Bullying My Friends (Commander / EDH MTG Deck)

Bullying My Friends

Commander / EDH BRG (Jund) Budget Goodstuff Reanimator Sacrifice Stompy Theme/Gimmick Wheels

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Creature (32)

Land (35)

Artifact (6)

Enchantment (4)

Commander (1)

Sorcery (16)

Instant (6)

Sideboard

Creature (18)

Enchantment (6)

Artifact (3)

Instant (1)

1x Riveteers Charm

Land (5)

Sorcery (3)

Maybeboard

Creature (41)

Sorcery (8)

Instant (4)

Land (6)

Enchantment (4)

Artifact (2)

This decklist serves as a record, for our second annual May slow-build. This year, we're dueling the precons on May 2, 2022, and modifying 12 cards per week following.

I'm starting with a copypasta of the Riveteers precon, with The Beamtown Bullies as the commander. Not amazing out of the box, but let's see where it goes! Sideboard represents precon card cuts, Maybeboard represents ideas for upcoming changes.

Week of 5/2 - 5/8

IN:

Incarnation Technique

OUT:

THOUGHTS:

If there is one thing that has surprised me about this deck in playtesting, it has to be its powerful mana ramp package. I've never been in an endgame scenario where I had big creatures stuck in hand and no way to play them.

I HAVE repeatedly ended up in endgames with zero nonland cards in hand. Cards like Protection Racket and Treeshaker Chimera were always core to whether I won or lost.

Hence, wheels. Magus, Misfortune, Dragon Mage, Faithless Looting. The more card advantage the better, as far as I'm concerned.

The original deck struggled to make use of its powerful reanimator lines, so I threw in a couple of decent cards like Dread Return and Incarnation Technique.

And the lack of 1-drops (JUST Sol Ring? Really???) is a crying shame, so I added some elves etc. Veteran Explorer is cool for group-hug.

Finally, Leveler and Inverter of Truth are making an appearance week 1 to ensure the Bullies can actually kill people directly.

As far as cuts, for a change, I felt like I could focus on card function rather than just tossing out the top end of the curve. In particular, Sabertooth and Responder felt designed for Henzie and not the Bullies, so they were easy cuts.

Wave of Rats and Adephage are deece but ultimately just high-costed beaters, and Etali (as much as I love Etali) is unlikely to shine in this deck.

The rest of the cards I cut are too bland to even discuss.

Week of 5/9 - 5/15

IN:

OUT:

Henzie "Toolbox" Torre

Caldaia Guardian

Grime Gorger

Mitotic Slime

Kresh the Bloodbraided

Stalking Vengeance

Woodfall Primus

THOUGHTS:

At this point, there are two key things I understand about the Beamtown Bullies: 1) you definitely get to activate them 2 or 3 times throughout a game but not really much more, and 2) the effect is surprisingly easy to disrupt.

With that in mind, I'm looking for tools based on group-hug or ETBs whenever possible. EWit, Terasty, Caldera, and Heavyweights are all boarded in based on that principle.

It turns out that Inverter of Truth isn't really that great at ending the game, so I'm boarding in Hellcarver for another potential kill and Sire for a great disruptive board lock that hurts me the least.

Thornbite Staff is another particularly spicy include. As other decks start boarding in aristocrat-value and sacrifice engines, I get to untap Bullies and keep throwing the same creatures back at them. I'm excluding Bronze Bombshell for now because I want to stay away from combo degeneracy, but Steve-Tribe Elder might make a funny appearance.

The Key is for instant-speed discard, Deathrite and Reforge and BeastW expand the value package, and Homeward is for stealing back creatures my opponents reanimate.

As for cuts, the most notable point is that I excised the most consistent wincon out of the precon: sacrificing a gigantic Kresh to a Stalking Vengeance, then burning people down with Warstorm. The burn strat was solid but ultimately overcosted, and it gave me little value in the midgame. Other cuts are mostly just token-generating chaff. The Primus swapped for Terasty, and Henzie felt like he was ready to leave this week.

Hoping to get my hands on a Greater Good and a Burning-Rune Demon for next week's upgrades but we'll see.

Week of 5/16-5/22

IN:

Dark Deal

Rune-Scarred Demon

Ornithopter of Paradise

OUT:

Greenwarden of Murasa

Lifecrafter's Bestiary

Inferno Titan

Protection Racket

Overgrown Battlement

THOUGHTS:

Over a month later, just recording last changes from a photo for my own edification. Fully upgraded deck exists now.

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27% Casual

73% Competitive

Date added	2 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 5 Mythic Rares 47 - 20 Rares 19 - 6 Uncommons 14 - 5 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.75
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Citizen 1/1 GW, Copy Clone, Elephant 3/3 G, Ooze 1/1 G, Ooze 2/2 G for Mitotic Ooze, Plant 0/1 G, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B
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