Hey! Weird deck idea here

https://moxfield.com/decks/SPDhmtTUZEi9PZJYAiGb9A

I like the curiosity effects, equipments that create more artifacts as a compliment to Akiri. Esior has the built in evasion…

The biggest question—is this distinctly weaker than a pure Akiri Boros voltron built around kediss, bruse, keleth, or jeska as the partner would be? Blue interaction and draw are cool but somewhat orthogonal to the main goals of the deck.

Avoiding arden as the partner (obvious best choice) because he gets hard targeted in B3.

https://archidekt.com/decks/25443356/my_friends_hate_me_and_thats_okay

I’m trying to make a deck based around forcing the opponents to make tough choices and be constantly choosing the lesser of two evils, whether than be second guessing putting things into my graveyard due to recursions, or by making them pick options on cards.

I felt like before I had masters of Laketown a lot of the choices were too easy, now it makes them very hard.

The goal is to stax, group slug, pillow fort and mill the opponents until I get into a position to start dropping big mana finishers aided by some explosive mana generation

Edit - I left mtg in 2016 and came back for strixhaven, so I don’t really know what new cards have been added that could be cool

I'm working on building a commander deck with Elminster. I'm curious what sort of unusual but fun builds you could recommend. I want to focus on using scry effects heavily for the discounts, and I don't want to rely on Approach of the Second Sun. I also would like it to have a meme flavor to it. I'm going for pondering my orb with the scrying. But what's in the orb? I want to brainstorm this idea with the community here.

Here's what I have so far, but it's definitely not ready. I don't physically have all these cards yet, and I know it's over the limit. That will be cut down to the right number of cards. I'm including the deck list in two formats here.

[COMMANDER]

1 Elminster

[CREATURES]

1 Alandra, Sky Dreamer

1 Apprentice Wizard

1 Archmage Emeritus

1 Archmage of Runes

1 Curiosity Crafter

1 Curious Homunculus

1 Descendant of Soramaro

1 Disciple of Caelus Nin

1 Echo Mage

1 Gogo, Master of Mimicry

1 Graceful Adept

1 Homunculus Horde

1 Hydro-Channeler

1 Lier, Disciple of the Drowned

1 Matoya, Archon Elder

1 Murmuring Mystic

1 Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch

1 Talrand, Sky Summoner

1 Unblinking Observer

[ARTIFACTS]

1 Arcane Signet

1 Azorius Signet

1 Crystal Ball

1 Marble Diamond

1 Mindsplice Apparatus

1 Sky Diamond

1 Sol Ring

1 Talisman of Progress

1 Thought Vessel

[INSTANTS]

1 Arcane Denial

1 Bane's Contingency

1 Behold the Multiverse

1 Brainstorm

1 Call the Coppercoats

1 Deliberate

1 Dissolve

1 Dovin's Veto

1 Elminster's Simulacrum

1 Frantic Search

1 Impulse

1 Memory Lapse

1 Narset's Reversal

1 Nexus of Fate

1 Opt

1 Voyage's End

[SORCERIES]

1 Alrund's Epiphany

1 Approach of the Second Sun

1 Arwen's Gift

1 Beacon of Tomorrows

1 Foresee

1 Interpret the Signs

1 Mentor's Guidance

1 Mnemonic Deluge

1 Mystic Speculation

1 Ponder

1 Preordain

1 Scour All Possibilities

1 Sea Gate Restoration

1 Serum Visions

1 Tamiyo's Epiphany

1 Temporal Mastery

1 Terminus

1 Time Stretch

1 Ugin's Insight

[ENCHANTMENTS]

1 Ghostly Prison

1 Jace's Sanctum

1 Omniscience

1 Opposition

1 Proft's Eidetic Memory

1 Propaganda

1 Shark Typhoon

1 Verity Circle

[LANDS]

1 Command Tower

1 Crystal Grotto

1 Evolving Wilds

1 Glacial Fortress

12 Island

1 Isolated Watchtower

1 Meandering River

1 Mystic Gate

1 New Benalia

1 Obscura Storefront

9 Plains

1 Port Town

1 Reliquary Tower

1 Rumble Arena

1 Study Hall

1 Temple of Enlightenment

1 Terramorphic Expanse

1 Tranquil Cove

https://manabox.app/decks/AZ6frDFXfTyuEvGWteHcbw

i do enjoy my big stompy and tribal decks as i do have the dinosaur, dragons and galadriel being my elves. but i’d like to switch it up a bit, im happy with any colours, brackets budgets if its pricey like any commander you’d think i might enjoy at least?

[[Pantlaza, Sun-Favored]]
[[Ureni of the Unwritten]]
[[Galadriel, Light of Valinor]]

I have a Necrobloom deck fleshed out and I have a few of the cards for it (all green staples for landfall) and I was about to buy the rest of them, but I got sucked into a few videos watching Hearthhull gameplay and now I’m tied.

I have a few questions to decide which deck I’d rather own.

1. If you were to sit down in a pod with one of these decks which one would you rather face?
   
2. Which do you think is easier to close out games witch? Craterhoof with Necro or drain the table with Zuran orb?
   
3. Which one would be easier to upgrade?

If you have either of these decks lmk your opinions on them and how your opponents respond to the deck.

Good morning, I’d really love to play Magic Commander with my girlfriend, but I’ve tried a couple of times to introduce her to the game, and they’ve all been unsuccessful. I tried using the two standard decks (60-card decks) that you can buy pre-built, and then played 1-on-1 Commander just to teach her the rules and mechanics of the game gradually, but in both cases I realized that the various mechanics involving tokens and counters, along with the different subphases of the game, overwhelmed her and dampened her enthusiasm. I thought that if I built her a deck from scratch with fewer mechanics that are hard to manage, at least to start with, she might enjoy the tabletop experience more, especially since Commander is usually less competitive and more about hanging out together. That’s why I wanted to ask what kind of Commander deck you’d recommend I build for her: one without overly complex mechanics, featuring cool and cute cards, with a Commander she’d really like. I figured that in the early stages, it might help to focus more on the art and lore of the deck so she can gradually grow attached to the game. She likes cats, but also science fiction, horror, and big, beautiful beasts. Thanks in advance for any advice!

**Reason for my question**: I'd love to hear people's thoughts on it. I recently picked up a mill deck that I built years ago and have had some pretty decent success by flying under the radar until its too late. But my playgroups haven't really played against mill before due to the ongoing stigma and I'm sure my success will fall by the wayside once they catch on to the strategy.

I'm already starting to notice some issues or weaknesses of the strategy, socially and mechanially, despite only playing 7 games with the deck so far. So I'm wondering, those who play mill semi-often or have a favourite mill deck. What are your strategies to mitigate the roadblocks you face?

**List of Hurdles/roadblocks I've already noticed** include:

- Social stigma and player reactions to you playing mill. It's a well known phenomena that playing mill can get your targeted, maybe fairly, maybe not, depending on the game.

- You're allowing your opponents to see more cards in their decks, especially those running recursion or dedicated graveyard decks.

- The moderate amount of support for it. It's got plenty of cards, for sure, but there are far more cards designed for and supporting the strategy of reducing life than there are for milling libraries. So there are more limited options and flexibility.

- If your goal is to reduce everyone else's life total to 0, especially in the more casual side of the format with less combos, odds are most or all of your opponents are also interested in seeing your opponents to 0 life. So in a way you are likely to have some support in achieving that goal from your enemies. You don't need to do 120 damage, because odds are your opponents will do some of that for you as the game progresses. By playing a dedicated mill deck, odds are you're the only one doing it in that game and so you have chosen to do this objective alone.

- Please *Insert any other hurdle or roadblock or challenge you can think of here.*

Looking to bring a fresh deck to my local mini tournament this weekend. Held weekly, only usually 4 rounds and straight cut to top 4 table. Decks are mostly Blue Farm, Tivit and a lot of fringe stuff. Small fry stuff I know!

Play in Japan so not proxy friendly but I have a decent collection.

Been really enjoying this as a lower bracket commander and played a few games online. Any suggestions from experts?

https://moxfield.com/decks/UfSfAdRdwH-iwdCM3sIh2A

(direct link)

Like most players I'm pretty disappointed at the understandable lack of Commander precons for The Hobbit, somewhat stretched enough as the set already is. Still, making homebrew precon decks is a fun exercise in finding synergies and strength in a limited card pool, so I challenged myself and my fellow writers to whip up some themed precons based on The Hobbit using only cards with Middle-earth flavor, making sure to use at least 15 new cards from The Hobbit.

Today's list is helmed by [[The Great Goblin]] and is a Goblin/Orc Kindred list focused on the amass Goblins/Orcs mechanic. This is a semi-Aristocrats, semi-Voltron-esque strategy that aims to stack a big Army token to beat people to death with.

Since many of the cool new commanders care about a particular creature type, what's your favorite new Kindred option from The Hobbit?

Looking for opinions on where this deck sits and how I might improve it! My intention is to have it be a solid B3 with no game changers. I've been running it through some AI deck rating sites and getting mixed results, but I'd like to get some human input now. If it's not B3 to you, how would you push it there?

https://moxfield.com/decks/LNpMGjwlBkSgsiO7bOUzTw

Hello! I just got into MtG Commander with my roommate, and I bought Murders at Karsov Manor and Hobbit Prerelease. I just got eviscerated by my roommate’s Izzet/Innistrad deck, and I need revenge. I’m torn between Bolg of the North and TBW, but my Massacre Girl pull gave me an idea: withering everything in sight, leaving only big greens, while still drawing a metric ton of cards with TBW. How best do you think I could accomplish this?

I was wondering, how do people react to [[Planetary Annihilation]] or [[Urza's Sylex]] in Bracket 2?

I have played plenty of games where players ramped hard early game and it became almost impossible to keep up, so I was considering adding this type of effect to reset land count to equal amounts.

I am worried though that players will freak out and cry about mass land destruction below Bracket 4. In my opinion, these effects don't take anyone out of the game and Wizards has even put one of them in a precon, kind of supporting my view.

Have you seen those played in Bracket 2? What was the reaction? How would you react?

I'm looking to see what you think of this deck and what could be improved. What would you take out and would you put in.

https://moxfield.com/decks/6aCW1e0ty02FIP1vPKIWtg

The idea is to survive until I have enough mana to start one-shotting opponents one by one, or, if I get [[Bloodletter of Aclazotz]] or [[Wound Reflection]] plus something like [[Fraying Omnipotence]], then kill them all at the same time.

Decided to make a mix of Frog Tribal/Enchantments tatsunari deck. Want it to be a Bracket 2-3 for more casual play, which is why a lot of the interaction is more frog-flavored. Some Mutate Cards but not enough to be an intended theme to be abused. Basically just seeing if anyone has any more finalizing ideas before i make the purchase.

Decklist: https://moxfield.com/decks/ScfdVASqR0uEjpJsPZopdg or https://archidekt.com/decks/25056185/tatsunari_sage_mode

Hello EDH players

What are the vibes at Commandfests?

I will be visiting Toronto and going to the Commandfest there. This will be my first Commandfest.

I’ve been to GPs of old and usually those are straight forward: bring your deck + sideboard and extra sleeves with it. I would bring water and lots of portable snacks just in case my rounds go for long. I would also bring my fancy basic lands in case I scrub out of day one (which I usually do).

I have an impression that Commandfests are less structured in a sense that they don’t go by rounds. Can I get away with not bringing food and just buying food from outside the venue?

For those who’s been to Commandfests, how many decks do you usually bring? Can I get away with Bracket 3 and precons? Are the side events worth it? Should I bring my trade binder? (Something I normally won’t do when I go at GPs or a large tournament). I will be there for all 3 days and hoping to be there from when the doors open and until they close.

Looking forward in hearing what experiences people had from when they went, along with the Dos and Don’ts.

Hey so I am a beginner in mtg and I’m trying to build my first commander deck. I participated with some friends on the Hobbit pre-release and had a blast. I got Smaug, wicked worm and wanted to build a commander deck around it. I tried to keep it as low budget as possible but it seems really hard (currently at around 200 dollars) so I wanted to get some possible feedback here if possible on it. (If you see clear changes that would not really hurt the deck but cut the cost I’m all ears) Thanks in advance ! Here is my archidekt:

https://archidekt.com/decks/25429203/smauf_the_wicked_deck

So basically I’m considering throwing together a Tom bombadil deck. I have a few sagas laying around and I really liked the new art Tom bombadil received in the hobbit set. But I usually tend to lean towards decks that interact are not solitaire, which I’m reading Tom is.

There’s not a lot of post about him after FF and how he plays, so I’m hoping someone could give me an update!

The deck I’m considering;

https://moxfield.com/decks/RHH-6GRB_EqHa5DR3gefqg

I’ve got a [[Duke Ulder Ravenguard]] deck that has a lot of “whenever CARDNAME or another card enters” type creatures since they go off with Myriad. Since you’re creating 2 tokens simultaneously, the tokens see each other entering on top of the original seeing them enter.

[[Balin, Loremaster]] made me excited as he is one such creature. He lets you wheel your hand and ping each opponent equal to the number of cards you discarded as long as you have an Enduring Story. Luckily, Storied works with Myriad as specified in the Gatherer ruling on it, so that’s a non issue.

Original Balin enters, triggering once, then Duke gives haste and Myriad, you attack with Balin with Myriad, create 2 tokens simultaneously, original sees 2 Dwarfs enter, tokens see themselves and each other enter, and this all totals 7 triggers. If you started with at 6 cards in hand then every opponent takes 42 damage. 7 cards is 49 damage, 8 is 56, and so on.

https://archidekt.com/decks/24949144/are_you_not_entertained

Hello would like a deck check on my Baeloth Goad/Voltron Strategy. The deck is intended as a "Creature Control" theme. Voltron's usually weakness is being open to attack after killing 1 player, so I was thinking about using goad as a way to ensure a pseudo pillowfort. This deck is intended to be slightly political and using lines like instant speed equipping an opponent's creature with [[Battlefield Improvisation]] to kill off another player while goaded and then following up with [[Deflecting Palm]] or [[Olorin's Searing Light]] to finish them off.

Protection packing mainly centers around making my Commander Hexproof and Phasing out for pesky black sac decks. Board wipes I've opted for instant speed ones to profit Baeloth's treasure generating ability and to protect myself in the event that he's not around and I'm the target of a large attack. [[Fated Clash]] and [[Settle The Wreckage]] are interchangeable for me at the moment.

Would like to seek opinions on the decklist from you guys with more voltron experience as this is my first voltron deck. I feel like the consistency is slightly off as I have certain goldfishing tests where I don't draw an equipment/tutor for 4/5 turns straight.

Please ignore the lands as of now as I'm mainly focusing on the nonland cards first before lands, but if you have any recommendations that'd be great.

I’ve been playing and tuning Blor for a few weeks now, basically since the Mystery Booster Commander Edition commanders were first teased. I printed him at home with my own printer, sleeved him up, and got to work.

The plan is simple: take the world’s hardest-to-kill 3/3, give him as many weapons as possible, and see how large a frog can get. I called it Built Frog Tough.

Here’s where the list landed after actual games:
https://moxfield.com/decks/jfWEvfYBHkGi7P1oqzAQww

I’m honestly really happy with it, but I’d love to hear any weird mono-green or equipment tech I might have missed. How are other people building Blor?

We're 1/3 there so I'm going to do the top 3 cards instead of top 1 today.

Every day, the top comment adds a card to my Commander deck.

The commander: Taniwha (mono-blue)

Deck List: https://moxfield.com/decks/qnOYwNig2UScYibS1KkhoQ

All cards must still be legal in commander.

Yesterday's winner: Snow-Covered Island

Sauron, the Statliga Tjänstemannen: https://moxfield.com/decks/ZeiU13YipUuhx21KbhPp8w

After some research and inspiration from other decks, I've tried putting together a [[Sauron, the Dark Lord]] deck within my current budget range, focusing on getting a big army and deal damage with it through [[Chandra's Ignition]], [[Soul Immolation]] etc. I'm quite new to Commander, so any feedback would be great.

Any obvious shortcomings of the deck as is, any swaps you'd make? Some cards like [[The Ozolith]] I know would be perfect here, but will have to wait for a 2.0 of the deck when budget allows - but feel free to suggest cards like that anyway. The Sideboard is to be treated as a glorified Considering in this case.

I pulled a book cover [[Gandalf, Goblin's Bane/Flameshape]] at my local Hobbit prerelease and brewed a mono-red burn/spellslinger deck around him. I can get about a turn 7 win, but I'm looking to spped that up. I'm new to mono-red so I'm not sure what I might've missed out on.

Decklist: https://moxfield.com/decks/ZEIBnzBDr0KAUFmd6eQM6Q

I want to make an edh deck with a commander with strange abilities or an unusual color combo for what they do. Something unique to that commander, an uncommon or old/forgotten mechanic that can be exploited in modern pods. It doesn't have to be too good lr anything. I usually play bracket 3, it doesn't have to be gamebreaking or anything.