actually if i'm playing my geth's grimoire/lore broker deck and see that I can't win i'll usually take myself out and usually a few other folks with sickening dreams :P. I have no issue with folks scooping though heck I'd rather people scoop over dragging the game out.
I think that you should always let the game play out the way it is suppose to. Conceding will often change the board state or how the game is played out. I've lost many times to opponents conceding and it can be frustrating. I've won from it too, but I would have rather had the game play out how it normally would. EDH is a casual format and you shouldn't deny people their victories if they've earned them.
You still technically win from someone scooping and if it's a huge issue you can make a house rule that allows you to keep whatever perms the person who scooped had in their deck until the game is over.
i'd say orim's chant is probably going to be the strongest imo & as far as combos go kiki-jiki/intruder alarm/mystic snake is GG in that kind of matter too. Anyways just go MUC lots of counters in blue
While I am and always have been a huge Chainer fan in casual settings Geth really sparked my interest when I saw him. I don't know if Geth will put a target on my head in the casual group I play with currently though, which has always been my problem in casual groups especially with people I haven't played with much. Even with budget high tide decks which I was able to salvage most cards from back when I played solidarity in Legacy people just obviously hate my decks, I also have a geth's grimoire lorebroker combo deck I like to play as well that puts a pretty big target on my head. So with all this being said I'll just use both and see which works better in my thrown together graveyard deck. Anyways, the drawback on chainer is a bit higher than geth's imo since chainer must stay on the board for those creatures to do anything and 3 life is not high enough to really warrant him as the general but for sure I have him in my build since it's mono black I won't have to tweak anything plus with magus of the coffers in my deck and a few other mana ramps geth's cost isn't a big issue.
Yeah, I suppose the best way for me would try both of them and see which works better with my build, I could see geth making myself a target though with the group i'll be playing with since they all run creature heavy. Nice idea to run 99 swamps too
Like previous guys said Burn is going to be the cheapest viable deck short of going 3 for 1. I'm thinking about doing that actually with guttersnipe and rituals since I can "Go Off" by turn 3 I have the probability of competing pretty well against high end decks. I'm not sure what the meta is nowadays since I've never actually competed in modern so only thing I can think to watch out for is 5c gifts control, MUC, and a few others =\.
Hey guys I am new to the format and currently building mono black. I'm not quite sure if I should use chainer or Geth as my commander.
land
swamp x31
Ebon Stronghold
Crystal Vein
Creatures
Nezumi Graverobber
Hidden Horror
Lim-Dul the necromancer
Golgari Thug
Order Of Yawgmoth
Putrid Imp
Faceless Butcher
Smogsteed Rider
Magus of the Coffers
Stinkweed imp
Urborg Syphon-Mage
Nekrataal
Skull Collector
Twisted Abomination
Withered Wretch
Avatar of Woe
Rolling Horror
Commanders
Chainer, Dementia Master
Geth, Lord of the Vault
Enchantments
Gloom
Honden of Night's reach
Pestilence
Grave pact
Diabolic Servitude
Bottomless Pit
Animate Dead
Tortured Existence
instances/sorceries
Songs of the Damned
Infest
Drain Life
Rend Flesh
Entomb
Zombify
Last Gasp
Duress
Call to the Netherworld
Cabal Therapy
Grave Consequences
Smallpox
Hymn to Tourach
Cabal Ritual
Reanimate
Terror
Night's Whisper
Buried Alive
Exhume
Stitch Together
Innocent Blood
Betrayal of Flesh
Nightmare Void
Dregs of Sorrow
Monomania
Diabolic Edict
Diabolic Tutor
Syphon Soul
I still have room for 20 cards too but this is basically it, I'm thinking about tossing in filler like graverobber and such but any suggestions would be great! I'm pretty limited on rares too since I got out of magic back during planar chaos and ended up selling a huge bulk of cards but got back into it pretty recently however because of finances and g/f I am pretty limited to how much I can spend =\
You still technically win from someone scooping and if it's a huge issue you can make a house rule that allows you to keep whatever perms the person who scooped had in their deck until the game is over.
Merged double post. - cryogen
land
swamp x31
Ebon Stronghold
Crystal Vein
Creatures
Nezumi Graverobber
Hidden Horror
Lim-Dul the necromancer
Golgari Thug
Order Of Yawgmoth
Putrid Imp
Faceless Butcher
Smogsteed Rider
Magus of the Coffers
Stinkweed imp
Urborg Syphon-Mage
Nekrataal
Skull Collector
Twisted Abomination
Withered Wretch
Avatar of Woe
Rolling Horror
Commanders
Chainer, Dementia Master
Geth, Lord of the Vault
Enchantments
Gloom
Honden of Night's reach
Pestilence
Grave pact
Diabolic Servitude
Bottomless Pit
Animate Dead
Tortured Existence
instances/sorceries
Songs of the Damned
Infest
Drain Life
Rend Flesh
Entomb
Zombify
Last Gasp
Duress
Call to the Netherworld
Cabal Therapy
Grave Consequences
Smallpox
Hymn to Tourach
Cabal Ritual
Reanimate
Terror
Night's Whisper
Buried Alive
Exhume
Stitch Together
Innocent Blood
Betrayal of Flesh
Nightmare Void
Dregs of Sorrow
Monomania
Diabolic Edict
Diabolic Tutor
Syphon Soul
I still have room for 20 cards too but this is basically it, I'm thinking about tossing in filler like graverobber and such but any suggestions would be great! I'm pretty limited on rares too since I got out of magic back during planar chaos and ended up selling a huge bulk of cards but got back into it pretty recently however because of finances and g/f I am pretty limited to how much I can spend =\