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Genuinely struggling on what to cut from Arcades deck
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Genuinely struggling on what to cut from Arcades deck

From people who have played Arcades or anyone really, which cards would you remove cause I love every card in this deck rn. I appreciate specific cards you dont find necessary as opposed to saying cut x cards from this category. thanks

Decklist: https://moxfield.com/decks/zWwoqE4qvkKhzW8uj0rAjw

u/FatJewishMom — 9 hours ago

Looking for some input on this

I'm just wondering if I can get any help trimming this deck a tad, seeing as it's 3 over. My friend said cut the counter spells and one other but I really don't wanna.

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u/Jaredead — 13 hours ago

Advice needed!

Would like to start by saying I’m completely new to this so please be kind. Played Magic for the first time two weekends ago on a guys trip and had a blast once I figured the basics out and have been playing magic the gathering arena on my phone. I Would like to start building my own decks. My friends are very into it and I could ask them from advice but I would like to take them by surprise on our fall trip by having my own decks. Do you simply start by buying magic decks? Can you use the edition cards(like tmnt) with regular decks? Thank you all! And please remember I’m completely new, pry a lil dumb to this…so be kind!

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u/Brilliant_Target5852 — 21 hours ago
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New deck with unfamiliar colors

Hey there. I’ve never been drawn to jeskai or izzet, and, hence, never built a deck around those color combos. Got the itch to try the though after bouncing some ideas off a friend for a deck focused around multiple combats and multiple turns. Take a look and let me know if I’m missing some key to those colors combos or if you see anything that could be improved. Thanks!

https://moxfield.com/decks/2zdlgvNrZUC0PQoumrrang

u/FfejMos — 21 hours ago

Goblin Workshop, need help with cuts

Trying to make a goblin workshop style deck where I turn artifacts into beaters or other value engines that can be used to win. Either by noncombat damage or getting bodies on the battlefield. I've narrowed down a lot of what I've looked at but still not sure about what else to cut and what maybe I should have put back in. Here's the current deck list https://archidekt.com/decks/21847025/goblin_artificers

u/Xenoka911 — 6 hours ago

Commander: Kibo, Uktabi Prince deck, tips for new builder?

Hello! First time building a deck from scratch, using a few different resources for recommendations. I want to lean in on kibo's ability and politics around artifacts.

Was wondering if anyone had any ideas or suggestions. Or if it looks good! Trying to shoot for bracket 3 and keep it a little more budget friendly if possible.

The deck: https://moxfield.com/decks/bksRGxuF3Ui1NaQnI24kbg

u/E-Bert101 — 20 hours ago

Simic Cookies as a Commander Deck

Simic Cookies was one of my favorite decks on Arena, so i tried making it a commander deck. It's underwhelming, to say the least. It is very clunky, uses a lot of resources on making artifacts to creatures and doesn't really have a win condition except "cyberdrive awakener"/ overloaded "rise and shine" and "tezzeret the seeker" ultimate. For all of them you need to have made enough artifacts to overrun all opponents in one turn.

I'm aware that the concept of the deck won't make it above bracket 3 but currently it feels more like a bracket 1 deck than a bracket 2 deck. I don't know how i could make it stronger without removing the key strategy of the simic cookies standard deck (make cheap artifact - turn to creature - beat opponent).

I hope there are some people here who are more advanced in building decks or maybe even have tried the same weird thing in commander with tips for cuts and additions to the deck. Any help is greatly appreciated. Sideboard and maybeboard are cards i fiddled around with or thought about fiddling around with.

I'm also open for suggestions for a completely different commander, i just thought Adrix and Nev would fit best with the style this tries to play.

The deck: https://archidekt.com/decks/15283259

>!Commander!<

>!1 Adrix and Nev, Twincasters!<

>!Artifact!<

>!1 Arcane Signet!<

>!1 Bootleggers' Stash!<

>!1 Cargo Ship!<

>!1 Combine Chrysalis!<

>!1 Ghost Vacuum!<

>!1 Herd Heirloom!<

>!1 Idol of Oblivion!<

>!1 Inspiring Statuary!<

>!1 Reckoner Bankbuster!<

>!1 Simic Signet!<

>!1 Smuggler's Copter!<

>!1 Sol Ring!<

>!1 Subterranean Schooner!<

>!1 Synthesizer Labship!<

>!1 Talisman of Curiosity!<

>!Creature!<

>!1 Academy Manufactor!<

>!1 Animating Faerie // Bring to Life!<

>!1 Bristlebud Farmer!<

>!1 Cyberdrive Awakener!<

>!1 Enduring Curiosity!<

>!1 Gilded Goose!<

>!1 Gingerbrute!<

>!1 Haywire Mite!<

>!1 Horizon Explorer!<

>!1 Jaheira, Friend of the Forest!<

>!1 Junk Winder!<

>!1 Kappa Cannoneer!<

>!1 Kitesail Larcenist!<

>!1 Lonis, Cryptozoologist!<

>!1 Mockingbird!<

>!1 Peregrin Took!<

>!1 Scute Swarm!<

>!1 Sentinel of the Nameless City!<

>!1 Shimmer Dragon!<

>!1 Spyglass Siren!<

>!1 Surge Engine!<

>!1 Teething Wurmlet!<

>!1 Tireless Provisioner!<

>!1 Tireless Tracker!<

>!1 Tough Cookie!<

>!Enchantment!<

>!1 Case of the Filched Falcon!<

>!1 Curious Inquiry!<

>!1 The Antiquities War!<

>!1 Weirding Wood!<

>!1 Zoetic Glyph!<

>!Instant!<

>!1 An Offer You Can't Refuse!<

>!1 Arcane Denial!<

>!1 Into the Flood Maw!<

>!1 Pawpatch Formation!<

>!1 Pongify!<

>!1 Rapid Hybridization!<

>!Land!<

>!1 Botanical Sanctum!<

>!1 Command Tower!<

>!1 Evolving Wilds!<

>!1 Exotic Orchard!<

>!1 Flooded Grove!<

>!12 Forest!<

>!1 Fountainport!<

>!1 Hinterland Harbor!<

>!13 Island!<

>!1 Lumbering Falls!<

>!1 Mirrex!<

>!1 Overflowing Basin!<

>!1 Rejuvenating Springs!<

>!1 Restless Vinestalk!<

>!1 Terramorphic Expanse!<

>!1 Willowrush Verge!<

>!1 Yavimaya Coast!<

>!Planeswalker!<

>!1 Tezzeret the Seeker!<

>!1 Tezzeret, Betrayer of Flesh!<

>!1 Tezzeret, Cruel Captain!<

>!1 Tezzeret, Cruel Machinist!<

>!Sorcery!<

>!1 Rise and Shine!<

>!1 Rite of Replication!<

>!1 They Went This Way!<

>!1 Thoughtcast!<

>!1 Agatha's Soul Cauldron!<

>!1 Ashnod's Transmogrant!<

>!1 Brotherhood Vertibird!<

>!1 Lavaspur Boots!<

>!1 Mindlink Mech!<

>!1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire!<

>!1 Soul-Guide Lantern!<

>!1 Tangle Tumbler!<

>!1 The Blackstaff of Waterdeep!<

>!1 Birds of Paradise!<

>!1 Edge Rover!<

>!1 Esix, Fractal Bloom!<

>!1 Insidious Fungus!<

>!1 Katsumasa, the Animator!<

>!1 Marketback Walker!<

>!1 Tishana's Tidebinder!<

>!1 Hardened Scales!<

>!1 Mightstone's Animation!<

>!1 Disdainful Stroke!<

>!1 Heritage Reclamation!<

>!1 Masterful Replication!<

>!1 Repulsive Mutation!<

>!1 Second Harvest!<

>!1 Suit Up!<

>!1 Farseek!<

>!1 Nature's Lore!<

>!1 Three Visits!<

u/Consistent_Heron7035 — 22 hours ago

How to Cut? im genuinely stuck 5 cards over on my daretti deck and i cant bring myself to remove anything 😒 please help

Im going for a mono red prison/ combo b4 deck but every card is either a combo piece or a stax piece or js a good piece and i have no idea what to remove even after playtesting.. i was considering maybe unwinding clock because i dont need too much artifact untap- but when its out its def helpful- esp w one ring. i feel the same way about cards like cursed mirror and sculpting stone. what do yall do to cut? if you wanna help at all my list is https://archidekt.com/decks/21620104/chill_bracket_2_mono_red

u/cckgoblin — 1 day ago
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Help me choose between these commanders to build next!

Hello!

Recently, I've been struggling a bit deciding what to build.

I start brewing something, i might buy some cards for the deck, but ultimately i end up thinking "man, i don't know if this is going to work", as the decks i brewed are somewhat commander reliant. For context, I play in a pod where interaction rains; it's like having an amount of interaction equal to what someone would expect in bracket 4, except we play b3 and b2, but we like that.
Of course, the solution is slotting more protection, but i'm still unsure of which commander to build.

My ideas were:

[[Kumena, tyrant of orazca]]: untap/tap shenanigans and winning through damage.

[[Riku of many paths]]: modal spells control, wanting to win with an overrun+his birds.

[[Hazezon, shaper of sand]]: dessertfall, creating tokens and winning with things like [[jetmir]] or [[impact tremors]] cards.

[[Muddle, the Ever-Changing]]: copying and abusing myriad etb or damage triggers.

[[Witherbloom, the balancer]]: aristocrats/overrun/big spells (havent decided yet, i just got him in the prerelease).

My current decks are: [[Henzie]], [[Sam, loyal attendant]]+[[Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit]] aristocombo and [[Faramir, Steward of Gondor]] nobility theme tribal.

Which one would you people choose?

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u/VoyVolao — 1 day ago

Help with my Selenia, Dark Angel Deck

Hey gang, working on a deck for [[Selenia, Dark Angel]]:

https://moxfield.com/decks/JfhkYp3v9EyWH1XkvWdXVA

I've been playing for literally 2 weeks and I wanted to start building my fantasy deck (within a reasonable price) and I'm a big fan of win-out decks. A friend gave me Selenia so thought I'd build around it.

I've had a look at Underdog's Corner for some ideas (I stole a lot of it actually) as well as some youtube videos. My changes/additions are a bit of survivability and ramp since it felt like this deck could be slow sometimes. That being said, i might've gone overboard with things like [[Exquisite Archangel]] and I've also seen debate around if [[Ad Nauseam]] is needed.

Another point is this current deck is a bit pricey for me to buy in 1 go and the plan is to work towards it. So any substitutes would be nice as well.

I don't plan on taking this into tournaments and stuff, it's a casual thing but my friends do already have very strong meta decks and I'd like to at least challenge them.

Anyway any sort of pointers, recommendations and ideas would be great!

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u/ExoticPenguins — 6 hours ago

Commander: Elven Tribal - Tokens and +1/+1 - Advice and tips on improving it please

Hi, this is my elven clown car deck https://moxfield.com/decks/5icmTGKB6kq9duwQ75i7MQ . I'm not very good at deck building so any advice or tips on improving it would be greatly appreaciated. I'm worried that in splitting my focus between the two stratagies (Tokens v +1/+1s) that I'm losing the value of both. Also I have no idea if tribal decks are even a competative idea these days. The whole commander levels of power if beyond my poor pea brain.

u/Firefry1 — 1 day ago

Help optimizing my mono white token deck.

Looking for input on my mono white token lifegain deck. Running Myrel, Shield of Argive. Open to any input

Deck List

Edit:Fixed list link

u/Trap-Jesus420 — 1 day ago
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Strixhaven is once again doing everything it can to turn around the perception of the R/W color combination and the Lorehold Spirit precon DOES NOT FAIL

For ages the Red/White color combo has been all about attacking, but the original strixhaven reinvented that with [[osgir, the reconstructor]] and turned the color combo into an artifact reanimator-style archetype. But we didn't see that theme carried through other sets, and I'm wondering why. But with the Lorehold Spirit precon from Secrets of Strixhaven is giving us a full-blown creature reanimator deck in Red/White and it's AMAZING. Check out my full deck review and precon upgrade for details on how this plane once again sets the new standard for a "boring" color combo.

u/CommanderMechanic — 3 days ago

Help with casual pizza combo deck

Been playing around with the Guac Chromedome combo deck in simic and wondering, besides the new 3 drop Topiary Lecturer, what could I add to help it out? The LGS I play at is more casual and more EDH focused but every now and then they do Standard and looking for suggestions on upgrades/changes.

Artifacts 11

2 Agatha's Soul Cauldron

4 Guac & Marshmallow Pizza

4 Sewer-veillance Cam

1 Spicy Oatmeal Pizza

Enchantments 2

2 Does Machines

Creatures 25

3 Badgermole Cub

4 Chrome Dome

4 Courier of Comestibles

4 Llanowar Elves

4 Mona Lisa, Science Geek

3 Formidable Speaker

3 Topiary Lecturer

Lands 22

4 Botanical Sanctum

4 Breeding Pool

2 Island

3 Fabled Passage

5 Forest

4 Multiversal Passage

SIDEBOARD:

3 Dragon Sniper

4 Snakeskin Veil

3 Soul-Guide Lantern

3 Spell Pierce

2 Stock Up

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u/Ok_Debate_2265 — 1 day ago

Returning to my first deck I ever built and I have realised it’s actually really bad, can someone please help me rebuild it for relatively cheap

I’m a pretty new magic player, and im returning to the game for the first time in six years. I only played against my little brother and I got really overconfident from all the whoopings I put on him. Took it to my first game shop to play and realised I couldn’t find any win cons. At the time I made it by just picking cards I liked and now I really regret it. Can I have tips/card recommendations for replacements to rebuild and improve it? I’m on a budget so I’d like to keep a core of cards. The commander is meren, and I’d like to build a reanimator esque deck around some sac outlets (yahenni, sadistic hypnotist, birthing pod etc)

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u/Curious_Night8982 — 1 day ago

How do I push this to Bracket 3?

Trying to tune this aristocrats deck so it can keep up with upgraded precons around Bracket 3 in my LGS! I’ve been having trouble with this deck while playing against some of the strongest unmodified base precons and especially modified precons. Not aiming for high power, just want it to be more consistent, resilient, and able to hold its own.

Looking for:

- Cards to buy and budget alternatives

- Cards to cut

- Other recommendations and general feedback

Blunt and comprehensive feedback would be appreciated! Thank you in advance!

Decklist: https://moxfield.com/decks/vaqoPaMrM0-6lMK1xVWtaQ

u/Comfortable_Buyer239 — 13 hours ago

Help with a dimir faerie deck

Hello! My partner and I have a bunch of 60 card decks that the two of us play with because he doesn't like deck building.

They're kind of inconsistent when it comes to power level but I like to make them good at what they do and still kind of fun to play with. They're also loosely set constructed.

I'm trying to get a dimir faerie deck together using mostly cards from Wilds of Eldraine but I'm willing to use other sets as long as the cards fit in thematically.

It just... Doesn't seem that good at what it does. It always seems to be on the back foot and when it wins it feels like a struggle through the whole game. It's death by a thousand cuts but it feels difficult to actually achieve.

Could someone please make some suggestions?

This deck is here: https://archidekt.com/decks/16110628/faeries

Thank you in advance!

u/a57892m — 1 day ago

Looking for help with a budget, thematic Kratos, God of War deck please at bracket 2 or 3.

I'm a new player looking for help with a budget and thematic Kratos, God of War deck please. I already own the Secret Lair God of War Greek cards, so the list I have so far would not need to purchase these.

I'd ideally like the deck to be around £150, as with it being a new hobby I don't want to overcommit. I'm based in the UK and would likely look to buy the cards from Cardmarket if that helps!

A few things I'm concerned about are, that with me being so new, the decklist I've created doesn't work together or the cards are wanting to do different things.

Another concern I have is around several cards in the deck I've created so far, mainly Heartless Hidetsugu and Magus of the Moon, as the group I play with are just a group of mates and we play very casually, and I'm concerned they could be too much or not fun to play with.

As per my previous post, I've established that my group would like our decks to not be above bracket 3 for now.

Any advice on the decklist, any upgrades or cards that should be removed would be greatly appreciated! Please feel free to be completely honest as I really am brand new to this and have likely made a lot of mistakes!

This is the decklist I have currently - https://moxfield.com/decks/h6OKjTAoBUe6ZTBXtjRYOA

u/Jonesy5687 — 1 day ago