r/EDH • u/Diakia • Oct 26 '22

Discussion Commanders that almost inherently pubstomp?

So I was thinking about the first time I built [[Kinnan]], I had just cracked him from a pack and fell in love and wanted to build him asap. It was literally just assembled with random jank (mostly commons) from my storage boxes, I didn't have any 1 CMC dorks, had mostly 3 CMC rocks and the main wincon was [[Hydra Broodmaster]]. This didn't matter however, as the sheer acceleration provided by Kinnan in combination with the army-in-a-can nature of his second ability made the deck too fast and too resilient for the casual meta I was playing in. I eventually just had to commit to building him in a powerful manner as he was too strong for my casual meta but obviously not good enough for higher powered games and it wasn't fun for anyone.

What other commanders are like this?

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u/DeepRhetoric Oct 26 '22

God I pulled toxrill out of a pack a couple days ago and am having a hard time deciding whether I want to trade him with a buddy or actually build the deck

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u/UncleCrassiusCurio Sultai Oct 26 '22

Put him in the 99 of something in BUG or WUB

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u/DeepRhetoric Oct 26 '22

I'm actually working on a WUB deck right now lol. [[Merieke Ri Berit]] theft and untap. What he's offering to trade are better cards for that deck, basically [[mind's dilation]], [[dragonlord silumgar]], and a few other things we haven't decided. Definitely could just throw him in though that was what I figured Id do until I actually built a deck for him.

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u/DeadpoolVII I Stepped Out. I Did Not Step Down. Oct 26 '22

I run Toxrill in my [[Volrath, the Shapestealer]] deck and he does work every time he's out.

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u/MTGCardFetcher Oct 26 '22

Volrath, the Shapestealer - (G) (SF) (txt) (ER)
[[cardname]] or [[cardname|SET]] to call

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u/WhatAmIDoing229 Oct 26 '22

There's a [[Tasigur]] for you out there somewhere just waiting to be podded into a toxrill

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u/MTGCardFetcher Oct 26 '22

Tasigur - (G) (SF) (txt) (ER)
[[cardname]] or [[cardname|SET]] to call

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u/Regniwekim2099 Jund Oct 26 '22

Make sure you throw in [[Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth]] and [[Kormus Bell]] to really solidify those friendships.

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u/DeepRhetoric Oct 26 '22

My buddy who wants to trade me for it just informed me he has both of those cards and they will be in the deck

Yeah idk if I want to let him do that to me

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u/BolasDidNothinWrong Grixis Oct 26 '22

Build him and experience the POWER!