edhseer Commander synergy, explained

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Enhanced Evolution

Commander precon · Commander 2020 · 2020 · led by Otrimi, the Ever-Playful

Synergy 2.5/5 (developing) · Bracket 1–2 · Otrimi, the Ever-Playful works with 6 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.

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

Its cards work together more: synergy 2.5 → 3.0 of 5, from developing to connected. It is a little more consistent: Build 4.6 → 4.7 of 5, still on target; still 2 short on interaction, 1 short on card advantage, was 3. That is what this page measures: how well the deck holds together, not how strong it is.

Lands

  1. Take out Dimir Aqueduct: Dimir Aqueduct enters tapped. Put in Morphic Pool: Morphic Pool never enters tapped and makes blue or black.
  2. Take out Dismal Backwater: Dismal Backwater enters tapped. Put in Sunken Ruins: Sunken Ruins never enters tapped and makes blue or black.
  3. Take out Golgari Rot Farm: Golgari Rot Farm enters tapped. Put in Bayou: Bayou never enters tapped and makes black or green.
  4. Take out Jungle Hollow: Jungle Hollow enters tapped. Put in Overgrown Tomb: Overgrown Tomb never enters tapped and makes black or green.
  5. Take out Simic Growth Chamber: Simic Growth Chamber enters tapped. Put in Breeding Pool: Breeding Pool never enters tapped and makes blue or green.
  6. Take out Thornwood Falls: Thornwood Falls enters tapped. Put in Flooded Grove: Flooded Grove never enters tapped and makes blue or green.

Card advantage

  1. Take out Predatory Impetus: Predatory Impetus is next on the report's cut list. Works with 1 other card: with 1 again and again. Put in Gossip's Talent: Card advantage: you were 3 short; Gossip's Talent counts as card advantage. When Masked Admirers enters thanks to Gossip's Talent, it draws you 1 card.
  2. Take out Wydwen, the Biting Gale: Wydwen, the Biting Gale is next on the report's cut list. Works with 5 other cards: with 2 again and again, with 3 just once or in the background. Put in Foot Chopper: Card advantage: you were 3 short; Foot Chopper counts as card advantage. Foot Chopper can put Masked Admirers into the graveyard, and it returns itself.

Upgrades at bracket 3

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

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

Its cards work together more: synergy 2.5 → 3.0 of 5, from developing to connected. It is a little more consistent: Build 4.6 → 4.7 of 5, still on target; still 2 short on interaction, 1 short on card advantage, was 3. That is what this page measures: how well the deck holds together, not how strong it is.

Lands

  1. Take out Dimir Aqueduct: Dimir Aqueduct enters tapped. Put in Morphic Pool: Morphic Pool never enters tapped and makes blue or black.
  2. Take out Dismal Backwater: Dismal Backwater enters tapped. Put in Sunken Ruins: Sunken Ruins never enters tapped and makes blue or black.
  3. Take out Golgari Rot Farm: Golgari Rot Farm enters tapped. Put in Bayou: Bayou never enters tapped and makes black or green.
  4. Take out Jungle Hollow: Jungle Hollow enters tapped. Put in Overgrown Tomb: Overgrown Tomb never enters tapped and makes black or green.
  5. Take out Simic Growth Chamber: Simic Growth Chamber enters tapped. Put in Breeding Pool: Breeding Pool never enters tapped and makes blue or green.
  6. Take out Thornwood Falls: Thornwood Falls enters tapped. Put in Flooded Grove: Flooded Grove never enters tapped and makes blue or green.

Ramp

  1. Take out Arcane Signet: Arcane Signet 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.

Card advantage

  1. Take out Predatory Impetus: Predatory Impetus is next on the report's cut list. Works with 1 other card: with 1 again and again. Put in Gossip's Talent: Card advantage: you were 3 short; Gossip's Talent counts as card advantage. When Masked Admirers enters thanks to Gossip's Talent, it draws you 1 card.
  2. Take out Wydwen, the Biting Gale: Wydwen, the Biting Gale is next on the report's cut list. Works with 5 other cards: with 2 again and again, with 3 just once or in the background. Put in Foot Chopper: Card advantage: you were 3 short; Foot Chopper counts as card advantage. Foot Chopper can put Masked Admirers into the graveyard, and it returns itself.
  3. Take out Mind Spring: Mind Spring is weaker card draw than Rhystic Study. Put in Rhystic Study: Rhystic Study is card draw too, and one of the strongest cards in Commander: a Game Changer, which this bracket allows.

Upgrades at bracket 4–5

No limits on Game Changers or combos.

10 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 more: synergy 2.5 → 3.0 of 5, from developing to connected. It is a little more consistent: Build 4.6 → 4.7 of 5, still on target; still 2 short on interaction, 1 short on card advantage, was 3. That is what this page measures: how well the deck holds together, not how strong it is.

Lands

  1. Take out Dimir Aqueduct: Dimir Aqueduct enters tapped. Put in Morphic Pool: Morphic Pool never enters tapped and makes blue or black.
  2. Take out Dismal Backwater: Dismal Backwater enters tapped. Put in Sunken Ruins: Sunken Ruins never enters tapped and makes blue or black.
  3. Take out Golgari Rot Farm: Golgari Rot Farm enters tapped. Put in Bayou: Bayou never enters tapped and makes black or green.
  4. Take out Jungle Hollow: Jungle Hollow enters tapped. Put in Overgrown Tomb: Overgrown Tomb never enters tapped and makes black or green.
  5. Take out Simic Growth Chamber: Simic Growth Chamber enters tapped. Put in Breeding Pool: Breeding Pool never enters tapped and makes blue or green.
  6. Take out Thornwood Falls: Thornwood Falls enters tapped. Put in Flooded Grove: Flooded Grove never enters tapped and makes blue or green.

Ramp

  1. Take out Arcane Signet: Arcane Signet 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.

Card advantage

  1. Take out Predatory Impetus: Predatory Impetus is next on the report's cut list. Works with 1 other card: with 1 again and again. Put in Gossip's Talent: Card advantage: you were 3 short; Gossip's Talent counts as card advantage. When Masked Admirers enters thanks to Gossip's Talent, it draws you 1 card.
  2. Take out Wydwen, the Biting Gale: Wydwen, the Biting Gale is next on the report's cut list. Works with 5 other cards: with 2 again and again, with 3 just once or in the background. Put in Foot Chopper: Card advantage: you were 3 short; Foot Chopper counts as card advantage. Foot Chopper can put Masked Admirers into the graveyard, and it returns itself.
  3. Take out Mind Spring: Mind Spring is weaker card draw than Rhystic Study. Put in Rhystic Study: Rhystic Study is card draw too, and one of the strongest cards in Commander: a Game Changer, which this bracket allows.

Also short, against a typical Commander deck: card advantage 11 of 14, interaction 10 of 12.

The decklist

Creatures

Archipelagore · Auspicious Starrix · Beast Whisperer · Boneyard Lurker · Boneyard Mycodrax · Capricopian · Cavern Whisperer · Cazur, Ruthless Stalker · Chittering Harvester · Cold-Eyed Selkie · Dreamtail Heron · Fertilid · Genesis Hydra · Glowstone Recluse · Heroes' Bane · Hungering Hydra · Illusory Ambusher · Insatiable Hemophage · Masked Admirers · Migratory Greathorn · Mindleecher · Mulldrifter · Pouncing Shoreshark · Predator Ooze · Reclamation Sage · Sawtusk Demolisher · Shriekmaw · Silent Arbiter · Souvenir Snatcher · Tidal Barracuda · Trumpeting Gnarr · Trygon Predator · Ukkima, Stalking Shadow · Vastwood Hydra · Vorapede · Wydwen, the Biting Gale · Yavimaya Dryad · Zaxara, the Exemplary

Planeswalkers

Nissa, Steward of Elements

Instants and sorceries

Animist's Awakening · Beast Within · Deadly Rollick · Deadly Tempest · Dredge the Mire · Find // Finality · Gaze of Granite · Kodama's Reach · Krosan Grip · Migration Path · Mind Spring · Profane Command · Putrefy · Villainous Wealth

Artifacts and enchantments

Arcane Signet · Bonder's Ornament · Lifecrafter's Bestiary · Manascape Refractor · Parasitic Impetus · Predatory Impetus · Propaganda · Psychic Impetus · Sol Ring

Lands

Blighted Woodland · Command Tower · Darkwater Catacombs · Dimir Aqueduct · Dismal Backwater · Endless Sands · Exotic Orchard · 11 Forest · Golgari Rot Farm · 2 Island · Jungle Hollow · Llanowar Wastes · Mortuary Mire · Myriad Landscape · Opulent Palace · Rogue's Passage · Simic Growth Chamber · Soaring Seacliff · Sunken Hollow · 5 Swamp · Temple of the False God · Thornwood Falls

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