Fairemont

General's kabuto is only 2 to attach.

I'm not sure if this will remain as my primary EDH deck, anyway, as I have another I just built that is probably far more competitive. I'd actually be somewhat afraid to play against it.

http://www.mtgvault.com/fairemont/decks/edh-insert-witty-title/

Absolutely true. While some people might find Shirei to be my primary card to use to make my deck function, anything short of counterspells will be ineffective, since I'll probably just tutor out one of my protective artifacts to keep him safe.

Its something I'll have to play around with.

It'd probably be less effective in my EDH meta, because half the players have large health gaining decks, so... They could just sacrifice life to eliminate my creatures under Athreos and disrupt everything without having to worry, really.

Ob Nixilis, the Fallen was in my list for a while, but I ended up swapping him out for something else. I had even considered Hythonia the Cruel, but due to her lack of demon properties she's a little trickier to get out, and I'd prefer to not destroy all creatures, because that destroys all mine, including Shirei and can wreck my field.

Board wipes aren't as important to this deck, because it can force people to sacrifice their creatures, or bypass their defenses entirely. Gray Merchant is usually neat, but I think I have more benefit out of my other creatures.

Your suggestion is good. I've considered most in the past. ^.^

It does seem pretty solid.

I like commander... I made some neat commander decks. Commander is fun because you can use cards and combos you couldn't normally use in modern without getting whooped before you ever get the chance to utilize them. Just my opinion, is all, but its also fairly popular where I am from and people take it rather seriously.

I think its fun. So there.

That part irks me as well.

I greatly approve of this deck. It seems really solid.

Not sure why you set it as unloved. :(

It needs more love.


Unless you're looking for help. In which case, I'm not sure what to say. It's pretty darn good.

I love Modern!

And I <3 Gothy!


*Waves her deck around*

http://www.mtgvault.com/fairemont/decks/edh-insert-witty-title/



I wish more people played Modern. I dislike standard, but we only have standard tournaments. Modern is more fun. More versatile. More stuff to do, more interesting decks. Pfft at standard.

I was really excited when I came across it. Hopefully it will work out well. I like how the deck is very versatile. I think it will make it able to handle most situations it gets into.

I had fun writing it, and its always nice to see what people had in mind for their decks when they put them up, especially if you're looking for help with them. If they dont know what you are trying to do they can't really make suggestions as easy outside of 'staple cards'.

Hello!

Some stuff I see that might help you out!

One thing I notice is that a /lot/ of your creatures generate +1/+1 tokens and that is nice, because there are a couple cards that will make this deck reeeaally nice. The first I would consider looking at is Marchesa, the Black Rose. She gives you creatures 'Dethrone', which gives the a +1/+1 counter whenever they attack the opponent with the most life, but more importantly, any creature (including herself), that dies while it has a +1/+1 counter on it will return to battle at the end of the next end step. This means that all your creatures with outlast or other methods of acquiring counters will always be coming back as long as Marchesa is around.

Another creature that you might consider is Mikaeus the Unhallowed. He does the sort of same thing as Marchesa, though he has 'undying' instead. This means that all your creatures that die /without/ counters on them will come back to life with a +1/+1 counter on them (right away, as opposed to at the end step), which means they are not viable for Marchesa's ability. ^.^

Your creatures will become unstoppable!

Anyway, some other things you'll reaaaally want to consider are tutors and draw engines, things that allow you to draw cards. EDH is notoriously fickle when it comes to getting cards you want/need, so having ways to force your deck to give you more cards is very valuable, and since you have progenitus as your general, you have every card accessible. You should be able to find a few things that could come in handy. One card you might consider is Academy Elite. It comes into play with a number of +1/+1 counters on it and they can be removed to draw a card, and it can actually draw itself to death, which means it will respawn with Mikaeus around, so you can basically draw as many cards as you want. Something pretty handy.

Anyway, here are a couple examples of EDH decks I have built which have solid balance to them so you can get some examples of what you might be looking for to help optimize your deck for victories! Because winning is more fun than losing.

http://www.mtgvault.com/fairemont/decks/edhshadowborn-apostle/

or

http://www.mtgvault.com/fairemont/decks/edh-insert-witty-title/

Best of luck!

I'll do my best to help you out!

You have one too many cards! >:D

Anyyyway!

Rakdos, Lord of Riots is a neat commander, even though he is a liiiittle trickier to cast than some other commanders, his ability to reduce the cost of other creatures (as long as you can keep hitting opponents) is very valuable.

Looking at your deck, you have a good grasp of what creatures you want. Creatures with evasion types, such as flying, which you have a lot of, or things like intimidate, fear, shadow, etc. can be extremely useful. Your deck is also very powerful in terms of building up mana and reducing the cost of your creatures, but I see one /big/ issue you will have.

You have almost no way to ensure that you have creatures to play, and will likely have a very slow deck. One thing you will want to look for are cards that can help you draw more cards. One of my favorites for EDH is Planar Portal. It can help you search out one card each turn for six uncolored mana. It's a bit spendy to use early on, but hopefully you'll have plenty of mana to dump into it.

You'll maybe want to consider some other tutors, like Increasing Ambition, Demonic Tutor, etc. as they can help you get creatures or other cards you want early on. You might also consider putting an Eye of Ugin into your lands, as it can help you search out uncolored cards and reduces the cost of Eldrazi spells since you have a good number of those.

Overall, this is a good start to a reliable and solid EDH deck!

I have a couple decks you could look at for some examples of how to balance out manabases and tutors and the like. Take a peek if you want.

http://www.mtgvault.com/fairemont/decks/edh-insert-witty-title/

or

http://www.mtgvault.com/fairemont/decks/edhshadowborn-apostle/

Best of luck!

I'll try to help you some more, too! :3

Interesting choice of a commander! He seems a bit expensive to cast for a 5/5, and likely won't get to be put in and out repeatedly to respawn all of his kobolds, but that is probably okay because you do have the spawning of sacrifice-able things elsewhere. However, the one thing I noticed is that you don't have any reeeeeeally reliable ways to spawn a lot of tokens to sacrifice, or just stuff in general to sacrifice.

You would benefit greatly from some tutors, especially easy because you have black, so things like Diabolic Tutor, Demonic Tutor, Increasing Ambition, etc, will allow you to get your better spawners out, one of which I know will be critical for you is Mycoloth, as he seems to be one of your more useful and reliable spawners as he spawns every turn. So, you want to make sure he has some stuff to eat, so perhaps a turn after you put your commander in and just have Mycoloth roll in and eat up everything and get a ton of tokens every turn.

You have a number of things to sacrifice with, including your general, but aside from giving you the colors you desire for the build and the.. like... five tokens, he might not be all that useful with what you have right now. He is vulnerable to a number of spells, even if they might not be able to easily burn him, exiles and 'destroy creatures' will get him. One thing you might want to consider adding aside from tutors are a couple artifacts or such that can give him hexproof or invincibility. Swiftfoot boots is popular, but another I enjoy is General's Kabuto. Though the Kabuto is more shroud than hexproof, meaning you can't use your own spells on him, it'll allow him to attack without worry about being killed, which means you can pump him up and then obliterate your opponents.

One other thing I notice is that you have a /lot/ of non-basic lands, a lot of which are probably not that useful to you in the long run. What I consider is trimming anything not-crucial and adding more basic lands, because one thing a lot of people /will/ use are cards that wipe non-basic lands. This means you could lose a huge portion of your mana-base really easily.

Granted, the non-basic lands are fancier and more versatile. You can add something like Planar Portal to search out cards (including any lands) and keep your manabase going. Its something to consider at least.

I have a sacrifice deck (like you), that I have done a lot of work to optimize. It can be seen here, so maybe you can get a few ideas!

http://www.mtgvault.com/fairemont/decks/edhshadowborn-apostle/

Another deck I just built can show a few things you might consider as well, as it is not mono-black and can give a better idea of how to build a really versatile EDH deck, as it has infinite combos for basically everything; damage, draw, opponent death-draw, board wipes, creature killing, token spawning, etc.

http://www.mtgvault.com/fairemont/decks/edh-insert-witty-title/

Hope I helped. :)

Gothy...

I just made the most evil of evil decks. Its EDH, but I could probably make a non-EDH variation. Go look at my [EDH] Marchesa Multi-Infinites deck. http://www.mtgvault.com/fairemont/decks/edh-marchesa-multiinfinites/

Its not complete, yet, but.. the fun part is it references you and your Mike on a Trike thing. :P

It has like, multiple infinite combos in it. So evil.

I have counterflux~

Just have to counter the creatures necessary
Or spells necessary.

Pffft. I'd know how to stop it! :D

Hehe. Yeah. Though, I do have those spells to blow up planeswalkers. :P