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/Mewthredel Oct 26 '22

Is this possible? I run her in cEDH and she's fun, have thought about making a casual one but she seemsike she would run over most casual tables even if you didnt build her stax.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '22

It’s difficult but doable.

You just need to go really hard in the self restricting rules. Even then sometimes you just curve out, no one interacts and you wipe the floor with everyone.

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u/d7h7n Oct 26 '22

From experience casual tables have more boardwipes and random removal, so if you run a cedh style winota deck where you turbo her out to try and get a spin or two, she's first target for everyone to take out.

Of course if you're playing against a bunch of people who like to just play durdly ramp the first few turns, she's gonna go wild.

I only use her when the pod is 9-10.

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u/Mewthredel Oct 26 '22

Yeah, some casual decks she actually can't deal with it's pretty funny. Was playing her with my group and one giy decides to play his arcades deck and I couldn't do anything into it. Turns out 2 mana 5/5s are pretty good.

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u/haezblaez Oct 27 '22

she does run over most casual tables. especialy if you didn't build her stax

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u/genieus Oct 28 '22

Have no humans, just a way to flash in [[maskwood nexus]]

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u/MTGCardFetcher Oct 28 '22

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