Alright gang! I'm going to do something I never ever do around these parts, and ask for some help.
My local store is doing a "random commander" night. It consisted of pulling a commander from a box, and then building a deck around it. I love the idea of the event and would really like to participate. Unfortunately I pulled kazarov, sengir pureblood and I'm having a lot of trouble actually getting the deck to DO anything.
There are a lot of things working against this one. His cost is very high, he's in colors that can't interact with enchantments, he has no built in way to protect himself, and he's very dependent on my opponents actually having creatures. Edhrec doesn't have much of an offering for ideas, and he's in no way a popular commander.
A few of the ideas I was kicking around were:
aether flash - it nails every creature that etb's, stops some combos, and does what the deck wants to do. i could potentially mix in repercussion or death pits of rath. this all feels really kind of... cute, and not very competitive.
I have real difficulty building decks that arent oriented around the commander, where youve chosen it just for the colors. This guy is just. So. Bad.
ill poat aomething a bit later and see how it tests but i have zero hope that itll be fun, or competitive
My local store is doing a "random commander" night. It consisted of pulling a commander from a box, and then building a deck around it. I love the idea of the event and would really like to participate. Unfortunately I pulled kazarov, sengir pureblood and I'm having a lot of trouble actually getting the deck to DO anything.
There are a lot of things working against this one. His cost is very high, he's in colors that can't interact with enchantments, he has no built in way to protect himself, and he's very dependent on my opponents actually having creatures. Edhrec doesn't have much of an offering for ideas, and he's in no way a popular commander.
A few of the ideas I was kicking around were:
aether flash - it nails every creature that etb's, stops some combos, and does what the deck wants to do. i could potentially mix in repercussion or death pits of rath. this all feels really kind of... cute, and not very competitive.
I could also load up on things like volcanic fallout or crypt rats. subterranean spirit also falls into this grouping.
If I go the constant damage/board wipes route it should be fairly easy to give him haste though things like boots and anger
...but... honestly this card just sucks. i really don't see how it can compete in environments where someone pulled verdeloth the ancient and ayli eternal pilgrim
throw some ideas at me, prove me wrong, because at it stands I'll most likely be skipping this event as it'll be a waste of my money.