Picking Your Deck | Learning cEDH - Episode 9

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Today's episode we talk about one of the biggest decisions you'll make in cEDH: what deck you're going to play. We cover a few different questions I'd ask players looking for a list, what those answers might mean for you, and decks to pick for players all along the spectrum of cEDH experience.

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[MellonVegan]

15:57 This is golden advice for getting to the top at anything in life.
If someone has fun doing their own thing and finding everything out for themselves, that's totally valid.
It's just not how you become the best at anything. In most endeavours, there are too many options for a single human to pursue and try out.
Better to absorb the knowledge that is easily available and already there and then develop that further yourself.

[ferventalchemist]

Excellent video. Never disappointed in the merch.

[TOTALmtg]

Great video guys! I learn so much form your content :) As you know i did built a stax list for my first CEDH deck lol (Tymna & Tevesh) and played it with you. Even though i wasn't sure what a when to play in my first game i loved it so much and had super fun playing it. I have a Yuriko commander deck so i may well adjust that a bit to be cedh. Also Kinnan does interest me now too.

[GoldSabertooth]

Excellent video homies, love these sort of conversations

[God_Markov]

I would like to see some deck guides again

[neonron]

This has a lot of good tips. Thanks for making content and being willing to teach.

[bustedwolf]

Absolutely solid advice. You guys have earned a subscriber

[Nullking_]

I have not played CEDH for a long time and getting into it was very interesting and it satisfied a different style of playing the game for me. Funny enough my first deck is a stax deck w/ shalai and Hallar. Stax really takes a different thought process with playing the game, you need to know what’s good stax pieces are good for your deck and how/when to play those pieces over others. Since mine is a combo stax deck it also plays partially to protecting my combo while making people play at the pace I want them too. I agree that recommending stax to a new player is not one I would do either and it’s really required someone who is patient and understands that sometimes a stax piece is better left in your hand than playing it out in order to leave up instant speed interaction or to allow other players the ability to still be able to stop the player who is more than likely going to win on their next turn.

[MJkakashi]

I am really starting to enjoy your content, keep it up.

[chrisjohnson]

I'm new to Commander and have been creeping towards cEDH but not there yet. I don't have any of the speedy Mox cards or expensive dual lands. I'd love to see a video that defines the different kinds of decks. I don't even know the names but you mentioned a "storm deck". Stax deck. What are the others and what are they by definition? Or is there already a video that discusses that? Love the content by the way. My two favorite decks I have at the moment are my Heliod and The Locust God. Neither are at cEDH yet.

[gaabetzagooga]

i literally said "theres over 20, 000 cards but about 500 good ones" to someone earlier when they asked me how many magic cards there were and then i hear you guys say it lol

[al]

The note on deckbuilding for cEDH connects really well back to "player types" and where people come to the format from. Casual commander players sometimes don't even have the understanding that, like, a casual Hearthstone player has - that there is an established set of strategies, and specifically *cards*, which set the pace for everything else. A bad casual hearthstone player might still rail against people for playing "meta decks, " without fully understanding what a metagame actually is, but they know that there are some things that are known to be good and might even try to build in a way that crudely targets those established strategies.

All that to say that casual commander is an awful starting place for learning any competitive card game, not merely because of the complexity, but due to the lack of evaluation skills learned when interacting with a format where people are playing at the absolute upper limit of power. The people who are deckbuilding in those formats are not necessarily doing it because they love the self-expression (not to rule that out), but because they are trying to exploit the existing field or believe they are onto something that outstrips everything else currently happening.

It's like playing go fish at dinner with your family and then registering for a poker tournament. You genuinely have no fucking clue what is coming for you.

[justinhuber]

Just started playing and building a yarok deck. My play style in other games has always been to have multiple ways to win and have outs. So far, yarok seems like the best for that.

[jacobwest]

Jhoria, Weatherlight Captain for a first cEDH deck? Its my first (still missing LED and Mox Diamond unfortunately) but it plays nice and pretty fun.

[dondariohabibi]

I play dimir rogues for casual plays, and i love the tempo of swinging in with small creatures drawing alot of cards. would like to take that thought into cedh, i guess maybe yuriko is for me then? The problem for me with having blue in my first cedh deck is i dont know how to interact with the board, all these combo lines like breach, docksides loops etc. any thoughts?

[korxac]

Cedh got more interaction. On casual tables everyone is out of control with huge boards because that prioritize their 23 piece combo or value machine. Cedh is way more streamlined and efficient.

[elite]

Hey I'm pretty sure I played in a tournament a while ago with you in nc for a mox diamond

[GagleDan]

think I might pick up nymris as my first cedh list just looking at the deck list makes all the happy brain chemicals fire off xD

[hatebears]

Just love your content, Matthew! #bearlove