Tier 0 Ultra Competitive cEDH Voltron Storm Crow
Commander / EDH*
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No_More_Friends says... #3
Do people actually let you play this deck since its not legal?
January 25, 2018 2:02 p.m.
Decrepit_Angel says... #4
jacobmcguffin I always ask when I take the deck out if anyone cares and no one has cared yet. And if someone ever does care, I can just swap the commander to Sun Quan, Lord of Wu and swap a random card from my binder that is actually legal in the format to replace Crow Storm.
January 25, 2018 2:42 p.m.
No_More_Friends says... #5
Decrepit_Angel I have a teir Artifact Storm deck on my page that might interest you.
January 25, 2018 2:54 p.m.
Decrepit_Angel says... #6
jacobmcguffin I'll check it out. Are you looking for advice or just for people to check it out?
January 25, 2018 3:10 p.m.
Decrepit_Angel says... #9
dsigsbee: I play cEDH primarily. In competitive EDH, most decks are combo decks or stax decks to prevent combo decks from winning. Any strategy that actually takes additional turns to kill off the table is inherently weaker than a strategy that goes infinite and laser beams the table with Aetherflux Reservoir. Especially one that is reliant on a creature surviving and dealing damage to my opponents, which is far more disruptable than an actual storm deck (and quite frankly, more fun to lose to than someone casting 40 cards and taking a 20 minute turn until they eventually say that they found the win). With this information, it is clear that a voltron deck built around killing my opponents with a creature that has a ton of equipment on it is significantly weaker than just racing into an infinite that wins on the spot.
As for the price argument, this is my paper list. I already own a Timetwister and a bunch of the other high end cards so I see no reason to not play them. That said, Timetwister is roughly half the price of the deck and isn't necessary at all because I cannot loop it the way my Thrasios/Vial Smasher deck can to use it as a win condition. The fetch lands (again, I already had them) are literally just there for the rare chance that I cast a Brainstorm and get some extra value or if I am digging with Sensei's Divining Top and want a shuffle effect. They are not necessary for the deck. I also have a bunch of the Kaladesh Masterpiece series cards which because people keep buying them out are reaching astronomical prices. If you run a non foiled version without a few of the high end cards which really aren't necessary the deck is reasonably affordable. But, "playing a weaker strategy with the best possible cards to achieve that goal" means playing the best possible cards to achieve that, hence the inclusion of some of the ridiculously expensive cards.
That said, this deck is a joke that just used some of the cards I had lying around from previous decks and borrows a few cards from my Thrasios/Vial Smasher deck whenever I want to play it. It is not intended to be a primer for others to build as much as it is a demonstration of a joke deck that I use to play against lower power level tables in my meta. With some budget alterations and the consent of the players in your playgroup to use a non-legendary creature as a commander (out of roughly 200 people I have played against, only 1 has ever cared once they saw that it was a Storm Crow), it can easily be made to function in other metas if that is what you were hoping for. Hopefully that cleared it up.
May 9, 2018 2:10 p.m.
MachoChocolate says... #10
Brilliant deck mate. I wish I had thought of it! Thank you for fulfilling the dream I never knew I had.
Decrepit_Angel says... #1
For whatever reason, this decklist keeps showing only about half of the cards unless I choose to edit and save it. If I do this, it shows the full list momentarily and then goes back to the incomplete one. If anyone else viewing this is having this issue, and for myself if the site doesn't stop being broken, here is the full list in comment form:
1x Akroma's Memorial
1x Ancient Tomb
1x Aqueous Form
1x Argentum Armor
1x Back to Basics
1x Baton of Morale
1x Batterskull
1x Brainstorm
1x Chrome Mox
1x Counterspell
1x Crow Storm
1x Cyclonic Rift
1x Darksteel Plate
1x Eldrazi Conscription
1x Empyrial Plate
1x Fireshrieker
1x Flooded Strand
1x Flusterstorm
1x Force of Will
1x Gitaxian Probe
1x Glen Elendra Archmage
1x Grafted Exoskeleton
1x Grim Monolith
1x Impulse
1x Inventors' Fair
1x Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1x Jace, Vryn's Prodigy Flip
1x Lightning Greaves
1x Loxodon Warhammer
1x Mana Crypt
1x Mana Drain
1x Mana Vault
1x Masterwork of Ingenuity
1x Mental Misstep
1x Misty Rainforest
1x Mox Diamond
1x Mox Opal
1x Mystic Remora
1x Mystical Tutor
1x Pact of Negation
1x Polluted Delta
1x Ponder
1x Pongify
1x Preordain
1x Quietus Spike
1x Rapid Hybridization
1x Relic of Progenitus
1x Rhystic Study
1x Rite of Replication
1x Scalding Tarn
1x Sensei's Divining Top
1x Snapcaster Mage
25x Snow-Covered Island
1x Spell Pierce
1x Spellskite
1x Storm Crow
CMDR
1x Strata Scythe
1x Strip Mine
1x Sun Quan, Lord of Wu
1x Swan Song
1x Swiftfoot Boots
1x Sword of Feast and Famine
1x Sword of Fire and Ice
1x Sword of Vengeance
1x Tezzeret the Seeker
1x Thassa, God of the Sea
1x Time Spiral
1x Timetwister
1x Tormod's Crypt
1x Trinket Mage
1x Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
1x Umezawa's Jitte
1x Vanishing
1x Voltaic Key
1x Wasteland
1x Windfall
January 12, 2018 1:47 p.m.