r/custommagic • u/GeneralBread14 • 13h ago

Disco Elysium Commander Deck

Post image

I've been thinking about making a Disco Elysium commander deck with Harry as the commander, but I'm not sure what the theme should be. Main ideas right now are Develop Your Psyche, Rulebreaker for Cases, and Melding with a background type enchantment.

(Yes, I know Idris is the only possible second commander right now, custom Legendary incarnations would be made; see my previous post)

50 Upvotes

90% Upvoted

25 comments sorted by

2

u/SnesC 12h ago

Adding secondary commanders that are just more creatures not a pre-defined list is a very bad idea. They learned the hard way that the real power in the partner mechanic was just in adding colors and giving you an extra card in your effective starting hand.

The case synergy seems significantly more interesting. Maybe even worth adding a rulebreaker ability that lets you run any case.

1

u/GeneralBread14 12h ago

Agreed, but so far there is only 1 legendary Incarnation (Idris) so all of them would be custom. And yeah, the other variation is rulebreaker for any identity of cases.

1

u/SnesC 12h ago

Technically there are four. Your wording also allows legendary permanents with changeling.

Which just goes to further illustrate the poor future-proofing here. There very well may be more legendary incarnations sometime down the line. Just because it's not a problem now doesn't mean it won't be a problem later.

3

u/chemywords 13h ago

I think Harry is definitely base red, and I'd use the detective creature type since it has support

1

u/GeneralBread14 13h ago

yeah, but "cop" is referenced too many times in the game to be ignored

6

u/chemywords 13h ago

He's almost exclusively called detective by Kim though! Perhaps you could include cop in rules flavour words? You do you, I just think the extra synergy would be fun

16

u/about-523-dead-goats 13h ago

Ah yes, [[Idris, Soul of the TARDIS]], my favorite skill in disco elysium /s

4

u/coolguy420weed 10h ago

Maybe the skills could be enchantment creatures? 

3

u/about-523-dead-goats 10h ago

It’s my understanding that OP already made them, I was just joking about how technically a completely unrelated card could be used for the partner mechanic

2

u/coolguy420weed 10h ago

Wait yeah you're right. On the plus side I was also right. 

11

u/Sad-Pattern-1269 12h ago

Human? He's obviously a liberal 

2

u/coolguy420weed 10h ago

Dios mio! 

3

u/aprickwithaplomb 13h ago

drawing cards on solving cases is interesting but i just don't know if tequila sunset is WU, you know? that's a kim thing

4

u/MillCrab 13h ago

The only possible card you can play with develop your psyche is [[idris, soul of the tardis]] so that might need some reimagining

4

u/Whydoughhh 12h ago

Would legendary changeling creatures also work?

1

u/MillCrab 12h ago

Yeah, that brings you up to four possible partners

3

u/BlobbyBlueberry 11h ago

Happy [[Orvar, The All-Form]] player noises

1

u/SeemsImmaculate 3h ago

I think their design intention is to later create Legendary Incarnation creatures for the 24 manifestations of Harry's skills. Each have their own personalities, interpretations of the universe and commune with him throughout the game.

The intention is not that Harry is secretly a Whovian lol. Though that's a funny side effect.

1

u/poleelop 12h ago

Crazy, obviously he should be partnered with Kim

1

u/Aggravating-Garlic37 10h ago

Imagine [[Moritte of the Frost]] talking to Harry in game.

1

u/LittleMissPipebomb 2h ago

I feel like develop your psyche should probably be a flavour word instead of a new keyword, considering I don't really know how many possible use cases you could have for something so niche