So, What's Your Type? - Decked Out EDH Gameplay Breakdown

VeggieWagon • April 4, 2023

Deckbuilding

Everyone's first deck was a creature deck. You picked your favorite type and ran with it: Ouphes, Brushwaggs, Homarids, all the favorites! That's where Magic started, and it's where it's headed today on Decked Out's latest episode, featuring AirBubbles and PowrDragn along with hosts MTGNerdGirl and VeggieWagon. It's a creature type feature fight! The players have chosen some of their favorites to represent in the head-to-head battle.

Suckers

AirBubbles brings her custom Vampire build with classic bloodsuckers cherry-picked from as far back as Mirage. Olivia Voldaren

leads the deck, focusing on her ability to convert opponents' creatures into Vampires for her own use. A mix of life gain and removal means her Vamps can contend through the long game, when she just might control ALL the creatures on the board.

Olivia Voldaren (AirBubbles)

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Commander (1)

Planeswalkers (1)

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Squiggles

"I'm the bad guy." PowrDragn knows the reputation that precedes the Slivers, and he aims to remind everyone why they earned it. There are many choices for a Sliver commander: Sliver Queen

, Sliver Overlord
, or even Morophon, the Boundless
, but PowrDragn is going with The First Sliver
 for maximum chaos. He's hoping the random Cascading Slivers will be the right combination to build an unstoppable hive.

The First Sliver (PowrDragn)

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People

What does it mean to be human? VeggieWagon has no idea, but he's hoping Katilda, Dawnhart Prime

has a clue. It might have something to do with loads of +1/+1 counters and incredible value from cards like Laid to Rest
. What Humans may lack in raw power, they make up for in survivability.

Katilda, Dawnheart Prime (VeggieWagon)

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Gobbos

Reminiscent of her first deck ever, NerdGirl goes back to her goblin-y roots with Krenko, Mob Boss

. Just like the creatures themselves, the plan is straightforward: slam Krenko, make a mountain of Goblins as fast as possible, and overwhelm the table with damage to the face. They might even get a little help from a Dwarf or a Construct here or there...

Krenko, Mob Boss (MTGNerdGirl)

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Commander (1)

Creatures (42)

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How It Played Out

My Precious! - The Early Game

As the Goblins will do, NerdGirl drops a turn 1 shiny: a Sol Ring

. That means a turn 2 Krenko and a lot of work for the rest of the table to catch up. Veggie builds a solid board thanks to Katilda's mana ability and hopes a Bounty Agent
 survives the turn cycle to eliminate Krenko, but it's immediately burned out by NerdGirl to keep the Goblins flowing. Her honorary Goblin, Runaway Steam-Kin
, helps push the tempo even faster with added mana from her red spells.

A Sliver of Hope - The Mid Game

PowrDragn finds Harmonic Sliver

to pick off NerdGirl's threatening Cavalcade of Calamity
 as well as most of the other artifacts and enchantments on the board. Each player has cast at least enough creatures to make it hard for the Goblins to get through, and the addition of Shifting Sliver
 and Pulmonic Sliver
 turns the focus to PowrDragn. An alpha strike from AirBubbles goes awry when the Slivers tank most of the damage, then throw it all in NerdGirl's face via Spiteful Sliver
. A few triggers from Lavabelly Sliver
 finishes the job. Goblins are out!

When Protection Fails - The End Game

AirBubbles brings in the queen herself, but Olivia Voldaren

struggles to use her powerful abilities against Slivers that can bounce at instant speed with Hibernation Sliver
. A Riders of Gavony
 presents Veggie with a touch choice: protection from Vampires or from Slivers? He chooses the latter and uses it to get some damage in to PowrDragn, but a little too late. Even together, Veggie and AirBubbles can't overcome the slippery lifelinking Sliver hive. Despite back-to-back removal spells targeting the key Sliver creatures, they both fall to their own damage from the Spiteful Sliver
.

By the Numbers:

Sliver Cascades: 13

Goblins made: 24

Vampire masquerades: 0

Humans dismayed: 3 (the ones sitting at the table with PowrDragn)

Watch the Decked Out episode here so Veggie can afford a new creature type.

VeggieWagon

VeggieWagon

VeggieWagon is the co-host of Decked Out, an EDH gameplay show focused on having fun with Commander (weird, I know). He spends the rest of his time writing silly songs and sketches about Magic: The Gathering, which allows him to eat on occasion.