Hey, I have never played EDH and have recently been trying to get into it. I wanted a fun deck to get for my first time and I think this deck is it. Keep us updated on how it does during playtests, I am really interested and if it goes well for you I might just buy it

I'm always happy to see people looking to get into EDH, because (and I say this completely 100% seriously), it is the best format. All the joy and durdling and janky plays of kitchen-table Magic, but with deck building constraints and singleton construction that (are supposed to at least) result in games with much more variety in what you see out of any given deck, with a focus on crazy multi-player shenanigans, where the entire point of playing the game is to play the game; in other words, a format where the quality of the gameplay is WAY more important than the actual outcome.

As for my deck inspiring you to build something similar/identical as your initial foray into the world of EDH, wow, let me stress how incredibly flattering that is. If you do wind up building this, definitely let me know how it goes for you - I think if you enjoy playing Boros colors you should certainly find this deck entertaining, and as I noted in the initial description, it was fairly cheap to construct (the original original version I posted was even less expensive, I've sunk a bit more into it replacing a few cards since then, which the list reflects now).

I love it. My first ever deck was a samurai deck so its nice to see them still getting played. I only have one concern with the deck - you're missing the greatest samurai of them all, Isao, Enlightened Bushi (I appreciate that he is green though). One other card you could consider though, Archetype of Aggression . Giving trample is awesome with Bushido.

Yeah, I really wish that guy wasn't a green card, or that they made more than one samurai in green, and if this wasn't an EDH deck with the hard and fast restrictions on colors I'd absolutely be splashing for him somehow (the various black samurai, not so much).

As for the archetype of trampling, while I agree the effect is pretty dope (particularly with a commander who already makes attacking creatures nigh-unkillable and hard/impossible to block depending on circumstances), he doesn't fit the self-imposed criteria for off-tribe creatures that I've set for myself, that being "off-tribe creatures must be legendary (and preferably from Kamigawa block)". I don't really have a good reason for that particular restriction (well, other than making Day of Destiny better), it just amuses me to make up arbitrary rules as I set about building decks.

Sol Ring ?

I only own the one Sol Ring , and that's sitting in my Oloro deck; Sol Ring is one of those cards that sit firmly in the "cards I happily acknowledge are useful, but not enough that I'm going to go buy one for the price folks charge for it" mental filing cabinet - it's a solid card and a staple of the format for a reason, but at the end of the day it's just a mana-rock that taps for colorless, and that's... not particularly exciting. Putting one into this deck would probably make the deck better, but then I'd have to cut something more interesting, and interesting pretty much always trumps "good, but boring" when it comes time for me to narrow down just what's going in a deck.

Also worth noting: if my goal was to make a "good" Boros deck, I wouldn't be running one chock full of samurai; their presence in this deck actively makes it worse than it needs to be, and I'm okay with that, since it's kind of the point.

Upvote for a concept that I'm completely on board with...I've got a ninja deck that I tried to grab as much from the set as I could...even though there are better cards out there. Hopefully they will do a throw back to Kamigawa sometime in the future so we can get some more Asian warriors in the mix.

I also have made a Red/White (Boros) samurai theme deck with Iraos as the Commander, and it works most of the time. I like the diversity in this deck. [Boroshido]

This looks super fun! Hows it been running lately?

AmbiRoar - The same variable rate of success it's had from the beginning (absolutely demolished one game, archenemy the next), but a lot more smoothly with the various tweaks and substitutions I've made over the years.