Valduk, Keeper of Too Many Pants

Commander / EDH* Aggro Budget Casual Mono-Red Voltron

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Artifact (26)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Basilisk Collar
• 1x Blackblade Reforged
• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Captain's Claws
• 1x Darksteel Plate
• 1x Dowsing Dagger  ^Flip
• 1x Explorer's Scope
• 1x Haunted Cloak
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Helm of the Gods
• 1x Hero's Blade
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Prying Blade
• 1x Rogue's Gloves
• 1x Short Sword
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Sword of the Animist
• 1x Sword of Vengeance
• 1x Tenza, Godo's Maul
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Trading Post
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

Enchantment (12)

• 1x Cartouche of Zeal
• 1x Dragon Mantle
• 1x Flamespeaker's Will
• 1x Frenzied Rage
• 1x Giant Spectacle
• 1x Gratuitous Violence
• 1x Hammerhand
• 1x Impact Tremors
• 1x Madcap Skills
• 1x Outpost Siege
• 1x Senseless Rage
• 1x Thunderous Might

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Cathartic Reunion
• 1x Chain Reaction
• 1x Chandra's Ignition
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Molten Psyche
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Relentless Assault
• 1x World at War

Creature (3)

• 1x Goblin Welder
• 1x Myr Retriever
• 1x Scrap Trawler

Commander (1)

Land (35)

• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Flamekin Village
• 1x Forgotten Cave
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Hanweir Battlements  ^Meld
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 25x Mountain
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Sea Gate Wreckage
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle

Instant (1)

• 1x Temur Battle Rage

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Second theory attempted at Valduk, Keeper of the Flame .

Strategy: Put all the pants onto Valduk and then jack-slap someone with commander damage while the army of elementals cracks into another target. Because the deck has so few real creatures, it will sometimes be correct to hold Valduk back as a big scary blocker and let the elementals go in alone.

Obviously, this deck is begging for really good cheap equipments, like The Swords, but I ain't got none. This is very much a budget/"what I happen to have laying around" deck, so some suboptimal choices can be found. However, feel free to point out odd choices anyway, because I know some choices are feel actually are correct my look like oddballs.

One specific note: I think Dragon Throne of Tarkir is bad, even for this kind of commander. It's a whopping 9 mana investment (cast, equip, activate) to get any effect from it at all, and top of that it really requires Valduk to be already be equipped to the gills to get enough tokens and pump to really make it worth the mana.

Top Ranked	Achieved #36 position overall 6 years ago
Date added	6 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	25 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 18 - 0 Commons
Cards	87
Avg. CMC	2.60
Tokens	Elemental 3/1 R w/ Trample, haste, Goat 0/1 W, Kor Ally 1/1 W, Plant 0/2 G, Treasure
Folders	EDH Decks, Commander