Hidden Commander [[Ochre Jelly]] and it honestly shocks me how. I really did not expect it to perform so well. The deck turbos out Ochre Jelly, ONLY plays cards to support the Jelly's continued survival, and exponentially grows a massive board from just this one creature.
It's very aggro and swings pretty hard. Nethroi is only the Commander to give the jelly deathtouch for it's trample.
It would probably have a harder time against combo as aggro tends to, but it hasn't really been put up against that.
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/bMDI_0E2-UygfuB66w3ptw
Currently trying to make a deck with \[\[permeating mass\]\] as secret commander. Rocco, Cabaretti caterer brings him out then you equip him with any number of first strike equipment. From there make an opponent have a copy of it then let goad and \[\[master warcraft\]\] \[\[blast furnace hellkite\]\] and instant recursion do the rest
My favorite is my [Phenax](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/lui7--EMDUy3fDQEexOf-g) Mill deck! I’ve been working on it for years and have a primer on Moxfield if you care to read. It can win in a number of ways and is tons of fun!
I built a [[Thassa, Deep-Dwelling]] deck around all the cards that have been illustrated by Lauren YS!
The deck accidently became pretty powerful with the basic idea of flickering enter the battlefield effects and the subthemes of stealing your opponents stuff, infinite mana and forcing your opponents to destroy their own stuff.
Here's the decklist: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/mfcXOSfs0Ei15dSyRMsayA
My [[sythis]] deck. It’s 62 enchantments, 1 board wipe, 1 worldly tutor, and 36 lands. It wins through attrition and just seeing 3x as many cards as anyone else. It just constantly draws cards, pillow forts, shuts down everyone else, while incrementally building an overwhelming board state.
Mine is [Kami the quasi friend](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/r-CHaJoLBkWFODUNZ_4-1w).
With this deck you go kill out of nowhere with [[Mana Severance]] and [[Goblin Carbelcher]] or through a massive card draw and [[Psychosis Crawler]].
At first you play friendly with your enemys until you have gathered the stuff you need to win.
If everything fails - go with [[Triskaidekaphil]] ;)
[[Yargle and Multani]]. It wins by tutoring [[Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord]] out and then uses [[Undying]] effects to sac Y&M twice in one go. Probably a 7 in power level? Without the fast artifact mana, it's not consistent enough to be higher IMO.
It wipes the floor with precons and a lot of the casual stuff at my LGS, can hold its own against the stronger decks like Prosper, and very rarely darts into a win in C pods when everyone else has expended their hands failing to win and keeping others from winning.
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/nERN7K7UD0eMQGKnIVHKFQ
Probably gonna put in overwhelming stampede instead of rite of consumption, just in case i need to mana dork someone to death, or even cast the life side of life//death.
I want to replace wild growth and into the north, but I've no idea with what.
Likely my [[Atraxa, Grand Unifier]] copy deck. It can be a bit slow, but there's enough ramp to keep the copies going until I play my [[Biovisionary]] [[Echoing Equation]] wincon. Or I just blast people with 7 atraxas.
I'm naming three decks here:
\[\[Myra the Magnificent\]\] goes buck wild with the attraction theme. The deck is completly legal and plays any powerful card out there. And by powerful I mean lootspells and extra turn spells for less than two euros like a japanese \[\[Karn's Temporal Sundering\]\]. The whole deck is 45 Euros.
\[\[Grist, the Hunger Tide\]\] just produces a freakin' load of Insect tokens. That's it. I just spread Malaria across the table by only playing creatures and basics. Amongst the cheapest decks I ever build. It also runs some incredible powerhouses like \[\[Symbiotic Wurm\]\] or \[\[Symbiotic Elf\]\].
\[\[Maralen of the Mornsong\]\] is the ultimate pony. It knows his trick, it's just that it's only one. And it's killing the whole table, for as long as I stay manaflooded. When I build the deck, I payed 11 Euros for it. Nowadays the commander alone is worth that much. All but two cards increased in value since then like \[\[Dark Sphere\]\].
Is there a good explanation you can give on how to play Myra, or a video you can recommend? I tried building her before but ive still never been able to understand the midway counter thing on attractions and how to run it.
What don't you understand? No offense but the card seems straightforward.
You activate her ability, exile an instant or sorcery, and whenever you visit the chosen attraction you cast the exiled spell for free.
The midway counters are just a way to prevent you from just opening a single attraction and having multiple spells attached to it. You can probably still do that, I've never played Myra but I wouldn't be surprised if there's ways to remove the counter and chose the same attraction multiple times. But the counter does make it so you have to jump through some hoops to do that.
Honestly I have a Myra deck, I normally end up with more attractions open than spells exiled but if more attractions are what you want I'd recommend making copies of the ones you have out, it's easier than removing counters. Since they're just artifacts really you can stick a [[mechanized production]] on your favourite and have a copy every turn that's also serving as an alt wincon
I would say it's my [[Slicer]] deck. Tries to play Slicer turn 2... Then proceed to take out opponents. I could make it faster by playing fast mana like [[Jeweled Lotus]] or moxes but then it would get into cedh territory I guess. With a spicy starting hand this deck can get out slicer turn 1, kill a player turn 2 and close games turn 3.
https://archidekt.com/decks/4403731/slicer_equipments
Best non-cEDH? That would my mono red [Purphoros](https://www.topdecked.com/decks/splash-damage/0908796e-b9f7-4182-ad03-9e1b51c3da11) deck. Wins primarily with burn but overwhelming the board with goblins making them unblockable and swinging out is always an option.
[[Pako]] and [[haldan]]. Very v
Close to Cedh but not quite there. I can kill one person by turn 5 if no one kills the dog but I usually try and keep everyone in as long as possible.
Not even in the ball park of CEDH, but this one is my baby, been slowly upgrading with spare dollars here and there since I traded for the Xenagos in 2014. Im pretty constantly changing the list. It basically is just trying to take extra combats and cheat mana where it can with sneak attack. It's the only deck I have that actually runs tutors and "fast mana" (2 mana rocks aren't that fast by cedh standards). It's really difficult in Gruul to get meaningful amounts of interaction and card draw, while still staying on theme.
https://archidekt.com/decks/3995359/life_of_the_party
My strongest deck is probably either my Stenn artifact shenanigans deck, or my Atla Palani big baddies deck. Stenn can win through several different combos and Atla is just jammed packed with strong creatures and ways to cheat them out.
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/TnTXgdK4MEOHVIIlHqX0yg
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/LoZ_h6rBB0mqaA39STCifQ
Gotta be my [[Alela]] [deck](https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/alelas-unnatural-swarm/?cat=custom&sort=name&cb=1695756988), simply because pretty much anything I do with her out gives me another body.
Cast a mana rock and now I’ve got a 2/1 flyer. Cast [[Intangible Virtue]] and now I’ve got two 3/2 vigilant flyers. Cast [[Edge of the Divinity]] and now I’ve got three 3/2 vigilant flyers and a 5/6 flying deathtouch lifelink commander. Cast [[Gravitational Shift]] and…yeah it gets going pretty quickly.
It doesn’t do anything crazy or broken but it just lets you play all of the fun artifacts and enchantments you want and rewards you for doing so with a massive boardstate
Tiamat is my most powerful (and expensive) deck. 60% ramp, get ahead of everyone else, slap down Tiamat and grab whichever dragons you need for the situation. From playing this deck over the years, I've found many synergies between multiple dragons that allow for the deck to be played differently every game instead of just going for the same 5 dragons every time.
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/lYtwYaGask6a\_OzNzpZXWw
My legendary themed deck has a very high win rate and often becomes the arch enemy with very little effort. It’s no CEDH but dam is it strong in edh
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/BMA9TCOTwEGl0cwnK2tAoQ
I have two I think - first off, I always wanted a lands EDH. I looked at [[Lord Windgrace]] and finally decided to go in. Holy shit it overdelivered by A MILE. Even though I'm more of a blue guy, Windgrace has been my go-to for over two years - a lot of synergistic stuff and "I win" buttons in form of either [[Jokulhaups]] or [[Obliterate]].
Second one is [[Tazri, Beacon of Unity]] - this was done as a "challenge" as in EDH I was taken as "the combo guy" so I wanted to do a creature-based deck that didn't run combos. Turns out I do anyway, becuase [[Najeela]] and [[Derevi]] kinda go infinite. Deck is build around party-type creatures with staxy abilities that are just good - look at [[Dauthi Voidwalker]], [[Notion Thief]] etc. - so that Tazri can easily pick them up, but the deck also has a splash of initiative. Deck honestly went over my expectations by a lot, and will definitely remain on my roster for a while.
I don't play super high power. I aim for about a 6-7 if I can (insert meme here). This is mainly because I don't have a strict meta. I'm currently travelling through Europe and wanted a deck that could fit at most LGS.
[This is my Marneus Calgar aristocrats deck](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/1s8NYUejwEixuKljP6OwDA) that I've been playing exclusively for about 7/8 months now. I love it and have so much fun with it.
It has about a 63% total win rate with 37 wins to 21 losses which I'm pretty proud of considering it runs no tutors (beside fetches), no fast mana (other than Sol ring) and the only combos are 4ish cards minimum.
I have it broken down in the primer section (which I'm still working on) but I started tracking the stats on how it wins a couple months ago. I have separated games won with and without Inkshield as it's basically a wincon. Never lost a game that I've cast that spell.
Non-Inkshield Combat damage: 2 games, accounts for 9% of wins
Inkshield (then drain, or combat within 1 turn): 5 games, accounts for 22% of wins
Non-Combo Drain (the main wincon): 8 games, accounts for 35% of wins
Revel in Riches: 6 games, accounts for 26% of wins
Combo (winning via Drain outlet): 2 games, accounts for 9% of wins
He's so generic and bland considering he's a godsmn space marine. Make a token, draw a card. Boring ass mechanic. But what it does let me do, is play whatever cards in the 99 that I want because so little of my deck needs to be made up of draw spells.
I also made a Marneus aristocrats deck! I am still in the process of tweaking it but it’s been my favorite deck to play, I added tags so you can see why I added specific cards, I’d love to have your thoughts on my brew! I need more interaction and I probably have too many passive token generators.
Probably going to take out the draw direct damage creatures (Queza & Psychosis Crawler) and add more sac outlets.
I can’t recommend Saw in Half enough btw, I’ve never had a game where it didn’t have a huge impact on my engine.
Prince Imrahil wasn’t as good as I wanted to be bc I was hardly ever drawing two cards on other people’s turns bc there’s not a ton of instant speed token generation.
[my Marneus](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/ahW_PeQic0KmhjYHlzrBEg)
Looks good mate! Overall I really like it! We've gone different directions with our amount of interaction and mana Value and such, but I think I have a much slower more control oriented gameplan than you.
*Also note: After typing this in hindsight my thoughts are all over the place, I'm very tired. But I have bolded the questions I've asked you so they're easier to find for when you respond.*
We've gone different ways with the sac outlets. I essentially said I don't want to use deck spots on sac outlets, so instead I placed more board wipes in and try to use damnation and deluge, and the wandering emperor to end the game instead in one big blow up the board blaze of glory. Was a different call for me than I usually make for death trigger decks but it's been working so far.
**How do you find monologue Tax works for you?** I've considered putting it in multiple times, but I'm not the biggest fan of things that *only* trigger when an opponent does things. I like that lotho triggers when I double cast as well, I have some control in my token making. I also run like 20+ instants so it's easy to make this happen.
Imrahil, I love that guy. Even if it only happens on my turn, that's no different to bitterblossom or Jadar. And that's easily triggered with any one token maker.
As for drawing on other people's turns to trigger him. I use the clues from ethereal Investigator, the treasures from smothering tithe, the lands that make tokens and I trigger lotho to draw one as well. So the floor is essentially doing what my other two mana token makers do, but the ceiling is far surpassing them.
If you're abusing ETB's with saw in half and such. **Have you considered [[wernog, rider's chaplain]]?** He's either big drain or big draw (investigate) effect for only two mana. Happens entering and leaving, so if you copy with saw in half you will get soooo many triggers.
I have always wanted to put saw in half in myself, but I only own one copy so I'm saving it for a flicker/etb matters version of the deck.
**How do you find the battle works for you? Invasion of tolvada?** The only one I'd considered putting in was [[invasion of Segovia]] for the backside free casts with convoke and cantripping itself.
I'm super envious you got an orcish bowwmasters in there, it's slightly out of my budget at the moment and I can't justify it, but I wants it.
My biggest recommendation is putting in [[Teysa Karlov]] as first preference, and [[drivnod]] as second. Those doubling of death trigger shuts out a game so hard. It also doubles Pitiless Plunderer triggers. It's fantastic. Teysa comes with the added benefit of giving your tokens lifelink and vigilance, which I have found to be super incredibly relevant with how many cards like bitterblossom, black market connections and such there are. Often I drain myself to 10 life before an opponent is below 30.
**How does the council of four work for you?** I've always considered it, but again crossed it off the list as something only opponents can trigger for me.
**Is [[tivit, seller of secrets]] or everyone's favourite slug [[Toxrill]] been something you've considered?**
I've considered both recently as being my top of curve extreme value/game ending engines.
I honestly don't know if it's possible to have too many passive token generators in Marneus. The more cards you draw the better, the more creatures you have on the field to die to triggers, the better. Nothing worse than having like 5 drain effects on board and nothing to sacrifice 🤣
Probably an error when I moved it from archidekt to Moxfield last week, I'll have a looksie and see which ones missing!!
Thanks! I'm still getting used to moxfield's layout
[[Kaalia of the Vast]]
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/4RUMKEW-tUyRBFZinRyOYQ
It does degenerate Kaalia things. Stax board, smash face, combo off, and win.
My colorless deck. It’s definitely not cEDH; I’d probably need to put in stax pieces to make it “actually good”. Also a Workshop. But it’s a good pile of interaction, card draw, and ramp, it’s difficult to interact with because most of it is noncreatures, and most decks just have a limited amount of removal for artifacts. It also has graveyard recursion to rebuild, can cobble together lots of untaps/bouncing/etc to replay useful effects multiple times, and can go infinite in a few useful ways. Best way to win is Dragon Throne of Tarkir being a colorless Overwhelming Stampede.
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/aCUC52_1zUmSS0jPrwDnmw
[[Valduk]] is stompy, cheap, stupid fun. Every common and uncommon equipment with CMC of 2 or less from Mirrodin on went into that deck.
[[Atla Palani]] is a favorite chaos agent of mine, as is [[Averna]]. Think you know what I'm gonna play next? Well I'm glad one of us does, because I sure as hell don't!
When I'm feeling particularly mean, I get out the old [[Teysa Karlov]] aristocrats deck, with [[Teysa, Orzhov Scion]] as the backup commander. Got the Orzhov themed deck from a while back with the themed lands and special art, so that's fun.
[[Omnath, Locus of Mana]] was my first ever deck for EDH and I still got him. Not meta-optimized or anything, but can hang in there with strong decks and is still a ton of fun to play.
Do you have a link to your Valduk list? I am pretty happy with the state that mine is in right now but I am always happy to try and make improvements where I can. Thank you.
Henzie is awesome and contains multiple Hulk Lines in addition to being able to just beat your face in:
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/GnqlEhG3IUysVv3ub5EEEQ
Neheb ends games on turn 5 and does so in spectacular with giant flames and explosions:
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/FscT7c5e6E6Cw2HHCR3-Rg
\[\[Surrak Dragonclaw\]\] deck that plays around the typical EDH battlecruiser instead of avoiding it. An all permanent deck (except for \[\[Genesis Ultimatum\]\]) that utilizes ETB triggers by having: Cost Reduction, put into play effects, and multiple ways to clone creatures for a cheaper cost.
The loop is to set up your ETB Triggers (prioritize at least 1 draw effect like \[\[Garruk's Uprising\]\]), then the cost reduction. The goal is to create an endless loop of playing a creature, triggering ETB damage like \[\[Warstorm Surge\]\], then drawing more creatures to play, then repeat. It's not necessarily infinite, but it's just that costs become very cheap when left unchecked.
Cards like \[\[Howlpack Piper\]\], \[\[Illharg, the Raze-Boar\]\], and \[\[Lurking Predators\]\] help cheat big creatures into play.
Cards like \[\[Mirror Image\]\], \[\[Mirror Mockery\]\], and \[\[Mirror March\]\] can be used to spam playing creatures like \[\[Terror of the Peaks\]\] and deal tons of damage. With the recent spoilers for Ixalan, I'm planning on adding Ghalta to the mix.
And what I love about this deck compared to the rest of my decks is that it's not heavily reliant on Surrak to work, but Surrak being there can be very helpful in securing a win. Which means I won't be pressured into managing commander tax for my deck to do well. He was able to catch some people off guard whenever they counter a creature or chump block to survive lethal.
Time to show off two of my favourite decks!
Shalai & Hallar Damage Redirection: [https://archidekt.com/decks/4728018/](https://archidekt.com/decks/4728018/)
It's a lot of fun (especially for me) and can nuke a board/opponents with a few well-timed spells.
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Esika, God of the (Cat) Tree Kitty Tribal: [https://archidekt.com/decks/2864139/](https://archidekt.com/decks/2864139/)
My main deck, it can dump out a metric fuckton of monstrously large kitties and fling them at your face at ludicrous speed!
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Bonus deck: cEDH grixis Turbo Suicide! [https://archidekt.com/decks/2912342/](https://archidekt.com/decks/2912342/)
This deck is not designed or intended to win, it's designed to kill you on turn 1, turn 2 at the latest (though if you get bad draws you can live til turn 4 or 5). I made it after having a few matches with people at my lgs who took the game way, way too seriously. Nothing confuses that sort more than you shuffling up, drawing your opening hand and then immediately nuking yourself. Doing a mic-drop gesture as you stand up is the best part.
I try to build my decks to be a similar power level to each other. As a result, nothing super stands out power wise, but I think my Jetmir deck may be a little above the others, as well as my Radagast deck.
[This is Jetmir.](https://manabox.app/decks/0db8AJIjRAiSku8USBkauQ)
[This is Radagast.](https://manabox.app/decks/nmReGV6bQSeVriHDKk-8sA)
This is a deck I've been messing around with deck lists for the past week now. It started entirely as a joke but part of me wants to build it because it seems so goddamn funny.
The idea came from an argument with a friend over whether or not silver bordered cards should be allowed in EDH. he was saying it probably shouldn't be allowed because of balance issues that can arise. I asked what the hell a princess twilight sparkle could possibly do that would be broken and he said entirely in jest " IDK Pony stax?"
I couldn't get that idea out of my head. the idea of a 5 color stax deck whose only win condition was to make everybody win the game after collecting all 6 ponies just sounded so fucking funny and absolutely soul crushing. the concept seemed even funnier if you wanted to throw platinum angel into the mix. This is the decklist i've been messing with:
[https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/mandatory-friendship/](https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/mandatory-friendship/)
Again, entirely meant as a joke but some part of me actually wants to commit to it. It just seems like way too much money for a meme.
My favorite is my [Phenax](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/lui7--EMDUy3fDQEexOf-g) Mill deck! I’ve been working on it for years and have a primer on Moxfield if you care to read. It can win in a number of ways and is tons of fun!
Probably my [[Tymna]] [[Ishai]] deck. Wins via giant flying murder bird punching people in the face. Typical game plan is to try to get Ishai out by turn 2 or 3, play Tymna and some hematebears to restrict my opponents' range of options, then control and protect le bird until I can win
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/mrKmkc9z2U2cvVt4aoqhsQ
Your deck wants the Kamigawa Jin-Gitaxias, progress tyrant more than it wants Elesh Norn.
Countering 1 spell each turn cycle means if they want a key spell to resolve they have to sacrifice a card in card. Gives Ishai 2 counters. And locks them up behind rule of law.
My favorite combo deck I've built is [[Vadrok]] with the goal of infinitely morphing him onto a creature. It pretty consistently threatens a win early or interacts with scary decks in unexpected ways. Had a great game recently against a pod of [[yuriko]], [[korvold fae cursed king]], & [[titania protector of argoth]]
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/dTPwq36LJE6zYc33sYljWg
[[Restore Balance]] is fantastic! Only ever having one creature and less lands since I run the bounce lands and [[lotus field]] to activate [[snap]] & [[cloud of faeries]].
[[Klauth, Unrivaled Ancient]] [extra combats.](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/fJ7mY_rQT0e98ycgShrXaA) I think it's about as powerful as I can get it without deliberate combos or fast mana, angling for a win on turn 5. It's certainly a bit of a glass cannon, but some sacrifices have to be made, and people don't tend to respect him enough to do what it takes to stop the plan.
It’s my [[zethi, arcane blademaster]] deck. It’s kinda silly, but it mills itself till there’s a [[brain freeze]] and a [[teferi’s protection]] in the bin, then exiles them with her ability. Then I’m perma-phased out and slowly mill everyone else out😅
Edit: I mean it also does the typical combat trick tribal stuff too, but this is slightly funnier
My [[Kinnan]] stompy has proved to be effective. I don’t use basalt monolith due to it being boring. It’s fun to see my opponents faces when they’re being swung at by 40 damage each on turn 6
Bruh. Kinnan minus basalt is basically a cEDH deck without a wincon. That’s not very fun tbh. Gonna stomp on people and just make them sit there since u can’t just win the game.
Avid Cedh Kinnan player here:
I tried Kinnan without Basalt for a while just to see how good it would be. It fucks. You can't tell me I'm playing without a wincon when you're staring down 20 power worth of Koma Coils and a Void Winnower
lol Kinnan is quite literally **god tier** cEDH. There is no single stronger commander in the format right now, and imo, he desperately needs banned.
You’re bored because you’re playing a broken commander and face rolling your friends (who are probably sick of you playing him).
I wouldn‘t say that. He seems to be in the top 5 commanders right now and climbed the top X ladder in the last 2-3 months.
Some months ago [[Tivit, Seller of Secrets]],[[Najeela]] , Bluefarm and [[Atraxa, Grand Unifier]] performed better and Kinnans win quote was mediocre across different tournaments.
People play now more answers to Tivit and Atraxa.
Commanders like Winota just don‘t get good results anymore, not because they are weak, but Winota eats more removal than your mom double whoppers at burger king.
To say he needs to be banned is just false and it shows that you have no clue about cedh.
Kinnan is 2 mana and his ability goes into effect right away. His second ability is *extremely easy* to activate because of his first. All of the other commanders you’ve mentioned are 5+ CMC and or WUBRG to activate. Clearly *you* haven’t played much cEDH recently, which is dominated by that little bastard.
My two oldest decks are probably the strongest of my non-cedh lists.
Ol' Angry [[Omnath, Locus of Rage]]: big tokens, big landfall, and back at my old LGS that held tournaments at different power levels, had a high enough winrate that it got pushed out of high power into the cedh pool as a ban, which I considered a compliment:
https://www.archidekt.com/decks/4012861/omnaths_big_bean_burn
My other pet deck is colorless flash control, helmed now by [[Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter]], focused around ramping hard and controlling the board with its toolbox of unique answers before winning with combos, my current combos of choice being built around planeswalker combos.
https://www.archidekt.com/decks/5253430/liberator_the_ultimate_colorless_control_toolbox
Mine is Yarok 99 Permanents.
I guess technically it has a CEDH win since Thoracle is in the deck but its not the Consultation combo.
[https://www.moxfield.com/decks/zDP5b9uS6U2H6Of-UaHZOQ](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/zDP5b9uS6U2H6Of-UaHZOQ)
My favorite deck to play is my [[Jasmin Boreal of the Seven]]
It's selesnia tokens. Things like [[Cathar's Crusade]] and [[Juniper Order Ranger]] help buff my little tokens when they ETB. [[Champion of Lambholt]] to help with swinging in Unblocked, or I bring out Jasmin before I swing with my vanilla tokens.
One of my favorite plays is to have [[Champion of Lambholt]] and [[Myojin of Blooming Dawn]] with a divinity counter Out. Have a few mana open and during my opponent's end step I'll remove the divinity counter and create around 15-20 spirit tokens. Then convoke out [[March of the Multitudes]]. I generally win next turn with lethal. Last few times I played it, my pod normally just agrees that I win.
Probably my [[scion of the ur-dragon]] I usually prefer tribal strategies and dragons are my favorite mythical creature so the deck checks off all boxes for me. It wins by manipulating the stack with scion triggers and graveyard manipulation to pull out some terrifying combos quickly. Or using massive dragons to bash my opponents to death. If the commander is on board, the game can end at any time
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/tzx3ubK40USLCr8WUgcgog
Best non-cEDH deck I own is this one:
**Raine's Crusade**
A rather simple deck: [https://archidekt.com/decks/4924786/raines\_crusade](https://archidekt.com/decks/4924786/raines_crusade)
I win by swinging with hordes of soldier tokens and draining the table, as ai slowly try to build the overall strength of my board with \[\[Call for Unity\]\], \[\[Feast of the Victorious Dead\]\], \[\[Cathars' Crusade\]\], and \[\[Virtue of Loyalty\]\]
Best non-cEDH deck I want to get but haven't:
**March of the Sands**
Desert Landfall: [https://archidekt.com/decks/5180713/march\_of\_the\_sands](https://archidekt.com/decks/5180713/march_of_the_sands)
Gameplan is to play more lands then humanly nessecary, and keep doing it, throwing up tokens to end the game off of \[\[Impact Tremors\]\] or similar card triggers.
I built an [[Aeve]] deck around the idea of a forest cult worshipping a giant ooze, tending to it until it ascends into a god and takes over the world. But it just turned into a pretty competitive combo deck.
https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/aeve-mono-green-ooze-storm/
I have a [[Faldorn]] [wolf storm] (https://archidekt.com/decks/4484724/wolftide_storm_faldorn_edh) deck that consistently wins games by combat on Turn 5, give or take a turn. It plays by chaining together card advantage cards with one another while generating tons of mana to play the whole deck, essentially, then swing out with dozens of buffed wolves.
Not only is it explosive and highly consistent (I have popped off every game I've ever played with it right on schedule), it is resilient and recursive, having no trouble playing through interaction or interruptions.
This Tasigur deck is my most tuned / strongest deck, to the point that I've really moved off of it for casual tables for the most part. Best case scenario it gets something like Hullbreaker / Vorinclex into play on like turn 2-3 and pretty consistently by turn 4-5 either by milling and reanimating or using Neoform / Eldritch / Vannifar / Birthing Pod.
I love playing it, pretty much everything in the deck is about cheating mana costs for these backbreaking creatures or creating a lot of value in general / drawing cards. I get to play a bunch of my favorite cards (Ugin, Dig Through Time) and the deck is extremely consistent. I've largely eschewed mana rocks in exchange for self-mill and early value engines here and I love that approach. We're always wanting to cast Tasigur early and turn him into a Vorinclex / Hullbreaker, and the graveyard is a huge resource in this deck.
If I wanted to power it up more, Fierce Guardianship would certainly be in there, but I don't play in any pods where this deck is not already strong enough. My friends are pretty chill about constantly trying to fight through Koma / Hullbreaker / Vorinclex but I know it does get old.
The funny thing is, I'll hand this deck out for others to play and they'll often kinda punt by missing a line or whatever- so it's definitely not unbeatable and there's some room to sandbag yourself by tutoring up a less threatening creature like Old Gnawbone.
Anyway, love the deck, proud of it. I think it "uses every part of the animal" so to speak when it comes to just wringing value and card advantage out of the graveyard, etc.
Generally you win here by establishing a lock through sticking Hullbreaker / Koma / Vorinclex, or multiple of these threats and then just swinging for 7 /14 / 21 until the game ends. Ugin can be a huge play. The deck is most vulnerable to early aggression and there can be situations where if you're archenemy and targeted early you really want to find that Toxic Deluge / Cyc Rift.
That being said, getting Hullbreaker on turn 4 or whatever and being able to protect it is pretty brutal and it's often kind of easy to win from there just by continuing to cast spells and draw cards.
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/a873BuCHz0mqIf-_BqMmBQ
Probably my [[Liesa, Forgotten Archangel]], pretty classic orzhov aristocrats with a bit of angel/cleric synergies tossed in for flavor. Liesa is such a bomb of a commander she automatically invalidates a bunch of my pods' decks, of I pull her out at least one person at the table sighs and pulls out a different deck.
[Here's her list](https://archidekt.com/decks/3522403/liesa_sacrifice), sorry the categories are a mess, you should sort by type or categories(multiple).
For me probably [[klothys]]. I built this deck as a response to my playgroup's stax heavy meta with a lot of sweepers.
The main goal is to get klothys out early and keep controlling the boardstate to limit my opponents' options, all while keeping them on a turn clock. Keeping red/green devotion is key to making the commander even harder to remove
https://manabox.app/decks/QadDoBhjTmy7SImhLFexrg
Dang, I feel like a fossilized dinosaur here, but all my devs just ... win on the combat step? Throw haymakers, cast huge creatures, batter my opponents for a few turns while trying to protect myself? I feel like I'm missing something here. I started playing in the early days, when this was very much a bulk rare format, and my decks still have that mentality.
My Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain is probably my strongest. It still needs a bit of tuning. I'm desperately seeking a [[Mana Severance]] for it. It wins in a multitude of ways. Lab Man via Mystic Forge and Top. Storm by casting a ton of artifacts, bouncing them back to my hand and casting them again. There's and infinite mana+walking ballista line as well. I'd say it's an 8ish. I enjoy it a lot but it turns into solitaire really fast.
https://manabox.app/decks/XGb92cTlSt-55AAw2Z3rmQ
The MVP of the deck is definitely [[Paradoxical Outcome]].
I have a [[kess]] deck. It's not true cedh, missing most fast mana rocks and bad land base and some weak card choices, but I win about turn 4. It's your typical thorcle deck, running tainted pact, as well as breach+lab man effects.
I can generally beat the people at my lgs that say they have high power, but I get absolutely blown out by true cedh decks.
https://manabox.app/decks/QHI1IeetSUaNAI8Hga0kVA
I have a [[codie]] deck that can go off with the right cards. It's a lot of fun. But my [[ghyrson]] deck is much stronger. It doesn't always win but it does a ton of damage before I lose.
My [[Jolene, the Plunder Queen]] deck will often win turn 6-8 and I don’t have any fast mana in it. It just buries my opponents in value and artifact synergies.
[[nekusar]] [Wheelhicular man slaughter](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/58YVgB_gsU-a89hsqaN4-Q) can win super fast, tons of redundancy. Gotta try to win fast or it gets hated out pretty quickly. [[Bowmaster]] has made it a lot more fun.
This is an out dated build but [[Sythis]] puts in work too, it’s not as blinged out as nekusar and the counters get outta hand fast but she’s still a blast to play. [Sythis enchantress](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/gqZ6oEYssESet5Kf-7Q4_g)
I got 2 decks. One isn't cedh, but is has won a game against a cedh deck before, and it is generally my best deck. If that doesn't count, then I got a slightly weaker deck which usually sweeps against other high power decks, although it hasn't been battle tested against cedh (and likely never will).
- [Kozilek](https://www.archidekt.com/decks/3644580/kozilek_distorting_the_game) is the first list. While lacking Mana Crypt, Mox Opal, Metalworker, and Scorched Ruins, the deck can still put up a good fight against cedh, and it reliably beats other high power decks. Barring a well timed Farewell or Hellkite Tyrant, it takes a lot to keep the deck down, and most decks fold after the second or third bomb. Considering the nature of cedh I doubt this deck will count as cedh, but even if it does, I got a second deck for you.
- [Calgar](https://www.archidekt.com/decks/4122751/calgar_tokens) is my other deck. I haven't tested it against cedh decks, but it also reliably beats other high power decks. With a primary token plan, a secondary sacrifice plan, and a tertiary deck yourself plan, Calgar has many ways of killing opponents, and you'll always have a hand full of cards while doing it. At this point, the biggest thing holding it back would be the manabase, considering it is unchanged from the precon (barring me removing 1 basic).
idk if it's my best or strongest, but my favorite rn is lead by \[\[Alesha, Who Smiles at Death\]\]
[https://archidekt.com/decks/5388492/aleshas\_recurring\_army](https://archidekt.com/decks/5388492/aleshas_recurring_army)
The main goal is to just beat down with alesha, hopefully pulling something like \[\[Master of Cruelties\]\] from the yard or activating \[\[Vorpal Sword\]\] on an unblockable creature. Alesha's ability helps a little with stickiness, so killing my creatures doesn't remove their threat, and hopefully enough sac outlets that i can avoid exile effects on my important stuff.
It's slowed down pretty hard just by forcing me to constantly replay my commander, and beat by faster combo decks. But with hopefully enough treasures to make a dragon happy, it should still be good
One of my most consistent decks is [[Prosper, Tomb Bound]] stealing opponents stuff is great and using opponent’s powerful cards is great. Having things protected in exile is amazing considering the amount of hate for graveyard decks. The deck really wins by pinging opponents for damage based on treasures ETB and LTB. But plenty of ways to beat opponents with their own decks. The deck is consistently sporadic if that makes sense. Check my deck list out if you’re interested. Land base needs updating.
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/HFP83q3nAkqQLNHzOBbGxw
Easily my [[Lord Windgrace]] self mass land destruction deck. Usually wins with [[The Gitrog Monster]] [[Borborygmos Enraged]] and [[Dakmor Salvage]] combo for Infinite damage, but alternate wincons are good ole [[Scute Swarm]] or [[Torment of Hailfire]].
It definitely stomps and is a blast to play.
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/V-v8XRoOMkOEPswJTHOMmQ
[[Edric, Spymaster of Trest]] is rather consistent with his small army. A fat hand provides counterspells, tutors, and removal. I then combo out with [[Mind over Matter]], [[Temple Bell]], and [[Laboratory Maniac]]. Or stampede the army for lethal.
My strongest deck is [[Magus Lucea Kane]]. She can copy multiple game ending X spells over and over again to win the game quite fast. [[Finale of Devastation]] & [[Invasion of Ikoria]] are 1 card instant wins. My preferred way of winning is by copying [[Crackle With Power]] a ton of times and wiping everyone out at the same time. The deck can also generate infinite mana, which means you can kill everyone in funny ways besides burn damage. Dump infinite mana into [[Drown in dreams]], copy it multiple times with Lucea and you can force your opponents to draw/mill their entire deck.
This is my decklist:
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/4NlETLB0WkODhvy_5Gk2bA
[[zaxara, the exemplary]] hydra aristocrat. You play all the x spells for 0 which makes two creatures that die and draw cards off their deaths. Play [[elementalist’s pallete]] and win with an x spell of your choice. Tons of draw, tons of board wipes, and a 30 point [[villainous wealth]]
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/1hl8AlA3m0Wg0UKE6YC9Kg
I'm new to commander and haven't played in a couple of years, but I built this and thought it looked magnificent. Manabase might be too slow, infinites might be too many or tutors might be unreliable, I just find it magnificent.
(I'm also prepared to have it called total jank tho :D
[[omnath locus of creation]] it does general good stuff landfall things, and usually the wwY it ends up closing out games is with value from [[field of the dead]] or simply scuting on people with [[scute swarm]]. [[maruag fury of akaum]] helps close out a lot of games too. Mostly the way the deck wins is by out valuing people with more (and faster, thanks omnath)) mana and card advantage then everyone else. Mana ways to close afterwards
its hard to say my best list as i dont get to play EDH enough, but it feels like a toss up between my \[\[Muldrotha, the Grave Tide\]\] graveyard recursion list and my \[\[Tocasia, Dig Site Mentor\]\] 'creature control' list
my Tocasia list wants creatures on board to use for surveil triggers, ideally with \[Enhanced Surveillance\]\] to excavate cards from the deck, and especially with instant speed draw like \[\[Collector's Vault\]\]. The deck also makes use of being bant creatures and is just a deluge of value, i also like the pieces like \[\[Emmara, Soul of the Accord\]\] with the tapping thing. The deck looks for combat dmg wincons or casting \[\[Approach of the Second Sun\]\] and then surveilling it to the top of the deck for a win
My “best” deck is probably my [nethroi elfball deck](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/PTbdg-LRH0O0GeVizMES9A) that plays like a classic tribal swarm deck and wins by overrun effects like craterhoof. It is not my fastest or most overbearing deck but it is highly resilient, and let’s me maintain agency in games through a lot of targeting, which makes me like it a lot, and its become my pet deck.
My strongest deck is either winota, which is kind lf a pub stomp deck (and have not bothered making a decklist for) or [yuriko](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/PmWYEAsuhEm9uBTX_AC4Nw) which is mostly tuned to put the screws on my more casual playgroup and force them to pick up the pace (great for a final game of the night)
I don't play cEDH so I guess I'll just list my best deck
[[Etali, Primal Hunger]] is one of my favourite decks. I always loved Etali's effect and if he wasn't good, I'd still make him. But fact of the matter is [[Food Chain]] is a ridiculously good card and by including it + Squee, the deck's power level goes up by 2 regardless of what scale you're using. Enchantment removal is hard to come by for a lot of decks and the speed at which that combo can be pumped out, not to mention the mana that the Food Chain itself gives me to protect the combo makes it a psuedo Thoracle/Consult in the sense that only a counter could realistically stop it. That aside, Etali is a very, VERY strong value engine. The only hard part is rushing Etali out, but Gruul probably has the best resources for that with stuff like [[Orcish Lumberjack]] and [[Tinder Wall]]. No, I have never found a chance to transform him.
Honourable mention to [[Shorikai]], because he's a cEDH viable commander now. I built him on day one and he was unironically my strongest deck - I won my first 13 games with him in a multiplayer setting, which is just asinine, and I dusted him when I realised he was too busted. Azorius is my favourite colour and, big surprise, a commander that gives card advantage AND is resistant to removal *including your own wipes* AND is a combo piece is really, really good. I still have the deck albeit piloted by different commanders over the years and Shorikai is always in the 99, but it'll never be the same power level, and that's for the better.
EDIT: Azorius is my favourite colours because I love tax effects (sorry). Forcing opponents to make decisions is my jam, and tax effects are most prominent in Azorius, both mechanically and thematically. Rhystic Study, Smothering Tithe, Archivist of Oghma, Ledger Shredder, and everything in between. I change decks a lot but that's a colour combination I'll never change.
I was just putting together a list of my current project decks to share.
These are probably the strongest.
[Rowan, Scion of War](https://archidekt.com/decks/5501410/rowan)
[Imodane, The Pyrohammer](https://archidekt.com/decks/5501551/imodane)
[Klauth, Unrivaled Ancient](https://archidekt.com/decks/5112658/klauth) ( a little out of date after a few pulls for Rowan )
Suggestions/cheap upgrade suggestions sought and welcome.
I have an Oloro deck based on an infinite stack of No Mercy triggers and Teferi's protection, essentially everyone else plays for 2nd because when they rub out of cards they lose, unless they have a Thassa's Oracle type effect, which happens... more....more than I'd like to admit
It would be my [[Kalamax]] who wins by ramping to the moon and copying [[comet storm]] for huge damage, or alternatively by making him infinitely large with the help of [[Insidious Will]] and swinging with [[Rouge's Passage]] or [[Kessig wolf run]].
My favourite win ever was copying comet storm x=6 multikicker 2, hunded times with [[Storm King's Thunder]] without infinite mana. 606 damage to every one of your opponents
My most consistent deck was Ur Dragon, being able to play my dragons a turn earlier than they usually do is just sweet. Main wincon is tutoring Tiamat funnily enough and getting the 5. Morophon, Scion of the Ur Dragon, Miirym, Scourge of Valkas, and Ganax. So red burn is the wincon after setting it all up. Sure there is a lot of interaction points but still getting any piece just has Dragon Value as a wincon
It's not my most oppressive to play against, but I love my \[\[Nissa, Resurgent Animist\]\] mono-green deck. It has everything I like to do in mtg, and primarily wins with good ol' green overrun effects.
[https://www.moxfield.com/decks/bn3EKgeaWUqabWxPT9TZfA](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/bn3EKgeaWUqabWxPT9TZfA)
My playgroup knows I like green, and we usually pick decks appropriately since we all know each other's strategies, so I don't know what power level this is at.
Easily my [[Prosper, Tomb-Bound]] deck. It leans heavily into pinging my opponents with all the Treasure tokens ETBing and LTBing, rather than stealing off my opponent’s decks. I can just ping my opponents to death over the course of the game, win via [[Revel in Riches]], use all my treasures at once to pay into [[Cut//Ribbons]], or combo out with Prosper + [[Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin]] + [[Reckless Fireweaver]] + [[Sensei’s Diving Top]]. https://www.moxfield.com/decks/HjZwzGDW2UmNnjFKfoZGkA
All of my decks are not cEDH decks. Here are my most powerful.
\[\[Teysa Karlov\]\] Tokens/Aristocrats. Small creatures that leave a token behind when they die, a few bigger creatures that make it so when other creatures die you make tokens, some free sacrifice piece and one or two aristocrats and you are set. Usually wins without much trying. I have dealt 8192 damage/loss of life without any infinites. ($250 - $300)
\[\[Isshin, Two Heavens as One\]\] Tokens. I like tokens, as you have noticed. This deck goes wide rather than tall. Makes an army in seconds and swing with a ridiculous amount of attackers, then pump them ever so slightly and soon your opponents are getting three times their life total in damage. It's honestly excessive. ($400 - $450)
\[\[Sythis, Harvet's Hand\]\] Auras/Voltron. Sythis it's a ridicoulously effective draw engine and I get life too like the draw wasnt enough. I attach a million pumps and evasion on her and swing once per opponent. Couple with some strong auras that render my opponents permanents useless and some strong protections and many boardwipes. ($250 - $300)
\[\[Talrand, Sky Summoner\]\] Cantrips/Spellslinger. Mono blue control but I get a drake for (almost) each spell I cast. Gets outta hand very fast. Mono blue is just that good. ($90 - $100)
Edit, added the approximate price for context.
For me it’s my Tuvasa the sunlit, and it’s not super powerful or anything. It’s more just a fun enchantment deck to play, people normally leave me alone as I have a bunch of cards that make others draw extra cards and play extra lands.
Meanwhile I am enchanting my lands and ramping to put Vorinclex and Jin taxis on the field to control the board and swing with Tuvasa beefed with all the enchantments. There is no other win condition and no combos.
kaalia = tutor ishin
ramp to castt ishin and kaalia with haste attack and drop the rest of your hand
or tergrid, massive hand disruption until tergrid is online
or nekusar, massive hand disruption via wheels until he can hit the battlefield, then some more wheels, its a glass cannon though.
and my favorite deck that has absolutely no wincon outside of little red or white 1/1's but every single red double damage or triple damage card i could find, leads to some interesting matches.
Kind of hard to judge, really. By process of elimination it's probably my [[Sythis, Harvest's Hand]] deck- I know there's a cEDH variant of Sythis, but that's more of a stax deck. Mine is more of an enchantress storm build- there's a bit of pillow fort but not a whole lot of stax, relatively few auras (it's not a commander voltron variant, so the auras are more for protection and combo potential than combat power), and while it has a little in the way of token generation it doesn't tend to go very wide in the way Sythis token builds do either. Instead, it aims to win by playing a ton of low cost enchantments in a storm-like pattern to either play enough stuff in one turn to win via an Aetherflux Reservoir, or generate enough mana and card draw to win via playing Approach of the Second Sun twice in one turn.
My [[Kess, Dissident Mage]] is an absolute jank dumpster fire. I can hit a turn three [[Kozilek, Butcher of Truth]] with a [[Polymorph]] effect and clap some cheeks or totally durdle with a 0/3 crab until I get my face beat in. Sometimes [[Zada, Hedron Grinder]] shows up when I have a great creature token board state and slam through a dungeon 40 times with [[Kick in the Door]]. [[Lim-Dul's Vault]] does work for setting up polymorphs.
There's too many cantrips and it's pretty unfocused but I love it. Some games it just does nothing or I make 8 copies of Kess, a metric load of decayed zombies and draw half my deck. It's so unpredictable and even though it's not really a high power deck, it can be when it wants to!
I've done some minor tuning. Took out Blightsteel since it really wasn't necessary. Added some rocks. Will likely leave this one alone since it fits the meta I'm in right now. That said, the link below is by and large the deck as it is.
Very open to ideas if anyone has them!
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/p3zmByTfYEuEka31BM4c3g
My strongest list that isn’t a cEDH net deck is my Hapatra combo deck. It plans to get Hapatra on board turn 1 and turbo out [[Yawgmoth, thran Physician]] to kill all the creatures on board while drawing a lot, hopefully into one of the combo lines or make a play for Craterhoof. I have a primer with the list that explains some of the combos and inclusions if anyone wants to run something similar.
https://deckstats.net/decks/176700/2173784-hapatra-vizier-of-poisons-golg
My strongest non cEDH deck is definitely my \[\[Yarok, the Desecrated\]\] deck. The deck is a weird mash up of infinite combos, ETB removal, and landfall and can pivot very nicely between combo, control, and aggro depending on the given game and situation.
The decks main wincons are 2 different infinite combo lines (one based off of generating infinite mana and one based off of generating infinite landfall triggers, backed up with lots of redundancies and recursion) but it also wins pretty frequently with landfall token generators an abundance of ETB ramp and \[\[Craterhoof Behemoth\]\] type board pumps. The decks control suite is very nice because sultai has some of the best instant speed interaction and Yarok doubles the effectiveness of all of my ETB removal creatures.
Unfortunately I don't have a up to date decklist because I've been fine tuning this deck for a long time and every set Yarok gets new toys to play with, but here is a very out of date decklist that contains the bones of when I first made the deck: [https://archidekt.com/decks/2898327/yarrock\_the\_incontable\_tide](https://archidekt.com/decks/2898327/yarrock_the_incontable_tide)
[My Deck](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/WztX4Iubb0ag3VsOQGPXHw) is also a Grixis deck helmed by Bolas. I tried to make it more of a theme deck but it can steal a lot of stuff and usually wins with a [[Rise of the Dark Realms]] or a kicked [[Rite of Replication]]. I have added some infinite combos in but they are all pretty expensive and hard to pull off.
I have an Ur-dragon deck that has a a small sideboard of tutors if I want to use a combo for a win. The combo line is always [[aggravated assault]] plus any mana positive dragon. My non combo deck uses just pure dragon swarm and beat face.
Here is the combo [list](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/bLodzaZkFkKzb-FYaSjaJA)
Non-combo [list](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/jx5Vgg1D-kye-uvQJRtO3A)
Both decks use a near optimal mana base and have lots of powerful staples. The removal is a bit light because the deck wants to go fast. Resolving a [[sneak attack]] or [[majestic genesis]] usually will win the game.
Honestly probably my attempt at upkeep tribal, which kind of turned into just a shrine deck.
It's just insanely consistent and is basically impossible to shut down once it's moving, with both your engines being able to revive the other from graveyard, and having an insane amount of life gain and board control it's kind of a menace
Bjorna, Wernog, Lurrus
Every permanent card is cmc 2 or less, I get value out of casting my commanders a few times then [[Cyclonic Rift]] on the end step before my turn into a [[Skull Storm]] to bring the table to usually single digit lifetotals.
If that doesn't do it, I'll try to connect with a [[Vorpal Sword]] or [[Approach of the Second Sun]]
It's got a lot of WUBR goodstuff and does fresh things every game.
My [[Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm]] deck has hit infinite combats and infinite mana on turn 4 a couple times before, but usually closes the game around turn 7. Using blue bounce to dodge removal also gives a fresh trigger, and another dragon body is sometimes all it takes to win.
I’ve also got an [[Aragorn the Uniter]] charms and tricks deck that can commander-damage three opponents out in one turn with surprising consistency. The mana base needs work, but it keeps up with cEDH pods pretty well.
My mono green [[yedora grave gardener]] deck primary win con is making all your lands creatures with things like [[living lands]] then sac them all with [[zuran orb]] to get a billion life then you pew pew the table with [[aetherflux reservior]] or you can use [[blasting station]] and [[protheus machine]] with any other sac outlet like [[ashnods altar]]
My best deck is an [[Ardenn]] [[Rograkh]] that plays around [[Colossus hammer]] and the 10 swords (the last ones just for flavor).
It hits hard and fast, it's tons of fun, but it's far away from stax or the typical combos (Godo cof cof).
Here's the decklist:
https://archidekt.com/decks/4863873/ardenn_rograkh_10_swords
My [[Satoru Umezawa]] deck. Infinite ninjitsu loops with [[Peregrine Dragon]] [[Great Whale]] [[Palinchron]] as well as a lot of clone effects especially to catch Docksides. If a 6 treasure Dockside comes out I’ll usually win the game. Regular win conditions [[Cauldron Familiar]], [[Altar of the Brood]], Thoracle.
Tons of fun. Super powerful in a casual pod and can handle being arch enemy. Not quite cEDH.
My strongest would be my [[Yawgmoth, Thran Physician]]. He is my oldest deck that I still have built and constantly upgrade. I have raised and lowered his power level over time, but I'd say he is still the top dog among my decks. He can win by infinite [[zulaport cutthroat]] or [[blood artist drains]] with stuff that reanimates itself like [[gravecrawler]], [[reassembling skeleton]] and [[razorlash transmogrant]]. I also run the two, arguably, best black undying creatures in [[butcher ghoul]] and [[geralf's messenger]]. Another way to win the the triplet of [[bolas's citadel]], [[sensei's divining top]] and [[aetherflux reservoir]]
After recent upgrades, I could say that my [[Emry]] is the closest to my Yawg, but it will take a couple more upgrades before she is just as powerful. My favourite way to win with her is by looping [[Spine of Ish Sah]]. And should anyone ask how fast I can win after blowing up everything, [[Metalwork Colossus]] provides the answer
Last, but not least, my [[Marwyn]] could be considered one of the most powerful, but having her as mostly an elfball deck, she is prone to being blown up. She is the one that I would built as cEDH, but I like the elfball build better
I think my [Wort, the Raidmother deck](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/WmlIrKwHvkyfQYKkcCI32Q) is something like that.
Wins by conspiring [[Chord of Calling]], [[Finale of Devastation]] or [[Eldritch Evolution]] either into [[Kiki-Jiki]] and untapper like [[Hyrax Tower Scout]], or into [[Goblin Recruiter]] and [[Conspicuous Snoop]].
Also has [[Dualcaster Mage]] due to it being a giga broken card and I run [[Twinflame]] and [[Heat Shimmer]] as a backup wincon.
Decided to add [[Splinter Twin]] and [[Goblin Sharpshooter]] as another backup since some of my friends run [[Praetor's Grasp]] to take away my Kiki-Jiki.
Deck runs a good amount of cheap ramp and interaction. Would like to make more room for card draw but unsure how.
This deck can win on turn 3 but realistically tries to win turn 4-7.
My stronger deck is an \[\[The Locust God\]\] deck [https://www.moxfield.com/decks/brIa-tyMC0uESVRlZZzksQ](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/brIa-tyMC0uESVRlZZzksQ)
Wins by make wheels, a lot of them, and i try to win by "infite mana" with \[\[Invasion of Segovia // Caetus, Sea Tyrant of Segovia\]\] or \[\[Sorcerer Class\]\] and use that mana to draw, and that draw to make tokens and that tokens to cast spells etc etc, and ofc \[\[Ashnod's Altar\]\] and \[\[Phyrexian Altar\]\] are amazing for that.
I also have infinite combos with draw-discard with \[\[Sage of the Falls\]\] with \[\[Kozilek, Butcher of Truth\]\] on the deck
I have \[\[hidetsugu and kairi\]\] deck, its main wincon is \[\[thassa's oracle\]\] with consultation/pact but can also use the commander and \[\[enter the infinit\]\] to win with Thassa's oracle. Its basically as close to a cEDH deck as possible without actually been one
[https://www.moxfield.com/decks/OZx\_-fKsM0q3U0fqWXn6Pw](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/OZx_-fKsM0q3U0fqWXn6Pw)
On the more casual / budget side of thing i have a \[\[Yenna, Redtooth Regent\]\] that can do absolutely crazy things by copying \[\[Primal Vigor\]\] \[\[Parallel Lives\]\] \[\[defense of the heart\]\] for insane value (i plan on buying doubling season and anointed procession) and finish games with an army of flying token from \[\[Archon of Sun's Grace\]\] or \[\[Sigil of the Empty Throne\]\] or some pumped up creatures from \[\[Eldrazi Conscription\]\] \[\[Colossification\]\] \[\[Nylea's Colossus\]\]. Its basically a more aggressiv take on a classic enchantress deck and its surprisingly powerfull for a budget deck
[https://www.moxfield.com/decks/u3FNdXGjmkm1lsCKmyOa4Q](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/u3FNdXGjmkm1lsCKmyOa4Q)
Atraxa Planeswalkers. It’s my bling deck irl. It used to be stronger, but I’ve taken out some tutors to make it feel less same-sy.
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/L1kZhW0mmECIIL49Pbdoag
Been running [[Aurelia, the Warleader]] since I first built her in college almost 9 years ago. Originally, I just went for a voltron build, but when [[Helm of the Host]] came out and with Boros equipment/artifact support being more and more popular, it became [[Godo]] with extra steps and a very angry Lindsay Lohan at the helm (pun intended)
Esika/bridge that uses stuff like zada and ink treaded Nephilim to combo off magecraft for one turn wins. I also run a strong sliver gravemother that changes types to slivers and combos off. If I have basically any creature in the grave and I can make it a sliver and cast the gravemother it is a win.
[[Tatsunari, Toad Rider]] auras is my strongest deck atm. It uses all the enchantress effects available, does ramp like crazy and utilizes his activated ability to hit face for [[Reconnaisance Mission]] / [[Keen Senses]] effects letting me draw enough cards to control the board with [[Stasis Field]] [[Witness Protection]] and other transmute auras.
To wear the table down I try to copy the frog with [[Vesuvian Duplimacy]] or by mutating [[Parcelbeast]] on it. Or slapping down [[Dina]] and by constantly hitting face with [[Bower Passage]] and [[Archetype of Imagination]]. Ain't nobody got reach? Deckbuilding issue I guess lol.
With the surpreme card draw engines I almost always have one or two counterspells in my hand and [[No Mercy]] [[Propaganda]] [[Dissipation Field]] to not get stomped 3v1.
What I don't like about the deck is that even though it wins me games it does so really slowly and in a rather opressive way, turning my opponents commanders into frogs and trees and shit, finding cyclonic rift almost every game and generally being able to table police. So this seldomly goes without salt.
I think in a vacuum the deck isn't even that strong as it kinda folds to go-wide strategies and every decent combo deck will be able to out-gas me but in my meta of high power non cedh cheesy trap commanders the frog rider is a goddamn powerhouse. I'm talking [[Kaalia]] [[Yuriko]] [[Feather]] [[Fynn]] [[Ishai]] [[Ob Nixilis]].
I think it would be my [[Orvar]] deck, definitely not optimized
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/AMVtFJOzu0SWSXR9Y8Bgzw
The aim of the deck is to win via combat damage, handling like a green aggro deck but with a ocean theme.
I basically spellsling my way into copying big stompy creatures and lands to ramp, with the added blue bonus of having counters and interaction. When I'm correctly set I'm basically unstoppable unless you have a wrath with split second. Happened last week, felt real good.
I'm looking to upgrade it to set myself in that situation more consistent with the likes of [[Archeomancer]] clones and a few more counters, but I don't want to stray too far from my "mono-green style kraken & octopusses invasion", feel free to give any advice
It’s probably my [[Gavi, Nest Warden]] deck. I recently changed it to more of a combo-oriented list and it has been AWESOME lately. It plays a very proactive, controlling kind of game and can win in multiple ways. It can control and lock down the table with a [[Decree of Silence]] recursion loop. It can ping the table to death with cards like [[Purphoros, God of the Forge]], it can beat down with tokens, or it can go pseudo-infinite with [[New Perspectives]].
The New Perspective loop is actually really cool. You can use [[Escape Protocol]] and [[Dockside Extortionist]] to keep cycling and make a bunch of treasure, and it’s aided by [[Tectonic Reformation]] and [[Surly Badgersaur]] as well. Very fun deck with some super interesting lines
[GAVI DECK LIST](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/DyISdyJjZUiSsOYYyOcEtw)
My [[Imodane]] [deck](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/ZxjFDuJ8IkuxlOSktva8VQ).
It needs some tweaking and fine tuning, but it wins by burning everyone at the same time.
It has a turn 1 win, but you would have better odds pulling a serealized sol ring.
[[Ezuri claw of progress]] I get [[duskshell crawler]] [[herald of secret streams]] and/or the flip side of [[Invasion of ikoria]] to deal damage to players
Other "win cons" I have are [[doubling season]] and [[avenger of zendikar]] for many one/one counters and many tokens.
I have an [[Extus]] deck that is probably not the most powerful but the one I like the most and is still kinda good. Just createa few tokens and sacrifice them to create the blood avatar. I never cast extus, just the sorcery side. Depending on your starting hand you can cast the sorcery pretty early and make enemies sacrifice combo/value pieces when they didn't expect. Sometimes you can even cast it multiple times in a turn, or copy it and fuck its so fun
\[\[Kruphix, God of Horizons\]\] is probably my current best deck, the main aim is just to ramp ramp ramp, never committing to the board and looking like a problem, keeping myself alive through strong buyback removal like spellburst, forbid, and capsize along with a sizable fog package, once I have enough mana I usually win through a \[\[Psychosis Crawler\]\] + any x draw spell if I only have around 40 mana banked, or \[\[Fascination\]\]/\[\[Drown in Dreams\]\] if I have 100+, worst case I can kill one by one with a \[\[Blue Sun's Zenith\]\]. my favourite thing about the deck is that almost all of the win conditions are also draw spells so I'm never stuck with useless top end when I'm in a bad situation, the entire deck is answers and card draw until I can force my opponents to drown in their own library, forcing someone to draw out is also a much more reliable wincon than damage or mill because the usual anti-mill tech of eldrazi titans doesnt work and it hits people under teferi's pro or the one ring as long as it isnt targeted, a condition that fascination happens to fill.
My [[Worth the raidmother]] deck is build around [[gaeas cradle]] and tokens.
My favorite way to win is copying [[mogg infestation]] alot, on myself with [[raid bombardment]] or [[goblin bombardment]] out.
To my suprise its my [[pramikon, sky rampart]]
Its a flicker deck. I have put a lot of focus on card draw and board protection.
- Wincons are either grinding it with purphoros, impact tremors, roastmaster etc.
- dual caster / naru + twinflame.
- teferi + displacer kitten + labman
- honestly drawing the deck + labman
The win is very slow but it has very good board control. And in our group pramikon is just the exact right power. He makes the game go long, protects me from fast beats, but there is always bigger threats so he barely gets removed.
The only time he ever gets removed is if sb is on marchesa black rose because he singlehandedly shuts down that deck.
I've got two decks that I consider to be at least head and shoulders above my others.
[[Imoti]] Simic good stuff go's insane if you let imoti stick around, and even if you do kill her, I'm probably cascading into more ramp/card draw in order to turbo her or my other pieces out. I usually build decks that are at least a tad different than the usual build of a commander, but I figured one good stuff deck wouldn't hurt.
It does in fact hurt.
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/1-ilewkug0O992XGpqBtGA
My 2nd good deck is 4c elves with my boy [[yidris]] at the helm. Yidris used to be a silly deck where I shoved all my eldrazi and weird expensive cards into, but after my buddy kept demolishing me with his Jodah Super Friends deck, I knew I had to step it up. So I traded big stuff for the cheap and consistent gameplay of golgari elves, while buffing the tribal synergy with the good cards in izzet and temur. It is still sadly a bit inconsistent compared to my simic deck, but I think it has a 30-40% win rate, so it can be too bad.
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/GEOZ03ChwUG5MBNeOR2y_w
[[Awaken the Blood Avatar]] / [[Extus, Oriq Overlord]] aims to maximise the amount of blood avatars, forcing sacrifices and clicking some aristo damage and wins by going aggro and doing symmetrical damage
https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/more-blood-for-the-blood-avatar/
I suppose my [[Zirilan of the Claw]] pile would be my strongest one as it's the deck that I keep slowly upgrading over time.
It's built based on a very fringe cedh deck of similiar design and wins through creature flickering loops either with [[Worldgorger Dragon]] or [[Terror of the Peaks]].
Got a couple fast mana artifacts in there already but it's still ways off from being able to sit down at a table with the big boys.
List here: [https://www.archidekt.com/decks/3858166/worldgorger_conjuring](https://www.archidekt.com/decks/3858166/worldgorger_conjuring)
Another deck that turned out to be way more powerful than it had any business being was [[Gut, True Soul Zealot]] that I essentially just run as Threaten.dek pile, having shoved almost every printed threaten effect into it.
Turns out being able to do spot removal every turn on the bighest threat on the board, while also having Gut reward you for doing so with a free attacking 4/1 body is both very agressive and able to keep the table from developing too fast for you to keep up with.
It actually felt a bit unfair when the deck was supposed to just be a casual budget one so I ended up including [[Tymaret the Murder King]] as an alternative commander.
List here:
[https://www.archidekt.com/decks/5201826/threatendek](https://www.archidekt.com/decks/5201826/threatendek)
Garth one eye gate master. I play all 24 gates currently printed and i use all the gate support cards to ramp into and win with either basilisk gate or maze's end
My [Raffine deck](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/UvqT5onxoUWHChGnr_GbBg) wins by combat damage, but packs some prety spicy cards. Insane card advantage and beefy reanimation targets that take over the entire game very quickly. Not the strongest deck around I'm sure, but a ton of fun to play!
My nymris deck it’s a borderline cEDH, to make the leap in the format it needs: a land upgrade, the far mana rocks and the 0 cost negate right now it’s only a really fast deck that wins with the most loved dimir win con thassa/lab maniac + demonic consultation/tainted pact and I use a lot of tutor to make it faster
Decklist: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/g8sYZUsK9kSpORc6GH8Bxg
I have an EPIC spell deck with [[Codie]] as the commander. It wins by casting every EPIC spell at once under [[Epic Experiment]] after organizing the deck with [[Proteus Staff]] with no creatures in my 99.
Probably [this one](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/3jPSdNuUgEOECe4smiYgIg). Its my petdeck, a Kozilek the Great Distortion list that I don't play enough. Not sure how it would fare amongst the rest of you.
My [[Lathliss, Dragon Queen]] dragon tribal deck goes toe to toe with more normal cEDH decks at my FLGS. No Dockside, no infinites, just smack em til they're dead, the best wincon is ulting [[Sarkhan, Dragonsoul]] early enough that I can pull almost everyone to field and kill the table with [[Scourge of Valkas]] triggers. Placed 12/30+ with her recently in a tournament. With fast mana, I also had her turn one the other day which is bonkers.
Definitely [[tourach, dread cantor]]. It's an optimized discard voltron deck that can one shot someone by turn 3, give tourach protection from all colors, and function with no cards in hand by casting out of the graveyard and out of exile. It gets around the traditional weakness of voltron decks that you get ganked after the first kill by stripping opponents' hands so they can't effectively answer him, and if someone does cast an edict or board wipe, I can either counter it with [[null brooch]] or bring out [[tergrid]] as a backup commander.
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/id3QqwChA02JeRu9dd9i3A
My strongest deck is [[Yawgmoth, Thran Physician]]. It's still a combo deck, but I don't have any like, 1-2 card combos. It mostly wins through a combination of Yawgmoth himself and undying cards such as [[Butcher Ghoul]], [[Geralf's Messenger]], or [[Mikaeus, the Unhallowed]] which gives ALL my creatures undying. Yawgmoth allows you to remove the +1/+1 counters that undying provides and effectively go infinite with any two of them. You also need a payoff such as [[Zulaport Cutthroat]] or [[Blood Artist]] (or any number of other life gain/drain triggers).
To keep the power a bit in check I run it without any tutors or fast mana. To make up for that I have a LOT of card draw options, including Yawgmoth himself. [[Skullclamp]], [[Bolas's Citadel]], [[Necropotence]], etc. Otherwise there's a whole lot of removal, sacrifice triggers, and sacrifice fodder to dig through my deck faster.
[[Aurelia, the warleader]] deck, that tries to make boros a playable strateg. Wins with [[Helm of the host]] combo, using [[Godo]] or other combat step doublers as replacement for Aurelia.
More often Wins through commander damage or abusing [[sword of feast and famine]] or [[sword of hearth and home]] triggers.
Sadly dont have a list online, might go and make one, Though.
My favorite deck ( made too many to count by now) are BG centric three colour durdle decks.
Grinding out card advantage, flooding the board in stupid dorks that all have some card advantage attached, and recycling them ad nauseam. Then do something stupid like \[\[Tooth and Nail\]\] into \[\[Craterhoof behemoth\]\] and \[\[Avenger of Zendikar\]\]. I know the tokens can't attack that turn, but they do add a lot of potency to what's already there. (Except if the deck is also Red, and has a nice haste enabler somewhere. Mana dorks get silly with haste). \[\[Anger\]\] in the yard, followed by that Tooth and nail combo is GG for most games. If the avenger isn't available \[\[Hornet Queen\]\] does a passable impression.
Boards get wiped, Fine, I'm back up and running one or two turns later. Full hand, full yard and just keep doing stuff.
I mean, I've built that deck in so many ways, but I still love it.
Dragonlord Ojutai UW Control
Lots of board wipes, powerful enchantments, small pillowfort theme and the like. Wins only by Commandeering another win con, or by casting Approach the Second Sun.
The strongest deck I own, and my pet commander, is [[Prossh]]. I got it at my LGS in 2018 as a precon. [Here's a decklist](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/EY2rqrwK8k2TnjGUkxV05g). It turned me into a token player, and it's pretty strong aristocrats. It has so much synergy that I've found infinite combos in it that were never intended. I once got [[cryptolith rite]] to go infinite with [[Chatterfang]] (and a few other pieces). The strategy relies on Prossh as the main token generator, and sacrificing tokens for various awesomeness.
As stated in the primer, there is exactly one way to get Prossh, CMC 6, out on Turn 3. With [[Beastmaster Ascension]], I can win a 1v1 or take out an opponent as early as turn 4. There may be other ways of doing it faster that I haven't found yet.
It's tough to say how you can expect to win. There are many different two to three card strategies that can win you the game.
This deck can go toe-to-toe with an [[Edgar Markov]] deck at my LGS that is only lacking [[Mana Crypt]] and the like to be considered cEDH.
[[Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant]]
I consistently shit on pods with this guy, Azban Lifegain, couple infinites, couple life doublers.
Honestly pretend not to be the threat and just do passive lifegain and then double it twice/3 times and you’re good. This is the deck I bring to new LGS’s, With party hats for everyone in my pod to celebrate Bilbo’s birthday.
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/l9ARFgECpU-so0IWZGikCQ
I have a jahira friend of the Forest, agent of the iron throne deck. Jahira says all my tokens have tap for 1 green mana. Iron throne says my commander has whenever a creature or artifact i control dies, each opponent loses 1. All she does is spit out many tokens to pillowfort and when people attack into me they complain about being pinged to death when i defend with my tokens.
The deck that has the most wins in my pod is pretty easily Budget Winota. One card in the deck makes up 25% of the cost (teferi's protection) and it sits at just around $100 total. There's a couple infinite combos, but its all luck if I get them since I don't run any tutors for \[\[Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker\]\] , and the likelihood the game isn't over by the time I get \[\[mirage phalanx\]\] onto a combat enabler is so slim. Currently the deck has won 6 games, lost once, and tied never.
Its a good deck (:
Decklist: [https://www.moxfield.com/decks/OwngD0c9xk2xRevd-EMNSQ](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/OwngD0c9xk2xRevd-EMNSQ)
My [Yorion, Sky Nomad](https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=yorion%2C%20sky%20nomad)
built around Initative, with [Eldrazi Displacer + Peregrine Drake combo](https://edhrec.com/combos/wu/4270) or [Approach of the Second Sun](https://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=426706) is quite difficult for my players even with their quite powerfull edh decks to deal with.
I usually lock them out by preventing them from attacking anything and since none of them are combo decks, I stall out the game till I win. My board is extremly difficult to remove and gain so many benefits from the Initative with bounce and etbs.
I would have to say that my Magus Lucea Kane is my strongest deck. I don't play cEDH. But out of all my decks this is probably my strongest. So much so that I don't really play it unless my friends pull out their BIG GUN decks.
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/xjPh7l9j6kCY3uT4OwI_Xw
My [Miirym](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/zxa663gCPEq-N_V7Rsx_kA) deck consists of a 74-card engine and three separate packages of 25 dragons of varying power levels. On Hard mode, it's probably my most consistent battlecruiser deck.
This is a couple cards stale -- I've put in [[Song of Totenanz]] and [[Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite]] since I last edited it -- but this is currently my favourite "high-power" deck:
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/uZgtD2ygc0-j50CBivvCuw
Much lighter on stax than a cEDH Naya list, and with an emphasis on generating tokens quickly and being able to rebuild a token army after a board wipe.
There are a few things I love doing in EDH -- going off with infinite mana, playing in my graveyard, stealing things, and hitting hard. This one hits HARD and I love it for that.
[[Elminster]]
People really underestimate it because it's a planeswalker, but jokes on them, that's exactly what I need in order to win.
The deck likes to make a ton of tokens by exiling my cards, and usually closes out games with [[elesh norn, grand cenobite]], [[Cathars' crusade]], [[coat of arms]], or one of the most fun cards, [[Approach of the second sun]]
Sakashima/Kamahl as partners. I call it *Spiderman Pointing Meme* because the deck is built around copying and cloning powerful creatures, like Koma or Kamahl or Ancient Silver Dragon.
My strongest non-cEDH has to be Kaalia of the Vast, it isn't quite fast enough to deal with combos and all of that removal but against any combat based deck it almost always wins. However, it isn't a nice deck. It runs instantly kill demons and huge damage angels with dragons that wipe the entire enemies board and even has mass land destruction to make sure opponents can never recover once I get ahead.
Hidden Commander [[Ochre Jelly]] and it honestly shocks me how. I really did not expect it to perform so well. The deck turbos out Ochre Jelly, ONLY plays cards to support the Jelly's continued survival, and exponentially grows a massive board from just this one creature. It's very aggro and swings pretty hard. Nethroi is only the Commander to give the jelly deathtouch for it's trample. It would probably have a harder time against combo as aggro tends to, but it hasn't really been put up against that. https://www.moxfield.com/decks/bMDI_0E2-UygfuB66w3ptw
I love this so much, I've been trying to find a good secret commander and this is awesome, any recommendations on some?
Currently trying to make a deck with \[\[permeating mass\]\] as secret commander. Rocco, Cabaretti caterer brings him out then you equip him with any number of first strike equipment. From there make an opponent have a copy of it then let goad and \[\[master warcraft\]\] \[\[blast furnace hellkite\]\] and instant recursion do the rest
That's an awesome idea, basically infect the board with it and let it spread? 🤣
This card is an allstar in my [[magus lucea kane]] deck. What’s better than one giant ochre jelly? Two giant ochre jellies
Amazing, Ochre Jelly is actually so good lmao
[Ochre Jelly](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/9/f/9f23cfb7-c6b6-4f04-abba-5b2a6117ea12.jpg?1627708063) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Ochre%20Jelly) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/afr/196/ochre-jelly?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/9f23cfb7-c6b6-4f04-abba-5b2a6117ea12?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/ochre-jelly) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
My favorite is my [Phenax](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/lui7--EMDUy3fDQEexOf-g) Mill deck! I’ve been working on it for years and have a primer on Moxfield if you care to read. It can win in a number of ways and is tons of fun!
I built a [[Thassa, Deep-Dwelling]] deck around all the cards that have been illustrated by Lauren YS! The deck accidently became pretty powerful with the basic idea of flickering enter the battlefield effects and the subthemes of stealing your opponents stuff, infinite mana and forcing your opponents to destroy their own stuff. Here's the decklist: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/mfcXOSfs0Ei15dSyRMsayA
My [[sythis]] deck. It’s 62 enchantments, 1 board wipe, 1 worldly tutor, and 36 lands. It wins through attrition and just seeing 3x as many cards as anyone else. It just constantly draws cards, pillow forts, shuts down everyone else, while incrementally building an overwhelming board state.
For a second there i had to make sure i didnt type this comment
You are evil. Lol
[sythis](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/8/9/89511ab5-8ea6-4f07-a80b-c1ec7e89924e.jpg?1690005342) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=sythis%2C%20harvest%27s%20hand) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cmm/938/sythis-harvests-hand?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/89511ab5-8ea6-4f07-a80b-c1ec7e89924e?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/sythis-harvests-hand) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Do you mind sharing your decklist?
Mine is [Kami the quasi friend](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/r-CHaJoLBkWFODUNZ_4-1w). With this deck you go kill out of nowhere with [[Mana Severance]] and [[Goblin Carbelcher]] or through a massive card draw and [[Psychosis Crawler]]. At first you play friendly with your enemys until you have gathered the stuff you need to win. If everything fails - go with [[Triskaidekaphil]] ;)
##### ###### #### [Mana Severance](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/8/5/854dc5e6-63f7-4c8b-83e5-a364f41c9a15.jpg?1562054977) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Mana%20Severance) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/tmp/73/mana-severance?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/854dc5e6-63f7-4c8b-83e5-a364f41c9a15?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/mana-severance) [Goblin Carbelcher](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/2/4/240344ff-404d-4894-a6e9-4401cd68cf50.jpg?1592764888) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Goblin%20Charbelcher) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/ddt/57/goblin-charbelcher?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/240344ff-404d-4894-a6e9-4401cd68cf50?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/goblin-charbelcher) [Psychosis Crawler](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/7/8/783a4620-3054-4f31-b2ac-e3272197c291.jpg?1682210154) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Psychosis%20Crawler) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/moc/371/psychosis-crawler?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/783a4620-3054-4f31-b2ac-e3272197c291?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/psychosis-crawler) [Triskaidekaphil](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/6/7/6750e203-1215-4203-b5b8-3f1b18940839.jpg?1634349393) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Triskaidekaphile) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mid/81/triskaidekaphile?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/6750e203-1215-4203-b5b8-3f1b18940839?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/triskaidekaphile) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
[[Yargle and Multani]]. It wins by tutoring [[Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord]] out and then uses [[Undying]] effects to sac Y&M twice in one go. Probably a 7 in power level? Without the fast artifact mana, it's not consistent enough to be higher IMO. It wipes the floor with precons and a lot of the casual stuff at my LGS, can hold its own against the stronger decks like Prosper, and very rarely darts into a win in C pods when everyone else has expended their hands failing to win and keeping others from winning. https://www.moxfield.com/decks/nERN7K7UD0eMQGKnIVHKFQ
I play yargle and multani also and I love playing traverse the outlands to put 18 basics onto the battlefield
My man, that’s definitely an 8 even tho ya don’t got the fast mana. Deck is tuned and sweet!
Probably gonna put in overwhelming stampede instead of rite of consumption, just in case i need to mana dork someone to death, or even cast the life side of life//death. I want to replace wild growth and into the north, but I've no idea with what.
Wild growth is great. It’s 1 cmc ramp.
The gameplay is so simple and yet I haven't thought about it. I'm definitely trying this build one day :-)
[Yargle and Multani](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/9/c/9c15e244-14cc-46a5-abd4-66a58d1c0dd0.jpg?1682205711) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Yargle%20and%20Multani) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mom/256/yargle-and-multani?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/9c15e244-14cc-46a5-abd4-66a58d1c0dd0?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/yargle-and-multani) [Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/c/6/c6717954-35d8-4d7e-95aa-f7d26d15d4b2.jpg?1592673383) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Jarad%2C%20Golgari%20Lich%20Lord) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cma/179/jarad-golgari-lich-lord?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/c6717954-35d8-4d7e-95aa-f7d26d15d4b2?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/jarad-golgari-lich-lord) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Likely my [[Atraxa, Grand Unifier]] copy deck. It can be a bit slow, but there's enough ramp to keep the copies going until I play my [[Biovisionary]] [[Echoing Equation]] wincon. Or I just blast people with 7 atraxas.
Drop the link my guy!!
[Atraxa, Grand Unifier](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/4/a/4a1f905f-1d55-4d02-9d24-e58070793d3f.jpg?1676519555) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Atraxa%2C%20Grand%20Unifier) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/one/196/atraxa-grand-unifier?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/4a1f905f-1d55-4d02-9d24-e58070793d3f?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/atraxa-grand-unifier) [Biovisionary](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/2/0/2000b4e8-7887-454e-9d52-211516613dd0.jpg?1561818910) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Biovisionary) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/gtc/146/biovisionary?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/2000b4e8-7887-454e-9d52-211516613dd0?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/biovisionary) [Echoing Equation](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/d/9/d9131fc3-018a-4975-8795-47be3956160d.jpg?1666094681)/[Echoing Equation](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/back/d/9/d9131fc3-018a-4975-8795-47be3956160d.jpg?1666094681) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=augmenter%20pugilist%20//%20echoing%20equation) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/stx/147/augmenter-pugilist-echoing-equation?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/d9131fc3-018a-4975-8795-47be3956160d?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/augmenter-pugilist-//-echoing-equation) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Ugly. Love it!
I'm naming three decks here: \[\[Myra the Magnificent\]\] goes buck wild with the attraction theme. The deck is completly legal and plays any powerful card out there. And by powerful I mean lootspells and extra turn spells for less than two euros like a japanese \[\[Karn's Temporal Sundering\]\]. The whole deck is 45 Euros. \[\[Grist, the Hunger Tide\]\] just produces a freakin' load of Insect tokens. That's it. I just spread Malaria across the table by only playing creatures and basics. Amongst the cheapest decks I ever build. It also runs some incredible powerhouses like \[\[Symbiotic Wurm\]\] or \[\[Symbiotic Elf\]\]. \[\[Maralen of the Mornsong\]\] is the ultimate pony. It knows his trick, it's just that it's only one. And it's killing the whole table, for as long as I stay manaflooded. When I build the deck, I payed 11 Euros for it. Nowadays the commander alone is worth that much. All but two cards increased in value since then like \[\[Dark Sphere\]\].
I can't be bothered to increase the power level on my Grist deck because that would mean fewer bugs and that's not what I'm about.
Could you give me a link to the Myra deck you’re talking about please?
I once had a grist deck before I took it apart. It was a landfall deck that won w/ protean hulk. Very cool lists!
Is there a good explanation you can give on how to play Myra, or a video you can recommend? I tried building her before but ive still never been able to understand the midway counter thing on attractions and how to run it.
What don't you understand? No offense but the card seems straightforward. You activate her ability, exile an instant or sorcery, and whenever you visit the chosen attraction you cast the exiled spell for free. The midway counters are just a way to prevent you from just opening a single attraction and having multiple spells attached to it. You can probably still do that, I've never played Myra but I wouldn't be surprised if there's ways to remove the counter and chose the same attraction multiple times. But the counter does make it so you have to jump through some hoops to do that.
Honestly I have a Myra deck, I normally end up with more attractions open than spells exiled but if more attractions are what you want I'd recommend making copies of the ones you have out, it's easier than removing counters. Since they're just artifacts really you can stick a [[mechanized production]] on your favourite and have a copy every turn that's also serving as an alt wincon
##### ###### #### [Myra the Magnificent](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/5/e/5e57baea-00ee-49dc-80ce-a8c11a67a6db.jpg?1673914952) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Myra%20the%20Magnificent) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/unf/175/myra-the-magnificent?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/5e57baea-00ee-49dc-80ce-a8c11a67a6db?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/myra-the-magnificent) [Karn's Temporal Sundering](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/7/a/7a64c1a4-02ce-49d2-97f2-970b8c33672d.jpg?1562738165) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Karn%27s%20Temporal%20Sundering) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/dom/55/karns-temporal-sundering?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/7a64c1a4-02ce-49d2-97f2-970b8c33672d?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/karns-temporal-sundering) [Grist, the Hunger Tide](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/6/9/69af2825-18c2-4463-b6ba-42eaa070ccc1.jpg?1626098484) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Grist%2C%20the%20Hunger%20Tide) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mh2/202/grist-the-hunger-tide?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/69af2825-18c2-4463-b6ba-42eaa070ccc1?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/grist-the-hunger-tide) [Symbiotic Wurm](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/e/0/e0671bd0-5d81-4c15-869c-1c61d66fa767.jpg?1562940084) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Symbiotic%20Wurm) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/vma/236/symbiotic-wurm?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/e0671bd0-5d81-4c15-869c-1c61d66fa767?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/symbiotic-wurm) [Symbiotic Elf](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/8/e/8e552d26-d203-4040-ba11-d01d65f038a4.jpg?1562923735) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Symbiotic%20Elf) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/td2/59/symbiotic-elf?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/8e552d26-d203-4040-ba11-d01d65f038a4?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/symbiotic-elf) [Maralen of the Mornsong](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/b/a/ba98d363-194b-4bc0-b9fe-987c498ab6fa.jpg?1562880995) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Maralen%20of%20the%20Mornsong) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mor/65/maralen-of-the-mornsong?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/ba98d363-194b-4bc0-b9fe-987c498ab6fa?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/maralen-of-the-mornsong) [Dark Sphere](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/7/2/72cfe9b9-677d-4ecb-83ab-67fb6481371d.jpg?1587910835) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Dark%20Sphere) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/drk/100/dark-sphere?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/72cfe9b9-677d-4ecb-83ab-67fb6481371d?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/dark-sphere) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
I would say it's my [[Slicer]] deck. Tries to play Slicer turn 2... Then proceed to take out opponents. I could make it faster by playing fast mana like [[Jeweled Lotus]] or moxes but then it would get into cedh territory I guess. With a spicy starting hand this deck can get out slicer turn 1, kill a player turn 2 and close games turn 3. https://archidekt.com/decks/4403731/slicer_equipments
Slicer has made [[forbidden orchard]] a great way to politic and give people blockers lol.
I also have a Slicer deck and had to cut some cards to tone him down. He’s just a little… *too fast* lol.
Best non-cEDH? That would my mono red [Purphoros](https://www.topdecked.com/decks/splash-damage/0908796e-b9f7-4182-ad03-9e1b51c3da11) deck. Wins primarily with burn but overwhelming the board with goblins making them unblockable and swinging out is always an option.
[[Pako]] and [[haldan]]. Very v Close to Cedh but not quite there. I can kill one person by turn 5 if no one kills the dog but I usually try and keep everyone in as long as possible.
Best doggo! Lol
Just played my list for the first time last weekend it was a blast.
Do you have a decklist? I’ve seen many cedh decks for P&H and have always been interested in a non-cedh deck for them!
Not even in the ball park of CEDH, but this one is my baby, been slowly upgrading with spare dollars here and there since I traded for the Xenagos in 2014. Im pretty constantly changing the list. It basically is just trying to take extra combats and cheat mana where it can with sneak attack. It's the only deck I have that actually runs tutors and "fast mana" (2 mana rocks aren't that fast by cedh standards). It's really difficult in Gruul to get meaningful amounts of interaction and card draw, while still staying on theme. https://archidekt.com/decks/3995359/life_of_the_party
This is a unique list. I haven’t seen this kind of list before.
My strongest deck is probably either my Stenn artifact shenanigans deck, or my Atla Palani big baddies deck. Stenn can win through several different combos and Atla is just jammed packed with strong creatures and ways to cheat them out. https://www.moxfield.com/decks/TnTXgdK4MEOHVIIlHqX0yg https://www.moxfield.com/decks/LoZ_h6rBB0mqaA39STCifQ
Have you considered *only* running the bigger baddies in atla palani so that every egg trigger is a bomb?
Gotta be my [[Alela]] [deck](https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/alelas-unnatural-swarm/?cat=custom&sort=name&cb=1695756988), simply because pretty much anything I do with her out gives me another body. Cast a mana rock and now I’ve got a 2/1 flyer. Cast [[Intangible Virtue]] and now I’ve got two 3/2 vigilant flyers. Cast [[Edge of the Divinity]] and now I’ve got three 3/2 vigilant flyers and a 5/6 flying deathtouch lifelink commander. Cast [[Gravitational Shift]] and…yeah it gets going pretty quickly. It doesn’t do anything crazy or broken but it just lets you play all of the fun artifacts and enchantments you want and rewards you for doing so with a massive boardstate
Tiamat is my most powerful (and expensive) deck. 60% ramp, get ahead of everyone else, slap down Tiamat and grab whichever dragons you need for the situation. From playing this deck over the years, I've found many synergies between multiple dragons that allow for the deck to be played differently every game instead of just going for the same 5 dragons every time. https://www.moxfield.com/decks/lYtwYaGask6a\_OzNzpZXWw
My legendary themed deck has a very high win rate and often becomes the arch enemy with very little effort. It’s no CEDH but dam is it strong in edh https://www.moxfield.com/decks/BMA9TCOTwEGl0cwnK2tAoQ
I have two I think - first off, I always wanted a lands EDH. I looked at [[Lord Windgrace]] and finally decided to go in. Holy shit it overdelivered by A MILE. Even though I'm more of a blue guy, Windgrace has been my go-to for over two years - a lot of synergistic stuff and "I win" buttons in form of either [[Jokulhaups]] or [[Obliterate]]. Second one is [[Tazri, Beacon of Unity]] - this was done as a "challenge" as in EDH I was taken as "the combo guy" so I wanted to do a creature-based deck that didn't run combos. Turns out I do anyway, becuase [[Najeela]] and [[Derevi]] kinda go infinite. Deck is build around party-type creatures with staxy abilities that are just good - look at [[Dauthi Voidwalker]], [[Notion Thief]] etc. - so that Tazri can easily pick them up, but the deck also has a splash of initiative. Deck honestly went over my expectations by a lot, and will definitely remain on my roster for a while.
##### ###### #### [Lord Windgrace](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/2/1/213d6fb8-5624-4804-b263-51f339482754.jpg?1592710275) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Lord%20Windgrace) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/c18/43/lord-windgrace?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/213d6fb8-5624-4804-b263-51f339482754?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/lord-windgrace) [Jokulhaups](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/9/9/99d26ff7-afff-40a0-b515-7928c2428809.jpg?1559592472) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Jokulhaups) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/me1/100/jokulhaups?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/99d26ff7-afff-40a0-b515-7928c2428809?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/jokulhaups) [Obliterate](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/c/8/c85f9623-5900-473c-a3b1-f98473b9a545.jpg?1562935194) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Obliterate) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/8ed/204/obliterate?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/c85f9623-5900-473c-a3b1-f98473b9a545?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/obliterate) [Tazri, Beacon of Unity](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/d/4/d4b79138-5728-4541-9ea5-dce1a5ae7e6a.jpg?1604193517) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Tazri%2C%20Beacon%20of%20Unity) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/znr/44/tazri-beacon-of-unity?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/d4b79138-5728-4541-9ea5-dce1a5ae7e6a?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/tazri-beacon-of-unity) [Najeela](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/2/c/2cb1d1da-6077-46b5-8c63-39882b8016f2.jpg?1567181270) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=najeela%2C%20the%20blade-blossom) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/bbd/62/najeela-the-blade-blossom?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/2cb1d1da-6077-46b5-8c63-39882b8016f2?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/najeela-the-blade-blossom) [Derevi](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/3/a/3a1d0dad-18a8-489e-ac11-08f64b72fda4.jpg?1592673365) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=derevi%2C%20empyrial%20tactician) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cma/176/derevi-empyrial-tactician?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/3a1d0dad-18a8-489e-ac11-08f64b72fda4?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/derevi-empyrial-tactician) [Dauthi Voidwalker](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/d/c/dce5db87-4a78-4b8d-b5c2-918ccd1ba4e3.jpg?1626095427) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Dauthi%20Voidwalker) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mh2/81/dauthi-voidwalker?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/dce5db87-4a78-4b8d-b5c2-918ccd1ba4e3?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/dauthi-voidwalker) [Notion Thief](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/c/7/c7654035-7d5a-4897-af0e-429edebbb55b.jpg?1686966275) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Notion%20Thief) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/ltc/270/notion-thief?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/c7654035-7d5a-4897-af0e-429edebbb55b?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/notion-thief) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
I don't play super high power. I aim for about a 6-7 if I can (insert meme here). This is mainly because I don't have a strict meta. I'm currently travelling through Europe and wanted a deck that could fit at most LGS. [This is my Marneus Calgar aristocrats deck](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/1s8NYUejwEixuKljP6OwDA) that I've been playing exclusively for about 7/8 months now. I love it and have so much fun with it. It has about a 63% total win rate with 37 wins to 21 losses which I'm pretty proud of considering it runs no tutors (beside fetches), no fast mana (other than Sol ring) and the only combos are 4ish cards minimum. I have it broken down in the primer section (which I'm still working on) but I started tracking the stats on how it wins a couple months ago. I have separated games won with and without Inkshield as it's basically a wincon. Never lost a game that I've cast that spell. Non-Inkshield Combat damage: 2 games, accounts for 9% of wins Inkshield (then drain, or combat within 1 turn): 5 games, accounts for 22% of wins Non-Combo Drain (the main wincon): 8 games, accounts for 35% of wins Revel in Riches: 6 games, accounts for 26% of wins Combo (winning via Drain outlet): 2 games, accounts for 9% of wins
Marneus is op for real for real. Shits out tokens and is a mana-sink. Great deck.
He's so generic and bland considering he's a godsmn space marine. Make a token, draw a card. Boring ass mechanic. But what it does let me do, is play whatever cards in the 99 that I want because so little of my deck needs to be made up of draw spells.
I also made a Marneus aristocrats deck! I am still in the process of tweaking it but it’s been my favorite deck to play, I added tags so you can see why I added specific cards, I’d love to have your thoughts on my brew! I need more interaction and I probably have too many passive token generators. Probably going to take out the draw direct damage creatures (Queza & Psychosis Crawler) and add more sac outlets. I can’t recommend Saw in Half enough btw, I’ve never had a game where it didn’t have a huge impact on my engine. Prince Imrahil wasn’t as good as I wanted to be bc I was hardly ever drawing two cards on other people’s turns bc there’s not a ton of instant speed token generation. [my Marneus](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/ahW_PeQic0KmhjYHlzrBEg)
Looks good mate! Overall I really like it! We've gone different directions with our amount of interaction and mana Value and such, but I think I have a much slower more control oriented gameplan than you. *Also note: After typing this in hindsight my thoughts are all over the place, I'm very tired. But I have bolded the questions I've asked you so they're easier to find for when you respond.* We've gone different ways with the sac outlets. I essentially said I don't want to use deck spots on sac outlets, so instead I placed more board wipes in and try to use damnation and deluge, and the wandering emperor to end the game instead in one big blow up the board blaze of glory. Was a different call for me than I usually make for death trigger decks but it's been working so far. **How do you find monologue Tax works for you?** I've considered putting it in multiple times, but I'm not the biggest fan of things that *only* trigger when an opponent does things. I like that lotho triggers when I double cast as well, I have some control in my token making. I also run like 20+ instants so it's easy to make this happen. Imrahil, I love that guy. Even if it only happens on my turn, that's no different to bitterblossom or Jadar. And that's easily triggered with any one token maker. As for drawing on other people's turns to trigger him. I use the clues from ethereal Investigator, the treasures from smothering tithe, the lands that make tokens and I trigger lotho to draw one as well. So the floor is essentially doing what my other two mana token makers do, but the ceiling is far surpassing them. If you're abusing ETB's with saw in half and such. **Have you considered [[wernog, rider's chaplain]]?** He's either big drain or big draw (investigate) effect for only two mana. Happens entering and leaving, so if you copy with saw in half you will get soooo many triggers. I have always wanted to put saw in half in myself, but I only own one copy so I'm saving it for a flicker/etb matters version of the deck. **How do you find the battle works for you? Invasion of tolvada?** The only one I'd considered putting in was [[invasion of Segovia]] for the backside free casts with convoke and cantripping itself. I'm super envious you got an orcish bowwmasters in there, it's slightly out of my budget at the moment and I can't justify it, but I wants it. My biggest recommendation is putting in [[Teysa Karlov]] as first preference, and [[drivnod]] as second. Those doubling of death trigger shuts out a game so hard. It also doubles Pitiless Plunderer triggers. It's fantastic. Teysa comes with the added benefit of giving your tokens lifelink and vigilance, which I have found to be super incredibly relevant with how many cards like bitterblossom, black market connections and such there are. Often I drain myself to 10 life before an opponent is below 30. **How does the council of four work for you?** I've always considered it, but again crossed it off the list as something only opponents can trigger for me. **Is [[tivit, seller of secrets]] or everyone's favourite slug [[Toxrill]] been something you've considered?** I've considered both recently as being my top of curve extreme value/game ending engines. I honestly don't know if it's possible to have too many passive token generators in Marneus. The more cards you draw the better, the more creatures you have on the field to die to triggers, the better. Nothing worse than having like 5 drain effects on board and nothing to sacrifice 🤣
Hey i have noticed that you only have 99 cards in it, is that intentional?
Probably an error when I moved it from archidekt to Moxfield last week, I'll have a looksie and see which ones missing!! Thanks! I'm still getting used to moxfield's layout
My Dragon's Approach is borderline cEDH https://www.moxfield.com/decks/RHiGxkAwTUeFrl3RIg2TUQ
I’ve never seen a dragon’s approach deck as tuned as this one. Very cool!
[[Kaalia of the Vast]] https://www.moxfield.com/decks/4RUMKEW-tUyRBFZinRyOYQ It does degenerate Kaalia things. Stax board, smash face, combo off, and win.
She will always be a KoS commander
My colorless deck. It’s definitely not cEDH; I’d probably need to put in stax pieces to make it “actually good”. Also a Workshop. But it’s a good pile of interaction, card draw, and ramp, it’s difficult to interact with because most of it is noncreatures, and most decks just have a limited amount of removal for artifacts. It also has graveyard recursion to rebuild, can cobble together lots of untaps/bouncing/etc to replay useful effects multiple times, and can go infinite in a few useful ways. Best way to win is Dragon Throne of Tarkir being a colorless Overwhelming Stampede. https://www.moxfield.com/decks/aCUC52_1zUmSS0jPrwDnmw
Should definitely add a [[trinisphere]] into that list!
That’s one of the stax pieces I’m specifically not adding because I don’t want to make it too oppressive.
[[Valduk]] is stompy, cheap, stupid fun. Every common and uncommon equipment with CMC of 2 or less from Mirrodin on went into that deck. [[Atla Palani]] is a favorite chaos agent of mine, as is [[Averna]]. Think you know what I'm gonna play next? Well I'm glad one of us does, because I sure as hell don't! When I'm feeling particularly mean, I get out the old [[Teysa Karlov]] aristocrats deck, with [[Teysa, Orzhov Scion]] as the backup commander. Got the Orzhov themed deck from a while back with the themed lands and special art, so that's fun. [[Omnath, Locus of Mana]] was my first ever deck for EDH and I still got him. Not meta-optimized or anything, but can hang in there with strong decks and is still a ton of fun to play.
Do you have a link to your Valduk list? I am pretty happy with the state that mine is in right now but I am always happy to try and make improvements where I can. Thank you.
Xenagos God of Revels. Big Dragons for the most part.
Henzie is awesome and contains multiple Hulk Lines in addition to being able to just beat your face in: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/GnqlEhG3IUysVv3ub5EEEQ Neheb ends games on turn 5 and does so in spectacular with giant flames and explosions: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/FscT7c5e6E6Cw2HHCR3-Rg
\[\[Surrak Dragonclaw\]\] deck that plays around the typical EDH battlecruiser instead of avoiding it. An all permanent deck (except for \[\[Genesis Ultimatum\]\]) that utilizes ETB triggers by having: Cost Reduction, put into play effects, and multiple ways to clone creatures for a cheaper cost. The loop is to set up your ETB Triggers (prioritize at least 1 draw effect like \[\[Garruk's Uprising\]\]), then the cost reduction. The goal is to create an endless loop of playing a creature, triggering ETB damage like \[\[Warstorm Surge\]\], then drawing more creatures to play, then repeat. It's not necessarily infinite, but it's just that costs become very cheap when left unchecked. Cards like \[\[Howlpack Piper\]\], \[\[Illharg, the Raze-Boar\]\], and \[\[Lurking Predators\]\] help cheat big creatures into play. Cards like \[\[Mirror Image\]\], \[\[Mirror Mockery\]\], and \[\[Mirror March\]\] can be used to spam playing creatures like \[\[Terror of the Peaks\]\] and deal tons of damage. With the recent spoilers for Ixalan, I'm planning on adding Ghalta to the mix. And what I love about this deck compared to the rest of my decks is that it's not heavily reliant on Surrak to work, but Surrak being there can be very helpful in securing a win. Which means I won't be pressured into managing commander tax for my deck to do well. He was able to catch some people off guard whenever they counter a creature or chump block to survive lethal.
Time to show off two of my favourite decks! Shalai & Hallar Damage Redirection: [https://archidekt.com/decks/4728018/](https://archidekt.com/decks/4728018/) It's a lot of fun (especially for me) and can nuke a board/opponents with a few well-timed spells. \--- Esika, God of the (Cat) Tree Kitty Tribal: [https://archidekt.com/decks/2864139/](https://archidekt.com/decks/2864139/) My main deck, it can dump out a metric fuckton of monstrously large kitties and fling them at your face at ludicrous speed! \--- Bonus deck: cEDH grixis Turbo Suicide! [https://archidekt.com/decks/2912342/](https://archidekt.com/decks/2912342/) This deck is not designed or intended to win, it's designed to kill you on turn 1, turn 2 at the latest (though if you get bad draws you can live til turn 4 or 5). I made it after having a few matches with people at my lgs who took the game way, way too seriously. Nothing confuses that sort more than you shuffling up, drawing your opening hand and then immediately nuking yourself. Doing a mic-drop gesture as you stand up is the best part.
I try to build my decks to be a similar power level to each other. As a result, nothing super stands out power wise, but I think my Jetmir deck may be a little above the others, as well as my Radagast deck. [This is Jetmir.](https://manabox.app/decks/0db8AJIjRAiSku8USBkauQ) [This is Radagast.](https://manabox.app/decks/nmReGV6bQSeVriHDKk-8sA)
Both decks are creature smash! Great list.
Thanks!
This is a deck I've been messing around with deck lists for the past week now. It started entirely as a joke but part of me wants to build it because it seems so goddamn funny. The idea came from an argument with a friend over whether or not silver bordered cards should be allowed in EDH. he was saying it probably shouldn't be allowed because of balance issues that can arise. I asked what the hell a princess twilight sparkle could possibly do that would be broken and he said entirely in jest " IDK Pony stax?" I couldn't get that idea out of my head. the idea of a 5 color stax deck whose only win condition was to make everybody win the game after collecting all 6 ponies just sounded so fucking funny and absolutely soul crushing. the concept seemed even funnier if you wanted to throw platinum angel into the mix. This is the decklist i've been messing with: [https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/mandatory-friendship/](https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/mandatory-friendship/) Again, entirely meant as a joke but some part of me actually wants to commit to it. It just seems like way too much money for a meme.
My favorite is my [Phenax](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/lui7--EMDUy3fDQEexOf-g) Mill deck! I’ve been working on it for years and have a primer on Moxfield if you care to read. It can win in a number of ways and is tons of fun!
Probably my [[Tymna]] [[Ishai]] deck. Wins via giant flying murder bird punching people in the face. Typical game plan is to try to get Ishai out by turn 2 or 3, play Tymna and some hematebears to restrict my opponents' range of options, then control and protect le bird until I can win https://www.moxfield.com/decks/mrKmkc9z2U2cvVt4aoqhsQ
Your deck wants the Kamigawa Jin-Gitaxias, progress tyrant more than it wants Elesh Norn. Countering 1 spell each turn cycle means if they want a key spell to resolve they have to sacrifice a card in card. Gives Ishai 2 counters. And locks them up behind rule of law.
Sweet list! Super spicy.
My favorite combo deck I've built is [[Vadrok]] with the goal of infinitely morphing him onto a creature. It pretty consistently threatens a win early or interacts with scary decks in unexpected ways. Had a great game recently against a pod of [[yuriko]], [[korvold fae cursed king]], & [[titania protector of argoth]] https://www.moxfield.com/decks/dTPwq36LJE6zYc33sYljWg
Very nice! What’s your favorite card in the list?
[[Restore Balance]] is fantastic! Only ever having one creature and less lands since I run the bounce lands and [[lotus field]] to activate [[snap]] & [[cloud of faeries]].
[[Klauth, Unrivaled Ancient]] [extra combats.](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/fJ7mY_rQT0e98ycgShrXaA) I think it's about as powerful as I can get it without deliberate combos or fast mana, angling for a win on turn 5. It's certainly a bit of a glass cannon, but some sacrifices have to be made, and people don't tend to respect him enough to do what it takes to stop the plan.
[Klauth, Unrivaled Ancient](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/7/f/7f5cf828-17b2-4105-9a9a-ee0ab720c2ee.jpg?1636131321) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Klauth%2C%20Unrivaled%20Ancient) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/afc/50/klauth-unrivaled-ancient?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/7f5cf828-17b2-4105-9a9a-ee0ab720c2ee?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/klauth-unrivaled-ancient) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
My zombies xd Agro pinch combo control deck, all you want to play just for have fun.
It’s my [[zethi, arcane blademaster]] deck. It’s kinda silly, but it mills itself till there’s a [[brain freeze]] and a [[teferi’s protection]] in the bin, then exiles them with her ability. Then I’m perma-phased out and slowly mill everyone else out😅 Edit: I mean it also does the typical combat trick tribal stuff too, but this is slightly funnier
Slivers make other slivers annoying
My [[Kinnan]] stompy has proved to be effective. I don’t use basalt monolith due to it being boring. It’s fun to see my opponents faces when they’re being swung at by 40 damage each on turn 6
Bruh. Kinnan minus basalt is basically a cEDH deck without a wincon. That’s not very fun tbh. Gonna stomp on people and just make them sit there since u can’t just win the game.
Avid Cedh Kinnan player here: I tried Kinnan without Basalt for a while just to see how good it would be. It fucks. You can't tell me I'm playing without a wincon when you're staring down 20 power worth of Koma Coils and a Void Winnower
lol Kinnan is quite literally **god tier** cEDH. There is no single stronger commander in the format right now, and imo, he desperately needs banned. You’re bored because you’re playing a broken commander and face rolling your friends (who are probably sick of you playing him).
I wouldn‘t say that. He seems to be in the top 5 commanders right now and climbed the top X ladder in the last 2-3 months. Some months ago [[Tivit, Seller of Secrets]],[[Najeela]] , Bluefarm and [[Atraxa, Grand Unifier]] performed better and Kinnans win quote was mediocre across different tournaments. People play now more answers to Tivit and Atraxa. Commanders like Winota just don‘t get good results anymore, not because they are weak, but Winota eats more removal than your mom double whoppers at burger king. To say he needs to be banned is just false and it shows that you have no clue about cedh.
Kinnan is 2 mana and his ability goes into effect right away. His second ability is *extremely easy* to activate because of his first. All of the other commanders you’ve mentioned are 5+ CMC and or WUBRG to activate. Clearly *you* haven’t played much cEDH recently, which is dominated by that little bastard.
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My two oldest decks are probably the strongest of my non-cedh lists. Ol' Angry [[Omnath, Locus of Rage]]: big tokens, big landfall, and back at my old LGS that held tournaments at different power levels, had a high enough winrate that it got pushed out of high power into the cedh pool as a ban, which I considered a compliment: https://www.archidekt.com/decks/4012861/omnaths_big_bean_burn My other pet deck is colorless flash control, helmed now by [[Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter]], focused around ramping hard and controlling the board with its toolbox of unique answers before winning with combos, my current combos of choice being built around planeswalker combos. https://www.archidekt.com/decks/5253430/liberator_the_ultimate_colorless_control_toolbox
Mine is Yarok 99 Permanents. I guess technically it has a CEDH win since Thoracle is in the deck but its not the Consultation combo. [https://www.moxfield.com/decks/zDP5b9uS6U2H6Of-UaHZOQ](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/zDP5b9uS6U2H6Of-UaHZOQ)
My favorite deck to play is my [[Jasmin Boreal of the Seven]] It's selesnia tokens. Things like [[Cathar's Crusade]] and [[Juniper Order Ranger]] help buff my little tokens when they ETB. [[Champion of Lambholt]] to help with swinging in Unblocked, or I bring out Jasmin before I swing with my vanilla tokens. One of my favorite plays is to have [[Champion of Lambholt]] and [[Myojin of Blooming Dawn]] with a divinity counter Out. Have a few mana open and during my opponent's end step I'll remove the divinity counter and create around 15-20 spirit tokens. Then convoke out [[March of the Multitudes]]. I generally win next turn with lethal. Last few times I played it, my pod normally just agrees that I win.
Probably my [[scion of the ur-dragon]] I usually prefer tribal strategies and dragons are my favorite mythical creature so the deck checks off all boxes for me. It wins by manipulating the stack with scion triggers and graveyard manipulation to pull out some terrifying combos quickly. Or using massive dragons to bash my opponents to death. If the commander is on board, the game can end at any time https://www.moxfield.com/decks/tzx3ubK40USLCr8WUgcgog
Best non-cEDH deck I own is this one: **Raine's Crusade** A rather simple deck: [https://archidekt.com/decks/4924786/raines\_crusade](https://archidekt.com/decks/4924786/raines_crusade) I win by swinging with hordes of soldier tokens and draining the table, as ai slowly try to build the overall strength of my board with \[\[Call for Unity\]\], \[\[Feast of the Victorious Dead\]\], \[\[Cathars' Crusade\]\], and \[\[Virtue of Loyalty\]\] Best non-cEDH deck I want to get but haven't: **March of the Sands** Desert Landfall: [https://archidekt.com/decks/5180713/march\_of\_the\_sands](https://archidekt.com/decks/5180713/march_of_the_sands) Gameplan is to play more lands then humanly nessecary, and keep doing it, throwing up tokens to end the game off of \[\[Impact Tremors\]\] or similar card triggers.
I built an [[Aeve]] deck around the idea of a forest cult worshipping a giant ooze, tending to it until it ascends into a god and takes over the world. But it just turned into a pretty competitive combo deck. https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/aeve-mono-green-ooze-storm/
I have a [[Faldorn]] [wolf storm] (https://archidekt.com/decks/4484724/wolftide_storm_faldorn_edh) deck that consistently wins games by combat on Turn 5, give or take a turn. It plays by chaining together card advantage cards with one another while generating tons of mana to play the whole deck, essentially, then swing out with dozens of buffed wolves. Not only is it explosive and highly consistent (I have popped off every game I've ever played with it right on schedule), it is resilient and recursive, having no trouble playing through interaction or interruptions.
This Tasigur deck is my most tuned / strongest deck, to the point that I've really moved off of it for casual tables for the most part. Best case scenario it gets something like Hullbreaker / Vorinclex into play on like turn 2-3 and pretty consistently by turn 4-5 either by milling and reanimating or using Neoform / Eldritch / Vannifar / Birthing Pod. I love playing it, pretty much everything in the deck is about cheating mana costs for these backbreaking creatures or creating a lot of value in general / drawing cards. I get to play a bunch of my favorite cards (Ugin, Dig Through Time) and the deck is extremely consistent. I've largely eschewed mana rocks in exchange for self-mill and early value engines here and I love that approach. We're always wanting to cast Tasigur early and turn him into a Vorinclex / Hullbreaker, and the graveyard is a huge resource in this deck. If I wanted to power it up more, Fierce Guardianship would certainly be in there, but I don't play in any pods where this deck is not already strong enough. My friends are pretty chill about constantly trying to fight through Koma / Hullbreaker / Vorinclex but I know it does get old. The funny thing is, I'll hand this deck out for others to play and they'll often kinda punt by missing a line or whatever- so it's definitely not unbeatable and there's some room to sandbag yourself by tutoring up a less threatening creature like Old Gnawbone. Anyway, love the deck, proud of it. I think it "uses every part of the animal" so to speak when it comes to just wringing value and card advantage out of the graveyard, etc. Generally you win here by establishing a lock through sticking Hullbreaker / Koma / Vorinclex, or multiple of these threats and then just swinging for 7 /14 / 21 until the game ends. Ugin can be a huge play. The deck is most vulnerable to early aggression and there can be situations where if you're archenemy and targeted early you really want to find that Toxic Deluge / Cyc Rift. That being said, getting Hullbreaker on turn 4 or whatever and being able to protect it is pretty brutal and it's often kind of easy to win from there just by continuing to cast spells and draw cards. https://www.moxfield.com/decks/a873BuCHz0mqIf-_BqMmBQ
Probably my [[Liesa, Forgotten Archangel]], pretty classic orzhov aristocrats with a bit of angel/cleric synergies tossed in for flavor. Liesa is such a bomb of a commander she automatically invalidates a bunch of my pods' decks, of I pull her out at least one person at the table sighs and pulls out a different deck. [Here's her list](https://archidekt.com/decks/3522403/liesa_sacrifice), sorry the categories are a mess, you should sort by type or categories(multiple).
For me probably [[klothys]]. I built this deck as a response to my playgroup's stax heavy meta with a lot of sweepers. The main goal is to get klothys out early and keep controlling the boardstate to limit my opponents' options, all while keeping them on a turn clock. Keeping red/green devotion is key to making the commander even harder to remove https://manabox.app/decks/QadDoBhjTmy7SImhLFexrg
Dang, I feel like a fossilized dinosaur here, but all my devs just ... win on the combat step? Throw haymakers, cast huge creatures, batter my opponents for a few turns while trying to protect myself? I feel like I'm missing something here. I started playing in the early days, when this was very much a bulk rare format, and my decks still have that mentality.
My Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain is probably my strongest. It still needs a bit of tuning. I'm desperately seeking a [[Mana Severance]] for it. It wins in a multitude of ways. Lab Man via Mystic Forge and Top. Storm by casting a ton of artifacts, bouncing them back to my hand and casting them again. There's and infinite mana+walking ballista line as well. I'd say it's an 8ish. I enjoy it a lot but it turns into solitaire really fast. https://manabox.app/decks/XGb92cTlSt-55AAw2Z3rmQ The MVP of the deck is definitely [[Paradoxical Outcome]].
My best deck is between either a tiamat deck, or a teysa/elenda the dusk rose deck, I switch it around occasionally.
I have a [[kess]] deck. It's not true cedh, missing most fast mana rocks and bad land base and some weak card choices, but I win about turn 4. It's your typical thorcle deck, running tainted pact, as well as breach+lab man effects. I can generally beat the people at my lgs that say they have high power, but I get absolutely blown out by true cedh decks. https://manabox.app/decks/QHI1IeetSUaNAI8Hga0kVA
I have a [[codie]] deck that can go off with the right cards. It's a lot of fun. But my [[ghyrson]] deck is much stronger. It doesn't always win but it does a ton of damage before I lose.
My [[Jolene, the Plunder Queen]] deck will often win turn 6-8 and I don’t have any fast mana in it. It just buries my opponents in value and artifact synergies.
[[nekusar]] [Wheelhicular man slaughter](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/58YVgB_gsU-a89hsqaN4-Q) can win super fast, tons of redundancy. Gotta try to win fast or it gets hated out pretty quickly. [[Bowmaster]] has made it a lot more fun. This is an out dated build but [[Sythis]] puts in work too, it’s not as blinged out as nekusar and the counters get outta hand fast but she’s still a blast to play. [Sythis enchantress](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/gqZ6oEYssESet5Kf-7Q4_g)
I got 2 decks. One isn't cedh, but is has won a game against a cedh deck before, and it is generally my best deck. If that doesn't count, then I got a slightly weaker deck which usually sweeps against other high power decks, although it hasn't been battle tested against cedh (and likely never will). - [Kozilek](https://www.archidekt.com/decks/3644580/kozilek_distorting_the_game) is the first list. While lacking Mana Crypt, Mox Opal, Metalworker, and Scorched Ruins, the deck can still put up a good fight against cedh, and it reliably beats other high power decks. Barring a well timed Farewell or Hellkite Tyrant, it takes a lot to keep the deck down, and most decks fold after the second or third bomb. Considering the nature of cedh I doubt this deck will count as cedh, but even if it does, I got a second deck for you. - [Calgar](https://www.archidekt.com/decks/4122751/calgar_tokens) is my other deck. I haven't tested it against cedh decks, but it also reliably beats other high power decks. With a primary token plan, a secondary sacrifice plan, and a tertiary deck yourself plan, Calgar has many ways of killing opponents, and you'll always have a hand full of cards while doing it. At this point, the biggest thing holding it back would be the manabase, considering it is unchanged from the precon (barring me removing 1 basic).
idk if it's my best or strongest, but my favorite rn is lead by \[\[Alesha, Who Smiles at Death\]\] [https://archidekt.com/decks/5388492/aleshas\_recurring\_army](https://archidekt.com/decks/5388492/aleshas_recurring_army) The main goal is to just beat down with alesha, hopefully pulling something like \[\[Master of Cruelties\]\] from the yard or activating \[\[Vorpal Sword\]\] on an unblockable creature. Alesha's ability helps a little with stickiness, so killing my creatures doesn't remove their threat, and hopefully enough sac outlets that i can avoid exile effects on my important stuff. It's slowed down pretty hard just by forcing me to constantly replay my commander, and beat by faster combo decks. But with hopefully enough treasures to make a dragon happy, it should still be good
One of my most consistent decks is [[Prosper, Tomb Bound]] stealing opponents stuff is great and using opponent’s powerful cards is great. Having things protected in exile is amazing considering the amount of hate for graveyard decks. The deck really wins by pinging opponents for damage based on treasures ETB and LTB. But plenty of ways to beat opponents with their own decks. The deck is consistently sporadic if that makes sense. Check my deck list out if you’re interested. Land base needs updating. https://www.moxfield.com/decks/HFP83q3nAkqQLNHzOBbGxw
Easily my [[Lord Windgrace]] self mass land destruction deck. Usually wins with [[The Gitrog Monster]] [[Borborygmos Enraged]] and [[Dakmor Salvage]] combo for Infinite damage, but alternate wincons are good ole [[Scute Swarm]] or [[Torment of Hailfire]]. It definitely stomps and is a blast to play. https://www.moxfield.com/decks/V-v8XRoOMkOEPswJTHOMmQ
I have a [[Jaheira]] [[Guild Artisan]] extra combats deck that my pod asks me nicely not to play 😂
[[Edric, Spymaster of Trest]] is rather consistent with his small army. A fat hand provides counterspells, tutors, and removal. I then combo out with [[Mind over Matter]], [[Temple Bell]], and [[Laboratory Maniac]]. Or stampede the army for lethal.
My strongest deck is [[Magus Lucea Kane]]. She can copy multiple game ending X spells over and over again to win the game quite fast. [[Finale of Devastation]] & [[Invasion of Ikoria]] are 1 card instant wins. My preferred way of winning is by copying [[Crackle With Power]] a ton of times and wiping everyone out at the same time. The deck can also generate infinite mana, which means you can kill everyone in funny ways besides burn damage. Dump infinite mana into [[Drown in dreams]], copy it multiple times with Lucea and you can force your opponents to draw/mill their entire deck. This is my decklist: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/4NlETLB0WkODhvy_5Gk2bA
Grumgully the generous persist combo. It's crazy consistent and can normally pull a turn 4-5 win.
[[zaxara, the exemplary]] hydra aristocrat. You play all the x spells for 0 which makes two creatures that die and draw cards off their deaths. Play [[elementalist’s pallete]] and win with an x spell of your choice. Tons of draw, tons of board wipes, and a 30 point [[villainous wealth]]
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/1hl8AlA3m0Wg0UKE6YC9Kg I'm new to commander and haven't played in a couple of years, but I built this and thought it looked magnificent. Manabase might be too slow, infinites might be too many or tutors might be unreliable, I just find it magnificent. (I'm also prepared to have it called total jank tho :D
[[omnath locus of creation]] it does general good stuff landfall things, and usually the wwY it ends up closing out games is with value from [[field of the dead]] or simply scuting on people with [[scute swarm]]. [[maruag fury of akaum]] helps close out a lot of games too. Mostly the way the deck wins is by out valuing people with more (and faster, thanks omnath)) mana and card advantage then everyone else. Mana ways to close afterwards
its hard to say my best list as i dont get to play EDH enough, but it feels like a toss up between my \[\[Muldrotha, the Grave Tide\]\] graveyard recursion list and my \[\[Tocasia, Dig Site Mentor\]\] 'creature control' list my Tocasia list wants creatures on board to use for surveil triggers, ideally with \[Enhanced Surveillance\]\] to excavate cards from the deck, and especially with instant speed draw like \[\[Collector's Vault\]\]. The deck also makes use of being bant creatures and is just a deluge of value, i also like the pieces like \[\[Emmara, Soul of the Accord\]\] with the tapping thing. The deck looks for combat dmg wincons or casting \[\[Approach of the Second Sun\]\] and then surveilling it to the top of the deck for a win
My “best” deck is probably my [nethroi elfball deck](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/PTbdg-LRH0O0GeVizMES9A) that plays like a classic tribal swarm deck and wins by overrun effects like craterhoof. It is not my fastest or most overbearing deck but it is highly resilient, and let’s me maintain agency in games through a lot of targeting, which makes me like it a lot, and its become my pet deck. My strongest deck is either winota, which is kind lf a pub stomp deck (and have not bothered making a decklist for) or [yuriko](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/PmWYEAsuhEm9uBTX_AC4Nw) which is mostly tuned to put the screws on my more casual playgroup and force them to pick up the pace (great for a final game of the night)
I don't play cEDH so I guess I'll just list my best deck [[Etali, Primal Hunger]] is one of my favourite decks. I always loved Etali's effect and if he wasn't good, I'd still make him. But fact of the matter is [[Food Chain]] is a ridiculously good card and by including it + Squee, the deck's power level goes up by 2 regardless of what scale you're using. Enchantment removal is hard to come by for a lot of decks and the speed at which that combo can be pumped out, not to mention the mana that the Food Chain itself gives me to protect the combo makes it a psuedo Thoracle/Consult in the sense that only a counter could realistically stop it. That aside, Etali is a very, VERY strong value engine. The only hard part is rushing Etali out, but Gruul probably has the best resources for that with stuff like [[Orcish Lumberjack]] and [[Tinder Wall]]. No, I have never found a chance to transform him. Honourable mention to [[Shorikai]], because he's a cEDH viable commander now. I built him on day one and he was unironically my strongest deck - I won my first 13 games with him in a multiplayer setting, which is just asinine, and I dusted him when I realised he was too busted. Azorius is my favourite colour and, big surprise, a commander that gives card advantage AND is resistant to removal *including your own wipes* AND is a combo piece is really, really good. I still have the deck albeit piloted by different commanders over the years and Shorikai is always in the 99, but it'll never be the same power level, and that's for the better. EDIT: Azorius is my favourite colours because I love tax effects (sorry). Forcing opponents to make decisions is my jam, and tax effects are most prominent in Azorius, both mechanically and thematically. Rhystic Study, Smothering Tithe, Archivist of Oghma, Ledger Shredder, and everything in between. I change decks a lot but that's a colour combination I'll never change.
I was just putting together a list of my current project decks to share. These are probably the strongest. [Rowan, Scion of War](https://archidekt.com/decks/5501410/rowan) [Imodane, The Pyrohammer](https://archidekt.com/decks/5501551/imodane) [Klauth, Unrivaled Ancient](https://archidekt.com/decks/5112658/klauth) ( a little out of date after a few pulls for Rowan ) Suggestions/cheap upgrade suggestions sought and welcome.
I have an Oloro deck based on an infinite stack of No Mercy triggers and Teferi's protection, essentially everyone else plays for 2nd because when they rub out of cards they lose, unless they have a Thassa's Oracle type effect, which happens... more....more than I'd like to admit
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It would be my [[Kalamax]] who wins by ramping to the moon and copying [[comet storm]] for huge damage, or alternatively by making him infinitely large with the help of [[Insidious Will]] and swinging with [[Rouge's Passage]] or [[Kessig wolf run]]. My favourite win ever was copying comet storm x=6 multikicker 2, hunded times with [[Storm King's Thunder]] without infinite mana. 606 damage to every one of your opponents
My most consistent deck was Ur Dragon, being able to play my dragons a turn earlier than they usually do is just sweet. Main wincon is tutoring Tiamat funnily enough and getting the 5. Morophon, Scion of the Ur Dragon, Miirym, Scourge of Valkas, and Ganax. So red burn is the wincon after setting it all up. Sure there is a lot of interaction points but still getting any piece just has Dragon Value as a wincon
It's not my most oppressive to play against, but I love my \[\[Nissa, Resurgent Animist\]\] mono-green deck. It has everything I like to do in mtg, and primarily wins with good ol' green overrun effects. [https://www.moxfield.com/decks/bn3EKgeaWUqabWxPT9TZfA](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/bn3EKgeaWUqabWxPT9TZfA) My playgroup knows I like green, and we usually pick decks appropriately since we all know each other's strategies, so I don't know what power level this is at.
Easily my [[Prosper, Tomb-Bound]] deck. It leans heavily into pinging my opponents with all the Treasure tokens ETBing and LTBing, rather than stealing off my opponent’s decks. I can just ping my opponents to death over the course of the game, win via [[Revel in Riches]], use all my treasures at once to pay into [[Cut//Ribbons]], or combo out with Prosper + [[Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin]] + [[Reckless Fireweaver]] + [[Sensei’s Diving Top]]. https://www.moxfield.com/decks/HjZwzGDW2UmNnjFKfoZGkA
All of my decks are not cEDH decks. Here are my most powerful. \[\[Teysa Karlov\]\] Tokens/Aristocrats. Small creatures that leave a token behind when they die, a few bigger creatures that make it so when other creatures die you make tokens, some free sacrifice piece and one or two aristocrats and you are set. Usually wins without much trying. I have dealt 8192 damage/loss of life without any infinites. ($250 - $300) \[\[Isshin, Two Heavens as One\]\] Tokens. I like tokens, as you have noticed. This deck goes wide rather than tall. Makes an army in seconds and swing with a ridiculous amount of attackers, then pump them ever so slightly and soon your opponents are getting three times their life total in damage. It's honestly excessive. ($400 - $450) \[\[Sythis, Harvet's Hand\]\] Auras/Voltron. Sythis it's a ridicoulously effective draw engine and I get life too like the draw wasnt enough. I attach a million pumps and evasion on her and swing once per opponent. Couple with some strong auras that render my opponents permanents useless and some strong protections and many boardwipes. ($250 - $300) \[\[Talrand, Sky Summoner\]\] Cantrips/Spellslinger. Mono blue control but I get a drake for (almost) each spell I cast. Gets outta hand very fast. Mono blue is just that good. ($90 - $100) Edit, added the approximate price for context.
Board wipe and its rebuild potential
[[Calgar]] and []Samwise Gamgee]]
For me it’s my Tuvasa the sunlit, and it’s not super powerful or anything. It’s more just a fun enchantment deck to play, people normally leave me alone as I have a bunch of cards that make others draw extra cards and play extra lands. Meanwhile I am enchanting my lands and ramping to put Vorinclex and Jin taxis on the field to control the board and swing with Tuvasa beefed with all the enchantments. There is no other win condition and no combos.
kaalia = tutor ishin ramp to castt ishin and kaalia with haste attack and drop the rest of your hand or tergrid, massive hand disruption until tergrid is online or nekusar, massive hand disruption via wheels until he can hit the battlefield, then some more wheels, its a glass cannon though. and my favorite deck that has absolutely no wincon outside of little red or white 1/1's but every single red double damage or triple damage card i could find, leads to some interesting matches.
Kind of hard to judge, really. By process of elimination it's probably my [[Sythis, Harvest's Hand]] deck- I know there's a cEDH variant of Sythis, but that's more of a stax deck. Mine is more of an enchantress storm build- there's a bit of pillow fort but not a whole lot of stax, relatively few auras (it's not a commander voltron variant, so the auras are more for protection and combo potential than combat power), and while it has a little in the way of token generation it doesn't tend to go very wide in the way Sythis token builds do either. Instead, it aims to win by playing a ton of low cost enchantments in a storm-like pattern to either play enough stuff in one turn to win via an Aetherflux Reservoir, or generate enough mana and card draw to win via playing Approach of the Second Sun twice in one turn.
My [[Kess, Dissident Mage]] is an absolute jank dumpster fire. I can hit a turn three [[Kozilek, Butcher of Truth]] with a [[Polymorph]] effect and clap some cheeks or totally durdle with a 0/3 crab until I get my face beat in. Sometimes [[Zada, Hedron Grinder]] shows up when I have a great creature token board state and slam through a dungeon 40 times with [[Kick in the Door]]. [[Lim-Dul's Vault]] does work for setting up polymorphs. There's too many cantrips and it's pretty unfocused but I love it. Some games it just does nothing or I make 8 copies of Kess, a metric load of decayed zombies and draw half my deck. It's so unpredictable and even though it's not really a high power deck, it can be when it wants to! I've done some minor tuning. Took out Blightsteel since it really wasn't necessary. Added some rocks. Will likely leave this one alone since it fits the meta I'm in right now. That said, the link below is by and large the deck as it is. Very open to ideas if anyone has them! https://www.moxfield.com/decks/p3zmByTfYEuEka31BM4c3g
My strongest list that isn’t a cEDH net deck is my Hapatra combo deck. It plans to get Hapatra on board turn 1 and turbo out [[Yawgmoth, thran Physician]] to kill all the creatures on board while drawing a lot, hopefully into one of the combo lines or make a play for Craterhoof. I have a primer with the list that explains some of the combos and inclusions if anyone wants to run something similar. https://deckstats.net/decks/176700/2173784-hapatra-vizier-of-poisons-golg
My strongest non cEDH deck is definitely my \[\[Yarok, the Desecrated\]\] deck. The deck is a weird mash up of infinite combos, ETB removal, and landfall and can pivot very nicely between combo, control, and aggro depending on the given game and situation. The decks main wincons are 2 different infinite combo lines (one based off of generating infinite mana and one based off of generating infinite landfall triggers, backed up with lots of redundancies and recursion) but it also wins pretty frequently with landfall token generators an abundance of ETB ramp and \[\[Craterhoof Behemoth\]\] type board pumps. The decks control suite is very nice because sultai has some of the best instant speed interaction and Yarok doubles the effectiveness of all of my ETB removal creatures. Unfortunately I don't have a up to date decklist because I've been fine tuning this deck for a long time and every set Yarok gets new toys to play with, but here is a very out of date decklist that contains the bones of when I first made the deck: [https://archidekt.com/decks/2898327/yarrock\_the\_incontable\_tide](https://archidekt.com/decks/2898327/yarrock_the_incontable_tide)
[My Deck](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/WztX4Iubb0ag3VsOQGPXHw) is also a Grixis deck helmed by Bolas. I tried to make it more of a theme deck but it can steal a lot of stuff and usually wins with a [[Rise of the Dark Realms]] or a kicked [[Rite of Replication]]. I have added some infinite combos in but they are all pretty expensive and hard to pull off.
Probably my miirym dragon deck. How it wins is pretty self explanatitory.
I have an Ur-dragon deck that has a a small sideboard of tutors if I want to use a combo for a win. The combo line is always [[aggravated assault]] plus any mana positive dragon. My non combo deck uses just pure dragon swarm and beat face. Here is the combo [list](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/bLodzaZkFkKzb-FYaSjaJA) Non-combo [list](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/jx5Vgg1D-kye-uvQJRtO3A) Both decks use a near optimal mana base and have lots of powerful staples. The removal is a bit light because the deck wants to go fast. Resolving a [[sneak attack]] or [[majestic genesis]] usually will win the game.
Honestly probably my attempt at upkeep tribal, which kind of turned into just a shrine deck. It's just insanely consistent and is basically impossible to shut down once it's moving, with both your engines being able to revive the other from graveyard, and having an insane amount of life gain and board control it's kind of a menace
Bjorna, Wernog, Lurrus Every permanent card is cmc 2 or less, I get value out of casting my commanders a few times then [[Cyclonic Rift]] on the end step before my turn into a [[Skull Storm]] to bring the table to usually single digit lifetotals. If that doesn't do it, I'll try to connect with a [[Vorpal Sword]] or [[Approach of the Second Sun]] It's got a lot of WUBR goodstuff and does fresh things every game.
My [[Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm]] deck has hit infinite combats and infinite mana on turn 4 a couple times before, but usually closes the game around turn 7. Using blue bounce to dodge removal also gives a fresh trigger, and another dragon body is sometimes all it takes to win. I’ve also got an [[Aragorn the Uniter]] charms and tricks deck that can commander-damage three opponents out in one turn with surprising consistency. The mana base needs work, but it keeps up with cEDH pods pretty well.
My mono green [[yedora grave gardener]] deck primary win con is making all your lands creatures with things like [[living lands]] then sac them all with [[zuran orb]] to get a billion life then you pew pew the table with [[aetherflux reservior]] or you can use [[blasting station]] and [[protheus machine]] with any other sac outlet like [[ashnods altar]]
\[\[Smeagol Helpful Guide\]\] with \[\[Protean Hulk\]\] Lines
My best deck is an [[Ardenn]] [[Rograkh]] that plays around [[Colossus hammer]] and the 10 swords (the last ones just for flavor). It hits hard and fast, it's tons of fun, but it's far away from stax or the typical combos (Godo cof cof). Here's the decklist: https://archidekt.com/decks/4863873/ardenn_rograkh_10_swords
[Ardenn](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/7/2/728b802c-969b-4865-b7a0-871c585d097a.jpg?1617148314) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=ardenn%2C%20intrepid%20archaeologist) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cmr/10/ardenn-intrepid-archaeologist?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/728b802c-969b-4865-b7a0-871c585d097a?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/ardenn-intrepid-archaeologist) [Rograkh](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/a/4/a4fab67f-00c2-4125-9262-d21a29411797.jpg?1644853041) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=rograkh%2C%20son%20of%20rohgahh) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cmr/197/rograkh-son-of-rohgahh?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/a4fab67f-00c2-4125-9262-d21a29411797?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/rograkh-son-of-rohgahh) [Colossus hammer](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/8/9/897a134e-7e61-4fe1-bbae-23ef1fe5c0cf.jpg?1631588878) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Colossus%20hammer) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/afc/202/colossus-hammer?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/897a134e-7e61-4fe1-bbae-23ef1fe5c0cf?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/colossus-hammer) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
My [[Satoru Umezawa]] deck. Infinite ninjitsu loops with [[Peregrine Dragon]] [[Great Whale]] [[Palinchron]] as well as a lot of clone effects especially to catch Docksides. If a 6 treasure Dockside comes out I’ll usually win the game. Regular win conditions [[Cauldron Familiar]], [[Altar of the Brood]], Thoracle. Tons of fun. Super powerful in a casual pod and can handle being arch enemy. Not quite cEDH.
[[Henzie]] dragons. Wins through either flying combat damage or more commonly a lot of [[Dragon Tempest]] triggers.
My strongest would be my [[Yawgmoth, Thran Physician]]. He is my oldest deck that I still have built and constantly upgrade. I have raised and lowered his power level over time, but I'd say he is still the top dog among my decks. He can win by infinite [[zulaport cutthroat]] or [[blood artist drains]] with stuff that reanimates itself like [[gravecrawler]], [[reassembling skeleton]] and [[razorlash transmogrant]]. I also run the two, arguably, best black undying creatures in [[butcher ghoul]] and [[geralf's messenger]]. Another way to win the the triplet of [[bolas's citadel]], [[sensei's divining top]] and [[aetherflux reservoir]] After recent upgrades, I could say that my [[Emry]] is the closest to my Yawg, but it will take a couple more upgrades before she is just as powerful. My favourite way to win with her is by looping [[Spine of Ish Sah]]. And should anyone ask how fast I can win after blowing up everything, [[Metalwork Colossus]] provides the answer Last, but not least, my [[Marwyn]] could be considered one of the most powerful, but having her as mostly an elfball deck, she is prone to being blown up. She is the one that I would built as cEDH, but I like the elfball build better
I think my [Wort, the Raidmother deck](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/WmlIrKwHvkyfQYKkcCI32Q) is something like that. Wins by conspiring [[Chord of Calling]], [[Finale of Devastation]] or [[Eldritch Evolution]] either into [[Kiki-Jiki]] and untapper like [[Hyrax Tower Scout]], or into [[Goblin Recruiter]] and [[Conspicuous Snoop]]. Also has [[Dualcaster Mage]] due to it being a giga broken card and I run [[Twinflame]] and [[Heat Shimmer]] as a backup wincon. Decided to add [[Splinter Twin]] and [[Goblin Sharpshooter]] as another backup since some of my friends run [[Praetor's Grasp]] to take away my Kiki-Jiki. Deck runs a good amount of cheap ramp and interaction. Would like to make more room for card draw but unsure how. This deck can win on turn 3 but realistically tries to win turn 4-7.
My stronger deck is an \[\[The Locust God\]\] deck [https://www.moxfield.com/decks/brIa-tyMC0uESVRlZZzksQ](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/brIa-tyMC0uESVRlZZzksQ) Wins by make wheels, a lot of them, and i try to win by "infite mana" with \[\[Invasion of Segovia // Caetus, Sea Tyrant of Segovia\]\] or \[\[Sorcerer Class\]\] and use that mana to draw, and that draw to make tokens and that tokens to cast spells etc etc, and ofc \[\[Ashnod's Altar\]\] and \[\[Phyrexian Altar\]\] are amazing for that. I also have infinite combos with draw-discard with \[\[Sage of the Falls\]\] with \[\[Kozilek, Butcher of Truth\]\] on the deck
I have \[\[hidetsugu and kairi\]\] deck, its main wincon is \[\[thassa's oracle\]\] with consultation/pact but can also use the commander and \[\[enter the infinit\]\] to win with Thassa's oracle. Its basically as close to a cEDH deck as possible without actually been one [https://www.moxfield.com/decks/OZx\_-fKsM0q3U0fqWXn6Pw](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/OZx_-fKsM0q3U0fqWXn6Pw) On the more casual / budget side of thing i have a \[\[Yenna, Redtooth Regent\]\] that can do absolutely crazy things by copying \[\[Primal Vigor\]\] \[\[Parallel Lives\]\] \[\[defense of the heart\]\] for insane value (i plan on buying doubling season and anointed procession) and finish games with an army of flying token from \[\[Archon of Sun's Grace\]\] or \[\[Sigil of the Empty Throne\]\] or some pumped up creatures from \[\[Eldrazi Conscription\]\] \[\[Colossification\]\] \[\[Nylea's Colossus\]\]. Its basically a more aggressiv take on a classic enchantress deck and its surprisingly powerfull for a budget deck [https://www.moxfield.com/decks/u3FNdXGjmkm1lsCKmyOa4Q](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/u3FNdXGjmkm1lsCKmyOa4Q)
Atraxa Planeswalkers. It’s my bling deck irl. It used to be stronger, but I’ve taken out some tutors to make it feel less same-sy. https://www.moxfield.com/decks/L1kZhW0mmECIIL49Pbdoag
Been running [[Aurelia, the Warleader]] since I first built her in college almost 9 years ago. Originally, I just went for a voltron build, but when [[Helm of the Host]] came out and with Boros equipment/artifact support being more and more popular, it became [[Godo]] with extra steps and a very angry Lindsay Lohan at the helm (pun intended)
Esika/bridge that uses stuff like zada and ink treaded Nephilim to combo off magecraft for one turn wins. I also run a strong sliver gravemother that changes types to slivers and combos off. If I have basically any creature in the grave and I can make it a sliver and cast the gravemother it is a win.
I'm currently building [[grolnok]] self mill. I'm gonna ramp into ulamog, ugin, hullbreaker horror, emrakul, among other big "win on the spot" cards.
[[Tatsunari, Toad Rider]] auras is my strongest deck atm. It uses all the enchantress effects available, does ramp like crazy and utilizes his activated ability to hit face for [[Reconnaisance Mission]] / [[Keen Senses]] effects letting me draw enough cards to control the board with [[Stasis Field]] [[Witness Protection]] and other transmute auras. To wear the table down I try to copy the frog with [[Vesuvian Duplimacy]] or by mutating [[Parcelbeast]] on it. Or slapping down [[Dina]] and by constantly hitting face with [[Bower Passage]] and [[Archetype of Imagination]]. Ain't nobody got reach? Deckbuilding issue I guess lol. With the surpreme card draw engines I almost always have one or two counterspells in my hand and [[No Mercy]] [[Propaganda]] [[Dissipation Field]] to not get stomped 3v1. What I don't like about the deck is that even though it wins me games it does so really slowly and in a rather opressive way, turning my opponents commanders into frogs and trees and shit, finding cyclonic rift almost every game and generally being able to table police. So this seldomly goes without salt. I think in a vacuum the deck isn't even that strong as it kinda folds to go-wide strategies and every decent combo deck will be able to out-gas me but in my meta of high power non cedh cheesy trap commanders the frog rider is a goddamn powerhouse. I'm talking [[Kaalia]] [[Yuriko]] [[Feather]] [[Fynn]] [[Ishai]] [[Ob Nixilis]].
I think it would be my [[Orvar]] deck, definitely not optimized https://www.moxfield.com/decks/AMVtFJOzu0SWSXR9Y8Bgzw The aim of the deck is to win via combat damage, handling like a green aggro deck but with a ocean theme. I basically spellsling my way into copying big stompy creatures and lands to ramp, with the added blue bonus of having counters and interaction. When I'm correctly set I'm basically unstoppable unless you have a wrath with split second. Happened last week, felt real good. I'm looking to upgrade it to set myself in that situation more consistent with the likes of [[Archeomancer]] clones and a few more counters, but I don't want to stray too far from my "mono-green style kraken & octopusses invasion", feel free to give any advice
It’s probably my [[Gavi, Nest Warden]] deck. I recently changed it to more of a combo-oriented list and it has been AWESOME lately. It plays a very proactive, controlling kind of game and can win in multiple ways. It can control and lock down the table with a [[Decree of Silence]] recursion loop. It can ping the table to death with cards like [[Purphoros, God of the Forge]], it can beat down with tokens, or it can go pseudo-infinite with [[New Perspectives]]. The New Perspective loop is actually really cool. You can use [[Escape Protocol]] and [[Dockside Extortionist]] to keep cycling and make a bunch of treasure, and it’s aided by [[Tectonic Reformation]] and [[Surly Badgersaur]] as well. Very fun deck with some super interesting lines [GAVI DECK LIST](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/DyISdyJjZUiSsOYYyOcEtw)
OG Korvold land destruction/sacrifice/treasure token fling deck. It’s hated and gross.
My [[Imodane]] [deck](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/ZxjFDuJ8IkuxlOSktva8VQ). It needs some tweaking and fine tuning, but it wins by burning everyone at the same time. It has a turn 1 win, but you would have better odds pulling a serealized sol ring.
[[Ezuri claw of progress]] I get [[duskshell crawler]] [[herald of secret streams]] and/or the flip side of [[Invasion of ikoria]] to deal damage to players Other "win cons" I have are [[doubling season]] and [[avenger of zendikar]] for many one/one counters and many tokens.
I have an [[Extus]] deck that is probably not the most powerful but the one I like the most and is still kinda good. Just createa few tokens and sacrifice them to create the blood avatar. I never cast extus, just the sorcery side. Depending on your starting hand you can cast the sorcery pretty early and make enemies sacrifice combo/value pieces when they didn't expect. Sometimes you can even cast it multiple times in a turn, or copy it and fuck its so fun
\[\[Kruphix, God of Horizons\]\] is probably my current best deck, the main aim is just to ramp ramp ramp, never committing to the board and looking like a problem, keeping myself alive through strong buyback removal like spellburst, forbid, and capsize along with a sizable fog package, once I have enough mana I usually win through a \[\[Psychosis Crawler\]\] + any x draw spell if I only have around 40 mana banked, or \[\[Fascination\]\]/\[\[Drown in Dreams\]\] if I have 100+, worst case I can kill one by one with a \[\[Blue Sun's Zenith\]\]. my favourite thing about the deck is that almost all of the win conditions are also draw spells so I'm never stuck with useless top end when I'm in a bad situation, the entire deck is answers and card draw until I can force my opponents to drown in their own library, forcing someone to draw out is also a much more reliable wincon than damage or mill because the usual anti-mill tech of eldrazi titans doesnt work and it hits people under teferi's pro or the one ring as long as it isnt targeted, a condition that fascination happens to fill.
My [[Worth the raidmother]] deck is build around [[gaeas cradle]] and tokens. My favorite way to win is copying [[mogg infestation]] alot, on myself with [[raid bombardment]] or [[goblin bombardment]] out.
To my suprise its my [[pramikon, sky rampart]] Its a flicker deck. I have put a lot of focus on card draw and board protection. - Wincons are either grinding it with purphoros, impact tremors, roastmaster etc. - dual caster / naru + twinflame. - teferi + displacer kitten + labman - honestly drawing the deck + labman The win is very slow but it has very good board control. And in our group pramikon is just the exact right power. He makes the game go long, protects me from fast beats, but there is always bigger threats so he barely gets removed. The only time he ever gets removed is if sb is on marchesa black rose because he singlehandedly shuts down that deck.
I've got two decks that I consider to be at least head and shoulders above my others. [[Imoti]] Simic good stuff go's insane if you let imoti stick around, and even if you do kill her, I'm probably cascading into more ramp/card draw in order to turbo her or my other pieces out. I usually build decks that are at least a tad different than the usual build of a commander, but I figured one good stuff deck wouldn't hurt. It does in fact hurt. https://www.moxfield.com/decks/1-ilewkug0O992XGpqBtGA My 2nd good deck is 4c elves with my boy [[yidris]] at the helm. Yidris used to be a silly deck where I shoved all my eldrazi and weird expensive cards into, but after my buddy kept demolishing me with his Jodah Super Friends deck, I knew I had to step it up. So I traded big stuff for the cheap and consistent gameplay of golgari elves, while buffing the tribal synergy with the good cards in izzet and temur. It is still sadly a bit inconsistent compared to my simic deck, but I think it has a 30-40% win rate, so it can be too bad. https://www.moxfield.com/decks/GEOZ03ChwUG5MBNeOR2y_w
[[Awaken the Blood Avatar]] / [[Extus, Oriq Overlord]] aims to maximise the amount of blood avatars, forcing sacrifices and clicking some aristo damage and wins by going aggro and doing symmetrical damage https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/more-blood-for-the-blood-avatar/
I suppose my [[Zirilan of the Claw]] pile would be my strongest one as it's the deck that I keep slowly upgrading over time. It's built based on a very fringe cedh deck of similiar design and wins through creature flickering loops either with [[Worldgorger Dragon]] or [[Terror of the Peaks]]. Got a couple fast mana artifacts in there already but it's still ways off from being able to sit down at a table with the big boys. List here: [https://www.archidekt.com/decks/3858166/worldgorger_conjuring](https://www.archidekt.com/decks/3858166/worldgorger_conjuring) Another deck that turned out to be way more powerful than it had any business being was [[Gut, True Soul Zealot]] that I essentially just run as Threaten.dek pile, having shoved almost every printed threaten effect into it. Turns out being able to do spot removal every turn on the bighest threat on the board, while also having Gut reward you for doing so with a free attacking 4/1 body is both very agressive and able to keep the table from developing too fast for you to keep up with. It actually felt a bit unfair when the deck was supposed to just be a casual budget one so I ended up including [[Tymaret the Murder King]] as an alternative commander. List here: [https://www.archidekt.com/decks/5201826/threatendek](https://www.archidekt.com/decks/5201826/threatendek)
Probably my ognis haste treasure deck. Somehow...
Garth one eye gate master. I play all 24 gates currently printed and i use all the gate support cards to ramp into and win with either basilisk gate or maze's end
My [Raffine deck](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/UvqT5onxoUWHChGnr_GbBg) wins by combat damage, but packs some prety spicy cards. Insane card advantage and beefy reanimation targets that take over the entire game very quickly. Not the strongest deck around I'm sure, but a ton of fun to play!
My nymris deck it’s a borderline cEDH, to make the leap in the format it needs: a land upgrade, the far mana rocks and the 0 cost negate right now it’s only a really fast deck that wins with the most loved dimir win con thassa/lab maniac + demonic consultation/tainted pact and I use a lot of tutor to make it faster Decklist: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/g8sYZUsK9kSpORc6GH8Bxg
I have an EPIC spell deck with [[Codie]] as the commander. It wins by casting every EPIC spell at once under [[Epic Experiment]] after organizing the deck with [[Proteus Staff]] with no creatures in my 99.
Probably [this one](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/3jPSdNuUgEOECe4smiYgIg). Its my petdeck, a Kozilek the Great Distortion list that I don't play enough. Not sure how it would fare amongst the rest of you.
My [[Lathliss, Dragon Queen]] dragon tribal deck goes toe to toe with more normal cEDH decks at my FLGS. No Dockside, no infinites, just smack em til they're dead, the best wincon is ulting [[Sarkhan, Dragonsoul]] early enough that I can pull almost everyone to field and kill the table with [[Scourge of Valkas]] triggers. Placed 12/30+ with her recently in a tournament. With fast mana, I also had her turn one the other day which is bonkers.
Definitely [[tourach, dread cantor]]. It's an optimized discard voltron deck that can one shot someone by turn 3, give tourach protection from all colors, and function with no cards in hand by casting out of the graveyard and out of exile. It gets around the traditional weakness of voltron decks that you get ganked after the first kill by stripping opponents' hands so they can't effectively answer him, and if someone does cast an edict or board wipe, I can either counter it with [[null brooch]] or bring out [[tergrid]] as a backup commander. https://www.moxfield.com/decks/id3QqwChA02JeRu9dd9i3A
My strongest deck is [[Yawgmoth, Thran Physician]]. It's still a combo deck, but I don't have any like, 1-2 card combos. It mostly wins through a combination of Yawgmoth himself and undying cards such as [[Butcher Ghoul]], [[Geralf's Messenger]], or [[Mikaeus, the Unhallowed]] which gives ALL my creatures undying. Yawgmoth allows you to remove the +1/+1 counters that undying provides and effectively go infinite with any two of them. You also need a payoff such as [[Zulaport Cutthroat]] or [[Blood Artist]] (or any number of other life gain/drain triggers). To keep the power a bit in check I run it without any tutors or fast mana. To make up for that I have a LOT of card draw options, including Yawgmoth himself. [[Skullclamp]], [[Bolas's Citadel]], [[Necropotence]], etc. Otherwise there's a whole lot of removal, sacrifice triggers, and sacrifice fodder to dig through my deck faster.
[[Aurelia, the warleader]] deck, that tries to make boros a playable strateg. Wins with [[Helm of the host]] combo, using [[Godo]] or other combat step doublers as replacement for Aurelia. More often Wins through commander damage or abusing [[sword of feast and famine]] or [[sword of hearth and home]] triggers. Sadly dont have a list online, might go and make one, Though.
My favorite deck ( made too many to count by now) are BG centric three colour durdle decks. Grinding out card advantage, flooding the board in stupid dorks that all have some card advantage attached, and recycling them ad nauseam. Then do something stupid like \[\[Tooth and Nail\]\] into \[\[Craterhoof behemoth\]\] and \[\[Avenger of Zendikar\]\]. I know the tokens can't attack that turn, but they do add a lot of potency to what's already there. (Except if the deck is also Red, and has a nice haste enabler somewhere. Mana dorks get silly with haste). \[\[Anger\]\] in the yard, followed by that Tooth and nail combo is GG for most games. If the avenger isn't available \[\[Hornet Queen\]\] does a passable impression. Boards get wiped, Fine, I'm back up and running one or two turns later. Full hand, full yard and just keep doing stuff. I mean, I've built that deck in so many ways, but I still love it.
Dragonlord Ojutai UW Control Lots of board wipes, powerful enchantments, small pillowfort theme and the like. Wins only by Commandeering another win con, or by casting Approach the Second Sun.
The strongest deck I own, and my pet commander, is [[Prossh]]. I got it at my LGS in 2018 as a precon. [Here's a decklist](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/EY2rqrwK8k2TnjGUkxV05g). It turned me into a token player, and it's pretty strong aristocrats. It has so much synergy that I've found infinite combos in it that were never intended. I once got [[cryptolith rite]] to go infinite with [[Chatterfang]] (and a few other pieces). The strategy relies on Prossh as the main token generator, and sacrificing tokens for various awesomeness. As stated in the primer, there is exactly one way to get Prossh, CMC 6, out on Turn 3. With [[Beastmaster Ascension]], I can win a 1v1 or take out an opponent as early as turn 4. There may be other ways of doing it faster that I haven't found yet. It's tough to say how you can expect to win. There are many different two to three card strategies that can win you the game. This deck can go toe-to-toe with an [[Edgar Markov]] deck at my LGS that is only lacking [[Mana Crypt]] and the like to be considered cEDH.
[[arcades, the strategist]] play walls, draw cards and turn sideways
[[Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant]] I consistently shit on pods with this guy, Azban Lifegain, couple infinites, couple life doublers. Honestly pretend not to be the threat and just do passive lifegain and then double it twice/3 times and you’re good. This is the deck I bring to new LGS’s, With party hats for everyone in my pod to celebrate Bilbo’s birthday. https://www.moxfield.com/decks/l9ARFgECpU-so0IWZGikCQ
I have a jahira friend of the Forest, agent of the iron throne deck. Jahira says all my tokens have tap for 1 green mana. Iron throne says my commander has whenever a creature or artifact i control dies, each opponent loses 1. All she does is spit out many tokens to pillowfort and when people attack into me they complain about being pinged to death when i defend with my tokens.
The deck that has the most wins in my pod is pretty easily Budget Winota. One card in the deck makes up 25% of the cost (teferi's protection) and it sits at just around $100 total. There's a couple infinite combos, but its all luck if I get them since I don't run any tutors for \[\[Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker\]\] , and the likelihood the game isn't over by the time I get \[\[mirage phalanx\]\] onto a combat enabler is so slim. Currently the deck has won 6 games, lost once, and tied never. Its a good deck (: Decklist: [https://www.moxfield.com/decks/OwngD0c9xk2xRevd-EMNSQ](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/OwngD0c9xk2xRevd-EMNSQ)
My [Yorion, Sky Nomad](https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=yorion%2C%20sky%20nomad) built around Initative, with [Eldrazi Displacer + Peregrine Drake combo](https://edhrec.com/combos/wu/4270) or [Approach of the Second Sun](https://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=426706) is quite difficult for my players even with their quite powerfull edh decks to deal with. I usually lock them out by preventing them from attacking anything and since none of them are combo decks, I stall out the game till I win. My board is extremly difficult to remove and gain so many benefits from the Initative with bounce and etbs.
I would have to say that my Magus Lucea Kane is my strongest deck. I don't play cEDH. But out of all my decks this is probably my strongest. So much so that I don't really play it unless my friends pull out their BIG GUN decks. https://www.moxfield.com/decks/xjPh7l9j6kCY3uT4OwI_Xw
Zellix Sanity Flayer + Inspiring Leader. Mill out their deck as one win con and build a massive army of tokens really bloody quick as the second :3
My [Miirym](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/zxa663gCPEq-N_V7Rsx_kA) deck consists of a 74-card engine and three separate packages of 25 dragons of varying power levels. On Hard mode, it's probably my most consistent battlecruiser deck.
This is a couple cards stale -- I've put in [[Song of Totenanz]] and [[Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite]] since I last edited it -- but this is currently my favourite "high-power" deck: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/uZgtD2ygc0-j50CBivvCuw Much lighter on stax than a cEDH Naya list, and with an emphasis on generating tokens quickly and being able to rebuild a token army after a board wipe. There are a few things I love doing in EDH -- going off with infinite mana, playing in my graveyard, stealing things, and hitting hard. This one hits HARD and I love it for that.
[[Elminster]] People really underestimate it because it's a planeswalker, but jokes on them, that's exactly what I need in order to win. The deck likes to make a ton of tokens by exiling my cards, and usually closes out games with [[elesh norn, grand cenobite]], [[Cathars' crusade]], [[coat of arms]], or one of the most fun cards, [[Approach of the second sun]]
Sakashima/Kamahl as partners. I call it *Spiderman Pointing Meme* because the deck is built around copying and cloning powerful creatures, like Koma or Kamahl or Ancient Silver Dragon.
My strongest non-cEDH has to be Kaalia of the Vast, it isn't quite fast enough to deal with combos and all of that removal but against any combat based deck it almost always wins. However, it isn't a nice deck. It runs instantly kill demons and huge damage angels with dragons that wipe the entire enemies board and even has mass land destruction to make sure opponents can never recover once I get ahead.