#@CEDH

[teleoleo]

Servicios Sociales de Alicante usurpa poder a la justicia penal y sustrae a un niño al tutelarlo en base a denuncia falsa

«Jamás imaginé que esto pasaba en España. No puede ser que el gobierno te quite a tu hijo. Nos han robado a nuestro hijo». Una denuncia falsa los llevó a juicio y a perder la tutela de su bebé. El caso ha sido archivado, pero su hijo no lo han recuperado

Texto, investigación y videoentrevista: Leonor Pérez-Durand/Periodista «Jamás imaginé que esto pasaba en España». «No puede ser que el gobierno te quite a tu hijo. Nos han metido en una celda para robarnos a nuestro hijo». Estefania Moreno y Julio Mendoza, española y cubano, son padres de 5 hijos, viven en Alicante, ciudad de la Comunidad Autónoma de Valencia, en España, y su maternidad y…

[peoplegettingreallymadatcards]

[gregor-never-leaves-the-house]

So, I did another Magic Thing:

Ever since Twilight was shown, I wanted to build a Commander Deck with her, and let me tell you: I *hate* Commander. 100 individual cards? So much mana balancing? So much removal? So many goddamn staples?? I hate staples! But hell, Twilight did it for me.

So I printed them, and it works! I'm really glad.

Printing these Proxies is always a highlight.

Anyway, I'm never building a Commander Deck again. Cube all the way, babyyyyyyyy

[dumnslut]

Concept art for my wurm cEDH mtg deck! First would be for my commander and the second two are for wurm tokens

[worm-apocalypse]

first opening hand of the day, playing hakbal merfolk: misty rainforest, reliquary tower, sol ring, arcane signet, cenote scout, beast within, rampant growth.

this is the greatest opening hand i'll ever see. ramp, turn 1 creature, ring-signet combo, interaction. i feel like i've won the lottery.

[syssyadmin]

honestly the mtg community [that i've experienced] on tumblr is so pitiful like. it's so largely commander players circlejerking about their favorite cards and being like "yeah i know Golgari pretty well 😎" but then you try to ask them things about a real format complex rules interactions or comp events and it's all timothy hay stares, or insistence that they know what they're talking about when they desperately do not. twitter is winning there by lightyears even if they're insufferable in their own way

[theparadoxengine]

Inspired by the Positively pleasant @postmalone we discuss a pirate deck inspired by everyone’s favorite mtg rockstar uncle and his mega hit Rockstar on the first official Melodic Mayhem episode as usual have a good night y’all!

[es-beeohohem]

my cute wittle zombie assassin ❤️💙💛

(no i didn't change thraximudar to end in y because i miscalculated how much space the name would take up and then use "making it cute" as an excuse what are you talking about)

[somewhere-south-of-neutral]

Remember, it's only cEDH if it's from the Highlands region of Scotland. Otherwise, it's just sparkling Commander.

[sedris-curator-king]

Welcome to my first cEDH deck analysis featuring Kenessos, Priest of Thassa:

Here is the list that I found on moxfield.

Kenessos is a two mana simic commander. The first ability lets you scry one more whenever you scry. This seems interesting to me, but not the reason you'd run him, his activated ability is much more important. For 3G/U, you can look at the top card of your library, you may put it on the battlefield if it's a sea monster, and if you haven't you may put it on the bottom of your library. What this means is with infinite mana, this commander will win the game (the specific line in the provided list is a bit complicated but won't be described here, check out the moxfield link if you're interested).

Immediately, these abilities make me think of another two mana simic commander which wins by generating infinite mana: Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy (Thrasios has some similarities as well but partner muddies the comparison somewhat). What's more, both of these commanders are willing to play big dumb creatures that would otherwise be far too expensive to be playable in cEDH.

Obviously Kinnan is very strong, one of the strongest commanders in cEDH. A lot of this comes from how he makes fast mana even better. Since you have access to all the best fast mana ever printed, Kinnan can produce a ton of mana, which can help you play any of the high mana cost cards that would otherwise be stuck in your hand.

Kenessos, in comparison, does not have the same advantages. Scrying a little better is not very notable and is way worse than Kinnan's increased mana generation. His activated ability can only get one creature per activation and finds a more limited set of creatures than Kinnan. His only upsides are being marginally easier to cast (1U instead of GU) and having a cheaper activated ability which requires less colored mana to use.

So, with this in mind, why would anyone play Kenessos? Well, it has the benefit of being an obscure deck. It is probably easier to sneak in a win against opponents who don't know what it does to win, which will be nearly all opponents. On top of that, it has a fun theme and could be exciting to win with an off-meta deck. Besides, being a weak imitation of Kinnan isn't the worst thing to be.

So, with all that prelude, let me take a look at some of the specific cards this Kenessos list is running. In order to generate infinite mana, it uses Hullbreaker loops. To help facilitate this, it also runs several mana dorks which tap for multiple mana. From what I've seen, these are rare in cEDH, but don't seem so much worse than 1 mana green dorks. Other than that, the other unexpected cards are probably Pemmin's Aura and Freed from the Real. Again though, generating infinite mana with these and a dork which taps more 2+ mana wins with this deck, so they are totally reasonable inclusions. This deck also runs Aesi, Arixmethes, Koma, Scourge of Fleets, and Trench Behemoth, but these huge sea monsters make sense with Kenessos' ability. While they are too expensive for the average cEDH list, I wouldn't consider them as surprising.

Another notable element is how few sorceries it includes. This list has only three: Finale of Devastation as a wincon, and Sylvan Tutor and Transmute Artifact as ways to find the cards required for infinite mana. Even then, most of its other tutors are all instant speed, such as Worldly Tutor which makes perfect sense in this list, and Mystical Tutor which can help find answers and works nicely with Counterbalance (included alongside Sensei's Divining Top).

Those are all the inclusions I thought were interesting, but one notable exclusion is Dramatic Reversal + Isochron Scepter. That would be another infinite combo and give some nice redundancy to the list. However, it turns out both cards are in the history of the list, so I imagine the deck builder knows something I don't. More generally, it seems like those are falling out of favor in the cEDH metagame, so maybe they just aren't as well positioned as they used to be.

Another exclusion is any cards which say scry. Clearly the deck builder agreed with me that Kenessos' first ability is not what you're playing him for.

Well, that's about all I have to say. Thanks so much for reading this first deck analysis, and have a fishy day!

[devoid-of-love]

yusri my beloved

we always have to apply the ability-squint principle when building decks; "if you squint at something and it resembles a broken effect, it's probably really good" if you squint really hard, attacking with yusri is statistically just shy of an ancestral recall

[magicjudge]

How does Ad Naus work? Why is it so good? How does Turbo Naus win? I feel incapable of wrapping my head around this card no matter how many times I try.

Ad Nauseam is a hyper-efficient card "draw" spell that enables storm decks and other combo strategies in eternal formats. It's helped in this by being an instant, allowing players to either go off on other players' turns or to EOT Naus and be set up for a huge turn of their own.

In a normal deck, the rate on drawing a card with Ad Nauseam is pretty poor, meaning that you'd expect to pay at least 10 life for five cards, but Ad Nauseam decks aren't normal decks. Decks built around Ad Nauseam very carefully manage both the total and average mana value of their cards, using tools like hypergeometric calculators to ensure that they're likely to draw enough cards to go off with it, sometimes their entire deck.

Turbo Naus decks want to find and cast Ad Nauseam as fast as possible so that they can combo out. They're usually the decks casting it EOT so they can go off on the next turn with cheap combos like Oracle/Consultation. I don't know a lot of specfics about cEDH archetypes, but I hope this basic idea is enough to help you.

[peoplegettingreallymadatcards]

[yuridragon]

[littjara-mirrorlake]

What commander decks do you have?

Quite a few! Most are in paper (but I never have multiple full decks assembled at a time, because so many of them share cards that I resleeve back and forth TwT) and a select few are online only since my online friend group started using Untap. I haven't played in too long, so some of these are outdated (haven't been fully filled out with Kamigawa onwards):

Podchamp - the most competitive-oriented deck I have. Vannifar cEDH.

It's Probably Nothing - Phyrexian tribal headed by Atraxa. Taking snappier name suggestions.

Otrimi's Phyrexian Pals - mutate + infect = pain pain pain pain pain

Vorinfect - what it says on the tin.

Your Fleshling Eyes Suggest Familiarity, but Knowledge of Our Meeting Evades My Memory(...) - Jin clones deck. Dedicated to making an army of smugly smirking Jin and then copying an extra turn spell like 16 times.

Brudibabies - myr tribal :)

Online only:

Bad Time Generator - reanimation with Myrkul, Lord of Bones. *Distant Megalovania sounds*

🅱ant S🅱irits - loosely Innistrad + Kamigawa themed spirit tribal.

Legal Eagle - Falco Spara counters, mostly +1/+1. Unfinished, but boy do I love counters.

While You Slobbered, I Studied the Blade - meme Jin voltron deck that actually managed to produce a win, somehow.

You Wouldn't Download A Lotus - Orvar copy shenanigans getting big mana and dropping thicc boys of choice, like Eldrazi.

Bonus: making this post led me to dig through my Archidekt account again and... there sure are Things in here, huh.

[gemthegerm]

you think i’m a failgirl? heh. face me in battle idiot. takes out my cedh deck. grins. misplays all my combos.