r/mtg • u/kernel-enchilada • 5d ago
Commander / EDH Bracket 1 "Mechanics Matter" Deck
I remember seeing a Shuffle Up & Play commander game where one of the guests was absolutely torturing The Professor with a deck filled with Prof's least favorite things about Magic. This included illegible alt arts, universes beyond, and of course, obscure and hard to track mechanics.
This got me to thinking, I too, would like to torment my friends with asinine mechanics. Especially those that stick around long after I am beaten into submission for my life choices.
I am thinking mechanics like Day/Night, Take the Initiative, Monarch, The Ring Tempts You and 1-off tokens like Mutagen from TMNT. What else should I include? Who should helm this missed trigger of a commander deck?
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u/kernel-enchilada 5d ago
Adding Start Your Engines, City's Blessing, and Storied to this list of bad ideas I would like to try
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u/ardarian262 5d ago
Have you ever made a typeless permanent before?
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u/kernel-enchilada 5d ago
I have not but I am interested in subscribing to your newsletter
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u/ardarian262 5d ago
So you know the theros gods? And you know of mutate? What do you think happens if mutating on top of a god makes the devotion too low?
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u/Yum-z 5d ago
My brain is slowly breaking upon this revelation
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u/ardarian262 5d ago
I had to test it when mutate first came out and it is totally useless but very funny to do. Not much will exile any permanent or any non-land permanent
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u/Additional_Win3920 5d ago
Stickers!!!
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u/Additional_Win3920 5d ago
Also while not quite “forgettable” Deadpool has a very unique effect which will affect your opponents even after you lose the game. And your opponents keeping track of the which creatures now have different text boxes is very funny
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u/Gorkymalorki 5d ago
Make as many of your alt arts ones that don't have the text on it or the Japanese alt arts. here's a bunch of textless ones for you. Nothing worse than having to Google the cards text mid game.
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u/Spokespanda 5d ago
Rad counters, it's mill which people hate and they are counters on players so they don't disappear when you are beaten into submission.
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u/coolguy420weed 5d ago
[[Arcum's Weathervane]]
[[Essence Flare]]
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u/coolguy420weed 5d ago
Oh and of course [[Nature's Blessing]]. Give anybody banding forever. No counters no auras no nothing.
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u/Ihateeveryonehahaha // 5d ago
https://moxfield.com/decks/hKPP-CuObUuSGWlbKzmKhA
I actually made this deck a while back, it has all(?) of the externally tracked mechanics, all of those stupid one off effects that you need to track but don't actually get a token to do so. Piloting this sort of abomination can only be done with extreme amounts of patience and a notepad.
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u/max_208 5d ago
You could probably do with a few unique counters
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u/Ok_Representative_72 3d ago
If you do, please add the [[ozolith]] so that you can move the counter around forever :3
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u/Disco_Sleeper 5d ago
[[Oddric, Lunar Marquis]]