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Commander Deck Reviews / Re: need help to complete my Tatyova, Benthic Druid Land Deck

« on: October 02, 2020, 05:20:32 am »

One idea you could try doing is running chulane, teller of tales as a commander instead. Since you care about the lands you could have a leader for your deck that can also protect creatures and give you even more value on your land drops. If not you could run cards such as biomancer's familiar since it's in your current commander's colors AND it reduces activated abilities.

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General Magic / Re: Zendikar Rising - What did you preorder?

« on: October 02, 2020, 05:10:34 am »

Forsaken Sanctuary is absolutely going in my Karn, Silver Golem deck.

I'm going to find room for Thieving Skydiver and Merfolk Windrobber in my Edric, Spymaster of Trest deck.

Those flip lands are going in active decks of the appropriate colours.

Not much else grabs my attention EDH-wise. Anyway, since the pandemic hit the world, I haven't really played Commander with more than one opponent so my attention has returned to Legacy and Modern.

One thing you could do is add roaring primadox and creatures/enchantments that have a similar effect so that you can keep bouncing the thieving skydiver. It'll be a fun way to mess with your opponent's resources.

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General Magic / Re: Zendikar Rising preview conversation

« on: October 02, 2020, 05:07:08 am »

Fantastic card. Black finally has a 2-drop, fix target enchantment problem. Will pick up as many copies as i can.

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Deck Comments / Re: Mono white sucks - Comments

« on: September 17, 2020, 10:42:52 am »

If i were to run Darien i'd use cards such as Angel's trumpet to deal myself damage and then use soul warden and Daxos, blessed by the sun to recover the life loss done to myself. I would deal incremental damage to myself so that i can build a board state and then go on the offensive with some lifegain to stay in the game. But the more I think on this the more i should add more colors 

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Commander Deck Reviews / Re: Kaalia - looking for opinions and advice

« on: September 17, 2020, 10:30:59 am »

That crush contraband is good. It has more versatility without sacrificing utility. Cost reduction is also a way to go with this deck to make it easier to cast your creatures overall.

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Commander Deck Reviews / Re: Kess

« on: September 16, 2020, 06:53:26 pm »

He's actually pretty old, most people don't really use him much but he is a good utility piece against multiple players. I would say whatever is key to your deck's combos then keep them in the main deck and everything else in the maybe-board. This is how I typically do it.

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Commander Deck Reviews / Re: Kaalia - looking for opinions and advice

« on: September 16, 2020, 06:47:13 pm »

You're not wrong for having your opinion on this. Though he may be rated highly for this one particular tactic he does have much value. For example, if he has skulk with cards such as skeleton key, it'll be difficult for anyone to block him. Or just use key to the city and make him outright unblockable. If you're worried by how slow he is you can always simply add him to a deck that takes multiple combat steps. This way you can hit multiple people and if need be burn them out for damage afterwards for that last one point of damage.

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Commander Deck Reviews / Re: Kess

« on: September 16, 2020, 06:08:46 am »

You could add circu, dimir lobotomist to your deck if you're running the dramatic reversal combo. You can infinite cast the dramatic reversal spell and exile everyone's libraries. if you're playing against decks that have similar win cons you;ll have a pretty nasty shutdown against multiple decks.

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Deck Comments / Re: Mono white sucks - Comments

« on: September 16, 2020, 04:38:38 am »

Being objective on the topic, mono-white does not have as strong resources as the other colors. But if done right (as i've seen playing against an Avacyn build) mono-white can be very oppressive. I'm really considering running a Darien, King of Kjeldor but i'm tempted to try my hands at running Archangel Avacyn as a commander.

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Deck Comments / Re: Pako Haldan EDH Deck - Comments

« on: September 16, 2020, 04:29:13 am »

You could add extra combat spells and bear umbra on your creatures. This way you can constantly cast spells during your combat while attacking.

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Commander Deck Reviews / Re: Kess

« on: September 16, 2020, 04:26:55 am »

I've seen quite a few kess decks lately and i'm working on the build for my own kess deck as well. Is the Thassa's oracle combo the only win condition for this deck? I ask because my deck build isn't really cEDH level (it's grixis madness using Anje Falkenrath) but i do have a crackling drake which is a body that gives card draw. Do you have any direct kill spells?

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General Magic / Re: Zendikar Rising - What did you preorder?

« on: September 16, 2020, 04:19:18 am »

I haven't pre-ordered anything from this set cause i'm doing spot improvements on my decks before buying the full set if possible. Looking at some of the cards coming out what do ya'll believe will be the high value cards in this set that may be overlooked?

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Commander Deck Reviews / Re: Kaalia - looking for opinions and advice

« on: September 16, 2020, 04:12:33 am »

I too play a Kaalia, zenith seeker commander deck. I haven't played a lot with it, but in my experience you should resist the temptation to put all the powerfull but expensive (in CMC) angels, demons and dragons in your deck.

The advice above to put some flicker effects in the deck is also a suggestion I would make. And just add more cheap creatures (in CMC) in the deck. Ik know most of the good ones aren't cheap (in €'s or $'s) but you have to have al lot of them to get the deck going. I still find it hard to cast all of the creatures in my deck with an average CMC of 3,98. Your deck has an average CMC of 4,48 (and the deck from G. Moto has an even higher CMC). I think you'll have to add at least two lands, Mardu isn't known for it's ramp options other than manarocks. I still find creatures that I cannot play immediately, but it plays much smoother now that I lowered the the CMC.

Here's my deck, maybe you'll find some other usefull ideas in it.
https://deckstats.net/decks/104951/1441033-kaalias-flying-friends#show__stats

That is a fair assessment of my deck build. The idea was to use the commander to get them in my hand quickly, then use discard tactics to recur the high drop creatures from the graveyard for a lower cost. In my play group pod i'm known as "The King of Recursion" so it's a title i aim to maintain 

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Commander Deck Reviews / Re: Kaalia - looking for opinions and advice

« on: September 15, 2020, 08:41:11 am »

I also have a Kaalia, Zenith Seeker deck and i know how it feels to wanna stick to one creature type with the deck. Unfortunately unlike the older version of Kaalia you do need to have a somewhat even spread. I can post a link of my current build if you wanna get some ideas. It's still a work in progress but it can hold its own on the battlefield.

https://deckstats.net/decks/24826/1718193-kaalia-zenith-seeker 

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Commander Deck Reviews / Re: Vialent Ogre Smasher

« on: September 15, 2020, 08:27:44 am »

Then let that directed chaos commence then!!!