#Opinion Polling: Which List Would You Prefer Playing in a Pod With

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tawny laurel
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I have a pile of brews that I haven't pulled the trigger on and assembled lately, and playtesting with locals and drifters is generally how I gauge my deck's success rate.

At the moment I have a lot more than usual on the backburner so i'm hoping to get some much appreciated input on if these seem fun/interesting/acceptable for casual pickup game play to you.

Any input is fine, even negative, my goal here is to pick a theme or two to expand on for my local playtesting.
Not every deck list is complete, but the base themes will stay true to what is currently listed.

Snapdax Dungeon Crawler
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/hFAiuvuZmESox9WLtE37pg

An aggressive combat focused deck set on utilizing the initiative and maintaining a board state that can keep it or easily gain it back.

Ephara Initiative
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/Oz5EF4nX9UGoAnfkpw41GQ

Classic Ephara blink shell, leaning heavy into the initiative as an added layer of value. Adventure cards layered in as a sub theme.

Beamtown Bullies Cycling
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/D6KkO1Yli0uhAut_Al8YPg

Cycling heavy shell with some untapping to utilize big creatures in the yard to keep opponents fighting amongst themselves.

Gor Muldrak Group Slug
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/P0dElrzT0Emj7M1nW9gwmw

Very focused on maintaining a balanced board between all players and leveraging Gor Muldrak and various goad effects and tricks to keep the table in a constant state of swinging with salamanders.

Guile Oil / Charge Counters
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/EohsRzh0YkCrSF07KR6GOQ

Lots of counters to proliferate, incremental value and board presence. Was initially an energy / charge counter list which is also an alternative. Guile being a value beatstick / removal piece that plays along.

STaRK Convoke
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/pHlSETEM2kKckaVdkCtFDg

Convoke value play, heavily focused on the commander's untap value into tokens.

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Approximate Knowledge of Many Things - Commander (Snapdax, Apex of ...

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Cycling With the Boys - Commander (The Beamtown Bullies)

Cycling theme with Bully Gifting large body cycling creatures as an added payout

Cycling and self discard has a lot of interesting payout effects that have been added in to each set, and while I have enjoyed a lot of them involving Blue I think the Bullies' gifting ability really embodies the ch...

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They're Coming! - Commander (Gor Muldrak, Amphinologist)

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Oiligarchy - Commander (Immard, the Stormcleaver)

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coral knoll
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Probably Ephara Initiative

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I feel like initiative will keep things moving and it would also be less likely to skew threat assessment

tawny laurel
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Fair, snapdax by does kind of bring it's own inherent table pressure regardless of actual deck strength

coral knoll
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Same with Bullies

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I've just definitely seen "scary" commanders distract tables too much.

tawny laurel
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That was my initial concern with them as well, they're capable of being really debilitating and it's often not worth the trouble of explaining

coral knoll
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I was in a series of games last night where two were against a merry/pippin partner deck that was brutal but two people focused on each other because they were playing bigger creatures

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A Volo deck and Tiamat dragons

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But merry/pippin player wasn't a threat to them because he was only making food and 1/1s

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[[Pippin, Warden of Isengard]]

prisma valeBOT
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https://scryfall.com/card/ltc/65/pippin-warden-of-isengard

Pippin, Warden of Isengard <:manab:292901508872273920><:manag:292901508654301185>

Legendary Creature — Halfling Advisor
Partner with Merry, Warden of Isengard (When this creature enters the battlefield, target player may put Merry into their hand from their library, then shuffle.)
mana1, manat: Create a Food token.
manat, Sacrifice four Foods: Other creatures you control get +3/+3 and gain haste until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.
2/2

coral knoll
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Gor Muldrak is a deck I had for a while and people just didn't trust it.

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Because it was simic and too group hug

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So they were annoyed by it and I'd get killed.

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The Guile list is fine but I don't know I'd have any strong feelings about it.

tawny laurel
coral knoll
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People didn't trust it because of that.

tawny laurel
coral knoll
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Yeah. I mean fine in the sense that there's nothing that stands out about it as a positive or negative experience.

tawny laurel
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I think my issue is I don't see any direct lines to closing the game

coral knoll
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For Guile?

tawny laurel
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Yeah

coral knoll
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Yeah, I don't really either fwiw? But as I said, I was mainly talking about "vibe checks"

tawny laurel
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It's just kinda machines pumping out value via counters and he's his own little pocket removal or beats

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Yep, these are all casual fun

coral knoll
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The list you have in here that I actually low key love is "STaRK" though.

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But that's probably because it has a lot of my pet cards in it

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ex: [[Crackleburr]]

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tawny laurel
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It's really fun to goldfish, you get tons of tokens that feed into all sorts of plays

coral knoll
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I don't know how other people would feel against it. I'd be wanting the list but I'm a niche case.

tawny laurel
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It reads as potential combo engine, but it's really just a lot of tokens and potential high turn equity which can drive it to negative

coral knoll
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Yeah, I can see that.

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I literally almost bought a Breaking Wave last night though, to show the sort of player I am. 😆

tawny laurel
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I love that card, just an absolute reload after spending all of your convoke resources
Simultaneously you just get to do a blitz finish

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Only punishes opponents that durdle, so not really a feel bad

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Also, thank you for taking the time to look at each.

coral knoll
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Of course!

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I've bookmarked your list too because I was looking at doing the 4c Aragorn as a convoke deck and think it would help there.

tawny laurel
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Nice! That actually makes a lot of sense with how he works

coral knoll
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That was my thinking too but it's not one I see in the ways people have built him on EDHRec so it's been slower going in construction.

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[[Fallaji Wayfarer]] was a major influencer in the idea though.

prisma valeBOT
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https://scryfall.com/card/dmc/11/fallaji-wayfarer

Fallaji Wayfarer <:mana2:292901509060886528><:manag:292901508654301185>

Creature — Human Scout
Fallaji Wayfarer is all colors. This ability doesn't affect its color identity. (It can be in any deck whose commander's color identity includes green.)
Multicolored spells you cast have convoke. (Your creatures can help cast those spells. Each creature you tap while casting a multicolored spell pays for mana1 or one mana of a color that creature is.)
2/4

coral knoll
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But the convoke part isn't really leaned into (EDHRec lists 14 convoke decks)

tawny laurel
coral knoll
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It's why I've ended up with a box of "I like this random card and I should hold onto it for later"

tawny laurel
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I also own this box 😅

coral knoll
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I feel like the Aragorn deck is going to lie at the intersection of your deck and the [[Tocasia, Dig Site Mentor]] deck I'd looked at building

prisma valeBOT
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https://scryfall.com/card/bro/224/tocasia-dig-site-mentor

Tocasia, Dig Site Mentor <:mana1:292901508373282827><:manag:292901508654301185><:manaw:1007102126813610074><:manau:292901508754702338>

Legendary Creature — Human Artificer
Creatures you control have vigilance and "manat: Surveil 1." (To surveil 1, look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)
mana2managmanagmanawmanawmanaumanau, Exile Tocasia, Dig Site Mentor from your graveyard: Return any number of target artifact cards with total mana value 10 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.
4/3

coral knoll
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Her static abilities are the relevant ones.

tawny laurel
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I liked her a lot too, but I already have a bant list so it's a no go for me

Surveil is fantastic, card selection and using the yard as a hand 👌👌

coral knoll
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My bant is Arcades so they're pretty dissimilar

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I'd looked at her as a bant merfolk commander because of their intersection with tap abilities

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So the schoolmaster and [[Merrow Commerce]] stuff

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tawny laurel
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That makes sense, I played around with a lot of the cards that benefitted from tapping and untapping in testing as well

Would probably work better when it isn't spell/mana reliant like convoke

coral knoll
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm going to get like a 150 card list to start

tawny laurel
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The final result here took a lot of upsetting cuts. There really are a lot of great options,

coral knoll
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Was one of those cuts [[Ioreth of the Healing House]]

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