Animar also likes playing combo. Also you get black which is black. Maelstrom Wanderer (Commander / EDH MTG Deck) This collection is out of date, you may click here to see the latest version Maelstrom Wanderer Commander / EDH* RUG (Temur) JarlBigJohnson Acidic Slime 1x 1x Apex Devastator 1x 1x Avenger of Zendikar 1x 1x Balefire Dragon 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x Future tweaks to the decklist will be things like tightening up the mana base (seeing how low on lands I can actually go before impacting draws); improving the artifact mana base with things like Mana Crypt, and upping the amount of reactive spells like countermagic. you have RRUUGGGGGGGGG (13 mana) in pool. Ever wondered why Channel was banned? And cascading once can put a lot of value in your hands but, if it doesnt threaten the win, your opponents can come back. Misthollow Griffin Contact | Also, he's listed as Tier 2 on the EDH Tier List, but there's no list explaining his competitiveness. I certainly CAN recover from losing a tutored-for card, but its a huge liability and often not worth it. Generally you should have enough answers and tutors to put together a general defense, and worse comes to worse, you always have Wanderer himself; a 7/5 can hold its own in combat most of the time, and all it takes is 3 hits. Terms of Use | Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind - I draw a lot of cards, and if I can convert that draw power into damage, that's a lot of damage. [[Tibalts Trickery]] and [[Mana Drain]] refund your spell, while [[Red Elemental Blast]] and [[Pyroblast]] can also destroy blue permanents. Comments. [Maelstrom Wanderer]] deck that has a much higher win rate (in the 90%+ range).but because the deck only looks scary when it comes online, it garners less attention than Jhoira which always looks scary. Food Chain In its place, I put in competitive EDHs best combos for the colors, and I shifted the focus of the deck from cast Wanderer to find the combo. However, the amount of free wins you can gain off this card is ridiculous and should not be discounted for just that reason. Complete Comment Tutorial! Save. I simple dont see it as geared towards a cEDH meta. Currently, my metagame involves a healthy mix of midrange, stax and control strategies. Cast stuff for free. There are a lot of infinite combos that circulate around this one card, including helping to activate the Splinter Twin combo, Misthollow Griffin - Used to help cascade through our library when combined with Food Chain. Wanderer can have several key cards removed (via Praetors Grasp, etc) and still win without a problem. You can always play the more traditional Wanderer build and just ramp for the first few turns; that will still benefit you in the end. Forums Streets of New Capenna Other Spoilers Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Spoilers Innistrad: Crimson Vow Innistrad: Crimson Vow Commander Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Commander Drop everything and anything you can to increase your mana count, because your decks singular purpose in life is to drop Wanderer and pray. Additionally, our land/artifact ramp comes into play untapped and ready to go, giving us greater ramping abilities, whereas mana dorks require a turn before theyre online. Purphoros, God of the Forge - Used to get around people that have pillow forted themselves with hexproof and the like, when combined with almost any of my combos, he will win me the game. Same with any other aggressive creatures, such as Avenger of Zendikar; there is no secondary plan of winning through big cascades and attacking. Warstorm Surge - Due to the prevalence of pesky creatures, I added this in so that my creatures can damage/kill my opponents' creatures simply by entering the battlefield. Press J to jump to the feed. Out came the dragons, the Jokulhaups, the Avenger. Welcome to the second Commander Showdown! The counterspell package in here is also geared towards Maelstrom himself and while using him for value, it would be terrible to lose him it. + The Creatures: Finally the part that is most crucial to the deck. Wanderer doesnt care about combat damage, and in fact doesnt even really care about casting your commander at all unless it wins the game that turn. After playing around with Surrak, I eventually got my hands on a Maelstrom Wanderer and switch out my commander because who doesn't love casting spells for free? He seems powerful, because when he goes off, it's in a big flashy way. Animar: Animar likes playing big dumb creatures. . Feeds | Complete Comment Tutorial! Because we are not a big dudes version of Wanderer, we can afford to run disruption, vastly improving our early game against other competitive decks. It will definitely stomp out in high powered casual games, but you will see times where 3-5 6 mana cards will be stuck in your hand. Not only does it have a respectable body that will stop a fair amount of creatures from coming your way, its also 100% expendable past its ETB ability, which, if youre not hip on reading, will dig you six cards deep into your library if you need it to. Tutoring for combo pieces at the same time will make it so that you can at some point just untap and win. I know that the deck doesnt look as competitive, but after playing in competitive pods, I can say, that it feels confidently. And though in my heart I consider myself a G/B player, I am not above recognizing a powerful general wherever it may be, so my EDH lists are pretty varied. Magic the Gathering, FNM is TM and copyright Wizards of the Coast, Inc, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc. All rights reserved. Other people can view your private deck by using this url, Seems there are no cards in the Acquireboard. Boom//Bust - This is used to help destroy everyone's lands so that I can slam down my Wanderer and beat everyone to death while they are recovering from the destruction Will eventually be replaced with Wildfire, Cultivate/Kodama's Reach/Explosive Vegetation - These are just generally great ramp cards that help me not miss land drops as well. the Maelstrom deck is ignored and wins after casting their commander. Venser, Shaper Savant - He helps me get rid of pesky Blightsteel/Darksteel Colossi and the like. The odd ones out here though is Sensei's Divining Top, which is used to help manipulate what I will be cascading into and Crucible of Worlds, which I use to recover from wipes and to abuse Strip Mine. Jodah, Archmage Eternal EdH deck. Gilded Drake: One of the more undervalued answers in blue, if you want my opinion. This monstrously big, unbelievably stupid powerful card would go on to pretty much encapsulate exactly how I like to play the game for the rest of my Magic career: play big, stupid creatures for as little mana as possible, damn the consequences. Black gives access to the best tutors and removal in the entire game, and Sidisi herself serves as the combo in the command zone that allows the rest of the deck to do its thing. Maelstrom Wanderer As Commander As Card Average Deck Maelstrom Wanderer (Decklist) $15.99 $14.73 5.82 TIX 3445 decks (0.158%) Rank #168 Navigation By Theme By Budget All Cheap Expensive Links Moxfield MTGGoldfish MTGStocks Scryfall Average Type Distribution Specific tutors can find you what you need, but of course have RUGs peculiar little twists with them: Bring To Light, Foresight/Manipulate Fate, Gamble, Selective Memory, Impulse, Intuition, Long-Term Plans and Worldly Tutor all either search for specific types of cards, OR have the very strong possibility of screwing you over when theyre supposed to help you. Maybe even a temur sabertooth as this goes infinite with docksite and helps you get your wanderer back once in infinite mana mode. You can now import it in the MTG Arena client. All rights reserved. Just need that one artifact gone? This was about the time that Khans of Tarkir came out, and I immediately fell in love with the Temur. Riku is expensive, has no protection, dies to a stiff breeze, and doesn't do anything until you cast something else. Thanks in advance. Sort by: Overview, Color, Cost, Rarity. Most LGS's have semi competitive meta's and that is where the Wanderer thrives. Mulligan to answers and counters, not ramp.Weak-as-balls tutors: Lets face it, RUG has probably the worst tutors in the game, short of Mystical and Worldly Tutor. Tap Kiki to make a copy of Conscripts and go off. As more testing and tweaks are made, Ill add additional cut cards here as well; for now, this is the most updated list I have. More Casual Feedback More Competitive . Copied to clipboard. This Maelstrom Wanderer deck tech comes from the mind of our very own Joe Cherries! I play exclusively EDH now, with the occasional delve into Legacy if the event feels right. But very few meta's are like that. Discord Server | How have we optimized one of our own personal edh decks? This was one of the first non-combo cards suggested to me, and since I've added it, it has been really helpful. My personal information may be used for the purposes defined in the privacy policy. Note that, depending on the actual card/s stopping you, you can still get around this: For instance, a player thinking theyre safe behind a Ghostly Prison will be very, very sad when you make infinite copies of Zealous Conscripts, using the last copy to steal their Prison until EOT and letting you attack for free. Tooth and Nail - Instant Win-Con. Articles and comments are user-submitted and do not represent official endorsements of this site. + The Artifacts: As you can see, the artifacts aren't a large chunk of the deck, and are mostly just the standard ramp package. I was never interested in [[Maelstrom Wanderer]] before but after reading him again and seeing all the big creatures I can cheat out I'm very interested. That's his primary function. This will require TappedOut.js included in your blog. Share. TappedOut.js Blog Widget. Privacy statement | Other people can view your . Other people can view your private deck by using this url, Seems there are no cards in the Acquireboard. Ancestral Vision - This card was added since I didn't have another place to put it and I love the card, but since I have added it, it has only benefited me. Evolve one of your three drop land tutors into a Conscripts or a Kiki, evolve Wanderer himself into anything, etc. Frh am Dom. RUG (Temur). [[Defense of the heart]] leverages a soft lockdown and instant win if played on the right turn. Rhystic is the same, providing incremental card advantage over the course of the game - it will either draw you a metric ton of cards, or it slows down your more experienced players, who will wisely decide to pay the 1 instead of giving you the card. EDHREC Home Commanders Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder As Card Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder (Commander) $7.99 $6.71 0.76 TIX 4425 decks (0.202%) Rank #108 Navigation By Theme By Budget All Cheap Expensive Links Aetherhub Archidekt Deckstats Moxfield MTGGoldfish MTGStocks Scryfall Average Type Distribution 1995-2023 Wizards. This will require TappedOut.js included in your blog. Wizards of the Coast, Magic: The Gathering, and their logos are trademarks of Wizards of the Coast LLC. Most of my wins come around this time frame. Worldly Tutor and Eldritch Evolution are worth their weight in gold, but unfortunately, almost every card we can use to look for a combo piece, only looks for one other combo piece, or is restricted. I've been on this subreddit for a while now, and I've noticed that no one (so far as I've seen) has made a primer for the Maelstrom Wanderer, so I decided to work on it. This is where this deck is vastly different than most Wanderer builds. He would have to have 3-4 ramp cards to hit the board by turn 4, which is quite a stretch compared to something like Tazri FC or Zur Doomsday who don't need as much ramp and are far more consistent. But, it is one of the few free counterspells that I would deem worth it for 3 mana. Like most of you, I think, I began playing Maelstrom Wanderer because I wanted to cast a lot of big, stupid creatures for free, and smash my opponents for as much combat damage to the face as possible. So you can see how, even with nothing else going on with the board, if youve dropped a few dudes and Food Chain, you can generate some insane value and possibly just win from there. Magic the Gathering, FNM is TM and copyright Wizards of the Coast, Inc, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc. All rights reserved. Hello r/edh, I am looking for competitive "multiplayer" lists of Maelstrom wanderer. This deck leverages combo interactions between a multitude of cards and any card on the battlefield has the potential to explode into a combo win. Except..I didnt like that. DMCA requests | Vexing Shusher - Can be used as a political tool, but mostly is used to make sure my stuff doesn't get countered. If you hit late game, things have definitely gone awry, but that doesnt mean you cant come back from it. This also means you can re-use certain cards if necessary - if theyre destroyed, countered, etc. Regrowth/Noxious Revival/Natures Spiral/Eternal Witness/Skullwinder: Beyond the usual uses of being able to re-use ramp or removal, these cards also allow you to use things like Intuition to great effect, tutoring for one of your combo pieces and immediately pulling it back to your hand; they also allow you to cycle through multiples pieces of your deck as youre infinitely cascading, for instance using Hull Breach to annihilate an opponents entire board (necessary against a stax player) before being able to win. Complete Comment Tutorial! How can he hold against other competitive commanders? So being able to selectively thin your deck is pretty powerful. Mystic Confluence - Worst case, I cascade into this, bounce some creatures or draw more cards. Overall, I'd agree that Wanderer is place pretty solidly in Tier 2. Food Chain - Besides going infinite with Misthollow Griffin and allowing me to cascade through my deck, this allows me to sacrifice my tokens from the Kiki-Conscripts combo to cascade infinitely and also gives me a little bit more mana when I might not have enough lands. But is it really better than having access to white and Black? Garruk Wildspeaker - Helps untap lands to cast more spells, provides blockers, and, if needed, can make Maelstrom Wanderer stronger with trample to hit even harder. Magic the Gathering, FNM is TM and copyright Wizards of the Coast, Inc, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc. All rights reserved. Is it a good balance between strong and fair? Desperate for a land? Being able to tutor out 2 creatures is wonderful. Keeping people on their toes and making them doubt what they knew about Wanderer made my games almost exceedingly simple. Best case, I counter a spell. This is a really exciting list. Gamble is the textbook example of this, and I will often not cast Gamble unless its in the first few turns of the game when my hand is 5+ cards. etc. > Infinite mana and cascades, Maelstrom Wanderer This combo works by exiling the Griffin or Scourge to Food Chain for X+1 colored mana; you use X of that mana to re-cast from exile the Griffin/Scourge, netting a single mana. You have helped me tune my deck and I wanted to share it with you in depth. The problems start to appear once you try to go off consistently with Food Chain. Leyline of Anticipation - This was not actually on my radar until I came to cEDH for criticism. TappedOut.js Blog Widget. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. Double cascade.Sac Wanderer for GGGGGGGGG. But really, your early game plan involves delaying people, blowing up particularly troublesome artifacts or enchantments, and otherwise tutoring for either lands or combo pieces. So there are a few ways to win that were trying to go for at any given point. I dislike this combo the most, as it dies hard to a lot of pillowfort strategies and instant-speed removal. Primal Command - This is another tutor used to get whichever creature I need, plus it doubles up as removal for pesky non-creature permanents and stopping me from decking myself. A well-timed Tormods Crypt, Leyline, or even a Bojuka Bog will stop the entire deck from not only functioning but removing all possible win conditions at the same time. Jace, the Mind Sculptor - Brainstorm. Have the token Dualcaster copy the original epiphany. Drop roadblocks to discourage people from attacking you with things like Lotus Cobra, Glen Elendra Archmage, Wood Elves, etc. - by cascading into Regrowth and similar cards to put them back in hand or into the library. It is not geared towards cedh but it is tried and tested to be about a 65-70% win rate in my high power paper meta. Also, could someone link a competitive list? So what's the communities experience on this commander? Maybe you find some inspiration and synergies. This annoying message will go away once you do. Nissa, Vastwood Seer - Putting her down and fetching a forest is nice. Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder: Yidris is also a Maelstrom general, and hes even a combo general, but his focus is much more on storm than anything else. Its generally worth the investment, even tapping down on Mana Vault or Monolith, as the card advantage if it makes it around the table even once is worth it. More Casual Feedback More Competitive . :). This will require TappedOut.js included in your blog. Exploration - I enjoy playing lands so much, that I wanted to put down an additional one every turn, especially since I can draw a lot of cards very quickly May replace with Burgeoning. MTGGoldfish, Inc. is not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast LLC. Infinite nonland permanent bounce, Cast Sublime Epiphany on any target choosing to have an opponent draw a card and clone a creature. Press J to jump to the feed. Complete Comment Tutorial! For instance Lord of Tesserhorn is listed tier 5, but you could easily copy and paste a grixis storm list and be able to compete at tier 1/2. He allows me to drop my opponents' life totals down so that if I have to kill them by brute force, I can. Mid Game: Tutors and removal. youre pretty much willing to sacrifice anything to get to one of your combo pieces. Essentially I use Maelstrom as a finisher rather than the focus. Privacy statement | Thanks in advance. This site 2023 TappedOut.net, LLC I'm not a huge fan of that tier list because it ranks commanders based on the commander itself. You can now import it in the MTG Arena client. RUG (Temur), Casual EDH Deck with many infinite Combos, 2) Palinchron + Dead Eye Navigator or phantasmal image or vorinclex (or flameshadow conjuring or Sneak Attack): infinite colored mana. Terms of Use | Redirecting abilities is powerful. When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. I began playing EDH around 2012 or so, and it very quickly overtook every other format for me in terms of fun and complexity. In RUG colors you don't have much tutor options for Food Chain. Cryptic Command - If we cascade into this, we can tap down our opponents' creatures and bounce a permanent, or if we want to (and can afford if), we counter Maelstrom Wanderer and cascade some more. Yeah, I know that he would be bad in some pods with heavy stax or very fast combo decks as Zur, or turbo nause, but in long games, when your opponents trying to stop each other, it has a potential. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. With the ramping you did in the first few turns, its entirely possible to have a turn 5, 6 or 7 Oops! Imperial Animar lists can be very strong and very fast, but based on the strategy theyre trying to push theres not a lot of room for actual control, and the deck frequently loses to any tier 1 strategy or well-placed removal on Animar himself. Pathbreaker Ibex Updated Feb 28, 2023 by xequemate using our MTG Deck Builder. They also, of course, work with Food Chain. At MTGGoldfish, we value your privacy. Early Game: Yes, were still going to ramp. Admin Regen Charts Download / Export / Embed Code. the Maelstrom deck fails to thrive. Release to the winds looks amazing, but now Im trying to test other cards . Feeds | Search Bar. 5,044 reviews #108 of 1,699 Restaurants in Cologne $$ - $$$ German Bar European. Palinchron - While being a major combo piece, he has built in evasion, and can help us cast more spells. You typically cast Maelstrom 4-5 times, getting 8-10 spells for free. The most important distinction, for our build of Wanderer however, is this: Were not actually trying to cast Wanderer! Terms of Use | Goal of the deck is to cast general as fast as possible, and win at the spot with a few good cascades or trying to resolve food chain combo, or dockside + sabertooth combo for infinite mana and overcasting all spells in the library with your commander. Add to folder Copy. Cast Dualcaster, copying epiphany to create a token of Dualcaster. Copied to clipboard. On the other hand, we also have tutors such as Manipulate Fate, which is perfect for our deck.

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