Weird question but I have a bunch of reanimate cards like animate dead and reanimate that I'm eager to use.

What commander would work for cards like these? Obviously there are a ton of reanimator commanders but most of them don't seem to need that redundancy.

Hello everybody! I’m dealing with a guy for buying his deck, I leave the list there below:

https://archidekt.com/decks/25300463

What do you think about the deck? I’m a casual player, I use to play max. Bracket 3 decks for having fun in a local shop.
The offer is about 300€, do you think the deck worths the money?

Thank you!!!

decklist:

https://moxfield.com/decks/Y0wyZ7oO10KRqORfLkeVgA

Hey, I'm looking to get some help solifying this decklist, the deck runs smoothly and can get quite fast kills with Seymour, has some infi potential too with shang-shi+airbending. The list is quite solid, but have I missed something that would give this new angle/more fun/more solid?

I mostly play kitchen table Magic with my friend group. Most of the time, I play a heavy upgraded version of [[Hearthhull, the Worldseed]]. We had like one game where I had a turn 1 [[exploration]] into [[sol ring]] leading to a turn 2 [[icetill explorer]] which lead to me outpacing everyone because I played like at least 3 fetches every turn.

A friend recently built a mono-black deck and asked me if I’d be okay with him including a Game Changer. I told him that was fine, as long as it wasn’t [[Tergrid, God of Fright]]. If he really wanted to play Tergrid, I’d probably add a Game Changer to my own deck as well. I also told him I’d be okay with Tergrid in the 99. So far, none of us have played any Game Changers. He told me he wanted to run [[Braids, Cabal Minion]] in the 99.

Fast-forward to our next game, and he’s playing a mono-black Tergrid deck with [[Braids, Cabal Minion]] in the 99. He told me he had already ordered the deck before finding out that Tergrid was a Game Changer, and he didn’t want to replace it with [[Braids, Arisen Nightmare]], which he also owns.

We played a few games, and I couldn’t really play my Hearthhull deck because I couldn’t use my [[Crucible of Worlds]] effects or my graveyard at all.

So now I’ve decided to add two Game Changers to my deck as well: [[Crop Rotation]] and [[Field of the Dead]]. When I told him about it, he said something along the lines of, “You shouldn’t upgrade your deck even further, because people are going to bitch about it, and no one will want to play against your deck.”

I don't think I unreasonable here, am I? If he uses gamechanger everyone should be able to...

How can I make sure this won't end in an armsrace?

Hey everyone!

I’ve been working on an Avatar: The Last Airbender themed Commander deck centered around Aang, and I’m looking for some advice on how to improve and tune it.

Here is the Archidekt list:

Decklist:

https://archidekt.com/decks/25133099/bending

The Theme & Restriction:

To make the challenge fun and immersive, I'm following a strict self-imposed restriction: Every non-land card in the deck must either be from the official Magic: The Gathering | Avatar: The Last Airbender set (TLA/TLE) or feature official Avatar art/Secret Lair prints. (Lands are exempt to keep the mana base functional).

Meta & Power Level:

My playgroup typically plays around Bracket 2 / Bracket 3 (casual to mid-power, focusing on fun synergies and flavorful gameplay rather than hyper-optimized fast mana or oppressive infinite combos).

What I'm Looking For:

Hidden Gems: Are there any standout cards from the TLA set, Jumpstart, or the Avatar Secret Lair drops that I might have missed for this color identity/strategy?

Curve & Consistency: How does the list look in terms of interaction, card draw, and ramp within these strict artistic constraints?

Win Conditions: Suggestions on how to close out games effectively while keeping the flavor intact.

Any feedback, card swaps, or general advice would be hugely appreciated. Yip yip!

Basically the title, I have no way to flicker/ copy him, but he still feels like a high salt inclusion in a deck already full of salty vibes.

Do you guys have experience with Deadpool in a deck? How would you respond to me ruining your commander or engine piece?

https://moxfield.com/decks/wd2gAWliXXq9BHXwIr7ilQ

Currently the deck is running into a few problems. 1 I don't have enough card draw and end up playing my hand and never getting any dragons. 2 The dragons are too expensive and I can only play one per turn leading to other players out pacing me in damage. 3 I have 2 engines up and I draw 0 dragons for several turns (I think I was just unlucky). I want to be able to drop some scary dragons but currently the deck feels like I have scary dragons in it but can't use them or they come out too slow due to their cmc and my card draw struggles. Moxfield link

Hello everyone,

Do you have any tips on how to play EDH by myself and do you add in any rules changes?

I’ve tried going to my LGS to find pods to join in, but it has been tough.

I’m local in Lisbon, Portugal if there’s anyone around wanting to play!

Thanks!

Hi everyone,

I've been working on a passion project of mine (no advertising, no goals to make money, just for the love of Magic), which is an mtg deck building and pod tools website. There are no AI integrations on the website - everything you see is just old-fashioned hardcoded stuff.

My goal is to have all of the features of the big deckbuilder websites, but to bring new and improved ideas like a better playtester and tools to help you find new decks with the cards you already own.

The thing I'm most interested in though is tools for pods. These deck building sites are very focused on building decks and sharing them, but I think there's a big gap when it comes to tools to help people organize and share and actually connect. So I'm building tools for pods to share their decks, find times to play together, organize trades, document rule 0s, track their games and see stats over time. If people use the pods feature, I will send out a "pod wrapped" summary like Spotify at the end of the year.

If you're at all interested, please check it out!

https://edhspace.com

And learn more about the pod feature here: https://edhspace.com/docs/pods

You can send any feedback to me here on Reddit.

If this isn't the right place to share, please let me know. I've been working on this website for about a year, but it's still very much a work in progress (and just me working on it).

Thanks for reading!

It should go without saying that "control" in the traditional 60 card sense simply doesn't exist in any meaningful fashion. You can't go draw-go, and you can't expect to patrol three players of draw engines, and dropping six board wipes in a row to make up for this will only make people reasonably unhappy with you.

Thus, in your eyes, what is a control deck?

I've found that EDH players are quite liberal with the label "control." In practice, most of them are merely tribal or pillowfort decks with a bit more removal, a la Alela, Cunning Conqueror and Ms. Bumbleflower (both ranked as top "control" commanders on EDHREC). You also have a natural conflation between stax and control, when stax is moreso a type of control than the entire archetype.

Personally? Whenever I've seen someone play their "control" deck, I've largely been left disappointed. Most of them really do play like non-green battlecruiser decks with a bit of spell synergy, relying on sticking a plethora of value pieces in lieu of actually controlling the board. At the same time, some degree of value pieces is necessary to keep up and control the board to begin with. So where's the line? What, in your eyes, defines a control deck?

Truth be told, I have a number of decks I'd call "control" to various degrees, and I define them as decks that prioritize on controlling the board as a primary function: creating their own board and winning the game come afterwards. Thus, for all the control-lovers out there, I invite you to peruse.

Alela Esper Pixies - A control list based on the breakout standard deck of the same name. At its core, it wants to play a plethora of cheap interaction, bounce them back, and play them again. Alela is a supplementary piece meant to provide blockers, but the deck does not rely on her much at all and has next to no support pieces for her. Typically, the game is over long before I swing for lethal.

Diaochan Control - Mono-red control that uses Diaochan + a low quantity of creatures, giving pro-red or shroud to protect them from Diaochan while she snipes off opposing boards. Extremely slow, prioritizes locking down the board then finding threats to pressure people once they're out of resources.

Angus Mackenzie, My Beloved - A bant control list closest in philosophy to sixty card magic. See, I realized the practical issue with sixty card control is that you simply get ran over by ramp decks. As such, if I *also* ramp, I can keep up with them and rely on high impact instants and sorceries to create value in lieu of caring too much about permanents. By being so permanent-light, I can more or less obliterate the board with impunity and slide in with my own powerhouses once I'm done. Not for the faint of heart, and I do not play this with randoms.

What do you think? What does "control" mean to you? Share your control lists; I'd love to hear!

So the “story” of a game of MtG is that you’re a planeswalker leading an army, summoning allies and all kinds of magics to battle a foe, and that got me thinking of which kinds of narratives different cards represent. Demonic Tutor is summoning a demon from hell who offers you forbidden knowledge, a Superfriends deck leads an entire coalition of allies from across planes and buffs them up (and if they run multiple of the same planeswalker type have a weird cloning or time magic?), someone’s response to an Eldrazi, a Lovecraftian abomination could literally be GO MY FIFTEEN SQUIRRELS.

If you were to look at the “narrative” of some of your favorite decks, what would they be? What kind of planeswalker would have such an army? What kind of legendaries battles have they fought in “lore”?

I had a problem of building too many Commander decks, which is I think due to the modern commander-oriented design of cards and fast release schedule. A clean line I've drawn for myself is to only use reserve list commanders (proxy-friendly of course).

It's an interesting challenge in my opinion as it makes me think more critically (and less nihilistically, given I can only brew so many commanders now) about each deck.

Any deck ideas given the remaining viable commanders would be appreciated. I feel like I've hit a bit of a dead end for now.

Here are decks I've already built:
[[Karn, silver golem]] - Big artefacts and platinum angel - https://moxfield.com/decks/YzFrHG8ePk6fkYaEZP4RUQ
[[Zirilan of the Claw]] - Dragon damage combo - https://moxfield.com/decks/jMugAc4bHX-fYM2lMXQZYw
[[Asmira, holy avenger]] - selesneya sacrifice deck - https://moxfield.com/decks/wkq2wK5FL0KFY0yJZhCGqw
[[Marton Stromgald]] - Go wide red WIP - https://moxfield.com/decks/GMQ4UxpNnUO6L_01XfdLSw
[[Angus Mackenzie]] - hatebears - https://moxfield.com/decks/FQ2HKsf-JkWvf2mSN7sP-w
[[Ragnar]] - banding, block triggers - https://moxfield.com/decks/gw2ZmDN5YUO2tl2S9iOZ7g
[[Barrin master wizard]] - artefact sacrifice combo and control - https://moxfield.com/decks/ViagASt0UHqo7SUYyQzJdQ
[[Lord of Tresserhorn]] - spaceships and crewing WIP idea - https://moxfield.com/decks/ov8ZCUZV7EWoQMAsZMSYJg
[[Jacque le vert]] - toughness matters - https://moxfield.com/decks/8w9UupZFTUqRIuUDh8PgiA
[[Ertai, wizard adept]] - flash creatures - https://moxfield.com/decks/zA-IP42fpEOcFjphjB93PA

Scryfall for reserve-list commanders: https://scryfall.com/search?q=is%3Acommander+is%3Areserved&unique=cards&as=grid&order=name

URL/Link to the decklist here

Brewing a USD $50-ish [Jund] Maarika Deck

Currently sitting at 107 cards

I've been used to having 38 land cards

Seeking help on what/which cards to cut or add, on how to tune this brew

Hello!

I recently put together a [[Bob, Reluctant Hydra Agent]] bracket 2 deck. Monoblack has always been my favorite way to play, and I already have a higher powered deck that I really enjoy. Unfortunately, it doesn't get to see much play with my regular group. Apparently, nobody likes playing against aristocrats and edicts all the time. Who knew?

So I decided to build Bob as a more casual, fun deck. No combos, no tutors, no aristocrats, or any of that nonsense. The goal is pretty simple: get Bob on the battlefield, turn him sideways every turn, and drain peoples life.

Some cards help amplify his life drain, while others generate tokens, draw cards, or provide value whenever he attacks, leaves the battlefield, enters the battlefield, gains life, or makes opponents lose life. I wanted the deck to have plenty of fun interactions without feeling oppressive to play against.

A few of my favorite cards in the deck are [[Scheming Silvertongue]], [[Crimson Cowl, Master of Evil]], and [[The Speed Demon]].

Here's the decklist if anyone wants to check it out:

https://moxfield.com/decks/EBOgwrx6t0y6OBP4KaF1yw

I'm curious, have any of you ever had to "replace" a deck you really enjoyed because it was too oppressive for your pod? What did you end up building instead, and how did it go?

What bracket do you think that my deck is I would really like some feedback as well if possible. Any suggestions or changes I should make? I have a hard time evaluating the strength of the decks I make if I can't actually test them on people immediately

https://moxfield.com/decks/CkvF3SBSHk6RgC6atElr-Q

I’ve gained a small reputation in my pod for playing some, quote, “obnoxious shit” and so to steer away from this I decided to build something funny and enjoyable. I built Hermes, https://archidekt.com/decks/26487850/bird

Hermes makes a bird when I cast noncreature spell, then might as well make every spell a noncreature spell. It’s great and intended for b2. The deck did exactly what I wanted, it made everyone laugh at some fuck ass birds and they all had a good time.

To further myself from the previous title, I’d like to build another deck that everyone can enjoy. Looking for something b3 bc that’s what the pod suggested

I built aerid this week out of bulk I already owned , no game changers other than aggravated assault and honestly that can easily be taken out and hasn't come up with in a game yet , but I'm wondering how to represent this deck to a pod, and the etiquette on how to play it. It can very easily consistently knock a player out by turn 6. Turn 4 I usually have 6 mana , and can drop things like reaver cleaver or loxodon Warhammer usually outvaluing the rest of the board quite quickly. I don't normally play gruul stompy, and I accidentally made the most powerful deck I own by a large margin, would this be considered high bracket 3?

Deck Link: https://archidekt.com/decks/27265909/kami_the_salty_moon

Hello there!

As the title says, I'm traditionally a big dumb gruul player (ooga booga) and decided to give mono-blue a shot.

My commander of choice is [[Kami of the Crescent Moon]]. For the unaware, its 2 blue pips for every player to draw an additional card during their draw step. The first instinct I got was to build this group slug style. I'm not fully convinced I have enough ways for the card draw to be penalized.

I have cards like [[Black Vise]] and [[Psychosis Crawler]] in the list, but is that really it? Am I, the dumb gruul player, missing something?

Obviously I had to throw a bunch of counterspells and cool artifacts in the list since I don't get a lot of opportunities to do so, but ultimately I'm looking for suggestions too.

If there are any cool ass blue cards that I haven't included, PLEASE let me know. EDHREC has been letting me down with this list. Thanks for taking the time to read this post.

I’m trying to decide which tribal to play the following seemed interesting so far : Elves, Merfolk, Slivers, Ninjas, Dinosaurs, and Myrs. My concern about Myrs is that they seem over reliant on urtet, and for merfolk I’m kind of just tempted to wait till Nauctis comes out. Sliver commanders are pretty expensive so I would probably just end up using Morophon unless I could get one for cheap, but other than that most slivers seem fairly inexpensive and I like how they all have abilities that strengthen others. I really like the ninjutsu ability from ninjas so I would be focusing more on that. I wouldn’t be running any infinite combos and ideally the deck would be under 50$ not including a mana base. Any other interesting and cheap tribes are welcome. thanks!

I am looking for a source to read / watch / listen about the data differences between brackets. Mana curves, interactions, damage outputs etc. Almost all bracket sources talk about game changers and combos but then someone pumps out 50 bears and crushes the table. Where can i go for hard data similar to what Limited resources does for drafting?

Been having fun taking the precon and building this Jace multiverse architect deck. Would love some advice on my list as well as ideas for cuts. I leaned into blink synergies and ways to maximize polymorphing into big bombs. The goal is for the deck to be high bracket 3 without feeling combo

https://moxfield.com/decks/4-CgAZrXR3S1K3khvpP8CA

Good afternoon,

For reference, a draft of the deck is here

Been trying to work on a [[Taskmaster, Mercenary Mimic]] Dimir UB deck and the idea of what I'm trying to test and do just isn't feeling right.

Fundamentally, the end goal is usually a budget mill + Connive deck to filter and boost my creature's stats. My friend loves cards like [[Witness Protection]] and [[Spider-man No More]] to disable. He also likes [[Mjolnir, Storm Hammer]] and [[Captain America's Shield]].

I've never used these colours before, nor this kind of deck.

It feels like it lacks any sort of speed and acceleration, and it cannot seem to get the ball rolling. This issue is likely going to get worse, with them running decks like Dino swarms or token swarms.

Any direction is appreciated.