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I am interested in finding a new commander with 1-3 colors with the following criteria: 1) the "primary" color is blue 2) there is decent card draw 3) there is a good amount of counterspells/counterplay in the deck 4) opponents feel somewhat discouraged from attacking / casting spells on my commander or other permanents 5) there is sort of a clear win condition or multiple win conditions The folks I play with tend to play fairly "strong" decks but it is nowhere near cEDH. Any strong feelings re: who I should take a look at? edit: budget is irrelevant -- this is going to be 100% proxied
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Got put in a three-man pod today and I clapped some cheeks with my Shanna, Purifying Blade. Got wrathed like four times, but I still lasered someone's face off with Aetherflux Reservoir
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Mar 5, 2023 05:26
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Batterypowered7 posted:Watched your Myr video and I've gotta say, I'm feeling more handsome already. Doing my best to turn people into Chads each week
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Mar 5, 2023 06:56
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Batterypowered7 posted:Got put in a three-man pod today and I clapped some cheeks with my Shanna, Purifying Blade. Got wrathed like four times, but I still lasered someone's face off with Aetherflux Reservoir this seems like it might be a commander that actually fits my request one post up. mind sharing the deck list?
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Mar 5, 2023 07:18
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1024x768 posted:this seems like it might be a commander that actually fits my request one post up. mind sharing the deck list? https://www.moxfield.com/decks/OQ9jG2qzOkGHu91Qsg1EXg Can't remember what YouTube channel's video I watched, but I modified the original list some. It's a pretty casual deck, though. Noxious Revival and Regrowth should be more impactful spells, should probably have Ballista in it, etc.
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Mar 5, 2023 07:45
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Batterypowered7 posted:UPS handed mine off to USPS so now I gotta wait for that ;_; That's some sexy deckbox you got there.
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Mar 5, 2023 09:49
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I came up with this so far as a janky 1/1 counter deck. It feels like it's missing some interaction but I don't really want to cut creatures for more spells. I probably went a bit too hard on ramp though. https://www.moxfield.com/decks/OTaWCiULOUa2KvH1BOSTVw
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Mar 5, 2023 14:39
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Solis posted:I came up with this so far as a janky 1/1 counter deck. It feels like it's missing some interaction but I don't really want to cut creatures for more spells. I probably went a bit too hard on ramp though. This might sound crazy since you have a good ramp package, but is 35 lands enough? I’m also not a big Chromatic Lantern person, if you’re ramp is good enough it should’ve be necessary.
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Mar 5, 2023 15:55
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Solis posted:I came up with this so far as a janky 1/1 counter deck. It feels like it's missing some interaction but I don't really want to cut creatures for more spells. I probably went a bit too hard on ramp though. Why are you playing Reliquary Tower when casting Atraxa requires WUBG?
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Mar 5, 2023 16:44
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disaster pastor posted:Why are you playing Reliquary Tower
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Mar 5, 2023 16:48
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1024x768 posted:I am interested in finding a new commander with 1-3 colors with the following criteria: Chulane, since the deck you described is basically "poo poo I was gonna do anyway.dec" and that's chulane's whole MO
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Mar 5, 2023 20:30
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 Lol that there was a point in time when players were asking for Eternal Witness to be banned in Commander.
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Mar 5, 2023 23:27
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Anyone got photos of foil proxies from MPC? I'm thinking about ordering a few and remembered people complained they were a bit dark.
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Mar 7, 2023 22:03
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Batterypowered7 posted:
Riftsweeper tho? In what reality was that a problem card?
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Mar 8, 2023 00:22
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Framboise posted:Riftsweeper tho? Yes. Because there was no command zone and commanders existed in exile, so you could just yank your opponents commander into their graveyard before they could cast them.
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Mar 8, 2023 00:25
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Bear in mind whenever looking at historical EDH stuff before 2013 or so, that the rules were a hosed-up nightmare hellscape and barely worked, so nothing is going to make sense without the context of the exact variant being played at any given moment.
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Mar 8, 2023 00:26
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Toshimo posted:Yes. Because there was no command zone and commanders existed in exile, so you could just yank your opponents commander into their graveyard before they could cast them. lmao that rules. It's like Drannith Magistrate, with more "gently caress you in particular".
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Mar 8, 2023 00:30
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Toshimo posted:Yes. Because there was no command zone and commanders existed in exile, so you could just yank your opponents commander into their graveyard before they could cast them. * tucks your Commander with Spin into Myth/Hinder/Spell Crumple *
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Mar 8, 2023 00:38
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Framboise posted:lmao that rules. It's like Drannith Magistrate, with more "gently caress you in particular". I swear I made a roon deck whose whole point was just yeet your commander into exile forever (countering the trigger usually) but I can't find it.
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Mar 8, 2023 00:38
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Batterypowered7 posted:* tucks your Commander with Spin into Myth/Hinder/Spell Crumple * This was so incredibly bizarre because Hinder was an extremely salt-inducing thing and terrible for the format but WotC just went ahead and made Spell Crumple exclusively in a commander product for no good reason and it was, in part, what led to the tuck rule getting changed. Just an amazing own goal there.
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Mar 8, 2023 00:43
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Toshimo posted:This was so incredibly bizarre because Hinder was an extremely salt-inducing thing and terrible for the format but WotC just went ahead and made Spell Crumple exclusively in a commander product for no good reason and it was, in part, what led to the tuck rule getting changed. Just an amazing own goal there. I legit had to go back and check what Spell Crumple did because I thought to myself, "That had to only hit non-creature spells, right? No way they printed a second Hinder for no loving reason." But lo and behold, lmao E: Pretty sure I hit Sheldon with a Spin into Myth + Tunnel Vision at least once when I started playing EDH. Batterypowered7 fucked around with this message at 00:55 on Mar 8, 2023 |
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Mar 8, 2023 00:46
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Spell Crumple is extremely funny and I don't think it's been played by anyone outside of an intact precon for like five years.
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Mar 8, 2023 05:09
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I have it in my Zedru deck. Sometimes you want to counter a spell that your opponent is recurring and stop seeing it any more. It's not great.
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Mar 8, 2023 07:21
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I normally don’t buy any premium priced Magic stuff, but I do like opening packs and usually get a box of set boosters for any regularly priced set. Commander Masters seemed like a fun set though, so I was considering breaking my rule if it was anywhere up to double what I normally spend on a set. Preorders just became available, and it’s just over four times the price of a regular set. Probably not even going to make a singles order because of that. Completely killed any interest I had in it.
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Mar 8, 2023 11:53
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Yeah I'll draft it when it comes around for sure but I'm not cracking set booster packs at $500/box, that's insane.
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Mar 8, 2023 13:48
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The precons are $85, which is what I guessed they would be when they were revealed. I probably won't be engaging with this one despite really liking Commander. I wonder if it will even move secondary market prices at all.
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Mar 8, 2023 13:58
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Serf posted:The precons are $85, which is what I guessed they would be when they were revealed. I probably won't be engaging with this one despite really liking Commander. I wonder if it will even move secondary market prices at all. The Enchantments precon is listed at $66 on Amazon for some reason, lol.
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Mar 8, 2023 15:40
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Batterypowered7 posted:The Enchantments precon is listed at $66 on Amazon for some reason, lol. Well it is Abzan Since the precons are gonna have 10 new cards each (for some reason) I reckon there's a higher chance of them printing something busted in there that's worth grabbing along with pushed reprints. Like they'll probably include the Commander free spell cycle or something.
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Mar 8, 2023 15:51
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No one really knows and people are speculating ridiculously hard. I'm just gonna wait and buy into the dip. Unless there's anything insanely great in the precons, I dunno if I'll buy any of them at that price. I'm most interested to see how that Eldrazi deck looks. What could a colorless precon look like? It's never happened before.
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Mar 8, 2023 16:16
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Framboise posted:No one really knows and people are speculating ridiculously hard. Reliquary Tower and Temple of the False God in the 99! E: Also Myriad Landscape because they forgot it can't fetch Wastes.
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Mar 8, 2023 16:41
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Considered the picking the Eldrazi since it will probably have many of the parts of a colorless deck I want to build eventually. Hesitating bc the prices and I don't really like the Eldrazi that much, maybe since I wasn't playing and only vaguely get them but idk, not a theme to excite me on its own. Really probably more an issue with trying to make a deck with the not-colors. Eldrazi just a little bit too built-to-purpose. Also I didn't get the joke earlier about Abzan. That's my favourite of the three-color groups, just has my 3 favourite colours so ez choice. It does seem to have the smallest selection of commanders though. Most options are actually just dependant and the class background cards.
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Mar 8, 2023 17:19
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A couple of weeks ago I spilled a drink and it got on two (thankfully bulk) real magic cards and a small stack of MPC proxies. The real cards blistered and cracked around the edges. The proxies were completely fine after being wiped clean and you'd never tell anything happened to them. Not only does proxying free me from concerns about WotC's terrible pricing and reprint policies, it also turns out I get a superior product. $500 for a booster box lol
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Mar 8, 2023 18:00
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A friend gifted me a foil, Phyrexian text Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines, so I guess I gotta go ahead and put together the deck now.
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Mar 8, 2023 18:51
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Batterypowered7 posted:A friend gifted me a foil, Phyrexian text Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines, so I guess I gotta go ahead and put together the deck now. Don't do it you'll break the format.
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Mar 8, 2023 19:02
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If you're going to do mono white flicker etb stuff, I think Preston is a better commander with Elesh Norn in the 99 but on the other hand how can you not have that copy of the card front and centre
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MrL_JaKiri posted:If you're going to do mono white flicker etb stuff, I think Preston is a better commander with Elesh Norn in the 99 but on the other hand how can you not have that copy of the card front and centre Preston's instead in the 99. The order of foil proxies included Preston and a few other cards that either don't have foils (Pearl Medallion, Distinguished Conjurer, Blasted Landscape, etc) or were just very expensive in foil (Suture Priest, Fellwar Stone, Cloudstone Curio, etc). pseudanonymous posted:Don't do it you'll break the format. I just won't play against Sheldon. I legitimately think he'd ban it if someone made him have a bad game with it.
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Mar 8, 2023 19:12
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Batterypowered7 posted:I just won't play against Sheldon. I legitimately think he'd ban it if someone made him have a bad game with it. I'm gonna go to a commandfest and play a deck that puts Ensoul Artifact on a Sol Ring and beat him to death with it.
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I like Preston in the CZ because while he's less powerful on his own, it means you can put in token support like Mondrak and things get nutsBatterypowered7 posted:I just won't play against Sheldon. I legitimately think he'd ban it if someone made him have a bad game with it. I'm pretty sure he'd have banned it anyway by now if it was up to him, but it's not MrL_JaKiri fucked around with this message at 19:48 on Mar 8, 2023 |
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I do like Preston in the CZ a lot because it's nice to have one half of the combo with Felidar Guardian at the ready, but it's like you said, I wanna showcase Norn.
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Batterypowered7 posted:Also Myriad Landscape because they forgot it can't fetch Wastes. wait what, aren't they basics?
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