so I had decided to just grab some spare cards and manafixing for a quick 60 card jodah, archmage eternal commander/brawl deck... but i quickly noticed that with only like 20 dollars worth of cards invested into it already was beating things like a modified precon deck focused to 1 of its playstyles.
obviously with jodah you save a massive amount of money when creating the manabase as things along the lines of sol ring are completely useless. you want 1 of each mana not multiple collerless or multiple of the same color.
the first thing is obviously 5 turn finishers. my main ones are army of the damned(even though you cant cast the flashback with jodah) and progenitus. this makes jodah an emmediate removal magnet as a single big spell from him could end the game.
however i notice that what can happen is while the other players are burning cards blowing up jodah i can just go ahead and hard cast the finishers anyways and the other players can't do anything about it since jodah took all the hits
obviously jodah is less scary at the more competitive levels of commander but it still seems a ridiculous powerhouse.
so i am interested, what do you guys think about the fist of suns on a stick?
Jodah as your commander at least can keep coming back for 2 more each time, so it's slightly better. But "slightly better than mediocre" is not the same as "really strong", and beating a "modified precon" is not a very good measuring stick for deck power level.
Further, Sol Ring is cheap, since it's been reprinted so much. The expensive part of a Jodah deck would be getting a flexible mana base, to ensure you always have WUBRG available on T5 or so.
obviously with jodah you save a massive amount of money when creating the manabase as things along the lines of sol ring are completely useless. you want 1 of each mana not multiple collerless or multiple of the same color.
the first thing is obviously 5 turn finishers. my main ones are army of the damned(even though you cant cast the flashback with jodah) and progenitus. this makes jodah an emmediate removal magnet as a single big spell from him could end the game.
however i notice that what can happen is while the other players are burning cards blowing up jodah i can just go ahead and hard cast the finishers anyways and the other players can't do anything about it since jodah took all the hits
obviously jodah is less scary at the more competitive levels of commander but it still seems a ridiculous powerhouse.
so i am interested, what do you guys think about the fist of suns on a stick?
Jodah as your commander at least can keep coming back for 2 more each time, so it's slightly better. But "slightly better than mediocre" is not the same as "really strong", and beating a "modified precon" is not a very good measuring stick for deck power level.
Further, Sol Ring is cheap, since it's been reprinted so much. The expensive part of a Jodah deck would be getting a flexible mana base, to ensure you always have WUBRG available on T5 or so.
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