Having already made a commander deck from Feather, brawl looks quite a bit different. With a much more limited selection of instants and sorceries, you don't have a ton of auto-include 1-mana targeting cantrips, and you can't focus on one specific synergy nearly as much, because the depth just isn't there.
So for this deck I focused on a couple different things: lifegain, damage, and power.
Besides that, the other creatures (plus primal amulet) trigger off casting/targeting instants and sorceries of any type, which obviously has broad synergy with all the spells. And there are some generally-useful instants and sorceries whose purpose is generally pretty self-evident.
Got to run this a couple times 1v1 last night, against my friend's decks. We were fairly evenly matched when I played my Ugin deck, with a few painful weaknesses that tended to give him the win (especially cleansing nova, grr), but with Feather I absolutely decimated. Turn 6-ish kills pretty consistently. I did have some solid starts, so remains to be seen how consistent it is, but so far it seems reeallly strong. I might try running it versus some commander decks on Thursday...hopefully there won't be another idiot who thinks I have an advantage by playing a brawl deck (yes, this actually happened at my old playgroup)!
How i feel about competitive players and casual players in EDH: The competitive are german tourists, the casual are italian tourists, both in a italian beach. The italians asking themselves "why are the germans here?" make a legitimate question, the answer is because the beach is beautiful, no matter the country you came from. The italians wanting to ban the germans are dumb, because if the germans pay for their stay and follow the rules like everyone else, they have the right to be in the beach. Hovewer, if the germans started to ask themselves "why are the italians here?"... they would be dumb as hell.
I don't think it does enough. I generally avoid cmc >1 unless it's really doing work, usually in a long-term-value sense.
The one thing that's cool is targeting an enemy creature with one target to screw up attacks in multiplayer. But I don't think that's enough to justify it. Doesn't play into my synergies or give value, and it needs fairly specific boards to be good.
Fair points. Honestly it was a good synergy in limited, because even without other creatures it means 5 flying damage.
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How i feel about competitive players and casual players in EDH: The competitive are german tourists, the casual are italian tourists, both in a italian beach. The italians asking themselves "why are the germans here?" make a legitimate question, the answer is because the beach is beautiful, no matter the country you came from. The italians wanting to ban the germans are dumb, because if the germans pay for their stay and follow the rules like everyone else, they have the right to be in the beach. Hovewer, if the germans started to ask themselves "why are the italians here?"... they would be dumb as hell.
So for this deck I focused on a couple different things: lifegain, damage, and power.
Lifegain is provided by the spells desperate lunge, healing grace, integrity // intervention, moment of triumph, battlefield promotion, and take heart. This lifegain is used to trigger ajani's pridemate, resplendent angel, gideon's company, and firesong and sunspeaker.
Damage is provided by the spells blindblast, jaya's immolating inferno, rile, reckless rage, integrity // intervention, and dual shot. The damage triggers raptor hatchling, trapjaw tyrant, and needletooth raptor.
Lastly, there are many instants which pump power, which provides some synergy with krenko, tin street hooligan and aurelia, exemplar of justice. Plus those two cards are just nutty good in general.
Besides that, the other creatures (plus primal amulet) trigger off casting/targeting instants and sorceries of any type, which obviously has broad synergy with all the spells. And there are some generally-useful instants and sorceries whose purpose is generally pretty self-evident.
1 feather, the redeemed
creatures (15)
1 ajani's pridemate
1 burning prophet
1 electrostatic field
1 raptor hatchling
1 runaway steam-kin
1 tenth district legionnaire
1 guttersnipe
1 krenko, tin street hooligan
1 resplendent angel
1 spellgorger weird
1 aurelia, exemplar of justice
1 gideon's company
1 needletooth raptor
1 trapjaw tyrant
1 firesong and sunspeaker
1 defiant strike
1 dual shot
1 gird for battle
1 healing grace
1 integrity // intervention
1 moment of triumph
1 reckless rage
1 rile
1 samut's sprint
1 sheltering light
1 storm strike
1 take heart
1 adamant will
1 battlefield promotion
1 desperate lunge
1 jaya's immolating inferno
1 justiciar's portal
1 blindblast
1 topple the statue
1 mox amber
1 primal amulet
land (23)
1 boros guildgate
1 stone quarry
1 clifftop retreat
1 evolving wilds
1 sacred foundry
7 mountain
11 plains
EDH Primers
Phelddagrif - Zirilan
EDH
Thrasios+Bruse - Pang - Sasaya - Wydwen - Feather - Rona - Toshiro - Sylvia+Khorvath - Geth - QMarchesa - Firesong - Athreos - Arixmethes - Isperia - Etali - Silas+Sidar - Saskia - Virtus+Gorm - Kynaios - Naban - Aryel - Mizzix - Kazuul - Tymna+Kraum - Sidar+Tymna - Ayli - Gwendlyn - Phelddagrif 4 - Liliana - Kaervek - Phelddagrif 3 - Mairsil - Scarab - Child - Phenax - Shirei - Thada - Depala - Circu - Kytheon - GrenzoHR - Phelddagrif - Reyhan+Kraum - Toshiro - Varolz - Nin - Ojutai - Tasigur - Zedruu - Uril - Edric - Wort - Zurgo - Nahiri - Grenzo - Kozilek - Yisan - Ink-Treader - Yisan - Brago - Sidisi - Toshiro - Alexi - Sygg - Brimaz - Sek'Kuar - Marchesa - Vish Kal - Iroas - Phelddagrif - Ephara - Derevi - Glissa - Wanderer - Saffi - Melek - Xiahou Dun - Lazav - Lin Sivvi - Zirilan - Glissa
PDH - Drake - Graverobber - Izzet GM - Tallowisp - Symbiote Brawl - Feather - Ugin - Jace - Scarab - Angrath - Vraska - Kumena Oathbreaker - Wrenn&6
EDH Primers
Phelddagrif - Zirilan
EDH
Thrasios+Bruse - Pang - Sasaya - Wydwen - Feather - Rona - Toshiro - Sylvia+Khorvath - Geth - QMarchesa - Firesong - Athreos - Arixmethes - Isperia - Etali - Silas+Sidar - Saskia - Virtus+Gorm - Kynaios - Naban - Aryel - Mizzix - Kazuul - Tymna+Kraum - Sidar+Tymna - Ayli - Gwendlyn - Phelddagrif 4 - Liliana - Kaervek - Phelddagrif 3 - Mairsil - Scarab - Child - Phenax - Shirei - Thada - Depala - Circu - Kytheon - GrenzoHR - Phelddagrif - Reyhan+Kraum - Toshiro - Varolz - Nin - Ojutai - Tasigur - Zedruu - Uril - Edric - Wort - Zurgo - Nahiri - Grenzo - Kozilek - Yisan - Ink-Treader - Yisan - Brago - Sidisi - Toshiro - Alexi - Sygg - Brimaz - Sek'Kuar - Marchesa - Vish Kal - Iroas - Phelddagrif - Ephara - Derevi - Glissa - Wanderer - Saffi - Melek - Xiahou Dun - Lazav - Lin Sivvi - Zirilan - Glissa
PDH - Drake - Graverobber - Izzet GM - Tallowisp - Symbiote Brawl - Feather - Ugin - Jace - Scarab - Angrath - Vraska - Kumena Oathbreaker - Wrenn&6
The one thing that's cool is targeting an enemy creature with one target to screw up attacks in multiplayer. But I don't think that's enough to justify it. Doesn't play into my synergies or give value, and it needs fairly specific boards to be good.
EDH Primers
Phelddagrif - Zirilan
EDH
Thrasios+Bruse - Pang - Sasaya - Wydwen - Feather - Rona - Toshiro - Sylvia+Khorvath - Geth - QMarchesa - Firesong - Athreos - Arixmethes - Isperia - Etali - Silas+Sidar - Saskia - Virtus+Gorm - Kynaios - Naban - Aryel - Mizzix - Kazuul - Tymna+Kraum - Sidar+Tymna - Ayli - Gwendlyn - Phelddagrif 4 - Liliana - Kaervek - Phelddagrif 3 - Mairsil - Scarab - Child - Phenax - Shirei - Thada - Depala - Circu - Kytheon - GrenzoHR - Phelddagrif - Reyhan+Kraum - Toshiro - Varolz - Nin - Ojutai - Tasigur - Zedruu - Uril - Edric - Wort - Zurgo - Nahiri - Grenzo - Kozilek - Yisan - Ink-Treader - Yisan - Brago - Sidisi - Toshiro - Alexi - Sygg - Brimaz - Sek'Kuar - Marchesa - Vish Kal - Iroas - Phelddagrif - Ephara - Derevi - Glissa - Wanderer - Saffi - Melek - Xiahou Dun - Lazav - Lin Sivvi - Zirilan - Glissa
PDH - Drake - Graverobber - Izzet GM - Tallowisp - Symbiote Brawl - Feather - Ugin - Jace - Scarab - Angrath - Vraska - Kumena Oathbreaker - Wrenn&6
I focused mainly on those with useful bonuses like life gain, scry, counters, protection, etc.
EDH Primers
Phelddagrif - Zirilan
EDH
Thrasios+Bruse - Pang - Sasaya - Wydwen - Feather - Rona - Toshiro - Sylvia+Khorvath - Geth - QMarchesa - Firesong - Athreos - Arixmethes - Isperia - Etali - Silas+Sidar - Saskia - Virtus+Gorm - Kynaios - Naban - Aryel - Mizzix - Kazuul - Tymna+Kraum - Sidar+Tymna - Ayli - Gwendlyn - Phelddagrif 4 - Liliana - Kaervek - Phelddagrif 3 - Mairsil - Scarab - Child - Phenax - Shirei - Thada - Depala - Circu - Kytheon - GrenzoHR - Phelddagrif - Reyhan+Kraum - Toshiro - Varolz - Nin - Ojutai - Tasigur - Zedruu - Uril - Edric - Wort - Zurgo - Nahiri - Grenzo - Kozilek - Yisan - Ink-Treader - Yisan - Brago - Sidisi - Toshiro - Alexi - Sygg - Brimaz - Sek'Kuar - Marchesa - Vish Kal - Iroas - Phelddagrif - Ephara - Derevi - Glissa - Wanderer - Saffi - Melek - Xiahou Dun - Lazav - Lin Sivvi - Zirilan - Glissa
PDH - Drake - Graverobber - Izzet GM - Tallowisp - Symbiote Brawl - Feather - Ugin - Jace - Scarab - Angrath - Vraska - Kumena Oathbreaker - Wrenn&6