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Gorag, Gruul Bloodmage 1(G/R)(G/R)(G/R)
Legendary Creature - Ogre Shaman t pay X life, add X mana to your mana pool. You may not use this mana for spells or abilities with X in it's mana cost. You may not pay more than 10 life at a time for this ability.
2/2
Got beaten to the punch by LnGrrrR so here's a "UB commander that's purely defensive"
Elian, Guardian of the Vault 5(U/B)(U/B)(U/B)
Legendary Artifact Creature - Construct
Defender
Players may not search their libraries.
Spells and abilities can only be played at the time a sorcery could be played.
Other creatures you control gain +0/+3
Creatures cannot attack you unless their control pays x where X is the number of defenders you control.
Bottled Sunlight 5
Artifact
Sunburst (This enters the battlefield with a charge counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.)
~ enters the battlefield tapped t add 1 mana of any color to your mana pool for each charge counter on ~
Memnarch, Guardian of Argentum 7
Legendary Artifact Creature - Wizard U: put a 1/1 Myr artifact creature token onto the battlefield 2UU: Gain control of target artifact who's converted mana cost is equal to or less than the number of artifacts you control.
4/4 In the beginning the Mirari granted power. That power was given form by Karn and watched over Argentum as the being known as Memnarch. The masterpiece of Karn however was not untouched by the glistening oil.
I have the feeling you don't fully understand the history of Memnarch.
Next: Braids colorshifted into either green, red, or white.
I like this deck, only thing is it needs more bombs. What are the current win conditions of this deck? Ravager can swing for the win and yeah Karn can animate all your artifacts but what if he gets tucked with spell crumple or hinder? The Batterskull and Platinum Angel should find a home in here. Wurmcoil Engine, Blightsteel Colossus and Darksteel Colossus, Platinum Emperion, Sundering Titan, and Darksteel Juggernaut are all nice beefy creatures for this deck. The Eldrazi would also fit into this deck especially since Eye of Ugin can search out any of your creatures. Darksteel Juggernaut can just get ridiculously huge in this deck. Indestructible and is an X/X who's power and toughness are equal to the number of artifacts you control? Yeah it has to attack each turn but it will be huge and can only be killed with -1/-1 counters or exiling!
I've been playing EDH for about 2 years and magic for about 3. I currently have 2 EDH's my Karador and Szadek decks but both of those are casual so I've been trying to build a deck that I can bring out when everyone brings their serious decks to the table. I went with Stax as I've been dying to build a trollish deck Sharuum was chose as my commander due to Esper colors and artifact recursion.
Whenever I try and use the Wrap Deck Tags it always goes wonky.
Any advice is welcomed. I do however have a budget, I'm unwilling to spend over $20 on a card which is why I'm not using premium duals or search lands and I don't see much point in running the shocks without the search lands. Currently I'm still building this deck so I haven't really had an opportunity to play test it.
Change Log: Reordered by type rather than purpose
-Treasure Mage (Realized I was only running 1 card it can tutor)
-Land Tax (No Basic Lands, really stupid on my part)
-Collective Restraint (No Basic Lands, again really stupid, initially misread the card)
+Plains (didn't have any for Flagstones, yeah...made some really stupid mistakes when building this)
+Sejiri Refuge (Needed more white sources)
+Azorius Keyrune (Needed more white sources)
Guardian of the Libary 1UU
Artifact Creature- Construct
Defender
If a card would be shuffled into its owner's library, instead add it to their hand.
0/3 This is no time to be looking through tomes, your master has informed me that he needs your assistance immediately.
Time Denial 2WU
Enchantment
Instants and spells with Flash may only be cast at sorcery speed.
When Time Denial Enters the battlefield each player skips their next untap step.
Elian, Captain of the Guard 3WW
Legendary Creature - Human Soldier
Defender
Other Creatures you control with defender gain +0/+3
Creatures you control with Defender may block any number of creatures
Creatures you control with Defender gain (2/W)(2/W)t destroy target blocked creature
1/6
Next: A Weird (the creature type) general. Can be tribal but not necessary.
The Man in Black 1WB
Legendary Creature - Human (W/B)t tap target creature, it does not untap during it's controller's next untap step. If B was spent on this ability lose 1 life and draw a card. If W was spent on this ability gain 1 life and target opponent draws a card.
2/2 I hurt myself today/To see if I still feel/I focus on the pain/The only thing that's real
It was just taking so long for someone to actually make a commander.
Next: A commander for a Stax deck, who does not force sacrificing of permanents, increase the cost of spells/abilities, or tap permanents down/prevent their untaping.
4 player game. Doesnt really matter who has what. Riku of Two Reflections player has an enormous amount of mana. Casts Knowledge Exploitation and copies it. Takes a Time Warp and Time Stretch from other player's deck. Copies both of them. 6 extra turns total. Everyone scoops.
1v1 Norin vs Asuza. Asuza just dropped in Avenger of Zendikar with about 11 lands and played another 2 because of Asuza. Top deck Insurrection
False Promise 1UB
Enchantment
Cumulative Upkeep 0
As long as the owner of ~ controls it, creatures they control gain +0/+2 and cannot attack.
When a player other than the owner of ~ controls it, sacrifice ~. ~ Deals damage to each creature its control owns equal to the number of age counters on it.
Tome Thief 2UU
Creature- Merfolk Rogue
Whenever a player would draw a card outside of their draw step, they instead put that many cards from the top of their library into their graveyard.
When ~ deals combat damage to a player, exile target card in their graveyard. You may play nonland cards exiled with ~
2/2
(unless you cast the previous spell during your draw step you mill as well)
my bet is either mother or runes or control magic. While Wizards say they don't care about the secondary market price of cards there is no way they would be printing FoW in this FTV. I dont think they are going to print any card whose value is over $10 or $15 if the MSRB is $30. My guess is that its going to be a bunch of cards that mostly see play in casual formats like EDH and Cube, especially in Cube.
Gorag, Gruul Bloodmage 1(G/R)(G/R)(G/R)
Legendary Creature - Ogre Shaman
t pay X life, add X mana to your mana pool. You may not use this mana for spells or abilities with X in it's mana cost. You may not pay more than 10 life at a time for this ability.
2/2
Got beaten to the punch by LnGrrrR so here's a "UB commander that's purely defensive"
Elian, Guardian of the Vault 5(U/B)(U/B)(U/B)
Legendary Artifact Creature - Construct
Defender
Players may not search their libraries.
Spells and abilities can only be played at the time a sorcery could be played.
Other creatures you control gain +0/+3
Creatures cannot attack you unless their control pays x where X is the number of defenders you control.
0/8
Defensive enough?
Next: Ugin before she received her spark
Artifact
Sunburst (This enters the battlefield with a charge counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.)
~ enters the battlefield tapped
t add 1 mana of any color to your mana pool for each charge counter on ~
Legendary Artifact Creature - Wizard
U: put a 1/1 Myr artifact creature token onto the battlefield
2UU: Gain control of target artifact who's converted mana cost is equal to or less than the number of artifacts you control.
4/4
In the beginning the Mirari granted power. That power was given form by Karn and watched over Argentum as the being known as Memnarch. The masterpiece of Karn however was not untouched by the glistening oil.
I have the feeling you don't fully understand the history of Memnarch.
Next: Braids colorshifted into either green, red, or white.
Commander
Sharuum the Hegemon
Creature (10)
Artifact (23)
Enchantment (15)
Instant (8)
Sorcery (2)
Planeswalker (3)
Land (32)
Whenever I try and use the Wrap Deck Tags it always goes wonky.
Any advice is welcomed. I do however have a budget, I'm unwilling to spend over $20 on a card which is why I'm not using premium duals or search lands and I don't see much point in running the shocks without the search lands. Currently I'm still building this deck so I haven't really had an opportunity to play test it.
Change Log: Reordered by type rather than purpose
-Treasure Mage (Realized I was only running 1 card it can tutor)
-Land Tax (No Basic Lands, really stupid on my part)
-Collective Restraint (No Basic Lands, again really stupid, initially misread the card)
+Plains (didn't have any for Flagstones, yeah...made some really stupid mistakes when building this)
+Sejiri Refuge (Needed more white sources)
+Azorius Keyrune (Needed more white sources)
Artifact Creature- Construct
Defender
If a card would be shuffled into its owner's library, instead add it to their hand.
0/3
This is no time to be looking through tomes, your master has informed me that he needs your assistance immediately.
Enchantment
Instants and spells with Flash may only be cast at sorcery speed.
When Time Denial Enters the battlefield each player skips their next untap step.
Artifact
Spells and Abilities cost an additional 2
t add 2 to your mana pool, use this mana only on artifact spells
Legendary Creature - Human Soldier
Defender
Other Creatures you control with defender gain +0/+3
Creatures you control with Defender may block any number of creatures
Creatures you control with Defender gain (2/W)(2/W)t destroy target blocked creature
1/6
Next: A Weird (the creature type) general. Can be tribal but not necessary.
Legendary Creature - Human
(W/B)t tap target creature, it does not untap during it's controller's next untap step. If B was spent on this ability lose 1 life and draw a card. If W was spent on this ability gain 1 life and target opponent draws a card.
2/2
I hurt myself today/To see if I still feel/I focus on the pain/The only thing that's real
It was just taking so long for someone to actually make a commander.
Next: A commander for a Stax deck, who does not force sacrificing of permanents, increase the cost of spells/abilities, or tap permanents down/prevent their untaping.
1v1 Norin vs Asuza. Asuza just dropped in Avenger of Zendikar with about 11 lands and played another 2 because of Asuza. Top deck Insurrection
Enchantment
Cumulative Upkeep 0
As long as the owner of ~ controls it, creatures they control gain +0/+2 and cannot attack.
When a player other than the owner of ~ controls it, sacrifice ~. ~ Deals damage to each creature its control owns equal to the number of age counters on it.
Creature- Merfolk Rogue
Whenever a player would draw a card outside of their draw step, they instead put that many cards from the top of their library into their graveyard.
When ~ deals combat damage to a player, exile target card in their graveyard. You may play nonland cards exiled with ~
2/2
(unless you cast the previous spell during your draw step you mill as well)