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And through your help I have turned so many janky dreams into real decks
Thank you everyone :'(
It's not the commander that does the damage it is the Stony Silence and Rest in Peace and other ongoing control elements. Because my deck is adept at giving Ojutai vigilance I have Meekstone and blind obedience to keep my opponent's larger creatures down. It is not stax I don't interact with peoples lands. It is actually a bit of super friends/Teferi Tribal deck due to the tension between board wiping to kill Ojutai and keeping creatures to kill my walkers sets up a nice catch 22 for my opponents.
Its goal is simple to force you to play fair and keep opponents held down long enough to beat you to death with Ojutai.
People find it very frustrating to play against so I don't pull it out often, but that is partially because it can't win in the 50 min rounds at my LGS anyway.
This is how it currently is.
1 Ornithopter
1 Arcbound Worker
1 Gingerbrute
1 Iron Apprentice
1 Signal Pest
1 Arcbound Stinger
1 Containment Construct
1 Monoskelion
1 Myr Retriever
1 Patchwork Automaton
1 Perilous Myr
1 Vault Skirge
1 Chief of the Foundry
1 Circuit Mender
1 Foundry Inspector
1 Porcelain Legionnaire
1 Shambling Suit
1 Skyscanner
1 Snare Thopter
1 Towashi Guide-Bot
1 Bonesplitter
1 Flayer Husk
1 Trusty Machete
1 Cranial Plating
1 High-Speed Hoverbike
1 Grafted Wargear
1 Oketra's Monument
1 Renegade Freighter
1 Untethered Express
1 Thraben Inspector
1 Knighted Myr
1 Visionary Augmentor
1 Barbed Spike
1 Imperial Recovery Unit
1 Acquisition Octopus
1 Whirler Rogue
What I want from the Artifact aggro deck is the flexibility to be any colour.
So White has ways to make artifact tokens and cast equipment cheaper. Blue improves evasion and draws cards. Black has sac outlets and instant speed plating. Red has aggro cards. Green has +1/+1 counters.
Mnemonic Sphere
Mirrorshell Crab
and
Otawara, Soaring City
→ Condemn > Imperial Recovery Unit
→ Oblivion Ring > Touch the Spirit Realm
→ Sage of Fables > Acquisition Octopus
→ Skyship Plunderer > Mirrorshell Crab
→ Unearth > Dockside Chef
→ Nantuko Husk > Gravelighter
→ Voltaic Visionary > Akki Ember-Keeper
→ Stoke the Flames > Rabbit Battery
→ Ghitu Lavarunner > Reinforced Ronin
→ Goblin Heelcutter > Twinshot Sniper
→ Herd Baloth > Blossom Prancer
→ Krosan Tusker > Greater Tanuki
→ Song of Freyalise > Roaring Earth
→ Sharktocrab > Colossal Skyturtle
→ Rhythim of the wild > Invigorating Hot Spring
→ Filigree Familiar > Circuit Mender
→ Lightning Greaves > Containment Construct
→ Spined Thopter > High-Speed Hoverbike
→ Chronomaton > Iron Apprentice
→ Bloodline Pretender > Patchwork Automaton
→ Treasure Keeper > Towashi Guide-Bot
→ Cryptic Caves > Roadside Reliquary
→ Tezzeret's Gambit > Behold the Multiverse
Tell me if something is an egregious mistake, I am not sure about the Heelcutter vs my other 4 drops or basically swapping lighting greaves for rabbit battery. I am going the opposite way to everyone else and just trying the tanuki over tusker.
In:
Imperial Recovering Unit
Touch the spirit Realm
Acquisition Octopus
Mirrorshell Crab
Dockside Chef
Gravelighter
Akki Ember-Keeper
Rabbit Battery
Reinforced Ronin
Twinshot Sniper
Blossom Prancer
Greater Tanuki
Roaring Earth
Colossal Skyturtle
Invigorating Hot Springs
Circut Mender
Containment Construct
High-Speed Hoverbike
Iron Apprentice
Patchwork Automation
Roadside Reliquary
I have a Modern peasant cube so unfortunately, Malcolm isn't legal. Annoyingly most of my small evasive creatures are pirates rather than rogues or ninjas probably not but as a card it is nice. I was considering is removing +1/+1 counter support from blue and moving in some more rouges.
Speaking of rouges how does Acquisition Octopus compare with Jhessian Thief. I feel like the ability to equip this to a flyer is really good.
4 mana is a little steep but Towashi Guide-Bot recurring card draw is nice, particularly with arcbound.
Prosperous Thief it seems good on its own actually
I would have preferred it was legendary permanent you control and not creature, This will be very annoying with ragavan in the format. Golos tron?
in search of greatness
Peerless Samurai seems good in specifically Red mid-range which is a hard deck to get to work, even if it clashes with reds overall ethos.
Akki Ember-Keeper is really good in the GR +1/+1 counter deck, it is also importantly a warrior.
I also kind of like some of the equipment creatures, including Leech gauntlet.
Twinshot Sniper is reasonably good I will consider it.
Your opponent gets lucky opens with swamp, sol ring arcane signet (which happened twice last week at commander night) everyone else just plays their first land and passes, they swamp into Braids, Cabal Minion.. they win the game. Without trying to be mean at all.
Emrakul is a 2 hit commander that gives you an extra turn in which to do it.
Golos was literally just banned, easy ramp, grabbing utility lands removing 5 colour deck building creativity.
I think there are many ways you can accidentally a game with Panoptic Mirror even if you weren't trying but it is certainly not the most powerful card on the ban list.
The issue with recurring nightmare is finding a way to destroy it since any attempt to gets it bounced to hand. Just impossible to interact with.
I played commander when sylvan primordial was legal, it was a nightmare, firstly it's not a may so you have to ruin someone's day but the big issue is just how far ahead of everyone else it puts you. Have you been on the receiving end of Entomb, Exhume, Sylvan Primordial? Most people don't want turn 2 wins.
Primetime has similar issues as Golos but the frequency of Primetime into Cabal Coffers + Urbog was boring.
But your unban choices are not okay, other than maybe just Sway of the stars
Tergrid, God of Fright actually already got banned at my LGS so I guess that is a ban option if anything
Lurrus is the current favourite for bans.
I honestly want Ragavan to be banned as well.
Opinions?