commandzone

[commandzone]

Asking because I overheard a physical therapist say that she uses this question to see if she wants a second date with a guy, and if he says more than like 4 eggs at once it's a red flag.

[commandzone]

I bought a box :)

only uncommons, rares and foils listed

pack 1

judge magister gabranth

delivery moogle

opera love song

pupu ufo

genji glove

FOIL torgal a fine houndb

pack 2

eden seat of the sanctum

locke cole

barret wallace

sidequest: hunt the mark

knights of the round

art series card: yuna

FOIL battle menu

pack 3

tifas limit break

tonberry

zidane tantalus thief

ultimecia time sorceress

clive ifrits dominant

FOIL stuck in summoners sanctum

art card: hades sorcerer of eld

pack 4

ALT ART endwalker

ether

choco-comet

diamond weapon

astrologians planisphere

dion bahamuts dominant

FOIL iron giant

full art mountain

pack 5

ALT ART vaan aspiring sky pirate

reach the horizon

reno and rude

fire magic

choco seeker of paradise'

FOIL loporrit scout

full art forest

pack 6

ALT ART memories of nibelheim

snow villiers

rydia summoners of mist

eject

the wind crystal

FOIL Jenova Ancient Calamity

full art island

pack 7

the final days

choco-comet

adelbert steiner

ALT ART omega heartless evolution

starting town

FOIL item shopkeeper

FOIL insomnia crown city

art card: sages nouliths

pack 8

ALT ART crystal of alter cave

summon anima

graha tia

omega heartless evolution

sidequest catch a fish

zanarkand ancient metropolis

FOIL light of judgement

pack 9

sorceresses schemes

sleep magic

cactuar

garnet princess of alexandria

lindblum industrial regency

FOIL namazu trader

art card: cloud ex soldier

pack 10

fire magic

gaius van baelsar

snow villiers

alt art: summon choco/mog

gilgamesh master at arms

FOIL valkyrie aerial unit

full art swamp

art card: zidane tantalus theif

pack 11

ALT ART: vanadiel adventurers

black waltz no 3

the prime vista

evil reawakened

zodiark umbral god

FOIL garnet princess of alexandria

pack 12

reach the horizon

eject

rydia summoner of the mist

triple triad

balamb garden seed academy

FOIL blazing bomb

pack 13

ALT ART: thrum of the vestige

summon primal garuda

circle of power

ignis scientia

ultimecia time sorcreess

FULL ART balam garden seed academy

FOIL garland knight of cornelia

pack 14

phoenix down

realm sketching

reno and rude

fang fearless lcie

sin spiras punishment

FOIL choco-comet

full art mountain

pack 15

ALT ART princess sarah

summon esper ramuh

zack fair

clash of the eikons

summon primal odin

FOIL rydia return

FOIL sharlyana nation of scholars

pack 16

demon wall

ignis scientia

sandworm

kain traitorous dragoon

serah farron

FOIL quina qu gourmet

art card shadow mysterious assassin

pack 17

cargo ship

gaius van baelsar

ride the shoopuf

dark confidant

kuja genome sorcerer

FOIL mysidian elder

pack 18

ALT ART search for the frozen esper

relentless xatm092

samurais katana

restoration magic

sidequest: raise a chocobo

ALT ART: a realm reborn

FOIL tidus blitzball star

full art waste

pack 19

zack fair

summon esper ramuh

elixir

clash of eikons

ninjas blades

FOIL ultimecia time sorceress

art card: esper ramuh

pack 20

ALT ART: zidane tribal

rinoa heartilly

queen brahne

the gold saucer

sidequest card collection

the regalia

FOIL fight on

art card: braskas final aeon

pack 21

dragoons lance

coliseum behemoth

giott king of the dwarves

crysal fragments

a realm reborn

FOIL combat tutorial

full art plains

pack 22

elixir

random encounter

magitek armor

summon gf cerberus

Vivi ornitier >:3

FOIL sabotender

full art mountain

pack 23

self destruct

ride the shoopuf

adelbert steiner

cargo ship

the fire crystal

FOIL tonberry

FOIL gongaga reactor town

pack 24

torgal a fine hound

ambroisa whiteheart

the final days

the emperor of palamacia

bartz and boko

FOIL Kuja genome sorcerer

full art swamp

pack 25

tidus blitzball star

phantom train

ring of the lucii

crystal fragments

sazh katzroy

FOIL call the mountain chocobo

FOIL full art mountain

pack 26

ALT ART shadowbringers

cloud of darkness

stolen uniform

rydia return

ALT ART seifer almasy

FOIL resentful revelation

full art island

pack 27

ALT ART barnabas tharmr

poison the waters

coral sword

swallowed by leviathan

Squall seed mercenary

ALT ART summon titan

FOIL sahagin

FOIL full art island

art card: signed ruinous ultimatum

pack 28

magitek armor

random encounter

valkyrie aerial unit

lion heart

jecht reluctant guardian

FOIL the final days

full art plains

pack 29

self destruct

phoenix down

relm sketching

garland knight of cornelia

summon titan

FOIL ice magic

pack 30

summon primal garuda

diamond weapon

ether

exdeath void warlock

excalibur 2

FOIL summon primal garuda

art card: sephiroth fabled soldier

[commandzone]

Do you know how excited i am about the MTG x FF crossover?

That a decade long break might be broken because i feel like making a commander deck. It didnt even used to be called commander when i played, it was just EDH! Crazy!

These are some of the cards I'm the absolute MOST excited to play with in rough order of how much i like them. I REALLY love terra magical adept, and the only reason she *isnt* a snap choice for me, is because 5 color commanders are overwhelming in their options and its more fun to limit your card choice to a couple of colors.

and man the art with the number and a solid color are just so good to me, i think they look great each time. Is anyone else excited for MTG x FF?

[commandzone]

Okay so when I'm thinking about how to make a deck, I think what direction the deck is going to take because of the commander, and launch full into ideas.  

Tarland makes tokens from instants and sorceries.  He's a terrible voltron commander, and he's in monoblue.  Basically hes a reactive grindy token deck.  However he's also a merfolk wizard, so those things have to be kept in the back of your mind as well.

Okay so the first thing monoblue does well is counter, and draw cards.  Let's get some counterspells first

Abjure

Counterlash

Cryptic Command

Desertion

Dissipate

Faerie Trickery

Hinder

Last Word

Spell Crumple

Trickbind

Declaration of Naught

Okay and a few card draw.  Not too much though, we just need enough to find good stuff

Blue Sun's Zenith

Flow of Ideas

Foresee

Mind Spring

Coastal Piracy

Recurring Insight

Deep Analysis

Inaction Injuction

Okay our main win condition is swarming with little drakes, so whats some ways to make them better.

Day of the Dragons

Favorable Winds

Gravitational Shift

Sunken City

Grand Architect

And the fact that we're using lots of instant and sorceries meanssss we get to use cool things

Cognivore

Runechanter's Pike

Echo Mage

Panoptic Mirror

Sphinx-bone Wand

Spellbinder

And lets face it, if we can't use the drakes, we need some big old blue beaters, or good ways to win outside of tarland so lets see what we can wrangle up

Grozoth

Inkwell Leviathan

Artisan of Kozilek

Blightsteel Colossus

Lorthos, the tidemaker

Kederekt Leviathan

Hada Spy Patrol

Epochrasite

Beguiler of Wills

Cytoplast Manipulator

I like these guys, for no real reason.

Okay and we're a control deck BASICALLY, so we need to hold off the bad stuff however we can.  Let's think of some very effective pervasive solutions, since a good aggro deck will have us sleeving up in no time.

Meekstone

Devastation Tide

Aetherize

Cyclonic Rift

Claustrophobia

Dissipation Field

Whirlpool Whelm

Aethersnipe

Rapid Hybridization

Pognify

Lux Cannon

And seriously, very importantly we need to protect tarland, since hes the centerpiece right?

General's Kabuto

Lightning Greaves

Neurok Stealthsuit

Whispersilk Cloak

Ring of Evos Isle

Swiftboot boots

AND LANDS

Reliquary Tower

Island

Island

Island

Island

Island

Island

Island

Island

Island

Island

Island

Island

Island

Island

Island

Island

Island

Island

Island

Island

Island

Island

Island

Island

Island

Island

Island

Island

Island

Island

Island

Island

Island

Island

Island

Island

Island

Island

Island

;D I THINK MY LANDS ARE GREAT

OKay seriously this took forever, I'm so bad at mono-blue goddamn.

I'm sure this deck is pretty weak, but it's fun I'm fairly certain.  I've random'd 

Which is a weird card, in and of itself, but it gives me the ability to be a little more open ended with a cause to plan toward

[commandzone]

OKAY THIS THIS ASSHOLE AGAIN.  I said I was going to make this deck and I will.  This is one deck however, I will not skip lands with.  Normally my favorite thing to do is go "hey use whatever lands" but five color is a little more strict so lets try and get an effective land base

Armillary Sphere

Chromatic Lantern

Expedition Map

Horizon Spellbomb

Journeyer's Kite

Solemn Simulacrum

Traveler's Amulet

Darksteel Ingot

Kaleidostone

Manalith

Okay that's enough colorless stuff to color fix

Obviously the most important part of this deck is gonna be the pressure, the awesomeness, the aggro... THE SLIVERS (and I'll be labeling this section a bit because I can't for the life of me tell most slivers apart.)

Plated Sliver +0/+1, W

Sinew Sliver +1/+1, 1W

Talon Sliver First Strike, 1W

Shadow Sliver Shadow, 2U

Synapse Sliver Combat Draw, 4U

Crypt Sliver Tap Regen, 1B

Toxin Sliver deathtouch,  3B

Battering Sliver Trample, 5R

Blade Sliver +1/+0, 1R

Bonesplitter Sliver +2/+0, 3R

Fury Sliver Double strike, 5R

Heart Sliver Haste, 1R

Magma Sliver +X/+0 1R

Sedge Sliver Swamp +1/+1, B:Regen, 2R

Brood Sliver Combat tokens, 5G

Horned Sliver Trample 2G

Might Sliver +2/+2 5G

Muscle Sliver +1/+1, 1G

Harmonic Sliver Naturalize, 1WG

Necrotic Sliver Vindicate, 1WB

Okay thats literally almost a third of all the sliver available BUT THEY'RE SO COOL

Okay now that we have 1/5 of our deck as slivers, we probably need ways to make them work together

Adaptive Automaton

Call to the Kindred

Coat of Arms

Descendant's Path

Distant Melody

Door of Destinies

Mirari's Wake

Shared Animosity

Asceticism

Beastmaster Ascension

Collective Blessing

Gaea's Anthem

Glorious Anthem

This is a good combination of rushing out more guys and more buffs.  It's syner-tastic.

Okay now we face two very obvious problems.  One is sweepers, especially repetitive ones, the other is enchantments and artifacts which would prevent us from attacking.  A secondary problem is someone with bigger creatures than us.  so lets address resilience first.

Cauldron of Souls

Cauldron Haze

Marshal's Anthem

Creeping Renaissance

Death Denied

And for troublesome problems?  Well we have Necrotic and Harmonic Sliver, but lets get some more stuff.

Fracturing Gusts

Austere Command

Decimate

Rakdos Charm

Shattering Spree

And some very pinpoint removal

Path to exile

Swords to Plowshares

Crib Swap

Soul Nova

and two things I feel like putting in.  Clones.

Stolen Identity

Cackling Counterpart

And unlike most times, I'm gonna do a land list, because this is one of those times it's important. The color commitment thank GOD, is very light, but the majority of the deck seems to be white and green, so we're going to go with a lot of that.  Fourty Lands, lets do it.

Command Tower

Evolving Wilds

Terramorphic Expanse

Mutavault

Crystal Quarry

Cavern of Souls

Dragonskull Summit

Graven Cairns

Rootbound Crag

Fire-lit Thicket

Sunpetal Grove

Wooded Bastion

Glacial Fortress

Drowned Catacombs

Mystic Gate

Sunken Ruins

Hinterland Harbor

Flooded Grove

Sulfer Falls

Cascade Bluffs

Clifftop Retreat

Rugged Prairie

Isolated Chapel

Fetid Heath

Woodland Cemetary

Twilight Mire

Vivid Crag

Vivid Creek

Vivid Grove

Vivid Marsh

Vivid Meadow

And we have 9 cards so I think it's basics

3 Plains

2 Forests

2 Moutain

1 Island

1 Swamp

Alright, that looks good.  The lands will come in tapped like pretty often unless we get one of the basics, thankfully theres enough of that colorless finding.

Sliver Legion.  Here we go.  I think I might actually build this myself, it looks really fun.

Next deck is going to be Tarland, Skysummoner

Monoblue, something, I'm just awful at :D

[commandzone]

Hey thanks dude! :D  I'm kind of genuinely enthusiastic about EDH in general.   It's a casual format so I never feel pressed to give "THE BEST" possible cards, so I get to unleash that inner johnny deck maker, you know?

I've been randoming off cards before, but I'm willing to do them sooner rather than later

On update related news: I'll probably put out a deck or two tomorrow since I get the day off to recuperate

Any preference toward which of the M13 Legends you guys wanna see?

[commandzone]

Okay I WILL only be doing a deck on sliver legion, but I want to speak about all of them first.  Slivers are just reviled by some.  They're a snowball effect encompassed in a deck entirely.  But each of these slivers are completely different.  

Sliver legion is an aggro deck.  He want any amount of slivers, the more the merrier and he want to turn them all sideways.  Even with 3 slivers plus him, they're getting +3/+3  and that is SCARY when you take into account SLIVERS DO THINGS.  Whats best is that slivers pump HIM, and he's at that just MAGICAL 7 power which means he 3 shots anyone at the very minimum :3

Sliver Overlord is a big giant bag of awful.  tutors are awful in a singleton format, and your commander being a "find the right sliver" is just an enormous waste of time. I am not however saying he's weak.  I'm saying Overlord is incredibly unfun to play with and against.

Sliver Queen is a nice middle ground.  If you know anything about slivers its that they all buff one another.  Sliver Queen simply spits out more.  She's only as threatening as your board position.  Of the three she's actually my favorite because she's more political, but I do like the RAW AGGRESSION of sliver legion.

I'll start writing soon.  I DO BELIEVE, this is my first time at a 5 color commander.  It'll be fun :D

[commandzone]

Okay, Nefarox is another volton commander (oh i do like them) but has an actual effect to work with so we're going to do our best to abuse it.

Lets first get some cards with effects that occur from something being sacrificed or killed

Bereavement

Blade of the Bloodchief

Butcher of Malakir

Lim-dul the necromancer

Mimic Vat

Sadistic Glee

Scavenger Drake

It that betrays

Morticain Beetle

Sangromancer

Pawn of Ulamog

and that's all well and good, but lets get some other effects that kill things or sacrifice things, preferably table wide, since nefarox is pretty pinpoint

Fleshbag Maurader

Exile into Darkness

Grave pact

Innocent Blood

Abyssal Gatekeeper

Kuon, Orge Ascendant

Lilianna of the Veil

Syphon Flesh

Slum Reaper

Sheoldred, Whispering one

Ashling, the extinguisher (by the way I love ashling?  Red, black, so cool)

Barter in Blood

Braids, Cabal Minion

Consuming Vapors

Damnation

And SAC OUTLETS :D?  because those can be important.

Carrion

Death pit Offering

Attrition

Hell's caretaker

Carnage Altar

okay

Mikaeus, the Unhallowed

HE GETS HIS OWN SECTION.  He combos way too hard with everything especially carrion.  0/1 maggots produced by carrion, are 1/2 maggots with mikaeus that you can sacrifice to get another 1/2 maggot and turn the first maggot into a 2/3 maggot.  So you effectively are infinite, how cute.  I'd put triskelion in there as a win combo, but I just like being cute and winning with maggots when given a extra turn, not one shotting the entire table the second they hit the board.

okay, so still a volton deck!  We need to SUIT UP

Banshee's Blade

Bonehoard

Grappling Hook

Hammer of Ruin

Heartseeker

Lashwrithe

Lightning Greaves

Nightmare Lash

Nim Deathmantle

O-Naginata

Ring of Xathrid

Swiftfoot Boots

Okay and uh, we have about 15 slots for something cool!  and we're pretty DANG low on creatures, so lets get some!  I fancy discard, it'll make nefarox quite a bully

Abyssal Specter

Bloodhusk Ritualist

Cao Cao, lord of wei

Cunning Lethemancer

Entomber Exarch

Ghost-lit Stalker

Hollow Specter

Hypnotic Specter

Mindslicer

Scythe Specter

Wei Night Raiders

ugh god, still 4 cards?  Let's get the most BASIC of UTILITY then

Betrayal of flesh

Darkness

Death Denied

Midnight Recovery

AND ALWAYS MY LAST CHOICES, UTILITY LANDS.  Nefarox is too good for them, but I'm not.  As always  I omit vivds, and cycle lands etc etc

Bojuka Bog

Cathedral of War

Island of Wak-Wak

Leechridden Swamp

Springjack Pasture

Stripmind 

Thawing Glaciers

Winding Canyons

THERE YOU HAVE IT

Nefarox being a jerk and pushing everyone around.  Honestly this seems like a fun straightforward deck, so it's in my style of play.  Feel free to try it out and tell me how the curve is, since I literally just shove cards together and hope it works fine.

I've randomed Sliver Legion for my next deck.  How parasitic, but it should be easy to make!  Slivers slivers and more slivers!

[commandzone]

VOROSH is a baller fucker.  He's an expensive but really powerful voltron general, so thats exactly how we're gonna build him.

We need a lot of mana so were' gonna have some ramp

Boundless Realms

Cultivate

Deep Reconnaissance

Explosive Vegetation

Farseek

Journey of Discovery

Kodama's Reach

Mwovuli Acid-Moss

Seek the Horizon

Elemental Resonance

maybe some in creature form?

Bloom tender

Dearthrite Shaman

Drumhunter

Gyre sage

Viridian Joiner

OKAY our aim is to suit Vorosh in any way possible and turn him sideways! RIGHT?  We're shooting for 2 to 3 swings from vorosh, so literally even +1 or +2 will do it, otherwise utility!

General's Kabuto

Helm of Kaldra

Lightning Greaves

Manriki-Gusari

Neko-te

Loxodon Warhammer

Neurok Stealthsuit

Ring of Evos Isle

Ring of Xathrid

Dragon Fangs

Exoskeletal armor

And we need some other fuck huge creatures, capable of holding these things too.

Jugan, The Rising Star

Kiega, The Tide Star

Kokusho, The Evening Star

Consuming Aberration

Creakwood Leige

Gleancrawler

Lord of Extinction

Murkfiend Liege

Prime Speaker Zegana

Okay but what about some removalesque and utility creatures

Dread

Evil Twin

Helldozer

Indrik Stomphowler

Mold Shambler

Trygon Predator

Slum Reaper

Glen Elendra Archmage

Linessa, Zephyr Mage

Ashling, The Extinguisher

Glissa, the Traitor

Okay so you may have noticed a trend of being pretty heavy on legendary creatures.  Can we captilize on that?

Champion's Helm

Goryo's Vengence

Konda's Banner

Time of  Need

Okay so we got a decent avenue of attack (good creatures, and equipment) but we need to pave the way for our creatures.  How do we do that?  Just removal

Prey Upon

Aetherize

Cyclonic Rift

Melancholy

Claustrophobia

Consume the Meek

Life's Finale

AND two tutors, to put us at 60 cards which is a nice round number I like

Fabricate

Increasing Ambition

And we need land.  I'll be list some I like and the rest will be stuff that actually produces mana, you know vivid lands, duals, etc etc?

Alchemist Refuge

Minamo, School at water's edge

Mosswort Bridge

Rogue's Passage

Strip mine

Academy Ruins

aND THATS MY FUCKING LIST FOR VOROSH

Really it's turn dudes sideways and aggress.  Vorosh is a fucking monster if left alone, and that's only one way to build him.  I built him Volton Aggro, but he can be straight up voltron or even just plain aggro or just a beater in a BUG good stuff deck.  Who cares, hes vorosh.  He does what he wants.

My next list I random'd off into NEFAROX, OVERLORD OF GRIXIS

[commandzone]

Hey there magic players!

I'm dave, and maybe some of you follow my normal blog treago. This is going to be my EDH magic blog.

I've really hit a point in my life were I don't have the money or time for magic, but really want to keep it part of my life, so I figured this would be a good way to keep the spark alive

I'm a very casual magic player, so tops and sol rings are not me, you'll see.  I'll be working on VOROSH first.