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Okay, finally trimmed things down and organized the stuff I have multiple effects of to decide which and how many to add.

Current count has 87 cards in addition to Momir Vig, so the stuff listed at the bottom needs to be whittled down to 12 (or less, if I'm missing something important). Any suggestions about what's worth keeping and what's worth dropping is much appreciated!

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You don't have enough blue/green creatures, Mormir Vig isn't elf tribal, he's blue/green quickdraw combo stompy.

Gilder Bairn
Murkfiend Liege
Mystic Snake
Vedelkan Mastermind
Overbeing of Myth
Trygon Predator
Experiment Kraj
Lorescale Coatl
Omnibian

Definitive adds:
Chord of Calling
Green Sun's Zenith
Tooth and Nail
Eternal Witness
Genesis
Regrowth
Primeval Titan

ALso:

Sol Ring
Everflowing Chalice
Gauntlet of Power
Draining Whelk
Hinder
Mind's Eye
Counterspell
Voidslime
Ęther Mutation
Biomantic Mastery
Spitting Image


Remove fodder, and anything that doesn't make an immediate impact on the game. Lastly, I've found Vigor to do absolutely nothing in EDH.

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quote:
Originally posted by joz:
Lastly, I've found Vigor to do absolutely nothing in EDH.



I've actually had good results pairing him with pestilence/pyrohemia/pestilence demon (especially if Deathbringer Thoctar is out too)

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quote:
Originally posted by Bugger:
I've actually had good results pairing him with pestilence/pyrohemia/pestilence demon (especially if Deathbringer Thoctar is out too)



Yea, but look at the colors nderdog is playing, green, and blue.
He'd have to rely on someone else dealing damage to his creatures for vigor to really do anything.
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quote:
Originally posted by joz:
Yea, but look at the colors nderdog is playing, green, and blue.
He'd have to rely on someone else dealing damage to his creatures for vigor to really do anything.

OMFGNOWAI!
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I know, but since you were talking about Vigor in EDH generally, I responded about Vigor in EDH generally. But yes, outside of that combo, Vigor isn't that much of a bomb, except as a 'win-more' for your creatures when they already are bigger than their blockers.

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quote:
Originally posted by joz:
You don't have enough blue/green creatures, Mormir Vig isn't elf tribal, he's blue/green quickdraw combo stompy.

I guess I should note that I'm playing in an environment where I have about the only deep cardpool (read more than a handful of cards printed prior to Lorwyn), and no one here has ever played EDH before, so it's going to be a pretty crappy metagame. I don't want to destroy everyone and make it so they have no fun, I want to play an interesting deck that I will enjoy, hence Elf tribal instead of making maximum use of Momir Vig.

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quote:
Originally posted by nderdog:
I guess I should note that I'm playing in an environment where I have about the only deep cardpool (read more than a handful of cards printed prior to Lorwyn), and no one here has ever played EDH before, so it's going to be a pretty crappy metagame. I don't want to destroy everyone and make it so they have no fun, I want to play an interesting deck that I will enjoy, hence Elf tribal instead of making maximum use of Momir Vig.




Ah, Ok, that makes sense.

Well then, elf tribal...Roffellos? Joking.

But, Slate of Ancestry would fit nicely into here, as would Brass Hearld, Caller of the Hunt, Elvish Soultiller, Steely Resolve, Voice of the Woods, Sylvan Messenger, Call of the Wild, Commune with Nature, Enshrined Memories, Foster, Kamahl's Summons, Lead the Stampede, HARMONIZE, Weird Harvest, Wolf-Skull Shaman, Wordly Tutor, Zooologist

edit: my appologies if anything mentioned is already listed.

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quote:
Originally posted by joz:

Ah, Ok, that makes sense.

Well then, elf tribal...Roffellos?


Yes, he's already on the list I linked to...

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Originally posted by nderdog:
Yes, he's already on the list I linked to...


I edited my above post,

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Hah I ebay searched for "Commander Deck"

Ebay replied with
"Did you mean:commander duck?"

Ebay is so funny.

 
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Scrubbed out at a T2 tournament last night, but got in an EDH game that went better. It was Sen Triplets(me), Hazezon Tamar, Reaper King, and Braids Conjurer Adept.

Tamar dropped a Coat of Arms early off of Braids, then later landed his general and knocked Braids out a couple turns later with the tokens. I swept the field with Damnation, then hit Tamar with Bribery and grabbed Avenger of Zendikar. Tamar replayed his general, so next turn I knocked out Reaper King with the plant tokens then Martial Coup for 7 which killed Tamar. I found it amusing that everyone lost to a different set of tokens.

We played another game afterwards, but the Reaper King player went T2: Pila-pala T3: Grand Architect, infinite mana, Treasure Trove, draw deck, win.>.<

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ok, so I am getting dragged into EDH as well

The general I have in mind is Captain Sisay and a G/W build containing loads of legendary creatures such as Thrun, Akroma etc etc. Am I able to use legendary artifacts such as Umezawa's Jitte and the Kaldra equipments? and for that matter: lands such as Karakas are use-able in this format then as well? (albeit restricted to 1)

 
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quote:
Originally posted by wisknudde:
ok, so I am getting dragged into EDH as well

The general I have in mind is Captain Sisay and a G/W build containing loads of legendary creatures such as Thrun, Akroma etc etc. Am I able to use legendary artifacts such as Umezawa's Jitte and the Kaldra equipments? and for that matter: lands such as Karakas are use-able in this format then as well? (albeit restricted to 1)


Karakas is banned, but the others are all OK.

 
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I love my LGS. I asked him months ago if he would be matching SCG's "Buy 4 Get 1" on the Commander precons, he agreed to. Fast forward to today with SCG sold out on sets at $200, he kept his deal and I picked up my five for $120.

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Is Chaos Warp only useful for hiding a commander or am I missing something? Price tag seems kinda high.
 
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quote:
Originally posted by edsillars:
Is Chaos Warp only useful for hiding a commander or am I missing something? Price tag seems kinda high.

That and it is red enchantment removal.

 
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Originally posted by edsillars:
Is Chaos Warp only useful for hiding a commander or am I missing something? Price tag seems kinda high.

its just way overhyped. they've started crashing on ebay already.

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I'm gonna write an essay. I'm so bored. For the love of god, someone respond ;-;

I don't have enough time to make all the decks i want. Or funds.

I wanna make Vaalia for the most brutal, cutthroat, overpowered multiplayer deck possible. Even if not seems like Lands+Vaalia+65 super Angel/Demon/Dragon cards would be fun.
I wish Vaalia was an Angel Demon even though it's kinda cheap/cliche feeling >.> Why does she demon and angel wings? I don't understand why she's a human, really.
BWR is one of my fav color combos for multiplayer, and in general i guess. I think as a whole BWR has got the best multiplayer cards.
Oh and totally not bragging, but i invented BWR as a hybrid of Angel/Demon/Fire (not dragons) as an idea of like a congregation of hell/heaven as one group bent on destroying whole planes mercilessly. I make a lot of my own cards...

Also Vish Kal, although i don't understand the art. It seems like he's wearing sunglasses... Maybe i haven't seen a large enough picture.
Lifelink is awesome and it's too easy to reanimate dead things anyway. Black/white is too cool, vampires are too cool. I might make this one for serious 1v1 play.

Also Damia, Sage of Stone. I wanna make it infect/poison counter creatures and as cutthroat as possible for 1v1. It's really got all the best stuff for control and graveyard recursion/reanimation and pump (mmmm Hatred sounds fun) and all the best infect/poison creatures. And probably just most in general.

Can't wait to put Skullbriar and Syphon Flesh in my upcoming zombies deck. Wish Syphon Flesh was all players... Then again i get the 'cycle' along with Soul and Mind.

Speaking of Zombies, i completed Thraximundar (err, for now, still working on getting more cards in there but it's deck now, at least.). But i also decided on and started gathering cards for a 5-color black sacrificey/reanimatey zombie-theme.
Each card is/will be black in some way, fitting the theme and color. So it's a black deck but i'm splashing white, green, red, and blue. Black combos with any color and is awesome. So i'll have cards like Grim Feast, Purgatory, Vindicate, Maelstrom Pulse, Undermine at my disposal. All fun and black feeling. Can't wait to throw in Savra and Necromancer's Covenant. All my lands will be multicolor but still black. Heh.
Just gotta pick a new general, but none of the 5 color ones fit a very black/zombie/reanimate/sacrifice theme.

Karona is the obvious choice. "False God"? Doesn't get much more evil/black sounding than that. Pumps my tribal deck, good chaotic multiplayer fun. I mean, really if i was worried about Her beating my face in later (isn't he a finisher?) i can sacrifice Her when i'm done.
I'm pretty sure it will be Karona. But,

Thinking Child of Alara might be alright. I get off on sacrificing my own stuff anyway so maybe it's intimidating. Not particularly fond of the energy baby thing it's got going on, but at least it's some sort of deity that has a black/destructive effect. Functionally and flavorfully acceptable enough. Keep it as a backup general for a laugh.

Yea i know Sliver queen would be awesome, she makes her own dudes to sacrifice. just one of those out of flavor things i am not into. EDH is fun for me, keeping to a theme is fun. Otherwise this would be an easy choice.
Speaking of which, i really wish that cards that are very obviously "blue" in some way weren't allowed in say a mono-red. To include fetchlands, particularly. Sure i can see a Misty Rainforest as being blue but that's also pretty distinctly green. that one in particular is probably ALOT mroe green than blue >.>
This is even includes to me things like Mikokoro. The "Center of the Sea" that does blue things like drawing cards doesn't really exist in the middle of the mountains. red decks don't ned any access to that. It's different with Jayemdae's Tome - it's a book that very clearly is an artifact, in that it's an object (not only as a color/functionality/type in MTG itself). Play Jayemdae's stupid tome in whatever.
The 'any color' things seem off but fine.
I know probably no one will agree and just bust my balls over the fact that lands are colorless but i don't care. If color identity was invented i can invent what i think it should mean for a casual creation. Otherwise why aren't we saying you can play hybrid cards in monocolor, or just play any 5 colors no matter who your general is. A land that fetches mountains doesn't come from a general who's colors are that of plains, islands, and forests. A land that can fetch red is still red in some way (which is even generally depicted in the name/art as well) and is obviously supposed to have the capability to provide red mana.
I guess fetches don't actually provide mana anyway, and you're to believe that the land is shifting into another. Suppose if you could draw mana from lands we are meant to believe that some volatile, in-between lands can be molded anew by our hands (us as planeswalkers)/our general's. Don't suppose if you had a land that could be anything but is nothing right now, you'd make it something that you can't use. Whatever. I'm picky and think their should be stricter ideas on the use of casual themes.

 
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I get off on sacrificing my own stuff

Sounds like a personal problem O.o

In other news, Riku is the tits with evoke creatures. Draw four off of mulldrifter for 5 mana? Turn Spitebellows into a Flametongue Kavu on steroids? Don't mind if I do!

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quote:
Originally posted by edsillars:
Is Chaos Warp only useful for hiding a commander or am I missing something? Price tag seems kinda high.

Impatient buyers.

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quote:
Originally posted by edsillars:
Is Chaos Warp only useful for hiding a commander or am I missing something? Price tag seems kinda high.

kill enchantments and planewalkers and well anything. Stone rain 5-8 (instant speed)

its got some uses.

 
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Originally posted by TimeBeing:
kill enchantments and planewalkers and well anything. Stone rain 5-8 (instant speed)

its got some uses.


My deck needs Chaos Warp really badly.

My Godo deck cannot beat Attrition or Aura Shards, etc...sad face.

 
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I played in the launch event, and I think the precons are really fun. Yesterday I played against someone whom I thought was playing a precon and got crushed. Congrats, dude. Your Defense of the Heart into Consecrated Sphinx and Vorinclex just beat a precon.

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quote:
Originally posted by JoshSherman:
I played in the launch event, and I think the precons are really fun. Yesterday I played against someone whom I thought was playing a precon and got crushed. Congrats, dude. Your Defense of the Heart into Consecrated Sphinx and Vorinclex just beat a precon.


I hate people like that. If it's too hard for you to shelve one of your overpowered EDH decks and pick up one that's closer to the power level of the people you're playing with, then you can save yourself the time and just outright go **** yourself instead of using the cards as a middleman to stroke your pathetic ego.

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quote:
Originally posted by Bugger:
I hate people like that. If it's too hard for you to shelve one of your overpowered EDH decks and pick up one that's closer to the power level of the people you're playing with, then you can save yourself the time and just outright go **** yourself instead of using the cards as a middleman to stroke your pathetic ego.


meh, the precons are terrible and meant to be torn apart. If you want to play w/ your hands tied behind your back, don't be surprised when you can't deal with real threats.

 

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