Growing Threat | Precon Upgrade Guide | Phyrexians | Cut-Rate Commander | Commander | MTG | EDH 

Hey folks! Below are all the upgrades that I made to the deck for ease of access! Also, be sure to let me know in the comments if you agreed with my choices, what cards you feel should have been included, and what commanders from March of the Machine you want to see me cover in the future! ------------------------- Creatures ------------------------- Myr Battlesphere >>> Essence of Orthodoxy Angel of the Ruins >>> Progenitor Exarch Ancient Stone Idol >>> Norn's Inquisitor Noxious Gearhulk >>> Stronghold Assassin Meteor Golem >>> Skinrender Duplicant >>> Carnifex Demon Shimmer Myr >>> Attentive Skywarden Scrap Trawler >>> Grafted Butcher Cataclysmic Gearhulk >>> Terror of Towashi Blade Splicer >>> Mite Overseer Master Splicer >>> Ria Ivor, Bane of Bladehold Phyrexian Gargantua >>> Basilica Shepherd Moira and Teshar >>> Aron, Benalia's Ruin Psychosis Crawler >>> Ichor Rats Shattered Angel >>> Norn's Choirmaster First-Sphere Gargantua >>> Defiler of Faith Phyrexian Ghoul >>> Flesh-Eater Imp Phyrexian Triniform >>> Bloated Processor Graveshifter >>> Benalish Sleeper Scytheclaw >>> Myr Convert ------------------------- Instants ------------------------- Utter End >>> Vraska's Fall Ambition’s Cost >>> Village Rites Sculpting Steel >>> Corrupted Conviction ------------------------- Sorceries ------------------------- Phyrexian Rebirth >>> White Sun's Twilight Coveted Jewel >>> Infectious Inquiry ------------------------- Enchantments ------------------------- Phyrexian Scriptures >>> Etchings of the Chosen Victimize >>> Norn's Decree Yawgmoth’s Vile Offering >>> Skrelv's Hive ------------------------- Artifacts ------------------------- Ichor Elixir >>> Everflowing Chalice Hedron Archive >>> Astral Cornucopia Fractured Powerstone >>> Tablet of Compleation Commander’s Sphere >>> Staff of Compleation Go for the Throat >>> Contagion Clasp Path of the Schemer >>> Throne of Geth Nettlecyst >>> Weatherlight Completed Spire of Industry >>> Norn's Wellspring Orzhov Locket >>> Skullclamp Swamp >>> Vat of Rebirth ------------------------- Battle ------------------------- Mortify >>> Invasion of New Capenna ------------------------- Lands ------------------------- Goldmire Bridge >>> Myriad Landscape Exotic Orchard >>> Mirrex

This deck is pretty sick. I'm always amazed how you can find these cards AND maintain a decent budget as well. Great work, as usual!

Man oh man, I love the way you show how to make your deck synergistic, as well as further upgrades at the end for that player trying to go the extra mile. Please make more videos, you have my sub.

Your videos have 1 annoying factor as far as i am concerned, in that i want to build all these decks

I know that each upgrade is not a one deck fits all kind of idea, but I feel you did a great job with the suggestions and even at the end showed there are even more expensive upgrades for the deck. First video I watched of your content, will be returning for more, thanks for the insight on phyrexian Tribal and sac Tribal.

Something that I’ve been doing is making it so you can recast some your creatures by returning them to your hand, so I’m running Erratic Portal (4 cost artifact with 1 tap; return target creature to its owners hand unless controller pays 1) and also though not too important Wall of Junk (2 cost 0/7 creature with defender with When this creature blocks, return it to your hand at the end of combat). There’s also Cloudstone Curio which I haven’t totally decided if I want yet but it is likely. Also Phyrexian reclamation is good for revival. Also, though a little iffy and expensive, Sigarda’s summon can make all your Incubator token creatures into giant flyers.

This video changed my whole direction of my deck build

Bit by bit, the pieces fit, The Phyrexian Machine advaaaaances~! Props to anyone who gets the reference. That said, amazing upgrade as always! Side note, for the Convoke build we will soon see, you could make the thumbnail a multilayered pun with a simple sentence - "Sliiiide to the Right!". Day 612 of waiting for the face reveal. Man... I did kinda become the local waiting man, huh? Ah well, it gives me a reason to keep up with you and Vetrom. All thanks to one Payne 96. Who would have thought.

Another awesome video! You are by far one of the most consistent creators on here when it comes to your quality!

So far I’ve played two public matches with him and won both, first with infect second with damage, he’s been a blast to play with

Great deck tech, a radical change that places the deck more in line with it's promised goal. We've had many artifact decks, but never a Phyrexian tribal deck. Good luck with Kalsa and the Convoke deck, I have heard from multiple sources that it's a tricky upgrade. I greatly look forward to seeing what you can come up with.

This is a great deck! Can't wait to upgrade mine... I was hesitant to include Phyrexian Vindicator and Phyrexian Obliterator with the current mana base, but I think you managed it perfectly!

Nice video - I agree, they should have added way more phyrexians in the Precon. On thing to note is, that the Germ tokens are now Phyrexians, so Scytheclaw is not as bad as it seems. ;)

Just wanted to let you know. I really liked this upgrade guide. Seems like you have a great understanding of the game and good ways to improve pre cons.

Dude this sick as! Just placed an order for the upgrades and price tag is the cherry on top, just made the budget lol Nice job man, subscribed 😎

Thanks man! This upgrade advise is great!

one of the best guide creators. thanks for this!

Just the video I was looking for, liked and subbed!

I love your videos i love the lore around each commander and I built some of those decks for my play group You are doing a great job and Your work let us have so much fun as far as France Thank you

Great Video ! One of the best upgrade videos for this deck!

I bought this precon with the intention of making it a really funky phyrexian tribal deck and I’ve been looking at a few different upgrade guides for some ideas and I gotta say I really like the choices you’ve made here. Down the road I plan on putting the OG and MOM Elesh Norn for the anthem and token support respectively, as well as a few different older Phyrexians for some on flavour additions like Yawgmoth. Awesome video my dude looking forward to seeing the next

Much like the knights precon, Cover of Darkness is also an upgrade to look at. Phyrexians only being blocked by their own kind is greatly effective evasion, whether it is a large scuttle of mites rushing to bite or the larger members causing noises with various limbs to disorientate opponents.

Great upgrade, really like how focused you were able to get it but still give different avenues to a win love it. Would love to see a karlov build at some point.

so love how you balance the deck, now one card that i feel has a big potential synergy with the deck, is "Karn Living Legacy". is has the ability to generat ramp by creating Powerstones that can be used to transform the tokens, give you draw, and by the end you get the ability to tap your tokens to deal damage.

Love the lore explanation ❤

We do a semi regular precon challenge every new set at the office. This was the deck I picked. I was trying soooooo hard to make this work out the box to no end. Can’t wait to mod

So I've been playing with Call for Back up and this as a precon to see what I liked more out of the box, both are solid, but Brimaz is so good, It's almost to the point where I want to go artifact creatures with one of him, then go pure phyrexians with my current one with infect. I don't have all the cards of this guide, but I'll just see what I got lying around from All will be one for the time being :D

This seems like a deck with lots of potential. I was skeptical about not having the phyrexian support but it looks good. I like the idea of a board wipe followed by an incubate token attack.

Been looking forward to this one. Basically played the wish version of this deck at prerelease yesterday haha

Great video Grazzet! I have taken some of the things you've mentioned into mind for my own build, but I've got a question; would you say Wurmcoil Engine would be a good card for Brimaz? since it and it's tokens are phyrexians

I had a lot of fun with the Phyrexian cards in the prerelease and I thought Brimaz was pretty sweet. The precon was kinda rough but your build is awesome!

I like a lot of these changes. I’m adding elish norn obliterate and sithirix just cuz they are decent cards although they don’t really help the theme as much

I've made the cuestionable decision of buying all five precons of MOM. I've tried the Knight Tribal, the convoke and the phyrexian. The first two were okey, but the lack of synergy on this one was hurtful to say the least. So i've watched the guide and now i'll probably follow all 5 of them for minor (and major) improvements. Won't remove the planarchase support cards tho, because it was the main reason why I bought them, but i'm sure they'll end but being decent casual decks. Thanks in advance.

Thank you 🎉🙏

My new Brimaz deck may be in any day now. Can't wait to crack into this build. I got one single change to make, but not sure what I'll be cutting just yet

I was messing with a super similar idea, I want to slot in some of the aristocrat staples in a list like this. Get a little extra payoff for the sacrificing/proliferate. Thinking Vraan, Cartel Aristocrat, Elas Il Kor etc.

What should I replace for Drivnod Carnage Dominus? Great video, seen this like 4 times now lol

Nice

are there new tokens to add to the deck?

An addition that I really wanted to put into this style of a upgrade of the pre-con was 'Darksteel Reactor'. Not really efficient or honestly scary even with one proliferate per turn, but thought it matched the theme of "Growing Threat". Combine that with 'Archfiend of the Dross' and all of sudden there are three slowly growing threats; life loss, poison and the ever ticking clock of the Reactor. Then again I always prioritize flavor/theme over efficiency 😅

Guess I’ll have to compare my list to yours, built this almost as soon as brimaz was released.

if i wanted to have elesh norn saga in this decl what should i switch out?

So for some reason on card trader im told that the some or the cards in this set are not tournament legal ? Do you have any clue why that is ? Im new to mtg and was looking for a phyrexian deck and this definitely seems fun. I mostly just like them for aestethics but i dont want to invest money into something if i cant actually play it. Cant find anything on ban lists so im just stumped. :/

This deck really feels ike a Phyrexian deck, it's like what a Phyrexian deck would be like if Yawgmoth was still around.

Is there a list of just the stuff you added to the deck?

Would Felicia fang of silver quill? Be good in this deck and tesya karlov?

Question, if two Phyrexians die during your turn do you proliferate twice?

Yeah, still baffling that the phyrexian count is as low as it is out of the box. But your upgrade videos thus far have done a great job of lifting these precons up so they better match the 'five precon' sets like New Capenna. The exception would be Cavalry Charge I suppose, though those upgrades certainly don't hurt 😅

Welp didnt think I'd buy the precons but managed to get Growing threat, Cavalry charge and Tinker Time for 58€ (For all three) So ow I'm going to have to rewatch the precon upgrade videos :)

Ok im gonna be honest how you upgrade the deck (the swaps) thats how the deck should have been built in the first place because when i saw the list it was more artifact matters rather than phyrexian tribal so this is a amazing upgrade video

A favorite creature of me me is now a phyrexian, so it could be an option: Wurmcoil Engine. It is a certified classic for good reason. Alongside Phyrexian Obliterator l, it has earned a reputation as an aggravating but fair card.

Now you're speaking my language.

Teysa Karlov to double Brimaz’s proliferate. i know shes not phyrexian but shes a personal fav. Drivinod does the same thing to keep it phyrexian themed

You should add The Ozolith and make it a $100 upgrade and cut a non Phyrexian for it. Seems players blow up big incubated Phyrexian a when they flip however you can move the counters back to the Ozolith and move them back at the next combat ;)

Please do an Elenda and Azor deck!

Greetings from Costa Rica sir. I discovered your channel last week and I have to say I've been liking it a lot. Your approach to each deck is very different and original from others and I also like how you provide a brief lore for the Commander at the beginning. Keep up the good work. Thank you. #GRAZZET10KGIVEAWAY

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