Reyhan&Ishai | Where Unstoppable Meets Immovable!
Commander / EDH
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Basri's Lieutenant —March 23, 2021
In this update more love is given for Basri's Lieutenant and recurring strategies. With a lower CMC average and more carddraw the deck will play more consistent.
Combo:
- Good-Fortune Unicorn enables continues knight tokens upon creature dying. Dreadhorde Invasion replaces Abzan Ascendancy.
- Phantasmal Image is truly phantasmal. Every update he leaves or re-enters the deck. I wanted to include Increasing Savagery for a sudden spike. But while savagery adds 5 or 10 counters for a total of 11 mana, Phantasmal Image brings 6 counters everytime he enters as a Reyhan Copy... And with the following 2 cards i can repeat the process indefinitely.
- Tayam, Luminous Enigma helps holding pieces together. It works especially well with Winding Constrictor and Luminous Broodmoth.
- Phyrexian Reclamation will help Tayam on what he cannot reanimate.
- Animation Module will open some combo opportunities.
Tempo:
- Wether it be a land drop or a combopiece, this deck sometimes suffered a dead hand. Brainstorm, Lim-Dul's Vault, Frantic Search and Sylvan Library will help with that (and Chasm Skulker is thankfull).
- Birds of Paradise can be an evasive beater late game.
- Three Visits will fetch a triome or untapped shock in a pinch.
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Ashnod's Altar is a welcoming sac outlet.
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Swan Song is experimental, if it leaves a bad taste I might try Mystic Reflection or Fierce Guardianship instead.
You can read old comments by opening the archive, top right of the comment section. White button. Re BoS, I sometimes build pseudo-sideboards for different power levels, but I assume most decks aren't balanced or built for 1v1, even though that does happen.
Also, I love this deck too -- I've followed it for a couple years now. Building a variant of it for use with my Witch-Maw commander (and ofc Reyhan/Ishai when the group doesn't want the Nephilim at the helm)
January 19, 2021 1:48 p.m.
Followed Footsteps is a really good suggestion I am going to consider! Because it certainly is a real bummer to grab a blade of selves on a 1v1. Mirror Mockery is another good alternative to blade of selves.
If only we could access to cards like Molten Echoes..
Monitor as usual explains before I can get to haha, thanks for always having my back man! I usually clean the comments up after a while to avoid enormous logs. My primer is quite a log already...
SokoS says... #1
Wow! I'm really no one has commented on this deck for how much work you've put into it!
I really love the deck by the way! The cloning of Reyhan was not something I thought of until seeing this!
One thing that I might add or bounce off of you: Blade of Selves As cool as this card is in a 4 player game of commander, I have a suggestion for people that, maybe due to the pandemic or having fewer friends available, don't always have extra non-defending opponents.
And my suggestion is Followed Footsteps. 3UU for an Enchantment Aura that makes a copy of enchanted creature at the start of each of your upkeeps. Legend rule would still apply and die if it was put onto Reyhan. Obviously it's not lightning fast growth like on Blade of Selves, but the myriad effect just doesn't work at all in a 1v1 format.
Anyways, I would just suggest swapping out Blade of Selves for Followed Footsteps if you are playing 1v1 so that you don't have a dead card in your deck.
Again, I enjoyed reading through your deck! I hope you continue to update it!
January 18, 2021 7:11 a.m.