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I typically use graveyard hate in my lands: Scavenger Grounds, Abstergo Entertainment, Pit of Offerings for any color, and Bokuka Bog and Boggart Traveler in black. I really like using Guardian of Faith in white decks to protect my creatures since it phases them out, especially since it can't be countered by things like fierce guardianship, negate, swan song, etc. It feels like a card that's been slept on quite a bit.

split up is... the holy grail for aggro decks, tap out, and in your second main everyone else ceases to exist.

This youtube account is so fucking underrated every low level edh player should watch this

I agree that Split Up looks really good, and I'm looking forward to trying it out Player hexproof used to be my go-to in graveyard decks to protect my yard from getting exiled, but a lot of effects exile each opponent's graveyard now. Most common I would see used to be bojuka bog, now I think it's Soul-Guide Lantern or Farewell. It changes things up enough so that I don't opt for player hexproof and instead just try to be able to survive getting my graveyard nuked.

Like the none white background :)

GRUUL PROTEC = MAWR BIG CREATURES!! OOGA BOOGA! RELOAD!

Ok. I prepare indestructability, they exile me, i prepare prot. From color, they sey you sacrafice 6, i play fast and glascannony, turn 5,6, and 7 bordwipes are casted... It feels like only One good strategy is to not do anything all game, exept control and removal, ramp, and than at 8 mana win with two card combo.

Turn 2-3 Stony Silence vs. artifact/colorless deck is always fun (for me). Also, turn 2 Hishbringer is just good fun (especially if it sticks since it's in Feather, which means it can be protected fairly easily once I get running).

I've been running jeskai go wide weenie tokens lately, I really enjoy it but another important thing I've realized is that ALL of my board wipes need to be assymetrical in some way. Dusk/Dawn, Hour of Reckoning, etc. I don't even run Time Wipe. Board wipes are so bad that I have to leave most of my things intact even when I do it. I also run plenty of protection, but recovery is a form of protection too. As situational as it is, I run Revivify because I've been board wiped with no counter magic before and I'll play that on the opponents end step, I lose a ton of tokens for sure, but I also lost 8 or 9 non token creatures. Either I get it all back to hand and play what I can next turn or I get those all back on field. It's one of the slept on d20 cards imo, I do understand because it's hard to hold up the 3 mana, and if you don't need it it's a bit of a dead card, but I also run a lot of my red in treasures. A full Farewell hits uncontested, well, what can you do.

Nom nom nom, soul of new phyrexia + ischicron specter imprinted with counter spell

2:45 Chiming in to say, Sejiri Shelter doesn't protect your whole board - but I assume you know as much. If you're reading this, please don't leave more comments like this.

Love the video but I would love to see some more mono color solutions playing mono red I struggle against some if not all of these and don't have a lot of options it seems

The best decks I have are the ones where I don't NEED to cast my commander as soon as I'm able to. They're either an engine or a payoff that I can cast once or twice in the game to enable my deck.

I’m a huge fan of maxing out removal and slowing your game down just a little. We said!

If you run voltron style decks, ghostly prison/propaganda is Important!

All my deck's weakness' are flying. Always flying 🤦‍♂️

What about mono red? There's no protection aside from generic artifacts which are slow or people can see coming. Do you just have to have lots of redundancy and try to go even faster than anyone else?

In summery, run counterspells. Blue is best color.

so the crawlspace is annoying if you're playing Anim Pakal, right? but in commander you have 2 other opponents.... so that really shouldn't be a problem...

if you're in blue there are some things you just cant do about. Sometimes you dont draw your counterspells. Or maybe the counterspell isnt enough. Sometimes giving something hexproof isnt enough cause someone is putting things back to hand or exiling without targetting. if anyone wants some advice.... run PHASE SPELLS. it feels so good to avoid things or let stuff resolve thats gonna hurt EVERYONE but now not you. Slip out the back and reality shift your Voltron card... you wanna protect multiple creatures and have everyone else eat a board wipe? Run change of plans. And they are all cheap. I honestly dont see how these cards arent staples.

commander arms race in a video

The second I saw a card specificy "non-gnome", i had the thought "can you make a racist deck? Either only allowing one species on the board, or actively hunting a species? Would that be an anti tribal deck? Im rusty on my terminology so im not too sure

I have an Orzhov Lich King deck where I flash in a Platinum Angel when I'm about to lose then I protect Platinum Angel with cards like Avacyn, Serra's Angel, and rebuff the wicked. How do I protect Platinum Angel against stuff like sacrifice, exile, phasing, and bounce?

When you play chaos, your strategy is invulnerable. Good luck removing my Grip of Chaos when all targeting is random. Most players don't play mass enchantment removal other than Cyclonic Rift and Farewell, and they don't check their luck with random targeting either. Possibility Storm is another great card. The only real requirement is you should have win strategy which is not spoiled by your chaos pieces but you usually don't have problems with it.

Trying to figure out how to protect my graveyard, I'm always using it as a second library but scavenger land and bojuka bog terrify me

I am building a Magnus the Red x-spells deck. It’s about go wide and then have a ton of cost reduction with Magnus on the boatd on your instant and sorceries. You have shown Defense Grid and it just appeared to me that the cost increase to cast spells on opponents turn, affects me way less, since I can reduce cost with enough tokens out, while my opponents will struggle to run counter Magic and pay the 3 extra cost. Thanks for the idea! 😄

I try to build my decks to have as much interaction as I can, and run interactions that fit within the theme of the deck if able. I try to run about 12 pieces of targeted removal, and three boardwipes. The way I see it, it's at least 4 pieces of interaction and a boardwipe per opponent. Some deck may vary but that's my baseline.

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Do you cast otharri when you have five mana, or do you wait for 6 and or a protection spell you can cast

For lands players: Always be aware that Opposition Agent-like effects, Blood Moon effects, and MLD effects will come up. If your landbase is mostly basics you can use this in your favor.

I would add as well. Speed. The faster your deck runs the better you can protect your game plan. Even control decks have this kind of functionality where if you make a control deck that burns your opponents decks out faster than they can play. This is card draw, mill and Stax that force your opponents to play their deck in a janky way.