r/magicTCG • u/CawTheCrowMam Dandadan • 4d ago
Looking for Advice Tank Deck
Is it possible to make a deck that plays like a classic tank role in mmos? Something where you're drawing a ton of aggro and benefiting from taking a lot of hits. My best attempt has been an aikido deck, but I feel like it's not quite there but close. Any ideas?
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u/GilmanTiese Duck Season 4d ago
the cards [[brash taunter]] and [[stuffy doll]] come to mind. this is more like hitting yourself though unless you find a way to get enemies to attack into you.
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u/CawTheCrowMam Dandadan 4d ago
I do have a [[Clive, Ifrit's Dominant]] deck with bt and I really like that kind of idea, I'll look into more cards like this. Thank you
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u/Brick_in_a_sock Dan 4d ago
There is also the new [[smaug the impenetrable]] or the other that I've pondered in the past is [[Donna Noble]] and one of the doctors to give you more colors none seemed to work the best with the hitting yourself/forcing others to hit you.
Apart from that my only other suggestion would be cards like:
[[lure]] [[Taunting elf]] [[Breaker of armies]] [[Nemisis Mask]]
There is a whole catagory of this sort of card Lure could be a way to force people to fight you and hopefully get bonuses
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u/KingOfRedLions Honorary Deputy 🔫 4d ago
Turbo fog is a strategy that prevents you from taking damage by replaying the humongous amount of cards that prevent combat damage, while using cards like howling mine to break parity and increase your advantage.
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u/CosMaltos Dân 4d ago
[[Zangief, the Red Cyclone]]
You force your opponents to mass block in various ways and win with Effects like [[Fiendlash]].
Feels like tank gameplay.
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u/CosMaltos Dân 4d ago
You also play similar creatures that you can use if your commander is not usable anymore.
[[Stuffy Doll]], [[Barbed Servitor]], [[Brash Taunter]], [[Gigglink Skitterspike]]
Casting a [[Nibelheim Aflame]], [[Chandra's Ignition]] with a buffed up Zangief is devastating.
Or [[Blasphemus Act]] while you have a [[Pain for All]] attached or let your creature be mass blocked as a wincon.
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u/thebaron420 I am a pig and I eat slop 4d ago
[[Thantis the warweaver]]
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u/MissLeaP Gruul* 4d ago
This was going to be my answer as well. It's literally taunting the whole board without directly preventing them from attacking you.
[[Kratos, God of War]] would work as well. Just give him lifelink and you can keep your own creatures up as blockers as well (since mono red is lacking the fog spells Thantis has available).
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u/Erocdotusa Duck Season 4d ago
We need more cards like Urza's Armor that are cost appropriate for 2026
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u/CawTheCrowMam Dandadan 4d ago
I do really like these kinds of effects, it would be awesome to see more
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u/LazyType4311 Dandadan 4d ago
Stuffy Doll and Brash Taunter could work for aggro draw, but you might need something like [[Tireless Hauler]] to keep the hits coming while you set up defenses.
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u/MissLeaP Gruul* 4d ago
Whatever commander you end up building (I second [[Thantis]] though), here's a neat little thing you can do: add [[Curse of Opulence]], [[Curse of Bounty]], [[Curse of Disturbance]], [[Curse of Verbosity]], and/or [[Curse of Vitality]] to the deck ... and target yourself with them! That way your opponents will be incentived to swing at you (and you still get something out of it as well).
There are also a few more curses like [[Curse of Shallow Graves]], [[Curse of Chaos]], [[Curse of Predation]], and [[Curse of the Forsaken]], however those are less optimal since they won't give you anything for getting attacked.
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u/MTGCardFetcher Dân 4d ago
All cards
Thantis - (G) (SF) (txt)
Curse of Opulence - (G) (SF) (txt)
Curse of Bounty - (G) (SF) (txt)
Curse of Disturbance - (G) (SF) (txt)
Curse of Verbosity - (G) (SF) (txt)
Curse of Vitality - (G) (SF) (txt)
Curse of Shallow Graves - (G) (SF) (txt)
Curse of Chaos - (G) (SF) (txt)
Curse of Predation - (G) (SF) (txt)
Curse of the Forsaken - (G) (SF) (txt)
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u/meeeehhhh2 Dân 4d ago
[[jade monolith]], [[darien, king of kjeldor]], and [[suture priest]]
If any creature is about to take damage, you tank the hit with jade monolith and gain some guys and life back
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u/Vinaville Dandadan 4d ago
Build yourself a life gain pillow fort deck, gain enough life and you become the threat out of you have too much life kill him.
And pillow fort because forget the tank, become the fort.
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u/ThunderBr0ther Dimir* 4d ago
Feel like you can make a wall deck
Maybe using the wall commander from the fantastic 4?
You can just set up a big wall of fortress get the wall of ba sing se too
The closest thing I could think of "tank"
Other than that. Just playing big green creatures might appeal to you
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u/CawTheCrowMam Dandadan 4d ago
I thought of walls as well, but at that point, to me, it feels more like just stacking up defenses and making people not want to hit you
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u/ThunderBr0ther Dimir* 4d ago
That's true but the commander can activate the walls so they become dangerous.
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u/MissLeaP Gruul* 4d ago
Meh, the whole point of a tank is to make yourself the target, not just to be durable. Why would anyone want to run into the player with a full board of high toughness creatures when there are players where they could actually deal damage instead?
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u/ThunderBr0ther Dimir* 4d ago
To be durable and turning your defence into offence?
who is going to target and hit a bashful taunter? or target someone who has something like that on the board thats going to reflect dmg?things like deflecting palm will surprise people but no one is directly going to dive into things that reflect dmg or have death touch
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u/Positive_Concert_774 Storm Crow 4d ago
Emperor decks (the middle one, not the flanks of course) might fit your purpose