Picking a Partner for Tevesh Szat

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Posted on Dec. 27, 2020, 11:57 a.m. by Arcaneful

Hello.

I'll keep this short and to the point. I just got a Tevesh Szat and am looking to make a partner deck with him but I am stuck between 5 options. I don't want anything overly oppresive, but I want something that is a solid partner pair I can build off of on a fair budget.

My meta is casual/competitive usually in the 75% range. Example decks include: Glissa, the Traitor KCI, Golos, Tireless Pilgrim Consultation, Ramos, Dragon Engine charms/voltron, and Mizzix of the Izmagnus combo/storm.

Currently my ideas:

Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix: A proliferate/aristocrats deck. Maybe a back up win con in Thassa's Oracle.

Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa: Only here for the colors, but would win through Blood Artist loops and have a reanimator subtheme. Maybe some sort of Ashnod's Altar infinite mana loop for a Walking Ballista win.

Tana, the Bloodsower: Another aristocrats deck but this time with an overrun to win theme (End-Raze Forerunners and co for budget options)

Dargo, the Shipwrecker: I've seen some combo lines for him and I'd probably just follow those and go all in on comboing off.

Thanks for any responses.

EDIT: Fair budget means around $5-10 per card in my opinion.

abby315 says... #2

Of the four, I think Tana, the Bloodsower has the most obvious synergy and Dargo, the Shipwrecker is the most powerful combo.

If you really want to play with Tevesh Szat as the spotlight, I would choose Tana and build a Prossh-style Jund sac deck; there are plenty of combos in those colors, but the focus would be on Tevesh Szat value engine.

If you build the Dargo deck, Dargo is really the important commander and Tevesh is just there to give access to black tutors and chump fodder if you can't find a faster engine. I've also seen that Dargo + a GB or GU partner is likely better if you want to go all-in on Dargo, since you can then also use him to Pod or Eldritch Evo into a wincon. It's definitely the more powerful deck, though. GLHF!

December 28, 2020 10:20 a.m. Edited.