May I suggest Crater Hellion, Volcano Hellion, and Erratic Portal? Both the Hellions are excellent removal on formidable bodies in my experience (plus the echo is irrelevant here) and the portal provides affordable reuse of key effects. Bloodfire Colossus may also be worth a look for post-combat wip...

Mastery, much like Revenge of Ravens, was unbeatable in its respective limited play. It's clearly not unbeatable, but it is an infinite mana sink in white that draws you into any creature-based combo in your deck. I think at its best it's finding you Heliod and Trisky, and at its worst, you're payin...

See, I don't think the cardboard "inherently" does anything. You, the player, do things e.g. build/play your deck. Zur finds Astral Slide as easily as he does Necropotence and something dumb like Sygg, River Cutthroat can kill you on turn three with a solid consultation line and enough tu...

Hot take: No commanders are inherently more "fun" or whatever than their peers, because one card =/= 99 other cards, player intentions, table mentality, game state, etc. "Fun" is a stupid metric anyway. I don't know that I agree with this. I think there are designs that lead to ...

Hot take: No commanders are inherently more "fun" or whatever than their peers, because one card =/= 99 other cards, player intentions, table mentality, game state, etc. "Fun" is a stupid metric anyway. I think I enjoy seeing a wide and fluctuating field of commanders (preferably...

Magebane armor seems really good here

I'd play it in 4 color alongside Sidar Kondo, but I can't think of anything else.

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4 years ago

Of course it's a frigging 1/3. what is with that stupid body type I don't know. It says "I FRIGGIN WRESTLE BEARS MAN."

"...BUT I NEVER REALLY WIN WHILE DOING IT."

This card lost a lot after tuck was removed. Gosh, do I miss tuck.

Void Whatever aside, tuck is such a good catch-all to some of the format's greatest current concerns. It even solves Eminence and Derevi, for Pasteur's sake! I am unabashed in my insistence that tuck should someday return.

You folks amaze me. What a wonderful thing you're making! I can barely work bb code so I cannot offer any help of substance, but know that you all have impressed and astounded this American with your efforts. I hope that serves some moral support and I am rooting for all of you!

I've been playing EDH for a long time and I too feel the innate urge to assume some sort of moral superiority in a haze of frontier nostalgia. But the fact is, I've enjoyed the evolution of the commander products and my time growing as a player with them. Mizzix was a fun deckbuilding puzzle. Prossh...

Catastrophe is far superior to fall of the thran. There is no need to give opponents a functional rebate on your MLD. Just terrorize their sacred cows and kill 'em.

I've played Tymna/Akiri and Ludevic/Akiri in the past and currently run Akiri/Thrasios. Akiri is one hell of a threat (very commonly a 12/3 with a half dozen keywords), but you need a critical mass of artifacts to really get any mileage out of her. She also does nothing but battle, so her partner re...

I wouldn't want to play against this. By the time it hits chapter 3, you have enough mana (assuming you hit your lands/ramp) to recast it immediately. Plus, Docent of Perfection and flux channeler alone make the whole deck miserable.

This keeps a lot of my EDHADHD at bay too. Pointless nitpick, but it's EDHD. It's a portmanteau. If you're not going to use the portmanteau, it's a lot more readable (and makes more sense) with the acronyms separated (i.e. EDH ADHD). But that's a lot less fun. A pointless nitpick indeed. Maybe I en...

I don't build specific decks so much as assemble strategic skeletons for common archetypes. Doing so allows me to flex towards new designs in established mechanical spaces during releases while still maintaining 4 distinct decks at all times. They reincarnate constantly under different leadership, ...

I don't build specific decks so much as assemble strategic skeletons for common archetypes. Doing so allows me to flex towards new designs in established mechanical spaces during releases while still maintaining 4 distinct decks at all times. They reincarnate constantly under different leadership, b...

The AI is the real deal. The 1 drop clause is barely a limitation given the legion of insane artifacts that cost next to nothing. Between Codex Shredder, Sol Ring/crypt/Vault/Moxen, and the myriad of removal options, this turns chaff into perfection at a rate that makes Survival so pale it might as ...

For the same mana, you can slam a Knollspine Dragon and play cards whenever you feel. The poor, stupid thing doesn't even have trample.

I rate it 1.65/4.39.

DirkGently Do report your results once you've got it together. IMO, stax is one of the most skill-intensive (and by extension, entertaining) deckbuilding and gameplay exercises because of how extremely the archetype demands balance between its moving various parts. One could tinker with ratios for ...

DirkGently Yeah, I do most of my browsing on my shattered-ass phone so I get lazy about quote trimming sometimes. Should probably make better use of these @ tags. I'll fix it. Anyway, Tainted Aether does do some damage to your recurring army, but it keeps people off creatures 98% of the time (becau...

Played stax for years, I can say that it is very hard to be on the losing end of your own Tangle Wire or Smokestack because of how you can stack their triggers in lopsided ways and both require surprisingly little support to be worthwhile includes. I'd play them in nearly every stax deck, this one ...

Played stax for years, I can say that it is very hard to be on the losing end of your own Tangle Wire or Smokestack because of how you can stack their triggers in lopsided ways and both require surprisingly little support to be worthwhile includes. I'd play them in nearly every stax deck, this one n...

Damn, this topic is heavy. Nonetheless: I believe an important variable has been excluded from your armchair arithmetics. The Thrill of Acquisition and the anticipation preceding it are tangible incentives to ignore pragmatic analyses and inject human irrationality into economic considerations. Rega...

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