Help: Newb EDH deck

by alexranger on 28 October 2013

Main Deck (99 cards)

Sideboard (1 card)

Creatures (1)

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  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for Help: Newb EDH deck

Gonna go out on a limb and say Ruric Thar is your commander for this deck. You generally want to put your commander in your sideboard so peeps will know, especially if you don't use his name in the title.

Now to begin with, when you use a commander like Ruric Thar, you have to keep in mind that he will hurt you just as much as your opponents. Artifact/Instant/Sorcery/Planeswalker type spells will all cause him to smack you in the face, so you have to be very picky about what you are willing to take 6 damage for. As it stands, almost half of your deck is going to hurt you once your commander comes out. That is alright if you don't really plan on playing him, but in that case their are quite a few commanders you can use that will prove to be more useful to you.

I don't mean to sound rude, but it seems like you are fairly new to Magic, and especially new to the EDH format in general. A lot of these cards can find their place in a Modern/Standard format, but a good majority of them do not transition to EDH well. And on top of a lot of fairly new cards, I see mostly weak early game creatures that will not do all that much for you in this format, so you have to set a primary win condition for yourself. If that win condition is pimp slapping your opponents in the face with ridiculously huge creatures, then that is completely valid but you will have to work on putting in cards that will help you get there. 99 cards plus a commander may seem like a lot, but you will quickly find that when you have to start choosing between so many good cards, spots fill up fast.

There is a severe lack of focus with this deck. You have a lot of random cards that do not have all that much synergy with each other. The first step you have to take when you make an EDH deck is choosing a commander that you want to work your deck around. Ruric Thar can be hilariously fun to play, but without focus it will not get you very far. I could tell you a whole list of cards that would make this deck better, but it would not really teach you how to make a better deck. For now, I recommend you look into some older, and more awesome cards, especially from sets like Alara and Rise of the Eldrazi.

http://www.mtgvault.com/tealfox/decks/real-mans-edh-ruric-thar/

The link above is my take on a Ruric Thar deck. Hopefully you will be able to get more of an idea of what a focused (although not necessarily amazing) EDH looks like and give you some inspiration to make your own.

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Posted 28 October 2013 at 05:41

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Alright, thanks. I just was hoping to get into EDH :)

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Posted 28 October 2013 at 16:25

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