#deck showcase

We have a chest event starting tomorrow, so maybe I should write something before I get lost the next ten days. This event seems fun, there’s a lot of diversity in the ladder, with the usual state where some classes are played more than other and some are stronger than others: Swordcraft is the deck to beat and Forestcraft still needs a bit of help.

And, dude, what a good time to play Portalcraft. The new cards found place on a couple playstyles and the class is overall in a good state. So good that two different styles got into the top 16 on the latest JCG tournament. Those are the styles I will be focusing on today, so you can have success with the class on both of the formats for this event. Time to get those chests fast AF boi.

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I've been waiting to write about this deck. It's probably the one I've been most excited to see print and to write about, second only to Heavenly Inferno, the one I actually bought.

I think this is quite possibly one of the coolest decks if you build it around Zedruu. It's nice for players looking to play Group Hug without having to play Phedalgrif or Karona (people play Group Hug with Karona, right?), and in slightly different colors than the hippo with Red instead of Green. Not that I've played with Group Hug players, but if I ever did, I'd rather not see the same Commander over and over again, so if it's going to be popular, it might as well see some more Generals printed for it.

I love how there are 3 ways you can go about with Zedruu's ability: 1) You can go group hug by giving the players you want to win or players who are losing permanents that might help them out; 2) you can be selfish and give them cards that won't help them anymore than if you controlled them (like Howling Mine); or 3) you can give them permanents that would harm them, such as Bronze Bombshell or the seriously evil Delusions of Mediocrity and Illusions of Grandeur.

And then you could do a combination of them as well. That flexibility that still follows a similar path is what makes me like this card so much.

Ruhan isn't as cool. For one, I don't really see how he's Blue. Secondly, I don't usually like "attacks each turn if able" effects. Nonetheless, there are things you can do with him to make him better, such as giving him Vigilance with effects like Serra's Blessing or make him unblockable such as with Whispersilk Cloak or the Blue aura-equivalent in Protective Bubble.

Nin, the Pain Artist is my favorite of the opposite-color legends, and due to the versatility, as with Zedruu. Target your opponent's creatures they don't care about to give them cards; target your opponent's creatures that are annoying you and ignore the serious upside they get from it (or run Jin-Gitaxias to negate that downside); or target your own creatures, be they indestructible ones including Stuffy Doll or just ones you don't mind losing.

Not a bad card at all, although I like having something that doesn't lose an amazing ability when it's not on my commander (not that the commander is the only legend I run, but it's the one I'd most want protected).

This is my favorite non-legendary card in the precons, because Warp World is one of my favorite cards of all time, and now this is a little mini-version. I'm seriously surprised it's not a sorcery, as it's powerful enough for red (being permanent and not "non-enchantments" and all), and I'd still like it as a Sorcery. Red did need a little power boost for Commander, as Lightning Bolts just don't do enough in a format with 40 life. Now that I think about it, I guess the same can be said for Archenemy.

Such a sweet card. It finishes games fast, so if that's your thing, this is great. In the game I played, I was taken out thanks to an opponent using Master Warcraft to force another opponent's 5/5 dragon token (thanks, Death by Dragons) to attack my creatureless butt, and the Crescendo trigger made it an 18/5 when I only had 16 life. Dang.

As for me, I don't really like effects like these, that give stuff to everyone (my most disliked being Coat of Arms). The reasoning being that it just gets so much harder to understand the board's complexity when stuff like this just grants things to everyone.

Thank you R&D for printing this as "nonland." I'm getting worried that the people who support Commander as a certain format are becoming rarer. At the release of the event, someone said they wish it didn't say that so they could Strip Mine / Crucible of Worlds lock opponents out of the game. That's just not my idea of fun. Nor do I find it particularly inspiring. At least with Hive Mind and any of the Pacts I could give the guy a high-five for a cool combo, but not anything involving Crucible of Worlds. That's just overdone, so it didn't show off any of your Johnnie capabilities.

Personally, I think this card could be more White and still be a reflection of Grave Pact if it didn't have the nonland clause, but read "Whenever a spell or ability an opponent controls causes CARDNAME or another permanent you control to be put into the graveyard from the battlefield, that opponent sacrifices a permanent that shares a type with it." It's wordier, but I like the tit-for-tat feel of it.

As it is, I'd love to see someone target your permanents when you have this in play to force another opponent to sacrifice something that needs to be taken care of, but might have shroud or indestructibility.

I love this card just because it's a new cards with the Storm keyword on it. I like to think of myself as a good player, but I know I'm not good enough to effectively use Storm cards to their greatest potential. Regardless, I can see how cool this card is, and also why it has its target restrictions.

And for the last time, that's it for cards I haven't covered. In previous posts I mentioned Soul Snare, Death by Dragons, Spell Crumble, Command Tower, and the Vows. Soul Snare is a great Rattlesnake effect as it lets your opponents know attacking you might be a bad idea, and is a more balanced Plowshares/Path effect; it's enchantment type is what got it in my Rafiq deck. Death by Dragons isn't the greatest as you're really giving more opponents power than you get yourself, but it's really fun in the format anyway. If your playgroup doesn't mind Tuck effects, then Spell Crumble is fantastic at what it does; Tuck effects, where a card is shuffled into a graveyard or put on the bottom, are really powerful in this format for taking out Commanders, and can make the game unfun for people who derive their enjoyment from their attachment to their choice of Commander. So accept if it isn't allowed in your group, and if it is, go ahead and use it, but know that it can bring out negative reactions. Command Tower was a perfect way of getting powerful lands printed for 3- and 5-color decks without making them desirable to Legacy players who would raise the price considerably. One day I will talk about why I think they didn't just do tri-lands like in Shards. And finally, each deck had the 3 Vows of it's colors. They are very fun. The Green one makes the most sense, as Green has used auras as semi-removal in the past. I like the White one the least, as Vigilance is nice and powerful to attack and defend with. Nonetheless, they're great cards to use. Suddenly Planar Chaos dragons become 11/11 with 3 more abilities than printed on them.

Finally, six observations about this deck. This is the only one without a Join Forces card. It has Skyscribing, which is very similar to the Join Forces card Minds Aglow. While Minds Aglow is noticeably absent from this deck, it and the Black Join Forces card are in Devour for Power. So why couldn't Skyscribing be in Devour for Power and Minds Aglow in this one? No clue. I mentioned in an earlier post that the only deck with Sad Robot, one of the best artifact land searches, is a deck with Green in the Commander's color identity, and Green is the best at land search, at least the last time I checked. The two decks without green don't get it. In fact, this deck doesn't even have signets, which seemed to be auto-includes in all of the other ones! I don't really know why. Since the deck doesn't have much in the way of land search (and I at least found that Heavenly Inferno could have used more), why not include Oath of Lieges? It's group-huggy. Oddly enough, while I don't like giving stuff to my opponents, I did include this in my updated Heavenly Inferno deck, mostly because I wanted decent, cheap land search, and this fits the bill. Also, Land Tax might be nice with Zedruu if you ran a lot of basics, and then you could give them away with Zedruu in order to trigger Land Taxes' ability to get all of your basics onto the battlefield. Finally, I don't know why Homeward Path (I keep wanting to say and type Homeward Bound) wasn't in this - sure, you give away your stuff to get life and draw cards (or really hurt the others if you're running the Illusion/Delusion plan I mentioned earlier), but eventually you might want your stuff back. When you do, a land that taps to do it is much better than spells (and either way, I think Brand might be the only spell that does that, with Brooding Saurian also doing it but in Green and doing it each upkeep which isn't helpful anyway).

Like I said, this is my favorite of the precons, because it plays so differently. Obviously if you run it just like Phedalgriff Group Hug it's not much different from a known strategy, but if you run it along the other paths, it is.

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This deck will be the hardest to talk about, as I have little experience with it. At the release I played with Heavenly Inferno, against a Mirror Mastery, Political Puppets, and 2 other Heavenly Inferno players. At least with Counterpunch I had to seriously look at it to decide if I was going to get it.

I looked at Devour for Power for a little bit, to help my friend who was split on this and Political Puppets, but I still didn't look at it as much as I looked at the ones I was interested in (for instance, I didn't build decklists on tappedout.net).

So, take my words here with a grain of salt.

Well, one thing I feel confident in is that this deck fits well with Wednesday, the day I usually use to cover the weekly segment of Embracing Vorthos. I find the two Wedge Legends in this precon to be the most flavorful.

The Mimeoplasm is a new take on what Oozes can do. The classic Horror B-movie ooze absorbed everything. This is a great way to show it on a card, through a Clone effect and the counter ability similar to Phyrexian Ingester.

Damia is a sage, which is defined as "a profoundly wise person." Of course drawing cards is often the mechanic ability that represents the flavor of learning, or in this instance, already being wise. The only way she could be more flavorful is if she tapped to kill a creature, like Avatar of Woe, to represent her turning her gaze on it. Sometimes flavor has to take a backseat to power level, though.

Mechanically, play cheap spells or get a whole bunch of mana so you can ditch as many cards as possible to draw more cards each turn.

I was hoping this was the same Gorgon seen backstabbing Garruk in the comics, but it is not. That was disappointing at first, but seeing the Gorgon in the comics again and seeing Damia's art, it's for the best, as Damia looks a lot cooler.

I think Skullbriar is the coolest of the enemy-colored commanders. A Slith-effect, plus he keeps the counters when he movies to the most common zones he'd move to (bounce and tuck effects being less popular, though tucking might become more popular given how powerful it is against commanders in the format). Then he gets haste, which Green rarely gets and isn't used all too often in Black, except for when it really fits, as it does here.

He's only a 1/1, but he also only costs 2, so that's fine. Just make sure he doesn't get bounced or tucked.

Sewer Nemesis is pretty sweet. This precon is filled with cards that get bigger when there are more cards in graveyards, and frankly, that isn't a good idea for any deck with The Mimeoplasm in it. Yes, The Mimeoplasm is associated with the graveyard, but that's like saying Mishra and Zur both like libraries. The Mimeoplasm also removes cards from graveyards, which makes these guys smaller.

At least Sewer Nemesis adds cards to the graveyard as well, so he won't be hurt as much as the other cards of his kind when The Mimeoplasm comes into play.

Speaking of helping out The Mimeosplasm, there's this guy. Specters have always been cool. Like Sewer Nemesis, whatever help he does is limited, but forcing players to discard cards is a nice ability, and the last part is just icing on the cake. Although if you have any temporary liaisons at the table, you might lose them if this guy's second ability causes them to be the ones to lose life. Sure, it wasn't your fault the only cards in their hand were of high CMC, but you're the one holding the creature's leash, so to speak, so they might attack you just to get the thing off the field.

Ah, and another card that helps The Mimeoplasm. This ability isn't as powerful as a Propaganda effect, or really even Memory Erosion (in this precon too), as the latter will tend to trigger more often. But then again since players can avoid triggering Riddlekeeper by simply not attacking you, the card might not bother them so much. But if it does, it's also a creature, which is easier to remove.

For some reason, this precon gets 2 Join Forces cards, where three of the others get one, and Political Puppets gets none. I don't get it. Political Puppets has Skyscribing, which easily could have been replaced with this, and Devour for Power could have had Skyscribing.

So far I've decided for the Join Forces cycle, I like the dragon the best, followed by Collective Voyage. I can't decide which of these I like more. In a void, I prefer the card drawing one. Decks built to use the graveyard a ton, including Dredge decks, Karador as a commander, and especially The Mimeoplasm, where this drops a bunch of cards in others' graveyards to serve as fodder for your ooze...those would likely prefer the Shared Trauma, and the synergy with those (The Mimeoplasm in particular, it being in the deck and all), makes me prefer it as well. Either one I prefer, I'm still confused as to why this one gets two.

And that's it for cards I haven't already covered. Syphon Flesh is in here, and it's a great card in many decks. Certainly better here, where The Mimeoplasm can utilize the cards sacrificed, and in Ghave, where the tokens generated can be put to good use. Tribute to the Wild is pretty powerful for most decks that don't run a whole lot of enchantments and artifacts, but for ones that do, those have plenty of choices in what to sacrifice and don't have to choose the one you'd be most pleased to see gone. Command Tower is perfect for the format without getting too expensive since it can't be used anywhere else (though $5 is still high, in my opinion, but that's the price you pay for reliable manafixing). And of course the three relevant vows make an appearance. As I've said before, the Green one makes the most sense, as Green has used auras that give compensating effects in the past as creature removal. These are the three I like the least, as all give decent effects for blockers (as the auras don't stop the creatures from blocking your attackers). Nonetheless, they are quite fun.

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It took me way too long, but I finally made up my mind to get the Heavenly Inferno deck. I actually have to thank my younger brother for being the deciding factor.

At the release event we had 3 pods of 4 or 5 players each. Unfortunately my pod included all three players at the store who bought Heavenly Inferno. I would have preferred a less randomized pod formation that tried to separate players running the same decks, mainly just for a more diverse experience. The other guys and I agreed to play different commanders, so we didn't encounter the legendary rule as often as we could have, but having 2 other guys running the same deck as I was limited my experience with the precons and ability to talk about them.

It was a total blast. I was the first out thanks to Death by Dragons with me as the player to not get a token (I think I had the highest or near highest life total at that point), Crescendo of War with 13 counters on it, and a player who cast Master Warcraft to make the other guy attack me. I was at 16 life and had no blockers to stop an 18/5 dragon, and the Lightning Greaves prevented me from exiling it with the Soul Snare I had had in play almost all game. It was some of the most fun I had losing ever.

So what's new with this deck?

The commanders were the most important part in swaying my decision. I know a lot of players won't like the random aspect of Tariel's triggered ability, and I totally understand. Normally I wouldn't like something like this either, and I don't really know why I do. To be honest, the randomness only bothers me in that it could slow the game down a bit.

It's the CMC that bothers me more; I chose Tariel as my commander for the event since one of the other guys really wanted to run Kaalia; as much as I love Tariel, I also love casting Commanders. It took me forever to cast her, and then I lost her the second time to a Spell Crumple. Sure, that could happen with Kaalia, too, but with a cheaperto-cast commander, I might have played her a couple more times than just twice as with Tariel (or at least the precons could have better land search; I want more lands and deck thinning, something Signets don't do). That's why I like Kaalia, since she's cheap, plus can get out Tariel faster anyway.

First of all, these two are seriously fighting each other for coolest art in the set.

I already like Kaalia because she's under the arbitrary 5 CMC line I drew for myself for my commanders. I don't want to be waiting until turn 6-7 to cast my Commander, and then only be able to cast it a few times more after that. If your commander doesn't get tucked, then it's likely you'll be casting him or her or it a lot in a normal game, and I'd like to be able to without completely crippling my ability to cast other spells.

Kaalia also rewards me for playing a couple of other creatures I've always liked in Red and Black as well; I've always wanted to play Flameblast Dragon, Malfegor, and Reiver Demon. With Kaalia these wouldn't just be there because they're good removal, but also because they fit in with the Commander, and I love building for a commander.

Speaking of, Mana-Charged Dragon fits there too.

In my opinion, this is the absolute peak of Join Forces. Many of the other cards are interesting, sure, but this is where it's at. Are you willing you help me kill Bob over here? If so, give me your lands. But maybe you really need Bob to stay in the game, because you know he's the only one who can stop me. Or you just need Bob to be your personal speedbump until you draw the cards you need to steal victory from me.

That's politics.

The Command Tower, is, of course, in all of the decks. Apparently that is how all of the rarities for the new cards are determined - In 1 deck, it's Rare or Mythic Rare (Mythic only if it's one of the Wedge legends); in 2-3 decks, it's a Uncommon; in all 5 it's Common.

Oh, do I like the Command Tower. Not as much as I would have liked Wedge versions of the Alara tri-lands, but that's something I'll talk more in-depth later. Personally, I am glad they made a powerful land for Commander and made it unplayable in Legacy. These are Commander Precons, after all.

As Commander products, though, I should return to the last new Legendary Creature in the deck: Bassandra. Her global ability does hurt her popularity, no doubt, and I know many players will feel it would have been more flavorful if it read "Your opponents can't."

Personally, I agree. But I like her anyway. Maybe it's the art. I'd like the last ability a little bit better if you could force the creature to attack target opponent as well, but a card can't give you everything you want. I wonder if seeing into R&D's thought process on the card (perhaps a Multiverse article?) would calm some player's nerves.

It doesn't take much to work around the ability. There are plenty of really good sorcery-speed removal spells that you wouldn't normally be able to cast them then anyway. The card can easily be worked around, and hopefully after you do so it will hurt your opponents enough that your special deck restriction was worth it.

Personally, I decided to go with a lot of creature-based removal such as Nekrataal and Shriekmaw. Royal Assassin still works, mind you, and is really nice after you force a pesky creature to attack with Bassandra.

I might as well just cover all of the Vows at the same time.

Vow of Wildness is my favorite, as it makes the most sense to me based on the color. Green's "Removal" has been mainly aura-based, like Lignify and Utopia Vow (hey, another Vow!). Both sort-of remove the creature but give it something in return - An option for defense, a mana generator, and in the new vows a decent attacker against a third party.

They each fit in with the color, it's just that it seems more out of place for the other four - Red, White, and Black have better removal, and Blue is less likely to have removal anywhere like this.

I find the White one to be the worst of the bunch because Vigilance is a great ability to have. With the others you either gave their creature an aura with "This creature can't attack," or they're utilizing their newfound boost to attack and leaving them open for you to rush through the hole. With Vigilance, that's not an option.

Of course, the cards still prevent them from attacking you (or a planeswalker you control - I really like that addition). I think their best use is to throw all 5 into any Karona, False God deck - now when you give away your Commander, you won't be seeing her come at you. If your opponents attack you without her instead, then their creatures won't get any pump - Instead of giving your opponents a huge advantage, you'll just be getting the disadvantage of losing a single card. I never would have played a Karona deck in the past, but with these, her ability becomes much less scary for her owner.

For a {W} activating cost you get a semi- Swords / Path. But it's an enchantment, so you can't use it as a combat trick, and it can be removed as well as countered.

However, as an Enchantment, it works as a nice "Rattlesnake" effect - that is, players see it ("hear the rattle"), and they are turned off of attacking because of it. I'm a little biased towards it as it fits nicely in my Rafiq deck, which took a turn toward Enchantment themed recently.

Ah, now this is the type of Red players expected to see on Bassandra. "Your opponents can't search libraries" - goodbye Demonic Tutor, Tooth and Nail, Maralen (No drawing or searching, just the -3 life!). That's hopefully more common in your playgroup, but if you have to deal with Multiple Turn Mikes a lot in your group, then the first part could just be icing on the cake compared to making duds out of a great many of their better spells.

Plague Wind on a stick, that hurts you a tad so you can't win the turn it comes into play. It's a sweet card, and I know it reads "if you cast it from your hand" to keep the power level in check, but the fact that the ability I'd want it for doesn't work with Kaalia, the Legend that serves as the precon's initial Commander, is disappointing, and feels out of place.

The flavor on this card is spot-on. Basandra's flavortext quote is saying "I'm tired of this turtling. Let's end this." The card does just that. It is a sweet card, though not quite as sweet as the art led players to desire. I know at first most players thought this would be one of the two WBR legends, and I at least was sure it'd be the WR one.

Unfortunately for the card I probably won't run it, as I tend to not like giving my opponents stuff as well.

The same goes for Archangel of Strife, as you're giving your opponents power as well. Will anyone choose Peace? Maybe, but they shouldn't; anyone who chooses War negates your Peace, and your creatures were no closer to removing theirs. This would be amazing in Doran if you can find room for it, as that player essentially gets to choose both.

Hey, it's a new Syphon! It's a pretty sweet card, too. Forcing players to sacrifice creatures may not always be as good as targeting them, since they get to choose what to lose, but it affected everyone like the Abyssal Gatekeeper, except you don't have to do so as well and instead get tokens out of the deal. I'll probably run it in my own Kaalia build to provide fodder for Fallen Angel, Wayward Angel, and Eldrazi Monument, and they get pumped up by Cemetery Reaper.

Finally,Death by Dragons. It's a cool card in what it does to multiplayer games, but it's a little out of place. It gives you a Dragon, but that only partially works with Kaalia as it's not a creature. The deck could be changed to greatly rely on Dragons, and this would be more flavorful. In the end I like this card more for Political Puppets than for Heavenly Inferno.

Before I go, I had a one disappointment with this and another deck that involves a card that already exists: Solemn Simulacrum. The only deck that got the card was Devour for Power, and that deck has green. Yes, Solemn Simulacrum is a great card, but Devour for Power has green, which gives you much better land search, and Blue, which gives you much better draw. Heavenly Inferno and Political Puppets are the only two decks without Green, and not only do they not even get some of White's land search, they don't get one of the best artifact ones.

Alright, I lied: There's another. Eternal Dragon would have fit very well in the deck, as you could put it into play with Kaalia or just keep using it's Plainscycling ability, which won't be as great in the precon as in what I'll turn mine into, as mine will be more White-heavy than the precon.