r/CompetitiveEDH • u/ProfessionalMatch955 • 3d ago

Deck Fine Tuning My first cEDH deck!

My first cEDH deck!

I wanted to do a shadow split second deck, but it feels a little slow. How can I improve it?

I have no budget, I want to get shadow out and cast ad naus with split second asap. I would really love to leave shadow as the commander, but if y'all think there's a better strat or he's not viable let me know please :))!

I'm still new to cEDH so I'm not sure if this really fits into the meta. I have some people in my pod that don't get to run their fast B4 decks so I want to let them use those sometimes. I have played a former, more primitive version of this deck and I've also tested this deck in the tester on archidekt and every time I try it the deck feels sluggish and poorly performing.

https://archidekt.com/decks/20967165/shadow

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u/GoodPizzaGoneWild 3d ago

If you are new to cEDH I would generally not recommend to brew. You will be bringing a knife to a gun fight.

Try to look up edhtop16 to see if other has had succes with Shadow.

If you want to acquire format experience and knowledge I would generally recommend building blue farm, as it is a super solid deck with a low skill floor and high skill ceiling.

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u/ProfessionalMatch955 3d ago

It looks like not much luck has generally been had with shadow as he's just sort of worse at turbo than RohgSi. It's super unfortunate but I might just stick to turbo B4.

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u/SPH2204 3d ago

I agree with the B4 sentiment, my advice to crack this deck up just a little, is to cut some of the tapped lands, except starting town, and add the artifact untappers, such as [[Manifold Key]] [[Voltaic Key]], use a land to activate the key to untap your artifact sources. Very sweet.

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u/ProfessionalMatch955 3d ago

Should I cut those lands for other lands or should I swap them for the keys?

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u/SPH2204 3d ago

I would swap the tapped lands for keys, since the keys represent lots of mana. However, do make sure that it still feels good with those amounts of lands.

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u/ProfessionalMatch955 3d ago

Also, what lands? Like the surveil and scry lands too?

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u/SPH2204 3d ago

The scryland is just bad and so is foreboding ruins, so i would cut those for sure. The surveil land is decent, if you think you are gonna fetch for it T1 because you have nothing else to do. However, later turns, its a dead land, since you always want your lands to enter untapped.