There Can Only Be One!

Hello Everyone!

I thought for the longest time I would never do it, but I finally conceded and built..... an EDH (Commander) deck. Two in fact! Right now it's a pair of online decks and a huge stack of proxies, but now I have new cards to trade for, and decks that match the format everyone else plays on my floor. I don't know much about commander, but what I have been able to learn from the games I have played, the most important thing is to have a powerful strategy, and bigger tends to be better.

What that in mind, one thing I realize that prevented me from ever getting into Commander is that reading the decklists was the most obnoxious thing I could ever imagine, and felt it just wasn't worth my time. If however, you do like to read the decklists, here are my two decks as of now:

Commander: Prime Speaker Zegana


Thragtusk
Birds of Paradise
Noble Hierarch
Regal Force
Mystic Snake
Draining Whelk
Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
Woodfall Primus
Diluvian Primordial
Primordial Hydra
Sylvan Primordial
Primordial Sage
Soul of the Harvest
Garruk's Packleader
Fathom Mage
Yavimaya Elder
Eternal Witness
Edric, Spymaster of Trest
Lorescale Coatl
Fauna Shaman
Erayo, Soratami Ascendant
Experiment Kraj
Terastodon
Phyrexian Metamorph
Scavenging Ooze
Murkfiend Liege
Forgotten Ancient
Magus of the Library
Oracle of Mul Daya
Consecrated Sphinx



Devastation Tide
Temporal Mastery

Primal Command

Praetor's Counsel
Life from the Loam

Urban Evolution

Green Sun's Zenith

Farseek

Crop Rotation

Cyclonic Rift

AEtherize

Chord of Calling

Cryptic Command

Mystic Genesis

Tamiyo, the Moon Sage


Jace, the Mind Sculptor

Garruk Wildspeaker
Garruk, Primal Hunter

Leyline of Anticipation

Survival of the Fittest

Propaganda

Gilded Lotus
Sol Ring
Mana Crypt
Crystal Shard

Simic Keyrune
Simic Signet




Dryad Arbor
Tropical Island

Breeding Pool
Misty Rainforest
Scalding Tarn
Flooded Strand
Verdant Catacombs
Windswept Heath
Wooded Foothills
Polluted Delta
Simic Growth Chamber
Simic Guildgate
Hinterland Harbor

Command Tower

Yavimaya Hollow

Yavimaya Coast

Tolaria West
Tranquil Thicket
Treetop Village
Lonely Sandbar
7 Island
6 Forest
Remote Isle
Slippery Karst
Academy Ruins

Wasteland
Strip Mine
Flooded Grove
Gaea's Cradle

Reliquary Tower

This deck is very simple, but very straightforward: Lots of mana, lots of cards, lots of dudes. Crystal Shard can rebuy your ETB creatures like Mystic Snake and Terastadon to lock players out of the game, and from there winning is inevitable.

General: Kozilek, Butcher of Truth

Wurmcoil Engine

Duplicant

Lodestone Golem

Mycosynth Golem

Blightsteel Colossus

Darksteel Juggernaut

Steel Hellkite

Myr Battlesphere

Precursor Golem

Platinum Angel

Platinum Emperion

Pentavus

Batterskull

Karn, Silver Golem

Shimmer Myr

Steel Overseer

Silent Arbiter

Kuldotha Forgemaster

Ulamog's Crusher

Stuffy Doll

Manor Gargoyle

Artisan of Kozilek

It That Betrays

Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre

Vedalken Orrery

Crucible of Worlds

Mimic Vat

Prototype Portal

Sculpting Steel

Staff of Nin

Mind's Eye

Trading Post

Lightning Greaves

Darksteel Forge

Mindslaver

Tangle Wire

Expedition Map

Brittle Effigy

Lux Cannon

Contagion Engine

Tumble Magnet

Temple Bell

Akroma's Memorial

Sensei's Divining Top

Spine of Ish Sah

Everflowing Chalice

Mox Opal

Sol Ring

Mana Vault

Mana Crypt

Mind Stone

Grim Monolith

Guardian Idol

Dreamstone Hedron

Thran Dynamo

All Is Dust

Eldrazi Conscription

Karn Liberated

Scorched Ruins

Ancient Tomb

Blasted Landscape

Blinkmoth Nexus

Buried Ruin

City of Traitors

Cloudpost

Crystal Vein

Darksteel Citadel

Dread Statuary

Dust Bowl

Eldrazi Temple

Eye of Ugin

Gargoyle Castle

Glimmerpost

Gods' Eye, Gate to the Reikai

Haunted Fengraf

Homeward Path

Inkmoth Nexus

Mikokoro, Center of the Sea

Miren, the Moaning Well

Mishra's Factory

Mishra's Workshop

Mutavault

Mystifying Maze

Petrified Field

Phyrexia's Core

Rishadan Port

Springjack Pasture

Stalking Stones

Strip Mine

Tectonic Edge

Temple of the False God

Thespian's Stage

Vesuva

Urza's Factory

Urza's Mine

Urza's Power Plant

Urza's Tower

Wasteland

Zoetic Cavern

This deck is more of a deckbuilding challenge than it is a legitimate deck. That being said, it is very powerful, and can do many insane things. The best card in the deck for me has been All is Dust, as whenever you cast it, especially in multi-player, things get nasty on the other side of the board. I think this deck probably needs more mana ramp, but I have found that building these decks is all about playing them a ton and feeling for what works best.

If you have a commander deck on Cockatrice (or any deck for that matter) challenge me to a game! My username is rLack, and I would love to jam some games!

Commander is a pretty cool format, and I like having to think outside the box when putting together the perfect 99 to make sure I actually have enough good cards! The French do have a competitive EDH scene, but I'm going to choose to ignore anything that comes from there so I can have a safe haven for a relaxed game.

That's all I have for today! Until next time, stay classy!

Ryan Lackie

Ryan.Lackie92@gmail.com

@ThingsILack