
the morph-centric strategy we want to pursue doesn't rely on tokens, and so old Grismold seems pretty noneffective. Just feels like a card that is suited for another commander deck entirely. Gives all your cards flash, so it makes the Guardian's usage rather superfluous except as a clunky combat trick. Luckily, the Muse is already in the deck. , cards with flash are made extremely powerful. See point #5 for the reasoning behind cuttingįlash is not only a good mechanic for this commander's abilities, but absolute madness when it comes to doling out a huge board state. (or we don't even have Kadena out in the first place), the colorless mana will do fine for us. Plus, if we want to play our morph creatures face-down and have already done so with our commander, Sure, they cost 2 mana and deal damage to your if you want colored mana from them, but they enter untapped meaning you can still use them right away if need be.


Instead, we are adding in the Talisman cycle of artifacts that fit our colors. , a card that shouldn't be run if it's strictly for cards like this alone). Make mana with some versatility, but they come in tapped unconditionally (save for effects like The Faceless Menace deck comes with 40 lands, a lot of which are relatively weak. Because we like to reuse morph abilities, returning cards with morph to our hand will allow us to do so covertly (this deck generally likes to keep a large hand), while providing us with a creature that is mostly immune to conventional removal.ĭoes not net us cards (in fact, if you play the extra land it lets you play, you're giving yourself one less card in hand!), and we have a whole mess of ramp already, so it gets cut. Is a card which allows for degeneracy in most decks, and this one is no exception. Was removed in favor of a hard stop to most opposing resource usage. In a more diverse Constructed environment, tokens are still a threat but not as pronounced, and so Needless to say, this combo had to be added to the deck.įelt like a card that was added to the precon strictly to stop token decks from flourishing (namely Primal Genesis, or Commander 2019's Populate deck).

For one generic mana and one blue mana during each of your turns, you could instill a complete end to all opponents' untap steps. The "Pickles Lock," a famous game-stalling combo from 2006's Standard season, involved the cards In its place I added a card that would let us reuse any of our morph abilities among face-up creatures we control, and any of the triggered abilities that might come with them. We don't necessarily want to give our morph creatures to just anyone, even at our own whims, so Was removed in favor of a more potent effect in the form of This deck needed a bit more of a surprise element to it, so the slow, clunky This list was produced for Bleeding Cool, in review of the Commander 2019 deck Faceless Menace.
