The Tens of EDH

First comment!

Anyway, I pulled off a ridiculous Comet Storm in my deck

Feldon Never gets any Love

Commander / EDH* Lanzo493

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Oh for my EDH, I just picked Nekusar, the Mindrazer because I had never heard of him before. My style in any game I play is try out all the fun stuff and the new stuff.

Stupid combo deck, here I come. Suggestions for commander?

Drakon562: I like Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind as he combos with Curiosity, Ophidian Eye, and Tandem Lookout. I made a weird Splinter Twin deck with him at the helm (Izzet fun? No, it's Combo) and I've had a blast playing it.

And play Sigil of Sleep too.

Sigil of Sleep doesn't do anything for the combo, though. You can win on the spot if you deal damage or draw a card with Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind and Curiosity on the battlefield. You just need more cards in your deck than your opponents have in life - On that note, I'd also recommend Laboratory Maniac and Elixir of Immortality.

Gorgosaurusrex but it helps stall out the game until you draw Curiosity or something of that sort. Sigil of Sleep will help you bounce at least two guys every turn, probably more because you are running Niv-Mizzet as your commander.

I think I found my commander. Karona 300 card EDH. I'm aware that 300 cards is breaking the rules, but my LGS and my playgroup don't care. I will run those though, and I think my half built Crosis, the Purger is gonna bite the dust for the cards I need. This is what I have so far: http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/08-02-16-wombo-combo/. Yes, I am running Storm Crow competitively (kinda).

Why 300 card?

Because Battle of Wits. Also, I don't want every single game to be the same.

One of my favorite EDH moments to share would be the time I shouldn't have even come close to winning, and I did. At the time, I was playing Norin the Wary, and the deck was doing absolutely nothing, for the most part. The player who SHOULD have won had a pair of Stormtide Leviathans on the board. All I had was Norin, Warstorm Surge, and the un-flipped version of Homura, Human Ascendant. The third player had a pair of flying creatures, I forget what. I'm only at 7 life or so, and the Leviathan player is about to destroy two permanents.

I tell him, "Hey, if you kill that guy's creatures, I'll help you finish him off, and then you'll probably kill me no problem." I'm just trying to play politics to end up in second. Leviathan player agrees, the third player gets a little sad, and we knock him out of the game. Then, Leviathan player decides he's going to drop Teferi's Puzzle Box, after playing Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur. He finishes his turn with 12 cards in hand, and 20-something life.

He passes turn to me, and I draw into a Sudden Impact, Furnace of Rath, and a Memnite. I proceed to drop Furnace, play the Sudden Impact, and then finish him off with the Warstorm Surge trigger from putting Memnite into play. Absolutely, completely, should not have had a chance at winning. My previous hand was nothing that could have saved me.

Let that be a lesson to you all: if you're about to beat someone's face in and win the game, and they've been bargaining to get that far... don't let them cycle their hand.

Just so you know,miracleHat, in Conclusion .1, you thanked us for reading the 3rd installment of this series while this is the 4th. I am not trying to be patronizing, but just so you know.

When I first asked a friend of mine to explain EDH to me he described it this way:

"EDH just isn't for me. You build a deck that does well (because it's no fun if you don't win at least some time) but you have to play politics to survive and once you do win, or if you play a huge winning combo, everyone decides to go for you first or worse, won't let you play the deck again because it was "too powerful" but you should at least try it".

Little did he know that it was that warning that helped me to build better decks for EDH. Which led me to build this:

The Burning Sensation of The Firemind

Commander / EDH* FossilGolem

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This deck has lots of cool combos to make things fun and, since it's mostly spells and has a good amount of draw power, it keeps players on edge because everyone is concerned with what's in your hand and you're basically functioning like a "do nothing deck"... until you do something...

My favorite win so far was in a multiplayer match (3 for all) against a R/W artifact deck and a G/U +1 style simic deck. Now the other guys are pretty much ignoring me because we all had pretty good mana bases. R/W has some blades out like Sword of Feast and Famine and Sword of Vengeance and some creatures to equip with. G/U has a few larger creatures out including Progenitor Mimic and a Primeval Bounty. I've got cool stuff in my hand, including Reiterate but nothing to finish anyone off in a turn. R/W can't sit around much longer or G/U is going to kill us both so he asks if I want to help. I decide to play my Mycosynth Lattice and throw down a Glaring Spotlight. R/W unleashes a big Comet Storm to kill off G/U's stuff. G/U is taken down by a small army of creatures. Now it's my turn; I draw into a Dack Fayden and use his +1 to draw a Guttersnipe and Seething Song. Finished R/W off by burning for infinite mana by playing both cards with the Reiterate in my hand.

I might try out lands in EDH, with Progenitus as the Commander XD

I'm about a 1/3rd of the way done with my Karona, the False God 300 card deck. Might switch out commander for Progenitus or Cromat, my friend has both.

Charms has always been my favorite strategy, you can control the game by practically being able to do anything and then you take the surprise win with something like Might of the Nephilim on Cromat, a good old Maze's End win, or even by just slowly burning all your opponents with Crackling Perimeter.

They're Always After Me Lucky Charms

Guftders, if you're going to do a lands EDH I suggest Child of Alara. The only downside to this strategy is that the card actually has to go to the graveyard, not the command zone, so you'll need to either reanimate her or change her zone, thus triggering the go to the command zone effect (Unburial Rites and Reito Lantern come to mind).

My deck is: Why stop at two reflections? if you have a moment check it out. YAY FOR SELF ADVERTISEMENT

I have fun every game with Doubling Season + Dual Nature + Riku of Two Reflections

craziest EDH play?

Burn at the Stake? .

Taking a 17 minute turn, going from 7 to 54 creatures by way of Chancellor of the Forge: +7 tokens, Twinflame on Zada, Hedron Grinder: + 13 tokens, including Chancellor of the Forge: + 27 tokens, into Battle Hymn for 54, into Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre, into Elixir of Immortality so i don't deck yourself with Crimson Wisps for 55, drawing me a Burn at the Stake to take out the remaining 30 life of the final, tapped out, unfortunate soul of a player with 155 damage to the dome?

PRICELESS

(with my deck: Card Draw? What Does Zada Know About Card Draw?)

Best EDH play ever? I was playing Melek, Izzet Paragon. Had Psychosis Crawler and Forced Fruition on the field. Opponent A was at 7 life, opponent B was at 14 life. (C and D were already dead. Lol) Played a Burning Inquiry to dig, player A died from Crawler triggers, player B went to 4 life. My third card drawn was a Time Reversal. Played it, wheeled my hand, opponent B lost 7 life and, thus, the game.

It was super fun and also mega clutch, as opponent B (running Nekusar, the Mindrazer) had game in hand the upcoming turn.

Mastertoa I think my 47 Utvara Hellkites with Dragon Tempest out and casting Seize the Day on Zada, Hedron Grinder combo probably tops that. Props to anyone who bothers figuring out how much damage that is.

Anyways, pretty much every deck I make is #3 (where most of the deck is dedicated towards some combo or another). I thought thats what most Johnnys did.

Lanzo493 I actually figured I would run the Old God himself- Progenitus.

Simply because, the aim is to get lands out super quick, with Summer Bloom, Exploration, Explore and co.

And then the creatures do stuff with lands, like Rubblehulk, Avenger of Zendikar, and Courser of Kruphix.

Here's the deck at present:http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/09-02-16-oSd-lands/

canterlotguardian, psychosis crawler would die by state based effect since you had no cards in hand, thus you didn't actually win that game

Paradox_67, state based actions would not kill the psychosis crawler. This is because the draw and discard effects are in the same paragraph, so by the time the state based actions do check you've already drawn the cards resulting in psychosis crawler having more than 0 toughness and living.

Ah, ok that makes sense. I have never had anyone explain to me how that works, so I just assumed to know. Thank you for clearing that up for me.

The craziest thing I ever pulled off was having Kalia the of the Vast, Aruelia the Warleader, and Gisela, Blade of Goldnight in play all at once. That was a good turn.

My favorite deck right now is a G/B aristocrats deck lead by Meren of Clan Nel Toth. It's a really grindy and value style deck, winning off of Fercundity and stuff like that.

Dia De Los Muertos

My deck is a classic in our playgroup. It's the first deck I built and it has seen various changes and upgrades. Even now I'm waiting for seven new cards to test out. I've never been killed innocent when playing this deck. If this deck is not immediately stopped by killing me it has high chances to win. In fact, it pretty much takes out two opponents at once and leaves the last one with an overwhelming power. If I get so far I usually win.

Last note: I love Necropotence

The craziest thing I ever did was play a fracturing gust eot after an opponent played mycosynth lattice with 40 permanents on board. Including my regenerated creatures and indestructible lands.

AtogAtog you say? Crazy plays you say? My favorite deck of all time makes crazy plays each and every game! It's fun to play, unique, competitive and shiny! Maze's Win

Just remembered playing a big-table free-for-all EDH game, I was piloting my Zada (I want to hear you calling my name) deck and the game was pretty much lost for me, I was up against a lifegain deck and a whole bunch of control/burn decks. I had 4 creatures on the table and I was trying to protect my brother (running a Dragonlord Silumgar deck), when suddenly everyone started ganging up on him.

When it was my turn, my brother was at 9 LP, and told me to attack him with everything I had. I swing for 8 and leave him with 1. When it's his turn, he untaps everything and lands Repay in Kind (FUNNIEST BIG TABLE MAGIC CARD EVER). Everyone goes down to 1, he swings and kills 2 players, and I proceed to win the game next turn.

Gotta love them table-turning cards.

In my deck called Winning? Who cares? CHAOS!!!, I built the thing with the express idea that if only I could get enough time, I could make the entire game drag on for ages because people wouldn't be able to plan what they wanted to do, and instead would have random things happen to them. However, I wanted to share two things that this deck has done in the past.

The first is simple. I once cast Warp World four times in one turn, returning it to hand via Archaeomancer and Mystic Retrieval, I believe, ad nauseum, until I (who started the turn with twenty permanents) had 17, and my opponent (who started with eighteen permanents) had eight. The chaos deck won.

The second was more interesting. Having cheated out Bearer of the Heavens earlier than anticipated via Jhoira of the Ghitu, I then cast Whims of the Fates and doubled it with Increasing Vengeance. End result? About eight turns into the game, everybody's board was wiped, and all was back to square one. The fact that I had previously stolen someone else's Boundless Realms with my own Perplexing Chimera meant that I sacrificed a lot of lands. I lost that game first later on by accidentally killing myself to a noncreature spell damage trigger someone else had when I cast two sorcery spells on my turn via Possibility Storm. It was the most satisfying suicide I have ever done.

For suicide you forgot about the suicide red builds with Heartless Hidetsugu, give him lifelink and a Furnace of Rath and watch people cry.

Hello, I made an EDH deck based on the number 7 on this deck

Please check it out, and let me know what you think! Of course, keep in mind that it is supposed to be a casual deck, so its not super powerful or expensive.

Intet's Coin-Flipping Chaos

(I'm sorry if posting decks is frowned upon)

If posting decks was frowned upon, this whole site would be in breach of etiquette. Post it, by all means. And I'm checking it out, I love chaos.

What I see from this article is pretty much a list of deck archetypes. However I think it goes a little bit deeper than that because of the reason people build their decks. Some build for the enjoyment aspect, you know, those people who like to have a beer (if your 21!) talk about magic, and have a good time around the company of others. There might be some kind of archetype built in, but either they are unkowlegable, or don't care about build any kind of archetype.

There are also players who enjoy seeing their creation go to work. Now this is a bit of a broad statement because it does cover a large spectrum of the types of players because everyone wants to see their creation work. We spend many hours building, playtested, and rebuilding to make this idea work. But I'm talking more specifically about the engineer, also known as the Johnny player. We have a 99 cards to choose from, and it assumed (this is the spike in me saying this) that we will have the time to see these little engines work.

Next you have the timmy dude. Now what I'm about to say might upset a few people, but I'm glad because this means you took the time to read this. I feel that timmy players are the biggest crybaby players on the planet. Why, because they have a one track mind. So before I state why my reasoning for making these assholly kind of statements let's discuss what they are. Timmys like swinging in with big dudes and making them bigger. So in a sense, this covers the voltron archetype. Now here is why. When their plan doesn't work, instead of adapting, they bitch about how unfair everything is and blah blah.... Okay Im ranting and I've spent too much time on this paragraph.

Next, yes you know what I'm about to say, we have the spike player. Now these fuckers (yes I fall into this category), play because they want results. The purpose is to optimise efficiency and the enjoyment comes from winning. There are two kinds of spike players. Ones who hate losing which includes other spike players, there I said it and it's true. Spike players hate spike players. However there is an exception. There are spike players who yes like winning, but also want to encourage efficiency in other players. So we teach them what kinds of cards to use which you first generation edh players call boring cards. Yes I know your terms, heard your arguments, but the difference is purpose of playing which is why neither side will ever budge.

So as a response to this article, I'm glad that you've made mention the type of players, but I think that archetypes is too broad of a definition to define edh decks. It all comes down to the person and how they like to play. And based on that, will determine the kind of deck will be built.

Thank you.

I feel you SealableZero. I knew this one girl who played a Captain Sisay deck with all the goodies. Whenever she was about to lose she always folded rather than let whatever lethal attack was coming at her go through. Whenever we teamed up against her, she always got so pissed. She also got mad when you removed her stuff, or disrupted anything she did in general.

The only positive thing about such poor sportsmanship like that is when you beat them you just have this awesome sense of accomplishment. It's even better if you totally dominated that round.

Had a guy like that in my playgroup and ended up T3-5 hitting with a Feldoned Pathrazer of Ulamog.

It ended his bullshit.

There's more to the story but it's a longer one.

I run a Bant color hack deck with Angus Mackenzie as the commander. The deck runs Circle of Protection: Red and Circle of Protection: Black to prevent damage when Angus is tapped down. I can change the colors they protect me from with cards such as Alter Reality. They are also part of one my win conditions: casting Squall Line or Hurricane and absorbing the damage. The Circles come out early game and I enjoy knowing that part of the win is on the board a majority of the game and no one knows it.

Funny you should mention that Ohthenoises because that's the same way I stopped her reign in the most rage quit game she's ever had. I attacked with 5 Feldon-reanimated Pathrazer of Ulamogs because only annihilator could deal with Avacyn. Luckily, one of the Niv-Mizzet players countered her tutored Sigarda, Host of Herons (which she got super mad about), otherwise we would have lost to her. Heck, we STILL almost lost after she sacrificed 15 permanents.

That's why I use the old Worldgorger Dragon + Fanatic of Mogis trick sometimes. Burn to the face for X where X is devotion to red every single turn (and in response to removal) is great.

Downside is if someone knows how the o-ring trick works but that's fairly rare.

I gave up on Karona. Thats my problem. I give up too easily. I'm going to attempt to build Arcades Sabboth defender deck :P

I don't know if I would consider myself a spike, but I play to win and don't usually enjoy sitting on a win-con letting other people play. I guess I don't enjoy letting other people do their thing...

Anyways, my favorite deck for a long time now has been the following:

Teferi, Walkin' Tall

Commander / EDH 1empyrean

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I want to know if this would fall under deck type 1 or 3.

Best/Craziest EDH play? Well they don't call me Elesh for nothin'

I was playing my Muzzio, Visionary Architect deck for the first time (against other people) since it's creation, so I didn't know that there was a combo of this magnitude.

Long story short, around turn 17, a friend (who was playing a 1,000,000/1,000,000 Animar, Soul of Elements) decided to ally the table and destroy me. So in response (and to show them what my memes were made of), I pulled off a world-breaking combo consisting of a complex web of combos:

I used an infinite mana combo (Pentavus + Dross Scorpion + Gilded Lotus; I don't think this requires explanation),

A pull-everything-from-deck and/or infinite 1/1 myr combo (Master Transmuter, Myr Battlesphere, Dross Scorpion, Kuldotha Forgemaster, Gilded Lotus; tap Lotus for 3 mana, use to transmute the Battlesphere, giving you 4 myrs. Sacrifice 3 for the Forgemaster, giving you an artifact AND untapping 3 artifacts because of Dross Scorpion, which are, of course, Gilded Lotus, Master Transmuter, and Kuldotha Forgemaster. This can be done as many times as you want)

And, of course, the I want all of your stuff combo (Memnarch + infinite mana combo + Mycosynth Lattice + Arcane Lighthouse; make ininite mana, use Lattice to make it blue and to turn everything into an artifact, Arcane Lighthouse to be able to target things with hexproof and shroud, then use Memnarch's second ability to take everything)

After all of these combos and Akroma's Memorial that I expertly fetched from my deck, I was able to kill everyone at the table with their own stuff plus some of mine, and, of course, the person who started this with their own 1,000,000,000/1,000,000,000 Animar, Soul of Elements.

Right after I rekt everyone, my friend Sadie said "This is the real Machine Orthodoxy!", which is led by Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite, thereby earning me the nickname "Elesh" and my Muzzio deck the name "The Machine Orthodoxy".

When is another The Tens of EDH coming out?

In about a week.

Also: to everybody who shared a ridiculous edh moment, thanks! They were fun and enjoyable to read :)