You missed one of the best cards for this deck: mormir vig, simic visionary, by resolving his green creature cast trigger before cascade you can hand pick each creature you want down to 5cmc

@kodeenmtg

2 ай бұрын

I’ll check it out!

It looks like your definition of a powerful deck is a bit strange, or there's a few glaring oversights in the deck. When talking about power, there's 2 measurements generally used - win turn, and consistency of winning on that turn. That being said, I think some of your choices in the deck seem a bit questionable. w/ 31 land count, it seems that the deck would have trouble hitting land drops consistently, especially given the lack of low to the ground card draw. The card draw you do run, Harmonize and Consecrated Sphinx, doesn't seem good enough to warrant such a low land count - there is a lot of ramp in the deck, but if you're missing land drops, ramp is just land drops you pay for, and you're better off just running another basic. That being said, the basic count in the deck seems very solid, insulating against nonbasic hate like Blood Moon. The curve of the deck also seems very off, especially for a cascade focused deck. With 19 permanents at 2 CMC, I can't see how cascading doesn't just whiff half the time, and given the deck's inconsistent card advantage package that relies on hitting higher cmcs, as well as only 2 counterspells to help protect the commander, it seems very easy to cripple the deck with a single counterspell, and even if the commander does hit the battlefield, the cascade doesn't need to be countered a good 1/4th of the time. While there are uncounterable effects you run, there's not a consistent way to get to them. Good fixes to the above issues would include cutting some of the more splashy and flashy cards, such as Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger, as well as relatively inconsistent cards like Explore, and adding in topdeck manipulation like Brainstorm, Ponder, and Sensei's divining top to increase consistency and guarantee good cascades. In addition, more basic lands would help with hitting land drops consistently and making the ramp actually ramp you instead of supplementing a too low land count.

@ericchen7496

2 ай бұрын

That being said, I understand wanting to play big splashy cards in your deck, and wanting to play all of them. I simply am pointing out that playing too many and neglecting basic deckbuilding principles in your deck may end up backfiring and making the deck function less powerfully and consistently than you wish it to.

@kodeenmtg

2 ай бұрын

The deck does actually play out consistently in practice and in games, I find the land count is good. You’re correct in that sometimes cascading can “whiff” but a spell is a spell. I wanted midrange might instead of library manipulation. The deck also isn’t supposed to be the BEST deck in the world. The disclaimer says “as powerful as we can for what we’re doing” and what we’re doing is just playing big dumb creatures.

@kodeenmtg

2 ай бұрын

I’m going to make a video where we do test hands and actually see how the deck performs when shuffled and played, I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised with how consistent at a gameplan it actually is

@kodeenmtg

2 ай бұрын

The no counter spells bit is mostly because I didn’t wanna whiff on cascades. The one we have mana drain is too good to not try and play, and the module ones make for good enough cascades

Such an over done and lifeless corporate deck. Do deck techs on some home brews and interesting mechanics next time please instead of the current meta that everyone has already played against a million times.

@kodeenmtg

2 ай бұрын

What about the deck specifically is overdone?

@elchingon12346

2 ай бұрын

Who’s everyone? I haven’t seen this.

@prob3z403

2 ай бұрын

@@kodeenmtgI think he’s referring to brawl on mtgarena where this commander is quite popular and has a bit of a frustrating play-pattern (either they slam omniscience and win or they don’t get it and concede) but the comment doesn’t make sense when the video is intended for edh lol