Well, I have built a few Commander decks over the last couple of years that I joined the format. I am currently trying to make an EDH deck for each mono colour options and each colour pairs.
I try to play a different theme for each of my EDH deck, so for my B/W deck I am considering making a life manipulation deck. I plan to play cards that that have bonus of lifegain on top of what they do like Terashi's Grasp and Fath's Fetters along with life linking creatures such as exalted angel etc. As well as playing a few large life gaining spell such as Beacon of immortality and sorin's vengeance
I plan to spend the life on the usual stuff, using it to draw cards and using spells needing life to work like Kuro and Imp's mischief
My question is I am just not sure a deck like this can work well because life gain is so...bad usually, I was wondering whether anyone has built similar deck that can share their experience with me that would be great, thanks a lot guys.
Black and red non-competitive, never used? you mean besides the GR wolf run, GB Wolf run, Grixis control, UB control, RW Hippoblade? Sure Mono black and Mono red aren't that great, but either are Mono blue or mono white.
haha this is a fun exercise, I remember doing research myself on this because of wanting to make a list of best t2 deck for each format.
One important thing to note is that often a standard format changes with core-set changes, for example in Masque+invasion type 2 they rotated opposition and static orb both together into the format with a core-set making previously unplayable token generators such as spontaneous generation awesome.
I think you are missing a few, if you are just going to have a list of good decks to play at some point in the format
Alara-Zendikar:
-5c Aggro, running bloodbraid elve, boggart ram-gang and cryptic command in the same deck? yes please. The most notable thing about this format was how easy the mana was and there was nothing to punish them, once you see decks supporting GGG, UUU and UURRBBB with only lands to fix them you get the picture. This making noting specific decks difficult as they are merge together cuz everyone is playing the same cards.
Alara-Zendikar
UW Tap out- tbh I am unsure the difference of this and superfriends, I think suprefriends had red and this deck focusing more on using Chalice to power out large mindsprings and martial coup to overpower your opponents
Time Spiral-Lorwyn
Faeries-I believe faeries was actually more dominating in this format than Lorwyn-Alara because you had ancestral visions and there were no fallouts
BG elves-Fast beats backed up by the best green creature ever printed and profane command and 8 manlands made it one of the most consistent aggro deck ever.
GR Ramp- often with a snow sub-theme, this was very popular for the first half of the format and had some top-8s, into the north and search for tomorrow ramping into large men like Siege-gang commander, cloudthresher and chameleon colossus.
Back up with a nice snow-land tool box, skred and the best green ramp spell ever printed harmonize this was a very powerful deck to bring to the table.
Ravnica-Time Spiral:
See the difficulty here is Enduring Ideal was arguably the best deck once Coldsnap was released, also you had Blink as a UWR Land destruction deck.
Kamigawa-Ravnica:
UG Ninja and BR satanic sligh were very good decks that was discovered at the last leg of the format.
I don't think WW was a legitimate deck during this period.
Also Urzatron never played heartbeat of spring, heartbeat of spring was a different deck. As it makes your wildfire not very effective.
Mirrodin-Kamigawa:
Crystal Witness-a UG or sometimes UGb control deck running crystal shard with Eternal Witness.
BG Deathcloud
Mono-blue Tron: This was eventually established as the best deck after affinity bannings because its beats TnT with counterspells and twincast, and Beats all the other decks because of Tron.
Saga-Masques:
Mono white rebels- powered by Cradle!
I heard someone talking about this at FNM but wanted to know if it actually works and if so how exactly does it work.
I was told that when my opponent has Deceiver Exarch cast Spinter Twin onto it, I could respond with Act of Aggresion targeting the exarch, once the act and twin has resolved, I control the exarch with twin on it, then at the end of my opponent's turn, before act of aggresion wears off. I can use the exarch to make infinite copies of the exarch during the end phase and keep those token to attack with for my turn. Is this true?
Honestly I was thinking about making a deck like this, but I couldn't decide fully what is truly Evil.
Although I think Nether Void would be pretty evil in EDH.
After a year of intense playing during Ravnica Block, I played at least 5 hours every day including 4-5 drafts a month. Also managed to qualified for nats for the first time during that period. I didn't realize it at that time, but I went from below average to what I think is a pretty reasonable level currently.
Of course I still got destroyed to the first PT I went to
Yeah, they just released Tsunami warnings in New Zealand where I live, I hope i am still alive tomorrow morning, but I guess I wouldn't mind if I die in my sleep.
Hope to see you all tomorrow morning!
I played Chapin's Tezzeret control list with minor changes main deck (-Mindslaver, -Treasuremage, +Doomblade, +Wurmcoil engine), and major sideboard changes to have fight Caw-blade. Went 4-0 beating Caw-blade, RDW, Quest and Elves.
Hi guys, I have 2 questions:
Q1
I control Wheel of Sun and Moon enchanting the opponent and my opponent controls 2 Exploration . I cast Tranquility, Would the explorations make it into their graveyard or to be place in the bottom of their library.
Q2
I control a Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas and Liquimetal coating. I activate the coating making an island an artifact then turn it into a 5/5 with Tezzeret, what happens at end of the turn?
The sad thing is the city has been experiencing constant earthquakes periodically since last year, unfortunately this one is the most serious one to date.
hope everyone will be ok.
I bought 4 boxes when MBS came out. 2 blightsteel and NO TEZ!! I did notice that I got a ton of Decimator Web and Knowledge Pool. 9 Decimator Web and 11 Knowledge pool in 4 boxes! (Fail)
anyways, so I was kinda pissed about not getting a Tez..but it is just my luck sometimes (I bought 11 boxes of WWK and pulled 1 Jace).
I go to local game store to play FnM, get 1st with my Mono Blk Control deck and get 6 packs. In order: Knowledge pool, Knowledge Pool, Decimator Web, Phyrexian Hydra, Decimator Web, Knowledge Pool. I was like really.. WTF!!
tonight I am at Wal-Mart buying some stuff, so I pick up 2 packs. Guess what:
Knowledge Pool and Decimator Web. I am done buying MBS. I HATE cards like knowledge pool anyways, so I ended up tearing up the knowledge pool and throwing it away. Even if it goes up to $100 each I will be glad to get rid of it. If anyone needs any, there are plenty more
Fail
On the other hand, the probability of opening so many knowledge pools and decimator web are extremely low, so you can be considered extemely lucky in some cases!
Opened 4 mythics out of 12 packs of MBS
1 Tezzeret
1 Glissa
2 Blightsteel Colossus
I try to play a different theme for each of my EDH deck, so for my B/W deck I am considering making a life manipulation deck. I plan to play cards that that have bonus of lifegain on top of what they do like Terashi's Grasp and Fath's Fetters along with life linking creatures such as exalted angel etc. As well as playing a few large life gaining spell such as Beacon of immortality and sorin's vengeance
I plan to spend the life on the usual stuff, using it to draw cards and using spells needing life to work like Kuro and Imp's mischief
My question is I am just not sure a deck like this can work well because life gain is so...bad usually, I was wondering whether anyone has built similar deck that can share their experience with me that would be great, thanks a lot guys.
One important thing to note is that often a standard format changes with core-set changes, for example in Masque+invasion type 2 they rotated opposition and static orb both together into the format with a core-set making previously unplayable token generators such as spontaneous generation awesome.
I think you are missing a few, if you are just going to have a list of good decks to play at some point in the format
Alara-Zendikar:
-5c Aggro, running bloodbraid elve, boggart ram-gang and cryptic command in the same deck? yes please. The most notable thing about this format was how easy the mana was and there was nothing to punish them, once you see decks supporting GGG, UUU and UURRBBB with only lands to fix them you get the picture. This making noting specific decks difficult as they are merge together cuz everyone is playing the same cards.
Alara-Zendikar
UW Tap out- tbh I am unsure the difference of this and superfriends, I think suprefriends had red and this deck focusing more on using Chalice to power out large mindsprings and martial coup to overpower your opponents
Time Spiral-Lorwyn
Faeries-I believe faeries was actually more dominating in this format than Lorwyn-Alara because you had ancestral visions and there were no fallouts
BG elves-Fast beats backed up by the best green creature ever printed and profane command and 8 manlands made it one of the most consistent aggro deck ever.
GR Ramp- often with a snow sub-theme, this was very popular for the first half of the format and had some top-8s, into the north and search for tomorrow ramping into large men like Siege-gang commander, cloudthresher and chameleon colossus.
Back up with a nice snow-land tool box, skred and the best green ramp spell ever printed harmonize this was a very powerful deck to bring to the table.
Ravnica-Time Spiral:
See the difficulty here is Enduring Ideal was arguably the best deck once Coldsnap was released, also you had Blink as a UWR Land destruction deck.
Kamigawa-Ravnica:
UG Ninja and BR satanic sligh were very good decks that was discovered at the last leg of the format.
I don't think WW was a legitimate deck during this period.
Also Urzatron never played heartbeat of spring, heartbeat of spring was a different deck. As it makes your wildfire not very effective.
Mirrodin-Kamigawa:
Crystal Witness-a UG or sometimes UGb control deck running crystal shard with Eternal Witness.
BG Deathcloud
Mono-blue Tron: This was eventually established as the best deck after affinity bannings because its beats TnT with counterspells and twincast, and Beats all the other decks because of Tron.
Saga-Masques:
Mono white rebels- powered by Cradle!
I was told that when my opponent has Deceiver Exarch cast Spinter Twin onto it, I could respond with Act of Aggresion targeting the exarch, once the act and twin has resolved, I control the exarch with twin on it, then at the end of my opponent's turn, before act of aggresion wears off. I can use the exarch to make infinite copies of the exarch during the end phase and keep those token to attack with for my turn. Is this true?
Also its always very impressive to see people play guru lands in large quantities.
Although I think Nether Void would be pretty evil in EDH.
Of course I still got destroyed to the first PT I went to
Hope to see you all tomorrow morning!
Q1
I control Wheel of Sun and Moon enchanting the opponent and my opponent controls 2 Exploration . I cast Tranquility, Would the explorations make it into their graveyard or to be place in the bottom of their library.
Q2
I control a Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas and Liquimetal coating. I activate the coating making an island an artifact then turn it into a 5/5 with Tezzeret, what happens at end of the turn?
thanks for all the help guys.
hope everyone will be ok.
On the other hand, the probability of opening so many knowledge pools and decimator web are extremely low, so you can be considered extemely lucky in some cases!
Opened 4 mythics out of 12 packs of MBS
1 Tezzeret
1 Glissa
2 Blightsteel Colossus