Brutal Thraximunder EDH Deck Tech 

Probably the coolest looking secret lair card ever

Thank you! I definitely will!

@@decktechsfordecks I’m actually really interested in people who make content in the mtg community and I would like to get to know more about your content and what you do. Would there be a way we could set up a time I could schedule an online interview with you and ask you some questions?

What equipment from LTR do you mean!

@@b1tchnow Nazgul Battle-Mace

There’s a moxfield link in the description 😁

Short answer - No. You really ought to try playing IRL, and playing proper commander, rather than putter around in that limited space! If you don't have an LGS or gaming society nearby, there are plenty of discord servers where you can set up webcam games and play properly, with people from all over the world. And if you can't afford buying actual, legit cards, just print your own cards (there are tools for this as well). As long as you don't try to pubstomp people, most people worth interacting with at all would have no issue with playing against proxies.

It was in and out so many times 🤣 I ended up deciding I was being greedy trying to jam it in.

I would argue that the two decks are very different from one another and that just because they share one factor between them, it doesn't mean they are the same in all other aspects.. One is mainline reanimator, while the other is more along the lines of "a side dish of reanimator to support our primary strategy", that is to grow the commander ridiculously huge and voltron'ing opponents. Thraximundar is also a win con, not the principal enabler for the strategy, meaning if the field is thick with removal, he can just chill in the command zone while we wait for the opportune moment to play him. As a Sedris player myself, I can say with certainty that if Sedris gets removed to where it's near-on impossible to play him, the deck loses a lot of power.

​​@@xxhellspawnedxx Right, but is "losing a lot of power" not better than having your entire primary strategy shutdown by a counterspell or a swords? A Voltron commander is *more* vulnerable to removal than an enabler commander, not less, specially when your Voltron commander doesnt protect himself in any way whatsoever like Thraxi, and has a base casting cost of 7. Thraxi is a 7 mana win con that requires additional setup after deployment, does nothing uppon entering or being cast, depends on combat to win and has no protection nor evasion. He is essentially just a beefstick with haste and annihilator 1. Dont get me wrong, Thraxi is a super cool card, and i would love for him to be viable as a commander, but imho he is way better in the 99 of a marchesa or sedris deck than as a commander himself, and he doesnt even make the cut in those.

​@@soleo2783 With that line of reasoning, one could just say "Play Blue Farm or Sakashima/Vial instead". Yes, there are more powerful strategies, but I don't agree that this should dictate your commander choice or that it makes all other commanders useless. And I don't contest that Sedris is a better pure-bred reanimator commander than Thrax, but then again one doesn't need to play the most powerful version of something at all times (And arguably shouldn't, outside of competitive pods, as that shit gets stale QUICK). If you're patient and methodical in your gameplay, he's still quite viable at a mid-to high power table. Used to be that he was too much of a threat, and simply having him in the CZ was enough to make you the arch enemy of the table, but those days are long gone, and there are plenty of newer boogiemen that people will reflexively expend their interaction on while you bide your time, looking for the right opening to play yours. As for Sedris, I don't know how you've built him, but I didn't stack that deck with other reanimation effects, for the obvious reason that I already have the best one in the CZ and would rather run more draw/looting effects, ramp, etc. This comes with the downside that the deck plays significantly worse if I don't have access to the commander. Meanwhile, with a Thraximundar deck like in the video, that simply isn't the case. The deck runs just fine without the commander, and you just slam it down at the 11th hour, as a finisher (with counterspell protection at the ready, if you know what's good for you) and laugh all the way to the proverbial bank. There's also something to be said for running a commander that doesn't scream it's strategy across the table from the get-go. Thrax can be built in several different ways while maintaining its edge, and thus opponents can't as easily preempt your next action and play preventatively against you. Sedris always gets Bog'd. Always. Thrax - Not so much.

@@xxhellspawnedxx I didnt say he was useless, i said he wasnt viable, and that more often then not, you could quite easily run him in the 99 instead and get the same or better results as having him in the command zone, specially if you are supposed to sandbag him like you say. Like i said originally, my problem with him is that he just holds the deck back, the deck doesnt need him, you even seem to agree with this, so you have no reason to run him as commander, unless you want to intentionally handicap yourself, and if thats what you want, more power to you, but otherwise, he could be part of the 99 just fine, with a more value/sinergy based commander at the helm instead and the deck would likely be better for it. Also, its not the same as just saying "Just play the best deck in the meta lol" the commanders i mentioned can also be casual commanders, and they share the same color identity that thraxi has.

15 isn’t enough?

I see what cards you count as ramp.

@@MTG_Brewzl Anything that gets you ahead of the mana curve, be it temporary (Dark Ritual/Seething Song) or more permanently (Arcane Signet).

My man!

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