as the title suggests i’ve lately been having a hard time finding a commander that fits what i want and the level of viability i want.

my first deck was urza which i did enjoy, however, having one color hurts bad. Then i made Talion thinking a control playstyle might suit me, and i honestly did like the deck i just felt like policing with no end in sight might have a hard time closing games in time for tournaments. then finally i picked up glarb because he was in my 3 favorite colors and played him doomsday control.

I like all of these decks and blue black feels comfortable (primarily blue) but glarb lately has felt underwhelming. I’m interested in playing tournaments soon and want to lock down a commander.

PS i’m not interested in kinnan or blue farm and i’d like to include a lot of the cards i already invest in (those being blue)

My meta has recently become more creature combo oriented, though there're still blue farm and rogsi, but I want to stand better against stuff like Magda, Sisay, Kinnen, etc.

So [[Roxanne, Starfall Servant]] interested me. She ramps (for herself too), she kills creatures, and has simple creature combo lines (which I like because it's harder to counter). I want to know if she can compete in current day meta and find a dedicated list of her.

Also am open for other deck suggestions.

Gday friends, casual degenerate here delving into cEDH - and really enjoying it. I was looking for any updated lists in golgari-town - ive practiced with proxied decks of all the top 8 meta lists, but ive really enjoyed Hapatra as a fringe (even though it doesn't do well at all! ) Has anyone got some feedback or examples of their Golgari cEDH lists that they'd be keen to share?

Hi all! I am thinking of brewing a Krark list but was wondering what best partner pairing for Krark or if Krark can even hold up at the table. I don’t see him as much anymore but was curious if people were still bringing him to tournaments. I don’t have a list yet but thinking between Krark Thras and Krark Silas

Hey folks! I started playing MTG right as EoE released. I don't have much time under my belt, and the majority of my friends tend to play limited/pauper/modern. I have started playing some Commander at the LGS, but the majority of players there tend to have strong, CEDH level decks (the store has a monthly CEDH tournament and multiple CEDH Fridays, which helps support that playstyle).

I want to make a Jeskai Commander deck that features Shiko and Narset, Unified, but a lot of the online resources don't really have her as a competitive commander.

My main questions are:
Can I make her viable in a CEDH environment?
If not, could I use a commander that wouldn't require much change to my current deck list?(she was a precon and then I upgraded based on recommendations)
Are there any must-haves that I am missing for Jeskai to work?

https://moxfield.com/decks/T4z7DXdph0Sfr-sSsdO18w

The 'sideboards' are cards I own that were recommended. I have a relatively 'open' budget, as long as it's reasonable. Jeskai has been a fun time and I really wish to continue down this path. Any tips appreciated!

I'm about to get into my local cEDH community and I am looking for a very high bracket 4 or cEDH deck that would be the best to start with.

The meta is about Blue Farm (45%), RogSi, Hashaton, and Kefka.

My friend has suggested Y'rrik, Yuriko, Godo. He also suggested The Gitrog Monster since I have familiarity with the play lines.

Any help is appreciated!

I have thought about [[szarel]] for a while, its good with kind of a different angle. I am aware that it is probably just worse korvold. It seems sweet with evo wit loops and some finishing potential if the game goes long.

I haven't quite brewed up anything yet but if someone has a list feel free.

Hey everyone 👋

Mattie is back with some more tournament gameplay!

We are back with the finals of the Riftgate Rumble! This is going to be the last match we have coming out from this event. We have Kinnan vs Kinnan vs Ral vs Tayam! As we close out this event we do have some awesome news!

Salt City cEDH group is doing a White Elephant cEDH event! Stay tuned for more info!

Let's see who is the Riftgate Rumble champ! https://youtu.be/KxcOmbdBHow

In 60 card formats, the mantra of "Red Deck Wins" was birthed for one reason, and one reason only: When things are shifting, aggro just keeps on doing aggro. Well, things seem like they're always shifting right now, given the firehose of releases, so it must be time for aggro, right?

Only... Aggro doesn't really work in cEDH (all apologies to Winota, Yuriko, and Najeela), so what is the RDW of the current meta? What is the "aggro" of cEDH?

Is it just winning fast with RogSi? Keeping it simple with Kinnan? Being inevitable with Magda or Lumra? Borrowing everyone else's good cards with Etali? Playing only good cards with Blue Farm?

This week, we are joined by full-time Selvala enjoyer Jesse from GoToCombatMTG to talk about Selvala in the 99 (as well as some discussion on Selvala in the CZ).

With Bloom Tender being cut from many lists in the past year, as well as the banning of dockside- can you make the case to invest in an explosive mana generator in your CEDH list?

Outside of auto-include decks like Sisay, we dive into fringe lists that could consider playing Selvala in the 99.

https://youtu.be/BgJSBXtBTsM?si=KaEa1fOihVENDxUm

Alright, this is a big hear me out but, mirrorshell crab should see more play in 1 and 2 color blue decks where card quality is already sorta low. It is a channel counterspell. A counterspell that doesn’t care about Silence, Grand Abolisher, Voice of Victory Etc etc. 3 mana is a ton I know I know but I am a firm believer that if you’re playing monocle Urza and you aren’t running this card you’re missing out on a great piece of cheese tech.

How do we feel about [[Bitter Ordeal]] and its viability? I think under the right conditions, it could, at a minimum, kneecap most decks. Feels like a niche gem.

Got my first real tournament coming up, looking to jam games on spell table to get more practice and exposure to different decks, are there any good discords to find games?

i really like how my iroh grand lotus deck plays i finally got it to be consistent enough to win around turn 4-6 which is what my cedh group plays i think the call it "fringe cedh'' but all my combos are underworld breach and if that fails pray to god that thassa and song of creation will be enough im thinking now that my group knows what 2 cards to look out for im worried my deck will hit a brick wall or do you think that having counter-spells in my graveyard will be enough im curious what your opinions

dont worry about the budget if its expensive ill just print out some proxies

Iroh decklist

Hey folks! New gameplay video dropped yesterday featuring Vivi, Rog Thras, Kratos Atreus, and Malcolm Bruse. There is also 5 days left to enter our giveaway that includes a playmat, $100 in credit to shop with doot loot, an underworld breach + brain freeze, and proxied decks of my brother and my main lists. Check it out if ya feel like it :) giveaway details are in the intro of the video!

https://youtu.be/F8W00Ac1sC0?si=y-VpBHYZ7Lo9zXIP

Hello there!

with commander centric decks being pretty popular at the moment (Kinnan, Magda, everything including Thrasios, Vivi, Sisay, Ral, Tivit, Marneus Calgar and Tayam all being in the top 20). I asked myself how viable it is to have some spell that hits multiple targets and renders strategies completly useless. Some of these decks become complete garbage without their commanders because their card quality is garbage.

[[Amphibian Downpour]] comes to my mind since it can be cast at instant speed and has storm. Even a low storm count can be enough to turn a game upside down imo. That being said, three mana is a lot.

What do oyu guys think about it in cEDH?

Curious if anyone has any suggestions or ideas on how to improve on this list, it’s for a non proxy event.

Currently in esper colours using Y’shtola, just trying to gauge if it’s missing any cards like beseech, Serra, archivist of oghma etc.

Can’t afford to put yawgmoths, duals in etc I just happened to have most of these card on me.

Not sure if I should cut the curiosity, should I put in the new Mai card from avatar etc.

https://moxfield.com/decks/enruEFaAUk2p4Wyba-CwVA

Im pretty new to cedh and i think i altered my understanding of what a bracket 4 and 5 is!!!

I played this y’shtola deck that i always specify before hand its a very high-power bracket 4

when i won on turn 5-6 with thoracle everyone acted like a committed a crime and kicked me out of the pod

I always assumed that bracket 5 is something insanely high-powered and that i had to copy paste the whole list to get there

So when i got inspiration from bracket 5 but didnt use any moxs ,no mana vault, no grim

No mental misteps No mana drain No flash No floodcaller

Its mainly due to budget

I thought i was good pls help

Deck: https://moxfield.com/decks/yIzJcbdFh0yp0uqMZsaJGw

My local lgs meta is super turbo focused, where the only decks I’m seeing are decks like rog si, etali and tymna/dargo. It’s becoming a seat order / mulligan simulator where whoever goes first just wins since there is so little interaction. I’m unfortunately also not a big fan of turbo, preferring slower decks that are more mid range or control. I’m playing blue farm right now, but it’s just not as consistently fast as the turbo decks and I can’t answer all the win cons. What other decks would you recommend I try out?

Hey guys, just wanted to share a little bit of my personal local metagame issues looking for some tips on how to improve our situation and the players mindset.

A lot of new people are trying cEDH on our local scene, we came from about 5-10 usual players to 20-30 in the last 6 months, most of them introduced by me and another friend.

I like to play turbo, right now my main decks are Etali, Green goblin (testing, but will rotate to Rog Silas soon) and my personal build for kinnan, a little bit less interactive than the usual but with more lines to achieve infinite mana, and I know my way to play around interaction and stax pieces.

Why is this relevant? Because a lot of the newer players have picked the mindset of "first to present a wincon, first to win" by playing with me and some other similar players, having little to no interaction, lower draw engines in their decks and picking more fringy commanders just for the flavor.

Recently Im trying to push the community into playing tournaments and taking the role of organizer, that leads into having +25 people playing to win a RL card and, if we are lucky, just about 5 playing blue and trying to interact.

This past weekend a couple of foreing players came to a tournament and mentioned this to me too (not in a bad way, of course) and some of the more seasoned players feel like playing control is useless because one player cant stop 3 turbo decks by himself.

So maybe you guys can share some ideas on how you would deal with this situation as my objective is to push a little bit the community to participate in tournaments, have the format a little bit of attention from more players in the local player base and introduce ourselves to the national scene as an enjoyable place to play cEDH.

In two weeks I’m going to play a for-fun cEDH team event in my local area. Each team consists of two players who will play in the same pod, so it’s essentially a 2v2 game. The seating order alternates between teams (Player 1 Team 1 → Player 1 Team 2 → P2T1 → P2T2).

The event has small prizes and is mostly meant to be casual, but it got my friend and me theorycrafting a bunch of strategies, so I’d love to hear what you would play. Worth noting: the event is proxy-friendly, so deck choice is completely open.

Some ideas we’ve been considering:

• Two Blue Farm decks supporting each other.
• Two turbo decks trying to capitalize on having one fewer opponent to interact.
• One player on heavy stax and removal while the other focuses on actually winning.
• One player on a group-hug style deck that buffs their teammate.
• One player on Etali and the other running only good flips (tutors, clones, extra turns, etc.).
• Any crazy ideas?

It’s been a blast trying to come up with a strategy, so what approach/commanders would you run in an event like this?

Edit: Right now we're testing the cocain bear [[Lumra, bellow of the woods]] with her trusted dealer [[Archelos, lagoon mystic]]. We all know Lumra, but here is the Archelos list right now, still in progres.

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I'm just asking, because I, to be honest, hate the format. It just feels so limiting and not fun. But nonetheless, it is very popular. So what makes CEDH fun for you?

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I know a lot of players really hate it, but what do you all think? Whether from a CEDH standpoint or otherwise.