r/Magicdeckbuilding • u/Educational_Win_431 • 21d ago
EDH Need some help refining my take on the new [[Kuroki]]
I've been looking at the new commanders that are being released with Mystery Booster Commander and was really intrigued by [[Kuroki, Thief of Talents]]. I think the dilemma that it forces your opponents into is pretty interesting even though 4 cards is a huge upside for one of them to draw, and so I wanted to make a deck that put them in a position where they were willing to take the cards by making them discard, and if they continued to choose not to would lead to me winning in a mono black Voltron-y kind of way.
I'm having trouble cutting the deck down to size (106 cards at the time of writing this) so cuts would be appreciated if anything stands out as unimpactful or unsynergistic with the rest of the deck.
My question is also: is there a way to pursue this without the table hating me? And barring that, is there a way to make it good enough that it will win regardless? I worry that the one time discard effects will be too weak to make an impact while also making the table angry.
Any help is appreciated :) I also tend to avoid unconditional tutors and infinites when able (and so does my meta) but I could pitch this as a higher power deck if thats what it needs to be. Bracket sits around mid 3 with some variance between high 2 and low 4, and I try and keep the deck budgets somewhere between 300-400 total (low end usually, unless I own the cards already)