The Community Deck Build Project v4.0

[Dunadain]

So…a question as I start to brainstorm a list of picks…how spiky do we want to be? Is this a deck for Karn/Lattice or no?

Karen lattice isn't very good in commander cause of rule 10, right?

Edit: I see I mistyped Karn lattice as Karen lattice, but that's actually a good name for it so I'm leaving it.

[kirkusjones]

You can't wish for it, but both halves of the lock can be tutored for, since we're in black.

[3drinks]

So…a question as I start to brainstorm a list of picks…how spiky do we want to be? Is this a deck for Karn/Lattice or no?

I think this is a bad look unless you regularly (and only) play in such a degenerate environment to where hard locks are the only recourse. I don't think this is indicative of the format as a whole, certainly not my own LGS, which leads me to believe this is just a major bummer moment. These group building exercises are better than lock outs, no? Because by now we all know the locks, once we start doing this, then all decks suddenly become about assembling the most efficient. This is a lot of text to say "No."

[RxPhantom]

I don't know if we need Karen Lattice, but I don't mind being a little more control-y. I'm thinking big fat, mostly artifact creature reanimator with whatever cool trinkets we can throw in.

[kirkusjones]

So…a question as I start to brainstorm a list of picks…how spiky do we want to be? Is this a deck for Karn/Lattice or no?

I think this is a bad look unless you regularly (and only) play in such a degenerate environment to where hard locks are the only recourse. I don't think this is indicative of the format as a whole, certainly not my own LGS, which leads me to believe this is just a major bummer moment. These group building exercises are better than lock outs, no? Because by now we all know the locks, once we start doing this, then all decks suddenly become about assembling the most efficient. This is a lot of text to say "No."

This is what I figured, just wanted to float the idea to see if the Hive Mind was feeling particularly mean. Consider Karen Lattice stricken from the record.

[Crazy Monkey]

I am fine including Karen's Lettuce in decks, but agree with the sentiment that it's not a route that makes sense to me for these group builds. This post mostly brought to you because I wanted to call it Karen's Lettuce.

I like the trinkets+artifact bombs plan as our focus.

[3drinks]

I love that Karen's lattice just casually becomes a thing here...😂

[RxPhantom]

I love that Karen's lattice just casually becomes a thing here...😂

*Lettuce

I love it too

So, artifact creature-focused reanimator with a wide array of cool trinkets and toys? I think this gives us a good focus with room for cool ideas. I'm ready if you all are.

[3drinks]

Okay. I'm opening up the submission phase. 1 card/person/day, and as a reminder participate in the discussions or else I can't count your vote, because shouting a card name into the void with no discussion helps no one.

For today, my inaugural pick will be ...Reanimate|BRB. We have a discard outlet in the 'Zone, the odds of this ever not doing exactly what we need from it is slim to none. Can't imagine it's never not good. Probably the best value for your $10 in a one mv card you'll ever find.

Reanimate yay - 0 nay - 0

[kirkusjones]

Reanimate's got my vote.

[Henlock]

Yay to reanimate, we are.very likely to need some amount of effects like this.

Shadowgrange Archfiend looks nice buddy for Armix. Can be cast through madness and let us focus the -X/-X better and allow more options for attacks. It is also a pretty good reanimation target and can even draws us the card and net us some life sometimes.

[Legend]

Reanimate Yay. I mean of course. It's a no-brainer. So efficient and versatile (remember it can target creatures in opponents' yards, too), it's practically an auto-include in any Bx deck, but beyond that, it just makes sense in this deck where discarding is inevitable. Probably the herald of a small package of such effects.

[Crazy Monkey]

Reanimate is a card to get back our discards, as well as recover from removal. Yea Reanimate, it's often best in class for one-shot reanimator.

Shadowgrange Archfiend is a card that I don't recall ever seeing before, and it looks like a powerhouse with Armix to start with. Add in that the high MV offers a draw off Gilanra, and I think that is great. Yea Shadowgrange Archfiend.

I think those were the only nominations so far, so I will move to mine. I nominate Salvaging Station. I think that being able to discard any trinket artifact (0-1 MV) and recur it when the target dies is a nice baseline when we don't have anything to reanimate or madness. It is also 6MV for card draw. It's a card that needs supporting cards, so I wanted to nominate it first as it is a strong signpost inclusion.

[3drinks]

Oh, shoot, it does work on any spell, not just creatures. Okay, okay, I'm actually coming around on Gilanra now.

[RxPhantom]

Big obvious yay to Reanimate. Barely needs discussing.

Just one nomination a day? Come ooooooooooon! The pace...it is glacial!

[Legend]

Big obvious yay to Reanimate. Barely needs discussing.

Just one nomination a day? Come ooooooooooon! The pace...it is glacial!

For some reason I thought there was going to be three noms a day for this one. 🤷‍♂️

[Crazy Monkey]

Big obvious yay to Reanimate. Barely needs discussing.

Just one nomination a day? Come ooooooooooon! The pace...it is glacial!

Big obvious yay to Reanimate. Barely needs discussing.

Just one nomination a day? Come ooooooooooon! The pace...it is glacial!

For some reason I thought there was going to be three noms a day for this one. 🤷‍♂️

uh, I think it's 1 nomination per person per day as long as you comment on other people's nominations. You can nominate today, and again tomorrow. Am I correct @3drinks?

[RxPhantom]

- I didn't like the slowed nature so much of the last iteration, but I enjoyed the greater discussion generated. So what I'm going to do is reinstate the 1 card/person/day from before, but in an effort to curb low effort contributions of people shouting cards into the void, each submission must come with feedback and votes for each prior card that's currently up for voting. No more cards getting lost or hanging around the docket for 2-3 days at a time. If you don't participate in the individual card discussions, I won't recognize your card submissions.

Yo @Legend and @Crazy Monkey, I answered my own question.

Yay to Shadowgrange Archfiend. It pairs well with both commanders, kills everyone's best creature, and has 8 power to boot!

I nominate Soul of New Phyrexia. Big fat artifact creature that can protect all of our other permanents on the field or from the grave. Plays well with both commanders.

Also @Crazy Monkey, tell me more about the kinds of 0-1 MV artifacts you have in mind with Salvaging Station.

[aliciaofthevast]

Yeah, I'm waiting to put us into submission phase given there hasn't been a lot of discussion on what we're doing. Though maybe I should because Alicia is bugging me so she can make her first big brain pick 😂

I'll give no spoilers for it. But it's fire and y'all will love it.

LMBO ohmygosh 3drinks 😂. Well since you already blown them away with that, my pick for today is a trip in the way back machine. I nominate Vengeful Pharaoh! We've got the discard outlet right there, it regrows itself, and we never really care about casting it although it's not a bad threat I think. You're welcome, everyone. 😎

[aliciaofthevast]

I'm gonna come back and make my feedback later, I just wanted to unveil the pick because I've been waiting soooooo loooonnnnnngggggg!

[toctheyounger]

I'll yea hesitantly for Soul. My experience has been that it doesn't get activated a ton but its nice to have and not need rather than vice versa.

Pharaoh seems decent, thats nice tech. Its an easy pick that does everything we want.

I think its on the edge of our budget maybe, but Ohran Frostfang is my pick. In order to use Armix, and we do want to, we need to swing. This makes our swing even more optimal, and gives us a stacked hand if we have any sort of board state at all.

[Dunadain]

I love Vengeful Pharaoh and put it everywhere where it even sorta makes sense, yay.

yay to shadow and station as well.

[kirkusjones]

Vengeful Pharaoh was super secret tech in mana-less dredge back in the day. Love it. Yea.

I'm on board with the demon, too.

Soul of New Phyrexia is…interesting. I've only ever seen it in the wild once. It was on my list of things to try in Meria, Scholar of Antiquity, but got cut. Going to hold off for now.

Curious what our 0-1 mana artifact package looks like for Salvaging Station, so I'm going to abstain on that one.

I nominate Grinding Station. Sac outlet, helps fill our graveyard and can disrupt topdeck tutors in a pinch.

[Dunharrow]

woah a lot to go through

Ya to everything I saw
Reanimate
Archfiend
Sould of NP
Salvaging and Grinding Station.
Vengeful Pharaoh

I will nominate Nihil Spellbomb. It is a 1 mv artifact for salvaging station. If we don't need to nuke a yard we can sac it to something else and still get the draw trigger. GY hate is great in every deck.

[RxPhantom]

I'll yay Vengeful Pharaoh and Grinding Station if only because they work so well together. Yay on Nihil Spellbomb because nuking a graveyard and drawing a card is two mana well spent, especially if we can keep doing it. I'd like to hear more about a prospective Salvaging Station package before I vote on it.

For any who are on the fence about Soul of New Phyrexia, I'm going to stick up for it a bit. This is exactly what this deck wants: a useful, 6+MV artifact creature that's relevant on the field and in the graveyard. Though will likely be saccing lots of stuff in this deck, a well timed board wipe can really hurt us. It's been a mainstay of my Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma deck since the beginning. It's been terrific. Having a repeatable answer to non-exiling board wipes is cool.