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Gatherer is a database of every magic card ever printer.
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When you want to really look, you need to go to gatherer. However, its falls flat when you're doing something more niche. It's useful to see the most common things people are playing with the commander so you don't overlook something obvious. Its a decklist aggregation site that compiles all of the lists of a given commander and gives you what the 'average' deck for them looks like. The primary tool used in Commander is EDHREC. Well, now that we know what we're looking for, there are a number of tools to help find cards. That's all well and good, but how do I find these cards?
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The deck will probably be weak to board wipes, and we’ll need a bunch of mana acceleration to be able to play Gwyn when the time is right. We want to include as many knights as make sense, but we don’t want to stretch for them. We care about the aristocrats package, we care about equipment, and we care about attacking. Lastly, she is a 5/5 creature, which is pretty large though it isn’t huge for her cost or for what people can sling at 6 mana.įrom this dissection, we can start to see the shape of the deck. While it certainly is better with other knights, she herself is a Knight, so the ability immediately has a target already. To go back to Gwyn, she caps off this style by digging you a few extra cards, letting you find missing combo pieces after you dump your initial solvo. The last line is also pretty good, “Equipment you control have Equip Knight 0.” This indicates a tribal theme, by letting you get your equipment onto Knights for free. Equipment is a way to mitigate against that since it lets these creatures get a lot of value just by being in play. Lingering Souls gives a ton of bodies, but they don't have much meaning in EDH aside from generating fodder. It doesn’t do too much after it has come into play. It also has a lot of dinky creatures that don’t do much without their combo partners. This is what made me think of aristocrats.Īristocrats is aggressive. Since you don’t get rewarded for stacking equipment, its better to have 3 creatures each holding something than to have 1 creature holding 3 things. It wants you to have lots of creatures and lots of equipment. The next ability is the meat of the card to me, “Whenever an equipped creature you control attacks, you draw 1 card and lose 1 life.” This ability lets you gas back up after dumping your hand. Menace means its harder to chump her, and might be impossible depending on what she’s equipped with. Vigilance means she can be aggressive without leaving yourself open to attack. The next important bit to absorb is the text. What I look for in decks I want to build is open ended abilities that let the deck evolve and take on new roles over time. It has a minor reanimation theme, and its got a couple of engines that are good on their own, but infrequently assemble to allow the deck to have a combo finish. It took on a lands theme since Life From the Loam is so integral to a dredge deck. Its got a Big Dudes theme since Mimeo is often an enormous creature, and it feeds on huge creatures well. The deck doesn’t play Sol Ring or any of a number of staples from the format because they don’t do anything from the graveyard.Īs the deck evolved it took on a number of sub-themes. Being an entirely graveyard deck presented a number of deck building challenges that were fun to solve. What’s unique about him was that he was a dredge pay off card that could live outside the deck, giving you powerful options as time went on. Mimeo gave me an opportunity to build a Dredge edh deck, which essentially didn’t exist at the time. I am a fan of Dredge as a mechanic, specifically due to it being the first Extended deck I ever played. For instance, I built Mimeoplasm in 2011 and the deck has been with me ever since. For me the idea of an edh deck generally starts when I see a legendary creature that meshes well with a theme that I want to explore or re-live from something else in my magic career.