edhseer Commander synergy, explained

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Eldrazi Unbound

Commander precon · Commander Masters · 2023 · led by Zhulodok, Void Gorger

Main theme: Eldrazi tribal · Synergy 3.2/5 (connected) · Bracket 1–2 · Zhulodok, Void Gorger works with 21 of its cards

Upgrades at bracket 1–2

No Game Changers and no infinite combos: the level of an unchanged precon. Game Changers are cards on WotC's official list of cards that make a deck much stronger.

5 swaps, and after them the report reads the deck at bracket 1–2.

Its cards work together a little more: synergy 3.2 → 3.4 of 5, still connected. It is a little more consistent: Build 4.6 → 4.9 of 5, still on target; no longer short on card advantage. That is what this page measures: how well the deck holds together, not how strong it is.

Card advantage

  1. Take out Spatial Contortion: Spatial Contortion is next on the report's cut list. Works with 4 other cards: with 2 again and again, with 2 just once or in the background. Put in Trading Post: Card advantage: you were 4 short; Trading Post counts as card advantage. Skittering Cicada gives Trading Post haste.
  2. Take out Mirage Mirror: Mirage Mirror is next on the report's cut list. Works with 7 other cards: with 3 again and again, with 4 just once or in the background. Put in Technodrome: Card advantage: you were 4 short; Technodrome counts as card advantage. Skittering Cicada gives Technodrome haste.
  3. Take out Endless One: Endless One is next on the report's cut list. Works with 7 other cards: with 6 again and again, with 1 just once or in the background. Put in Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender: Card advantage: you were 4 short; Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender counts as card advantage. Skittering Cicada gives Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender haste.
  4. Take out Suspicious Bookcase: Suspicious Bookcase is next on the report's cut list. Works with 7 other cards: with 6 again and again, with 1 just once or in the background. Put in Filigree Familiar: Card advantage: you were 4 short; Filigree Familiar counts as card advantage. Skittering Cicada gives Filigree Familiar haste.

Cards that work together

  1. Take out Darksteel Monolith: Darksteel Monolith works with 4 cards in this deck, 1 of them on its theme; ED-E, Lonesome Eyebot works with 8 cards, none of them on it. Put in ED-E, Lonesome Eyebot: Skittering Cicada gives ED-E, Lonesome Eyebot haste

Upgrades at bracket 3

Up to three Game Changers, and no two-card infinite combo that costs 6 or less.

7 swaps, and after them the report reads the deck at bracket 3.

Its cards work together a little more: synergy 3.2 → 3.4 of 5, still connected. It is a little more consistent: Build 4.6 → 5.0 of 5, still on target; no longer short on card advantage. That is what this page measures: how well the deck holds together, not how strong it is.

Ramp

  1. Take out Thran Dynamo: Thran Dynamo is weaker ramp than Chrome Mox. Put in Chrome Mox: Chrome Mox is ramp too, and one of the strongest cards in Commander: a Game Changer, which this bracket allows.
  2. Take out Worn Powerstone: Worn Powerstone is weaker ramp than Mana Vault. Put in Mana Vault: Mana Vault is ramp too, and one of the strongest cards in Commander: a Game Changer, which this bracket allows.

Card advantage

  1. Take out Spatial Contortion: Spatial Contortion is next on the report's cut list. Works with 4 other cards: with 2 again and again, with 2 just once or in the background. Put in Trading Post: Card advantage: you were 4 short; Trading Post counts as card advantage. Skittering Cicada gives Trading Post haste.
  2. Take out Mirage Mirror: Mirage Mirror is next on the report's cut list. Works with 7 other cards: with 3 again and again, with 4 just once or in the background. Put in Technodrome: Card advantage: you were 4 short; Technodrome counts as card advantage. Skittering Cicada gives Technodrome haste.
  3. Take out Endless One: Endless One is next on the report's cut list. Works with 7 other cards: with 6 again and again, with 1 just once or in the background. Put in Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender: Card advantage: you were 4 short; Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender counts as card advantage. Skittering Cicada gives Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender haste.
  4. Take out Suspicious Bookcase: Suspicious Bookcase is next on the report's cut list. Works with 7 other cards: with 6 again and again, with 1 just once or in the background. Put in Filigree Familiar: Card advantage: you were 4 short; Filigree Familiar counts as card advantage. Skittering Cicada gives Filigree Familiar haste.

Cards that work together

  1. Take out Darksteel Monolith: Darksteel Monolith works with 4 cards in this deck, 1 of them on its theme; ED-E, Lonesome Eyebot works with 8 cards, none of them on it. Put in ED-E, Lonesome Eyebot: Skittering Cicada gives ED-E, Lonesome Eyebot haste

Upgrades at bracket 4–5

No limits on Game Changers or combos.

7 swaps, and after them the report reads the deck at bracket 3. These are the same swaps as at bracket 3: none of the stronger cards bracket 4–5 allows does any of these jobs strictly better, so aiming higher changes nothing for this deck.

Its cards work together a little more: synergy 3.2 → 3.4 of 5, still connected. It is a little more consistent: Build 4.6 → 5.0 of 5, still on target; no longer short on card advantage. That is what this page measures: how well the deck holds together, not how strong it is.

Ramp

  1. Take out Thran Dynamo: Thran Dynamo is weaker ramp than Chrome Mox. Put in Chrome Mox: Chrome Mox is ramp too, and one of the strongest cards in Commander: a Game Changer, which this bracket allows.
  2. Take out Worn Powerstone: Worn Powerstone is weaker ramp than Mana Vault. Put in Mana Vault: Mana Vault is ramp too, and one of the strongest cards in Commander: a Game Changer, which this bracket allows.

Card advantage

  1. Take out Spatial Contortion: Spatial Contortion is next on the report's cut list. Works with 4 other cards: with 2 again and again, with 2 just once or in the background. Put in Trading Post: Card advantage: you were 4 short; Trading Post counts as card advantage. Skittering Cicada gives Trading Post haste.
  2. Take out Mirage Mirror: Mirage Mirror is next on the report's cut list. Works with 7 other cards: with 3 again and again, with 4 just once or in the background. Put in Technodrome: Card advantage: you were 4 short; Technodrome counts as card advantage. Skittering Cicada gives Technodrome haste.
  3. Take out Endless One: Endless One is next on the report's cut list. Works with 7 other cards: with 6 again and again, with 1 just once or in the background. Put in Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender: Card advantage: you were 4 short; Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender counts as card advantage. Skittering Cicada gives Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender haste.
  4. Take out Suspicious Bookcase: Suspicious Bookcase is next on the report's cut list. Works with 7 other cards: with 6 again and again, with 1 just once or in the background. Put in Filigree Familiar: Card advantage: you were 4 short; Filigree Familiar counts as card advantage. Skittering Cicada gives Filigree Familiar haste.

Cards that work together

  1. Take out Darksteel Monolith: Darksteel Monolith works with 4 cards in this deck, 1 of them on its theme; ED-E, Lonesome Eyebot works with 8 cards, none of them on it. Put in ED-E, Lonesome Eyebot: Skittering Cicada gives ED-E, Lonesome Eyebot haste

Opens a route: Vision, Synthezoid Avenger. 1 of its cards reach Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate through it.

Also short, against a typical Commander deck: card advantage 10 of 14.

The decklist

Creatures

Abstruse Archaic · Ancient Stone Idol · Artisan of Kozilek · Bane of Bala Ged · Burnished Hart · Crashing Drawbridge · Duplicant · Endbringer · Endless One · Flayer of Loyalties · Geode Golem · Hangarback Walker · It That Betrays · Kozilek, the Great Distortion · Matter Reshaper · Metalwork Colossus · Meteor Golem · Myriad Construct · Oblivion Sower · Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate · Ornithopter of Paradise · Palladium Myr · Phyrexian Triniform · Scaretiller · Skittering Cicada · Solemn Simulacrum · Soul of New Phyrexia · Steel Hellkite · Stonecoil Serpent · Suspicious Bookcase

Planeswalkers

Ugin, the Ineffable

Instants and sorceries

All Is Dust · Calamity of the Titans · Desecrate Reality · Not of This World · Rise of the Eldrazi · Spatial Contortion · Titan's Presence · Warping Wail

Artifacts and enchantments

Darksteel Monolith · Dreamstone Hedron · Endless Atlas · Everflowing Chalice · Fireshrieker · Forsaken Monument · Hedron Archive · Investigator's Journal · Kaldra Compleat · Lightning Greaves · Mazemind Tome · Mind Stone · Mirage Mirror · Mystic Forge · Perilous Vault · Sol Ring · Thought Vessel · Thran Dynamo · Transmogrifying Wand · Ugin's Mastery · Unstable Obelisk · Worn Powerstone

Lands

Arcane Lighthouse · Arch of Orazca · Blast Zone · Bonders' Enclave · Eldrazi Temple · Forge of Heroes · Geier Reach Sanitarium · Guildless Commons · Mage-Ring Network · Mirrorpool · Reliquary Tower · Rogue's Passage · Ruins of Oran-Rief · Scavenger Grounds · Sea Gate Wreckage · Shrine of the Forsaken Gods · Temple of the False God · Tomb of the Spirit Dragon · Tyrite Sanctum · Urza's Mine · Urza's Power Plant · Urza's Tower · War Room · 15 Wastes

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