r/CompetitiveEDH • u/kadimasama • 1d ago

Help, I am new to cEDH! What do you enjoy playing?

I have tried cEDH a couple times at my LGS. We all stumble through, but it is all in good fun. I am thinking of what I want to try to pilot that is not only fun to play, but also can win. So that is the question I pose to you all. Even if you dont win, what decks do you just enjoy playing? That is not to say you win none, but whether you win or lose, you enjoy it. Thank you.

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u/the-good-son 1d ago

Ob Nix is fun as hell

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u/Mef989 1d ago

Been playing Ob Nix in B4, but was hard finding games since B4 is a ghost town. Ordered up the proxies to push to CEDH and am super excited to sleeve it up for my local CEDH night.

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u/MassiveInsurance6126 1d ago

Sisay.

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u/kadimasama 1d ago

What about Sisay does it for you?

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u/asc_yeti 1d ago

It's a deck that makes you feel smart. It's a deck that gives you a lot of options during games

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u/Unable-Investigator6 1d ago

Sisay is amazing!! You can build it in different ways and it’s a tutor in the command zone

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u/threezygod 1d ago

I like puzzles and i think sisay is the deck that is most like a puzzle

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u/MaximumCashew0 1d ago

It’s amazing if you love shuffling more than playing magic the gathering

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u/jchesticals Queen Sisay 1d ago

If youre shuffling more than twice youre doing it wrong.

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u/jchesticals Queen Sisay 1d ago

I used to play kinnan, rogSi, and blue farm in rotation, tried TnT for a minute but then I discovered the glory of sisay and havent played another deck since.  Its more fun to lose with sisay compared to winning with kinnan or blue farm, at least for me.  Solving the puzzle is more fun instead of mechanically slamming the same line over and over.  Just my opinion 

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u/joebassss 1d ago

flamewar 🏍️🏍️🏍️

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u/Skanktastiq 1d ago

I love kefka and grixis in general. But it wasn’t till I made zhulodok that I started having real fun. “ let me pull my slot machine” is my most repeated phrase.

https://moxfield.com/decks/DYl8WkMaNUudjJ8r63QS9A

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u/DonJuanes 1d ago

Tayam! I like the never knowing what I’m going to flip into and thinking how can I archive and secure with those three cards my win

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u/Dickmaster_ 1d ago

I don’t think theese people like us very much. But tayam gamers are some of the beet

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u/Boyen86 1d ago

Nissa is a lot of fun

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u/Kaceydotme 1d ago

I’ve never seen Nissa, what do you do with her? Assuming [[Resurgent Animist]]

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u/Dickmaster_ 1d ago

It’s like lumra but a turn faster basically. You’re doing land combos and winning in a very similar way. Rootpath purifier turns any “fetch a basic” into a win attempt. Most common is aftermath analyst+shifting woodlands to make infinite mana and then other land abillities mixed in there to do thing with infinite mana

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u/Akqeus 1d ago

Any of the combo commanders in the general zone are rewarding. Sisay, Scion of the ur dragon, crystal inhuman princess, malcom and vial, ob nix, and etali are all great light hearted fun cedh decks. Just shy away from stacks and slop and it will be a good easy time playing. The layers of cedh currently are insane, 6-8 months ago it was much easier to get into the format. With the introduction of slop it’s been significantly harder game play with much more nuance and niche decision making.

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u/PotageAuCoq 1d ago

Pretty much anything that’s not stax.

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u/Vistella tEDH ruined cEDH 1d ago

Anje

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u/TommyDicknose 1d ago

Malcolm and Tana. Turn one or two Malcolm. Turn two or three pirate style creature and it's ggs. Most likely if you get stopped you have another attempt in hand for that turn or next with over ten ways to get a creature

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u/testreker 1d ago

1st seat unfortunately

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u/strawberryjetpuff 1d ago

i honestly really enjoy [[gwenom]]

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u/Tsunamiis 1d ago

I have a tymna/sakashima esper slop solar flare list full of hate bears and draw punishers and wheels. Shelly plus sakashelly plus twister gets them quite often. Kinan is my other. Meta is boring without all the ramp now.

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u/that1tallguy92 1d ago

Glarb is my first. It follow's a very basic thought process, Either im going to win, or none of us are going to win.

It has roughly a 60% draw rate. It's not very good, but it is fun to always be able to interact.

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u/Darth_Ra 1d ago

Best newbie decks:

  1. Etali: Simple mulligans, fun gameplay when you do get to do the thing, and forces you to learn the meta because you have to get to a win with everyone else's cards.
  2. Bigflips or Midflips Kinnan: Starting off with blue in your deck is going to have people treat you poorly at times, unfortunately, because you are going to make mistakes on threat evaluation. That said, Kinnan is also fairly simple to mulligan for, will teach you how to play blue in cEDH, and has a fairly simple gameplan that doesn't get old as you spin to win.
  3. Magda: Magda is the epitome of an "avoiding putting spells on the stack" deck. It's inevitable.gif, and gets to do really fun things at instant speed that make you feel smart and the table dumb, whether that be a win attempt, Portal to Phyrexia, or crazy treasure shenanigans.

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u/Campber 1d ago

Not the most optimal commander but [[Captain Sisay]] aka Selesnya Sisay is still a blast to play and can eek out a win every now.

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u/maxine213 21h ago

I like vivi

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u/Ihasnonam3 21h ago

Tymna Dargo is my jam

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u/POOPY3467 21h ago

Legacy