frail rover
I've been wanting to give some more love to the underrated commanders in the format, and I decided to start with [[Iymrith, Desert Doom]]. He enjoys card draw and buffing himself, swinging and drawing cards.
This currently is a rough draft, so I'd appreciate any cuts and/or suggestions. I just tossed together some cards I think would work well, and will mold it from here.
Decklist here: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/sdE_aCawbke70aUDrjXBrA
knotty elkBOT
Legendary Creature — Dragon
Flying
Iymrith, Desert Doom has ward 
as long as it's untapped.
Whenever Iymrith deals combat damage to a player, draw a card. Then if you have fewer than three cards in hand, draw cards equal to the difference.
5/5
inner wharf
[[Mind Over Matter]] seems like a must-run with this commander
inner wharf
Get rid of your hand to tap down blockers, maybe untap the commander and some lands and maximize the amount of card draw you get per swing
In general, I would look for some more discard outlets
Perhaps you could even look into a small graveyard subtheme. Run cards with flashback etc so you still have access to discarded cards.
Don't see why you would want to run Renari over just [[Vedalken Orrery]] or [[Leyline of Anticipation]]. Limitting your flash to just dragons seems kinda eh
frail rover
Sounds good. In general, what cards should I cut?
And it was the Dragons and Artifacts
frail rover
Alright. What else do you think I should add?
inner wharf
Wondering if you really need to run stuff like Aqueus form and Bypass, your main attackers in this deck already have evasion
frail rover
It's mainly so that Iymrith can't be blocked
inner wharf
Yeah but he has flying already
frail rover
Most of the people I play against run a ton of flyers
inner wharf
Some of the cantrips like Ponder and Brainstorm are a bit eh here, as you're not really able to take full advantage of them. Ponder and Brainstorm shine the most when you have a fetchland as a follow up, or if your deck cares about topdeck manipulation.
frail rover
Besides, he's quite expensive. It's safe to expect that the others will have flyers on the board by the time I get him out
Alright, I'll cut those
inner wharf
brainstorm I think is ok as it can sometimes draw you into an answer in a pinch. Ponder is iffy if there's only 1 card among the top 3 you really care about
frail rover
Should I just drop the cantrips in favor of discard?
inner wharf
Maybe
The other thing is that outside of maybe Archmage Emeritus, your deck doesn't seem to care about casting cantrips
frail rover
[[Archmage Emeritus]]
frail rover
Ah, yeah makes sense
inner wharf
So, yeah I do think you could just run better synergy pieces here
Or, just better draw spells
frail rover
Alright. So, correct me if I'm wrong.
Cut most cantrips/top-deck manipulation in favor of discard synergies, and add [[Mind over Matter]] and better flash enablers?
inner wharf
The discard stuff is mostly just an idea to maximize the potential of your commander's trigger. I do think Mind over matter is extremely good here, as you can pitch some cards before the trigger resolves to draw more cards, untap some lands and cast whatever you just drew into.
How much discard synergy you really need, idk. if you really commit to it, I think it could make for a really interesting and unique monoblue build
