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Quote from Cadito77 »

Also, you can't counter cards with split second...sorry bro. (Yeah, I said bro).

Oh yeah, I missed the split second part, sorry.


Athreos's Wayfare 3WB
Enchantment [R]
Whenever a card is put into a players graveyard from anywhere, that player looses 1 life.

I have run a very strong Zirilan of the Claw EDH. It's very narrow of course, but since this is about winning, Zirilan does that. I took the deck apart some time ago because it was opressively strong in my local meta and I found the deck too consistent (always searching for the same most powerful dragons lead to the same experience every time).

I'm playtesting Intet, the Dreamer dragon tribal right now.
I am also overhauling Zedruu the Greathearted into a more voltron style deck, the control version was too durdly for my taste.
Lastly I threw together a list of cards that would be sweet with Alesha, Who Smiles at Death, but I went a little overboard and now I'm at 165/100 cards. Now comes the hard part, the culling...

Rishadan Pawnshop is another good effect for saving your dragons from exile.

Larsson really deserved it though. Wasn't sure who to root for. Sigrist sure had the more interesting deck, but I'm happy with this outcome.

Regarding the meta, I agree that red has been strong for a few month now, but green has been dominating since Mono-B and Mono-U rotated out of standard.

Do not start with multiplayer games and do not start with a singleton format. Both immensely increase the complexity of boardstate and represented threats/answers. Start playing with easy to handle 40 or 60 card decks. I have a W/B Exalted deck build exclusively with M13 cards that is very easy to pilot which still has some sweet lines of play. It focuses on attacking and blocking and resource management as basics of the game. I recommend it to anyone trying to introduce players to magic or teach them fundamentals. It has a little of everything represented in a very simple way. You can pick up the entire deck for 15-20 bucks.

Here's a slighgtly improved decklist
Decklist:

Quote from Cadito77 »

Stop the Noise 1WW
Instant

Split Second
Destroy all permanents that effect more than one target. If a permanent affects all permanents, creatures, and/or lands, destroy all cards that share a type with it.

I dont think this works. "affect" is an unused term in magic rulings and only appears in reminder text. The game can only check if something is targeting multiple things, or has the same name as multiple things etc. Besided, your card would be rediculously busted


Grixis Withermage UBR
Creature - Zombie Wizard [R]
t, sacrifice ~ : Counter target white or green spell.
1/1

Plaguebringer Vermin 3B
Creature - Rat [R]
Creatures your opponents control have "At the beginning of the upkeep of this creatures controller, that player loses 1 life."
2/2

Quote from Ulka »

That's an interesting view on it GfireflyE, I agree to a point hat we are getting too many legendary creatures but i have a stipulation in that. We are getting too many legendary creatures without a story. Daretti, scrap savant, all of the Commander set legends actually (minus some of the planeswalkers) have no story to them and I feel that Wizards needs to incorporate them into the story line more like they did with the weatherlight saga but I share your sentiment slightly.

While I agree that having a fleshed out story for each legendary would be nice, I'm glad that Wizards is not forcing themselves to adapt their design for Commander product legendaries to some story, which would be limit design space for mechanics and flavor. Most legendaries in normal sets ARE tied into the story, many of which turn out not to be very good as commanders (Alhammarret, High Arbiter, Dragonlord Kolaghan). In the auxilary products and Commander products I'd much rather have interesting legendaries without much background that are fun to build around than legendaries with designs forced by story.

Wolfish Grin 1RG
Enchantment - Aura [U]
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+0 and has "RG, t: This creature fights target creature you don't control."

Since I got no reply saying otherwise, I will resubmit some names from earlier.
Next:
Left for Dead
The Stars Align
Hanun, the Seven-Sided

Scrap Furnace 2R
Artifact (R)
At the beginning of each players upkeep, that player may sacrifice an artifact.
Artifact spells can't be cast unless an artfact has been sacrificed this turn.
In times of need, even a masterpiece is just a source of spare parts.

Grim Culling 3BB
Scorcery
Destroy all non-black creatures.
Their last alliance is in the grave.

Planeswalkers' Chronicle 1
Artifact
6, sacrifice Planeswalkers' Chronicle: Return target planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand.
"As long as I am not forgotten, I am not truly gone." -Elspeth


Next:
Dreaded Memories
The Stars Align
Cann, Lost but not Forgotten

Question: is it frowned upon to post a name again if it hasn't been chosen before? I'm new to this thread.

Quote from Ixias »

schnerbst didn't provide any names so I'm gonna go with another one of pzolds.

Wow, how did I manage to miss half of the fun?

Pearl-studded Net 1
Artifact - Equipment
Equipped creature gets +1/+0
U, unattach Pearl-studded Net: Tap target creature. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
Equip 3

Next:
Left for Dead
Hanun the Seven-Sided
Hermit Astronomer

Spark of Hatred 1BR
Instant
Spark of Hatred deals 3 damage to target creature. If that creature is put into a graveyard this turn, its controller discards a card.