For the Vicious Swarm - Ezuri Counter EDH

Commander / EDH Austin_Smith_of_Cards

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Simic Charm ==> Beast Within

Removed Beast Within and Reality Shift from maybeboard.

June 23, 2016 8:48 p.m.

Added Command Tower.

July 8, 2016 9:47 p.m.

mack10k says... #3

This is my first commander deck that I added to as well. I have always loved +1/+1 counters since I started playing spikes when I was a wee bebe. But I would suggest adding in Worldly Tutor if you can. That card can save games. It saved me from many situations, especially bringing in Bane of Progress. How is Master Biomancer for you? I was thinking of adding him to mine. Also I know it's expensive and when it hits the board sees so much hate, but if you can get your hands on a Doubling Season that would be good. Also I was thinking about putting in a Spike Weaver for mine. What are your thoughts?

July 30, 2016 2:30 p.m.

mack10k, thank you so much for your suggestions! If I had a Worldly Tutor, it would actually probably go into my Kamahl, Fist of Krosa EDH deck (which I need to post, it's my personal favorite), but I don't think I'd get one or two anytime soon because the only store in my area that sells singles sells them for around $10 apiece, which is outside my budget range. Same goes for Doubling Season, another card I would love to have but can't. I find Primal Vigor substitutes well enough anyway, unless my opponent unfortunately has a similar strategy to mine.

Master Biomancer is simply awesome here. If you can get even a few experience counters before dropping him, cards like Thelonite Hermit and especially Chasm Skulker become absolutely disgusting. Use Ezuri to grow the Biomancer, which in turn buffs all your other dudes.

I don't know how to feel about Spike Weaver. I know he's great in EDH and great for this deck strategy, but I personally would rather have another face-smashing powerhouse that lets me do stupid stuff instead of a guy that gums up the board. It's a good fallback strategy, but unless things are going REALLY badly you should be using those +1/+1 counters to smash face.

Again, thanks for your feedback!

July 31, 2016 3:37 p.m.

mack10k says... #5

I finally put my EDH deck up. Let me know what you think and maybe we can bounce some ideas. My Ezuri

August 9, 2016 11:24 a.m.

The_Grape says... #6

Check out my Ezuri deck.


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January 10, 2017 10:04 a.m.

Ralsek says... #7

Hey! Great list, what do you think about Heroic Intervention for protecting our board?

April 25, 2018 9:19 p.m.

capshanks01 says... #8

man love the list! +1

September 17, 2018 12:16 p.m.

Ralsek I've considered it, I'd need to playtest it in Inspiring Call's place I believe. Call pretty much does the same thing if my counters are spread everywhere, with the upside of drawing me cards. But hexproof and the ability to protect my Commander might be more important.

Thanks for the upvote capshanks01!

September 18, 2018 2:48 p.m.

ZendikariWol says... #10

You're missing a few big heckin cards.

Cephalid Constable is miraculously underrated, Drumhunter is a personal howling mine AND a mana dork, Elvish Visionary draws a card, Experiment One and Pelt Collector are excellent one-drops, Fertilid is awesome repeatable ramp, Forgotten Ancient is bat-shit insane with four players, Gilder Bairn is both adorable and quite functional, Glen Elendra Archmage is a repeatable negate, Kalonian Hydra is hilarious (and it's a 0/0 so I think you can trigger Ezuri's ability before his ETB), Kaseto, Orochi Archmage is a powerhouse, Managorger Hydra get too big too quickly for most opponents to handle, Novijen Sages is a nice draw engine, Permeating Mass is fantastic in this deck, Pir, Imaginative Rascal and Toothy, Imaginary Friend are such a good combo, Plaxcaster Frogling is great protection, Scavenging Ooze is awesome (Meren is in my meta, idk about you), Seedborn Muse is good anywhere, Simic Manipulator leads to fun shenanigans, Sporeback Troll, also good protection, Tuskguard Captain is perfect evasion, Ulvenwald Tracker is about as good as green removal gets, and Wild Beastmaster is another Cultivator of Blades, but a little less for a little less mana. Rishkar's Expertise and Soul's Majesty are a couple gems, Bred for the Hunt, Doubling Season, and Hadana's Climb  Flip are great for countered up dudes, Rhystic Study, which should honestly go in every blue EDH deck, Cloudstone Curio it's better than Panharmonicon in this, Strionic Resonator is also probably better than Panharmonicon here. Also a Thran Dynamo might do ya good in the mana department.

December 13, 2018 9:12 a.m.

The Ozolith is a great new tool for this list, saves my counters I've invested on a creature, or recovers from a boardwipe. Looking forward to seeing how it performs.

Also 88/100 cards in this list are now foil or alternate-art, gonna see how I can get the last few pieces one at a time.

May 20, 2020 3:45 p.m.

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