I will try and modify my Nath Death Cloud deck, and use Meren of Clan Nel Toth instead. I might try and build Daxos the Returned using my Ghost dad shell. It already uses a lot of stax enchantments, and I would use him as a steady stream of token fodder.
Karlov is the only one so far to pique my interest. Some he lends himself to some sort of staxy, extort/ lifegain monster but im hoping to dig a little deeper and find something unique.
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EDH BRGKresh the BloodbraidedBRG, A box of lands and ideas.
Modern: RG Titanshift. A deck made of cards too stupid for EDH.
Retired: Lots. More than I feel you should suffer through or I should type out.
I like both Daxos and Ezuri, but I play too may decks with UG in them already, so Daxos it is. I love how Daxos can go so many routes, be it tokens, voltron, reanimation, blink, life gain, stax, or a combination of some/all of the above. He may not be the most powerful, but he inspires a lot of creativity juice.
Mizzix insanity is what I'm aiming for. I want to play insane spells like eye of the storm, hive mind, scramblevere, thieves auction, and everything else red and blue has to offer for dirt cheap.
WB shell here. 80% likely to be Daxos enchantment value town/abuse, 20% likely to be Karlov incremental lifegain dumbness. Both likely to be in a pillow fort shell to get people to sod off
Kalemne. Going voltron w/ some light giant tribal left in it. I only have 1 other commander deck and it's Sultai control under Tasigur. This way I'll have 2 commander decks encompassing all 5 colors, one control and one kind of voltron midrange.
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My Decks:
UG Merfolk RG 8-Whack BWG Abzan midrange GRB Living End UWB Spirit Control
GU Kruphix's "Hug Assassin" RW Kalemne's "Play Fatties and Hope for the Best!" BUGW Atraxa's "All counters, all the time"
I've posted in other threads about Mizzix before. She can snap balance in half and throw the rules out the window as long as she can remain on the battlefield. There's already people making High Tide/Combo variants of her, and I'll be one of them.
For non serious games, My wincon is Krark's Thumb and Game of Chaos copied until each player dies, and for more competitive games or a league, Firemind's Foresight combo or a similar infinite.
I am thinking of making a U/R Artifacts deck as well with Arjun, the Shifting Flame. Artifact mana helps him come out faster, eggs and other cheap artifacts help him dig deep, and then you can just run whatever you feel like artifact-wise since there are so many good things to do with them.
Finalizing the first draft of my Mazirek list over the weekend. I have most of the cards already, so I'll hopefully have the deck built within a week or two and can start playing with it.
I love tokens and enchantments so I am definatly building Daxos. I MIGHT build one of the B/G guys as well but I think ill stink to finishing up my Omnath, Locus of rage deck
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SonofaBith - Wizards was so excited about making the packaging for Modern Masters 2 recyclable, they decided to make most of the rares and all but 1 of the UC's recycle-bin ready too. Convenient!
I already play a sac/recur heavy theme in Karador and a sac for profit theme in Prossh, so Meren and Mazirek wont be getting their own deck. They will be part of the 99.
The immediate project will be to build an Orzhov deck. Ive been eyeing my Oloro lifegain/control deck for weeks for dismantling, and a lot of the pieces from that will go a long way in beefing up the choicest parts from the Orzhov precon. I havent decided between Daxos or Karlov, or maybe an older commander.
Mizzix and Kaseto both look fun, and Im on the fence about what to do with a gutted Mayael deck and a Talrand deck that could be used to help build either.
I'm going Meren and already bought up command beacon and Shizo for the deck. Unfortunately, I'm new to commander so I'm mostly modding her base precon more than starting from scratch. I love Commander since it's such a budget friendly format if one lets it be.
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1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
As someone who often stays as far away from green as possible, i have stepped out of my comfort zone and bought the UG deck. Havn't decided what commander i want to build yet, but most probably a control voltron Kaestro, or a power/counters matter weenie token deck for ezuri.
toss up between playing with synergies or exploring a strategy i haven't really been using before.
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EDH decks:
RWUNarset, jeskai burn RUB Marchesa the black rose R Daretti, reanimator goodstuff BU Vela, ninja assasin UG Ezuri, woodland critters.
So I took a pile of 127 potentional deck cards to the LGS, got the WB precon and proceeded to slap Karlov together.
It wrecked face.
The best one was when the resident Angus Mackenzie player thought he had a good start, going T1 land into Top. His "This is gonna be good" expression never turned into "This is going to suck" THAT fast when Serra Ascendant hit, and he realized Karlov cost only 2 and not 3.
Fun times.
Also this is a deck in which Trained Caracal does serious work. Which is hilarious.
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My Commander decks:
Chandra, Torch of Defiance - Oops! All Chandras. Prime Speaker Zegana - Draw for Power. Pir & Toothy - Counterpalooza. Arcades, the Strategist - Another Brick in the Wall. Zacama, Primal Calamity - Calamity of Double Mana. Edgar Markov - Vampires Don't Die. Child of Alara - Dreamcrusher.
So I took a pile of 127 potentional deck cards to the LGS, got the WB precon and proceeded to slap Karlov together.
It wrecked face.
The best one was when the resident Angus Mackenzie player thought he had a good start, going T1 land into Top. His "This is gonna be good" expression never turned into "This is going to suck" THAT fast when Serra Ascendant hit, and he realized Karlov cost only 2 and not 3.
Fun times.
Also this is a deck in which Trained Caracal does serious work. Which is hilarious.
Are you going to post your list? I'm curious to give it a look.
So I took a pile of 127 potentional deck cards to the LGS, got the WB precon and proceeded to slap Karlov together.
It wrecked face.
The best one was when the resident Angus Mackenzie player thought he had a good start, going T1 land into Top. His "This is gonna be good" expression never turned into "This is going to suck" THAT fast when Serra Ascendant hit, and he realized Karlov cost only 2 and not 3.
Fun times.
Also this is a deck in which Trained Caracal does serious work. Which is hilarious.
Are you going to post your list? I'm curious to give it a look.
Sure, here it is, keep in mind it's a rough first build and will probably get some finetuning done but it's hilarious as is.
Chandra, Torch of Defiance - Oops! All Chandras. Prime Speaker Zegana - Draw for Power. Pir & Toothy - Counterpalooza. Arcades, the Strategist - Another Brick in the Wall. Zacama, Primal Calamity - Calamity of Double Mana. Edgar Markov - Vampires Don't Die. Child of Alara - Dreamcrusher.
I'll be doing a makeshift Mazirek deck once my precon arrives in the mail. I'll likely end up building Daxos and/or Karlov as well when I buy that precon.
I really wanted to build Meren Relentless Rats but don't have any rats and don't want to go buy them but Thrumming Stone is obvious and Bloodhound March is a crazy good card with rats lol but I just decided to build an All Creature deck and use 1 enchantment Deadbridge Chant cuz value. Lol
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BRGKresh the BloodbraidedBRG, A box of lands and ideas.
Modern:
RG Titanshift. A deck made of cards too stupid for EDH.
Retired: Lots. More than I feel you should suffer through or I should type out.
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Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest WUR Voltron Control
Temmet, Vizier of Naktamun WU Unblockable Mirror Trickery
Ra's al Ghul (Sidar Kondo) and Face-Down Ninjas
Brudiclad, Token Engineer
Vaevictis (VV2) the Dire Lantern
Rona, Disciple of Gix
Tiana the Auror
Hallar
Ulrich the Politician
Zur the Rebel
Scorpion, Locust, Scarab, Egyptian Gods
O-Kagachi, Mathas, Mairsil
"Non-Tribal" Tribal Generals, Eggs
RG 8-Whack
BWG Abzan midrange
GRB Living End
UWB Spirit Control
GU Kruphix's "Hug Assassin"
RW Kalemne's "Play Fatties and Hope for the Best!"
BUGW Atraxa's "All counters, all the time"
For non serious games, My wincon is Krark's Thumb and Game of Chaos copied until each player dies, and for more competitive games or a league, Firemind's Foresight combo or a similar infinite.
I am thinking of making a U/R Artifacts deck as well with Arjun, the Shifting Flame. Artifact mana helps him come out faster, eggs and other cheap artifacts help him dig deep, and then you can just run whatever you feel like artifact-wise since there are so many good things to do with them.
Beating Face with Bane
Beatrice, the Golden Witch
| Omnath | Zada | Alesha | Scion |
| Mazirek | Animar |
Modern
UR Storm RU
UBRG Dredge GRBU
Standard
UR Thermo-Thing RU
GW Rhys the Redeemed EDH
RUGAnimar, Soul of Elements EDH
WBRAlesha, Who Smiles at Death EDH
The immediate project will be to build an Orzhov deck. Ive been eyeing my Oloro lifegain/control deck for weeks for dismantling, and a lot of the pieces from that will go a long way in beefing up the choicest parts from the Orzhov precon. I havent decided between Daxos or Karlov, or maybe an older commander.
Mizzix and Kaseto both look fun, and Im on the fence about what to do with a gutted Mayael deck and a Talrand deck that could be used to help build either.
The Mimeoplasm || Karador, Ghost Chieftain
Prossh, Skyraider of Kher || Vial Smasher/Tymna Group Slug
Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief || Talrand, Sky Summoner
Yidris - Unblockable Saboteurs || Kiki-Jiki, ETB breaker
Kess, Dissident Mage
1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
Mana savings on all your crazy spells is too good for me even in a non-broken non-storm setting. The hard part is just keeping her alive.
The Unidentified Fantastic Flying Girl.
EDH
Xenagos, the God of Stompy
The Gitrog Monster: Oppressive Value.
Marchesa, Marionette Master - Undying Robots
Yuriko, the Hydra Omnivore
I make dolls as a hobby.
toss up between playing with synergies or exploring a strategy i haven't really been using before.
RWU Narset, jeskai burn
RUB Marchesa the black rose
R Daretti, reanimator goodstuff
BU Vela, ninja assasin
UG Ezuri, woodland critters.
It wrecked face.
The best one was when the resident Angus Mackenzie player thought he had a good start, going T1 land into Top. His "This is gonna be good" expression never turned into "This is going to suck" THAT fast when Serra Ascendant hit, and he realized Karlov cost only 2 and not 3.
Fun times.
Also this is a deck in which Trained Caracal does serious work. Which is hilarious.
Are you going to post your list? I'm curious to give it a look.
Sure, here it is, keep in mind it's a rough first build and will probably get some finetuning done but it's hilarious as is.
4 Sorin, Lord of Innistrad
1 Soul Warden
1 Weathered Wayfarer
1 Mother of Runes
1 Serra Ascendant
1 Soul's Attendant
1 Thrull Parasite
1 Trained Caracal
1 Mardu Woe-Reaper
1 Nip Gwyllion
1 Hopeful Eidolon
2 Blood Artist
2 Zulaport Cutthroat
2 Knight of the White Orchid
2 Underworld Coinsmith
2 Vizkopa Guildmage
2 Suture Priest
3 Burnished Hart
3 Merciless Executioner
3 Fleshbag Marauder
4 Slum reaper
4 Falkenrath Noble
4 Ranger of Eos
4 Solemn Simulacrum
4 Crypt Ghast
4 Wall of Resistance
5 Wingmate Roc
5 Archangel of Thune
5 Shattered Angel
5 Divinity of Pride
5 Baneslayer Angel
6 Pontiff of Blight
6 Patron of the Kitsune
2 Spirit Mantle
2 Blind Obedience
3 Grasp of Fate
3 Unquestioned Authority
3 Oblivion Ring
3 Recumbent Bliss
3 Path of Bravery
3 Phyrexian Arena
3 Gift of Orzhova
3 Righteous War
4 Whip of Erebos
4 Faith's Fetters
5 Exquisite Blood
6 True Conviction
1 Path to Exile
1 Swords to Plowshares
4 Benevolent Offering
2 Demonic Tutor
2 Black Sun's Zenith
2 Exsanguinate
3 Toxic Deluge
1 Wayfarer's Bauble
1 Skullclamp
2 Lightning Greaves
2 Swiftfoot Boots
3 Pristine Talisman
3 Darksteel Plate
3 Loxodon Warhammer
3 Orzhov Keyrune
3 Whispersilk Cloak
1 Command Tower
1 Reflecting Pool
1 Seraph Sanctuary
1 Isolated Chapel
1 Thespian's Stage
1 Vault of the Archangel
1 Scoured Barrens
1 Temple of Silence
1 Shambling Vent
1 Godless Shrine
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Tainted Field
1 Orzhov Basilica
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Radiant Fountain
1 Cabal Coffers
11 Plains
7 Swamp
R Citizen Cane (Feldon of the Third Path)
That does look pretty darn fun.