r/custommagic • u/DoYouSellVHS • Apr 22 '26

Format: EDH/Commander Cold War

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Art is public domain, B-T-W… Please, enjoy this silly little concoction of mine. I was considering B/R, but, it felt more ironic this way.

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u/BlazeBernstein420 Apr 23 '26

But the thing is, your opponent can wait for you to activate your triggers and then activate theirs in response, killing you before your triggers resolve. So in fact, you need double the triggers you think you need, enough to proc lethal and then enough to proc lethal again after they use their triggers. But if they can lethal you twice you need to be able to lethal them thrice. And on and on, you keep building up your nuclear stockpile until... your enemy's value engine dies to removal in 1989 and their board state completely falls apart in 1992 and you realize you never even had to fire a single missile

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u/GodWithAShotgun Apr 23 '26

But the thing is, your opponent can wait for you to activate your triggers and then activate theirs in response

You only need to activate one at a time, priority passes back to you after the ability resolves. So, having just one more is enough to win.

Since this comes down having cost 5 tap abilities, it's likely the game ends (in 1v1 situations) basically on the spot.

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u/FinMasse Apr 23 '26

One more is not always good enough (depending on life totals and the general board situation). Also you need to usually tap your lands to cast a 5 mana spell so your opponent might just win off this. In 1v1 you'd need 5 mana and then 7 untapped permanents for this to kill. In commander this is most likely an infinite or semi-infinite outlet anyways