Oh, $40 Hermit Druid is the list. Also, I am back in town, and the house is okay except for a small tree hitting it. No major damage, no leakage, and all of the stuff is fine!

Thank you so much for such an amazing review!

DRmagic2017, you are very welcome!

The land base formula falls apart for tier 1 decks, as it comes to impossibly low numbers. For instance, I'm on Thrasios and Vial Smasher storm, and the equation says to run 25 lands, however 28 is actually optimal here. Otherwise, this is pretty good and thorough.

Penthoplayer, again, this isn't for cEDH decks, and it was noted that Why Every Commander is Competitive is the general primer for it. That is a mana hungry deck, and 28 lands actually isn't entirely correct for Thrasios + Vial/Tymna Storm lists. 27 has been found more consistent, using the proper rocks and lands like Gemstone Caverns, Ancient Tomb, and other fast mana accelerants.

Otherwise, yes, the formula isn't perfect, I don't think there is one that isn't too complex to list here. Apologies for any inconvenience in that.

No, it's not a problem. I'm impressed overall. And the 28 lands is just what happens to work best for me, and I do have all the best lands and rocks for the deck already.

Ah, do you have the decklist?

Yeah, it's Melt Avocado

Another great resource that I will put in Suns_Champion's Well of Ideas!

I'd like to make a suggestion for the recommended Boros commanders. Drop two of Aurelia, the Warleader. Gisela, Blade of Goldnight, or Iroas, God of Victory for:

Brion Stoutarm and Firesong and Sunspeaker.

My reasoning being that Boros has always been the color of attackattackattack and your list of commanders just helps that narrative and ignores(in my opinion) the two most interesting Boros commanders. Brion is all about sacking big creatures, not necessarily attacking, and Fire&Sun are about casting huge damage spells and gaining tons of life. Adding these two would round out the Boros lineup and give people a better idea of all the colors can do for them. Like this:

1. flippy protection/boardwips goodstuff angel

2. sacking big creature shenanigans + lifegain

3. attackattackattackattack FOR THE LEGION

4. big long-named lifelinked damage spells/sunforger control

And look, I might be a little biased, as I run both these commanders, but I like to think myself as a Boros.. Expert?.. so that's why I think you could make the swap. Anyway, love the list! Keep up the great work!

Suns_Champion I'd say Iroas and Aurelia. Gisela can double as a direct damage commander.

I'll consider Stoutarm, but I'll pass on Firesong/Sunspeaker. It just isn't a commander I think has a reasonably large enough presence to include. Iroas can be dropped for Brion though, he uses the Red steal effects as removal, sacrificing them before they return at the end of turn.

Gisela can be a prison deck, with interesting synergies unlike any other deck, and AUrelia is a top tier combo-stax deck, with Helm of the Host. Iroas is just a Swing-Out aggro list, so it can be dropped.

Meaning you are no longer working on it Synergy? Really like the Formatting changes! Also mind if I were to take a crack at writing your Politics section? I think you guys just glazed over the surface there and I've already wrote an entire article on Politics, which you can totally read here

DrkNinja This is all under works. I will prolly try and add you and Silverdrake back on, but want to work a bit more. Also, I am a Notion Thief , don't worry!

You could mention that cEDH is almost exclusively dominated by stax and combo. (under power levels)

Is, while mandatory for mill, not the ONLY color combo. The Mimeoplasm mill is a deck my casual side takes great joy in playing. (under subtheme)

Note Avacyn, Angel of Hope + Nevinyrral's Disk under Wraths. (under subtheme)

Azami, Lady of Scrolls - you forgot the last S. (under commander)

"Combo is generally the best win condition." Not true. It's definitely the easiest, but the 'best' is a matter of opinion. (under the aggro problem)

Thrasios, Triton Hero - you forgot the first H. (under the colors)

Umbra Mystic is a HUGE white enchantment payoff. (under the colors)

I didn't know it was possible to mention blue draw without talking about Rhystic Study .

Combat Celebrant doesn't combo. It can only exert itself if it hasn't that turn.

Reins of the Vinesteed - you missed the third E- the first E in Vinesteed. (under the colors)

With kiki-jiki, Combat Celebrant does xD.

Thanks a ton for the rest though!!!

Hi SynergyBuild, GREAT READ!!

Really excited to get into EDH. I was looking at the Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Zealous Conscripts combo you mentioned in mono red and I just had a question about it - would that also allow you to take control of the opponents land as well seeing as the wording on the card says "target permanent"? I mean.. it does say it gains haste which would typically be in relation to a creature but was just a thought that crossed my mind haha.

Love your work and keen to keep learning from you!

(maybe I should call you master? haha)

Nah, still a student here.

Kiki needs to be targetted by Conscripts each time you use the loop, but on the last one, you could just steal a land.

If you have a Panharmonicon you could use the 2nd trigger to steal all of your opponents' lands, creatures, walkers, artifacts, and enchantments for fun though!

Ah of course. I don't know how I missed that haha. Oh now that's a nice little combo! Haha thanks heaps!

I wish to introduce you to the Rakdos combo of any Reanimation enchantment + Worldgorger Dragon . Sees some, but fringe, tier 1 play.

Nah, WGD combo is really sweet, I missed it!

Lemme add that. Thanks Penthoplayer!

Also Animate Dead / Dance of the Dead / Necromancy are the only 3?

Yeah, there aren't any other enchantment reanimation spells.

update your ban list perhaps? Iona now banned, Painters Servant no longer banned.

I will, thanks!

What about a mono red combo of mine, Flameshadow Conjuring + Flamerush Rider

The combo goes like this, you cast conjuring, and on your next turn you cast rider for its dash, then copy it. The two copies have haste, so the copy attacks and copies the other copy and so on.

This is my first combo that I made

Nasser_inside1 sadly, that combo doesn't work. If they enter attacking, they haven't been in play during the start of the declare attackers step, so they don't trigger.