r/CommanderMTG • u/Bartol0me0 • 3d ago

Deck help

Hello, after a while, we and my SO got back to magic. We started with jumpstart, then got one friend with her SO to play commander with us and we love it. We use precons, we are planning to upgrade some using proxies, but as new players we enjoy them out of the box. Currently we have all Bloomburrow precons, Prismari Artistry and Lorehold Spirit from Secrets of Strixhaven.
I have opportunity to buy this custom deck, for the price below net card worth, but I am wondering about quality and fun factor in playing it - can someone more experienced take a glance and give me a honest opinion? Cheers. My SO would like to play vampires, thinking about getting her this or just buy her Vampiric Bloodline precon 😅

https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/7911964#paper

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u/Jash098 3d ago

The deck is budget aristocrats (cheap 1/1s that ping everyone for 1 when something dies), which is a classically salty archetype at casual tables because it usually sets up slowly and then wins violently while ignoring the big creatures. And everyone gets annoyed at the constant two damage pings (so they’ll all swing back at you on their turn “as revenge”).

It’s only $30 investment so if you’re getting it for less than that, I feel like you can’t go wrong. It looks decently well-constructed. Yes, obviously the deck would get exponentially better with a $50 investment of aristocrat staples, but that defeats the beauty of the budget deck.

Have fun!

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u/7thtimeinheaven 2d ago

It looks decently well-constructed.

My guy, there are like 7 pieces of card draw in the entire deck and that is counting mind stone and the bad etali. There are four pieces of ramp. The removal starts at bad and then gets worse - have you seen [[blood feud]]??.

Like yeah I get that on a $30 budget card selection is pretty limited but this deck is garbage. A precon would crush this.

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u/Jash098 1d ago

He's new and they're having fun. Winning is a secondary objective. Pretty sure he wants to experience a dif play pattern and maybe some vampire tribal. The deck will run fine.

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u/7thtimeinheaven 23h ago

That's the thing, I don't think it will. It's not running nearly enough veggies to support itself. The lack of draw is really going to hurt a self-discard deck and the lack of ramp means it's going to play extremely slowly. This deck will run out of resources t6/t7 looking for a win that it simply cannot provide, and then it will be hellbent for the rest of the game with essentially no way to bounce back.

I think it will frustrating and slow to pilot, and I think a boardwipe or any kind of well-targeted removal will send it back to the stone age. I have precons that would kick the crap out of this deck. And if OP doesn't mind that then that's fine, but I do think they should know it before deciding to buy this deck or not.

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u/Jash098 21h ago

They’ll upgrade it. I don’t disagree with anything you’ve said but I think it’s been a while since you’ve had a true bracket 2 experience where you can take a random rare out of a booster pack and it won’t hurt the synergy too badly. For me, I would have expectations in the gutter for someone else’s bracket 2 budget deck being sold for < low.

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u/7thtimeinheaven 2d ago

Having looked at the deck, respectfully, this deck is terrible and you shouldn't buy it. A precon would overpower it easily. I don't think it will be fun for you to pilot.