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[Mid] Kynaios and Tiro: Brave Maeve

Commander / EDH RGWU Superfriends Theme/Gimmick Vorthos

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Commander: foil Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis

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[Mid]: This deck is designed for mid-power games as defined by PlayEDH--very expensive cards and highly-efficient wincons are deliberately excluded.

Seasonal Decks: Every new season, I make a new deck with a top-down design intended to represent that season. This deck is part of that series.

Concept: If there's one thing I think of when I think of Summer, it's Pride. You know who else thinks of Pride? Vought International. This year, Vought is proud to bring you a Gruulfriends theme deck supported by some of their super best friends. It's hashtag brave and hashtag inspirational, so hashtag please stop talking about that bad thing we did in real life recently.

Constraints: Spotlight Chandra and Nissa as much as is practicable; not all Chandra or Nissa cards have to be used, but the deck needs to be primarily about them. Use as many Pride Across the Multiverse cards as are practicable. No legendaries, no matter how synergistic, unless they're definitely canonically queer (exceptions can be made for non-creature legendaries that clearly lack any kind of consciousness, like most lands and artifacts, but "oath of so-and-so" cards and other cards that represent something clearly of or belonging to a specific character have to correspond to a canonically queer character).

What's that you say? Bearscape has nothing to do with Chandra and Nissa? Thank you for speaking your truth; Vought is listening and learning!

Construction: The obvious mechanical theme is superfriends, and there aren't a lot of commander options that meet the constraints, so Kynaios and Tiro it is. I'd like to see an even split between Chandra and Nissa in the deck; we've seen a lot more Chandra than Nissa so far, and several versions of both are just chaff, but I'll do what I can. While there isn't room for a lot of creatures, the deck needs as many creatures as it can squeeze in because Nissa isn't much good without them. The "Chandra's" creatures just aren't going to cut it here, unfortunately.

The Gruulfriends had never been into agency. Their commanders--and they'd had their fair share--had been decidedly not Gruulfriends.

Consummation: Now that I've tested the deck a few times, I'm able to comment a bit on how it actually pilots. It's surprisingly effective, although it has some solitaire tendencies I don't really enjoy, and I always want to switch decks afterward for something that takes shorter turns. Halana and Alena, Partners can run away very quickly despite the deck's low creature count, and I suspect it'd be easy to rebuild the deck around using them as the commander, which might end up as my project for next June. Using Nissa to pump lands into lethal threats is also a likely wincon; it's easy to chain several planeswalker ultimates in the same turn if the deck really gets going. It would be nice to have more interference, especially with blue in the ident, but it's somehow managed an above-average winrate in mid-powered pods regardless. Maybe it hasn't taken enough heat from creature-heavy beatdown decks; maybe it's being buffed by Pride month.

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92% Casual

Competitive

Date added 1 year
Last updated 1 year
Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)

28 - 0 Mythic Rares

45 - 0 Rares

13 - 0 Uncommons

4 - 0 Commons
Cards 100
Avg. CMC 3.75
Tokens Ashaya, the Awoken World, Beast 3/3 G, Elemental 1/1 R, Elemental 3/1 R, Elk 3/3 G, Emblem Chandra, Awakened Inferno, Emblem Chandra, Dressed to Kill, Emblem Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh, Emblem Chandra, Torch of Defiance, Emblem Nissa, Vital Force, Emblem Nissa, Who Shakes the World, Emblem Will Kenrith, Food, Kor Ally 1/1 W, Plant 0/1 G
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