Mirri, Weaponized on a Budget

by KeeganG on 18 February 2015

Main Deck (100 cards)

Sideboard (5 cards)

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Deck Description

Because this website seems to be all about the budget decks lately. For those of you who don't consider $70.00 a budget price, consider this... the mean price for the rest of the EDH decks I own, without outliers, is about $300.00. EDH is an expensive format, and winning against expensive decks can be quite difficult without playing expensive cards. From my experience, the solution is to play mono colored decks; land bases are what dangerously elevate the price of an otherwise reasonable deck in the first place, and there are plenty of viable mono colored commanders out there. For those who are interested in competitive EDH on a budget, i'd recommend commanders like Krenko http://www.mtgvault.com/keegang/decks/turn-twenko-edh/, Drana, or Azami. These commanders are cheap to buy, present extremely effective strategies, and can be developed over time into top-tier decks with the gradual trading for and buying of staples.

With that said, Mirri is NOT competitive EDH material. She's just a cat: a hasty, flying, first striking, hair puffing cat (+1/+1 counters = frizz). There's something oddly amusing about killing opponents with 10 infect damage from a exoskeleton suited feline vampire wielding a Niigata. I'll be the first to admit that commanders like Skithryx, Drana, and Geth are probably better options for the voltron strategy, but I like the fact that Mirri has haste and comes down on turn 4, and also the bohemian appeal of using a cat as a commander. For the record, this is not my first cat deck: http://www.mtgvault.com/keegang/decks/catpocalypse-edh/

Please give suggestions for inexpensive black cards that do cool things. When I say inexpensive, I mean five dollars or less, preferably two or less. Thanks for giving the deck a look!

How to Play

Play rocks or small dudes, cast Mirri, swing with Mirri, put things on Mirri, swing with Mirri, draw cards so you can put more things on Mirri, play another creature?, swing with Mirri, wipe the board and recast Mirri, swing with Mirri, you killed someone with Mirri?, feel satisfied, swing with Mirri, Mirri gets tucked!, cast diabolic intent searching for Mirri and O-Naginata, cast both, attach and swing with Mirri (at the player that tucked her), kill your opponents stupid flier, swing with Mirri at the player who played the stupid flier, kill player who played the stupid flier, swing with Mirri at remaining player, loose to crucible of worlds-strip mine-azusa. So is life when playing Mirri.

Or

You play Mindcrank with Bloodchief Ascension at three counters and everyone double takes. That's a style kill.

Deck Tags

  • Mono Black
  • Voltron
  • EDH
  • Budget

Deck at a Glance

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Mana Curve

Mana Symbol Occurrence

007900

Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for Mirri, Weaponized on a Budget

*like* I had a pretty good laugh reading the how to play :)
Some (few) budget- suggestions that came into my mind when looking through the decklist:
"Mask of Avacyn"...hexproof equipment will always be important in commander damage decks.
"Fireshrieker"...to boost her damage with double strike.
"Read the Bones"...similar to "Sign in Blood" but has the advantage of scry 2, although it can't be used deal damage to your opponent .

Greetings
Muktol

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Posted 26 February 2015 at 16:13

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The How to Play makes the deck, IMO.
Read the Bones is excellent, can't believe I overlooked it.
I'd have a tough time parting with the efficiency and effectiveness of swiftfoot boots for the mask, so i'll stick with the boots for now.
Fire shrieker is a card i've seriously considered before... It's kind of expensive for mana cost, but I do agree that it's devastatingly good, perhaps more so than Loxodon warhammer. When I do buy this deck after testing, I'm slipping in a few more expensive cards that I own like the basilisk collar, and i'd feel comfortable with running 1 lifelink enabler, possibly cutting war hammer for shrieker.

Thanks for the suggestions, much appreciated!

Be sure to check out my other EDH decks and i'll take a look at yours.

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Posted 26 February 2015 at 18:06

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