I'm looking into building a fun deck which "cheats" creatures into play.
I'm debating between Animar, Soul of Elements and Atla Palani, Nest Tender.
I'm not looking into building a CEDH deck, rather a fun consistent deck.
I admit leaning toward Animar, especially since I tend to like blue control; being able to drop a Glen Elendra Archmage for 1 blue seems very appealing. However reading about Animar, it seems that the main route people are taking with him is morph theme... For which I have no interest since I already have made a Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer deck, I'm also not sure I want to go the Eldrazi route; for the same reason, I build a "Eldrazi" theme deck around Saheeli, the Gifted. Cascade theme remains a interesting option, not sure how popular it is
On the other hand, the combo Atla Palani, Nest Tender + Mirror Entity seems fun to pull off... But it seems that the most common route for this deck is dinosaur tribe; and I unfortunately don't have many good dinos.
On the other hand, the combo Atla Palani, Nest Tender + Mirror Entity seems fun to pull off... But it seems that the most common route for this deck is dinosaur tribe; and I unfortunately don't have many good dinos.
Animar looks way more cutthroat and combo oriented
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How i feel about competitive players and casual players in EDH: The competitive are german tourists, the casual are italian tourists, both in a italian beach. The italians asking themselves "why are the germans here?" make a legitimate question, the answer is because the beach is beautiful, no matter the country you came from. The italians wanting to ban the germans are dumb, because if the germans pay for their stay and follow the rules like everyone else, they have the right to be in the beach. Hovewer, if the germans started to ask themselves "why are the italians here?"... they would be dumb as hell.
On the other hand, the combo Atla Palani, Nest Tender + Mirror Entity seems fun to pull off... But it seems that the most common route for this deck is dinosaur tribe; and I unfortunately don't have many good dinos.
Animar looks way more cutthroat and combo oriented
One of my main fear with Atla is that the deck would take a long time to build up; and be too depending on Atla to work.
That's the problem I faced with Kaalia of the Vast; granted, having green in the deck color will help with ramp and mana fixing.
But if I have too many high CMC cards in my hand it would result in a dead hand.
In that sense Animar feels, maybe more consistent as with a few counters on him you'll be able to drop the big fatties.
I'm debating between Animar, Soul of Elements and Atla Palani, Nest Tender.
I'm not looking into building a CEDH deck, rather a fun consistent deck.
I admit leaning toward Animar, especially since I tend to like blue control; being able to drop a Glen Elendra Archmage for 1 blue seems very appealing. However reading about Animar, it seems that the main route people are taking with him is morph theme... For which I have no interest since I already have made a Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer deck, I'm also not sure I want to go the Eldrazi route; for the same reason, I build a "Eldrazi" theme deck around Saheeli, the Gifted. Cascade theme remains a interesting option, not sure how popular it is
On the other hand, the combo Atla Palani, Nest Tender + Mirror Entity seems fun to pull off... But it seems that the most common route for this deck is dinosaur tribe; and I unfortunately don't have many good dinos.
Any advises/suggestions?
I don't know why you should limit yourself to dinosaurs. You can surely run the good ones like Zetalpa, Etali, apex altisaur and polyraptor, but you can also put in good angels like Avacyn, Gisela, angelic arbiter, dragons like balefire dragon, Atarka and nesting dragon, wurm like worldspine wurm, eldrazi and plenty of other creatures like stonehoof chieftain, craterhoof behemoth, siege behemoth, Elesh Norn, archetype of endurance and so on. You can just build the mother of all the battlecruiser aggro decks.
Animar looks way more cutthroat and combo oriented
One of my main fear with Atla is that the deck would take a long time to build up; and be too depending on Atla to work.
That's the problem I faced with Kaalia of the Vast; granted, having green in the deck color will help with ramp and mana fixing.
But if I have too many high CMC cards in my hand it would result in a dead hand.
In that sense Animar feels, maybe more consistent as with a few counters on him you'll be able to drop the big fatties.
Yeap... I think you're right. I'm gonna build an Atla deck.
I may later build on a Animar one but just for new players who want to try EDH coz as it can be fun for them to drop big threat fairly easily