~Beyond the Border~ > Akyu's Arcade
Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
MatsuriSakuragi:
--- Quote from: Tamer Anode/Cathode on July 28, 2018, 02:09:15 PM ---Thinking about it a bit more, and wondering if I should use the money I'd spend on the C18 deck to try and buy one of the other C17 decks or try and track down one of the C13 decks that are still in circulation (I've been meaning to try and do something with Nekusar for a while)
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Make sure you check the value of what's in those decks since you'll likely be spending over MSRP on those. C17 wasn't as bad as this year on value, but the cat and wizard decks were are pretty rough when it comes to getting value out of them. As for the Nekusar deck, it's pretty expensive if all you really want from it is Nekusar. It's fine if you want to buy them to have them, but if you're trying to build a more focused deck you're better off getting singles.
commandercool:
I keep trying to put lists for Yuriko Commander together and I'm finding it surprisingly tough. She clearly wants comes-into-play creatures to bounce, preferably with evasion, and then sacrifice outlets to get her back in the command zone, but none of the ratios I've come up with feel great on paper. I guess it's just one of those weird decks where I'm going to need to have her in-hand to playtest lists and the deck is probably going to be pretty bad for a while.
Some kind of scry theme with cards with high natural CMCs (Curtain's Call is the main one that comes to mind) seems like it's worth fitting in too in order to burn people out with her ninja tribal ability. Although outside of a few of the weaker ninjas it seems like there probably isn't much she wants to run that isn't common in Commander already so hopefully I won't need to buy much new stuff to make her work.
Edit: Maybe some of the better Delve cards would be good for her CMC-based burn ability, but UB decks tend to want to recycle most of the things in their graveyards so Delve is a little painful and I don't think I'll have the real-estate to go full-on graveyard stocking. Same with Affinity, I guess I could lean toward an artifact-based mana base to fuel big Affinity spells but that might be stretching the themes a little thin and artifact mana bases are always a little on the vulnerable side. Hmm...
commandercool:
I just put together five-color Zuberas for Pauper and did a few dry runs with it, and it's the weirdest deck I've ever played. Five-color mana in Pauper is very difficult to plan out and it has so much redundancy in sacrifice outlets, Zuberas, and Unearth effects that there's no room for any utility that doesn't come from the Zuberas themselves. I have no idea if that makes for a playable deck, but it can theoretically do strong things. This is probably never going to be a "real" deck, but I'd like to get it to the point that I can actually bring it to events without going 0-5. We'll see if that's possible I guess.
Tamer Anode/Cathode:
well they came straight out of the gate and revealed we're getting shockland reprints for Guilds
Narcomoeba reprint I did not expect, however
commandercool:
New art for shocks! Always always happy for shockland reprints. They're cheap enough that I don't feel bad about picking them up for Modern right now but nowhere near cheap enough for me to want to put them in all of my Commander decks, so reprints should keep them from going up in price for another few years at worst and will hopefully drop their prices overall once they rotate out of Standard. Plus, great new art!
Narcomeba reprint at rare even. Huh. It wasn't especially expensive, but it's cute with Surveil so I guess it's interesting for Standard maybe.
Mentor looks very powerful on paper. I'm curious to see how it plays in practice.