Just want to know, what do you usually play? anything would give a point of reference. Some decks are... very weird and too unique to build around
#Looking for Commander Suggestions (Bracket 2 to Mid 3)
jagged plume
if you want a challenge, pick a commander without a clear direction so you will be able to create a goal for yourself
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glad sail
Sorry missed this, thanks for the tag
glad sail
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Uh, yea I enjoy a puzzle, combo decks are fun but I'm not looking to combo out a 35 minute turn win or go infinite. I sometimes like a rube goldberg deck.
Theme decks are always fun, like I built a Girlboss, Gatekeep, Gaslight deck with Sisay Weatherlight Captain, all the art and cards in the deck revolved around women, cards that you try to gaslight your opponent into not removing, and a mazes end wincon.
I had to take that one apart because people saw Sisay and freaked out (It was not that great).
Some decks I've built are Rats tribal with Wick, so rats but a healthy splash of aristocrats
Towns with Wandering Minstrel. A landfall and towns themed deck with all the towns (no gates in that one)
Zell, mono red landfall...
Reminds me I really like decks that don't normally do the thing, like you don't normally see mono red landfall decks.
Recent decks I've built (took a long break from magic)
- Rakdos mana bank with firebending and Ozai helming.
- Sokka Ally tribal
- Experience Counters proliferate with Kratos and Boy
Some decks I refuse to play with/against: Slivers, Eldrazi of any variety unless it's the manifest one and then it's JUST the commander who is eldrazi, poison counters, theft.
jagged plume
Girlboss, Gatekeep, Gaslight Is a Toxic proliferate mechanic deck on theme with your brand? XD let me read the rest
i thought of buying sissay from the avatar set reprint buy it was taken before my order went through, i can see why people are scared of her without knowing the deck. i did a [[Vraska, the silencer]] deck around Commit a Crime mechanic for shit and giggles, somewhat ended up with a similar situation even when i have to pay 7 mana to draw 1 card
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Legendary Creature — Gorgon Assassin
Deathtouch
Whenever a nontoken creature an opponent controls dies, you may pay 
. If you do, return that card to the battlefield tapped under your control. It's a Treasure artifact with "
, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color," and it loses all other card types.
3/3
jagged plume
all my ramp has to be Able to enchant/commit a crime and it has a group hug subtheme since anything that Targets is technically a crime. it broke out of the B1 shell to at least be B2. may have to make it even less memey
so if toxic is off, [[vishgraz the doomhive]] may not be your thing. the "everyone alive" but poisoned corrupted thing is a bit niche but an interesting retake on poison counters as an alterntive to infect
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jagged plume
i think it was in the precon with [[ixhel scion of atraxa]] where it shows corrupted on it
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jagged plume
anyways, i would suggest a somewhat easy to build "engine" commander such as [[jori en ruin diver ]] but is open ended so you can basically fit anything in
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jagged plume
if you like lot of big spells, green is usually the easiest to get to a 7+ mana point around T5 but there are enough [[thran dynamo]] mana ramp to get there in non-green colours
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Artifact
: Add 
.
Urza's metathran children were conceived, birthed, and nurtured by an integrated system of machines.
jagged plume
as long as the deck is doing draws and mana ramp, each colour can more or less do their own thing. So the question becomes, what is this thing that you want to do the most
i am seeing some "go wide all out attack" decks from your description
lot of colours for the most part so perhaps artifact / fewer colour would be a nice restriction to build on
i just put together a few unfinished deck, like [[mazirek, kraul death priest]] without a sacrifice engine, [[omo queen of vesuva]] but its trying to be 5 colours - Domain - land types, [[The Rani]] because i want to test out forced combat and aura janks, will be doing a masochistic style [[rowan scion of war]] with cast triggers next
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Legendary Creature — Human Wizard
Menace
: Spells you cast this turn that are black and/or red cost 
less to cast, where X is the amount of life you lost this turn. Activate only as a sorcery.
"No more days withering at a negotiating table with my brother. I will rebuild Eldraine myself—the old way, with power."
4/2
glad sail
Ooooo the rani as a forced combat deck with some blink mechanics? That could be an interesting build.
I also though about running a final fantasy 14 themed deck with ff14 cards and cards that could reference it...with alphinaud and allisae at the helm which I think would be azorious.
My most common builds are in esper colors or some combo of those.
Omo I've ran as everything jank tribal. A lot of all x creatures get y. Type things
jagged plume
i didnt even do blick because i went with janky ninjutsu
😅
it works on attack so once Rani is out, attacking each turn also works
trying to get my [[glimpse of tomorrow]] with countless aura on board
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Sorcery
Suspend 3—
Shuffle all permanents you own into your library, then reveal that many cards from the top of your library. Put all non-Aura permanent cards revealed this way onto the battlefield, then do the same for Aura cards, then put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
jagged plume
so my permanent count is on the higher side
jagged plume
I also though about running a final fantasy 14 themed deck with ff14 cards and c...
Yeah i seen a lot of omo with tribal tribal, thats why i want to do all the "each land type you control" instead
i care about making red black mana, too bad i dont own an urborg to put in the 99
[[alphinaud]] and [[allisae ]] i am complete noob with FF
jagged plume
and you played 14 more of those than I did
potential to be secret commanders
my favourite card is [[possibility storm]] and i can proudly say that to anyone
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glad sail
I think I found my next build then 😅
Rani sounds fun with several different possibilities
jagged plume
👍 update me on it
i would say dont run [[propaganda]] and do [[striful strix]] instead
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Enchantment
Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays 
for each creature they control that's attacking you.
"The cost of your opposition will be extracted from your wits." —Nekusar, the Mindrazer
glad sail
The one thing with Rani is I need a wincon option
glad sail
Lol
jagged plume
they will kill each other very quickly while you pretend to be act innocent
[[hot pursuit]]
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jagged plume
waiting for this 1vs 1
glad sail
👍 update me on it
Preliminary budget form to see how I like it,will upgrade accordingly 🙂
jagged plume
creature only removals and mass destroy board wipes are the ones i avoided
i use token wipes so that only when there are too many creatures to goad that I need to destroy them
since goading in itself is sort of like a creature removal
[[mask of avacyn]] has a high equip cost
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Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature gets +1/+2 and has hexproof. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Equip 
It hides the face and protects the soul.
jagged plume
i usually end up with the generic [[swiftfoot boot]] which also has many diff art to choose from
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Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
jagged plume
[[lavaspur boots]] is interesting too much ward 1 is much weaking
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Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has haste and ward . (Whenever it becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays .)
Equip
These boots were made for far more than walking.
jagged plume
weaker*
unless the commander has like ward 
already to get to 3, it is nothing compare to hexproof
in red, i would go for [[rise of the day]] for the haste anthem
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jagged plume
actually there are quite a few equips, almost like going voltron 🤔
hexproof on all of them is a redundant overlap i think you can try some of the blue equipment such as [[winged boots]]
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Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature has flying and ward 
. (Whenever equipped creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays .)
Equip
Get carried away.
jagged plume
never got this card but thats about the closest to hexproof other than shroud
along side with the investigate clue production that we both ignored, you will want a [[forensic gadgeteer]] so you can crack clues and eqiup for less
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Creature — Vedalken Artificer Detective
Whenever you cast an artifact spell, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with ", Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Activated abilities of artifacts you control cost less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.
2/3
jagged plume
i have hardly any artifact and i dont bother picking up this card
important thing to note is that you can put the mark of rani on your own creature
and on the same creature
i havent got it yet but i will draw into [[Alexios deimos of kosmos]] giving him around the table
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jagged plume
i think [[slicer hired muscle]] is more expensive but i got that one a long time ago as well
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Legendary Artifact Creature — Robot
More Than Meets the Eye (You may cast this card converted for .)
Double strike, haste
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, you may have that player gain control of Slicer until end of turn. If you do, untap Slicer, goad it, and it can't be sacrificed this turn. If you don't, convert it.
3/4
Slicer, High-Speed Antagonist
Legendary Artifact — Vehicle
Living metal (During your turn, this Vehicle is also a creature.)
First strike, haste
Whenever Slicer deals combat damage to a player, convert it at end of combat.
3/2
jagged plume
so my wipe of choice are things similar to [[ritual of soot]] lying around, since it dodges my commander and kills tokens etc
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jagged plume
the ones i have ar 5 mana but does the same thing
but black is the strongest colour of massacring creature, blue can get around anything especially with bounce to avoid death triggers [[aether rize]], red is the damage based therefore weaker than those two, at a easier condition
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jagged plume
i think i only used [[CHain reaction]] in the deck where i have stuffy doll and such
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jagged plume
https://scryfall.com/search?q=(o%3A"whenever+a+creature+attacks"+or+o%3A"whenever+a+creature+an+opponent+controls+attacks"+)+and+id<%3DRUB&unique=cards&as=grid&order=name most of those are cards i dont have
