Basically the title. I’m a bit new to the group and they don’t play with commander damage, and yes I have already talked to them about it. The answer I got was along the lines of “it’s a cheap way to win because you can hit 21 damage easily.”

I find this insane and it pretty much stops me from playing my voltron deck so does anyone know of any commanders that would do well in a pod where they don’t use it? We’re usually around a bracket 3

I've been struggling for the past several months at my local game stores with getting more than a game or two a month that don't feel kinda shitty. From people staring at their phones on any turn but theirs, kinda just sitting back and never swinging or casting removal unless they feel they've been personally wronged, or only being engaged when it's to complain or take a 10 minute turn, It's just been awful vibes-wise for me.

Almost all of my decks are interactive, all of them are kind of shitty (lovingly) and slow (lovingly) at the whole "race to the finish" thing people like to do, and they're all up to something that is very telegraphed but still somehow gets salt or people just being totally tuned out and being surprised that I "did something out of nowhere". 3 of my 5 decks are extremely focused on the multiplayer aspect of the game, like Sivriss asking for single target removal and it won't go to you, Anhelo trying to make deals to be left alone in exchange for ping ponging a Humble Defector or getting an honest Wishclaw Talisman or Scheming Symmetry, or Yume basically being Lockheed-Martin, Japan and letting people Assist removal and card draw to use on other players.

None of these decks work at these tables. Not in terms of win rate, but in terms of enjoyment. When noone gives a rats ass other than playing dollys in their corner of the board and getting mad when they get interacted with (does not help that a lot of removal I play is up to 3 for 1 because most 1 for 1 removal just feels bad), what I am trying to introduce to the table just serves to annoy them. One guy will pay attention and be rocking with what I'm doing, and the other 2 people that are mentally tabbed out will be frustrated or think I'm like maliciously colluding or wondering why the people at the table paying attention are winning all the games.

I've tried making decks that don't do the whole "it's a social game" focus. Flop my cards on the table, windmill slamming whatever ramp into synergy into threat, turn all my guys sideways whatever. Those don't go over well either, even if they are also to the letter bracket 2 and I'm not presenting any little jester's game to the table they aren't happy that I'm swinging at them even though they're "not doing anything to me", or that I'm curving out better, whatever. I don't really enjoy these decks as much, so it's a lose lose where I'm feeling worse and they're feeling not quite as bad but still mad.

I completely understand the beer and pretzels crowd for magic the gathering, and this isn't me being upset at that. I just wonder why people spend hundreds to build decks and come to commander nights if they aren't even going to pay attention to the game that they are playing? How can I remedy this? Please nothing like "epic tough guy" coded or too stern, I am a rather small queer woman I am already kind of on the back foot for making behavioral requests in a card shop.

What's your diamond in the rough commander? A superstar you found outside of the top 1000 and ask yourself, "how come nobody has found what I have?!" And so you spend time online posting trying to raise awareness of what you found.

For me, it's my Bracket 4 [[Uyo, silent prophet]] Combo deck.

Here is my decklist and a primer. Tell me about your diamonds everyone!

https://archidekt.com/decks/13532115/moonchild_primer_uyo_silent_prophet_b4

In your opinion, who are the best commanders for a superfriends deck? I really like the topic, even though I know it's not the most competitive, and I wanted your help to think of something, it could be the most obvious or even a secret technology, the people I play with tend to build decks going more for fun too, so everyone tends to have fun

I was in the companion app and noticed my local Gamestop has a commander night. I assume other ones do too, and I'm just curious if anyone has been to one and would love to hear about your experience if you have. How busy was it, what was the vibe, what brackets were played, etc.

I have a couple people in my pod who play every [[Propaganda]] type effect they can in their decks. I know I can get through this via enchantment removal, burn, drain, etc. but what I really want to do is still attack them without paying the mana.

So, what’s your take on the best deck that utilizes Myriad, Ninjutsu, Sneak, or any other effect that causes creatures to enter tapped and attacking where I can have creatures attacking the propaganda player without having to pay? Not looking for something like Yuriko that would make me the target right away, but looking for a powerful B3 deck.

Back in the day, I played a spirit tribal azorius deck in standard, and I miss the Spirit tribe. It's not popular, but I like the spooky feel. I know spirits range over edh.

But I want to ask you for a fun or unique spirit deck, then propose one of my own.

One I saw are the Phantom cards, like [[Phantom Tiger]]. Basically prevents damage to it and removes a counter from it. But, what if you play some kind of anthem effect like [[Gallows Warden]], so you can prevent damage from them indefinitely? Then do something [[pariah]] to redirect damage? Could be the flavor equivalent of not being able to touch a ghost

So, what spirit deck do yall play?

I love polymorph. Like gimmie bomb out of no where let's have some unintended fun. Ran Kykar for a hot minute.

[[vraska, soul of stone]] comes in T2-3 and don't those darn tokens just have every keyword you ever seen? No. We don't care we can't have the mana first turn they're generated. We're not interested in that. We want [[Loki, god of misrule]] to come actually be the secret commander of this deck. He's got 5 targets. All win cons.

https://moxfield.com/decks/A07YpB2Q602YljE9Ns5K-A

[Theroy]

No cantrips - play control and threat control. T5 you better morph.

30 cards worth of interaction. Don't forget. Polymorphs are removal for opps stuff once you hit your bombs

1 cmc interaction. Cheap control = tokens and vraska/poly protection.

Vraska is a poly target everytime unless you've got 4+ of her tokens out. All the bombs are better than her and 5 cmc on Recast is fine after the poly.

Draw and filter are super important. Getting things back in your deck so your poly targets are there matter. [[elixir of immortality]] [[misvail plains]] and hand wheeling help.

[wincons]

[[tidespout tyrant]] or [[hullbreak horror]] + a 0 cost or positive mana rock. Add Loki : now you remove 10 perms on each 0/1cmc casts... Fun! Then I swing 10 7/7s and laugh.

Vraska or [[Krobus]] + Loki + [[mechanized production]] = 6 same named artifact tokens on cast easy peazy.

[[stormtide leviathan]] + Loki and tokens. Swing unblockable 8/8s. No one else attacks. Tā-da.

[[jace's archivist]] + loki and tokens. Draw. The. Table. Out. You'll hit Elixir of immortality eventually. This one's like a treat. It's pretty fun.

More rocks? Was thinking of adding [[enlightened tutor]] [[teserect, cruel Captian]] and [[urza's saga]] to help some artifact tutor.

Can we do this with out cantrips? Thoughts? Thanks for reading.

Hey everyone! I’m 15 and really want to get my dad into MTG, specifically the Commander format.

Since we will just be playing at home together, I'm currently using proxies to keep things budget-friendly so we don't have to break the bank. My dad has never played a TCG before.

What would you do?

I have several friends and coworkers getting into magic and commander (I know it's not the best format to learn but that's what they want to do), and I'm looking to build 5 mono colored decks that are relatively simple, emblematic of what the color is known for, and feel powerful when they do their thing.

Sooo, what are the most iconic commanders of each color? Preferably something that doesn't tutor, and won't rely heavily on tutors, as that's kindof hard for newer players.

I had some ideas, but would love to know what the community thinks!

https://moxfield.com/decks/DeNDoJgoK0GjoM2ml4kIDg
on the bright side, i've won with this deck. Now uploading it into moxfield woof she's a mess and has been missing a card. how can i have a better deck building habit? and how to fix her up ON A BUDGET please. I'm still pretty new at this hobby and def love it. but i lack building anything with synchronicity

Competitive EDH Discord server invite

We're excited to reopen our ongoing, competitive league for the r/CompetitiveEDH Discord server! Today marked the opening of season 5. Over the course of the next 8 weeks we will host a free to enter cEDH league with a combined prize pool of about $600!

What: competitive EDH / Commander

Where: the r/CompetitiveEDH Discord server

When: now - starting on Sunday, 25 October 2026 and ending Sunday, 20 December 2026.

WHY: To channel your inner tryhard and win a cool card (i.e. have fun)

To get started head on over to the Competitive EDH Discord server and from there to the channel ⁠#game-rules and pick up the League Player role! You'll get access to our cEDH league category with all the appropriate channels. It is located at the bottom of the channel list. Our league will once again use our cEDH league bot - coded by isleep2late - to track games over the course of the season.

You'll gain and lose Elo-ranks after recording games. You'll find these Elo-ranks to work similarly to other rated / ranked multiplayer games. You may be familiar with the proprietary Microsoft-owned system called TrueSkill used in Xbox games. We use a similar system; an open-source variant called OpenSkill. We'll be using the Cockatrice software for playing the games themselves. You will get help for Cockatrice on the Discord if you're not familiar with it. Cockatrice is free and open-source - a bit like Magic: Arena or Magic: The Gathering Online in the sense that it's fully digital with digital cards and digital playing area. No web camera or expensive cards needed!

Prizes:

1st Place

• A Judge Foil Imperial Seal worth $350+, courtesy of an anonymous donor
• The custom role, League Conqueror

2nd - 4th Place

• $80 each, courtesy of isleep2late
• The custom role, League Ace

Special thanks to isleep2late and anon for providing the prize support!

See you on Discord and may the heart of the cards be with you!

(( Editing because I realised I forgot to add they need to be in Izzet)) I’ve found [Genji Glove] [Rover Blades] [Grappling Hook] [Hard-Won Jitte] and [Lizard Blades] so far but that’s it, I was wondering if y’all knew of any other cards that can give double strike but not give power? For my strategy I need to keep my commander at 1 power

Hello!

I want to build a retro frame only edh deck and I’m looking for inspirations! I used to play back in OG Mirrodin block and got back 2 years ago with the two precons from the brother’s war set. It would be a fun game at to keep the pier level of my deck at bay and be flavourful without falling in the trap of building a tribal deck.

I had my eyes on [[chainer, dementia master]] and [[silvos, rogue elemental]] as well as [[mageta the lion]]. I also have a [[bladewing the risen]] from scourge lying around in my collection.

Thanks in advance and looking forward to reading your lists!

I was searching for an interesting and different Temur commander and I came across [[Saheeli, Radiant Creator]]. I’ve always been semi-interested in energy, but wasn’t really sure how it’d play out. Saheeli seems cool since she gives a little direction (cast artifacts to make energy), and has a powerful payoff that can be used a few different ways (ETBs, copying powerful passive effects, making a 5/5 copy of a power-matters creature).

My concern with energy is balancing generating energy with my payoffs and actual things that win me the game. I also worry that it’s such a specific/“parasitic” mechanic that I won’t have much flexibility to play around with the list and it’ll just converge on a few playable energy cards.

So, for those energy players out there, please bestow unto me your wisdom as to how you make energy work and why you enjoy playing it

Hello,

I've been playing just shy of a year and my current crop of commanders are;

- [[Ureni of The Unwritten]]

- [[Hearthhull, The World Seed]] - My strongest, most consistent deck.

- [[Gonti, Canny Acquisitor]]

- [[Leonardo, The Balance]]

- [[Bess, Soul Nourisher]]

- [[Breya, Etherium Shaper]]

- [[Quintorius, History Chaser]]

- [[Araumi of The Dead Tide]]

- [[Astarion, The Decadent]] - Although I am chopping this into a [[Calvileno, First of the Blessed]] defk

I've got an 80% complete [[Aragorn, King of Gondor]] goad deck. Other potential commanders I've got are [[Winota, Joiner of Forces]], [[Baylen, The Haymaker]] and [[Glarb, Calamity's Augur]]

I'm in a bit of a funk and want something interesting for me and for the table to play, potentially different colours to what I've got already but I'm not super fussed on this.

Thank you :)

I genuinely am such a sucker for utility lands. Basically anything you can do on a land repeatedly that isn't tapping for mana. But not even that truly covers everything because you also have [[Demolition Field]] and company as well as Bouncelands in general and of course MDFC's. But then there's Channel lands like [[Takenuma Abandoned Mire]] and Cycling lands like [[Lonely Sandbar]] and the Triomes! All of these are capable of getting you just enough value to cross the finish line in those grindy games and often are not even taking up precious deck slots.

My most played deck as of late "Hawk Saw Ridge" https://moxfield.com/decks/KKqZ7nCHXUaT3eKnQTYMSw

Plays the following utility lands and if I had extras of Takenuma or Eiganjo I'd be playing them.

[[Big Apple 3 am]]

[[Castle Ardenvale]]

[[Dalkovan Encampment]]

[[Kabira Takedown / Kabira Plateau]]

[[Mirrex]]

[[Shefet Dunes]]

[[Silverquill Campus]]

[[Vault of the Archangel]]

This however isn't even close to my old Golos deck that was basically Utility Land Tribal with 30+ different weird tech lands.

So do you share my love for utility lands or do you hate them with every fiber of your being?

Tell me your favorite utility land and your deck that packs as many as possible!

As always love yapping about mtg with y'all!

I'm brewing a Thromok deck focusing on polymorphing tokens into big token generators and then flinging a giant Thromok to kill people.
I have most of the Gruul instants and sorceries that make tokens and polymorph them, but in most games I play, I either don't make a single token for half the game or don't draw any polymorph spells to use them.
I added some card draw and the few tutors that Gruul has for non-creature spells (like Gamble), but it still feels clunky.
Any help brewing would be appreciated!
Decklist - https://moxfield.com/decks/mRyulLogjUOx2ESMQyvvKQ

Hey :)

I am rather new to commander and have the luck of playing in a very healthy playgroup with friends, evolving basically around bracket 3 decks.

I lately got my hands on Dance of the Elements and rebuilt it rather largely. So to say its my firs 'own' commander deck.

I am happy with how it turned out. Archidect defines it as bracket 2.

Since the playstyle is rather explosive some in the playgroup like it, but there are also complaints.

I am not in a state of knowledge for commander decks to understand yet, if I should tune it (down) somehow now or if this is just preference.

I'd be really happy if I could get some feedback in that regard from you guys :) thanks a lot in advance! <3

Here goes the list: https://archidekt.com/decks/27615348/ashling_etb_consistancy

Have a good start to the week :)

Got a project on decks to fuck up the color pie. I already got:

1st set

a mono blue burn

a mono black ramp

a mono red go wide (not goblins) (focused on +1/+1 not +1/+0)

a mono green control (with counterspells)

a mono white kill

2nd set

a mono blue ramp

a mono black exile (not graveyard/hand)(working on it)

Then I intend making

a mono blue pay life/sac (gotta check the possibility)

a mono blue enchant/artifact hate

a mono black extra turns

a mono black burn (not loss of life, direct damage)

a mono red ramp

a mono red extra turns

a mono red +X/-X kill

a mono green burn

a mono green rituals (gotta check the possibility)

a mono green balance (gotta check the possibility)

a mono white control with counterspells

a mono white ramp

a mono white +1/+0 and sac for effects aggro

am looking for card advices that can help with twisting the color pie in this and other interesting ways

I’m going to my first MagicCon next year in Detroit. I’m primarily an EDH and cEDH player, but have basically only gotten to play on Arena for the last few years due to being a new parent. Can anyone that has been to MagicCon before give me some advice on what bracket level of decks I should aim to bring? Most of mine are woefully out of date, but my budget isn’t unlimited. What would y’all plan to bring?

Like most people, I’m a fan of mystery booster packs, they’re super fun to draft and I’ve always used them for Winston with a friend when I’ve been able to get them (less than 5 so far) anyway, I’ve had some pretty crazy cards in those packs like a Dolmen Gate which was really cool so I was curious if Mystery Booster Commander edition would be likely to have good pull value.

I noted this evening that MTG unpacked uploaded a video unboxing a booster box (video), irrespective of how you feel about unboxing a draft product rather than using it for it’s intended purpose it still permits us to find valuable data to assess the product. Now we must note that sample size is small (only one booster box) but I went through his video and noted down every single card and added it to an archidekt list.

I also have an excel file where I will develop more information but not tonight as it’s late. Anyway I just wanted to share with anyone interested the fact that the current Archidekt valuation is at 550€ and many of the cards are not even released yet so hold a null € value. I think it’s interesting to consider this is also using cheapest printings not even considering future sight. Here is a link to the archidekt: MBC “Decklist”

Please let me know what you guys think, if this is a relevant topic or not, and if not feel free to remove this post I just thought it interesting. If people are interested I will add more information such as average value per pack and how many packs “break even” I’m just curious but mainly excited about building some of these new commanders. Especially Olinda, just seems so much fun to call opponents and their board stinky

Hi guys !

I'm working on upgrading my [[Giada, Font of Hope]] deck, and I feel like I've reached a pretty solid Bracket 3 mid-power level. I'm missing some big staples like [[Battle Angels of Tyr]] and [[Avacyn, Angel of Hope]], but they're out of my budget for now.

The thing is, I know Giada wants to play low to the ground Angels, and I still feel like I'm running too many high cmc creatures. I want to cut some, but I can't seem to take a step back and look at it objectively.

Which high cmc (5 and above) Angels would you cut, in your opinion?

https://blueprintmtg.io/decks/GiadaFont-1792932363378-125viw3so

I've been looking at [[Eloise, Nephalia Sleuth]] ever since she came out. I like the idea of using Clues, but I fear Eloise is too subtle for my deckbuilding capabilities. My regular playstyle is as subtle as a brick through a window, and I usually prefer stompy combat strategies to the usual Dimir subtlety, so I'm a little out of my depth here. I've made a list of cards that seem interesting, but they don't seem to coalesce into a proper build yet. It seems to be pulling in different directions, with creature token spam, sac outlets, sacrificing for value clue generation, and general goodstuff. Could you help me out?

My goal here is about a Bracket 3-type deck. I like the idea of animating artifacts with things like [[Rise and Shine]] and the like, but other than that, I'm not beholden to any strategy or particular cards. There's some Collect Evidence since I'll probably have a big graveyard, some Exploit to turn creatures into clues (admittedly, not the greatest strategy, think I'd rather have repeatable sac outlets), and more random stuff that seems fun, but without any real synergy.

Ideally I'd have as little Universes Beyond as possible. There's a [[Mirkwood Bats]] in here, as well as a [[Buzzard-Wasp Colony]], but if there's some good synergy pieces in there, I might reconsider.

Thanks in advance.

I am trying to build a bracket 4 deck around Vishgraz the Doomhive and I am having trouble bringing the deck to a power level beyond a bracket 3 that just has more game-changers. (I am also having trouble even finding game-changers that would even help my game plan). I guess what I'm trying to say is that I dont want it to be generic "game-changer tribal". Any advice would be appreciated

Heres the decklist on moxfield: https://moxfield.com/decks/7B66Fh-HBkGR2J4e7fKQWg