So I have never made a 1 vs 1 (aka French) EDH deck before this one. Normally all of my EDH decks follow the multiplayer banlist even though I mostly play the game 1 vs 1. But I wanted to throw together Bosh and I wanted to use Goblin Welder and Trash for Treasure. This led me to looking at my Non-EDH decks for things that I could abuse with welder and thinking about these things made me angry that Sundering Titan was banned...
That's when it dawned on me to check the French list... Sure enough not only is Sundering Titan playable, but so is Metalworker. I can give up Sol Ring for that I thought (as evil thoughts begin filling my head)... Now that I was thinking about it since I would be cheating things into play, higher converted cost mana rocks would totally work, since I could throw them for more damage, or animate them with Karn... It was all coming together now and I knew what I wanted to build.
So I threw together this list using ideas form my legacy MUD, vintage Welders and Jaya EDH... I added some cards that I don't have but might be fun to acquire, but nothing too crazy and set out for testing it online. Some people picked up "Hey Sundering Titan is banned" and I would explain that I'm using the French list and gave up Sol Ring to play him and most people have been completely ok with it. Except that one guy*...
I've been called an evil person for playing Smokestack and Grafted Exoskeleton, but I've had good results with them too. Bludgeon Brawl was something I saw on someone else's Bosh list and thought might be cool, but so far I haven't had any real use out of it, and I'm starting to think Blood Moon would just be better here.
A couple of other things that I'm already considering cutting:
Aladdin - (thrown in for nostalgia/possibility of stealing and slinging). I could see this being just about any other more useful card. Su-Chi might be a better 4 drop. Mycosynth Lattice - This combos a little with some things, but it also color fixes my opponents and it's one of those cards I don't actually have. Not sure it's worth the $12 or $15 or whatever to acquire one. Through the Breach - This one time use card has sat in my hand a few games and I just don't know that it's worth it.
Any thoughts or suggestions are definitely welcome.
*One guy I was playing dropped a turn 1 sol ring. I said "Oh, by the way I'm playing with the French ban list in my deck." Opponent, "idc". I go on to win game 1 with smokestack and recurring kuldotha rebirth every turn via Charmbreaker Devils. Sundering Titan and Metalworker never hit the board. He says "game 2?" and he swaps to Scion of the Ur-Dragon (I see this as "bringing out the big guns"). His turns are going fine he's getting colored mana every turn, me I drop a turn 2 lighting greaves, followed by a turn 3 Metalworker equipped and passed. I didn't activate him since I only had two artifacts in hand (Urza's Blueprints and Blightsteel Colossus), server: "Opponent has gone AFK". Really guy? This is why I told you up front I was playing a French list. Turn 3 shrouded metalworker is enough reason to scoop?
That's when it dawned on me to check the French list... Sure enough not only is Sundering Titan playable, but so is Metalworker. I can give up Sol Ring for that I thought (as evil thoughts begin filling my head)... Now that I was thinking about it since I would be cheating things into play, higher converted cost mana rocks would totally work, since I could throw them for more damage, or animate them with Karn... It was all coming together now and I knew what I wanted to build.
So I threw together this list using ideas form my legacy MUD, vintage Welders and Jaya EDH... I added some cards that I don't have but might be fun to acquire, but nothing too crazy and set out for testing it online. Some people picked up "Hey Sundering Titan is banned" and I would explain that I'm using the French list and gave up Sol Ring to play him and most people have been completely ok with it. Except that one guy*...
1 Goblin Welder
1 Iron Myr
1 Myr Retriever
1 Perilous Myr
1 Slobad, Goblin Tinkerer
1 Jaya Ballard, Task Mage
1 Krark-Clan Stoker
1 Metalworker
1 Palladium Myr
1 Aladdin
1 Frogmite
1 Lodestone Golem
1 Masticore
1 Karn, Silver Golem
1 Charmbreaker Devils
1 Duplicant
1 Moltensteel Dragon
1 Steel Hellkite
1 Myr Battlesphere
1 Myr Enforcer
1 Platinum Angel
1 Sundering Titan
1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Shrapnel Blast
1 Chaos Warp
1 Through the Breach
Sorceries:
1 Faithless Looting
1 Kuldotha Rebirth
1 Shattering Spree
1 Trash for Treasure
1 Wheel of Fortune
1 Reforge the Soul
1 All Is Dust
Artifacts:
1 Lotus Bloom
1 Basilisk Collar
1 Voltaic Key
1 Fellwar Stone
1 Ichor Wellspring
1 Illusionist's Bracers
1 Lightning Greaves
1 Liquimetal Coating
1 Mycosynth Wellspring
1 Swiftfoot Boots
1 Basalt Monolith
1 Darksteel Ingot
1 Darksteel Plate
1 Loxodon Warhammer
1 Clock of Omens
1 Grafted Exoskeleton
1 Krark-Clan Ironworks
1 Nevinyrral's Disk
1 Smokestack
1 Thran Dynamo
1 Trading Post
1 Ur-Golem's Eye
1 Witchbane Orb
1 Gilded Lotus
1 Memory Jar
1 Myr Turbine
1 Argentum Armor
1 Dreamstone Hedron
1 Mycosynth Lattice
1 Urza's Blueprints
1 Spine of Ish Sah
1 Darksteel Forge
1 Bludgeon Brawl
Lands:
1 Buried Ruin
1 Darksteel Citadel
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Great Furnace
29 Mountain
I've been called an evil person for playing Smokestack and Grafted Exoskeleton, but I've had good results with them too. Bludgeon Brawl was something I saw on someone else's Bosh list and thought might be cool, but so far I haven't had any real use out of it, and I'm starting to think Blood Moon would just be better here.
A couple of other things that I'm already considering cutting:
Aladdin - (thrown in for nostalgia/possibility of stealing and slinging). I could see this being just about any other more useful card. Su-Chi might be a better 4 drop.
Mycosynth Lattice - This combos a little with some things, but it also color fixes my opponents and it's one of those cards I don't actually have. Not sure it's worth the $12 or $15 or whatever to acquire one.
Through the Breach - This one time use card has sat in my hand a few games and I just don't know that it's worth it.
Any thoughts or suggestions are definitely welcome.
*One guy I was playing dropped a turn 1 sol ring. I said "Oh, by the way I'm playing with the French ban list in my deck." Opponent, "idc". I go on to win game 1 with smokestack and recurring kuldotha rebirth every turn via Charmbreaker Devils. Sundering Titan and Metalworker never hit the board. He says "game 2?" and he swaps to Scion of the Ur-Dragon (I see this as "bringing out the big guns"). His turns are going fine he's getting colored mana every turn, me I drop a turn 2 lighting greaves, followed by a turn 3 Metalworker equipped and passed. I didn't activate him since I only had two artifacts in hand (Urza's Blueprints and Blightsteel Colossus), server: "Opponent has gone AFK". Really guy? This is why I told you up front I was playing a French list. Turn 3 shrouded metalworker is enough reason to scoop?