Actually interested in some feedback from people who know how to play

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Croa avatarCroa 3 years
{"ops":[{"insert":"I'm fairly new to MTG and have been trying to learn as I go, this is one of the two commander decks I have and it's not feeling up to take over the others spot while I'm rebuilding it. Any thoughts?\n https://archidekt.com/decks/2840870#Counters..._Not_the_1/1_kind\n"}]}
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Endlessor avatarEndlessor 3 years
{"ops":[{"insert":"Hi, by looking at your deck and since you say that you are fairly new and it looks like your collection start around War of the Spark, I will give you tips to improve your deck building but no card suggestion.\n\n1) Your land count at 31 is very low for your mana curve. You probably encounter frequent situations where you are mana short. Since I don't see ramp, for your curve I would say 35-36 lands would be better. \n\n2) Your mana distribution is also not on point. If you look at Stats in upper right below Login, you will see how many symbols of each color your have in casting costs and activated abilities. You can also see how much of a given color you can produce. As per the graph you would need lees green mana producers and more white mana producers.\n\n3) This is something I often see with people new to deck building... strategy is diluted and all over the place. Quickly I saw some \"advance into the dungeons\" mechanic... but like two cards. IMO that doesn't help in any way the deck unless I missed something. Same thing with your lifelink subtheme. You have things that triggers with lifegain but if you don't have enough card synergy around that then some cards to nothing during the game. For example, if you have often an Adjani Pridemate that sits there and not able to put +1/+1 counters on him, then it is an indicator that the deck lacks synergy on that theme. Same, I see cards with dies trigger (ex: Bastion of Rememberance) but not lot of ways to have your creatures go to the graveyard aside of counting on them to die in combat. And on this, your Commander synergise with you having creatures with keyword abilities in your graveyard so I think you should have more ways to put creatures in you grave (sacrifice, discard, mill, etc).\n\nTips 1) Look at the big picture. What I do is looking at every card in my deck and looking at how it synergise with other cards, do I have other cards with a similar effect, etc. Here is an example... I take Lifecrafters Bestiary. For having tried it in many deck I can say that it some it is ok but not good (optimised). If you can cast multiple creatures in a turn it is good, but for that you need to have green mana available. You deck does not have that much green pips (green in mana cost) and as I said earlier you have too much green mana for that. So if you increased white mana and decrease green, then probably you will not have enough green mana available to pay for Lifecrafters Bestiary every time you cast a creature. If it is the cadse, then Lifecrafter's Bestiary better be replaced by something else.\n\nTips 2) Focus your strategy. Looking at your Commander, I would focus more into having effects that put creatures in my graveyard... rather than focusing on lifelink. You should ask yourself the question How is having lifelink help my deck to win? \n\nTips 3) Research. A good tool I use when deckbuilding is Gatherer on WotC official website. You can do research there. Let say you want to add creatures with multiple keywords on them, then you can search that. You want to find ways to put more creatures rapidly into your graveyard so when you cast your Commander it gets huge, then you can search Mill, graveyard, sacrifice, etc.\n\nTips 4) Playtest. You can even play on your own with your two decks. Analyse how the cards perform. Your hand get empty often and you are top decking? Maybe consider adding draw spells. Adjani Pridemate rarely get +1/+1 counters trigger on lifegain, maybe consider cutting Pridemate. Ask question like Do I have enough answers for my opponents treat. \n\nThis is kind of a long answer. Hopind at least it helped a bit. Do not hesitate to reach me if you have other uestions or if you need evaluation on changes you brought.\n\nJust add on last tip. Do not hesitate to make change to your deck. I often see people asking for ideas and improvement but in the end they are reluctant to make changes.. there is no way to improve if you think like that.\n\n"}]}
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{"ops":[{"insert":"Please believe me when I say I normally avoid recommending extreme changes to others' decks. I want to give you and your efforts due respect. \n\nOne quick item to knock out first: your deck will run out of steam. You don't have enough lands, ramp or card draw.\n\nNow the important part: This looks like a deck you built with whatever you have available. Nothing wrong with that, I'm just hoping you have some other cards available too. I say this because your deck isn't supporting the commander. Before you do anything else to your deck, figure out if you want the deck to support the commander's strategy, or if you want to choose a different commander that works better with your other 99 cards. Your answer to this will make sure any other advice I give you is geared to help you play the game you want to play. \n\nI hope this help. Welcome to Commander, best constructed format for the best card game.\n\n\n"}]}
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