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Deck Comments / Re: Orvar Attack of the Clones - Comments

« on: January 09, 2023, 07:18:35 pm »

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Deck Comments / Re: Dynaheir, Invoker Adept Ideas - Comments

« on: May 20, 2022, 08:16:22 pm »

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Commander Deck Reviews / Re: Help with Nekusar EDH budget upgrades

« on: September 18, 2020, 06:38:06 pm »

I agree Expedition Map is unnecessary, but Chromatic Lantern is a nice addition. I think Thran Dynamo gets significantly worse the more colors you add. 3 is borderline, and I would struggle to ever justify it in 4+. It's also significantly worse in budget builds because color-fixing is already a bit of an issue.

1. Yeah I definitely think discard matters cards can work almost as well since a lot of the focus is on wheeling. You might want to shift slightly away from extra draw spells and just focus more on wheels if you do that though. Up to you really.

2. I have a Vial Smasher/Kydele list on my profile (https://deckstats.net/decks/79092/1535222-vial-smasher-s-training-wheels) and it has a wheel theme so that's similar to what you could expect from shifting to Yidris. It might even be a better option because Kydele benefits greatly from wheels and Vial Smasher is just nice for extra damage. But again that's up to your preference. My list is pretty budget friendly so it might be helpful to you if you want to go that route. The land base is super budget for a four-color deck but it usually worked well enough for me (granted I have a pretty casual playgroup). But if you wanted to spend a bit more, some nicer lands certainly wouldn't hurt. Bear in mind I also ran a fair bit of synergy for Vial Smasher (casting big spells and a lot of instant speed stuff so I can cast spells every turn). I have it separated into sections though so you can pretty well tell what main purpose each card serves. You could also definitely run Nekusar in the deck, I just didn't have one to put in mine.

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Commander Deck Reviews / Re: Help with Nekusar EDH budget upgrades

« on: September 17, 2020, 06:44:59 pm »

Cool deck! Nekusar's a fun dude, although your friends might find him a bit painful 

First off I see you're running a lot of taplands. This is a common mistake for budget decks. You have two options here depending on your budget. First, you could look into some cheap dual lands that have the potential to enter untapped (check lands, battle lands, reveal lands, pain lands). If this is outside your budget I'd recommend replacing at least a few taplands with just basics (specifically remove ones that don't do anything useful, like guildgates). This will allow you to not be constantly a turn behind on mana. I also don't think the Blighted lands are worth running. The effects aren't that great, and since you're in a budget build you need to focus on lands that give colors. Also on this note, Temple of the False God is probably worth cutting. It's good for decks that can ensure the 5 land requirement quickly, but being outside of green makes that difficult. So since it can be a dead land early and even once it's active it doesn't provide colors, I'd suggest cutting it.

Second, your ramp package is curved a bit high. I'd recommend replacing your more expensive rocks (Dreamstone Hedron, Hedron Archive, Darksteel Ingot, Commander's Sphere) with ones that cost 2 or less (Talismans, Signets, Wayfarer's Bauble). This will make you get things going a bit faster with early ramp.

Third, some of your removal options are a bit underwhelming. Final Death costs too much, and you have a lot of better options in your colors (Reality Shift, Pongify, Terminate, Crosis's Charm, Bedevil, Drown in the Loch). I'm not a huge fan of Rewind either, except in decks that can specifically abuse it. Arcane Denial is a great counter for Nekusar. However I like the usage of return to hand removal in combination with wheel effects. Very nice synergy.

Overall you have a pretty nice amount of wheel effects, extra draw effects, and punishment effects. There a few more you could add in if you want (Jace's Archivist, Whispering Madness, Megrim, Liliana's Caress, Dictate of Kruphix, Prosperity, Molten Psyche, Temple Bell)

Generally the deck looks pretty good and I think fixing the land base and ramp package would have the biggest impacts on making it play more reliably. One optional thing you could do is incorporate some more recursion effects since you'll be wheeling a lot of stuff into the graveyard. Either creature recursion or spell recursion (Spelltwine, Volcanic Vision) could be nice.

Good luck!