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I've been thinking about getting into commander for a while, looking around at different cards and no commanders really jumped out at me. But when Rankle came out, I knew I really wanted to build a deck around him, if only because I love him as a concept so much. As there aren't many builds out for him yet, I decided to go ahead and try to build a deck of my own.

I decided to focus on a mixture of two things - protecting Rankle, ensuring he can get in every turn, and discard. I want to at least have the choice of attacking with him every turn, where possible, though I know that may be tough in multiplayer. Discard is one of my favorite themes, so I do want to have a decent chunk of the deck dedicated to it no matter what changes I make down the road. That being said, I am not sure if the Megrim-style effects are a good enough win-con or if I should just use discard as removal of sorts. If those effects turn out to not be very effective, I may lean into reanimator instead, throwing in a Gonti, Lord of Luxury as well. Ultimately, I'm looking to play more of a casual deck, though I'm not opposed to playing powerful cards if they don't stop my fellow players from actually playing.

I also wanted to play a little bit into the Rogue theme, though I don't want to go full-on tribal. I'm debating whether going into that is just diluting things, and I should just go into a Voltron-style deck or Discard/Reanimator as previously mentioned. I like it for flavor, but I will have to see if it messes with the consistency enough that I come not to enjoy running those cards.

Some of the cards may look like weird fits, but I was wanting to run certain cards for flavor, so I don't plan on taking them out anytime soon. Those cards are Bag of Holding , Hot Soup , Nezumi Shortfang , Noggin Whack , Null Brooch , Revel in Riches , Springjack Pasture , and Trading Post .

If you have any tips, in particular about the ratio of cards (for example, as it's my first deck, I'm not sure if I have enough ramp/mana rocks) please feel free to leave them in the comments below! While I don't plan on making a strictly cEDH deck, I do look forward to optimizing the deck as time goes on as I see it growing into a pet deck of mine.

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Date added 5 years
Last updated 5 years
Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

5 - 0 Mythic Rares

25 - 0 Rares

26 - 0 Uncommons

11 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 2.95
Tokens Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Goat 0/1 W, Serf 0/1 B, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie Army 0/0 B
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