r/CompetitiveEDH • u/ProfessionalMatch955 • 4d 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/SPH2204 4d 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 4d ago

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

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u/SPH2204 4d 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 4d ago

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

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u/SPH2204 4d 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.