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Big Bird's Back, Back Again

Commander / EDH* Control GWU (Bant)

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After a lot of playtesting with a previous version of a Roon deck, I've realised that commander decks just aren't any good if it requires the commander to remain on the board to win. In a meta (my playgroup ==) full of boardwipes that's just not feasible, so I built this deck to more or less be able to operate without Roon needing to be online. That's why I now have Derevi in the deck, which is still on theme to the whole ETB triggers thing going, but it's much faster and fills out my curve better.

This deck features a lot of value cards and ETB good stuff, with a lot of ways to flicker. It is very creature heavy, since most of the flickering occurs on creatures. I chose cards based on one mentality; high impact. If the card doesn't have high enough impact then I cut it, even if it fills out my curve better. In a format that's multilayer, you can afford to be slower and then start playing your big bombs later in the game, especially when boardwipes go off to wipe early game progress.

Things I cut from my previous version were cheap card draw cards like Elvish Visionary or Carven Caryatid. These creatures just get destroyed on the first boardwipe, really not much point. Took out other low impact cards that don't really win me the game (Spikeweaver, Strionic Resonator or Sundial of the Infinite) or too expensive (Woodland Primus, Terastodon, or Lavinia of the Tenth). Added a bunch of clones in, so they can copy other threats or reuse some of my own ETB. Added some really obvious cards that I didn't have before like Diluvian Primordial or Prime Speaker Zegana.

Overall, this deck does look a lot like any other ETB good stuff deck on Bant, but the power level should be greater. Plus I was sick of only having one wincon, Avenger plus Craterhoof. Still need to play this out and see if it can win in other ways. Please leave suggestions, I would love feedback.

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Date added 10 years
Last updated 7 years
Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

9 - 0 Mythic Rares

54 - 0 Rares

18 - 0 Uncommons

9 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 4.19
Tokens Copy Clone, Emblem Venser, the Sojourner, Plant 0/1 G
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