Carnage
Commander / EDH
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A few pet cards cut —Sept. 20, 2023
- Etali, Primal Storm -> Chandra, Dressed to Kill
- Chaos Wand (signed) -> Invasion of Karsus
- Jaya, Venerated FIremage -> Koth, Fire of Resistance
Sad to see these go, but only Jaya is really on our central game plan, and as this deck becomes leaner it's hard for me to justify keeping around the top-deck stealers. Eventually that'll have to be it's own deck. Jaya is expensive, and only adds one damage, so she goes. In fact, these cuts are lowering the overall mana value of our deck.
Koth is one of the few cards that adds cards to hand, which is important for making our commander indestructible (plus it makes sure we hit our land drops, removes a troublesome creature, and ults into another Valakut).
The battle is a boardwipe that flips into something that pings our opponents. If the board (of one person) gets cleared we can hit it with our (indestructible) commander to immediately flip it.
Chandra is 3mv ramp that pings people, plus card advantage that works great in mono-red.
And just a note: In playing this deck, I've come to decide I don't really want to cast my commander without mana and cards to make it indestructible immediately.