edhseer Commander synergy, explained

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Growing Threat

Commander precon · March of the Machine Commander · 2023 · led by Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos

Main theme: Phyrexian tribal · Synergy 3.6/5 (connected) · Bracket 1–2 · Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos works with 14 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.

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

Its cards work together a little more: synergy 3.6 → 3.7 of 5, still connected. It is a little more consistent: Build 4.8 → 4.9 of 5, still on target; 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 Shineshadow Snarl: Shineshadow Snarl enters tapped. Put in Desolate Mire: Desolate Mire never enters tapped and makes white or black.
  2. Take out Temple of Silence: Temple of Silence enters tapped. Put in Godless Shrine: Godless Shrine never enters tapped and makes white or black.

Card advantage

  1. Take out Shattered Angel: Shattered Angel is next on the report's cut list. Works with 9 other cards: with 4 again and again, with 5 just once or in the background. Put in Idol of Oblivion: Card advantage: you were 3 short; Idol of Oblivion counts as card advantage.

Cards that work together

  1. Take out Scytheclaw: Scytheclaw works with 5 cards in this deck, none of them on its theme; Haliya, Guided by Light works with 14 cards, 12 of them on it. Put in Haliya, Guided by Light: When Moira and Teshar enters, Haliya, Guided by Light gains you 1 life

Upgrades at bracket 3

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

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

Its cards work together a little more: synergy 3.6 → 3.7 of 5, still connected. It is a little more consistent: Build 4.8 → 4.9 of 5, still on target; 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 Shineshadow Snarl: Shineshadow Snarl enters tapped. Put in Desolate Mire: Desolate Mire never enters tapped and makes white or black.
  2. Take out Temple of Silence: Temple of Silence enters tapped. Put in Godless Shrine: Godless Shrine never enters tapped and makes white or black.

Card advantage

  1. Take out Shattered Angel: Shattered Angel is next on the report's cut list. Works with 9 other cards: with 4 again and again, with 5 just once or in the background. Put in Idol of Oblivion: Card advantage: you were 3 short; Idol of Oblivion counts as card advantage.
  2. Take out Ambition's Cost: Ambition's Cost is weaker card draw than The One Ring. Put in The One Ring: The One Ring is card draw too, and one of the strongest cards in Commander: a Game Changer, which this bracket allows.

Cards that work together

  1. Take out Scytheclaw: Scytheclaw works with 5 cards in this deck, none of them on its theme; Haliya, Guided by Light works with 14 cards, 12 of them on it. Put in Haliya, Guided by Light: When Moira and Teshar enters, Haliya, Guided by Light gains you 1 life

Upgrades at bracket 4–5

No limits on Game Changers or combos.

5 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 3.6 → 3.7 of 5, still connected. It is a little more consistent: Build 4.8 → 4.9 of 5, still on target; 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 Shineshadow Snarl: Shineshadow Snarl enters tapped. Put in Desolate Mire: Desolate Mire never enters tapped and makes white or black.
  2. Take out Temple of Silence: Temple of Silence enters tapped. Put in Godless Shrine: Godless Shrine never enters tapped and makes white or black.

Card advantage

  1. Take out Shattered Angel: Shattered Angel is next on the report's cut list. Works with 9 other cards: with 4 again and again, with 5 just once or in the background. Put in Idol of Oblivion: Card advantage: you were 3 short; Idol of Oblivion counts as card advantage.
  2. Take out Ambition's Cost: Ambition's Cost is weaker card draw than The One Ring. Put in The One Ring: The One Ring is card draw too, and one of the strongest cards in Commander: a Game Changer, which this bracket allows.

Cards that work together

  1. Take out Scytheclaw: Scytheclaw works with 5 cards in this deck, none of them on its theme; Haliya, Guided by Light works with 14 cards, 12 of them on it. Put in Haliya, Guided by Light: When Moira and Teshar enters, Haliya, Guided by Light gains you 1 life

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

The decklist

Creatures

Ancient Stone Idol · Angel of the Ruins · Blade Splicer · Blight Titan · Bloodline Pretender · Bone Shredder · Burnished Hart · Cataclysmic Gearhulk · Compleated Huntmaster · Darksteel Splicer · Duplicant · Filigree Vector · First-Sphere Gargantua · Graveshifter · Keskit, the Flesh Sculptor · Massacre Wurm · Master Splicer · Meteor Golem · Moira and Teshar · Myr Battlesphere · Noxious Gearhulk · Phyrexian Delver · Phyrexian Gargantua · Phyrexian Ghoul · Phyrexian Rager · Phyrexian Triniform · Psychosis Crawler · Scrap Trawler · Shattered Angel · Shimmer Myr · Soul of New Phyrexia · Vulpine Harvester

Instants and sorceries

Ambition's Cost · Despark · Excise the Imperfect · Go for the Throat · Mortify · Night's Whisper · Path of the Schemer · Phyrexian Rebirth · Swords to Plowshares · Utter End · Victimize · Yawgmoth's Vile Offering

Artifacts and enchantments

Arcane Signet · Bitterthorn, Nissa's Animus · Commander's Sphere · Coveted Jewel · Fractured Powerstone · Hedron Archive · Ichor Elixir · Mind Stone · Nettlecyst · Orzhov Locket · Orzhov Signet · Phyrexian Scriptures · Sculpting Steel · Scytheclaw · Sol Ring · Talisman of Hierarchy · Wayfarer's Bauble

Lands

Bojuka Bog · Command Tower · Evolving Wilds · Exotic Orchard · Fetid Heath · Goldmire Bridge · Karn's Bastion · Path of Ancestry · 10 Plains · Shineshadow Snarl · Silverquill Campus · Spire of Industry · 13 Swamp · Tainted Field · Temple of Silence · Terramorphic Expanse · Vault of the Archangel

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