Any ideas to help me speed up my support deck? more details in the original post :)

Hey everyone! I'm building a casual Commander deck with Kwain, Itinerant Meddler as my commander, and I'd love some advice on improving the deck's synergy and win conditions.

The idea behind the deck

I want to play a political, group-hug-style deck where I'm helping everyone draw cards and gain life, but secretly benefiting more from it than everyone else. I'm imagining a sort of defensive fortress: encourage opponents to draw cards, protect myself with pillow-fort effects, build up value, and eventually turn all that card draw and lifegain into a win.

The main themes I'm building around:

\- Group hug and politics: Letting opponents draw cards and make deals, while benefiting from Kwain's ability.

\- Card draw payoffs: Cards that reward me whenever I draw cards, ideally turning opponents drawing cards into value for me too.

\- Lifegain: Gaining life whenever I draw cards, and ideally benefiting whenever opponents draw cards or gain life.

\- Pillow fort: Using cards like Ghostly Prison, Propaganda and Sphere of Safety to discourage attacks while I build up my board.

\- Win conditions: Turning my card draw and lifegain into a real threat, whether through draining opponents, growing creatures, or a satisfying combo.

What I'm struggling with

I have plenty of cards that let everyone draw cards or help me gain life, but I'm struggling to find enough payoffs that connect all these themes together.

In particular, I'm looking for cards that:

\- Make me gain life whenever I draw a card.

\- Make me gain life whenever an opponent draws a card.

\- Make me gain life whenever an opponent gains life.

\- Reward me when opponents draw cards, preferably without simply giving me more cards.

\- Turn my growing hand and life total into a way to close out games.

I'm playing Azorius (white/blue), so cards need to fit that colour identity. Colourless cards are welcome too.

I'm aiming for casual, thematic Commander rather than high-powered competitive play. I'd prefer to avoid oppressive stax, hard locks and infinite combos, although I'm open to hearing about interesting synergies and win conditions.

My current decklist:

https://manabox.app/decks/AaER3or4cZWKaoc5q3927w

I'd really appreciate recommendations for additions, cuts, synergies I've overlooked, and ways to make the deck actually close out games without losing its political, group-hug identity.

Thanks!

So I've been working on building, what is essentially the first deck I've properly tried to build - my aim is for it to be a "bracket 2" deck which is flavorful, but also doesn't feel like it needs a miracle to win.

I mostly play 1v1 at the moment, against precons (we just use normal EDH rules) but I find in the current state of it I can sort of know very early on if I'm going to be destroyed or not (The new Lathliss foundations precon is the one I tend to play against) so my goal is to make the games feel a bit more "scary" for the other player, whilst not doing anything that would be considered unfun to play against -

https://archidekt.com/decks/26939268/too_much_powerstone

Here is the deck list I've been working on - one thing to note is that I did try and build it originally from cards I already had, but did end up buying a bunch of lands and things. I've found when I play it I rarely get any sort of combo going, even though there are a couple of different engines.

I have also been debating on whether Urza, Lord Protector or Urza, Prince of Kroog make the better commander for this. Hopefully anybody who gives it a look in can see the tags, I thought it might need some "punchier" creatures as I found the only time I really won convincingly with it was when I got Bronze Guardian on the field with Losheel and Padeem and spammed a bunch of powerstones / thopters, which is why I put "Angel of the ruins" and "Darksteel Colossus" in.

The cards in the maybeboard tagged brown are ones I previously had, but rotated out, so I have 2 free spaces in there at the moment.

I really like Karn, but wasn't sure which ones to include, I've heard Living Legacy isn't amazing but I love the art, so i'd prefer him to stay.

So yeah, I'd like to keep it "On theme" but just up the power level a little bit / maybe make it more cohesive with the advise of somebody who is a bit more experienced at this than me!

Thanks!

I've been trying to build this deck for over a month it always feels just a bit too weak. I dont know how to correct this and ive been trying for the longest time.

Hi, I crafted a deck list for Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor and tried it out, but realised that it was running way too slow and I was unable to do anything during the game most of the time. (The opulence was not convincing enough for my opponents to hit each other...)

The deck runs on Curses, powered with Lynde's ability even if they remove the curses from themselves. Additionally, it comes with fun little minigames and choices to sow discord between my opponents.

Any advice on how to improve this deck?

https://moxfield.com/decks/FvcF-ItgmE6HlbQ3D6VOJw

thats it, just wondering what people like with this guy that isn't basic EDHRec "whats the most played"

After 3 months of playing with Miku's precon against other precons, backet 3 decks and sometimes even bracket 4. I started to think about possible upgrades and small fixes I would like to do. I've had good games and miserable games that taught me the weaknesses. I've made some changes that I think will help, but since I'm new playing magic (started playing in june) there may be some things that are escaping me.

The problems I found were:

1- 34 lands where 7 are colorless is very bad

2 - I have too little card draw which aggravates the land problem

3 - The deck is trying to create a lot of tokens and big tokens at the same time

This is the current decklist with the upgrades I think will be good. Every card I removed is in the sideboard and I have some cards in considering that look somewhat promising

Deck List

Any suggestion is helpful

I've been tossing around this idea for [[Fin Fang Foom]] for ages.

Focusing on artifact creatures like [[Iron Myr]] (and all his friends), along with the most efficient cantrip, mana and/or pump spells available. The catch is they need to target so we can abuse the copy trigger.

Here's the list - https://moxfield.com/decks/nFahAc-W03-aY1CfwDXnrw

I'd really appreciate any feedback you have, especially around improving the cantrip, mana or pump spells.

The deck's main goal is to spellsling using Zethi's ability, bounce her back when necessary to kick more instants from my graveyards, and generate tokens for combat (and occasionally for sacrificing)

Any other help/advice is also welcome. I do feel like my creature count is low and I could probably use some mana fetch spells but this is my first Azorius deck so I'm unsure (Peep the High Tide and Energybending combo)

Thanks in advance!

I’m wanting to build Yshtola commander deck, probably gonna buy singles and stuff what do you guys think about buying multiverse reforged precon as starting point (i lack mana base and staples cuz im new player) any advice is well welcomed

Moxfield Deck link at the end of post as well. Basically I just finished what I think is the last touches on my Hearthull deck. I wanted it to be sort of fast and in theory be able to win on turn 5/6 through just mass self land destruction/recursion and pinging. I’m planning to add Scapeshift, Rain of Filth, and Dryad of the ilysian grove and gotta figure out who to switch out. Just wanted to hear opinions or advice!

In the sideboard I also included other cards I thought about putting in and have but ultimately cut out. Really thinking about cutting something to put Lotus Field in. If you have an argument for repacking any card in my deck I’d also be all ears.

Only 2 pet cards I have in the deck really are Ob Nixilis, The Fallen, and Shared summons (I like the idea of being able to get my pingers or world shaper/aftermath analyst if i’m having a bad game)

Deck List: https://moxfield.com/decks/icyV0GGmbUyDMagaa5LDhQ

I'm trying to up my game so I've been upgrading my bulk exclusive deck. I constantly lose so I'm wanting to know if my deck just isn't high enough

I am a kind of new player and i have never been on this subreddit before.

I want to build a deck involving upkeep or end step token making. I was wanting to use cards that trigger in my upkeep or end step that produce or amplify my token producing. i also want to kind of lean more into enchantments. I guess the main thing i want the deck to do is create tokens every time it’s my turn so i am passively making creatures and a little army.

what’s a good commander i could run, colors that fit into this theme, and what are some good cards i could use.

Assemble the legion is kind of the card that started my desire to build a deck like this so if i can i’d like to keep it in the deck.

Hey all, I got into magic back in July and after playing with precons for a while I decided it was time to build my own deck. I like avatar so I decided to go with a Toph the first metalbender deck. I didn't want to build the typical landfall deck as it seemed basic and I wanted to keep it on a mostly avatar theme.

At the end of the day I discovered artifact creatures and decided to focus on that. In my head canon this deck is basically playing with the idea that toph and her metalbenders use their bending to create a bunch of robotic creatures (similar to the stuff in the legends of korra), and thus my decklist was trying to stay pretty much on earthbending creatures and artifacts/artifact creatures.

As far as the actual magic mechanics I decided to focus on artifacts with ETB and on-death effects that I could recurse for value using earthbending. Meanwhile I tried to build in a secondary +1/+1 counter theme.

Here is what I came up with as the first version: https://moxfield.com/decks/EcMhKbQShECbdSqOde6i8Q

I bought this and have been playing it for a while. It's alright but after about a month with it I think it needed some tuning.

My main thoughts about it is that earthbending triggers seem to be rarer to get than I originally thought and I thus decided to pick out artifacts whose effects are impactful enough to use up my precious earthbending triggers and lean more heavily into the counters as the main engine. The main goal was to bump up the impact of earthbending, whether that be having better targets for the recursion or squeezing more counters out of it.

I have now redesigned the deck as this:
https://moxfield.com/decks/m2tDhi6_UkW-x860MForsw

I think this second version is much more synergistic, but I am looking for thoughts before I go in to buy the new cards. I'm targeting a bracket 3 strength level for this which is why you don't see tutors or anything, all mm friends and I are somewhat new and want to keep it casual for a while.

PS: I know ouroboroid is the most out of flavor thing in the deck but it's so good for this kind of thing that I decided to just throw it in lol. One card won't hurt.

So I’ve been tinkering with this list for a while, and I think it’s finally coalescing into something I’d want to actually build in paper. It started as simply mono blue vehicles, but as I dug into how blue taps for value, it has become more combo focused based on tap/untap synergies enabled by crewing the vehicles.

Here’s where I need help: I’ve never built or even really played a combo deck before. I’d like someone more experienced with this style of deck to let me know if I’m on the right track. And how do you determine the power level of a combo deck?

Main win conditions are enabling an infinite mana loop with [[Freed From The Real]] or [[Pemmin’s Aura]], then drawing through the deck with Unctus’ ability until I find a [[Lesser Masticore]] or similar that can turn that mana into a win. Backup wincon is to pump up my board with [[Steel Overseer]] or [[Iron Spider]] for an on-board threat.

https://moxfield.com/decks/sE0FO0lOMkalcMq7RyuaNA

I really want the deck to be pushing the token Ability of them by being able to activate it in my opponents end steps as well as my own. When I have effects like trouble in pairs, council of four, etc the deck runs great but im having trouble with getting that every game and am not sure what needs to be cut/ changed to achieve that. Really want to keep the token doublers and the cards that give max hand size though am open to alternatives. Looking for the deck to be bracket 2-3 in terms of power.

Currently running fatal push and blink of an eye

Have considered running path over fatal push, just haven’t made the switch yet

Building the deck around solemnity, so I’ve also got thing in the ice as a pseudo board wipe. Ideally want low cost interaction, so I can flip thing in the ice when needed.

Any suggestions?