It wants you to have lots of creatures and lots of equipment. Since you don’t get rewarded for stacking equipment, its better to have 3 creatures each holding something than to have 1 creature holding 3 things. This is what made me think of aristocrats.Īristocrats is aggressive. It also has a lot of dinky creatures that don’t do much without their combo partners. It doesn’t do too much after it has come into play. Lingering Souls gives a ton of bodies, but they don't have much meaning in EDH aside from generating fodder. Equipment is a way to mitigate against that since it lets these creatures get a lot of value just by being in play. To go back to Gwyn, she caps off this style by digging you a few extra cards, letting you find missing combo pieces after you dump your initial solvo. The last line is also pretty good, “Equipment you control have Equip Knight 0.” This indicates a tribal theme, by letting you get your equipment onto Knights for free. While it certainly is better with other knights, she herself is a Knight, so the ability immediately has a target already. Lastly, she is a 5/5 creature, which is pretty large though it isn’t huge for her cost or for what people can sling at 6 mana.įrom this dissection, we can start to see the shape of the deck. We care about the aristocrats package, we care about equipment, and we care about attacking. We want to include as many knights as make sense, but we don’t want to stretch for them. The deck will probably be weak to board wipes, and we’ll need a bunch of mana acceleration to be able to play Gwyn when the time is right. That's all well and good, but how do I find these cards? Well, now that we know what we're looking for, there are a number of tools to help find cards. The primary tool used in Commander is EDHREC. Its a decklist aggregation site that compiles all of the lists of a given commander and gives you what the 'average' deck for them looks like. It's useful to see the most common things people are playing with the commander so you don't overlook something obvious. However, its falls flat when you're doing something more niche. When you want to really look, you need to go to gatherer. Gatherer is a database of every magic card ever printer.
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