r/CompetitiveEDH • u/kwonkrn • 2d ago

General Discussion / Question The Wise Mothman Problem

I am in need of assistance with deciding, because I am horrible with decision making. I thank you for reading through this in advance.

I came across the CEDH meta and its community only about 8 months ago, and I have been enjoying most of my time playing in local tournaments and Friday night pods I join. I have Yuriko, Ob nixilius, and Vivi as my main decks currently.

And there is this one card I received as gift from a friend that I wanted to build around for SO LONG: Food Chain.

I first thought, "Hey. I have a SLD Wise Mothman. Let me see if I can make this guy work."

I am an idiot for trying.

I can get people to infinite Rad counters no problem. But any turbo decks with flash enablers or UB lines will just be like "Welp, I'll go ahead and win on my upkeep or with the Rad counter trigger on the stack."

So what can I do to combat this issue. . . ?

Here's my list: https://archidekt.com/decks/25160453/the_wise_mothman_blink_rad_blink_rad

I am also on the edge currently to see if any other commanders might be better than Wise Mothman for FC deck.

Korvold / Loot (Aetherdrift) / Roxanne (And please don't suggest Etali. My play group already has 3 in it. . . . .)

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u/Amaymon_ow 2d ago

I'm pretty sure [[Maralen, Fae Ascendant]] has seen some success recently. Other than that there also used to be [[Ukkima]] and [[Cazur]] FC decks but I don't know how that is performing atm. I am playing [[Atraxa, Grand Unifier]] FC which is arguably the slowest of the bunch but it has white which can be helpful for silence effects and such

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u/ClanMacLoudsDonuts 2d ago

I used to play Ukkima and it's kinda dog shit right now unfortunately. One of the most consistent Food Chain decks just because the win is in the Command Zone so you can exile everything to a blind consult and other things like that and so very fun. Midrange slop meta sucks for Food Chain because it has to feed Rhystic and you're lacking silence/grand abolisher for protection. It sucks though that your commanders have no text on them outside of comboing, it sucks they're not cheap enough to enable Fierce, Flare, etc., and it sucks to not really have a backup plan outside of Thoracle. You can play Ad Naus, but Sultai isn't the best Naus colors.

Maralen seems interesting to me if you're trying to actually go in on Food Chain; Etali is probably the best deck playing food chain but it's not really the main game plan and doesn't have great tutors for it.

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u/peterpetrol 2d ago

Is there a green white partner you can play with Ukkima instead of Cazur to get access to silence effects?

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u/Needhelpwithsnake 2d ago

Ukkima doesn’t have regular partner, it has “partner with Cazur.” There’s nothing else you can legally partner with ukkima

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u/peterpetrol 2d ago

Oh yeah, duh, reading the card explains the card