I've been out of actively playing Commander for a while now, but having gotten my hands on all of this year's new precons has given me the impetus to make the effort to get back into action. Wanting to make a fresh start, I decided to make myself a brand-new deck out of the cards that I has easily on hand from the Commander precons from this year and last year (2014 and 2013). As such, the deck is very much at a "casual" level of power and optimization; it has some fine plays but needs a LOT of tuning. Which is perfectly fine; what I want is for this version of the deck to be a first draft that will be tweaked and improved as I acquire cards for it. I'll document any changes here, and will solicit advice for various decision points in the deck's evolution. But, without further adieu, the initial decklist!
Plenty of improvements and additions should be obvious, and will be made, but for now I want to focus on a bigger decision for the deck's future trajectory: Should I go TALL and focus on reanimating and casting huge beatsticks, or go WIDE and focus more on token-generating creatures that leave behind more lasting value?
I'd go with value creatures that might be able to be used as fodder for other stuff. Take Myr Battlesphere for example, leaving behind a pile o' tokens that could be used for fodder in Goblin Bombardment, Ashnod's Altar and various other tricks. You're probably getting more mileage out of those cards than you would from big dumb beaters.
As for some simple and rather cheap fixes: Feldon loves haste. You're probably going to want Fervor, Hammer of Purphoros and Anger, as well as Urabrask the Hidden. A few tricks to untap Feldon would also be appreciated like Magewright's Stone, Staff of Domination, Thornbite Staff (I think it goes infinite with Feldon, Phyrexian Altar and anything that brings along 3 tokens upon entering the battlefield or dying) or Puppet Strings.
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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.
If you've got Warstorm Surge, you want Malignus. You can blast somebody pretty hard with those two cards, and Feldon can bring Malignus back for a second pass, too. Where Ancients Trod or Electropotence might not be bad ideas either, but takes this deck in a different direction if you start skewing that way.
Confusion in the Ranks could be fun. "I tap Feldon, get a Card Enters Play perk... And then here, take my critter right before it dies. I'll take your Commander and keep him safe."
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1x Feldon of the Third Path
Creatures (23)
1x Artisan of Kozilek
1x Beetleback Chief
1x Bogardan Hellkite
1x Bosh, Iron Golem
1x Burnished Hart
1x Dualcaster Mage
1x Flametongue Kavu
1x Goblin Sharpshooter
1x Goblin Welder
1x Hoard-Smelter Dragon
1x Inferno Titan
1x Ingot Chewer
1x Junk Diver
1x Myr Battlesphere
1x Palladium Myr
1x Pentavus
1x Pilgrim's Eye
1x Solemn Simulacrum
1x Spitebellows
1x Stalking Vengeance
1x Steel Hellkite
1x Tyrant's Familiar
1x Wurmcoil Engine
Artifacts (25)
1x Armillary Sphere
1x Caged Sun
1x Carnage Altar
1x Commander's Sphere
1x Crawlspace
1x Dreamstone Hedron
1x Everflowing Chalice
1x Fire Diamond
1x Jalum Tome
1x Jar of Eyeballs
1x Loreseeker's Stone
1x Mind Stone
1x Nevinyrral's Disk
1x Ruby Medallion
1x Skullclamp
1x Sol Ring
1x Spine of Ish Sah
1x Surveyor's Scope
1x Swiftfoot Boots
1x Thousand-Year Elixir
1x Thran Dynamo
1x Trading Post
1x Unstable Obelisk
1x Wayfarer's Bauble
1x Worn Powerstone
1x Goblin Bombardment
1x Warstorm Surge
Planeswalkers (1)
1x Daretti, Scrap Savant
Sorceries (8)
1x Blasphemous Act
1x Faithless Looting
1x Incendiary Command
1x Mass Mutiny
1x Molten Disaster
1x Rough/Tumble
1x Scrap Mastery
1x Sudden Demise
Instants (6)
1x Chaos Warp
1x Impact Resonance
1x Starstorm
1x Volcanic Offering
1x Wild Ricochet
1x Word of Seizing
Lands (34)
1x Arcane Lighthouse
1x Buried Ruin
1x Crystal Vein
1x Dormant Volcano
1x Flamekin Village
1x Forgotten Cave
1x Ghost Quarter
1x Haunted Fengraf
20x Mountain
1x Myriad Landscape
1x Phyrexia's Core
1x Reliquary Tower
1x Smoldering Crater
1x Tectonic Edge
1x Temple of the False God
Plenty of improvements and additions should be obvious, and will be made, but for now I want to focus on a bigger decision for the deck's future trajectory: Should I go TALL and focus on reanimating and casting huge beatsticks, or go WIDE and focus more on token-generating creatures that leave behind more lasting value?
R Citizen Cane (Feldon of the Third Path)
As for some simple and rather cheap fixes: Feldon loves haste. You're probably going to want Fervor, Hammer of Purphoros and Anger, as well as Urabrask the Hidden. A few tricks to untap Feldon would also be appreciated like Magewright's Stone, Staff of Domination, Thornbite Staff (I think it goes infinite with Feldon, Phyrexian Altar and anything that brings along 3 tokens upon entering the battlefield or dying) or Puppet Strings.
Confusion in the Ranks could be fun. "I tap Feldon, get a Card Enters Play perk... And then here, take my critter right before it dies. I'll take your Commander and keep him safe."