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Commander / EDH Counters Enchant Equip Mono-Green Voltron

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Commander: Kosei, Penitent Warlord

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"The only reason a warrior is alive is to fight, and the only reason a warrior fights is to win. Otherwise, why be a warrior?" - Miyamoto Musashi

This deck originated with Isao, Enlightened Bushi as the commander, and I really liked using it, however it didn't feel as strong as it could potentially be. That is, until Kosei, Penitent Warlord came out, it was the perfect commander for the deck I had already built, as such I decided to swap the commander.

If you take a look at my other decks, apart from my most competitive deck Talrand, Father of Drakes they are all casual and with less usual commanders, because that's what I like to build, thematic stuff or pick less seen commanders and try to do something with them. So when I did my Victory or Seppuku deck, with Toshiro Umezawa as the commander, I had this idea to build another one with a different samurai.

When I saw Isao, Enlightened Bushi I dismissed him as a good samurai card because his most interesting hability, the regenerate, is focused on a tribal deck BUT he was the only green samurai, which makes no sense... But then I looked again and realized that, obviously, he can use it on himself and the idea popped in my mind of doing a voltron with him. I tried to find lore about him but there isn't much, from the little there is about him he reminded me a lot of Miyamoto Musashi, specifically when Musashi spent 4 years alone in the woods seeking to improve his technique, so that also motivated me to try and do a deck with him.

The deck was fun, and could hit hard, but lacked something and Kosei, Penitent Warlord feels like the answer.

All help would be appreciated.

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After some play I noticed the deck is pretty fast and can swing for a lot of damage quickly, but due to that 2 problems emerge.

  • 1st - I run out of hand pretty quickly, most times after playing Isao and pumping him up I would be playing top deck until I got some draw, but took too long usually;

  • 2nd - Due to how fast I can do a lot of damage I also become a targeted quickly and I was lacking blockers/protection so I would usually die after killing 1 opponent, sometimes even before I could do it.

Due to these 2 problems I had to include fog effects and more card draw in the deck, in order to do that I had to cut in some of the pump cards, I tried to cut on the weakest ones the deck seems to look better now, but again only after some playtesting I can find out.

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Date added 6 years
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This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
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26 - 0 Rares

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Cards 100
Avg. CMC 2.70
Tokens Beast 3/3 G, Spider 1/2 G, Squirrel 1/1 G
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