edhseer Commander synergy, explained

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Lorehold Legacies

Commander precon · Commander 2021 · 2021 · led by Osgir, the Reconstructor

Main theme: artifacts put into a graveyard · Synergy 3.8/5 (connected) · Bracket 1–2 · Osgir, the Reconstructor works with 20 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 as before: synergy stays at 3.8 of 5, connected. It is a little more consistent: Build 4.9 → 5.0 of 5, still on target; no longer short on interaction. That is what this page measures: how well the deck holds together, not how strong it is.

Lands

  1. Take out Boros Garrison: Boros Garrison enters tapped. Put in Plateau: Plateau never enters tapped and makes white or red.
  2. Take out Temple of Triumph: Temple of Triumph enters tapped. Put in Rugged Prairie: Rugged Prairie never enters tapped and makes white or red.
  3. Take out Great Furnace: Great Furnace makes only red. Put in Sacred Foundry: Sacred Foundry never enters tapped and makes white or red.
  4. Take out Ancient Den: Ancient Den makes only white. Put in Spectator Seating: Spectator Seating never enters tapped and makes white or red.

Interaction

  1. Take out Pilgrim's Eye: Pilgrim's Eye is next on the report's cut list. Put in Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender: Interaction: you were 1 short; Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender counts as interaction.

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 1–2. These are the same swaps as at bracket 1–2: none of the stronger cards bracket 3 allows does any of these jobs strictly better, so aiming higher changes nothing for this deck.

Its cards work together as before: synergy stays at 3.8 of 5, connected. It is a little more consistent: Build 4.9 → 5.0 of 5, still on target; no longer short on interaction. That is what this page measures: how well the deck holds together, not how strong it is.

Lands

  1. Take out Boros Garrison: Boros Garrison enters tapped. Put in Plateau: Plateau never enters tapped and makes white or red.
  2. Take out Temple of Triumph: Temple of Triumph enters tapped. Put in Rugged Prairie: Rugged Prairie never enters tapped and makes white or red.
  3. Take out Great Furnace: Great Furnace makes only red. Put in Sacred Foundry: Sacred Foundry never enters tapped and makes white or red.
  4. Take out Ancient Den: Ancient Den makes only white. Put in Spectator Seating: Spectator Seating never enters tapped and makes white or red.

Interaction

  1. Take out Pilgrim's Eye: Pilgrim's Eye is next on the report's cut list. Put in Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender: Interaction: you were 1 short; Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender counts as interaction.

Upgrades at bracket 4–5

No limits on Game Changers or combos.

5 swaps, and after them the report reads the deck at bracket 1–2. 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 as before: synergy stays at 3.8 of 5, connected. It is a little more consistent: Build 4.9 → 5.0 of 5, still on target; no longer short on interaction. That is what this page measures: how well the deck holds together, not how strong it is.

Lands

  1. Take out Boros Garrison: Boros Garrison enters tapped. Put in Plateau: Plateau never enters tapped and makes white or red.
  2. Take out Temple of Triumph: Temple of Triumph enters tapped. Put in Rugged Prairie: Rugged Prairie never enters tapped and makes white or red.
  3. Take out Great Furnace: Great Furnace makes only red. Put in Sacred Foundry: Sacred Foundry never enters tapped and makes white or red.
  4. Take out Ancient Den: Ancient Den makes only white. Put in Spectator Seating: Spectator Seating never enters tapped and makes white or red.

Interaction

  1. Take out Pilgrim's Eye: Pilgrim's Eye is next on the report's cut list. Put in Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender: Interaction: you were 1 short; Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender counts as interaction.

Opens a route: The Prydwen, Steel Flagship. 3 of its cards reach Losheel, Clockwork Scholar through it.

Also short, against a typical Commander deck: interaction 11 of 12.

The decklist

Creatures

Alibou, Ancient Witness · Angel of the Ruins · Audacious Reshapers · Bosh, Iron Golem · Bronze Guardian · Burnished Hart · Combustible Gearhulk · Digsite Engineer · Duplicant · Feldon of the Third Path · Hellkite Igniter · Hellkite Tyrant · Hoard-Smelter Dragon · Jor Kadeen, the Prevailer · Laelia, the Blade Reforged · Losheel, Clockwork Scholar · Meteor Golem · Myr Battlesphere · Pia Nalaar · Pilgrim's Eye · Quicksmith Genius · Ruin Grinder · Sanctum Gargoyle · Scrap Trawler · Solemn Simulacrum · Steel Hellkite · Steel Overseer · Sun Titan · Thopter Engineer · Triplicate Titan

Planeswalkers

Daretti, Scrap Savant

Instants and sorceries

Boros Charm · Chain Reaction · Cleansing Nova · Dispatch · Excavation Technique · Faithless Looting · Reconstruct History · Return to Dust · Rip Apart · Rout · Secret Rendezvous · Wake the Past

Artifacts and enchantments

Arcane Signet · Archaeomancer's Map · Battlemage's Bracers · Boros Locket · Commander's Sphere · Cursed Mirror · Darksteel Mutation · Dispeller's Capsule · Hedron Archive · Ichor Wellspring · Key to the City · Mind Stone · Monologue Tax · Mycosynth Wellspring · Sculpting Steel · Sol Ring · Thousand-Year Elixir · Unstable Obelisk

Lands

Ancient Den · Battlefield Forge · Boros Garrison · Command Tower · Darksteel Citadel · Exotic Orchard · Forgotten Cave · Great Furnace · Lorehold Campus · 12 Mountain · Myriad Landscape · Phyrexia's Core · 8 Plains · Rogue's Passage · Secluded Steppe · Slayers' Stronghold · Study Hall · Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion · Temple of the False God · Temple of Triumph

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