Pauper, and Commander Constructed MTG Decks

There are 27 elves (including Ezuri [They aren’t all pure mana rampers]), 27 mana, and additional 9 on top of that totaling 63 (27+27+9) possible cards boosting cards that should reduce board wipes to be less of a problem. Maybe it is OCD, but I love to create symmetry in my decks. Hence, 99 the number of cards in a commander deck is divisible by nines, a sign of good design.

36 Elves, and/or Draw, and/or Mana Ramp and/or Manaboost:

Arbor Elf – elf + ramp Bear Umbra - boost

Bequeathal - draw Boreal Druid – elf + ramp

Copperhorn Scout – elf Elfhame Sanctuary - draw

Elvish Archdruid – elf + ramp Elvish Lyrist - elf

Elvish Mystic – elf + ramp Elvish Piper – elf

Elvish Scrapper – elf Ezuri, Renegade Leader

Fecundity - draw Fierce Empath - elf

Fyndhorn Elves –elf + ramp Gaea’s Herald – elf

Glissa Sunseeker - elf   Greenseeker – elf + draw

Heritage Druid – elf + ramp Imperious Perfect - elf

Joraga Treespeaker – elf + ramp Llanowar Elves – elf + ramp

Mana Reflection – boost Nissa’s Pilgrimmage - draw

Priest of Titania – elf + boost   Primordial Sage - draw

Seeker of Skybreak - elf   Skullclamp – draw

Sylvan Ranger – elf + draw Taunting Elf – elf

Thornweald Archer – elf Wellwisher – elf

Wren’s Run Packmaster – elf   Wren’s Run Vanquisher - elf

Wolf-Skull Shaman – elf Yavimaya Elder - draw

18 Big Creatures:

Argothian Wurm Bellowing Tanglewurm

Creeperhulk Engulfing Slagwurm

Essence of the Wild   Gaea’s Revenge

Giant Adephge Gigantomancer

Khalni Hydra   Mitotic Slime

Moldgraf Monstrosity Pelakka Wurm

Soul of the Harvest   Terastodon

Terra Stomper   Thorn Elemental

Thunderfoot Baloth Vigor

Artifacts and Enchantments: 9

Swiftfoot Boots Blanchwood Armor

Bower Passage Dense Foliage

Eldrazi Conscription Exoskeletal Armor

Gigantiform Ground Seal

Lurking Predators

Instant or Sorcery: 9

Dramatic Entrance Fog

Windstorm Unravel the AEther

Gleeful Sabotage Green Sun’s Zenith

Harmonize Overwhelming Stampede

Revive

Lands: 27

25 Forest

Oran-Rief, the Vastwood

Wirewood Lodge (has lots of fantastic combos in an elf deck.)

Monday, September 14, 2015

UltraAffordable Yeva Commander Deck

Commander Yeva, Nature’s Herald

Prices relativistic as of roughly 9/13/2015 at StarCityGames.com

I can’t guarantee that you will win many games with this deck. However, it is fun and inexpensive, and it will probably keep you in the game longer than most decks.

The main objective of this deck is to defend oneself, buying time until a late game kill. This means hiding oneself from immediate attack, and it is accomplish by the commander, Yeva, Nature’s Herald.

One reason that this deck is so casual is that deathtouch only sends creatures to the graveyard, which can be beneficial to the opponent in the case of more competitive decks.

Defenders and creatures with regenerate also provide defense. Mana abilities may also create a means to deploy the defense. Also, with respect to the walls, cards like Primal Bellow, Giant Growth, and Vines of Vastwood may make it seem like they have deathtouch.

There is also 3 kinds of ramping in this deck, including elves, defenders, and spells. Elf mana ramping works well with commander, Yeva, especially because she is an elf.

Thoughts to go with this deck include Ground Seal, Axebane Guardian, artifacts that give flying, and Vine Trellis.

Yeva,

Commander – Yeva, Nature’s Herald

Creatures:

$0.25 Acidic Slime $0.15 Ambush Viper

$0.50 Artisan of Kozilek $0.29 Bellowing Tanglewurm

$0.15 Daggerback Basilisk $0.15 Deadly Recluse

$1.00 Drove of Elves $1.50 Elvish Archdruid

$0.15 Ezuri’s Archers, BUT OUT OF STOCK

$1.00 Fierce Empath, BUT OUT OF STOCK

$0.15 Gatecreeper Vine

$0.50 Gigantomancer, BUT OUT OF STOCK

$0.25 Gravetiller Wurm $1.00 Ground Breaker

$2.00 Joraga Treespeaker $0.65 Kalonian Behemoth

$10.00 Khalni Hydra $1.75 LeatherbackBaloth

$0.15 Mire Boa

$0.50 Mitotic Slime, BUT OUT OF STOCK

$0.70 Myr Battlesphere $0.25 Mwonvuli Beast Tracker

$0.25 Overgrown Battlement $1.25 Priest of Titania

$0.15 River Boa $0.25 Ravaging Riftwurm

$0.25 Seeker of Skybreak $0.15 Sedge Scorpion

$0.50 Sheltering Ancient, BUT OUT OF STOCK

$1.00 Somberwald Sage $0.15 Steel Wall

$0.15 Sylvan Ranger $0.25 Pelakka Wurm

$0.15 Pygmy Troll

$0.15 Taunting Elf $1.00 Terra Stomper

$0.25 Thornweald Archer, BUT OUT OF STOCK

$0.15 Timbermaw Larva $1.00 Traproot Kami

$.025 Turntimber Basilisk $0.15 Ulamog’sCrusher

$0.15 Viridian Emissary $0.25 Wall of Brambles

$0.50 Wall of Roots $0.15 Wall of Tanglechord

$0.15 Wall of Vines $0.70 Wren’s Run Vanquisher

$0.15 Weatherseed Elf $0.50 Wolfbriar Elemental

Sorcery of Instant

$0.15 Commune with Nature $1.00 Cultivate

$0.15 Deglamer $0.15 Fog

$0.15 Giant Growth $0.15 Gleeful Sabotage

$0.15 Journey of Discovery, OUT OF STOCK

$0.90 Kodama’s Reach $0.25 Revive

$0.25 Overrun $0.25 Nissa’s Pilgrimage

$0.25 Seek the Horizon $1.00 Vines of Vastwood

$0.25 Windstorm $0.15 Wrap in Vigor

Artifact or Enchantment

$8.00 Basilisk Collar $0.30 Blanchwood Armor

$0.40 Fecundity $0.50 Gigantiform

$0.25 Gravity Well $0.30 Infiltration Lens

$0.15 Slagwurm Armor, BUT OUT OF STOCK

$0.15 Urban Burgeoning $0.50 Whispersilk Cloak

$0.15 Wild Growth

Planeswalker

$7.00 GarrukWildspeaker

Land:

all forests

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

MTG's Use of Kor

I had long wondered where MTG got the word kor from. Examples of this type of card are attached. These kor cards primarily dealing with the color white (plains); it's a long shot, but think farming plains.

I just finished listening to Mechirah - Chapter Twenty Eight of the Mishneh Torah http://www.chabad.org/dailystudy/rambam.asp… --
and found that in Hebrew this word is often used in agriculture - hence the possible combination of kor with agriculture and plains.

Kor - definition of kor by The Free Dictionary
www.thefreedictionary.com/kor
kor - an ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.