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Deck Reviews / [EDH/Commander] Anya, Merciless Angel Combo Deck

« on: December 22, 2015, 03:38:31 pm »

Hey everyone,

I'm looking for some help on my Anya deck here:http://deckstats.net/decks/33863/384971-anya-comboros/en. Since boros is sort of, well, the absolute worst color combo to make a creature-based combo deck out of, I'm hoping for any advice I can get on it. It's different from how I usually play, so before I go in too deep with the financial cost of this deck I want to make sure I have it right. Any and all advice is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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General Magic / Mortiphobia Card Review

« on: August 12, 2015, 11:02:44 pm »

So, I'm working on a Damia, Sage of Stone commander deck. The deck uses a lot of looter effects and some graveyard shenanigans, so I get great value out of cards like Bonehoard and Nighthowler. Like all commander decks, it will need some graveyard hate (so other players can't do what I'm doing of course). In my searches I stumbled upon Mortiphobia.

At first glance, this doesn't look like a card I'd put into my eternal format deck. However, the more I thought about the card, I saw some pluses that might actually make the card a good decision for sultai/golgari/etc decks that want to capitalize on graveyard shenanigans. I thought it might be worth sharing the card and why I think it's a good/bad fit for commander, and seeing what other people thought of the card.

Reasons to put it in:
-It allows me to discard cards that I want to discard like Wonder or Big Game Hunter while still benefiting me by exiling a problem spell
-As an enchantment, it is the 'safest' permanent type, where artifacts and creatures like Deathrite Shaman will just be eaten by wipes
-By targeting one card to remove from the graveyard, I can get rid of problem cards in opponents graveyards without exiling a huge supply of power for Bonehoard or Nighthowler (I don't mind them having a Farhaven Elf in the graveyard, but Time Stretch with Dralnu, Lich Lord in the battlefield is a different story)

Reasons to NOT put it in:
-I constantly have to invest my resources (mana and cards) to keep other decks in check instead of Nihil Spellbomb and be done with it
-As an enchantment, people will play around it until they have an answer, and once it's off the board they'll have their ammo ready when I just lost my solution
-It loses a lot of value if there's no players using the graveyard as a resource, where a cantrip can at least draw me a card if nobody else is using the graveyard

It isn't a card I've seen before, so I thought some discussion around it might be nice. I think that it's not an auto-include in black decks, but with sultai or glogari decks where you want lots of cards in lots of graveyards, it's a good solid card to include. What do some of my fellow players think of this card?