Got a pack, pulled this. Was disappointed at first, now I’m in love. She’s my next deck and the second commander I have ever played that’s not pre constructed
I think all Totem armor (or now called Umbra armor) cards are really scary with this commander. Making extra copies of them makes it very difficult to get rid of it.
Saw Arna and right away I'm like yup that's going to be my next commander when the set come out! I only build decks when the commander really draws my attention and I think I can get her ready for MagicCon Vegas!
I want to build this commander with a mixture of the auras and equipment, using Ratonhnhake:ton from Assassins Creed as like a backup/secret commander for the deck.
Kamigawa recofigure creatures. They can swap between creature and equipment form, giving you flexibility in the early game for creatures then swapping to equipment when you have better threats and can double them. And then siphon them off for free creatures every turn. Also helm of the host is insane. Because it triggers at the beginning of combat you can make a copy of Arna then attack and make a copy of helm (assuming you have a legend rule ignorer like mirror box) twice because of the double triggers. And it just snowballs from there. Imagine making 3 then 6 copies of all the glitters over 2 turns in addition to everything else. Then you can move the extra around to have an absolutely massive board state
@TheVitaNerd mirror box exists. There are ways around it, depending on the list you run and how many legendaries you want there's plenty of options. Ignoring the legendary rule also opens up blade of selves for myriad which snowballs even crazier. But even regardless if you can copy helm, this kind of deck scales incredibly well with creature copies. Armored slyhunter, grim guardian, doomwake giant etc all get insane with multiple copies in this deck
With all the new Duskmourn spoilers, I’ve been thinking about trying to make this a manifest deck. There’s like, seven equipment and auras in Esper now that manifest, cloak, or dread the top card of your library. Now I just have to figure out how to turn that into a win, lol.
Really liked to video! Nice ideas for a new commander that looks like a lot of fun - just wanted to mention that you maybe overlooked the fact that Sword of the animist as a legendary equipment cannot really be copied by Arna - I brewed the deck and realized that that’s basically a small (but very fair) restriction on the equipments you can play because of the legendary rule
I added Lucille and Nazgul Battlemace to the deck, than realized Lucille is Legendary but you know what isn't? The Nazgul Battle Mace, super recommend it for Arna and stack your triggers!... one more: Eldrazi Conscription ;p
@@PubStompMTG I'm a Dino player in Yugi, I wasn't sure to come into MTG. But last year Wizards started to print so many dinosaurs (including JP dinos) that I couldn't resist 🤣 so I decided to give MTG a chance and start playing in MTG Arena, and now I love the diversity of this card game. I like dinos decks, white-black-blue (multicolor) soldier decks, artifacts, dragons xD now I have a new addiction
@@Duelosaurio absolutely I understand, i played dinos when I was in yugioh. I absolutely loved Ultimate Conductor Tyranno. Welcome aboard the addiction train🤣