>Whoah, that's some amazing art on this magic card! I wonder who dre- Seb McKinnon. Always. Every single time.

@auroralee

4 жыл бұрын

Ive been waiting SO LONG for him to do the art on a basic land cycle that would be my absolute dream.

@hjthesurvivor2757

4 жыл бұрын

Eventually many year from now I want a Seb McKinnon tribal edh deck lol

@drewjarrell2667

3 жыл бұрын

I love seb

@shaiyantahamtanzadeh6387

3 жыл бұрын

@@hjthesurvivor2757 The most buildable Seb EDH is Aminatou Blue/Black/White. Playing it feels like looking at an art gallery

@jackhumphries4692

3 жыл бұрын

Rebecca Guay is also pretty freaking awesome though...

Last time I was this early The decks were only 25$

I always enjoy doing decks based on a theme more than making it strong, then if you can end up making it strong too it's even better

@Benjamintheartteacher

4 жыл бұрын

Thats how my Zombie deck works.

@rustythedeli-master6861

4 жыл бұрын

I prefer to stick to a theme over power. Just wish some themes would be a bit more affordable.

@BathrobeKeck

4 жыл бұрын

That's how my sea monster deck started out

@GeneralGGD

4 жыл бұрын

I have a Bolas themed deck with Raveger as the commander. The deck has lots of cards with Bolas on it (including the invocation version of Damnation, just because it has Bolas). It's quite a solid deck too. No infinites or combos though, so I guess not high power...

@GiovanniBoss

4 жыл бұрын

My pride and joy is my digital Bayonetta-themed deck. 💜

You make some valid points here but theres no way I'm taking my Swiftfoot Boots out of my Korvold, Fae-Cursed King deck. Like Cinderella, he gonna fit into those shoes and look fabulous doing it.

@cliffsharp1771

4 жыл бұрын

Lol you should run a Crystal Slipper in there as a backup lol it still gives haste and the idea of a Dragon wearing a crystal slipper is hilarious

@auroralee

4 жыл бұрын

@@cliffsharp1771 Honestly Im adding this next time I get outside to the real world for Commander Night at my LGS. Brilliant

@cliffsharp1771

4 жыл бұрын

My GF put one in her Kalamax deck and it made me laugh so hard. Just thought I'd share the fun

@simonnice9030

4 жыл бұрын

I recently added Gadrak to my Korvold-deck! Talk about flavor and synergy combined! :D. No way I'm removing my Greaves from Korvold either ;), but I like the flavor in that deck regardless. It's all about cards that produces treasures or pawns for Korvold to devour, which is both perfect in flavor and consistency.

@CosmicErrata

4 жыл бұрын

Korvold is all about that sacrifice. It's pretty meta to sacrifice flavor for fabulousness.

My favorite deck is my “Kiora vs Thassa” Arixmethes deck! It’s designed to tell the story of Kiora tricking Thassa and stealing her bident on the isle of Arixmethes. But here’s the best part: it still wins tons of games and plays at a consistently high power level. That sweet spot of flavor and consistency is really rewarding in EDH.

@oruchimaru58

4 жыл бұрын

"I defy gods, defying you will be easy" I love Kiora

@jafafafa9206

4 жыл бұрын

Share the the deck on tapped out and link it. Sounds sweet

@FacGame2501

4 жыл бұрын

I would like to see the decklists if it's possible.

@crispy2802

3 жыл бұрын

@@FacGame2501 Here you go! It isn't the STRICTEST theme, but it's definitely present. If you include the krakens and sea monsters which would have been battling as Kiora and Thassa dueled. then the deck has about 25 explicitly on theme cards. There are also cards in the decklist that are there because they're just strictly good with Arixmethes, even tho they aren't really on theme. archidekt.com/decks/679348#Arixmethes;_Kiora_Bests_the_Sea_God

@FacGame2501

3 жыл бұрын

@@crispy2802 Nice deck. Very few lands for my taste, I usually run 38/39 lands in all of my decks as a personal rule. Let me share you my Arixnethes' list, it's not a fully themed deck but it sure have some flavor to it. archidekt.com/decks/600513#The_Trench Let me know your thoughts

My favorite flavor Commander deck is a "Green Eggs and Ham" deck (Based on the Dr. Seuss book). It's led by Atla Palani, Nest Tender. 90% of the creatures are pigs/boars/beasts that look like boars. It also has a few cards to represent various lines from the book. With a fox, with a mouse, in the dark, in a house, in the rain etc.

@mcclussy552

3 жыл бұрын

That's awesome!!!!!

@jackhill3273

3 жыл бұрын

Very neat idea!

@drewinsch2916

3 жыл бұрын

@@jackhill3273 thanks. The star of the deck is Cratorhoof BeHAMoth. Groan inducing I know.

Patrick: Is cyclonic rift a flavor? Squidward: no Patrick cyclonic rift is not a flavor.

@oom-3262

4 жыл бұрын

I mean if your commander is niv mizzet, the izmagus goblin guy or the weird one, I'd see it as a flavour win. Otherwise laaaame

@freshrimp9013

3 жыл бұрын

@@oom-3262 yeah, I think that's great proof you can use some damn powerful cards and still be play flavor

I’m an old hippy so I put the card “Deadhead” zombie in all my zombie decks.

HELL YES! I'm a major vorthos player and I've been hoping for a video for people like me for a long time. Thank you

@TheKingNaesala

4 жыл бұрын

OMG and my comment got hearted. Made my day

I play with a bunch of Engineers and they're mostly "Johnny" and "Spike" archetype players, they tend to go for optimal win and care less about the story or art. As a "Vorthos" player among them my deck get stomped out of existence when I play with them but I'm still proud it and stand by it's flavorful construction.

@Robert-vk7je

4 жыл бұрын

If I wouldn't wanna have a chance on winning the game, I'd play my elf tribal deck with lorwyn elves only. Currently I play only some "flavour includes" like Eyeblight's Ending, Gilt-Leaf Winnower, Leaf Gilder and Blightsoil Druid.

@spamspammed5524

3 жыл бұрын

Look, that's the fun of League of Super-Jace, where you do super friends with only Jace. Your opponents are too busy laughing to play properly.

I love flavor decks. For example, I took you're arixmethes deck and made it even more fish tribal. Now I am known as the fish person. Makes me happy though, because the deck is strong and fun

Wow, that intro is a huge breath of fresh air! I like it!

Build a Jodah “Tales of Dominaria” deck, running only cards from sets taking place on Dominaria, using Jodah as kind of “telling the stories of Dominaria”.

@DoomStarRequiem

3 жыл бұрын

I like this idea.. pretty cool.

@kiranm8569

3 жыл бұрын

I'm working on a LotR deck using Jodah as my commander to represent Gandalf.

@elipetrou9308

3 жыл бұрын

Cool

@elipetrou9308

3 жыл бұрын

Kiran M you should make a video on that, I’d watch it

My favorite theme deck is my horror one, lots of Eldritch vibes and grotesque artwork with Wrexial as the commander. It's got a mill subtheme, perfect because a library represents a mind, and milling is slowly being driven crazy by all the horror!

@jafafafa9206

4 жыл бұрын

Share it. I love that deck idea

@elizabethneilsen3884

4 жыл бұрын

@@jafafafa9206 Here you go! archidekt.com/decks/351978#Fear_and_Lovecraft_in_Innistrad

@ROMANTIKILLER2

4 жыл бұрын

yup, I had a very similar Wrexial deck with mill mechanic that had a lovercraftian theme (even LabMan as win-con felt like appropriate as driven mad by his contact with the eldritch abominations) ... quite fun, especially when one also start picking the landbase to fit the atmosphere of the deck. :-)

@elizabethneilsen3884

4 жыл бұрын

I'm an Arkham Horror fan on top of being a fervent edh player, it's definitely a fun theme to build around. Lab man sounds flavorful for sure, I just think using a lab man combo might be out of my playgroups power level.

@jafafafa9206

4 жыл бұрын

@@elizabethneilsen3884 sweet deck I might play it on tabletop simulator and have some fun. Great art choice

22:28 I actually love having as many different land arts in a deck as possible; I love seeing all the different variations people have on basic lands.

I always build with flavor in mind.

Yes someone finally said it matching lands is the way to go

Building with flavour is why I still play Magic after 10 years... would love to see more videos on this topic!

I am a beginner that wants to play commander thanks for the uploads!

@Clovislaying

4 жыл бұрын

Trust me play less taplands

Playing with flavor is really fun and watching this was just as fun. I’m definitely one of those player that needs to coordinate his lands to either be the same art or thematically be fitting. I think after watching this I’m gonna build a flavorful Yargle voltron deck! Thanks for the content and inspiration to build

The goblin in the Story of Bosh isn't squee, it is Slobad i think.

@Clovislaying

4 жыл бұрын

Yes it is

@dahuntre

4 жыл бұрын

So many legendary goblins! I didn’t know about Slobad until Spice 8 Rack’s goblin video

@jaeu4040

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, i thought the same 😅 theres one character of every color with glissa, Slobad, geth, raksha and i forgot the name of the wizard. The only red character i can think of is Slobad

@dantebeleren

4 жыл бұрын

And he calls himself a Vorthos player. Pff (/s)

@jaeu4040

3 жыл бұрын

@Nick Fanchette No, I thought of Bruenna

This is my episode! I am that player who builds around themes and chooses flavor (as much as possible) over function.

@drewinsch2916

4 жыл бұрын

I have an archtype! O_O I'm a Vorthos

Someone at my LGS has a flavourful EDH deck, in the form of Sisay (WUBRG), with its theme being "Weatherlight" EVERY card in the deck has to have some connection to the Weatherlight and her crew. Meanwhile, I've tried building an Alesha, who Smiles at Death deck with a theme of "Build a deck inspired by a game character", and Alesha was modeled after Oda Nobunaga from Fate Grand Order. A Hellrider theme trying to emulate Nobu's Ultimate attack where she fires 3 thousand matchlock rifles, so every creature triggering a Hellrider effect was a rifle firing off.

Keep having people on the podcast. It’s very refreshing when you two get to bounce the conversation off each other. Coming from a long time fan of the old deck techs

This video comes right at the time when I've been planning a Lord of the rings Commander deck for a few days

@Raaayyyyyyyyyy

4 жыл бұрын

Lord of the Rings and EDH, my two favourite things in life. Ive started turning my Athreos Shadowborn Apostles deck into LotR by getting cards altered. Shadowborns are the Orcs, and the deck contains the Nazgûl as the demons they tutor out, with Razaketh being the Witch King.

@jacobpeterson1166

3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking of making a Kenrith the Returned king LOTR deck, mostly because his name has ‘Return’ and ‘King’ in it, then since he’s 5-color find cards to represent each member of the fellowship, like Torbran as Gimli or random kithkin as the hobbits

So I'm a Vorthos Player :D I love flavor in my decks and I recently build a Chandra Tribal Deck. Since M21 and the Spellbook I still need some Cards, but in the end will contain all 15 Chandras ever printed, cards related to her story (her parent, Jaya, etc.) and all those cards will be Foil, in a Chandra Deck Box, sleeved with Chandra Sleeves, on a Chandra Playmat, matching my Chandra Shirt 🔥😁🔥 Did I mentioned that I love Chandra?

@villa3927

4 жыл бұрын

Please find a way to make the deck box fireproof.

@oom-3262

4 жыл бұрын

@@villa3927 or just set it on fire and make a smiley face with the ashes.

Absolutely loved this episode Mitch! A good example is also naming your decks. I own a Mogis deck called "Don't hurt yourself"where almost every single card gives my opponents the choice to get hurt in the "best/worst" way possible based on what they do so it's never my fault. So much fun!

I actually just finished a theme deck around Chandra, including every version of her planeswalker, Jaya Ballard, Pia and Kiren Nalaar, and alot of artifacts from kaladesh.

I've got a friend whose deck is built around getting Godzilla, Anguirus, Mechagodzilla, and King Caesar on the field and then forcing them to fight each other for our amusement.

The most Vorthos deck in my collection is my hyper-budget Seton, Krosan Protector druid tribal deck. A friend and I followed the Quest for the Janklord build restrictions, and I thought it would be fun to go for an "attack with lands" theme alongside the druids. It has some non-basic lands that can become creatures on their own, like Treetop Village or Mobilized District; and cards that can turn lands into creatures like Quirion Druid or Waker of the Wilds. It is surprisingly aggressive and very fun, but I really enjoy the idea that Seton and his druid pals are channeling their mana to raise the land to fight back against the threats. My favorite includes were other cards that reference or include "Krosa", like Baru, Fist of Krosa, Krosan Avenger, Krosan Restorer, and Krosan Wayfarer. I agree with Eric, that adding Vorthos "restrictions" to your deckbuilding can be very rewarding in its own way.

My first ever edh deck was a Wicker Man deck headed by Reaper King. Filled with druids, townsfolk, harvest-themed sorceries and instants, and a bunch of scarecrows.

Great video as always, I definitely am the guy who insists on matching lands, but what we really need is a bruna light of alabaster deck tech.

I was the owner of the Pokemon deck you played and thank you, I appreciate the high praise. The deck has made some changes since then (Sylvan Library was cut but it was Professor Oaks lab w/ the three starters) so that it was closer to my meta power level. Here is the link for any who want to see: tappedout.net/mtg-decks/pokemon-master-1/?cb=1594830601

I built a scarab god hail me deck that ran almost every eternal of blue black and almost every card that referenced the dreadhorde I also ran some "dissenters" to reanimate with the scarab god

Mitch is definitely a Cleric, since he gives us all Guidance.

I have a Sisay Weatherlight Captain deck themed around the Weatherlight, and every card in it has to either be part of the OG Weatherlight crew, part of the Legacy, or depict events involving those characters during their adventures. It's decently functional, albeit pretty low powered, but I just love the concept of Vorthos decks so much it puts a smile on my face every time.

@alexthatsme.

4 жыл бұрын

Josh Murphy hey I was thinking about that for a while now. Do you have a decklist online somewhere? Thanks already

@joshmurphy484

4 жыл бұрын

@@alexthatsme. tappedout.net/mtg-decks/28-02-18-the-weatherlight/ Here you go!

Loving the new intro song. Keep doing what you do mitch!

My favorite themed deck I ever made was a Nicol Bolas, The Ravager deck. It ended up being a grixis control/stax deck because I made the deck around what would nicol bolas would do. Lots of enchantments, sorceries, and instants. All the creatures had enchantment like effects on them. Ultimately won with Torment of Hailfire. After a while, I felt bad playing the deck and I took it apart.. Nicol Bolas is a jerk.

@nicolbolas5934

4 жыл бұрын

yes I am

@PokemonKing197

4 жыл бұрын

A friend of mine did the same, ironically my other friends and I all had to band together to stop Dragon God from ulting

@thatchermulholland7443

4 жыл бұрын

There's a game knights episode where Brandon Sanderson does the exact same thing

@Benjamintheartteacher

4 жыл бұрын

@@nicolbolas5934 Praise to the God-Pharaoh

@nicolbolas5934

4 жыл бұрын

@@Benjamintheartteacher your allegiance will be rewarded with an eternal afterlife.

great episode, nice to watch

I just realized your "Ghalta vehicles" deck is basically the MTG version of Cadillac and Dinosaurs!

This is almost a perfect description of some of my favorite decks I’ve ever made. I have a kruphix eldrazi deck, and a Nicol Bolas Tribal superfriends deck

My first finished Commander deck was a Pako/Haldan deck themed around those two going on a globe-trotting adventure. Lots of cards themed around exploring, locations, and scenic areas. The few other creatures are Legendary creatures who they met along the way.

This dude is awesome, I would like to see him in other videos!

Okay, totally aging myself, but I built an MC Hammer deck. It stars Syr Gwyn as Hammer, with--you guessed it--all the hammers that fit the colors, and as much as I could fit that grants hexproof, shroud, or indestructible. I can't play it very often because no one wants to hear "It's hammer time" or "Can't touch this" more than 10-15 times a year.

I just built a commander deck around Gadrak, Crown Scourge with the theme "Mono Red Smaug", with a lot of treasure generating cards, a dwarf-king, a city, a thief, dragon's fire and, of course, hoarding dragons. It's slightly optimized but not as aggro or burn heavy as usual mono red decks, there were even games that I sit with Gadrak unable to attack for several turns but I had a blast anyway. It's so fun when you can roleplay with your deck and it actually works, way more than simply comboing your opponent with the usual meta strategies.

I started playing Magic back around 4th edition, and I even have some older cards from the Dark, Arabian Knights, and Fallen Empires. Very little with cash value; I've never approached the game as a collector. But it is a ton of fun to go looking for an old card that fits into a commander deck, or even to find the old art of cards that have been reprinted multiple times. Its a fun way to say, "Yeah, I've been around this game for a while."

I'm always so happy when mitch uploads. Definetly my favorite youtuber. 10/10 would recommend. P.s. I love the new intro

Definitely a Vorthos player here. I recently made an EDH deck themed around The Flash. It is my first flavor deck and I am actually quite happy with how it came out

Mitch, I absolutely love your work and, as always, I loved this episode. The only little nitpick that I have with this episode was this: next time you wanna talk about the flavor of Magic, I beseech you to get in contact with Spice8Rack (you mentioned his channel in your "What To Watch During Quarantine" episode.) He literally did an EDH decktech around Nikya of the Old Ways where you completely channel your inner End-Razer. So please, do this collab for a long-time supporter. Thanks.😁

one of my all time favorite decks was a Reaper king deck with all changelings. such a fun build

Love your show ♡ thx for doing it

Woah, someone else with Mitch in the studio! I do like trying to add flavor to some decks. My Nicol Bolas, the Ravager deck is mostly flavor themed, with a lot of the WAR Zombie Army stuff and also some Planeswalkers known to ally with Bolas. Plus almost all the Bolas planeswalker cards.

Also thank you for helping find the word for the type of player I am. I like flavorful but functioning decks. I also built Eddy Markhov as a life gain deck with tainted remedy and Beacon of Immortality.

My favourite or at least the one that springs instantly to mind is my Jank creatures tribal deck, a few years back one of the spikes in our playgroup at the time was complaining about my folder of weird forgotten creature types (that I still have and add to, to this day) annoyed by his high roller attitude, I built a deck from the elite of my jank army, commanded by reaper king and unified by the enchantments that give creature types and multiple clone and bounce effects the deck was a force to be reckoned with! The deck has Noggles, Beebles, Eye's, kobolds, Bringers and even a zubera to name a couple. :D It goes without saying I made him eat his words!

I love taking commanders in interesting directions. I built a Wart raidmother deck where I played only sorceries.

Speaking of quizzes, I built your Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain deck because of the guild quiz that revealed I'm an Izzet. Well, that deck certainly tugs my heartstrings!

one of my favorite Vorthos Commander decks: Sengir Family Album! Includes the Baron all the way to the Grandma Sengir! Lotsa of Fun! :)

I am 100% Vorthos! I had a desire to play Magic back in High School when I found a random Wyluli Wolf card in the hallway and loved the art! Didnt start playing the game til in my 20s, but the artwork was always a driving force. Then when I started to get into the story behind the frames, I fell in love even more. I'm more likely to build a Commander for it's art,flavor text, or a theme vs. how competitive it is. So good to see we're actually a sub-type! 😁

I also Made a Nicol Bolas Deck for Commander with All the Nicol Bolas planeswalkers, Liliana the Dreadhorde General, some Eternals for the Army, some of the Gods from Amonkhet, and plenty of cards that take from opponents. The Commander is Nicol Bolas the Ravager. I tried to find as many spells as I could that have Nicol Bolas in the Flavor text or image of the Card. It is my favorite deck.

My favorite commander deck is huge Vorthos. I’m a long time dnd player and DM. I ran Out of the Abyss a couple years ago and fell in love with the lore behind the Demon Lords, so I built a deck around Zuggtmoy the Lady of Rot. My Zuggtmoy stand in is Atraxa and it’s a thallid/saproling deck. I call it the Garden of Horror after one of the campaign’s set pieces.

2 things: 1: I would love to see your list for Rarity. 2: Myself and another both bought Anje precon and the same Halloween sleeves, complete accident. He went Vampire tribal and I went with a Hellbent sub theme. His deck is much stronger but mine is more casual and fun.

It's funny that he mentioned trying to get all his basics to be the same art, because I like to have as many different arts for my basics as possible.

@Giga-lemesh

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah I like this too

I've had two flavor deck ideas. First, was I wanted to try and make a Scouts BSA themed deck to bring to camp. It was bad and never got off the ground. The other was I was trying to convince my DnD group, who also plays mtg, to design decks around our PC's and the DM could make an archenemy deck based around the BBEG but then covid hit and school shut down.

I wanted to get a friend of mine into magic, and they somehow manage to play every game as a farming sim, so that's what I did with their deck. They're super happy to play with Verdeloth the Ancient treefolk/saproling tribal, now I just need to get them to be willing to risk their precious plants in combat,,,,

I hardly ever get a chance to play Commander but I really enjoy it. It's hard to put my finger on why it's so enjoyable but it is so much fun.

My favourite flavour-infused decks are my all-Ravnica Niv-Mizzet Reborn (using only cards that were originally printed in a Ravnica set, only deck that doesn't use Sol Ring) and my Mazirek, which I have tried to work an insect tribal into. Even though there aren't real insect synergy cards outside of Swarmyard, a lot of them synergize very well with Mazirek's ability, and the flavour of insects as detritivores feeding of the process of things dying (in this case being sacrificed) is very strong and a nice touch to the deck.

I've always appreciated this approach to EDH, even though I build all of my lists to best compete with my playgroup and our meta. I like these kinds of lists, and I hope that I am able to build one or two more like them for myself. My pet list so far is Marath, Will of the Wild themed after the Studio Ghibli film Princess Mononoke, where Marath is the Nightwalker and his elemental tokens are Kodama "spirits". I use Decimator of the Provinces as an infected Boar god, the new Jumpstart commander Neyith is going to be my replacement Mononoke when it gets in. The deck is not amazing in performance, but just being able to tell the entire story of that beautiful film is so cool in EDH.

Thank you I found out I’m a Vorthos player haha, never knew what it was either Eric. Semi-competitive vorthos with lots of jank options :)

One of favorite decks is my Kytheon/Gideon deck. Most of the deck has cards all from Gideon's life, so they chronologically tell his story. It plays mainly like an "Oops all Gideons" deck with a Soldier type sub-theme. Even my Plains are the John Avon sunset ones from the core set to represent his "sunsetting". Also added in Gideon sleeves, Gideon Relic token for the life counter, and a Gideon deck box. It's not my most powerful, but it can hang in there, and I'm glad to build and have a deck like that.

I love theme decks, but what might be more fun for me, is when the theme of the deck becomes both fun and pretty good, like a deck I made for Shirei where the whole theme was just massive synergy with Shirei’s ability, while it plays a ton like any black sacrifice deck, it follows its theme incredibly closely, basically, building around the commander to a tee rather than building around the commanders colors

My playgroup and I all built a pauper edh deck for each guild of ravnica using our collections. On game night we pick out out of a hat what guild you will be playing. Super fun and teaches you to play colors you wouldn't normally play

I normally do theme decks, my most flavorful one is Kenrith Returned King 5 Color Knights, I love the idea of all these knights banding together to serve under our Beloved King Kenny. I like to build things that my playgroup doesn’t want to or won’t play, the wins are just a bonus

Digging the new music for the intro 👍

I will admit, if I can afford it or get it, I will foil most of my decks, but as for lands, there are a number of lands that just have that better look then others, and speaking of lands, I have always felt that lands are the heart of any deck and the heart of this game, and so I have collected A LOT of foiled lands, mostly basic lands, but I currently have just over 600 total and I will not stop any time soon!

I really dig flavorful deck builds. I have a 60 card Azorius deck built around a song by The Grouch called "The POSSE".

I like picturing what some of the card combinations would actually look like when they're played, like getting my boy Thromok a p/t in the thousands and casting fling. Some extinction level stuff right there

Talking about pet cards, mine is Animar. When I first got into Magic, I would scroll through Google images for cards that looked cool, and Animar really jumped out at me. I had no idea about the commander format, and I had no idea how to build decks, but I wanted the card because the art, to me, was, and is, really great. A couple years later, I finally got one, and I built an Animar artifacts deck, because everyone expected a morph deck. It’s now more themed around X cost and Eldrazi for more power, but I’m thinking about digging up the original deck list and reconstructing it just to add some variety.

Yes hi, I've made a couple comments on other episodes about my Dominaria deck, and it is definitely a Vorthos deck, chock full of the Weatherlight saga and the Time Tears episode. Each card is potentially potent on their own, but most don't have any sort of synergy with each other, it's just fun and flavorful legendaries that Sisay, Weatherlight Captain can call to her aid. I'm really looking forwards to when my Chromactic Orrery arrives in the mail with Barrin, to help both improve the deck further and make it more flavorful.

I'm generally the guy in my group that makes the jank decks. I've created such gems as "Ravnica Guildmages", "One Life for Me, One Less for You" and my current project "Kess Plagerism". Takes time to get them going, but they always a blast any time.

Oh I absolutely love flavorful decks. I made a mono black deck with a reduced budget as a gift to teach my sibling to play Magic, with most cards that had "Plague" in the name, and Mikaeus, the Unhallowed as commander. It was a bit slow but it was about the theme more than anything else. I remember it not because it was strong (or rather not that much,) but because it was fun.

Lorenzo Macapagal My first commander is Anax and Cymede and most of its content are from the Theros block. I basically chose the power couple because when I was a kid, I was very passionate about Greek and Roman mythology. Over the years I got to improve the deck and more commander decks came. I made it to a point that the basic land cards should be from the plane or set where my commander came from. :)

When I put decks together for Commanders I like from a Vorthos perspective I always try to include at least a few flavor cards. For instance, my Lord WIndgrace deck has Planeswalker's Fury & Void (Kev Walker's Invasion Art, naturally) in it! Even little touches can make the deck feel more cohesive flavorwise!

Dude!! So I collect Star Wars cards by Topps and found these kmc outer sleeve sleeves. It sounds weird but they are clear and have a silver or gold filigree boarder and fit dragon shield/regular sleeves. Anyway so I pick out a sleeve I got in trade or for draft or in a single purchase, usually just for a colour or tint or because it's shiny. Then I find a sweet Star Wars character to represent my commander and stuff them both in that outer sleeve so one side is art and the other is my commander. I love it. My Teshar artifact eggs deck has Jyn Erso on the back because she hacks her way into reviving the noble hearts around her, gets sweet gear and droids and ships and well it makes for a white artifact theme for me :)

I think my strongest oddball deck is Kruphix. Ostensibly it's a card draw deck but I was building it while on an Ixalan kick so it's also got a very strong Merfolk Tribal element to it. It's also wild that you mentioned playing at Lodestone since that's not too far from where I work

Vorthos is the best way to build and brew decks . Whether it is my Grismold Critical Role Themed Deck, Taisigur Demon Sacrifice , or Neheb Minotaurs ... I love the story telling aspects I can do with my deck.... That Yasova Pokemon deck I have played against before in the Twin Cities magic community , the Lodestone reference was a give away for me . That deck is a beauty !!!!

I started to build my O’Kagachi themed upon the Kamigawa’s Kami Wars. It is a spirit tribal with only spirits and flavour from the Kamigawa block. I’m having a blast building it and I can’t wait to play it 🤣

@mcclussy552

3 жыл бұрын

Justin Parnell would like a word with you.

I've just made a Redemption deck. The story speak about a pilgrim in is own Path, find the way to Redemption from his cursed life(this is the lore). For this i've build a "golos, tireless PILGRIM" deck with all the SHRINE (that rapresent the milestone for his peregrination). In my original idea the deck have all the curses, but after a failure try i've opt for less curse for "optizimation" the pilgrim Path. You can take a look on deckstat "a pilgrim find the way ecc ecc" suggestion very welcome :) Always good content here! Keep it up :)

My Niv-Mizzet, Parun deck is pretty flavored. Lots of wizards, dragons, card draw and of course some Izzet sleeves

22:30 My arcades, the strategist deck actually has only basic lands with art, that either depicts walls or the inside of cities (mostly from the ravnica and amonkhet blocks).

@gewe3670

4 жыл бұрын

And yes, I am very proud of that

I think theme decks are really key to EDH, especially for myself. Its how you get interesting and unique ideas and it makes deck building really fun. One of my favorites is my Lovisa Coldeyes Clones deck where the idea is to emphasize reds cloning mechanic that is often overlooked because it's mainly thought of to be in blue. Trueheart Twins gets real scary once there's 4 hasted copies swinging at you There's a lot of combos you can go for, but I cut all of the two card ones since they're a little too easy to get off. Still have Lightning Runner in because if I can make 3 copies of it and swing for those infinite combat steps then I've successfully done my deck right.

"melvin" players specifically like art. "Vorthos" spefifically likes lore.

My favorite flavor deck deck if my actually a family of decks. I built decks for most of the major characters of the recent mtg story. Like bolas, Gideon and most recently Teferi. And of course you mentioned in you video just as I wrote this comment

Flavor flub - Bosh hung around Slobad, not Squee (Weatherlight crew member). Might just be a slip of the tongue though! Really cool episode and gives me some ideas of how to tweak a couple of my faves to feel more personal. Thanks!

I really like this idea

I once built a mono red Lightning Shrieker cycle deck in pauper. I have put Lightning Shrieker in every deck with red ever since, and have been known as the Lightning Shrieker Tribalist ever since.

I think a potential video series (I've thought of writing articles about it) would be dedicated to talking about a single or a couple subthemes. Like '1 cost cmc matters', here's 10 cards you could run in W/x decks to change up your deck. Even better is when you make changeable subthemes to let you tweak your deck so you aren't always playing the same thing.

After getting the Izzet guild kit, I ended up picking up a bunch of other Ravnica-based Izzet cards, everything that was guild-aligned. It was a fun deck, aside from hoping to cast a commander with 6 coloured pips using a deck with extremely few fixing options.

New intro! :o

I've got a Rafiq of the Many honorable Knight tribal deck that's not just Knight tribal but also every thing that has to do anything with knights like banners and all the lands have castles or something like that. It's really fun.

I love flavourful decks. I have a Dalakos story deck as he doesn't have much lore. I made it so his life partner is Queen of Ice giving ice defence strategy with frost lynx as a pet, deep freeze etc which I havent seen in many decks being used. Friends with Wizards & Faeries too allowing animating artifacts too. Frogify & Kasmina's transformation in there. Other combos allow bloodforged battle axe to be wielded by wizards or faeries early game, late game animate a few axes and equip those axes they become animated flying hastey axe creatures wielding multiple axes. Hella fun. Loving movies and other fantasy series I like building to fit a theme. Did a Labrynth theme recently. Squee filling Hoggal's role and Uril as Ludo.