I second Mishra. I have played mishra for just over a year now and love the deck to death. It abuses the stack and trust me Grixis gets some really nice artifacts. If you want a link to a list I have one in my sig.
I do have a foil Mishra. The only Mishra deck that I've ever seen played was one that's only win-cons were Darksteel Reactor and Jinxed Choker, Most of the other cards were cards that were specifically bad in commander.
Just to clear the air, I don't want to base a deck around lots of creatures. I don't want to play a bunch of equipment. A few may be fine depending on what general I decide to play. I was mostly looking for any decks that used artifacts as the main theme. Obviously, that isn't a lot to go on, but I figured you could throw a couple lists at me or suggest some generals that work well with the said strategy. I don't want to just sit around until I can go infinite. That's the reason I excluded Arcum Dagsson from the list because that is what he tends to do. I don't want to play a scarecrow deck, but that doesn't mean that I can't play five color. I think I want to play with cards somewhat like Trading Post and Unwinding Clock maybe. Cards that at least interact in that sort of fashion. Maybe some Mirrorworks too. I just kinda want to sit around and control the board with artifacts, but I don't want to hard lock anyone so Nevinyrrl's Disk + Darksteel Forge + Mycosynth Lattice is out of the question.
So I'm thinking I could play a UWR version, a UR, or even a mono blue version. I'll pretty much consider any color combination as long as it isn't Esper. I'm shying away from an Esper artifact deck because it's overdone and I've done it before myself.
So, I'm not 100% sure if this is the correct place to ask this or if it even has an answer right now, but I'll give it a shot. If this needs to be moved for some reason, please do so. On to my question
So, in the Conspiracy spoiler it says that Phage is an avatar minion. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't she errata-d to a zombie minion before? Does anyone know if this is just a mess up in the Conspiracy spoiler, if her errata has been changed, or if she is going to be a misprint similar to Walking Atlas?
Another card that I missed when writing the initial list, but have since remember, is Voracious Dragon. I decided to cut Garruk Wildspeaker for this guy. Not because the dragon is better than Garruk, but because Garruk really doesn't fit in the theme of the deck so I feel like he needed to go. The dragon fits the theme and he should be a pretty good card for the deck overall.
I've also been thinking about adding Coat of Arms because it always a good card for tribal decks, but I haven't decided if I want to yet or not.
I can't believe I forgot to include Descendants' Path in my list. I knew I wanted to play it, but it must have completely blanked my mind when I was actually writing up the list.
As you can see this is a pretty casual-ish deck that I built to play with some of my friends that either don't care to build good decks or aren't experienced enough to yet.
This deck goes as far as to play cards that aren't even in legal EDH such as Goblin Mime. I like this card because when I use it I'm going to try to not play as politically as I normally play. I could still use hand gestures or whatever, but I'll try my best not to.
Another illegal card is Goblin Tutor. I haven't decided whether or not I should include a second copy of this card. I feel like the second one might ruin the spirit of EDH or maybe it's fine because it is that silly of a card. It's kind of like Brothers Yamazaki. (Playing two of this card is something I'd like your input on. Do you think it ruins the spirit of EDH or do you think I should be allowed to play 2 just because of what this card does? I should probably ask my play group, but I kind of want the deck to be a surprise when I first play it.) I'm playing a few other illegal cards, but I don't feel the need to discuss them all.
Raging Goblin. This card is just pure flavor. "He raged at the world, at his family, at his life. But mostly he just raged." Some of best flavor text that magic has to offer IMO. I definitely would never exclude this guy. I plan on finding the best version of this card available when I put this deck together
There are some other silly cards I'm playing like Goblin Game or Goblin Bomb, but most of the cards are goblin themed or provide card some advantage so that I'm never short on goblins to play.
I'm making this deck mostly because one of my friends requested that I make tribal goblin using the Shattergang Brothers. Any comments or card suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Kaervek the Merciless. You could give him infect to kill people faster, deathtouch to kill guys, lifelink to gain life, or even equip Umezawa's Jitte to get counters on it.
If you're playing blue and not drawing enough cards to make no hand size relevant, you're not playing the right style of blue for Kruphix...
I normally don't mind discarding down to 7 cards in most of my blue decks. Seems like Kruphix is a waste of a slot. The abilities can definitely be useful, I just don't think they're relevant enough. I use to play reliquary tower in all my blue decks, but it always gets cut for a better colorless land because I don't need to have no maximum hand size.
He's an over-costed ramp spell that I probably wouldn't play in any deck ever. Seems like he does nothing. No max hand size is a joke and almost never necessary and stocking up mana isn't really that useful IMO. There are obviously things that you can do with that, but I'd rather play another ramp spell in my deck. He's not better than Edric, Prime Speaker, or Momir. Those generals all generate you card advantage. UG God doesn't really generate you any advantage. Who needs to save up mana with Prophet of Kruphix when you can just use all of your mana ever turn because you're generating an absurd amount of card advantage. Definitely not a good choice. Out of the four UG generals I've mentioned, he's the least threatening IMO.
I do have a foil Mishra. The only Mishra deck that I've ever seen played was one that's only win-cons were Darksteel Reactor and Jinxed Choker, Most of the other cards were cards that were specifically bad in commander.
So I'm thinking I could play a UWR version, a UR, or even a mono blue version. I'll pretty much consider any color combination as long as it isn't Esper. I'm shying away from an Esper artifact deck because it's overdone and I've done it before myself.
Any suggestions are appreciated.
That actually ruins her for two of my friends that play EDH. They will have to take her out if she's not a zombie.
Thanks for the incite!
Phage the Untouchable
So, in the Conspiracy spoiler it says that Phage is an avatar minion. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't she errata-d to a zombie minion before? Does anyone know if this is just a mess up in the Conspiracy spoiler, if her errata has been changed, or if she is going to be a misprint similar to Walking Atlas?
I've also been thinking about adding Coat of Arms because it always a good card for tribal decks, but I haven't decided if I want to yet or not.
I also decided that I want to put in Skirk Drill Sergeant. He and descendants' path have pretty similar abilities and I should probably include them when I'm playing cards like Sylvan Library, Scroll Rack, and Sensei's Divining Top.
So I'll cut some bad cards for these two, I guess. Good bye Goblin War Wagon and Goblin Dirigible and hello Descendants' Path and Skirk Drill Sergeant.
1x Shattergang Brothers
Creatures (42):
1x Boggart Harbinger
1x Boggart Mob
1x Frogtosser Banneret
1x Mad Auntie
1x Warren Pilferers
1x Weirding Shaman
1x Wort, Boggart Auntie
1x Goblin Replica
1x Vexing Shusher
1x Wort, the Raidmother
1x Skirk Drill Sergeant
1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
1x Warren Instigator
1x Goblin Chieftain
1x Goblin General
1x Goblin King
1x Goblin Sharpshooter
1x Goblin Wizard
1x Akki Lavarunner
1x Krenko, Mob Boss
1x Legion Loyalist
1x Pyrewild Shaman
1x Sensation Gorger
1x Siege-Gang Commander
1x Squee, Goblin Nabob
1x Gempalm Incinerator
1x Goblin Matron
1x Goblin Recruiter
1x Goblin Ringleader
1x Goblin Spy
1x Goblin Warchief
1x Reckless One
1x Warbreak Trumpeter
1x Goblin Bowling Team
1x Goblin Lookout
1x Goblin Mime
1x Mogg War Marshal
1x Mons's Goblin Waiters
1x Raging Goblin
1x Rummaging Goblin
1x Skirk Prospector
1x Voracious Dragon
1x Descendants' Path
1x Boggart Shenanigans
1x Sylvan Library
1x Phyrexian Arena
1x Underworld Connections
1x Phyrexian Reclamation
1x Survival of the Fittest
1x Goblin Bombardment
1x Goblin Bomb
1x Goblin Caves
1x Goblin Festival
1x Goblin Warrens
Instants/Sorceries (4):
1x Goblin Tutor
1x Goblin Game
1x Goblin War Strike
1x Yawgmoth's Will
Artifacts (4):
1x Staff of Nin
1x Sensei's Divining Top
1x Skullclamp
1x Scroll Rack
Land (37):
1x Goblin Burrows
1x Grim Backwoods
1x Phyrexian Tower
1x Kessig Wolf Run
33 Other
As you can see this is a pretty casual-ish deck that I built to play with some of my friends that either don't care to build good decks or aren't experienced enough to yet.
This deck goes as far as to play cards that aren't even in legal EDH such as Goblin Mime. I like this card because when I use it I'm going to try to not play as politically as I normally play. I could still use hand gestures or whatever, but I'll try my best not to.
Another illegal card is Goblin Tutor. I haven't decided whether or not I should include a second copy of this card. I feel like the second one might ruin the spirit of EDH or maybe it's fine because it is that silly of a card. It's kind of like Brothers Yamazaki. (Playing two of this card is something I'd like your input on. Do you think it ruins the spirit of EDH or do you think I should be allowed to play 2 just because of what this card does? I should probably ask my play group, but I kind of want the deck to be a surprise when I first play it.) I'm playing a few other illegal cards, but I don't feel the need to discuss them all.
Raging Goblin. This card is just pure flavor. "He raged at the world, at his family, at his life. But mostly he just raged." Some of best flavor text that magic has to offer IMO. I definitely would never exclude this guy. I plan on finding the best version of this card available when I put this deck together
There are some other silly cards I'm playing like Goblin Game or Goblin Bomb, but most of the cards are goblin themed or provide card some advantage so that I'm never short on goblins to play.
I'm making this deck mostly because one of my friends requested that I make tribal goblin using the Shattergang Brothers. Any comments or card suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
: Darien, King of Kjeldor
: Tomorrow, Azami's Familiar
: Geth, Lord of the Vault
: Brothers Yamazaki, but only if I can play them both as my generals otherwise Godo, Bandit Warlord
: Myojin of Life's Web or Patron of the Orochi
Allied Pair:
/ : Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
/ : Wrexial, the Risen Deep
/ : Olivia Voldaren
/ : Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
/ : Trostani, Selesnya's Voice
Enemy Pair:
/ : Vish Kal, Blood Arbiter
/ : Nin, the Pain Artist
/ : Glissa, the Traitor
/ : Jor Kadeen, the Prevailer
/ : Prime Speaker Zegana
Arcs:
/ / : Oloro, Ageless Ascetic
/ / : Thraximundar
/ / : Shattergang Brothers
/ / : Rith, the Awakener
/ / : Derevi, Empyrial Tactician
Wedges:
/ / : Tariel, Reckoner of Souls
/ / : Riku of Two Reflections
/ / : Karador, Ghost Chieftain
/ / : Ruhan of the Fomori
/ / : The Mimeoplasm
Colorless:
Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
Chromatic:
/ / / / : Cromat