#commanderquest

[narishmareborn]

Obligatory Sliver Deck

Commander: Sliver Overlord

1 Blood Crypt 3 Forest 1 Frost Marsh 1 Grand Coliseum 1 Gruul Guildgate 1 Highland Weald 1 Horizon Canopy 3 Island 1 Izzet Boilerworks 1 Karplusan Forest 1 Llanowar Wastes 1 Mirrodin's Core 3 Mountain 3 Plains 1 Polluted Delta 1 Savannah 1 Scrubland 1 Shadowblood Ridge 1 Simic Guildgate 3 Swamp 1 Temple Garden 1 Tendo Ice Bridge 1 Terramorphic Expanse 1 Thawing Glaciers 1 Transguild Promenade 1 Twilight Mire 1 Unknown Shores 1 Vivid Meadow 1 Acidic Sliver 1 Amoeboid Changeling 1 Armillary Sphere 1 Austere Command 1 Bant Charm 1 Battle Sliver 1 Bonescythe Sliver 1 Brood Sliver 1 Chameleon Colossus 1 Condemn 1 Crime // Punishment 1 Crosis's Charm 1 Crystalline Sliver 1 Darigaaz's Charm 1 Darkheart Sliver 1 Darksteel Ingot 1 Distant Melody 1 Dormant Sliver 1 Dread Return 1 Essence Sliver 1 Evolution Charm 1 Frenetic Sliver 1 Fury Sliver 1 Galerider Sliver 1 Gemhide Sliver 1 Groundshaker Sliver 1 Harmonic Sliver 1 Heart Sliver 1 Heartstone 1 Hero's Demise 1 Hibernation Sliver 1 Hide // Seek 1 Homing Sliver 1 Kaleidostone 1 Liliana Vess 1 Mana Echoes 1 Manaweft Sliver 1 Megantic Sliver 1 Mirrorweave 1 Nameless Inversion 1 Naya Charm 1 Necrotic Sliver 1 Order // Chaos 1 Predatory Sliver 1 Quick Sliver 1 Rise // Fall 1 Shared Animosity 1 Shifting Sliver 1 Sleep 1 Sliver Legion 1 Sliver Overlord 1 Sliver Queen 1 Syphon Sliver 1 Terrarion 1 Thorncaster Sliver 1 Training Grounds 1 Tribal Forcemage 1 Unnatural Selection 1 Virulent Sliver 1 Watcher Sliver 1 Winged Sliver 1 Worldly Counsel

Slivers were another of the early commander decks I built, and this is one that has been adjusted many times over the years, mostly with the recent two core sets that supported slivers.  For a while there was a ninja/Conspiracy sub-theme that was pretty fun, but now it’s just straight up sliver goodness.

Probably needs an update, at least to replace guild gates / other two-color taplands with either Khans gainlands or wedge tri-lands.

[narishmareborn]

Doran, the Siege Tower

1 Bojuka Bog 1 Brushland 15 Forest 1 Gemstone Mine 1 Llanowar Wastes 1 Marsh Flats 1 Orzhov Basilica 10 Plains 1 Reflecting Pool 1 Scrubland 1 Selesnya Sanctuary 1 Stirring Wildwood 4 Swamp 1 Vivid Meadow 1 Acidic Slime 1 Ancient Spider 1 Angelic Arbiter 1 Archon of Justice 1 Avatar of Hope 1 Battlewand Oak 1 Blazing Archon 1 Bosk Banneret 1 Bramblecrush 1 Chorus of the Conclave 1 Crib Swap 1 Cuombajj Witches 1 Darksteel Ingot 1 Dauntless Dourbark 1 Deadwood Treefolk 1 Divine Reckoning 1 Doran, the Siege Tower 1 Dungrove Elder 1 Farhaven Elf 1 Fracturing Gust 1 Harmonic Sliver 1 Heartwood Storyteller 1 Indomitable Ancients 1 Knight of the Reliquary 1 Leaf-Crowned Elder 1 Leyline of Vitality 1 Life // Death 1 Matsu-Tribe Decoy 1 Necrogenesis 1 Nezumi Graverobber 1 Ondu Giant 1 Opal Acrolith 1 Orchard Warden 1 Orzhov Signet 1 Pale Recluse 1 Path to Exile 1 Phyrexian Reclamation 1 Putrefy 1 Rampant Growth 1 Reach of Branches 1 Relic Crush 1 Return to Dust 1 Seedguide Ash 1 Shield Dancer 1 Sign in Blood 1 Silklash Spider 1 Slagwurm Armor 1 Spidersilk Armor 1 Spiritmonger 1 Sunblast Angel 1 Teneb, the Harvester 1 Timber Protector 1 Treefolk Harbinger 1 Unburial Rites 1 Vampire Nighthawk 1 Wave of Reckoning 1 Wayfarer's Bauble 1 Whispersilk Cloak 1 Wickerbough Elder 1 Yavimaya Elder

Now here is a deck that could use some updating.  Not bad overall, with a "big butts" theme that provides a lot more resiliency from cards that one might not expect, but there are certainly several updates that it could include.  Kin-Tree Invocation and Disowned Ancestor both would make excellent early game, and Dragons of Tarkir seems to be showing us a couple more (Assault Formation and some dragons).  Plus, at some point I'm going to need to go through a bunch of my earlier decks and redo their mana bases, as I've done a lot of Khans and RtR block drafting and have a lot more dual and tri-colored lands I can add to old decks.

[narishmareborn]

Rasputin Dreamweaver

One of my premier decks, this was one of the first decks I put together back when I started playing EDH, and is one of the few that stays generally updated.  It's Rasputin Dreamweaver!

1 Azorius Chancery 1 Bant Panorama 1 Boseiju, Who Shelters All 1 Celestial Colonnade 1 Esper Panorama 1 Flood Plain 1 Flooded Strand 10 Island 1 Kor Haven 1 Mystic Gate 1 Mystifying Maze 13 Plains 1 Reliquary Tower 1 Strip Mine 1 Temple of Enlightenment 1 Tranquil Cove 1 Tundra 1 Akroma's Vengeance 1 Aven Mindcensor 1 Azorius Signet 1 Capsize 1 Coalition Relic 1 Condemn 1 Conjurer's Closet 1 Crystal Ball 1 Cyclonic Rift 1 Darksteel Ingot 1 Deadeye Navigator 1 Decree of Justice 1 Dissipate 1 Draining Whelk 1 Duplicant 1 Elspeth, Knight-Errant 1 Enlightened Tutor 1 Erratic Portal 1 Flickerform 1 Galepowder Mage 1 Ghostly Flicker 1 Gideon Jura 1 Glen Elendra Archmage 1 Hallowed Burial 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur 1 Karmic Guide 1 Keiga, the Tide Star 1 Knight-Captain of Eos 1 Land Tax 1 Luminarch Ascension 1 Mirrorweave 1 Mistmeadow Witch 1 Momentary Blink 1 Mulldrifter 1 Oblation 1 Oblivion Ring 1 Oblivion Stone 1 Phyrexian Ingester 1 Phyrexian Metamorph 1 Rasputin Dreamweaver 1 Recurring Insight 1 Relic of Progenitus 1 Restoration Angel 1 Riptide Shapeshifter 1 Rite of Replication 1 Rout 1 Scroll Rack 1 Sol Ring 1 Solemn Simulacrum 1 Soothsaying 1 Spell Burst 1 Stonecloaker 1 Storm Herd 1 Stormtide Leviathan 1 Sun Titan 1 Tamiyo, the Moon Sage 1 Tidespout Tyrant 1 Time Spiral 1 Time Stop 1 Time Stretch 1 Vanish into Memory 1 Venser, the Sojourner

Rasputin is tons of fun to play.  He concentrates on producing big effects (as if you're playing a guy that is a 6 drop and is about mana generation, the stuff you ramp to had better be worth it).  There is a flickering sub-theme mostly because you can generate even more ridiculous mana with Rasputin, and it branched further out from there. This is a place to point out that this deck, while strong, is not entirely optimized.  If I weren't saving my single copies for their own commander decks, this deck would definitely be playing a legendary Eldrazi or two.  One of the sacrifices as I've done this project has had to be to give up on ideas of optimization.  It has made decks worse, of course, but it has also overall widened my perception of "playable".  A lot more cards are playable in Commander than most people would want to admit to.  Some day I may write more on that.