Ranar the Ever-Watchful | Upping the Average
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Ranar is also less of a removal magnet than Brago. There's an argument that Ranar is the more consistent blink commander, providing value without having to attack.
Yorion is a monster too
I upgraded this deck big time on release, and he’s my favorite commander now. I’m glad to see him get a bit of love, some of your recommendations are definitely worth considering.
Big time. Ranar is very very fun to play.
Ranar is dope. He's my favorite commander too.
I am also playing ranar. But the issue I’m having is what is the knockout punch in the deck. Yeah it does awesome combos but with all the card advantage you get how do you actually win.
Cathar's Crusade, Elesh Norn, and Coat of Arms are great at closing games.
@@bradfabre580 I have the same problem. Plus, all of the advantage shanigans make me a target.
I hope we get more fortell cards soon. It feels a shame that even "the" foretell commander is leaning away from foretell. I like foretell a lot and would love see more play choices of signet or fortell T2.
Also thank you for taking the time to talk about the errata. I had no idea it had been changed.
Absolutely. The whole reason I got the Ranar deck was my desire to make a Foretell deck, because I realized that if you run one foretell card, its best to run 3 or more, as you're otherwise advertising what it is you foretold.
Something fun to look at is Mirrorweave! Take a bunch of 1/1s make them into the heaviest hitting creature on the board, swing out for a crazy turn. Also, pretty inexpensive, and manawise not too bad. Also can be used defensively.
What a cool suggestion! Love this idea :) :) :)
I play it in my millicent ghost deck, but never draw it to now. I am so curious. One day it will work for me too ;)
Hehe i run it in mine on mtgo and let's say my army of Serra's Emissaries was mighty indeed!
I took Ranar and the Millicent precon and turned it into spirit Tribal with all the good Foretell cards and exile cards with Blink effects.
I love that you removed Sun Titan.
When you were going through the creatures and I saw Sun Titan, I thought to myself I never thought of putting that card in my deck. If he keeps it in there then I would put a copy in the deck too.
Sun Titan might be part precon effect (it was in the precon) and part old combo. Sun Titan with something like Fiend Hunter combos with the sac outlets that used to combo with Ranar/RiP. Fiend Hunter wasn't in the average deck apparently but I think those two combined might be part of why Titan snuck into the average deck.
I made my Ranar build with a focus on Polymorphing the spirits and winning via blinky value/combo... It's like a Poly-Kykar deck decided that Red was forbidden for some reason, and leaned on a Brago deck for emotional support.
It's weird and a bad idea and it's mine and I love it 😔 but I love everyone's Ranar builds no matter what the focus is! He's a very neat commander.
Ranar is one of my strongest deck, but because I chose to upgrade it as an azorius control/flicker deck, it has a balance between foretell, flicker, tribal support and all the azorius shenanigans.
Right now I feel so proud to see it upping the average hehehe
Perfect timing for this 😁 I just bought this precon and some of the upgrades you suggested I already had in lol feels good
I feel like this guy got so overshadowed by Lathril and I love this deck
The Crimson Vow Spirits deck also had Storm of Souls which is good in a blink deck. You get all their ETBs again and if you blink them again they stop being 1/1s.
I really like this series Joey. Kee up the good work!
Whoa! Started brewing Ranar yesterday then this came out today! Perfect timing!
I personally made mine focusing on tokens, since I already had a blink deck, and it works great. The foretell aspect is really fun. Your main focus is to go wide, but you also have the added value from the foretell cards
Foretelling potential futures is very flavorful, great work! Love this series.
I just switched my Ranar deck over to Millicent and dropped the foretell and blink sub themes and decided to go full on spirit tribal instead. Since, like you said, the deck felt divided and that it was going in too many directions with a mix of spirits, foretell and blink all competing for slots in the deck
You have inspired me to revisit Ranar; this will definitely help me focus the deck a bit more.
Two suggestions I have that are admittedly pricier upgrades:
1. Solitude is an absolutely nasty blink target and can act as just removal if we need it to.
2. Archaeomancer's Map is a surprisingly good include as blinking it searches out more plains which thins our deck while also guaranteeing we have lands in hand to capitalize on its effect.
One of my playgroup has a version of this and I sent this video to him right away to see if this sparks his imagination for any additions. I also lent him a Bident of Thassa and he keeps beating me with it.....
Great video, love your work, keep it up!
Nice vid! A fun inclusion I’ve included in my Ranar deck is Faerie Artisans, which generates etb value from your opponents creatures and exiles its own tokens which Ranar replaces with 1/1s so potential upside of multiple 1/1s each turn cycle. This multiplies with anointed procession if you lean towards token payoffs.
Also honourable mention to coat of arms for sudden win con
Yes! Ive been waiting for an updated ranar deck. Thank you for the vid.
You mentioned the argument between Ranar and Millicent. I chose the secret third option - I built both. I love spirits it was 100% worth it
With my experience Throne of the God Pharaoh is really strong card in this deck and puts pressure on your opponents
Earthcraft/squirrel nest combo! In the process of making a Galea Kindler of Hope deck. I'm going a bit heavy on Foretold mechanics, and including Throne of the God-Pharaoh. Looking forward to testing it out. 😀
@@markc6571 Throne of the God Pharaoh is good in a deck that creates a lot of tokens and not in the aristocrat colors.
Might be good in the Squirrel deck.
Then on the end phase you can deal 1 damage for each tapped creature.
@@RollieB89 exactly 💯
Vega also works with suspend, for example. As does Ranar.
I honestly hate that errata
After the eratta, there is one infinite combo remaining for Ranar. Portcullis still goes infinite with Ranar. It is really easy to execute, but is really tricky for a couple of reasons. First, Portcullis + Ranar doesn't have any "target" or "may" clauses to allow you to stop the combo; without an onboard wincon or way to stop the combo the game will end in a draw. Second, Azorious doesn't have many good wincons deriving from infinite ETB or LTB effects (lifegain into Aetherflux Resovior is the only one i've found so far). Fiinally, Portcullis is an oppressive stax piece that will shut down anything else you want to do. Still, an infinite combo with Ranar reamins!
Personally, I think the humble Deputy of Detention is a great add to this deck. When it ETBs, it exiles all non-land permanents an opponent controls that have the same name until the Deputy leaves the field; this doesn't *sound* that useful at first, but with the rise of Treasure tokens, being able to wipe out an opponents store of extra mana is actually pretty powerful (since tokens don't return when exiled this way), and it also works if the enemy is playing a token deck (like Krenko or Angry Omnath). And, since the Deputy can easily be blinked, you can do that repeatedly if someone keeps making tokens. It's a token board wipe on a body!
Deputy on treasure is probably a bad idea. The opponent can sacrifice the token in response to the trigger, causing it to fizzle. I agree on the other uses though.
@@odisseas2570 True, but that still means they don’t have any treasures. It can also be used on Food or Clue tokens, or (in a pinch) on something only vulnerable to exile, like a Theros god or a Blightsteel Colossus. No, it’s not a permanent solution in those later cases, but if they are going to kill you immediately, it’s better than nothing.
@@TheCrazyPlayer Actually, it means they're only down the *one* treasure you targeted, not that they don't have any.
I was looking to make a ranar deck, this video is full of some great tips. Thanks!
Just a note:
Fblthp the lost gets shuffled into your library if you or anyone targets it with a spell, so you’re gonna have to blink it with an ability, not a spell.
Love the episode Joey, your timing is perfect as I just bought this precon!
Just bought this deck today, and I'm very glad to have seen this video! Will definitely be using this video and comment section for help :D
Why not just use Brago? Because I don't wanna paint a giant target on me just because I wanna play spirits
While on the other hand, Millicent is just too plain and boring.
@@Alessandro-vv2fh I personally run Millicent because my list is more tribal focused, but yeah, I would say that Ranar is the more versatile of the three
@@nik700 Nothing wrong with that, I'd have built Millicent if Ranar wasn't there already.
I personally run a Ranar blink spirit deck (with a lot more spirit tribal pieces than the ones in the video), because there are just enough enablers and payoff just in spirits to make it worth it, but it's a deck that changes its gameplay a lot according to what you draw and that's something I tend to not see too often in tribal.
Thanks you for the instructions. I will upgrade my Ranar deck soon.
Thank you for reminding me of Distant Melody in this deck!! I was trying to figure out some good instant/sorcery draw spells for the times I don't have some sweet blinking engine set up.
As someone who's been a dedicated fanboy since the precon was released, I can tell you that sometimes the deck is an unstoppable value engine that can remove any threat while drawing cards and making a billion spirits, but on rare occasions you can just end up with a board of five 1/1 spirits and Ranar. Distant Melody is just the type of card this deck needs sometimes!
I have been brewing a Ranar deck for a few months and came up with a couple of interesting things (to me, anyway)!
Reveillark - pretty cool recursion given that quite a few creatures in the deck have attack power of 2 or less.
Reflector Mage - interesting lock out mechanic! Flicker to lock down one or more key pieces.
Altar of the Brood - an alternate win-con for 1 mana 🤩
Eidolon of Rhetoric/archon of Emeria - since flicker can get these cards to come back on end step, you can turn off the effect for yourself on your 1st main phase and at your end step these cards come back to restrict other players
Might I also suggest Resculpt if you don't have Reality Shift handy. Also hits artifacts, same mana cost, and a 4/4 token is trivial
I love elves, so Lathril was an obvious pick up for me, but I grabbed both anyways and really hope they revisit foretell in the future. I haven't really looked at building Ranar out and kept him as a slightly modded pre-built, but while watching this I like some of those other interactions and may have to get a second to actually build
My precious ghost Viking boy!
He's so fun, glad to see him get love.
Darn you Joey! Your vid here convinced me to try this type of Ranar deck. Hoping it does well, well done video!
My ranar deck is focuses on a flicker engine including all of the exile and return cards and have them target *each other* to have a spirit generator that sustains itself. Theres one more angel that goes infinite with felidar from kaladesh in wispweaver angel and blizzard strix if youre willing to go into snow, not efficient but redundant for perpetual motion machine ranar. Also faerie artisans is a windmill slam, since it constantly exiles its own token.
the problem with wispweaver angel is that it cannot be blinked by restoration angel, only felidar guardian
@@ivenschagas true but i kinda just throw in all the redundancies for the effects i want, still works for all the other flicker creatures just want the perpetual motion machine.
I JUST FINISHED UPGRADING THIS DECK LAST WEEK!!! better late than never I guess!! lol
Why would one not want to play Snow basics with a Commander from Kaldheim?
Harmonious Archon is a fun card for this deck, good blink target, a little bit of a hate card, and pumps the tokens, the whole package!
I think the best place for Ranar to go is with cards that exile themselves from the field or hand, since it's the part he offers unique from the alternatives. That means looking at cards with Suspend, which have a few good draw engines of their own, and permanents like all-star control finisher Aetherling and Midnight Clock that refuels your hand completely when it ticks up. Obviously the infinite flicker combos would stay, but I think this style would involve removing a lot of the value blink engines and targets that would find a better home in a more dedicated commander like Brago or Yorion. You want to run Ranar for his ability to see exiling happening.
Another possible challenge the stats for Ranar would be Gustha's Scepter. Card is gas if you have even any draw on line. Just tuck a card under ever turn and spirits galore. My bf had this and landtax and just kept thinning the deck with landtax to tuck lands under the scepter until needed.
thanks for showing me saltskitter! i am brewing on a boros etb-matters deck and this is a great inclusion next to Norin (that i didnt knew about)
I built my version of Ranar and almost immediately removed almost all foretell cards. Most of them are pretty bad so why play them?
I think you missed at least a couple of cards that could be counted as Win Conditions
1)Blessed Sanctuary - each time we cast a creature or our blinked creature comes back we get a 2/2 unicorn. This is pretty similar to the Ranar effect and it's on enchantment. We get small protection from the red sorcery earthquakes as a bonus as well.
2)Harmonious Archon - makes two 3/3 on etb + turns our 1/1 spirits into the 3/3 flyers.
3)Deadeye Navigator - this is such a "must-have" card in any blink deck.
If you wanna use a combo of blinking 2 creatures why you didn't add Glimmerpoint Stag? It has the same effect as Flickerwisp so it's just pure consistency.
Sephara skyblade is really good in this deck because it's easy to cast and protects all of your flyers
Also I think you forgot to add updated deck list in to the description :)
I have a challenge for Rionya fire dancer. Crested Craghorn is 4/1 with Haste and Provoke for five cost.
It's a repeatable multiple creature removal ability that has been very effective in my Rionya deck And is only in 31 decks on edhrec and none in Rionya that I can find.
Monk class, thanks to having lots of cheap spells does a great job of ramping in this build while having some other synergies at lvl 2 and 3. Reflections of Littjara can do a lot of work particularly with the blink creatures. For budget rift, try Perplexing Test which can also be employed defensively not just as a one sided wipe.
Saltskitter is a strong card in this deck. Whenever an opponent or you has a creature ETB it makes a spirit
When they errata'd the text, i took the deck apart and made a spirits tribal with Millicent. Didn't see an issue with the original text, plenty of go infinite combos in commander.
Another Path to take with Ranar deck was to lean into more of the Exile Matters. Mine is built this way and it opened up cards with Adventure, Suspend, and Hideway to get put in the deck.
Adventures do not work with ranar because they going to be exiled from the stack, not the field or your hand, although they will draw cards with vega, the same with hideaway because the card is exiled from the deck
Three other cards that are amazing in this deck.
First, the enchantment Kindred Discovery. Since you are almost always creating at least one spirit each turn, you get enormous amounts of card draw, including often, on other players turns.
Second, and this card has won me so many games because I added it, Lavinia of the Tenth. Flickering her on your turn (every turn if possible) can absolutely shut down your opponents decks completely. No attacks, blocks, or activated abilities on the majority (or all) of their board until your next turn at which point you flicker Lavinia again and shut them down again. Oh, if only she was a spirit.
And third, Cathar's Crusade. Again, since you are almost always adding at least one creature per turn, you are almost always buffing up your board to make large creatures. If you really want extra value from this card, also add Herald of Secret Streams to make them all unblockable. This combo together has also been a great win condition for my deck.
Of course, Elesh Norn is a beast in this deck powering up your spirit tokens, and sometimes demolishing opponents boards.
And finally, some other maybes:
-Deadeye Navigator
-Peregrine Drake
-Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
-Intangible Virtue
-Suture Priest
-Soul Warden
-Drogskol Reaver
-Coat of Arms
-Aether Shockwave (clearing your way to swing in.)
-Sephara, Sky's Blade (almost always cheap to cast and protects your spirits)
-Divine Visitation
-Ephara, God of the Polis
I think the link you posted is accidentally just to the original average list? It has no cards in the maybeboard...
PLEASE do Kathril Aspect Warper next!
How about a video on Rielle the everwise?
Dang that's a cool deck. I came to TCG through Yu-Gi-Oh so that's kind of cool to have that trap card feel.
Another note I need to add about the errata: It clarifies that Ranar's ability only makes one spirit per spell or ability, no matter how many things were exiled by that spell or ability. Descend Upon The Sinful, Synthetic Destiny, and Curse of the Swine pumped with a huge amount of mana may exile a whole board, but each one will only ever make 1 spirit (and an angel in the case of Descend, usually.)
My favorite card for this deck is a card I used in a mono white deck when I first started playing MTG. It was a bounce deck that I had. Saltskitter. Speaking of bounce. I would love to see you do a God-Eternal Oketra bounce theme Upping the Average. Im obsessed with making the worst color in EDH the best lol
Me too thanks ive made everything from a mono white chaos deck starring hikari twilight guardian to a mono white ramp deck with michiko konda truth seeker.
@@kingfuzzy2 have a link to either list?
Just got the precon for Christmas and already ordered a bunch of upgrades for it, so I was excited to see you feature Ranar here!
Man, I recently upgraded my Ranar deck and finally got that Rest in Peace without knowing about that Errata. Now I two more cards to change, I guess. Or I just lie to my friends and tell them that reading the card explains the card and it still works like it seems at first haha
I've really been trying to get this deck to work I keep coming back to it and have been trying to get it to go since its release. I recently took out a lot of things and doubled down on blinking and ETB's while still keeping the Foretell mechanic mostly there. lets see how we go at Friday night magic this week 😁 a good high priced card for this deck if you are lucky enough to be able to afford it is Palinchron, blink it to untap up to 7 lands (not even Lands you control), yes please I think
Hate the errata(s). I ended up making this my bling (Blingk)deck. Almost everything is either retro foil frame or wide art foil/promo foil or Secret Lair. Also: Archaeomancer + Ephemerate + Time Warp.
Wow! Hold on! Wait, what? When did they gave Ranar an errata?
I really like to play ranar in the 1vs1 commander since it is really versatile (removal, creature, control, etc.). My only issue is I really wish they had make it a 2/4 to escape bolt-like removal, or even better, with hexproof (but would have been probably too much)
With Salkskitter, does it still work with Ranar since it is not being exiled by a spell or ability you control?
Saltskitter is exiled by its own effect, so it works
Saltskitter is an all star in a ranar deck
I tried to build Ranar, but my decklist was a mess. I tried with Yorion, but the washing machine seemed too degenerate and repetitive.
I finally settled with Ojutai. Its all control except for a few voltron pieces. I like it so far.
Azorious needs a shake up, something other than blink
8:26 unless I am missing something Heliod's Intervention outclasses both by a wide margin
You are missing the exile clause.
I built Brago after getting this precon tbh.
Only card I would make sure to consider is Ruin Ghost, getting you a free spirit every turn.
Do you mean ruin ghost?
@@ivensc5222 Yes, should have checked before posting from memory. Thanks.
Ruin ghost + Mystic sanctuary + Time warp
content request! can you do a video for obeka? she's #66 and the 2nd/3rd most popular commander from the commander-themed set(legends) so she seems like a good choice ps also i love her and i dont think you'll ever do my actual main commander my boy angus mackenzie lmao
Crushing my dreams with the errata. Why would they do this, it is not even broken!
I wanted to build this one day, but now I am just so sad.
Am I the only one who is jealous of Joey's beard?
Most of the time when people ask 'why aren't you playing X as the commander instead' it's in bad faith and Ranar's popularity seems to suggest that his players have thankfully learnt to ignore people who ask those kinds of questions.
12:22 can you have yorion of you don't expand your deck to 120 cards?
Miss the old music, but glad you are still doing content so frequently!~
Okay can I just say, I want Wizards to release a U/B Spirit Legendary. Idk whats up but I want to play U/B Spirits but there are 0 of those for a commander and I'm not seeing any specific U/B commander thats good enough to just use.
If the token route is taken, should Anointed Procession be considered as a needed upgrade? 🤔
Would this be the same if you used Promise of Tomorrow with Alter?
I think the Archidekt code in the desc. is broken. They suggest I berate you, but I would never, so could you update it with a new link? Thanks as always for the content Joey!
I would add haste enablers like crashing drawbridge
I think you missed out on Winds of Abandon for this deck
Niv Mizzet when
I know it's not exactly a cheap card, but why no Solitude? That is an insane blink target. Also no Panharmonicon?
The philosophy of “upping the average” video is make the cost of the deck lower or keep the same cost.
@@victorcarrillo2151 I meant for the honorable mentions for higher budgets
So why was Ranar and the hero errataed? I feel like the combo wasn’t that bad. But I also haven’t played against it
Please up Mayael the Anima's avg list please
Love this deck, was able to put a opposition agent in it, blink away!!!
It looks like the deck list you linked is just the original average deck list and not your upgraded one. Maybe you forgot to hit that pesky save button. 😂
Guilty as charged! Link should be updated now, thanks! :)
My Ranar deck flickers less and bullies my opponents with exile effects more
Hot take: Galea, Kindler of Hope is a better Foretold commander
Just merged ranar with Millicent, helmed by Millicent😅
But the Blasting station - Rest In Peace + Ranar infinite combo works?? Or no??
Unfortunately no.
@@RexJustinLim that sucks. Just bought these cards for the deck 🤧
@@circolocofanatic yeah i already had that combo built and didn't know it got nerfed until this video. It seems Promise of Tomorrow can still work though.
@@RexJustinLim does scroll racks ability create tokens with ranar on the board?
@@circolocofanatic most definitely!!!
I didn't know about the errata until now, when was it made?
#3
Can we have a look at kroxa titan of death's hunger its hard to see were it should go
I didn’t know they errata’d Ranar and it kinda makes him much more lame as a commander.
It's weird for me to see cutting command sphere for strixhaven stadium. Yeah, stadium technically does tap for mana, but you're going to have a bad time using it as a mana rock since it paints a target on your back and attracts removal. You want your mana rocks to be played early and to stick around for a while. Stadium is a bad card for that.
so... alchemy is just everywhere now? fuck...
Link to the deck seems to be broken
Ya
If you bought this deck you sjould really be eligeble for a refund. Its the same thing as buying a car with a 150hp engine and they then install a smaller 130 hp engine "becouse"
This is why its so hard to support wotc in any way or form
Thought this was milacent for a second, disappointed