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[M:tG] [EDH] Commander Survey (you and your playgroup!)


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Since EDH seems to be a thing that more and more people are playing, I'm curious to see what kinds of decks people play. Myself:

Yeva, Nature's Herald - Green control. Dies to Torpor Orb.
Pharika, God of Affliction - Constellation!control with a side helping of token spam. Tends to slow games to a crawl when she comes out.

There are 8 or so people in my playgroup (including me) with the following commanders between them:

Rhys the Redeemed - Token and anthem spam. Is never played in any game above 4 people.
Nicol Bolas - Cruel control.
Thassa, God of the Sea - "I suddenly have 20+ cards in hand and don't know what to do with them." This is heard a lot.
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight - Double damage = not so much fun for others.
Teneb, the Harvester - Doesn't see play much.
Kresh the Bloodbraided - Doesn't see play much.
Progenitus - 5C god tribal.
Vaevictus Asmadi - Group chaos with dragons!
Gwafa Hazid, Profiteer - Group hug.
Krenko, Mob Boss - Goblin tribal. Similar to Rhys in efficiency.
Prime Speaker Zegana - All over the place, really, but likes big butts. Trying to make it into Maro tribal.
Xenagos, God of Revels - Suddenly, Eldrazi. Eldrazy everywhere.
Trostani, Selesnya's Voice - Lifegain spam.
Erebos, God of the Dead - "No, you can't have those creatures. Or that life. Or anything, really."
Niv-Mizzet, Dracogenius - Made specifically not to abuse Izzet 1.0.
Oloro, Ageless Ascetic - Play lands, extort, profit.
Child of Alara - Maze's End/Fog theme.
Kaalia of the Vast - Standard Kaalia build. Nothing extraordinarily odd.
Hanna, Ship's Navigator - The only deck with any infinite combos. Routinely gets hated off the table.

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Maelstrom Wanderer - Combo and Goodstuff. Wins quickly and consistently, with the combo or without.

Rhys the Redeemed - Tokens, because I love them.

Oloro, Ageless Ascetic - The focus here isn't the lifegain, it's the control. Can win out of nowhere with Sorin and Magister Sphinx.

Prossh, Skyraider of Kher - More tokens, this time I want them to die.

Aurelia, the Warleader - Voltron, but it's very weak since I don't have many quality cards for this archetype.

Nekusar the Mindrazer - Wheel of Fortune, gg.

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Nekusar, the Mindrazer - My only complete Commander Deck. Group Hugs and draws galore. Also because I've grown to loathe Rhystic Study. Has a lot of trouble in 1v1.

 

Tromokratis - Under construction. Coughs out big creatures while crapping all over the opponents' manabases to lift islandhome effects. Designed for flavour and ability to fight 1v1.

 

What I see in my playgroup in university:

  • Prossh OTK - Cast Prossh, grant haste, eat the tokens, double strike, game by commander damage. Possible because of XenaGod.
  • Sharrum feat. Infinite Turns - Time Sieve, Myr Battlesphere, sadness goes on the stack.
  • Isperia Despairia - "Did I hear someone having fun?" Uses many cards that severely restrict everyone's actions.
  • Glissa - Kills stuff, recurs artifacts. Equip with Thornbite Staff and Viridian Longbow to murder everything.
  • Derevi - Bird is the word. Less annoying than other Derevi Decks because it's designed strictly with bird flavour. Still a pain to handle.
  • Uril 'tron - Let him resolve and people tend to die. Gift him with Immortality and cry.
  • Jarad Reanimators - Dredge dredge dredge dredge dredge
  • Jeleva Chaos - Screws with everyone via Possibility Storm while being largely unaffected by it.
  • Niv Mizzet, the Firemind - Once Firemind's Foresight happens, it will go for Reiterate-Reset-Shock to kill everyone. Otherwise, Enter the Infinite with Firemind.
  • Karona's God Complex - Every Theros God, along with hybrid-mana Avatars to activate them. Kills people with Karona armed up with all the Avatar weaponry.
  • Wrexial/Mirko Vosk/Lazav - Largely doesn't matter who's in the commander seat because the Deck is still the same regardless. Death by milling and having your things stolen from your graveyard.
  • Melek - Copying all the things.
  • Riku/Animar - Same deck that can alternate between both commanders. Ramps to no end, sometimes resulting in lots of lands with nothing to create, but when it summons big things...
  • Niv Mizzet, Dracogenius Chaos - More interested in enchantments that screw with everyone. Traumatize on a Hive Mind followed by Wild Ricochet.
  • Zur, the Enchanter - Didn't play against this much, but it gets dirty looks from everyone. For good reason, perhaps.
  • Kemba-tron - aka Crazy Cat Lady. One Chaos Warp and he's boned.
  • Sliver Overlord - All the old Slivers. The only non-permanent card it has is Primal Surge.
  • Vorel - Earned infamy with a game where he Cyclonic Rifted nonstop.
  • SwitcheRoon - Never witnessed, but as predicted, flickers everywhere.
  • XenaGod - Every creature is a major threat. Life's Finale mill is near-pointless.
  • Purphoros/Krenko - Both enter the field and everyone gangs up on it. And it still wins. Gratuitous Violence with an active Purphoros = massive damage.
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My Current Edhs

Zedruu - Makes enemies of your friends and your enemies too

Karador - Graveyard hate hates him

Intet - What will I draw next?

Treva - ????

 

My Playgroup is of me and 4 Friends with other random people appearing randomly

Friend 1:

Plays Sharuum and Proshh

Friend 2:

Plays Aurelia and Ghave

Friend 3: 

Plays Lazav and Nicol Bolas

Friend 4:

Plays Hanna and Obzedat

 

We also are Building a 10 Deck Collection of Pauper Commander Decks where all 10 commanders are the 10 RTR Guildmages

I'm building Vizkopa (Previously Maw of Obzedat) and Nivix Guildmages atm, the rest of my friends are doing the other 8.

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I play 2 decks,

 

Roon flicker deck - Play group hug/creature control until I can craterhoof everyone to death

 

Aurelia - Voltron 1v1, it works pretty well in multiplayer too.

 

My playgroup plays

 

Kaalia of the vast - One of the owners of the LGS's deck, jam packed with expensive foils

 

Talrand - tempo and anti fun, gets completely shut down by a single condemn

 

Ruric Thar - Anti Talrand (not even kidding, the guy originally made the deck to s*** on the other guys talrand deck)

 

Mayel the animar - Also jam packed full of expensive foils and promos

 

Nekussar - Wheel and Deal, the fun doesn't stop when everyone starts cloning Nekussar

 

Krenko - This deck is 10 kinds of terrifying, This guy sometimes plays Ashling the Pilgrim just to be a dick.

 

Oloro - Gets s*** on by the 5 Nekussar clones every game

 

Uril - generic aura voltron

 

Reaper king - 5 color goodstuff.dec

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My group is pretty dang casual, to be quite honest. Frankly, I am happy with it the way it is.

 

Mine:

Melek, Izzet Paragon: combo combo combo combo combo

Phage, the Untouchable: Mono-black control, with the coolest win-con ever

Anax and Cymede: Make tokens, trigger heroic a few times, ?????, profit

Ruric Thar: Basic Gruul beatdown

Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind: Looks like simple Izzet control. Then it wins.

Tromokratis: mono-blue control with a voltron win condition

Ashling, the Pilgrim: Group chaos.

 

My Friends':

Karametra, God of Harvests: Ramp into big stuff, which then ramps into bigger stuff, etc.

Kruphix, God of Horizons: Ramp into x-spells and other big stuff

Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir: Mono-blue control. Gets hated off the board routinely

Shattergang Brothers: Jund control... only now do I realize there is a ton of control in my playgroup...

Prossh, Skyraider of Kher: Voltron. Very unfunny.

Jhoira of the Ghitu: The fattest fatties you ever saw

Nekusar, the Mindrazer: I built this for him. Have you ever seen Hive Mind with Nekusar? You don't.

Geth, Lord of the Vault: Mono-black combo thing. Super cool.

Daxos of Meletis: Lifegain control

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I play:
Maelstrom Wanderer (Slot Machine) - Combos and Goodstuffz. Tends to barf on the boardstate around turn five.
Krenko, Mob Boss (Tokens. Tokens Everywhere.) - Basic swarm.
Dralnu, Lich Lord (Double the Counters, Double the Fun) - Generic nope you can't do that. Or that. Or that.
Teysa, Orzhov Scion - WIP

My playgroup plays:
Vorel of the Hull Clade - Makes Bond Beetle a threat.
Kaalia of the Vast - Generic herp derp fatties.
Karn, Silver Golem - Will kill you with Basalt Monolith. Happily.
Sapling of Colfenor - Tends to durdle till it sometimes wins.
Purphoros, God of the Forge - Every token making spell. Ever.
Nath of the Gilt-Leaf - Megrim is a bitch.
Azami, Lady of Scrolls - Play Wizards, Draw Cards, Counter Spells. Take ALL the turns.
The Mimeoplasm - Also known as The Deck of No.
Borborgymos Enraged - Land destruction. BURBURGMISMISMIS
Jeleva, Nephalia's Scourge - Wheel n Deal deck. Known as Game Show.
Keranos, God of Storms - Draw cards and burn shit.
Omnath, Locus of Mana - Has the pet name 'f*ck that '.

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I can't consistently keep an EDH deck, but here are ones I have played and/or plan on making at some point:
• Teneb, the Harvester Reanimator
• Glissa, the Traitor artifact control
• The Mimeoplasm grave control deck
• Sek'Kuar Reanimator
• Phelddagrif backstab deck (like a hug deck but uses Anvil of Bogardan and Iron Maiden to sneak in a win)
• Zedruu mean deck
• Mayael the Anima big fatties
• Karametra ramp
• Xenagod power play deck
• Iroas combat deck
• Mogis control
• Kruphix power-mana deck
• Phenax mill

My locals has/had including, but not limited to, the following:
• Roon "good stuff/etb" deck
• Rafiq voltron
• Derevi good stuff
• Nekusar too much drawing
• Edric "win politics forever" deck
• Oloro "I don't lose" deck 
• Patron of the Soratami "yeah, that just happened" deck
• Kiki-Jiki combo creatures
• Jeleva "this general is confused" deck
• Thassa "this general was drawn by Jason Chan" deck
• Sygg, River Cutthroat "I'm totally not threatening" deck
• Arcum Daggson "You're all ganging up on me and I still win" deck
• Jhoira "Exodia, OBLITERATE!" deck
• Selenia "life combos" deck
• Rhys the Redeemed token spam
• Thraximundar zombie tribal
• Karador reanimator
• Karona, False God avatar tribal
• Phage EDH
• Halfdane "I make sure nobody else does anything broken" deck
There are many more, but I can't be expected to remember them all, right?

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