Mono U commanders to a creature less deck?
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Posted on Dec. 11, 2024, 11:26 a.m. by Felipix
Anyone knows a mono U commander to take benefit from being a creature less deck?
RiotRunner789 says... #3
You could play Codie, Vociferous Codex as a mono blue. He works the same but his mana ability looks more like, tap 4 colorless, add U and four colorless. Added benefit of confusing your opponents, or tricking them into thinking you mana screwed and are drawing an improbable number of islands.
Otherwise, any mono blue commander can work well without creatures as long as their strategy doesn't need then. So, no tribal (wizards), no flying centric or otherwise combat orientated. Any spellslinger commander without am ability that needs or targets your creatures would work.
December 11, 2024 2:43 p.m.
Crow_Umbra says... #4
You could run Baral, Chief of Compliance and lean into counter spells, cheap removal, & spells that make creature tokens as a means of having a bit more board presence. Bounce spells like Snap could double as a means of protecting your commander or exerting board control.
December 11, 2024 2:55 p.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #6
Fblthp, the Lost, in it's most streamlined version, is a creatureless deck. You try to get Proteus Staff out asap and target Fblthp with it. This way, you'll flip your whole deck until you reach Fblthp at the bottom. You put your entire deck back in any order (as Staff tells you to), allowing you to stack your next draws. After the ability of Staff has finished resolving, Fblthp's triggered ability goes on the stack and draws you two cards. So you basically tutored for the best two cards for any given situation.
The remaining cards besides these two should propably be ways to untap Staff, protection for Staff and Phblthp, protection for yourself, interaction and control effects. From there, you're pretty open ended. Taking things away from your opponent could be a thing, but there's tons of things to do.
But you tutor all the time. Which seems honestly pretty boring to me. That's why I never finished or played the deck.
December 11, 2024 11:32 p.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi, So I've been looking in this idea while searching for my creatureless commander, and I guess I could go the other direction, tool box... BTW thanks
FormOverFunction says... #2
I don’t have a good example, but I wanted to share how much I’ve enjoyed using Rosheen Meanderer as my commander for both my mono-red and my mono-green natural disaster decks. Don’t forget to check the split-mana costs!!
December 11, 2024 1:22 p.m.