A Guide to Aggro in EDH | How to Build a Aggro Commander Deck  

If you're playing Aggro you want cards that scale up into multiplayer. You're right, WOTC will never print a 12/12 for 1 mana with no downside (if they have any sense). So what do you do? Group Slug. These are cards that hit everyone. Cards with myriad or drain effects like the new mishra in my isshin deck are good examples. Also you're right, you definitely need protection from board wipes. Selfless spirit and Akroma's Will are MVPs as they both provide additional utility outside just protecting your board.

7:39 This bit about target prioritizing is what I preach at every table. So often I see the aggro/beatdown decks rolling dice to decide who to attack next as if the blue/black player who is trying to set up his late game board stall is going to roll dice to decide who to shutdown.

love the building tips for aggro here ! i would love to see a budget aggro list like the one for voltron one for sure !!

One tip I got from one of the more skilled members of my play group was that you might not want to play every creature you gave in your hand as soon as you can play it all the time. Holding on to a card or two can help you rebuild faster after a board wipe. Recursion can help here, too.

Creatures like Selfless Spirit and Boromid, Warden of the tower and such a good fit for agro decks since they can attack while protecting you against board wipes

ANOTHER BANGER! This was a fun watch !

My favorite aggro deck has to be Henzie, Toolbox Torre. His ability makes every creature into card advantage and removal awful against him, since it's normally just him on your side of the board and maybe a mana dork. I personally play him with Umori as creatures-only deck, and TCC just put out a great game showing off what he can do with the other card types.

loved the video!

Thalia, Heretic Cathar and Thalia, Guardian of Thraben are such key pieces in my Shanid, Sleeper's Scourge deck. They help me get ahead while keeping the way clear for my aggressive legendaries! I also run Flawless Maneuver and Boromir, Warden of the Tower to avoid getting blown out.

This was really helpful for an aggressive jetmir deck I am trying to make

My favorite aggro deck is probably one helmed by samut vizier of naktamun AKA Gruul oops all haste where i get to use cards that make attacking tokens along with stuff like ogre battledriver or a primal forcemage to punch shockingly hard surprisingly quickly and the constant stream of cards from my commander and similar effects means i can eat a board wipe and keep going

You're definitely hitting the nail on the head. I love going sideways. My lord high artificer deck wants to make constructs. My favorite was probably Karazikar The Eye Tyrant. Which was just rakdos goblins. Card draw kept the wheels going. Goad kept things open while also softening up my opponents.

I’ll show this video to my father, he’ll appreciate it :)

The target priorities bit is a big key part to winning. Idc if you arent presenting a threat, if i have a board of tokens and you have a lot of board wipes in the deck im hitting you.

Some great advice. I generally play janky decks that win by beatdown but often get taken out of a game for being too explosive. More draw, more pro, and correct prioritisation, got it. Thanks.

I also recommend the monarch and initiative mechanics for aggressive lists. You say that white does not have a lot of carddraw but White-Plume Adventurer, Seasoned Dungeoneer and Court of Grace have been pretty nice for me :p

Ive been having fun with Gut, Truesoul Zealot/Inspiring Leader. Spits out 6/3 menace creatures pretty early and often

I think you missed talking about aggressive engine commanders who generate a lot of power on the board every turn without you needing to commit a lot of cards from hand to make that happen. Like the better token creature generating commanders. There's a lot of that in (R)GW and famously Edgar Markov but plenty of other color combinations have ways to do it from the command zone in the last few years. Or commanders that let you draw or play cards off the top of the library, making you ready to rebuild quickly after a wipe. All of this works better at lower power levels where you don't lose to combo while rebuilding.

Jor Kadeen the Prevailer is extremely underrated in EDH imo. Just shy of cEDH. Jor Kadeen's anthem, Double strike, damage doubling, or warstorm surge/terror of the peaks make generating a bunch of 1/1s tokens really threatening. The white equipment sub-theme is extremely underrated, too. Steelshaper's Gift/Open the Armory/Stoneforge mystic/Kellan the Fae Blooded to get out early Greaves for stability.

never tried it myself but i have seen slicer do some crazy things on commander clash. maybe thats technically voltron

Currently my main aggro deck (mind you I prefer midrange power level) is Ria Ivor. The replacement damage effect feels almost counter intuitive to aggro, until im swinging in regularly with a 6~8 something or other and defenders have to decide whether they want all damage to go through (leading to toxic buildup and even more tokens) to try and counterattack (which usually leads to me choosing a nuclear option with sacrifice and pings), to take the toxic mites and prevent the big creature from making more mites (thus losing a blocker or creature or spending resources to remove the beater while taking toxic buildup), or to block as much as they can of the toxic and suffer me making a mess of sacrifice fodder. There's a lot of tactics how i can approach because i can effectively lose anything and make others hurt more, my tokens cant block so they all just join the commander in offense as I pump my board with anthem effects. Its the "soldier" deck that forces opponent's hands.

I'm glad I have a few choices in my arsenal for aggro Marchesa (soon to be Cesar): token generators with value generators that end up winning the game too fast with absurd buffs Edric: drawing too many cards and spewing out creatures for more cards Subira: mono red gate bears And if I feel like I want to be a scary target I can also bring out skullbriar when I want to

I don't know if these count, but I'm having a lot of fun with Kutzil and Faldorn lately.

Tovolar is good 1v1. Tons of removal in Gruul and tribal synergies are strong.

Hello i was wondering how you feel about this take i saw another youtuber have on how too play aggro where he said you just roll dice or somthing so people dont feel targeted by you and you feel like less of a threat so in the early game your not being heavly targeted or having your beaters removed?

i also like infect/poison, fling, walls/butt as aggro decks.

The "problem" with aggro is that it is still slower than combo. Mana is really fast and loose in edh. Turn 1 slicer is good enough, but even his deck needs to run stax pieces. Again, there's way too much mana access in edh so if you don't count midrange as aggro then of course there's no aggro because when you can accelerate your mana that hard there's no reason to just jam 1 drops.

Yuriko is on board for the best aggro deck

Could punisher style decks be considered aggro?

Agreed with everything except the idea that white doesn't draw cards. That hasn't been true for years. Especially for go-wide and aggro strategies. And if you're wanting a big burst at once pack in Pursuit of Knowledge and watch everyone be baffled at you playing mono white and having 10 cards in hamd. Dice rolling for targeting is the cowards way.

Aggro? Edh? So you play 4/10? :P

Your opponents attack each other too, you don't have to deal 120 damage to win in commander.

agro is about killin one dude who will have to wait 30min that the agro player lose then wait 20 more minutes for the game to end, agro is cancer, + agro just want to inval!idate funny decks but agro player can rant on your deck for 10minutes straight to say of unfun cycling is as a strat, craterhoof your way with "no" combo in your deck agro players i bait of rage but to me killing of one guy that have to wait and play is the thing that agro get away with doing, socialy it's realy bad, what if you only have time to play 2-3 games and one of those become, wait until people finish playing withou you