BEDH: Bear in Mind

by NorthernWarlord on 14 July 2022

Command Zone (2 cards)

Creatures (1)

Enchantments (1)

Main Deck (98 cards)

Sideboard (0 cards)

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Deck Description

Your opponents will be unable to BEAR all the card advantage you are going to get!

This is a Budget Elder Dragon Highlander deck (BEDH for short). It is meant for the Elder Dragon Highlander format, a.k.a. Commander. If you are not familiar with the format, I'll link it below for you.
https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Commander_(format)

I mostly use MTG Vault for my own private projects nowadays, but feel free to comment or request a deck of your choice. I've loved the Vault so far, and I like that they are still improving on it, as well as I am improving on my English language skills.

So, if you like what you see, consider checking out some of my other budget-y work through the link below.
https://www.mtgvault.com/northernwarlord/budget/

How to Play

Now this is a silly deck, attempting to have a valuable yet useful beatstick in its command zone while providing some additional cards. Good thing most of the cards in this deck have some serious synergy with card draw!

Cards in this deck can be divided mostly into two categories: cards that let you draw more cards and cards that utilize that card draw for their own benefit. Wilson belongs to the first category, allowing you to draw cards when you drop him onto the field. This category also includes several "flicker"-type effects that exile and return cards onto the battlefield under your control. Use this to take advantage of both Wilson's enter-/leave-triggers as well as many other ETB-abilities!

Once the game carries on you can attempt to destroy enemies using huge beatsticks that grow stronger according to your card draw. Even Wilson becomes very dangerous if you manage to slap a card like Empyrial Plate or Hand of Vecna on him!


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Pros:
+ Spews additional cards almost out of everywhere!
+ Many of this deck's cards can become a huge threat on their own, provided some time.

Cons:
- Besides additional card draw and benefits upon the mentioned draw, this deck's card synergy is quite low.
- Requires time and setup to pull off its best plays.

Deck Tags

  • Simic
  • Card Draw
  • EDH
  • Casual
  • Budget
  • Cheap

Deck at a Glance

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Mana Symbol Occurrence

0490031

Deck Format


Commander

NOTE: Set by owner when deck was made.

Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for BEDH: Bear in Mind

You know what I love about the vault ?
Just like I can build a computer using paperstrips, mtgvault itself can be used
As a sort of paperstrip engine, because frankly all it is, is an unlimitedly large piece of paper that can be segmented, and the art of shuffling such a machinery gets a little complicated, but it's the same principle.

For me, mtgvault is very much a program that I can build on and improve and use to measure "stuff"

Sure, people seem to have a hard time grasping the papermodel even though it's been proving itself pretty often, so I absolutely don't expect people to see how the framework of my "vault computer" is tied together.

But here I am, using the frames of mtgvault to design a computer within a program.

Sure, it's a little more clunky than an actual computer program, and just as I have to rewrite the paperstrips to reprogram things, I have to rewrite certain parts of my vault version of a computer.

I love that this is a possibility.

In a way, you've been trying for a while to do the same thing at an unconscious level with your "own projects" and in a way, I love that too. Here we are, programming within the same architectural framework with our own agendas. It's "sweet".

I guess there's a difference in how we program within this setup, as I rarely see you work on a sort of infrastructure the way I model mine.

I mean, using the search engine to search for specific keywords, that "command" can be used to "call up" specific lines of programming sort of like asking a real computer to show you exactly the parts of the programs you want to modify. Ofcourse in here this command often shows you the lines entered by others. The majority of lines in this meta computer are just lists (of decks ofcourse)

But I use that feature to both study the "troll" architecture and to refine some pretty powerfull tools of my own making.

That's the thing.

There are humans that design machinery, humans that produce copies of machinery and sometimes successfully alter them, and then there are those who just use the machines and those who prefer other machines.

It's a hierarchy of skills.

I love that this place can contain all that :)

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Posted 15 July 2022 at 14:58

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When I was younger the "datamatics education" was centered about a calculation spreadsheet.
While everyone else used it to create a versatile "home economy" model I used it to produce a small primitive animation. A man going to the library, grabbing a book and leaving again.

My interest in economy back then was not what it is today, but I certainly used the framework of that program to produce something that was above the rest of the class, and at the same time way below what the course intended to produce. That course was intended for office workers, not programmers, and I was very much a programmer.
The Danish government really flunked edb back then.

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Posted 15 July 2022 at 15:56

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Thank you for your input.

Me myself have loved MTG Vault for the longest of time basically for nostalgia reasons: pretty much all my friends have transferred from here to TappedOut, Archideckt or even dropped out of MTG completely, but this website keeps on entertaining me.

Some other users, such as yourself, are examples of people who stick to this place despite all its deficiencies.
Keep rocking!

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Posted 15 July 2022 at 16:34

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Okay, here's some news...

Winnie the pooh is now public domain...

The horror movie "blood and honney" has already been announced, and from what I've seen, the mask from the movie is likely to be mass produced.

Winnie the pooh and piglet decides to go maniacal after being abbandonned by Jacob.

I look forward to a chase scene through the 100 yard forest :)

So...

Blood and honney as a deck. Grull, golgari or jund ?

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Posted 17 July 2022 at 06:13

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I think it will greatly depend on the commander.

A bear or a boar commander could likely be the funniest option, so Wilson could very well be the commander for such a deck. Perhaps if they were paired with a Red or a Black Background, they could go into Gruul or Golgari theme?

Alternatively, Raggadragga, Goreguts Boss could be the Piglet in the deck.

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Posted 19 July 2022 at 20:18

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It's a nice pick(let)
Winnie hasn't been printed yet in my oppinion as he should be a red bear, but for some reason wotc don't deal with red bears. They've got blue bears, but no red ones.

Maybe they fear stepping on some russian ideology with red bears?

Mountain grizzly, crag bear, cliffcrawling nandi, baloo terror of the ravine...

The theme is obvious there, but untouched.

Volcanic bear, lightning bear, flame bear (ooh, flamebear would be epic)

And then blood and honney would be a real deck, cause winnie the pooh is sort of tied to red...

He's a cave bear...

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Posted 20 July 2022 at 00:18

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