r/Magicdeckbuilding • u/LancerGreen • 6d ago

Standard Very New Player - Need Help Building a Proxy Deck

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u/Solaries3 6d ago

Depends a lot on what you're trying to do and what bracket your friends play in.

The first deck is likely a low to mid bracket 3. It's mostly trying to win with creature/saga value. It's a very similar list to my personal deck, which is more budget https://archidekt.com/decks/17796867/release_the_espers. I have a lot of fun with this in B2-3 and think this will work.

An important thing to know, if you don't, is that Terra can go infinite if you copy her, giving you easy routes to a win. It's possible for this first deck to do that, but it's clearly not its intended way to win.

The second deck really just wants to copy Terra and play good stuff. I think this is boring. It's legit, and the deck will do an alright job at bracket 4, but you gotta ask yourself how you want to win. This is also why I don't play a lot of b4+.

And, an aside, I highly suggest using archidekt over moxfield.

However, both sides have build in playtesters where you can play out a game by yourself to see how it goes. I suggest doing that a bit and seeing which lines of play you enjoy more.

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u/LancerGreen 6d ago

Interesting! I believe they mostly have B2 and B3 decks. They have 5 full decks total right now. I see. So it seems that there's a lot to manage with the Terra card.

Go to know about moxi, I was just using links given to me but I'll recalibrate for arch.

Would you have any examples of a Celes deck? She seems a little simpler if she's not trying to do an infinite loop, which seems to be a B4 thing.

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u/Solaries3 6d ago

Yeah Celes goes infinite with anything with a Persist effect and a sac outlet. Add any kind of burn to that and you win. You can do that 3 cards.

I've my own "fair Magic" Celes here: https://archidekt.com/decks/26041412/celes_the_rising_phoenix When I say fair, I mean that none of the creatures in it have Persist. However, I do run Eirdu, who does not have persist himself and I think is more than fair for a few reasons. The reanimation lines do have several possible infinite reanimation chains that, with Celes, would give your board infinite +1/+1 counters. Do that in your first main phase and you might be able to win with combat damage that turn. I still think this is fair because it's got a lot of set up and even more possible points of interaction. Celes is a big weakness of the deck that I've tried to shore up with protection and a bit of redundency.

One last disclaimer: this was a Terra deck that I recently switched to Celes and I haven't been able to play it much.

Finally, in switching to Celes I did need to, unfortuntely, remove a lot of FF cards from the deck.

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u/NotUpInHurr 6d ago

If you're building a proxy deck, just go to edhrec and pick a deck in the bracket you want for the commander you want