This Deck Shouldn't Exist (I Built it Anyway) | Magic: the Gathering | Commander

This reminds me of the Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury deck I'm building. I only plan on casting the commander once, then using recursion effects like Sun Titan to bring it out repeatedly, and cards that either increase the dmg, or give me an additional etb effect.

I made this guy earlier this week with a 4 damage theme which red has a bunch. Should be fun to play since it was fun to put together.

I'm not familiar with EDHREC much, so I can't say how popular of a commander it is. But I just built mono-blue braids (the one that lets everyone get a creature, artifact, or land from hand to battlefield at their upkeep). I built it as a mono-blue control deck. The idea is I get to "play" one permanent a turn while still holding up all my mana for interaction on my opponent's turns. This should allow me to survive whatever big things I'm giving my opponents, right? I love jank nonsense, and the only thing I love more is GOOD jank nonsense. More power to you Joey.

You’re missing Voyager Staff!!

When are we gonna see you guys streaming on Twitch again!!!!!, I wanna see this deck in ACTION!!!!

The MH3 deck I considered building initially is Shilgengar because I think it's funny to have an angel tribal deck led by a demon. When I actually took a deeper look at the cards I found Ral, Monsoon Mage and think it could make for a pretty fun and thematic coin flip deck.

My oldest deck is a Korlash Grandeur deck, which is the worst thing to make with my favourite card in the worst mono-colour to want multiples. There is exactly one card in black that can conditionally become a copy, a handful of bad and expensive copy tools, and one combo that doesn't even do anything the turn it drops down. And I don't care, it's funny to me.

Before the video: Joey what did you do?

Thank you for “Skoa Some Moa”

Reminds me of my Bill Ferny group hug deck

Joey reminds me of the simpsons meme of I just think it’s neat

Also seems like a cool commander to rule zero into having multiple copies in the 99. You can even say that itll get the commander tax per time cast from any zone, given you should only want him in the deck to discard (but yeah, its 2 rule changes for a card)

Jiwari, earth aflame is my jank mono red deck with no one really making it. Gotta love Oops, all earthquakes

built zurzoth recently for a similar reason, just a silly guy

Love to see it. I was convinced to try Korlash, Heir to Blackblade. It's stupid fun, and... of course, I had to slip in some really janky ways to copy him, send him to the yard, and loop Grandeur a few times for giggles... which I've managed once. Worth it.

All decks that are legal are allowed to exist
Be creative

For a much lower power build one could build around the second ability. Use Spy Kit to give the commander the names of all non-legendary creatures and discard nonlegend creatures for a repeatable removal engine. This would require/benefit from:
* a lot of mountains and non-legend creatures
* a few ways to get Spy Kit, Sword of the Animist and Crucible of Worlds to grave and back to play
* Containment Construct, Currency Converter, and Feldon of the Third Path to add value when you discard.

My favorite unpopular commanders are Barrin, Master Wisard (token bounce control) and Hakim Loreweaver (big aura reanimator/voltron).

I love these kinds of constructions. Challenges to make unassuming commanders more powerful.

I am consistently surprised at how unpopular the new Izoni from MKM is as a commander, every time I look at it on EDHRec it catches me off guard how few decks it has (319 at time of commenting). Sure, it is not the MOST powerful gulgari commander, but its ability to both make blockers and create card advantage, while also being a sac outlet feel really consistently strong whenever its in play. Maybe its overlooked bc of how 'generic' it feels, but it's honestly my favorite deck at the moment, which it was never supposed to be. It just plays so smoothly, while still being varied enough from game to game, playing well into a good range of power levels, and having some interesting decision points, that unless I'm playing into an extremely high power pod, its my go to deck.

What you describe here is pretty much why this format became the biggest and now the only mtg format. The clickbait title worked as well I was curious how you made it happen to discard him over and over again maybe in an endless loop but ofc I got disappointed. I thought you found some old future sight card that said all your cards in the deck are X and then cycle or whatever... Nvm just fell for the bait.

Just a random damage pinger that does more everytime i play it is Red dragon from dnd. 4 damage to each opponent reads as little but when you’ve been pinging everyone the entire game that 4 damage really starts becoming scary

I made a sygg river guide Tron deck before there were any Tron suggestions on edhrec so I like to say I'm the first sygg Tron player lol.

It's a goofy little build but I love it

great pick! my favorite card is acursed marauder, i love it!

I made a Circu, Dimir Lobotomist deck before Cedh brought his numbers up some. It was about cards like Lobotomy & Sadistic Sacrament. I would go through my opponent's decks and take out their winning pieces or best creatures so they would have to fight for a win.

Yeeeesssss

This sounds awesome!! I'm brewing it up now as a thought exercise.

Tome of Legends could be a delightful little addition, since it cares about your commander entering the battlefield and that's all your deck is trying to do 😊

I've not seen many 6th doctor decks.

But. omg. Casting one miirym and getting 3.... Or casting one Brudiclad and getting 3!!!!

As someone with a mono red goad-control Varchild player, I really enjoy this episode :)

Glad to see that I was not the only one that got an unreasonable amount of joy when this card was revealed

This has been my jam, since forever, I love building the weird commanders nobody has heard of or cares about or building the well known ones in weird ways. Some of my more obscure decks are Hakim loreweaver aura voltron, Shauku end bringer creature wipe, golgari spirit tribal with Iname as one, the list goes on. XD

One of my favorite decks to roll up with is Bill the Pony. Takes everyone by surprise and it’s so fun to jank around with

Im building commander sophia from fallout set. Has like 22 decks on edh rec. Lol

I'd like to see the deck in action. It's one thing to build, but totally another to successful victory.

I built a deck in each of the allied pairs, each helmed by an old Legends creature, they do almost nothing. I found it quite refreshing to build around characters that weird, Pavel Maliki for example is a Human without a profession type, so he's probably unemployed (and that explains why nobody believes he's really out to do good). Also, he's a Rakdos do-gooder, WotC colour pie just doesn't have room for such wild ideas (apparently). They're very fun to play, but half the fun is beating people down with a pile of cards that they'd normally be laughing at.

I love you for this Joey! ❤ not nearly enough people challenge themselves when they build a deck, let alone purposefully building an unpopluar commander (at least that's how it feels around my LGS's)

I built a Troyan decks when he was at 84 decks and I had a blast doing it!
There are SO MANY busted simic commanders that any one of them less powerful than Kinnan or Uro just get swept under the rug, which is exactly what drew me to Troyan so much!

This deck represents EDH at it roots. This is the reason so many people started playing this wonderful format

This makes me want to build this deck but I have like zero of the cards....*sighs* time to sell the other kidney...

I think you'll get bored of this deck in no time. The appeal of "I've built a deck that only has 22 decks on edhrec" wears off after the first 2-3 games

My slow burn shenanigans deck is Prime Speaker Zegana: hand-size-matters creatures & blue blink effects. It was my first EDH deck & still close to my heart. Super diverse wincons, from decking myself to insane overruns, Simic Ascendancy upkeep, etc. Sitting at 600 decks on EDHRec.

I like the EDHRec cast symbol on the lower right of the screen, Gentleman Joey!

you found the nadu counter!

I have a mono blue deck built around drawing cards and smashing face, which initially had Syr Elenora at the helm, but I’ve since swapped it out for Iymrith, but even then they’re incredibly unpopular commanders, but the fun of choosing such oddball commanders is that you’re opponents won’t always be able to guess what the decks gonna do, or how strong it can actually be

Banding themed, Rigo Streetwise mentor, GW, 1 drop creatures only..double down on the challenge for fun, because the OP and pre scripted ones just get boring. Really enjoy that you made this from one of the most unplayable cards from a very over powered set.

Copys... okay, this is inspiring me, I have been wanting really bad to build a Phlage deck and I was considering a lot of random recursions, but... clones could work... hehehe

Have you ever built a deck for Niv-Mizzet, Parun?

you build it and in a month you gonna dissamble it lol

Hell yeah!! Bad commanders for the win!! I love the creative choice of a "bad" commander and i think those decks are even funnier than the "good" ones

I built my Faldorn deck very early by myself and fully leaned into the exile + extra land drops angle before I saw any data supporting that on EDHRec (the page mostly showed wolf tribal at the time and that didn't interest me, so I just kept building and refining on my own).

Recently, I built Doc Aurlock from scratch as a Simic Adventures commander because the other side of the adventures is cast from exile and usually overcosted - with the Doc in play, it costs 2 less. It makes for a fun (mostly) budget brew that also included a plot sub-theme (another mechanic that I really like).