Hazezon Tamar - Defenders of Dune

[Boros_Blendo]

Dune has been a fascination of mine since that movie in the 80's, followed by reading the novel. About seven years ago, I started working on a deck on MTG Salvation, my first iteration of this deck. I ran across it in Google just the other day checking to see if any news was out about creating a Dune set (LotR being a massive effort at such a project brought to life, so hope exists to see Arrakis as more than just a jank playlist by me). I got a kick seeing it still on the internet, and decided to post a current decklist, as it's both very different and much more competitive in my playgroup than it used to be.

The deck is divided into subject matters of the Dune story, not by card type. This is a theme very tightly wrapped/selected around the story versus card types. It used to be very wurm intensive (and thus slow as anything.) It is now Fremen/Atreides human based, lower-curved, and goes wide with the ability for massed blitzes and game ending haymakers like Insurrection. Hazezon Tamar's sand warriors, while very-much Fremen, are not humans, but that's the limits of using this commander for Stilgar, which to date is still the most iconic choice for Paul's field commander of the Fremen.

The lack of Paul Atreides is because you are Paul Atreides. Hope you enjoy this! I get a smile everytime I crack this deck open, every bit as much as I did the first time I pulled it out. "Long live the fighters!"

Defenders of Dune

Decklist

DecklistCMCManaPricesChartsDraw 7

Commander/Stilgar

1 Hazezon Tamar

Gurney Haleck

1 Odric, Master Tactician

Duncan Idaho

1 Tajic, Blade of the Legion

Duke Leto

1 Torsten, Founder of Benalia

Thufir Hawat

1 Dosan the Falling Leaf

Chani

1 Neyali, Suns' Vanguard

Dr. Liet Kynes (Chani's Father)

1 Cho-Manno, Revolutionary

Lady Jessica

1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking

Alia

1 Samut, Voice of Dissent

Signets

1 Gruul Signet

1 Selesnya Signet

1 Boros Signet

1 Arcane Signet

Weirding Module

1 Umezawa's Jitte

Other weirding module effects

1 Hull Breach

1 Decimate

War on Arrakis

1 Austere Command

1 Wrath of God

1 Martial Coup

1 Shared Animosity

1 Overwhelming Stampede

1 Overrun

1 Tribal Unity

Spice Harvesting

1 Cultivate

1 Sylvan Scrying

1 Farseek

1 Kodama's Reach

1 Journey of Discovery

House Atreides Troops and Vehicles

1 Call the Coppercoats

1 Horn of Valhalla

1 Visions of Glory

1 Predator, Flagship

1 Skysovereign, Consul Flagship

1 Cultivator's Caravan

Muad-Dib's Visions/Voice

1 Shamanic Revelation

1 Well of Lost Dreams

1 Rishkar's Expertise

1 Hunter's Prowess

1 Insurrection

1 Mob Rule

Fremen

1 Glory-Bound Initiate

1 Desert Nomads

1 Combat Celebrant

1 Harsh Mentor

1 Eternal Witness

1 Dawn of Hope

1 March of the Multitudes

1 Secure the Wastes

1 Deploy to the Front

The Fremen Reverend Mothers

1 Soul Warden

1 Soul's Attendant

1 Essence Warden

1 Auriok Champion

Exiled to the Desert

1 Exile

1 Path to Exile

Storms of Arrakis

1 Whirlwind

1 Savage Twister

Wurms of Arrakis

1 Engulfing Slagwurm

1 Pelakka Wurm

1 Armada Wurm

1 Plated Slagwurm

1 Sandwurm Convergence

1 Advent of the Wurm

Lands

1 Desert

1 Dust Bowl

1 Naya Panorama

1 Jungle Shrine

1 Copperline Gorge

1 Razorverge Thicket

1 Inspiring Vantage

1 Command Tower

1 Path of Ancestry

1 Boros Guildgate

1 Selesnya Guildgate

1 Gruul Guildgate

1 Clifftop Retreat

1 Rootbound Crag

1 Sunpetal Grove

1 Gruul Turf

1 Selesnya Sanctuary

1 Boros Garrison

1 Terramorphic Expanse

1 Temple Garden

1 Sacred Foundry

1 Stomping Ground

7 Plains

5 Forest

3 Mountain

Approximate Total Cost:

[Boros_Blendo]

With the release of the new movies…anyone got functional upgrade suggestions that still tightly fit in the Dune franchise theme?

[darrenhabib]

How do you feel about proxies? You can do the alternative name frames and use custom art work to convey your deck.
You can buy the original cards and bring them along to your playgroup to prove you own the cards.
I've been getting into custom card making quite a bit to give my decks a particular theme.
There are some neat things you can do with lands in that I've been using AI imaging to make panoramic landscapes, so that you can line up the lands to make an entire continuous scene.
Anyway if its something you'd be interested in I can step you through the process, its not that difficult.

[Boros_Blendo]

While a sandwurm about to eat the Baron Harkonnen (Kenneth McMillan) from the David Lynch movie on a card would bring me no amount of endless joy, my real life is so stupid right now, I'm going to stick a pin in that offer. A friend has done something similar, though. That film had such an iconic look, it would look pretty snazzy in a deck. That, and Kyle McLachlan is the Paul Atreides I see when I think of the story.

Any suggestions for thematic/functional card brewing? Buying cards and windmill slamming them in is a speed I can get behind presently. If not, no worries, this one's labor of joy and super fun to pilot.

[darrenhabib]

Thunder junction has some Desert themed cards.
Colossal Rattlewurm, Cataclysmic Prospecting (Spice mining), Dune Chanter, Sand Scout are perfectly in theme for the deck.
You'd want to back this up with Deserts; Desert of the Fervent, Desert of the Indomitable, Desert of the True, Hashep Oasis, Ramunap Ruins, Shefet Dunes, Scavenger Grounds.

[Boros_Blendo]

Sweet, I'll check those out. Thank you.