Tenebu's Gravedigging Tendencies | Primer

Commander / EDH hkhssweiss

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PookandPie says... #1

Twilight Mire and Reflecting Pool are my vote.

Both for the same reason: They're useless without other lands of the appropriate color. Gemstone Caverns (let's be real: 9/10 times you have Caverns it won't have a luck counter), High Market, and now Ancient Tomb; it's basically the win-more of lands in that it's only good when things are already going your way, and super mediocre/bad if someone Strip Mine'd your Brushland while you control Pool, Market, and Brushland. The land can be great sometimes, but it can be horribly ineffective in others, which is why it gets my vote to go.

February 9, 2019 6:03 p.m.

hkhssweiss says... #2

Your reasonings are sound PookandPie, I have no arguments there. The changes will be implemented once I get my hands on a foil Cradle, which I am hoping will be sometime next month, my poor wallet.....

Appreciate the thoughts once again!

February 9, 2019 6:09 p.m.

ZorrosRage says... #3

More of a formatting comment suggestion. Other than that looks like a fun deck. sadly not into blue or i would suggest the new Prime Speaker Vannifar

What do you think about Teysa Karlov since you are playing a bit of a sac engine

February 10, 2019 7:37 p.m.

hkhssweiss says... #4

Yo ZorrosRage, Vannifar is definitely cool but I tbh, she is more on the high powered side. In regards to Teysa Karlov there would be couple reasons why I wouldn't run her, A) she isn't a combo piece B) She is a win more card C) She hurts my Ad Naus curve D) I don't actually have much cards that abuse her since this is a hulk list.

What was the formatting suggestion?

I appreciate the feedback and suggestions though!

February 11, 2019 8:50 a.m. Edited.

ZorrosRage says... #5

Oh sorry it was the color doesn't of the test and background kind of meld together and kind of hard on the eyes

February 11, 2019 6:54 p.m.

DavePeachtree says... #6

Have you checked out the gaea's cradle championship edition... its only $50 and gold cards are totally legal in commander. Just a thought, I took the dip this week on my first cradle. Yay!!!

Anyhow great deck and its always great to see the underused commanders. I actually made a Rith, the Awakener deck that has a lot of memories for me too. Keep up the foiling!

February 17, 2019 6:19 p.m.

hkhssweiss says... #7

Yo DavePeachtree, thanks for the upvote and comment. I dislike championship editions cards I hold a standard of owning the actual cards and if I do have a proxy it has to be something that is over $150 USD and I have to own one already. I can obtain Cradles pretty easily as my friends have extras, but if I do obtain one it has to be the Judge Promo Cradle for this deck :P

Haha I actually built all the planar chaos/invasion dragons into workable decks, but they eventually were scrapped when I completed them~

February 17, 2019 6:52 p.m.

NicS18 says... #8

Looks like a fantastic deck! Definitely giving an uovote. CEDH is outside my realm of knowledge so unfortunately I don't have any valuable suggestions in that regard.

One thing I would like to mention though is, I had a hard time reading the deck list with the current background. Maybe that's just me, and I know I can click on the cards to see them so it isn't a big deal. Just something to think about.

February 24, 2019 11:07 a.m.

hkhssweiss says... #9

Haha thanks NicS18, I'll probably change the background image or the color of the text!

February 24, 2019 5:33 p.m.

Cloudius says... #10

Just stopping by to show my buddy here some support and MY OH MY the almost 100% Foil Deck Gallery is just so so sweet! Nice work there mate!

March 10, 2019 8:59 a.m.

ThoAlmighty says... #11

Altar of Dementia seems like a solid include, and not sure what the synergy with Academy Rector is due to it exiling itself. Getting Survival seems strong, but other tutors are just more versatile.

Also, I'd advise making the music not auto-play when opening the page, or at least turning down the volume. It was quite loud.

March 10, 2019 4:15 p.m.

Abzkaban says... #12

Your foil Survival of the Fittest looks sweet, dude! Your old one has found a very comfortable new home in my Ghave deck!

I'll second that about the music. It was super loud and took me a minute to find where it was coming from.

March 10, 2019 4:36 p.m.

hkhssweiss says... #13

@ Cloudius Haha thanks for stopping by again buddy! Just a couple more and I am finish! Can't wait to see what else you do with your Yennett deck!

@ ThoAlmighty I'll keep that in mind! Unfortunately I don't know how to lower the volume of the music so I guess I'll just turn it off haha. In regards to Altar of Dementia , I used to run it in here but it never was enough when I am going fast combo route, it only obtainable through my tutors unless I draw into it, and it's not my number one tutor target as well for a sac outlet.

For Academy Rector it is actually two fold, the first and foremost reason is to go with protected Protean Hulk line in conjunction with Grand Abolisher with a sac out let on the field as it grabs me my reanimation enchantments. The next other reason is for it to grab Necropotence for the burst refill or Sylvan Library / Survival of the Fittest .

@ Abzkaban Yessir it is a beauty! I need to take a better picture once I get a better camera but for now it will do xD Make sure you kick butt with the Survival in your deck, its been in mines for 4 years!

March 10, 2019 9:34 p.m.

Kaleo42 says... #14

Catapillar over Leave No Trace ? Unless your meta is riddled with plural rest in peaces or leylines of the void I generally find the catapillar to be better. That being said this deck is very finely tuned and my own real question is why Teneb over the partner options?

March 26, 2019 12:11 a.m.

PlatinumOne says... #15

Kaleo42: probably because its a reanimator deck, and Teneb reanimates stuff. none of the "partner" commanders reanimate anything.

March 26, 2019 12:42 a.m.

Kaleo42 says... #16

PlatinumOne this deck runs more than enough reanimator pieces that it doesn’t need a 6cmc creature with a specific condition ability to reanimate a creature. I have seen extremely similar lists do very well in my local meta but they use Tymna the Weaver as their primary commander to draw into their tutors for whatever pieces they need to complete the graveyard combos.

March 26, 2019 2:33 a.m.

hkhssweiss says... #17

@ Kaleo42 I used to run Caustic Caterpillar , but it eventually moved to the point where it was too slow, I rather have interaction and removal on hand, it was good as a rattlesnake but its more of a flex nowadays. I am not bothered by Leyline of the Void or RIP as my lines are winning on the spot when no one can interact with me, I would remove the hate before I proceed to combo off.

For Leave No Trace (LNT) this is more of a meta call as I am up against Blood Pod-esque decks as well as more stax oriented pods. LNT hits a plethora of things and even gets around protected BS and one card can hit a wide variety. I only run essentially two enchantments that matter, which is Sylvan Library as well as Necropotence , both of them are colors I could care less if I pop them myself.

In regards to commnader choices, there is actually a viable reason why I chose Teneb, it's due to the CMC. At 6 CMC I can pod chain him to Protean Hulk and win on the spot, same can be said with utilizing Pattern of Rebirth / Natural Order . I used to run Eldritch Evolution as another line. But Teneb is like plan F for me, in addition he is also a 6/6 beater that flys. There is also sneaky combat tricks you can do with him as in response to his trigger you can Entomb and than reanimate a creature and than sac with an outlet and go for an instant speed win.

The last reason why is because I personally like seeing commanders that aren't used as much and I love refining them to their max potential, this is the closest I have came to perfecting and refining a deck. Teneb has been a great match up against top tier cEDH commanders and haven't really disappointed me at all. I enjoy all the games I played with Teneb, hopefully that gives some insight on my perspective! If ya like the deck please leave an +1 upvote as well!

@ PlatinumOne Lol Teneb rarely comes out in my pod, if they see me casting him they know that either A) I'm getting shafted or B) It's plan F time. Main reason is that he is the second deck I build and feels so refined to play.

March 26, 2019 5:09 a.m.

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