#commanderchallenge

Deck Price: $90 Like Chandra, Ashling is a firecracker. We have an early drop Commander who can wipe most boards for 6 mana. Or we can be aggressive with her and pump her to the point of lethal Damage.  

Deck Price: $80

A Combat trick general in white. Brigid allows us to have an ebb-and-flow of the combat phase. We’re especially good against token decks too.

Deck Price: $110

This is where we take the mountain and toss it somewhere else. We’ll have big creatures, small creatures, and goats! All to throw at our opponent.

Deck Price: $150

We all like the large bodies and cannot lie. All my Treefolk brethren cannot lie. We have a fun ability where we can make the biggest, toughest dude, hit like a kitten. On the other side we can take the biggest tree and make them hit with the force of all gravity.

Deck Price: $120

Do you not have any friends? Are you lonely, and want to play Magic with a group of people? Do you find yourself to be a Super Villain? Welcome to non-conventional control magic. This is one of the most competitive decks we’ll see and with a budget one can slowly invest in.  “Commander isn’t about making friends. It’s about sending a message”               - Probably Gaddock Teeg

Deck Price: $200 Woo 5 colors. We are going to be a heavy tribal deck here. With over 20 years of elemental creatures in magic. We have some pretty cool things to play!

Life Gain

Well one of the things that make Licia interesting, is the fact that she can relatively cost us 3 mana. That’s due to her firs effect. So we gain life, she costs less. It gets around the Commander Tax. So that’s neat. We have quite a number of cards that gain life. About 20 to be exact, or well make things have Life-gain. 

One of the better life gain cards in the deck. This allows us to survive devastating blow, if we have to be defensive. 

Listen, we are a 3 color “life-gain deck”. Sovereign can just out right win the game. There’s no reason not to play this and if it can help us.

Simply put, double life gain is amazing...add double-strike, get Licia out no matter what?

Singular Removal

So we c an win through General damage. Sometime there’s only one pesky blocker. We have a total of 8 them.

Gets through that pesky indestructible creatures.

A “Vindicate” on a stick. This is a sort of “sorcery speed”, at only our turn, but we can indeed use this as a combat trick. Oh, we’ll have a ton of life to do this.

Want to Win with Commander Challenge

So we have a few ways of winning, but hey. Our Commander has the ability to win one handed. Oh, and another way.

Like True Conviction, this gets us to the end zone with a pumped up Licia. 

This just out right wins us the game against someone. Paired up with the above mentioned, we have a 5/4 Licia with double strike. Sometimes an opponent will let it through, because 10 Commander damage won’t out-right kill them. That’s where this comes in handy. It’s a one-shot that many people wouldn’t expect.

What to add for a larger budget?

While a late game card, and in certain groups, fair too late to play. This is another Faith Mender. Yup, they stack. This is really for a slower version of the deck.

Actually on curve with Licia (If we can’t get her to be cheaper). We’re an aggressive deck. This is a perfect addition to it. Also let’s that Infect strategy work because it gives trample. It’s also $20, so please invest in cards like these.

This deck, and it’s play style go between a highly calculated plan, to lunacy.

Let’s talk about some weird science!

Our general isn’t all that important. Yes, we can utilize their ability, but unless we’re just having fun, we don’t really need to cast him. He can cause a card to get copied, but we have other means for that as well. 

The Weird parts: 

Like many other Chaos decks, we have a package.

Is our back bone of all Chaos decks, along with Knowledge Pool, Thieve’s Auction, and Scrambleverse. Make for a a long, but exciting game. Before ever casting any other card. We should always cast Knowledge pool, unless we can optimally cast Warp World. OH OH OH! Make sure you can cast a spell right after Knowledge pool, so you get advantage! Our goal is to have a gained experience. How education should be. Ah, wait, that’s Chaos-lite. You want true madness. 

Along with Eye of the Storm, we start our storm counter. I’ll explain later.

Of course with Chaos, we have to not only affect the field, but the future too.

As well as Wheel of Fate, can disrupt everyone at the table, or help them. You know what, that’s ok too. Fun fact, I’d put winds of Change in this deck, but TCG player thinks it’s more than $5, so it’s not in.  As for other weird cards. We have a Traumatize, and Ignite Memories.in the build. They’re in in hopes to get them off of a Possibility Storm. Now, to my understanding, you still casted a card even when Possibility Storm exiles it. Which lets you take some extra cards out with Ignite. At the worst we just see what a card is in someones hand, at the best, we hit something big, or their whole hand. With Traumatize, it’s sometimes meant to just make someone shuffle. Why? Because people use Sensei’s Diving Top, other search cards. Make them mill, and if they hit a Titan or something, well, they lost that search and top. Agasin, we can possibly get this off with a Preordain. Also, our Storms allow for us to mess with our opponent. 

Now for the Science. 

We have some combos in it. One in particular that uses that “storm”, and “Chaos Method”

Again, we are assuming that Possibility storm counts as us still casting the first spell. This gets out of hand fast, regardless. Many of our spells are under 4 mana. So late game we can spam cards, and gain a ton of life.  Now if I’m wrong about storm, there’s another part to the deck that allows us to win.

Now you might be going “That’s stupid”. Yeah, you aren’t wrong. Essentially what we’re doing is causing a form of infinite mana, and recasting the Kobolds (Among other 0-1 drops) and gaining a ton of life. The number we’re going to give is 150 (So that’s three players). Assuming we have at least 10 or more life, we go to 160 life, then BLAM! We use our lazer to get rid of our enemies! Now this combo is so dumb, that if it happens. Something went wrong. Also, as long as we have cheap spells with knowledge pool out, we  can use this to gain more life. Possibility Storm does the opposite, so try not casting that if you have the means to cast the combo. OR, use this.

Or hope to cast it, to bounce back the Storm. Oh, and if we dont have crystal shard out, we can bounce back our cheap creatures to then gain more life and cause Paradox Engine to go off. 

How to play with fire?

Now, optimally we want a starting hand of three land, an mana rock and  a creature like FateSpinner, or Etherium-horn Sorcerer. Dropping Fate Spinner early game can cause control decks to linger longer, stop aggro decks, and make other people upset.  Honestly if we can cast our mana reducing creatures early, do it. Some things to note, we lack stable draw. To make this fair, we have tutors, and other such cards. So early on we’re building up. If we can cast an early Swarm Intelligence, and/ or our general, do it. Now yes, I said our general wasn’t important, and he really isn’t. What we do want is to cause mischief. If they resolve, cards like Traumatize, or even Mind’s Desire do more work. Once we start building up the combo, we have to go all in. If you can’t cast Paradox engine early, then drop our storm cards. Because guess what, we can make it without doing a single thing. Meanwhile our opponents are scrambling around to maintain board state. Remember, our combo’s aren’t end all for us.

Improving on the Scientific Method. 

Some cards you might want to add are up to you. I personally would swap out some of the bounce spells for cards like Jace’s Ingenuity, among other good draw spells. We could use some Burn, but with Chaos decks they aren’t that great. Maybe a Grapeshot? As for creatures, we’re pretty solid. Yeah, there are more tutors that can help us search for the combo, but we don’t want to be too consistent. We’re chaos, so whatever you want in the deck, can go in the deck (Well, barring rules and all that)