[MtG] Keranos EDH

[CommanderVolt]

Lands 38

 

6 Mountain

14 Islands

1 Cascade Bluffs

1 Command Tower

1 Forgotten Cave

1 Halimar Depths

1 Izzet Boilerworks

1 Izzet Guilgate

1 Lonely Sandbar

1 Maze of Ith

1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea

1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge

1 Remote Isle

1 Reliquary Tower

1 Steam Vents

1 Sulfur Falls

1 Smoldering Crater

1 Temple of Epiphany

1 Temple of the False God

1 Tolaria West

 

Instants 18

 

1 Blue Sun's Zenith

1 Brainstorm

1 Chaos warp

1 Comet Storm

1 Counterflux

1 Counterspell

1 Cyclonic Rift

1 fact or fiction

1 Firemind's Foresight

1 Impulse

1 Increasing Vengeance

1 Lightning Bolt

1 Magma Jet

1 Mindbreak Trap

1 Pact of Negation

1 Spell Crumple

1 Steam Augury

1 Unsummon

 

Sorcerys 11

 

1 Blasphemous Act

1 Bribery

1 Divination

1 Flame Slash

1 Invoke the Firemind

1 Merchant Scroll

1 Past in Fames

1 Pull from the Deep

1 Ponder

1 Preordain

1 Rite of Replication

 

Enchantment 1

1 Quicksilver Dagger

 

Artifacts 11

 

1 Coldsteel Heart

1 Darksteel Ingot

1 Gilded Lotus

1 Izzet Signet

1 Lightning Greaves

1 Mind Stone

1 Sol Ring

1 Swiftfoot Boots

1 Thran Dynamo

1 Wayfarer's Bauble

1 Worn Powerstone

 

Planeswalkers 3

 

1 Jace, Architect of Thought

1 Ral Zarek

1 Tamiyo, The Moon Sage

 

Creatures 18

 

1 Arcanis the Omnipotent

1 Archaeomancer

1 Augur of Bolas

1 Azami, Lady of Scrolls

1 Body Double

1 Diluvian Primordial

1 Dominus of Fealty

1 Goblin Electromancer

1 Inferno Titan

1 Melek, Izzet Paragon

1 Mindwrack Liege

1 Niv-Mizzet, Dracogenius

1 Niv-Mizzet the Firemind

1 Nivix Guildmage

1 Phantasmal Image

1 Solemn Simulacrum

1 Thassa, God of the Sea

 

Commander - Keranos, God of Storms

 

 

Okay sooo this is pretty much a very, very Rough Draft of the deck.

 

I enjoy commander the most but have little experience in actually building them. A small portion of the cards already listed were recommended by Roddy and I promised him I would build a rough-draft so that we (and perhaps some others) could dissect the deck and improve upon it.

 

I plan to eventually build the deck irl.

 

Thoughts, Comments, discussions? All appreciated!

[(GigaDrillBreaker)]

I recommend tossing in a Counterflux or Mindbreak Trap (preferably both) in case of storm, cascade, or random copies *cough*Riku*cough*Melek*cough*

[CommanderVolt]

Okay, let's see...

 

-1 Magma Jet

-1 Spark Jolt

 

+1 Counterflux

+1 Mindbreak Trap

 

Edit:

What are your thoughts on izzet Staticaster?

[(GigaDrillBreaker)]

Oh dear. Keep Magma Jet. Cut Cancel, since in most situations, Counterflux will be better at the same stuff.

[CommanderVolt]

Oh dear. Keep Magma Jet. Cut Cancel, since in most situations, Counterflux will be better at the same stuff.

 

Hmm okay. I'll make that change.

 

-1 Cancel

+1 Magma Jet

[(GigaDrillBreaker)]

Lightning Bolt ought to be run as well... Street Spasm doesn't look like it would be missed too much (I have an overwhelming hatred for the card). I assume the strategy is to control and slowly burn with Keranos&Others until a win can be made? Since you are running the Firemind, a copy of Curiosity wouldn't hurt.

[Rodrigo]

Actually looks pretty nice for your own needs and very fun to play with. ^^

 

I would still change Flame Slash for Lightning Bolt though.

[CommanderVolt]

@ Gigahina Yeah that's pretty much the concept.

 

Oh neat. didnt think of using that with Niv, and also Just realized Quicksilver Dagger and Curiosity would also combo pretty nicely together. Albiet would be a little moot to put Dagger on Niv. I'll make a poke and add it in.

 

@ Roddy

Flame Slash is pretty good for hitting a friend of mine's Mayael creatures should need but that is a good call. I'd like to find the space to keep it, if at all possible, but for now I shall make some changes.

 

-1 Flameslash

+1 Lightning Bolt

 

What to neg for Curiosity?

[Rodrigo]

Well, neg the Street Spasm for the Curiosity.

[CommanderVolt]

-1 Street Spasm

+1 Curiosity

 

also, Thoughts on Izzet Staticaster (again) and Perhaps Mizzium Mortars? a friend of mine runs a Selensya EDH so the extra pings on token creatures could be helpful.

[.Rai]

Keranos has a lot of freedom in building which is good. I don't think you need that many counterspells. I assume this is for multiplayer EDH mostly, rather than 1v1 (because 1v1 is boring). Counterspells aren't as good, because trying to deal with one opponent isn't as protective for you when there are more than one attacking you at times. Keranos isn't very good with counterspells anyway. Counterspells are about surprise. When Keranos reveals most of the cards you draw, that's silly. At most, I'd play:

[spoiler=Counter Package]1 Pact of Negation
1 Counterspell
1 Mana Drain
1 Spell Crumple
1 Cryptic Command
1 Mindbreak Trap[/spoiler]

I'd probably streamline the landbase too.

[spoiler=Land Changes]-1 Izzet Guildgate
-1 Vivid Crag
-1 Vivid Creek
-1 Homeward Path
-1 Opal Palace
+1 Tolaria West
+1 Scalding Tarn
+1 Volcanic Island
+1 Maze of Ith
+1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
-4 Mountain
+4 Island[/spoiler]

A lot of this is without IRL in mind, so ask if you feel like you want cheap alternatives (I would say that even your current build is fairly expensive).

[CommanderVolt]

I own a ceartin amount of the cards in the deck already, but I don't plan to go any higher then 25$ on any individual card, unless it is absolutely necessary.

 

Will definately need cheap alternatives to some of the cards you have thus recommended.

 

Center of the Sea I can do, that Maze thing I can do if i can find the old print.

[CommanderVolt]

Oh, Quck Edit. I forgot about Temple of epiphany

 

-1 Homeward Path

+1 Temple of epiphany

[CommanderVolt]

Main post edited with Updated Land Base.

Replaced Street Spasam with Lightning Bolt

Looking to add Ancestral Vision, Sakashima the Imposter, Phyrexian Metamorph, and Curiosity.

Of your Counter-Spell List Rai, I can go for the following ones (that weren't already apart of the main build)

Pact of Negation
Spell Crumple
They've been added in.