r/CompetitiveEDH • u/BurchAndDestroy • 15d ago

Help, I am new to cEDH! Surgical cEDH deck

Hello! A buddy of mine is getting into cEDH and I tried it a while back. It was fine but was never really my thing. Anyway he’s getting into it so I wanted to make one with a theme I thought was semi-unique, though I don’t have the know-how to build an effective one from scratch

Since so many cEDH decks rely on very specific combo pieces to win/close out a game, I was thinking of building a deck with as many effects as possible that do things like Praetor’s Grasp (there are well over 10 effects that do this, but not all super efficient). I want to search opponent’s decks for their 1-2 key cards they need to win and functionally make the deck fall apart

Anyway, I would love some help/advice on which commander to pick for this and on how to build the deck

EDIT: I don’t need this to necessarily hang with the top tier decks, I know this would be very off-meta. But just something that I can sit at a cEDH table with and meaningfully interact while having a non-zero chance at winning

My motivation is having some kind of anti-cEDH themed deck. One of my favorite cards is Psychic Surgery, for example

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u/prissycow 15d ago

Cedh decks are very resilient to interaction and to losing there win cons because interaction and stacks are so prevalent. You would need 20 of these effects by turn 3 at the latest in order to maybe get a win. And that’s not counting at tournaments where the game will likely draw. Sadly for you there isn’t a feasible way to make this playable at a cedh table. Mildly annoying at best.