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Commander Deck Reviews / fine tuning "Profit from Problems"

« on: May 25, 2023, 03:40:00 pm »

This deck is the result of me taking one commander/background combo and running with it... It may not be the most sound, but I thought I'd share what I pulled off (maybe bounce a few ideas for possible changes while I'm at it.)

https://deckstats.net/decks/201325/3060032-profit-from-problems/en

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Deck Comments / Re: Profit from Problems - Comments

« on: May 24, 2023, 08:38:38 pm »

Additionally, I added Swiftfoot Boots

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Deck Comments / Re: Profit from Problems - Comments

« on: May 24, 2023, 08:37:30 pm »

Replaced the tutor cards with more draw/discard (since they sorta defeat the purpose of the draw/discard synergy)

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Deck Comments / Re: Profit from Problems - Comments

« on: May 24, 2023, 07:21:27 pm »

Rework: Removed Asphyxiate and Assassinate, replaced with Raise Dead and Living Death.

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Deck Comments / Re: Profit from Problems - Comments

« on: May 24, 2023, 03:14:10 pm »

You know, my old mentor said I would find myself taking a preference to Rakdos, and up until this commander... I didn't think I'd find a commander that felt like I'd enjoy using it (aside from Anje Falkenrath, who was one of my first cases of playing commander)

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Deck Comments / Re: No Color, No Problem - Comments

« on: May 23, 2023, 01:33:13 pm »

good point, that's now part of it (replacing desert)

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Deck Comments / Re: No Color, No Problem - Comments

« on: May 22, 2023, 09:06:36 pm »

from what I have heard, Colorless works as a commanders color (I don't have command tower since there are more lands that give basic mana for more interesting results)

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Deck Comments / Re: How many Mondraks would a Mondrak Mondrak if a Mondrak could Mondrak Mondraks? - Comments

« on: May 18, 2023, 02:42:22 am »

They would Mondrak as many Mondraks that a Mondrak could if a Mondrak could Mondrak Mondraks.

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Commander Discussion / Re: Any good Azorius commanders for this Mondrak combo?

« on: May 17, 2023, 05:00:44 pm »

actually, a 3 color might be the best thing to shoot for, just not sure if I should play it safe with green or black, or just turn this into a full-on Jeskai token deck that abuses Mondrak, Glory Dominus, Vesuvan Duplimancy, and Zada, Hedron Grinder to effectively make my boardstate explode

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Commander Discussion / Any good Azorius commanders for this Mondrak combo?

« on: May 17, 2023, 04:17:29 pm »

I found out about (well, was told about by the person who introduced me into magic when I pulled that card from a pack) a synergy between Mondrak, Glory Dominus and Vesuvan Duplimancy that could allow you to Make exponentially increasing amounts of Mondrak copies. right now I'm thinking of using Kwain, Itinerant Meddler since it won't matter if my enemies draw cards and gain life if they have to deal with 30-50 Mondraks in a single attack phase... but are there other White/Blue commanders that can help me get this synergy up and running ASAP?

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General Magic / What would a WUBRG Praetor be like?

« on: May 15, 2023, 02:55:22 pm »

Having seen the events of March of the Machines I had this idea of something or someone puts bits and pieces of former Praetors into a single construct (one that can lead all layers of Phyrexia) the first thing that came to mind is that it would use gold (rather than the bone and molten materials most other Phyrexian body types that identify a color)

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Commander Discussion / Eldrazi Endless Card Advantage Synergy(?)

« on: May 12, 2023, 02:58:09 pm »

I was looking through the many cards that exist in MTG, and found myself looking at Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre and Kozilek, Butcher of Truth...

What sort of self mill commander might be best to run these two in? (Self mill was the first thing that came to mind, but anything that has to do with drawing cards might be more worthwhile)

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Commander Deck Reviews / Re: So I made an Athreos deck! any pointers?

« on: May 08, 2023, 12:11:11 am »

Aren't you playing with too many Lands? 42 is quite a lot. You don't have mana value more than 4 and even only 1 card costs 5. Why don't you lower them to 35 or 36 at upmost?

Habitual, when making a deck I (for better or for worse) go for a 45 land (including the tower) setup with even color distribution, I really should get around to fine tuning the mana count with my decks...

I'm just curious, how much do you have mana problems? I'm sure with that many lands you have no problem hitting your land drops, but how often do you find yourself not having the right colors? Looking at this deck, the mana sources are basically a 50/50 split but your deck is almost 70% black.

A part of it is that I set the mana in advance (a 50/50 split that I can later adjust with time)

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Commander Deck Reviews / Re: So I made an Athreos deck! any pointers?

« on: May 05, 2023, 05:52:18 pm »

Aren't you playing with too many Lands? 42 is quite a lot. You don't have mana value more than 4 and even only 1 card costs 5. Why don't you lower them to 35 or 36 at upmost?

Habitual, when making a deck I (for better or for worse) go for a 45 land (including the tower) setup with even color distribution, I really should get around to fine tuning the mana count with my decks...

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Commander Deck Reviews / So I made an Athreos deck! any pointers?

« on: May 05, 2023, 03:53:49 pm »

I made a deck using Athreos, God of Passage a while back as simply a test to see how I might make use of the commander's ability...

I was going to swap out Cranial Archive for Kozilek, Butcher of Truth but realised I may not know what would work well with this commander, that I might have just been throwing cards that seemed to work in favor of the ability into the same general group...

so I turn to you folks to see how I might be able to improve upon this deck (I can already tell the list might be pretty extensive too)

so here's the Athreos deck for you people (who I know understand this game more than me by leaps and bounds) to look over https://deckstats.net/decks/201325/3015530-here-lies-athreos