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Commander
Size: 100Est cost: $111.86Salt sum: 21
therausch09
602 views9 months ago
Commander
Size: 100Est cost: $111.86Salt sum: 21
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Anthem
Overseer of Vault 76
First Contact — Whenever Overseer of Vault 76 or another creature you control with power 3 or less enters, put a quest counter on Overseer of Vault 76.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may remove three quest counters from among permanents you control. When you do, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control and they gain vigilance until end of turn.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may remove three quest counters from among permanents you control. When you do, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control and they gain vigilance until end of turn.
Legendary Creature - Human Advisor
Anthem
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Copy
Feather, Radiant Arbiter
Flying, lifelink
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell that targets only Feather, you may choose any number of other creatures that spell could target and pay for each of those creatures. If you do, for each of those creatures, copy that spell. The copy targets that creature. (Copies of permanent spells become tokens.)
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell that targets only Feather, you may choose any number of other creatures that spell could target and pay for each of those creatures. If you do, for each of those creatures, copy that spell. The copy targets that creature. (Copies of permanent spells become tokens.)
Legendary Creature - Angel
Copy
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Counters
Agitator Ant
At the beginning of your end step, each player may put two +1/+1 counters on a creature they control. Goad each creature that had counters put on it this way. (Until your next turn, those creatures attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.)
Creature - Insect
Sentinel Sarah Lyons
Haste
As long as an artifact entered the battlefield under your control this turn, creatures you control get +2/+2.
Battalion — Whenever Sentinel Sarah Lyons and at least two other creatures attack, Sentinel Sarah Lyons deals damage equal to the number of artifacts you control to target player.
As long as an artifact entered the battlefield under your control this turn, creatures you control get +2/+2.
Battalion — Whenever Sentinel Sarah Lyons and at least two other creatures attack, Sentinel Sarah Lyons deals damage equal to the number of artifacts you control to target player.
Legendary Creature - Human Knight
Taborax, Hope's Demise
Flying
Taborax has lifelink as long as it has five or more +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Taborax. If that creature was a Cleric, you may draw a card. If you do, you lose 1 life.
Taborax has lifelink as long as it has five or more +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Taborax. If that creature was a Cleric, you may draw a card. If you do, you lose 1 life.
Legendary Creature - Demon Cleric
Counters
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Creature
Benalish Hero
Banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)
Creature - Human Soldier
Creature
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Draw
Draw
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Evasion
Mesa Pegasus
Flying; banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)
Creature - Pegasus
Evasion
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Finisher
Finisher
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Land
Hidden Courtyard
This land enters tapped.
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, , Sacrifice this land: Discover 4. Activate only as a sorcery. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 4 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
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, , Sacrifice this land: Discover 4. Activate only as a sorcery. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 4 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
Land - Cave
Hidden Volcano
This land enters tapped.
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, , Sacrifice this land: Discover 4. Activate only as a sorcery. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 4 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
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, , Sacrifice this land: Discover 4. Activate only as a sorcery. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 4 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
Land - Cave
Land
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Proliferate
Proliferate
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Protection
Aegis of the Legion
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has mentor. (Whenever it attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature with lesser power.)
Whenever equipped creature mentors a creature, put a shield counter on that creature. (If that creature would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.)
Equip
Whenever equipped creature mentors a creature, put a shield counter on that creature. (If that creature would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.)
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Protection
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Nyxborn Unicorn
Bestow (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached.)
Mentor (Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature with lesser power.)
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has mentor.
Mentor (Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature with lesser power.)
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has mentor.
Creature Enchantment - Unicorn
Pump
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Ramp
Perception Bobblehead
: Add one mana of any color.
, : Look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of Bobbleheads you control. You may cast a spell with mana value 3 or less from among them without paying its mana cost. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
, : Look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of Bobbleheads you control. You may cast a spell with mana value 3 or less from among them without paying its mana cost. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Artifact - Bobblehead
Ramp
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Recursion
Sevinne's Reclamation
Return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, you may copy this spell and may choose a new target for the copy.
Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Recursion
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Removal
Vikya, Scorching Stalwart
Training (Whenever this creature attacks with another creature with greater power, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
, , Discard a card: Vikya, Scorching Stalwart deals damage equal to its power to any target. If excess damage was dealt to a creature this way, draw a card. ( is the untap symbol.)
, , Discard a card: Vikya, Scorching Stalwart deals damage equal to its power to any target. If excess damage was dealt to a creature this way, draw a card. ( is the untap symbol.)
Legendary Creature - Human Warrior
Removal
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Tokens
Tokens
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Deck Info
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Description
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Knowing that I wouldn't see the students who made these cards for me every day moving forward, I've set out to build a commander deck with all of the cards they made for me (except the hilarious take on "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Rhystic Study"}},{"insert":"; that will be played elsewhere). \n\nWhile I want this deck to speak from my heart, I also specifically want it to be available for lower-power games; I want my bulk to represent most of the cards in the deck. What follows is an explanation of the logic behind the deck, as well as the real cards I've substituted in as placeholders for the custom cards the kids made for me (just so that Archidekt can give me a reasonable estimation of this deck's power and mana curve).\n --\n\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#a10000","bold":true},"insert":"Substitutions"},{"insert":"\n\n1.) "},{"attributes":{"underline":true},"insert":"Commander"},{"insert":": "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Jirina Kudro"}},{"insert":" (\"Rauscher, Unrivaled Educator\")\n\nThe students made a version of me, and I've selected Jirina as its placeholder on this site because the CMC's are identical and I feel that the value provided by the cards is similar. Where Jirina is all about humans, the commander version of me is a 4/4 with the "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Mentor"},{"insert":" keyword (d'aww...) as well as the following triggered ability: \""},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Whenever a +1/+1 counter is put on a creature you control with the least power or tied for the least power among other creatures you control, draw a card."},{"insert":"\" I might even ret-con a \"once per turn\" limitation on that ability, but either way, I feel that Jirina is a sensible placeholder for trying to assess the bracket and power level of this deck.\n\n2.) "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Taborax, Hope's Demise"}},{"insert":" (\"Allison, Powerful Partner\")\n\nThe kids leaned into my wife's famed witchiness on this one (down to the \"Warlock\" typing), but I think she ended up a lil' OP. She's a 2/4 Black Warlock with a doozy of an ability: \""},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, exile it and put a +1/+1 counter on Allison, Powerful Partner. Then, if Allison has 13 or more power, each opponent loses 13 life.\" "},{"insert":"Maybe I'm just misreading the potential here, but this strikes me as a really good card in most decks that have anything to do with counters. I looked hard at other mono-Black Commanders at the 3 CMC range, and I think the most comparable value I can find is Taborax. A deathtoucher who tutors on attack, and who can theoretically let another player do it? Feels close.\n\n3.) "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Sentinel Sarah Lyons"}},{"insert":" (\"Kleio, Beastly Bestie\")\n\nAnd then they made my dog! Kleio is a 3RW Dog Noble with a 3/3 stat line and the following ability: \""},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on Kleio, it deals that much damage to target player or Planeswalker."},{"insert":"\" I feel like this "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"can be"},{"insert":" powerful with the right build, but on paper, especially considering its mana cost, this feels very fair. I like Sentinel Sarah Lyons as a comparison at the same CMC.\n\n\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#a10000","bold":true},"insert":"Re-skinned Cards"},{"insert":"\n\n1.) "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Boseiju, Who Shelters All"}},{"insert":" (\"Room 316, Who Shelters All\") - This is the card the deck takes its name from. It's a point of pride of mine to create a classroom community and environment wherein teenagers feel safe, seen, and heard. That these students decided to represent my classroom - "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Room 316"},{"insert":" - as a place of shelter is not lost on me. I love this card, and I'll continue to love it no matter what number is on my door in whatever schools I end up teaching in down the road.\n\n2.) "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Unspeakable Symbol"}},{"insert":" - This is a really funny one. Part of my personal brand at school is letting the kids dunk on me, and their favorite way of doing so over the last three years has been to keep a yearly tally of all of my red flags - hundreds of them per year - on my whiteboard with little red tally marks. Their version of this card - which synergizes really nicely with the commander - incorporates these marks on the whiteboard. Kids got jokes!\n\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#a10000","bold":true},"insert":"Deck Themes"},{"insert":"\n\n1.) First and foremost, this deck needs creatures for "},{"attributes":{"strike":true},"insert":"the Commander"},{"insert":" me to buff up , and boy is my collection full of weenies in these colors. Mardu Weenies is the starting point for my build, and I'm specifically combing through my bulk for cheap creatures that don't really fit in my other decks, the outcasts, if you will. I think a card like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Thraben Inspector"}},{"insert":" is the perfect idea here: a one-drop that normally stinks in EDH, but whose value increases dramatically with a few counters and a little extra mentorship.\n\n2.) It's not as good as Simic, but we can mess around with counters in these colors. Black and White can proliferate, and there are a number of cards that can add more counters and blow the roof off of the mentorship starting point we've established. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Requisition Raid"}},{"insert":" is the sort of prototype I have in mind here.\n\n3.) Thirdly, and arguably most importantly, I eventually want this deck to just be full of cards that refer to school. Yeah, there's a lot of Strixhaven potential here, but what about "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Great Teacher's Decree"}},{"insert":"? Where else am I going to use that?\n\n4.) Thematically, it is a BAD IDEA to lean into Mardu sacrifice in a deck that tells the story of a teacher and his many, many tiny students. This is a note to my future self.\n\n"}]}