As the title says. I'd really like to go 3 color since black/blue has some trouble dealing with artifacts and enchantments, but I'm having trouble deciding which color to add and which commander to make it while staying on theme. It bites that there's like, no legendary rogues. You'd think there's be more, but nope. I'm leaning towards Marchesa, the Black Rose because it seems like she's really synergistic with Rogue's sneakiness, and black's self harming card draw could let me get a few extra counters on my dudes if I play my cards right. Plus she's just all around valuetown.
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She's not the best legend, but discard at random isn't awful. She was errated into a rogue, and that adds red for Artifact hate.
I doubt she'd be better than Marchesa, but it was the only idea I had.
Yeah, I wanted to run Gwendlyn, but I super don't want to drop $60 for her. She was my first choice but unfortunately I don't have an unlimited budget. It was a good suggestion though!
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I picked up an Angus Mackenzie for 6 bucks that is exactly like the real card front and back. Except the color isn't as faded as an original would be.
I typically don't use proxies unless I intend to buy the real thing, and then I'd usually just print em. These are worth it for extremely pricey cards, and for a card like gwendlyn that should not be 60 to 70 bucks it's really the only way to go.
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As the title says. I'd really like to go 3 color since black/blue has some trouble dealing with artifacts and enchantments, but I'm having trouble deciding which color to add and which commander to make it while staying on theme. It bites that there's like, no legendary rogues. You'd think there's be more, but nope. I'm leaning towards Marchesa, the Black Rose because it seems like she's really synergistic with Rogue's sneakiness, and black's self harming card draw could let me get a few extra counters on my dudes if I play my cards right. Plus she's just all around valuetown.
Has anyone else had any thoughts on this?
It's a shame Edric isn't a Blue/Black/Green commander like Leovold because he would be perfect.
I'd honestly go with marchesa because of her synergy with oonas blackguard, one of the best tribal rewards for rogues.
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Vela the Night-Clad is perfect, she makes your rogues harder to block and punishes removing them, and gives access to the two most important rogue colors.
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Aww man, now you're just making me envious. I'd kill to run that, but then I'm missing out on the tons and tons of black rogues. Its not really rogue tribal without black in it.
I'm honestly shocked that none of the partner commanders were rogues. Particularly Silas Renn, Seeker Adept. He seems like he'd be a perfect fit as a rogue, then I could add in another partner to round out my colors.
Sygg, River Cutthroat is a nice rogue general, since the deck emphasizes on hard to block creatures and continuous card draws, and rogue-friendly spells from Lorwyn/Shadowmoon.
Seeing how you wanted to add enchantment removal to your deck, you're looking at going either sultai or esper. Sultai doesn't really have any good options other than mabye the Mimeoplasm as he could technically copy a rogue but be a bigger one. That leaves Esper. I think the only options then are either Merieke Ri Berit for stealing creatures (rogues steal, so jay theme!) or Ertai, The Corrupted (Sacrifice faerie rogue tokens to stop boardwipes from ruining your day) .
Or, you know, since your deck does not want to actually use it's commander, run Oloro. At least he'll do something while doing nothing.
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Has anyone else had any thoughts on this?
She's not the best legend, but discard at random isn't awful. She was errated into a rogue, and that adds red for Artifact hate.
I doubt she'd be better than Marchesa, but it was the only idea I had.
I picked up an Angus Mackenzie for 6 bucks that is exactly like the real card front and back. Except the color isn't as faded as an original would be.
I typically don't use proxies unless I intend to buy the real thing, and then I'd usually just print em. These are worth it for extremely pricey cards, and for a card like gwendlyn that should not be 60 to 70 bucks it's really the only way to go.
It's a shame Edric isn't a Blue/Black/Green commander like Leovold because he would be perfect.
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You can also use blue’s artifact theft as faux-removal, Thada Adel, Acquisitor style.
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WBR Kaalia, Herald of Apocalypse
UBG Damia, Sage of Nightmare
WBG Karador, the Bridge Between
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RG Omnath, Locus of Awakening
BG Nath Addict
UR Niv Mizzet, Brain Aflame
B Kokusho, the Mourning Star
U Memnarch is All
Aww man, now you're just making me envious. I'd kill to run that, but then I'm missing out on the tons and tons of black rogues. Its not really rogue tribal without black in it.
I'm honestly shocked that none of the partner commanders were rogues. Particularly Silas Renn, Seeker Adept. He seems like he'd be a perfect fit as a rogue, then I could add in another partner to round out my colors.
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Or, you know, since your deck does not want to actually use it's commander, run Oloro. At least he'll do something while doing nothing.
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That being said, I have no idea if other Rogues work well with her.
Maybe Zur the Enchanter? You can search up Auras to protect/give evasion to your Rogues. Can search O-Ring effects to deal with problem permanents.
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