Just recently I was introduced to duel commander – a friend of mine organized a tournament and urged me to play. Having no time to really delve into deckbuilding, I took a more or less stock list of Oloro Doomsday and was absolutely fascinated both by the format and the deck. I easily crushed through the Swiss part (no losses) and lost in top8 in close match against doubtlessly the best player in the tourney (top8 of Bazaar of Legends in Annecy this year, no losses in Swiss) actually overlooking the way to win.
Why I am telling the story? The reasons are 1) I love duel EDH, 2) I love combo in duel EDH.
And now - the question. Could you advise me or tell me or link me to any good reads about combos in duel EDH? Here I mean "spell-oriented combos" like Doomsday or classic Storm and such.
What I do know about:
- Oloro/Sen Triplets Doomsday
- High Tide
- Momir Vig with color-therapy (kind of)
I have heard about but haven't seen any descent lists:
- Melek
- Riku
- Animar (I guess, it's more creature-oriented)
All the suggestions, links and thoughts are very welcome!
With combo you mean 1 hit KO combos??
- If not, reanimator decks (Karador, Mimeoplasm, Oloro) are also good combo generals.
- Imperial Aluren is a nice combo deck too.
- Any deck involving Dream Halls.
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Legacy Decks:
GBW NO Elves / Aggro Elves GBWU Combo Elves
EDH Decks:
Duel Commander: GG Thrun, the last Trolololol GG GW The Captain WG GWB Karadores BWG GWU Jenara UWG UWB Oloro-DD BWU
Hmmm, how does it actually works? Future Sight + Golem + SDT, for example, easily nets you infinite storm, that's true, but... For one - what does Mishra actually do in a format of singletons?.. I must be terribly missing something
MassD: sorry, by KO you mean?..
I deliberately didn't mention reanimators since I was thinking about spell-, not creature-oriented decks.
Wow, imperial Aluren in EDH? Sounds neat. Animar-based? Are there any decent lists?
Dream Halls is a good enabler. Again, are there any reference lists?
Currently I'm tinkering with UB (Dralnu) or Grixis (Geleva?) Storm brew - that's why I'm particularly curious if it was developed before. Will share the results, of course, if they look viable.
The best combo decks currently up and running in the format are either:
Various Reanimator lists
Imperial Animar
U/B/x Doomsday
With the loss of many tutors and fast mana, it's much harder to build a true storm deck. I've got a list, but it's still pretty unreliable. The best I managed to do was couple it with Oath of Druids, but with that being banned...
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Tantarus: It didn't make the gaka greifer level, so it should be fine
Would you mind sharing your Storm list? Unreliable it may be but I'm totally new to the 100-singleton deckbuilding so it's still very interesting to see.
Yours was exactly the High Tide list I meant.
All right, so no reliable storm list to date. In that case I have all the freedom to brew. Will share results if not outright awful
As far as combo goes in Dual Commander, the fastest, most dedicated and arguably most consistent is Imperial Animar, which can relatively consistently pull off a T3/T4 kill, and, although insanely insanely unlikely to, is capable of T1/T2 kills as well. It's creature oriented, however by no means does the kill revolve around attacking - it's all about casting Ulamog infinite times.
I'd also say that Melek is a relatively powerful combo general, simply because it's ability lets you make a deck consisting of all control, burn, ramp, time walks and can trips, and then turn around on a dime and kill in one fall swoop.
Just recently I was introduced to duel commander – a friend of mine organized a tournament and urged me to play. Having no time to really delve into deckbuilding, I took a more or less stock list of Oloro Doomsday and was absolutely fascinated both by the format and the deck. I easily crushed through the Swiss part (no losses) and lost in top8 in close match against doubtlessly the best player in the tourney (top8 of Bazaar of Legends in Annecy this year, no losses in Swiss) actually overlooking the way to win.
Why I am telling the story? The reasons are 1) I love duel EDH, 2) I love combo in duel EDH.
And now - the question. Could you advise me or tell me or link me to any good reads about combos in duel EDH? Here I mean "spell-oriented combos" like Doomsday or classic Storm and such.
What I do know about:
- Oloro/Sen Triplets Doomsday
- High Tide
- Momir Vig with color-therapy (kind of)
I have heard about but haven't seen any descent lists:
- Melek
- Riku
- Animar (I guess, it's more creature-oriented)
All the suggestions, links and thoughts are very welcome!
I'm not sure about the exact decklist, but it involves Shimmer Myr, Mycosynth Golem, and Future Sight.
Mishra's a major Stax Commander, so it would be easy to lock the board down to find the peices.
Edit: Mishra, Artificer Prodigy
- If not, reanimator decks (Karador, Mimeoplasm, Oloro) are also good combo generals.
- Imperial Aluren is a nice combo deck too.
- Any deck involving Dream Halls.
GBW NO Elves / Aggro Elves
GBWU Combo Elves
EDH Decks:
Duel Commander:
GG Thrun, the last Trolololol GG
GW The Captain WG
GWB Karadores BWG
GWU Jenara UWG
UWB Oloro-DD BWU
Regular EDH:
GBW Ghave the Enchanter WBG
MassD: sorry, by KO you mean?..
I deliberately didn't mention reanimators since I was thinking about spell-, not creature-oriented decks.
Wow, imperial Aluren in EDH? Sounds neat. Animar-based? Are there any decent lists?
Dream Halls is a good enabler. Again, are there any reference lists?
Currently I'm tinkering with UB (Dralnu) or Grixis (Geleva?) Storm brew - that's why I'm particularly curious if it was developed before. Will share the results, of course, if they look viable.
Various Reanimator lists
Imperial Animar
U/B/x Doomsday
With the loss of many tutors and fast mana, it's much harder to build a true storm deck. I've got a list, but it's still pretty unreliable. The best I managed to do was couple it with Oath of Druids, but with that being banned...
EDH:
RNorin the WaryR <-Link! (Primer - Mono Red Control)
GUEdric, Spymaster of TrestUG <- Link! (Mini-Primer - Dredge)
Duel Commander:
WUGeist of Saint TraftUW <- Link! (Aggro-Control)
BGSkullbriar, the Walking GraveGB <- Link! (Aggro)
BUGDamia, Sage of StoneGUB <- Link! (Extinction Control)
Church of the Wary
All right, so no reliable storm list to date. In that case I have all the freedom to brew. Will share results if not outright awful
As far as combo goes in Dual Commander, the fastest, most dedicated and arguably most consistent is Imperial Animar, which can relatively consistently pull off a T3/T4 kill, and, although insanely insanely unlikely to, is capable of T1/T2 kills as well. It's creature oriented, however by no means does the kill revolve around attacking - it's all about casting Ulamog infinite times.
I'd also say that Melek is a relatively powerful combo general, simply because it's ability lets you make a deck consisting of all control, burn, ramp, time walks and can trips, and then turn around on a dime and kill in one fall swoop.
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/melek-spiral/