wanting you to attack, getting you some recursion, plus making you a few treasures. Personally I think if you had some sort of theme in mind it could be a pretty fun unique commander deck, I would just need to be inspired to know which direction I wanted to go with it
Night Shift of the Living Dead is lowkey amazing for Mr. House. Increases the valuable rolls to 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. (You may as well tick 7s down to 6 for the free 2/2 Zombie Employee.) Unfortunate it is only once per turn but it would honestly be pretty bonkers if it didn't have the restriction. Vihaan, Goldwaker from the Thunder Junction Mardu precon is a great addition to let our Treasures throw hands.
Also remembered about Jan Jansen. Can turn our Treasures into 1/1 Constructs or our Securitrons into Treasures at a 1:2 ratio (One Treasure/Securitron for two Constructs/Treasures)
I take your skipping expensive cards like Dockside but a cheap one that I would of added to the whole death by artifact theme would be Marionette Master.
Oh ya that's a good one. Tbh I just skip dockside because it's a little over played. People don't need me to tell them to play that card, they already are lol
4 treasures into his activated rolls 5d6 for 4 mana. You’ll struggle to find cards that roll better than 1 die per mana. Some treasure support for this commander is optimal
Solid suggestions. I have middling interest in Magic but love Fallout, and House specifically. This will help my precon become what it was meant to be. Suggesting other additions to the other Fallout decks because people just like the precons a lot.
Love the deck tech! I really like that you link both a full version and your cut 100 card version. Speaking of, I think that your cut version might struggle a bit with drawing cards. You've cut a lot of the cards that would allow you to consistently convert treasure into cards (dockside chef, ruthless Knave, and skullport merchant), and the card draw spells you have remaining are more "card filtering" as they only net you 0 or 1 cards respectively (Big score, pirates pillage, etc.) You do have some additional card advantage listed under other categories (such as Losheel listed under "protection"). In instances like this, I personally find it helpful to list the card under multiple categories so that your true category counts can be seen by filtering "Group by Categories (Multiple)".
That's a really good note. I should have gone back and fixed it, but I actually didn't "cut" dockside chef, ruthless knave, and skull port merchant. I added them after I had finished the deck as I was writing the script for exactly that reason, and I never went back to fix it... Oops 🙃, will try and do that soon
I recommend Leyline of Anticipation. It lets you act during your opponents turns, rather than your own, which allows cards like Do or Die to even more effective as a defensive combat trick!.
Like & Subbed with Bell. Thanks for pointing out it is whenever you Clash. I didnt notice that & built Teysa from this set instead. May go back and get him. with all the Instant and Sorcery spells, would you consider Murktide Regent?
Thanks, much appreciated. Murktide Regent is pretty sweet, I don't think my build is instant and sorcery focused enough, but I would love to see a deck that just went hard into that strategy
Not that I use proxies... But if I did, I would have gotten used to building decks without looking at the price of cards. If budget decks are interesting to you, let me know. Any commanders in mind ?
This got recommended to me on my main page and I'm glad I clicked! Great job on the video, I've been itching to build a new "goofy" deck that does something fun and unique!
Hell ya, thank you so much. Goofy decks are my go to, so if you're into that sort of thing, stick around. My next deck tech will be on Mr. House President CEO and I think it's gonna be a good one
Thoughts on cards to make the commander unblockable or stopping combat? With the pillowfort theme, Maze of Ith is a doubley useful card as it can stop attacking creatures, but can also stop your commander after he attacks so you get the trigger off of him, but stop the risk of him dying to combat damage or tricks. In the same sort of vein, Rogues Passage allows you to get the triggers and some combat damage, and you don't have to worry about him dying.
Ya I agree, even if its just a few cards, having a few cards to make creatures unlockable is always nice. Usually I throw in rogues passage and a whispersilk cloak for protection into a lot of decks. This deck had a lot going on though, and not a ton of cards cared about attacking so I didn't really prioritize it. But I could see a version that incorporated this a little more 👍
Another good pile card that can also pillow-fort is Fight or Flight. Triggers on EACH opponent combat, and remember that piles can have zero cards, so it works even if they don't have creatures. Speaking of silver border, you also have My First Tome. Make sure you throw in the baldur's gate lands for lands with flavor text. It doesn't trigger toymaker, but I like Dream Devourer to make the opponent guess what you just foretold, and it let's you get some of the more expensive cards out early and out of your hand. Finally, if you go the clone route, Reconnaissance can get the attack trigger, then save your commanders
@@commander_in_general I built my own Toymaker deck when he was announced. As I went the clone token route, I also made some custom tokens with different images of the toymaker from the original and new episode.
8:44 wouldn't this cause our commanders endstep trigger to double as well, which is the entire reason we run all these choices? and if we do get in an attack with our commander at that point they get to group twice for a quick 8 damage
With Strionic resonator yes. It's confusing at that part of the video, but when I say it doesn't effect the commander, I was actually leading into the next part where I was talking about conjurers closet and teleportation circle which don't really help the commander. But after listening back to it, you are right to be confused haha😅
Your channel is super underrated. There's not many deck tech channels that I like but this is certainly one of them. The deck itself is fire, but also your style of narration is fun and the production is surprisingly great for such a small channel. Nice one mate
