March of the Machine Call for Backup Upgrade Guide | MTG Commander Decks 

Yesterday my kalonian hydra was over 200 lmao. Bright-palm + kalonian + strionic resonator

Thanks for the thoughts! Curious, which cards would you take out to replace the ones your mentioned for this deck?

@@slippypenguin12 If we went something like 10ish in, 10ish out and trying to stay budget, I would go: [Dusk Legion Duelist] in -> [Falkenrath Exterminator] out. The exterminator is too slow to grow on its own and 3 manas to only remove creatures is underwhelming. Duelist is both a cheap creature, repeatable card draw and vigilance is great once it gets big enough [Return of the Wildspeaker] in -> [Alharu Solemn Ritualist] out. We need card draw, and Alharu is one of our weaker creatures [Leinore, Autmun Sovereign] in -> [Slurrk, All-ingesting] out. Same as the previous point. Leinore is also a pretty decent blocker with 4 toughness. [Shamanic Revelation] in -> [Constable of the Realms] out. Again, we need card draw and Constable is both a bit too expensive and fragile as a removal piece. Revelation will often draw us 3/4 cards and gain us a bit of life to recoup from our focus on attacking (and thus leaving ourselves open) [Invigorating Hot Spring] in -> [Ion Storm] out. We want to put counters on our stuff, not remove it. And certainly not at such a high cost for a measly 2 damage. Haste with our backup creatures is even better since their abilities are all combat related and is amazing with something like [Kalonian Hydra]. If you have the money, you can also put in [Rythm of the Wild] [Doomskar Warrior] in -> [Ichor Elixir] out. A strong Creature that can provide repeatable card advantage instead of a subpar ramp spell (unless you are playing planechase). [Unbreakable Formation] in -> [Hindervines] out. Hindervines is cute but not ideal. Better to slot in a real protection spell. [Halana and Alena, Partners] in -> [Path of the Pyromancer] out. The partners are both a good target for counters, a haste enabler and a solid defender once they get a bit bigger. Path of the Pyromancer is cute but does not synergises with our deck except for discarding [Brawn]. [Akki Battle-squad] in -> [Triskellion] out. The squad gives us at worst another trigger for our backup creatures and at best a finisher. Triskelion isn't terrible if we can double its counters once or twice but it really needs help to be menacing. [Kami of Whispered Hopes] in -> [Brawn] out. Obviously trample is great with our plan to grow our creatures into massive beaters, but we need ramp for that. Kami is both ramp and another version of [Hardened Scales], which we can never have too many of. Since we have no real way to make sure [Brawn] gets into our graveyard and other ways to give our creatures evasion, the incarnation gets out. [Scavenging Ooze] in -> [Field of Ruins] out. No graveyard hate at all in the base precon is mind-boggling. Ooze gets reprinted all the time, so it's a cheap but efficient way to get both graveyard hate and a mana sink. [Lion Sash] would also be a good inclusion. Hope that helped ^^

I was gonna say, car draw would be a good direction, along with some land-fetching. Also, proxy that rishkar. Card is pricy enough to warrant it imo

Actually i think both commanders could be viable in call for backup deck as well, but i committed to the chishiro and agrus kos deck already

And the deck definitely needs more card advantage, not less.

That comes in the pre-con already