Previous: >>98246881Dreaming Edition>Newshttps://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/commander-banned-and-restricted-february-9-2026https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/commander-brackets-beta-update-february-9-2026>Current Banlisthttps://magic.wizards.com/en/banned-restricted-list#commander-banned>Bracket Informationhttps://files.catbox.moe/4tbvzw.pnghttps://files.catbox.moe/r62yfy.png>Former Commander Website: Learn the basics, and read the format philosophy laid down by the rules committeehttps://mtgcommander.net>Card Searchhttps://scryfall.com>Card Statistics: See what everyone else puts in their Commander decks based on what is posted to the Internethttps://www.edhrec.com>Deck List Sites: You can search for decks that other people have made. Authors often have comments that explain their deck strategy and card choiceshttps://www.archidekt.comhttps://www.moxfield.com>Gay Bolashttps://files.catbox.moe/823tpq.png>Manabase Information: Find out what lands you can add to your deck, sorted by category, based on a chosen color identityhttps://managathering.com>Proxy Guidehttps://pastebin.com/9Xj1xLdM>Preconshttps://magicprecons.comTQ: Have you ever made or reviewed a custom card? How do you feel it turned out?
>>98251384You have a better chance of coming back from mana screw than you do flooding. Enjoy your 6 lands and a 6 mana spell. We'll see you on turn 7 or some shit.
>>98251407>flood three turns in a row, go up 3 mana and can cast a higher proportion of my possible draws>screw three turns in a row, the cards i can cast are the same as the last turn
>>98251395>Have you ever made or reviewed a custom card? How do you feel it turned out?I have over 200 custom cards. I am sure many do not have proper wording and are unbalanced and the like but I am not a game designer paid a salary for this nor do I have employees to playtest cards for me.
What's the platonic ideal of edh decks? I think it's Nekusar. Could be Thraximundar, though.
>>98251465toolbox hatebears
>>98251465Some 4 or 5 color midrange slop value pile
>>98251465>lich king is a wizard but not a noble despite being literal royaltyThey keep doing this and it's literally monarchy erasure. The antiroyalism must stop.
>>98251465Pshh... That is small time. May I introduce you to the big man on campus?
>>98251395>TQStill coping and hoping that wotc will give us a proper Hellbent commander someday
>>98251661this card is disgustingly overpowered
Thirty (30) starting life is objectively superior to fourty (40)
>>98251473Back in my day this was the go to commander for that.
>>98251686Is this more powerful than any card currently legal in commander?
>>98251686Being Hellbent is a huge risk when the format has tons of cheap removal and counterspells, I wanted him to have a powerful upside to compensate for that risk
>>98251717yeah several>>98251723pyroblast to fight the stack, if he survives the stack your yard is your hand and there's no risk involvedthe upside literally wins the game
>>98251723A lot of people criticize custom cards for being too strong while not realizing that is the average power of cards these days. If you design what /tg/ likes you'd be designing chaff that could never be viable. 8 mana commanders in Rakdos with no discount and shit like that.
>>98251752And also not realizing first drafts of cards made by WOTC ain't much better. That's why they have teams that test shit out.
>staple one of the most powerful effects in all magic history onto a card you can always castwhat could go wrong!
>>98251748>pyroblast to fight the stackYou held pyroblast? Then if they didnt counterspell you have a card just sitting in hand that is stopping you from being hellbent
>>98251793you can cast pyroblast on any permanent noob
>>98251339NTA but yes you're supposed to run a lot of draw in every deck.
>>98251809Name 10 sources of good unconditional mono white draw
>>98251473So any color as long as it's all removal, stax, and equipment for the commander? I like.
>>98251784Yeah even in b3 its quite problematic
>>98251784Dude it's not that good it's just a card that allows you to totally neglect any need for card draw in a color combo where one of the colors notoriously has a lack of good card draw as one of its largest weaknesses while also giving recursion to every card you played AND burning your opponents.This is genuinely why I feel angry when reviewing custom cards because the same people that make this shit turn around and evaluate other cards in Christmasland scenarios.
>>98251919the "attacks alone" stuff they keep printing is unironically very free. It's super easy to throw away a shitty token or just have your guy be unblockable
anybody got a high resolution image of the mcneill art of darkness or fog? can't find a playmat i actually like
>>98252147>utterly retarded rules text>random Shakespeare quoteMagic used to have so much soul
>>98251522He is a king, but his most important types are being a zombie and a wizard. It's why brimaz is a cat soldier
The thing I dislike the most about cedh is it has like 2 wincons. Maybe 3 or 4 on the edges.
>>98251919>unconditionalWhy? White is supposed to draw with conditions, just like every card outside of blue
>>98251661Imagine the value
>>98251919>average EDHfag when told common-sense deckbuilding fundamentals like "you should be running card draw in your deck"
>>98252263blame blue having highly effective board-removal
>>98252263Infinite Sacrificial Gobbo go brrrrrrrrrrr
>>98252292The average EDH player thinks card draw has to be Rhystic/TOR level because they want the other 97 cards to be random bombs and don't want to put any effort into supporting them.
>>98252328This is exactly my point. It's:>thoracle>breach>food chain>infinite mana kinnan or cradleJust seems so boring. Legacy has more variety for crying out loud.
>>98252328this is dogwater i just snipe food chain with squee on the stack
>>98252416cedh's problem isn't wincon variety but how best they can get to implementing poker rules without getting into legal issues
>>98252472I don't understand what you're implying
>>98252265Because if it has conditions then you can't name me any good white draw that is not dependent on specific deck strategies. You'll say>UH HOW ABOUT THIS (only triggers with mana value 3)Ok. I don't run tokens or aggro. Now what?
>>98252476>seat order matters just like in poker>cedh is so proxy friendly you could in theory show up with a 100% proxied deck (neglible cost), only pay the entry fee, and have a chance to win (or shall we say gamble for) big money that far outstrips your printer costs>there's a reason why poker can put you on the clock if you yap too much and drag things out, cedh doesn't do this or at least is very limp wristed about it>cedh doesn't punish playing for draws despite this causing tournament logistics issues, poker doesn't have this problem
>>98252337If your draw only works if my creature has power 2 or less then it isn't very good in my deck with only 5 possible hits. White has good draw for certain deck types. Most of it doesn't even function if you aren't building your deck a certain way. Tocasia's welcome, welcoming vampire, etc don't even function without other specific cards to trigger them. If you are not running those cards (because they do not fit the deck theme) then you don't have access to draw. You can just tell the person to shove that shit in but at that point it becomes>White weenie aggro has drawrather than>white has draw.White's draw is conditional on your deck being a specific type. Unlike black just requiring life (all decks have) or red using impulse effects. Whites draw does not generically fit in all white decks.
>>98252513>>cedh is so proxy friendly you could in theory show up with a 100% proxied deck (neglible cost), only pay the entry fee, and have a chance to win (or shall we say gamble for) big money that far outstrips your printer costsThis is good.
>>98252525>you can't just say white has draw because I refuse to build my deck in ways that take advantage of the draw engines in my color!This is a deckbuilding skill issue.
>>98252525>White only has draw for lifegain, voltron, enchantress, and weenieDamn guess my monowhite storm deck might want a storm color.
>>98252525What specific type of deck do you have to play to take advantage of robo nigga?
>>98252533>13+ gameif the nba, nhl, and others clamp down on gambling then wotc will not hesitate to send the pinkertons again
>>98252561Fuck the man
>>98252416Fuck you infinite mana Badger cast
>>98251395>TQI regularly make CaC. I have a folder for it I keep to myself because it's embarrassing.
>have fun playing with a few cool dudes who aren't broke af>they want to play higher power, 4s w/o cedh>turn 2>guy spends 20 minutes doing random bullshit, plays around 10 cards>lose turn 3>next game>other guy spends 20 minutes doing something on turn 2>has free multiple free counterspells>wins turn 3>have a total of around 8 turns? sub 5 minutes of play time>2 hours>for the most milk toast, boring, predictable edhrec slopthen the salt max. >pull out lyzoda bloodwitch deck, fuck it>turn 1, go first>chrome mox, blood crypt>faithless looting, discard world gorger, sire of insanity>dark ritual>voldaren epicure (1 damage to each opponent etb, make blood token)>animate dead world gorger>win
>>98252700woops, forgot to mention simian spirit guide
Why draw cards when you can stop your opponents from drawing instead?
>>98252561The pinkertons are not a police force and if I had been in that guys situation I would have very clearly informed them this is private property and I live in a castle doctrine state.
>>98252649No. Post one.
Yes I built an Yshtola deck.Yes my main win condition is Thoracle.Yes I include every free counterspell and removal in my deck.Yes I include all the tutors as well.Yes I include all the silence cards too.No I will not play a 'lower power' deck.No I will not play any other deck at all.You will sit here while I draw a million cards until I 'have it'.Shake my hand.
>>98252708>play spirit of the labyrinth>the Rhystic study guy still gets his one card per turn
>>98252749>loses to partnerslop smdh
why is this mid card 100 dollars
>>98252772If you don't answer it you die. You have to draw cards to find an answer.
>>98252775>implying i cant just tutor my swords/wrath or simply already have it in hand
>>98251407>turn 7, stuck at 3 mana>turn 8, get a mana, I can now cast one of the 7 cards in my handvs>turn 7, 7 mana>turn 8, I can cast the card I drew, and can cast my commander again
>>98252775I have never seen this drop and not get answered immediately.And I play it.
>>98251395I used to be a regular in the custom card general, so yes. I madr lots, but I think my take on the missing original elder dragons turned out best.
>>98251661>flying>nonfunctional ability because it won't let you discard>nonfunctional ability because spells don't exist in your graveyard and you can't cast lands>6/66/6 flying for 6 is alright, though I'd probably put it in common.
>>98252772sheoldred is the entire worth of dominaria united
>>98252772Cause it's a clock, it lives most burn removal, it has deathtouch so it'a a great blocker, and it gives you life buffer, all for 4 mana. This could have been a 6 drop and no one would play it outside of nekusar, and maybe ai could ha e afforded it then.God I love that art so much.
Rules Question:I have Currency Converter in play and discard a card. Can my oponent exile it in response with Scavenging Ooze or Unlicensed Hearse when the card hits the graveyard?
>>98252865Yes, Converter creates a trigger that can be responded to.
>>98252873I discard a card and I choose to exile it when the triggers ask me to. My opponent responds with scooze.What happens?Do I get fucked despite choosing to exile it or does it go into exile under the CC?
>>98252877Yes, the trigger goes on the stack and you choose the target as it does. Then each player has a chance to respond. You opponent responds with scooze and exiles the card. The triggered abilitiy then resolves with no "target".
>>98252877You have the order a little wrong.You discard a card.A trigger goes on the stack asking if you want to exile the card from your graveyard.Here is where an opponent can respond on top of that trigger and exile it.Then the trigger resolves and you have the option to exile the card with CC if the card is still in your graveyard. If it's been exiled by something else the CC does nothing.>>98252898Mostly accurate, but the converter doesn't target at any point.
>>98252906Yes, that'a why I put target in quotes and said it resolves instead of fizzling.
>>98252772I will always proxy this shit. I am not paying three digits for that.
>>98251465https://archidekt.com/decks/16017147/peak_edhThis list right here.
>>98252980>"peak edh">not an headed by an Elder Dragon
>>98252984Am I based if picrel is my commander? I do use infinites
>>98253023John cena is your commander?
>>98253025Yes
>>98251465What do you mean by “platonic ideal “. Thraximundar is vicious if played in a fast, well crafted deck. Oppressive if piloted properly (ie not le zombie swarm retardation but pushing into the forced sac trigger)
Stop making 3+ color slop piles.
>>98253031>seven mana in grixis>fast
>>98253039Black and red are the ritual colors.
>>98253037>stop making decks with good cards in it?
>>98253037This. Make mono color slop piles.
>>98253037*stop making slop piles
Mark needs a swift kick in the nuts every week until he prints a good monowhite commander
>>98253047But that would be racist.
>>98251395>Have you ever made or reviewed a custom card? How do you feel it turned out?I made this for a friend's birthday. He likes it.
Should I get a yawgmoth's will? or should I use that $220 for like 4 $50ish cards? I have a deck that's powerful enough to properly utilize it I'm just kinda worried it's now or never cause it's reserved list bullshit.
>>98252700Competitive/high power formats are solved games and boring as fuck. You're just autopiloting lines. Unironically comboless bracket 2 is the biggest brain bracket in the game.
>>98251919Just have a better deck than them and it's free real estate
>5 mana + this land>6 mana total to draw *one* cardAm I missing something or is this completely shit??
>>98253144Colorless and conditionless Ascend on a land drop was good for the block/mechanic
>>98253146>good for the block/mechanicAh yeah I'm so goddamned bad at remembering these things
>>98253025One day we'll have the WWE crossover slop and I can slot my nigga Andre the Giant into a command role
>Had to skip commander night last week due to sleep issues>Don't go this week cause none of the pod can make itI miss playing
>>98253037I'd love to but they refuse to make good 2 color commanders
>>98253047>monowhite angel that makes angel tokensIt's a pipe dream but I still hope.
>tfw no Jund earthbending commander1/3 of the earthbending cards have black but the commanders are only gruul/naya
>>98252835>spells don't exist in your graveyardguh?>and you can't cast landshe wrote "play lands"
>>98252835This card literally mentions "permanent spells" in your graveyard though?
>>98253209Notice how you changed a word.
>>98253186A cruel state of affairs.
>>98253228there are cards that say "cast spells from your graveyard"yes they are cards and not spells when in your graveyard but the same is true of your hand, you can still cast spells from your hand right even yawgwill's oracle text says "you may play lands and cast spells from your graveyard." cmon buddy
>>98253238I didn't read the entire chain. He's right that spells don't exist in the graveyard but wrong that the ability doesn't work as written.
>>98253168Already exists. Is it good? ehhhh, but it does exist
>>98253168You mean like this monowhite angel that makes angel tokens?
>>98253259>>98253250linvalamind
>>98253259>tokensIt makes an angel token
>>98253198Cards exist in graveyards, not spells, but the game's retarded so apparently there is actually precedent for this wording.He didn't write "plsy lands and cast spells" he wrote "cast spells and lands".
>>98253209That is apparently the wording, despite them being cards in graveyards, only existing as spells on the stack. Very dumb.
How does this work with other flip marvel cards? Can I cast either side for the websling cost or only the front?
>>98253577Either side for the newer double face cards that can be cast on either side.
>2026>still no esper spirit commander
>>98253122For whatever reason, this is completely lost on them. The guy legitimately played one land (didn’t even get to do anything) and the ashling player just looted with mana vault, treasonous ogre and rituals until he hit a spell copy infinite with stormkiln and titan drew his deck with shocks - then goes ‘wow man, you really did good’ As if there’s anything difficult or novel about regurgitating the same staples on edhrec slop for 2 card infinitesI actually have a scenario I might quit my job over. That I told him. My company gets 5million a month in time and materials for a 2 year project. They put me, their best engineer on the project. I tell them this project is boring, and the customer has agreed to give me 8xh100 and glasswing. Before I press the button to turn an 24 month effort into 2 weeks, my bosses stop me and say ‘we need this to go on longer’The guys reply? Well, more money is good! But I don’t have an incentive, or desire, to do droll things for a year+
>>98252727Normally I don't give these art but if I'm going to post it I might as well make an MSPaint scribble.It's an effect that I find interesting mechanically. Obviously this prints out a body each turn to sac and block with but the main body is also able to be a blocker/attacker that works seperately or together.You could make it legendary but this effect feels cooler in the 99.
>>98253811>drollthat word does not mean what you think it means
>>98253871You are right to push back on this - when I said droll, I actually meant boring as can be. I had 4 hours of sleep and I had back to back piss off discussions and had to wake up at 5 am with little notification, so I’m equal parts angry and tired
>>98252980People who build big timmy decks like this and then don't include Oath of Druids are cowards and dogmen.
>>98253122>you're just autopiloting linesyes, and I love it
>>98253250>>98253259If it aint shroofus tier it's garbage.But come on, it's 2026. Putting Resplendent Angel in the command zone is not going to be game breaking in the slightest.
>>98253871This response is droll.
>>98254204>have my rag/knowledge graph eat scryfall>feed it 200 top cedh decks >feed it combo lines like pic rel>play online on tabletop sim and let it watch>won 3 games in a row by letting it make all decisionsI need to make it work IRL so I can just watch tv or something while it beats them
>go against a guy with 13 board wipes>he told me last night he added another to the deckNot sure if I'm disgusted or impressed
>>98254526Anon faces a basic control deck
>>9825452613 boardwipes is crazy. Does he not want the game to end?
How many of you are running him? When he got leaked the general was raving so much about him!
>>98253122This is why I stopped playing yugioh! I realized I had gotten to the spreadsheet stage of having my combos at the ready. No cooking anymore, I just needed to find the line. Exactly why I park my decks at bracket 3.
>>98254766>Find Rhystic Study/TOR: The bracket>BrewingThis is more like YGO's worst eras where every line led to Utopic Zexal or Shock Master
>>98254526I scoop at instant speed
>>98254526yeah, fuck you sitting behind your value engines
>>98254745It's a good card but I own 3 decks and none of them are interested in this effect.
>>98254526I run zero removal unless it's stapled to a high power creature. Eventually the table will run out of wipes. I won't run out of creatures.
>>98254936Lemme guess, rakdos, jund, and grixis!
>>98254526cool deckanyways, I spellsling and combo offresponse?
>>98254986Its Izzet goad and Jeskai dragons, soon to add Naya dragons.
>>98253151fuck it sure
>>98254204>not playing the best grixis deckLol
>>98255379Bracket 3?
>>98255379>Playing two commandersNah that's gay
>>98255482Very true, the format is called commander, not commanders.
>>98255490post your Elder Dragon
>>98255379 Partner commanders are so boring and soulless.
>>98255522I do not have one because I play commander. Elder Dragon Highlander was Sheldon's format. I do not play it.
>>98255356Dimes
>>98255529I'm OK with "you can be partners with X" for fluff or synergy but just flat partner isn't as cool
>>98255356I hope you say kwab when you use the ability on other peoples commanders.
>>98254989Have some birds.
>>98255744I always have it.
>>98255803Why did you post a picture of your weird bald uncle?
Im going to do it
>>98255819I can't stop you but I can warn you that actually playing the deck was never anywhere near as fun for me as building it was.
>>98255826Mairsil was just pretending to be a good deck so technically didnt lie to you
How is he the ONLY commander without W in their colours? That's crazy.
>>98255529>>98255482>>98255490>>98255557Reminder that a troon in wotc r&d designed partner
>>98255857Every 4c combo has only 1-2 options except for WURG which gets a shit ton of UB commanders.
>>98255847Marsil was pretending to be an entire deck.
>>98255858You're sure you're not thinking of gift?
>>98255857Glint-eye is inherently the most not-white design because every other color can draw cards.
Dear diary,Today was mail day.t. Proxy Chad
>>98255857there are some cool partner combos like pic related
Do you think there's any hope of a creature some day that enhances Fateful Hour? It's such a cool thematic mechanic full of flavor but damn if it isn't actually kind of useless
>>98255356
>>98255896If you're putting "not for sale" on them why not just print the original card design? This is awful.
>>98255379You are really obsessed with this deck I am positive you don't play.
>>98255978Because the custom art is much more appealing to me, and the NOT FOR SALE and PROXY things are the difference between getting them legally printed or not. The original card design is steaming shit for a lot of cards IMO. Rotting Regisaur is a great example. But ones like that Valgavoth and those Liliana cards are just frame changes basically.
>>98255976>2024Lame
>>98255993>the official art of rotting regisaur sucks>i prefer my art of rotting regisaur that isnt even rottingLol
>>98255976HH
>>98256094Let's be honest: You're just mad he is using proxies.
>>98255993How mind rotted do you have to be to think this looks bad?
proxyfags really think normal people care or think about them? truly the vegans of card games.
buyfags really think normal people care or think about them? truly the vegans of card games.
>>98256133>yeah just spam like two extra bones out of the elbow and four out of the shoulder fuck it>also give him some bigass cow horns>also add some neon purple so it looks cartoony rather than real
>>98255993wow im glad i dont have terrible taste like you
>>98256102I'm mad he didnt uae an anime girl
>>98256166>also add some neon purple so it looks cartoony rather than realWhat???????????? The zombie dinosaur doesn't look completely realistic???????? The non-rotting dinosaur looks MUCH more like a zombie dinosaur, so true queen.
>>98256166>see sick ass zombie dinosaur>"well, um, actually if you look at the bone structure...."What a fucking retard lmao
>>98256166Anons really getting worked up because you said you didn't like the art.
Did you misread the card name or something? What the hell even is this? Literally my mom's t-rex?
This is why you never take proxytards seriously
>proxy debate episodeBOOOOO! This rerun sucks
>>98256317Well what do you want to talk about then?
>>98256330Is coffee good for you?
>>98256330My new commander
I love Final Fantasy and want to build a deck that benefits off opponent's stuff dying, using stuff like Slaughter Specialist, Vincent Valentine, Scavenger Drake, Sadistic Glee etc Should I build Zodiark or Sephiroth?
>>98256367I would recommend Vincent 2bh. He's surprisingly strong.
>>98256352I get that 10 colorless is cheap but couldn't they have given this nigga haste.10 mana for shiny meteor golem is a little whack.
>>98256367Sephiroth if you want to be the target at every table you play him at
>>98256343Coffee > Tea
>>98256317Nobody is debating proxies you retard
>>98256367>one-winged angel>at least 4 wings shown on the imageI knew UB slop was shit but damn
>>98256424>>98256292
>>98256367>SephirothExtremely unfun to play against commander. People will target you hard.
>>98256488You are the first person to reply to that post
>>98256522>2026This is very 2016 coded
>>98256522>>98256525Yeah no way this is actually from 2026
>>98256533The only real indicator it is recent is that it is using that "give names to ability" shit which didn't really pick up a lot until UB.
>>98256367Sephiroth is strong, boring, and will get you archenemy'dZodiark is hard to make work for half a board wipeSecond what other anon said, Vincent is strong, and annoying to deal with
>>98256522>This can only trigger any time you could activate a sorceryThis means literally every triggered ability in the game doesn't work because 99% of the time they queue for the stack in the middle of a spell/ability resolving, or a phase change. This includes etbs. At that point just say abilities don't trigger.
>>98255976BAH GAWD JR HE JUST DELIVERED THE FINISHING BLOW TO SARGENT SLAUGHTER
>>98255529Partner with is much better.
>>98255819I made a whole deck around him becoming an unstopable sword, only to realise that in order for a permanent to be attached to another permanent, it needs a subtype (aura or equipment) that can be attached. Very, very saddened.
>>98256704Is there a particular reason this says "target player" instead of just "you" ?
>>98256732Was made for 2HG, so this way you can have your teammate draw/gain if you need.
>>98256765>>98256732You COULD kill someone with it.>t. had that deck for yearsEvery now and then you'd have 30 1/1's with no good attacks for whatever reason (prison effects) but you could still sac them to kill an opponent.
>>98256765>>98256790I was actually referring specifically to the "partner with" rules text rather than the ability, which I did not made adequately clear. It does make slightly more sense in 2HG though.
>how it feels going green retard stompy, having enough mana to pay taxes for my single dinosaur guy and smash the skull of a Stax nigger flat to become the pod's hero for a turnMmm, next time draw your fag single target removalBitch
>>98255857
>>98256845>opponent tries to talk shit>hit him for 40+ damage through his blockers to one-shot him>die immediately after
SOVL RING
>>98256919I look like this
>>98256919Speaking of Miku, I find it funny how apparently the new Miku SLD deck doesn't have a unique command tower or sol ring. They could have at least reprinted the older ones.
>>98256803Thanks for making me feel like a jackass
Tell me about the spaghetti man. What's the advantage of running him instead of Zhulodok?
>>98257014Access to colored spells and copying spells rather than cheating them. It's pretty clear.
>>98257003You're... welcome? You did answer the question that was actually asked, though. Which makes you technically correct, the best kind of correct.
what are your high interaction decks /edhg/? i just build a simic slop deck because it was an archetype i was missing, and i think to round things out in my collection i also need something that is less focused on engine building and more focused on interacting with all players on the table. no counterspell tribal.
>>98255896These look better here
>>98257153Does this count
>>98257153Esper Second Doctor/VislorPretty much anything in the deck not based off forcing card draw and punishing it, is a counterspell, removal, or boardwipe
>>98257153I have a boardwipe control burn deckDoes that count?
>>98257159No Y'shtola slopp doesn't count
>>98257186Please be as specific as possible.
>>98257186Don't be rude to my wife.
>>98257159Holy pile
>>98257153define interaction.
>night's blessedSo does that mean she's a mudshark?
