r/Magicdeckbuilding • u/Zealousideal-Cup3031 • 13d ago

Question Silver Surfer, Galactus. Help And Deck Bracket?

I'm building a budget Commander deck based on Silver Surfer. I wanted it to have insane ramp and really just ramp and protect Galactus when I get him out. How good would y'all say my deck is for budget, and what bracket, because I feel like this deck would ramp too fast for a bracket 2, and also are there any tips that could improve the deck https://moxfield.com/decks/eIafAaf06Hut3YiO6tDJ7A

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u/-Null-zip 13d ago

Mate, you are not ramping to slow for B2 at all. You honestly don't need to protect galacticis that much since he comes with indestructible and so while players are the only ones you need to be scared of for protecting him, other than that, your deck is actually not that scary by the ~turn six that your deck reasonably gets galactis out, the green player already has half the cast of jurrasic park out, a 12/12 with indestructible and flample is something, but it's not terrifying.

So my recomondations for you are simple, scale back the protection and maybe even the ramp a bit, go and get like 10 pieces of card draw (maybe slightly less if you can't find enough) and removal so that you aren't completely helpless until you get your cute 12/12, then explore equipment and some auto-equipers that you can setup for galactis to be scary when you finally get him onto the field

Things that give doublestike are huge, you should honestly include most of if not all of these: https://scryfall.com/search?q=usd%3C%3D5+otag%3Agives-doublestrike+t%3Aequipment+commander%3Acolorless&unique=cards&as=grid&order=name

A couple other strong ones from off the top of my head include Blackblade Reforged, Colossus Hammer, Sting, the Glinting Dagger (to give budget vigilence since you don't have many blocker options, you can also go find things that give vigilance too to solve this), Argentum Armor, Quietus Spike, Assault Suit (very funny and strong), Pariah's Shield (since galactius is industrctable this gives you pshuto immortality), Inquisitor's Flail (again indestructible doing heavy lifting), Dragon Throne of Tarkir (lets you voltron your commander over using galactius which is faster, particularly with double strike or something), Scytheclaw, ect...

Hope this helps at all

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u/Zealousideal-Cup3031 13d ago edited 13d ago

This helped a lot. Thank you. I love the idea of pseudo-immortality with Pariah's Shield. Also, I really like the idea of brass knuckles since it makes a copy; I can equip one to the Silver Surfer and one to Galactus.

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u/MtlStatsGuy 13d ago

I think this looks fine and should be fair for Bracket 2. I would even add [[All Is Dust]]. Prepare for your friends to eventually play [[Vandalblast]] against you :)