Deck Help Requests

{"ops":[{"insert":"This is my mono-blue, pseudo-storm Wizard deck. The goal is to utilize Arni's untap ability with a variety of tools such as "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Relic of Legends"}},{"insert":" for mana and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Cryptic Gateway"}},{"insert":" for instant-speed creature cheating before eventually building to a "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Retraction Helix"}},{"insert":" combo alongside a cheap creature and a cost-reducer of some sort. My goal is for the deck to be able to smoothly pivot into more controlling and more value-midrange sort of gameplans, but the creatures here don't attack that well and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Laboratory Maniac"}},{"insert":" is basically the only firm wincon as a result.\n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"I want to figure out how to make the deck use its deck space more effectively. I'd love to add a couple lands if possible, and I also wouldn't mind getting a couple more Wizards in here as well to push that synergy package. I'd also love to have another counterspell or two for protection, but I'm currently not sure how to fit these things. Other goals would be getting another flash enabler or two in, getting extra copy spells for Arni in, and adding a little bit of draw that's not too clunky.\n\nIf you know of any cards that elegantly bridge some of these needs or provide extra utility, definitely let me know! I also wonder if there are some cards here that I have an unearned bias toward and which won't actually perform as well as I want them to. \n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"This deck is trying to win by ramping out as much as possible in mono-red, presenting consistent midrange board threats in the mid-game, then eventually winning with either combat or noncombat damage enhanced by damage multipliers (i.e. city on fire, torbran). Clive's front-side etb is the only real way the deck has to refill its hand, so it seeks to capitalize on that through clone effects and ramp pieces to ensure that it can easily re-trigger his etb whenever it's needed. \n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"This deck is very effective if it can get to the mid-late game. Almost every time I've played this deck, I've been able to put myself in a good position by building up a few ramp pieces, casting clive to rebuild my hand, and then getting a few threats on board before taking over the game. Where the deck really struggles is that it has a fairly high curve, which makes it very vulnerable in the early game. Sometimes, this doesn't matter because in commander, playing mana rocks usually makes you appear to opponents as a less significant threat than others with dangerous permanents that have more immediately proactive effects. So, I tend to be able to dodge removal early on.\n\nHowever, I've had a few games recently that have exposed this weakness playing against more aggressive decks piloted by people willing to target me in that stage of the game because they know how difficult the deck can be to stop once it gets going. I've tried to counterbalance this by adding more interaction (especially one-sided board wipes) that can get rid of threats at the tail end of the early game, but I've found that it's not enough.\n\nSo, I'm looking for impactful 1-2 drops in mono red that can help establish board presence or otherwise get the deck to the mid game. I fear targeted burn spells aren't impactful enough but I may be wrong--I have considered bolt and ghostfire slice, for example. I just find most red permanents in this cmc range don't tend to do enough to feel like they're worth including in the deck.\n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"The deck is trying to win by decking out all the opponents without using mill.\nIn the early parts of the game, the deck aims to accumulate value, while keeping the game in check with counter/removal spells.\nThen, once the deck has accumulated enough value, it will try to deck the opponents in one explosive turn.\n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"I need to make the deck reliable enough that I can survive until I am ready to go for the win.\nI have also had some problems with not having enough mana to deck my opponents with one spell, and no way to copy the spell. So I would like to either be able to generate more mana in a turn, or generate more mana in the form of treasures so that my finishing spell can benefit from my commanders trigger.\n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"I love game actions and I love the flavour of this commander.\n\nI'm looking for help to build a budget deck around him based mainly on generating value with tap/untap synergies and some unique interactions, whilst also being able to interact with my opponents without blue in the deck.\n\nI'm trying to avoid Voltron, and need some help moving the deck towards this goal as the current version is very unsatisfying to play.\n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"I never seem to have answers, interaction, or synergy between my commander and the rest of my deck and struggling to find direction around his synergy that's not Voltron, which I'm trying my best to avoid.\n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"I know it is uninspired and boring, but here is “my take” at a generic Edgar Markov deck. The strategy should be cheap vampires to trigger the eminence from the command zone as often as possible and to go wide with many vampires. There is also of the traditional classic combo wincon in there… but I dontvwant to just tutor it up. I want to keep this as much on brand an no-brainy as possible. \n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"This should be able to compete with a very high power level playgroup that does not refrain from using proxies or universes beyond cards to just make the most optimised decks. Yet I want to stick to my policy not including universes beyond and not including proxies. Mirkwood Bats I consider as just sneaky enough to leave them in, and I am all in for some funny or suprising artworks or cards. The deck doesn’t need to be budget but it shouldn’t include the most expensive stuff there is. Flavor is a thing that is very important to me… if there are any ideas to make it a bit more not so samy, I am also open. I invested a lot into that deck already so I am looking more for some twerks and changes rather than a complete remake…\n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"Uses Alta to get Blightsteel out. It's the only creature in the deck. I have some discard/draw cards in case i draw the blightsteel. \n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"Balancing and if im missing any obvious cards. \n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"I tried to build an izzet storm deck thats ok to play in bracket 2. I avoided rituals for the most part... So far the games i played i suffered a bit from not developing my board (a lot of my mana is goig to start fortelling my finishers) so i was at the merci of the others on not being attacked.\nDue to that and the nature of fortell, i found usually the deck plays ''controlly'' where my best plays often revolve around a boardwipe to gain time where while i acumulate my fortell resources.\nI would like to not have it be so ''controlly'' but im not sure how to achive that.\n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"So far the games i played i suffered a bit from not developing my board (a lot of my mana is goig to start fortelling my finishers) so i was at the merci of the others on not being attacked.\nDue to that and the nature of fortell, i found usually the deck plays ''controlly'' where my best plays often revolve around a boardwipe to gain time where while i acumulate my fortell resources.\nI would like to not have it be so ''controlly'' but im not sure how to achive that.\n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"https://archidekt.com/decks/25282192/zack is a deck meant to be thematically centred around OCs of mine. I'm intending for it to be a mid-level bracket 3 deck, not too strong, not too weak, being able to put out wins when played well and possibly some luck. The basic idea is to accelerate a board, (potentially using token synergies) and do funny assymetric board wipes using Iroas' 'prevent damage to attacking creatures'. Most games I've won so far are using things like Akroma's will or some extra combats to surprise take out some people, but I'm not quite sure if the deck currently holds a reliable wincon.\n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"I feel like this deck falls slightly short of its goal of being mid-bracket 3, and is a bit inconsistent. As a relatively new player, the only reference material I have is my pod's other regular decks. The best example of this is a similar deck a friend built, which is https://archidekt.com/decks/25999277/bird_jesus . While I've won games from it, it feels like I'm on the back foot compared to it, depending on which cards I draw, as it feels like it accelerates much faster than mine. To that end, I've tried adding a bunch of cards to my deck, however now it is over 100 cards.\n\nIn short, I'm looking to\nDecide what to cut from the current decklist down to 100 or less than 100 cards"},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Find some crucial things to add / fix to the deck"},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nThank you in advance!\n\nPS: It should be noted we play online so card costs really aren't a problem, not looking to build this deck physically, just to have fun.\n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"This Deck is kind an aggro Deck and wants to win about combat damage. \nSo I tried to use Duskanas 2/2 ability to have a good combination of useful and strong creatures. \n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"I want this deck to keep up with Bracket 3 decks. \nI do not like the \"classic\" tutors and it would be cool, if I can power it up without the gamechangers - should be able to keep up without. \nI can not win the game until yet, not sure if it's a power, a protection problem or something else. \nthx for help!\n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"This deck is meant to mill/generate treasures\n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"Unsure, just looking for advice\n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"I like to make food value engines and drain the table out from aristocrat/sacrifice triggers. Commander damage serves as a backup option to take someone out. I also really enjoy the squirrels & cats subtheme of the deck.\n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"I'm looking to power the deck down a bit while still keeping fun food synergies. I don't want to cut Cauldron Familiar, but maybe some of the other infinite combo pieces could be swapped for lower power options so the deck doesn't win as quickly.\n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"Have you ever thrown a cat toy at a person and watch your cat pounce on them? That's what Catcalling is about, I want to use artifacts that comes with tokens to get cats, let my cats pounce on my friends. Ragost and a few other guys are here in case of board wipes, just want some ways to utilize artifacts sitting around. \n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"I need help maintaining power on board, it's also slow as all hell. I need help cutting cards and finding decent synergy or funnier deck techs!\n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"The goal here is to get a lot of bears on my board then cast Kudo to make everything 2/2. Then buff up my bears with +1/+1 counters or even use Elesh Norn as a one-sided board wipe. Then swing out for big damage.\n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"Anything that could just generally make this deck more efficient wiht getting bears out and stronger.\n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"make the most of miracle effects and counterbalance (i don't have many miracle cards yet they're in the mail\n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"looking for more miracle effects worth using, more intense early game mana and tightening up my curve\n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"budget ketramose controll / blink deck\n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"i'm having trouble in gaining life since there is a lot of card draw, a couple of life gainers that did something more than just gaining life when a creature enters would be nice\n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"Voltron with Aerid Konstrari, using his ability to swing for commander damage early. Secondarily including interesting \"power equal to artifacts\" cards to win via combat damage. \n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"Just curious for any cool includes for artifacts matter, voltron, combat damage cards I may have missed\n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"This deck tries to get as many lands into play to then: Play a creature with power and toughness equal to the amount of lands I have to then: Cast a spell that draws cards equal to greatest power among creatures I control: To then trigger my commander and swing at someone with a really big land creature AKA Marit Lage.\n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"I would like to speed up the deck a bit. Because of the many steps in my game plan it takes a long time to assemble the whole engine. Can I somehow speed up this process and maybe push this deck up into the bracket 3 territory where I would like it to be (or at least play better in bracket 2). The other thing this deck struggles with is interacting with my opponents. Because my game plan takes a while to assemble its important for this deck to be able to slow down my opponents. At the moment it feels like I'm not able to interact and slow down my opponent enough to execute my own game plan. How can I fix this?\n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"Looking to free run big assassins, deal damage and win through Ezios effect.\nI have a Ramses as an alternative win con but other than that it doesn't do much special \n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"This is my first commander deck and I wonder about the mana base and my use of treasure tokens and if there's a more effective way to use them.\nGeneral building tips would be helpful too \n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"Punish my opponents for anything and everyting. This deck slowy drains my opponents life total while they are just taking game actions. \n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"This deck has a hard time closing the game and struggles a bit with card draw. What can i do to always have enough cards in hand and be able to end the game?\n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"Steal goodies mainly through vehicles using Edwards ability. No real wincon is intentional, i want to go heavy on the stealing stuff with vehicles and see how far that can go. \n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"Can't really trigger the steal ability with vehicles that often (like maybe 2-3 times a game) they usually just get blocked later on. Also leaves me wide open since i don't have blockers after crewing and casting creature i stole is difficult if i can't steal. That also leads me to struggling with card advantage very often since i am counting on the steal to get me those cards. \n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"The deck is trying to win by abusing witherblooms affinity for creatures granted to all sorceries. Spells like torment of hail fire, biorhythm w/ in gurrucks wake, chain of smof w/witherbloom apprentice, exsanguinate or stensian exsanguinist are the various win cons.\n\nThe main focus is to get cheap mana dorks on the field w/badger mole cub for large amounts of mana as early as possible, this can be supported using either natures revolt or kormus bell to turn my lands into creatures. Ezuris predation with in tandem with those two cards to wipe opponents lands. \n\nThere is also are large amount of protection either preventing counter spells or preventing destruction such as veil of summer/autumn, taiyo's safekeeping and heroic intervention.\n\nI can also go wide using bitterbloom bearer, bitterbloom blossom, archnogenesis, galadhrim ambush, wolf callers howl, worldspine wurm, lab rats, sprout swarm, tendershoot dryad, sedgemoor witch, saw in half and army of the damned.\n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"I need a second opinion on whether this deck has gone too heavy in one direction in order to get the massive board state/ cast big spells.\n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"Go big or go home 😆 put down bodies and pump them \n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"What do you think could be improved on? I heard a few folks say that I need to utilize blue properly and put on some counterspells but I justify it with protection instead \n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":{"card-link":"Maralen, Fae Ascendant"}},{"insert":" exile and play opponent's cards\n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"1st time building a deck\nIs there a way to always have elves and faeries enter the battlefield every turn?\nOr should I focus on a different approach?\nP.s. plan to increase my land soon; I just need to find what to replace\n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"Win using combat damage from big artifact creatures, buffed up from +1/+1 counters. \n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"With the deck needing big creatures to swing, I feel like I don't have a lot of high power on the board. I also feel like the deck is torn in a few directions right now, counters, artifacts, etc and don't know which route to fully commit to. \n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"This is a mono white blink and voltron deck. Phelia has to attack to trigger her blinking and grow with plus one counters so giving here equipment protection and evasion is vital. The low mana curve results in fast board states and getting phelia going asap. Blink creatures allow for removal, tutors, tokens and control. The goal is to keep the deck as a high powered casual deck with no infinite combos and max 3 gamechangers. The goal is consistent card draw, ramp, protection and removal so the cute commander can swing in with lethal swords.\n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"I am looking for any advice to improve the deck further and refine the strategy to stay within bracket 3 while optimising consistency. Thanks for your help <3\n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"Get dudes down, give them hammers, swing for the fences \n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"It's not very consistent, I'm also working with the restriction that all offensive equipment must be hammers, no swords etc.\n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"First master of keys build and i wanted to use more of the room cards from duskmourn. So far the two concrete win cons are either the promising stairs (slow) or draining the table with leech and an infinite like archon and secret arcade.\n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"Having trouble closing a game. Yes, I have two win cons but they are slow to assemble and it's hard to deliberately establish them. The aim is for this deck to be at most a mid bracket 3 but I can't seem to figure out how to streamline the deck without just throwing in a bunch of tutors. I do feel like the deck should lean more towards control, so i also have a hard time balancing removal, protection, and value pieces like token generation and card draw/mill\n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"I’m trying to make a Trostani, Selesnya’s Voice lifegain/token deck. The idea is to gain life, make lots of creature tokens, and keep building up a big board until I can hopefully overwhelm people. I’d also like to use my lifegain to support the rest of the deck and have a few big finishers to close out games.\n\nJust to be transparent, I did use AI (Chat GPT) to help me put this deck together. I’m completely new to building Magic decks, so I was using it partly to learn and get ideas rather than just knowing what I was doing from the start.\n\nI definitely got carried away, though, I made the final choices on what I wanted to include, and looking at the deck now, I can see I made some very beginner mistakes, especially with the mana base and trying to cram too many creatures into it.\n\nThat’s honestly why I’m asking for feedback now. I’d rather admit I’m new and learn how to build this properly than pretend I already know what I’m doing.\n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"Pretty much everything, honestly... I’m still very new to actually building Magic decks, and I think I rushed this one and tried to do too much of it by myself. I’ve added a lot of cards I thought sounded good, but now I’m really struggling to tell whether the deck actually works well together or whether I’ve just made a bit of a mess. I’m honestly a little nervous posting this, but I’d really appreciate some help figuring out what I should cut, what I’m missing, and how to make the deck more consistent.\n\nI apologise in advance for not trying to find help with this... i thought i could do it alone and be fine.. clearly not. I'm still a newbie when it comes to deck building..\n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"The Goal is to quickly set up Avacyn, generate payoffs through sacrificing and end the game as fast as possible. I want to win via combo.\n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"I need faster Enablers and a Payoff for my combos.\n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"I like phyrexians and I think the praetors are cool so I made this deck because of how much I like them, I dont run omnath as a commander because red r too rebellious for elesh norn which sucks a little because there are some cool red phyrexian cards but oh well. Oh right the decks main wincon is realmbreaker, the invasion tree \n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"this deck is really solid because well, I have like a 90% wr and I've had this deck for 2 years but I am curious on feedback to see if I can make it even better, I would prefer to have it on theme like phyrexian art on the card if possible \n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"this deck is trying to win via large amounts of slivers that work together with good recursive protection from tefari's protection. card printings are picked for cosmetic purposes only as i work on the deck.\n"}]}

{"ops":[{"insert":"feel like it isn't consistent enough to survive against decks that simply use non-targeting spells to force me to exile my library and shuffle my hand. I understand i cant protect from everything so if there is any sugestions to touch up on some errors or mistakes that can make the deck that little bit better.\n"}]}