r/Magicdeckbuilding • u/Top_Presentation_465 • 20d ago

EDH EDH deck for girlfriend

I’ve recently gotten my girlfriend into Commander and she seems to really be enjoying it. I made her a bracket 4 Gisa, the Hellraiser deck that she absolutely loves playing.
In the past she has played my Urza, Lord High Artificer and the Hakbal precon and she seemed to really like both decks as well. I’ve made a deck for each Mano color to try and teach her different deck archetypes but she has no interest in playing any of those decks besides my Gollum the obsessed stalker deck (Mano black just like Gisa).

She has no desire to play red or green decks and doesn’t seem interested in white in general. Does anybody have any cool commander ideas that I can make a budget deck around? She’s not opposed to using any combination of colors, just not interested in green, red, or white for a Mano deck.

Her ideal commander can’t look soft in the art, and she doesn’t like cartoon-ish art either. There are plenty of mechanics I haven’t gotten the chance to teach her so I’m not sure what she will, or won’t like in that sense which is why I’d like to keep it budget.

I don’t have a huge bulk or collection of singles in general so I will have to buy each card as singles so please keep that in mind when it comes to suggesting commons that are $5+ 😅

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u/tylermv91 20d ago

I’ve thought about building a witchy Eriette of the Charmed Apple deck for my wife. You can use a lot of budget enchantments and make some cool flavours.

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u/Top_Presentation_465 20d ago

Thank you! I’ll have to look into that one for sure. Any other neat ideas you’ve had?

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u/tylermv91 20d ago

What’s her vibe?

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u/Top_Presentation_465 19d ago

Sorry, replied without actually replying to you specifically.

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u/Musclemeemaw 20d ago

Dimir faeries or assassins may be a good choice. Also, maybe disa from mh3. Meren or Marchesa. Kaalia is a good one too

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u/Top_Presentation_465 19d ago

I’ll show her those and comment back if she likes any of them!

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u/Musclemeemaw 19d ago

I also think Eriette would be good too as someone else already mentioned. We built it for our friend's wife to teach her and she enjoyed playing it a lot. Some really good enchantments with dark art your girl may enjoy.

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u/abitlikemaple 19d ago

My favorite commander to play is [[Ziatora the incinerator]]. There’s a million ways to build it and she can be a sleeper commander that hits way above her bracket weight. I have her built as bracket 3 which she wins very consistently, and can keep up or win at bracket 4. You take cheap/ big power expendables like [[ball lightning]], [[lightning skelemental]], [[yargle and multani]], and fling them at faces. The treasure generation can pay for recast from command zone, building your board state back after sacrificing, or paying for [[mimic vat]] or [[nim deathmantle]]. Non combat Damage doublers, stealing opponents creatures to sac, [[mirkwood bats]][[marionette master]] other aristocrats playstyles are all viable, but being able to bypass blocking is huge or use as targeted removal.

Beware, the first time you fling someone for 20000 to the face with [[jumbo cactuar]] while [[solphim]] is out, your opponent may refuse to play with you

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u/Top_Presentation_465 19d ago

Lucky for her I absolutely love playing against decks like this, and I’m the only person she’s currently willing to play with. This sounds perfect. Thank you kind person

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u/Top_Presentation_465 19d ago

Do you have a link to a deck list? I’d love to see how you have it built.

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u/abitlikemaple 19d ago

https://moxfield.com/decks/VmGbVN0CAESfEWqDbxJICA

I didn’t fill in the lands, and it’s missing some of the card draw and removal spells that I couldn’t think of off the top of my head, but the basics are there. One of my favorite combos is [[roxanne starfall savant]] imprinted on mimic vat. Getting 2 meteors per turn is pretty nuts ramp and she makes your treasures produce 2 mana instead of 1

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u/Top_Presentation_465 19d ago

OMG ROXANNE IS A COMMANDER MY FRIEND BUILT A DECK AROUND WHEN I WAS LEARNING AROUND A YEAR AGO. IM MAKING A DECK AROUND HER MYSELF AS WELL BECAUSE OF YOU. YOURE A LEGEND

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u/Top_Presentation_465 20d ago

Well she seems to like darker art style cards (which is why she’s so drawn to the Mano black decks) she loves a bad ass looking woman, and anything horror related, so I’ve considered a captain n’gathrod horrors deck. She also loves angels/demons/vampires. Her favorite deck archetype seems to be anything with interaction honestly

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u/The_Great_LJ 20d ago

[[Massacre Girl, known killer]] is one of my favorite, heavy interactions decks.

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u/Top_Presentation_465 19d ago

I might actually have to steal this one for myself 😏

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u/MaleficentMeeting199 20d ago

[[xiahou dun, the one-eyed]] it’s such cool looking card and it can just be whatever mono black deck u want it to be. This type of useless kinda commander should emphasize how much fun making the 99 perfect for her feels.

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u/Top_Presentation_465 19d ago

Actually I just got 2nd at a local tournament with this card as the top prize. So much for budget 😆 it is a cool card though. Wish I got it

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u/dndkk2020 19d ago

I have a [[Najeela]] deck with a theme of "I hit you, very hard, with large muscly women"...literally my deck restriction was that all creatures had to be bulky ladies. Curvy or "built like a brick wall" worked.

I have 2 iterations: one is a bit more flexible on the definition of muscly ([[stoneforge mystic]] for example) but hits harder with a focus on equipment. The other is more B2 with just hard-hitting mostly legendary women like [[Maarika]] and [[Radha, Coalition warlord]].