I built galadriel as a blink/tokens deck instead of just elves and she's even more ridiculous there when you can blink her to reset the draw and mana abilities
notably this means she can act as an infinite draw engine once you have navigator + peregrine drake or whatever equivalent infinite blink combo, or if you dont find peregrine drake but have an abdel adrian combo she's also infinite green mana
Aragorn, Hornburg Hero is one I would want to try out. It curves perfectly into Orahn Frostfang giving your creatures Deathtouch so it makes it near impossible to block. You could also run Bow of Nylea for a similar effect. As others have mentioned adding in Double Strike to the mix would be the nail in the coffin. Not to mention all the accessible extra combat cards. Could close a game very fast if left unchecked. Don't underestimate Aragorn.
She’s very strong. Check her out in action here when we played them all against each other! ruclips.net/video/Dnbva9MKyW4/видео.htmlsi=pauKJkaMpA3gfko0
I built the nazgul deck and it shreds. You throw combat tricks and damage doublers/ triplers and the first thing you do each turn is combat. Then, you do your combat tricks and play the non-instant speed cards during main phase 2 and leave some up mana up for your interaction spells. Exiling the top 20 cards of your library on combat is ruthless once you have a boardstate. For example, last night at my LGS I swung at someone and then gave Witch King Double strike, lifelink, indestructible, deathtouch, hecproof, and menace until end of turn and it had 3 +1 counters on it from my other nazgul. A one-shot KO.
I run naya aragorn and galadriel in my 4C aragorn the uniter deck. Recently tried him as a commander for my lower power level playgroup. He gets super gross when you give him trample and double strike. Then pair him with Shalai snd Hallar. The exponential damage is swverely underrated.
I'm very excited for Gandalf specifically because... it's Gandalf... and it's Jeskai, which were the colors I needed for my next deck. :) I will probably build him as a standard spellslinger commander and just use his ability to occasionally get extra value on various cast triggers. Should be a fun time!
I built Witch King as a Doomday commander and it is remarkably powerful. Yah, winning through twin flame/dual caster is boring, but it’s such a reliable win. Necropotence and peer into the abyss make it so easy to slim your deck out to where your commander is eating massive chunks of your library every turn.
Galadriel is not really an elf-ball commander, she doesn't synergize with elves themselves at all. Elf-ball can certainly be good just because it ramps like crazy, but I found more success leaning into things that play with the top card of your library and scrying in general. With a card like Tendershoot Dryad that gives you a creature on each player's upkeep, you can be looking at up to 12 cards every single round, which is just crazy. Capitalizing off of this aspect of her seems like the most powerful way to go, the extra mana and counters is just butter to take advantage of her insane card-draw engine.
From a tribal background, very disappointed to have been enjoying this video and then have it ruined by the weird and laughable push to get rid of "tribal" from magic and having to continuously hear "Typal" It's not Typal, it's not Kindred, it's tribal. Every single person pushing this narrative that "tribal" has a negative connotation is white. And it's almost exclusively talked about on Twitter. I'm proud of my tribal heritage, and our focus on family and our own culture is something to be proud of. Please, for the love of god, stop this weird bullshit.
I built galadriel as a blink/tokens deck instead of just elves and she's even more ridiculous there when you can blink her to reset the draw and mana abilities
notably this means she can act as an infinite draw engine once you have navigator + peregrine drake or whatever equivalent infinite blink combo, or if you dont find peregrine drake but have an abdel adrian combo she's also infinite green mana
Aragorn, Hornburg Hero is one I would want to try out. It curves perfectly into Orahn Frostfang giving your creatures Deathtouch so it makes it near impossible to block. You could also run Bow of Nylea for a similar effect. As others have mentioned adding in Double Strike to the mix would be the nail in the coffin. Not to mention all the accessible extra combat cards. Could close a game very fast if left unchecked. Don't underestimate Aragorn.
Had a chance to buy all 4 of these at my Target today and I'm glad I chose galadriel. It just looked like objectively the best one of all 4.
She’s very strong. Check her out in action here when we played them all against each other! ruclips.net/video/Dnbva9MKyW4/видео.htmlsi=pauKJkaMpA3gfko0
I built the nazgul deck and it shreds. You throw combat tricks and damage doublers/ triplers and the first thing you do each turn is combat. Then, you do your combat tricks and play the non-instant speed cards during main phase 2 and leave some up mana up for your interaction spells. Exiling the top 20 cards of your library on combat is ruthless once you have a boardstate. For example, last night at my LGS I swung at someone and then gave Witch King Double strike, lifelink, indestructible, deathtouch, hecproof, and menace until end of turn and it had 3 +1 counters on it from my other nazgul.
A one-shot KO.
Yeah check out our gameplay with those cards! ruclips.net/video/Dnbva9MKyW4/видео.html
Been waiting on patreon. Signed up, great video! Bring on the timey wimy upgrades!
All the Doctor Who decks will be upgraded soon! Thank you so much for the extended support!
When counting Wraiths, don't forget about the Rakdos changelings.
I run naya aragorn and galadriel in my 4C aragorn the uniter deck. Recently tried him as a commander for my lower power level playgroup. He gets super gross when you give him trample and double strike. Then pair him with Shalai snd Hallar. The exponential damage is swverely underrated.
I'm very excited for Gandalf specifically because... it's Gandalf... and it's Jeskai, which were the colors I needed for my next deck. :) I will probably build him as a standard spellslinger commander and just use his ability to occasionally get extra value on various cast triggers. Should be a fun time!
I built Witch King as a Doomday commander and it is remarkably powerful. Yah, winning through twin flame/dual caster is boring, but it’s such a reliable win. Necropotence and peer into the abyss make it so easy to slim your deck out to where your commander is eating massive chunks of your library every turn.
I bought this for xmas for my 3 brothers ....hopefully we can build some flavourfull decks out of those
Galadriel is not really an elf-ball commander, she doesn't synergize with elves themselves at all. Elf-ball can certainly be good just because it ramps like crazy, but I found more success leaning into things that play with the top card of your library and scrying in general. With a card like Tendershoot Dryad that gives you a creature on each player's upkeep, you can be looking at up to 12 cards every single round, which is just crazy. Capitalizing off of this aspect of her seems like the most powerful way to go, the extra mana and counters is just butter to take advantage of her insane card-draw engine.
Aragorn keeps on doubling the counters so the ceiling is high with double strike and extra combats. The floor is very low because it’s so slow.
Was wondering when you was going to post this lol. Would love to see these in a edh deck tech
That’s a possibility!
Trying to get lathril to do much is not easy in my experience. Would breaking up elves for the green mana dorks be good for Galadriel??
It’s definitely a different strategy but Galadriel is pretty awesome
The witch king is super annoying as its counter synergy with the the nazguls trigger...removes the undyinf effect if you play one.
Is there a decklist available for the Galadriel Deck that was mentioned in the video? I'm trying to get ideas to eventually make mine.
The list will be available soon!
FADF are my ratings in order of appearance
thank you, pump out the lotr content
We are working on pumping out the LotR stuff as well as the Doctor Who stuff. Stay tuned!
Gandalf will be A if you play a mid range with lot of spot removal and bounce.
I had all 4 preordered before the cards were spoiled. Cancelled all of them ha
Galadriel is much stronger than all of the others!
From a tribal background, very disappointed to have been enjoying this video and then have it ruined by the weird and laughable push to get rid of "tribal" from magic and having to continuously hear "Typal"
It's not Typal, it's not Kindred, it's tribal. Every single person pushing this narrative that "tribal" has a negative connotation is white. And it's almost exclusively talked about on Twitter. I'm proud of my tribal heritage, and our focus on family and our own culture is something to be proud of.
Please, for the love of god, stop this weird bullshit.