Deck Help - Voltron & Friends
Hi, all! If you're a person who enjoys giving deck support, I'd like to introduce you to my deck, Cursed Compost. It was the first EDH deck I built, back in 2018 I think? Its main strategy is Voltron, with [[Skullbriar, the Walking Grave]] as the commander. The original deck was very much an "all eggs in a single basket" type deck - the deck fell apart if my commander was taken offline. I'm attempting to take a wider approach this time around, and invest into a token/sac outlet subtheme now.
- Commander: Skullbriar is still my main Voltron target, but now the deck has a collection of alternative targets to fall back on if he is somehow locked away from me. They all function great as Voltrons in their own right, I feel.
- Edits: The previous iteration of the deck focused exclusively on Skullbriar, so when I attacked I was left wide open. To address this, I'm dipping into pest token generation. This serves multiple functions: I will get a large board presence/chump blockers, lots of tokens to sac for added value onto my Voltron, life gain, and an alternate win-con; I could use something like [[Fungal Sprouting]] or [[Tend the Pests]] to sac Skullbriar and get an army of tokens to swing at my opponents.
- Combos: I can only spot a single potential combo in my deck: I can sac [[Woodfall Primus]] with [[Viscera Seer]] to scry, which triggers Woodfall's Persist ability: it comes back with a -1/-1 counter. But if I have [[Gorma, the Gullet]] out, Woodfall gets a +1/+1 counter, which removes the -1/-1 counter and allows Woodfall to use his Persist ability again, for infinite scry and +1/+1 counters on Gorma.
- Win-Cons: Pump up a Voltron target with lots of counters (mostly +1/+1) and swing for lethal or commander damage, if Skullbriar is my Voltron. OR, sac a huge creature to generate a pest/saproling army. OR, use [[Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord]] to sac a huge creature and deal lethal damage to all my opponents.
- Help: I'm a bit low on card draw; Golgari has some nice card draw like [[Sign in Blood]] or [[Night's Whisper]], but the problem is that all the other cards in my deck feel too important to get rid of. I'm also not confident that my pest/saproling token engine is large enough to make use of; the cards that give me lots of tokens have high CMC, so I'm worried I won't even be able to make use of it until late game, which undermines my plan to use it as a chump wall in the early game.
- Build Considerations: I don't really want to leave bracket 3. Low 4 is okay I suppose, considering I have a potential combo in my deck. That said, I don't have much interest in spending egregious amounts of money on my deck. The Ozolith was a special exception. I don't tend to spend over $10 on a card, so staying within that range would be preferred. [[Shadowspear]], [[Delighted Halfling]], and [[Kodama of the West Tree]] are incredible but too rich for my blood, at least for now.
My deck list can be accessed HERE. I appreciate your help!
u/CosmicallyPickled — 5 hours ago