Fun fact about Pemmin's Aura: the enchantment gives the creature it's attached to all the abilities of a blue creature from Urza's Saga called Morphling. Due to Morphling's ability to give itself flying, along with it's other combo-enabling abilities and propensity to beat face, earned it the affectionate nickname of "Superman." Thus, if you rearrange the letters in Pemmin's Aura, you'll find it's a perfect anagram for "I am Superman." And that's why you should automatically win the game if you equip a Pemmin's Aura to a Darksteel Colossus. ruclips.net/video/SXy3f6f9DxI/видео.htmlm38s
I just recently pulled a card that will work wonders in this deck. It's Serpent of Yawning Depths, it's a 6/6 that costs 4 and 2 blue to cast, it's an enchantment creature serpent with the ability "Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents you control can't be blocked except by Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents"
Bear Umbra! 2 generic, green green= "whenever you attack with enchanted creature untap ALL lands you control" +(totem armor) "if an effect would destroy target creture instead destroy this aura" Throw this bad boy on one of your creatures, play a shittonne of cards, attack, then play even more cards. And one of your big creatures gets protection. now that's what i call value!
I spent hours yesterday building out my Arixmethes deck, trying to piece together information, sad that there weren't any of my usual channels with detailed info. Made the order last night, woke up to it having shipped, logged in to RUclips to this. The timing is amazing :D Love it.
Thanks. Have you ever considered showing what cards you would replace if someone wanted to use the reasonable upgrades? Could be as simple as putting one of the original cards down and showing the reasonable upgrade appear on top of it. Either way thanks for the videos.
I've had an Arixmethes tribal commander deck ever since Arix came out, so I'm happy to see you do an episode on them! There's a few good cards I didn't know existed in here, and I'll be looking at tweaking the deck with 'em. One big difference between our decks is how I've kept nearly all cards on theme, so it doesn't have as intense early game ramp, but can still ramp quite nicely. It cost me about $75, but I've got some great merfolk synergy as well as tons of ways to give all of the giant beasts islandwalk, so there's plenty of ways to win there. Another good win-con card is Hadana's Climb. It's not as instant as the Golden Pig of this deck, but once it transforms it would let you turn your commander into a 24/24 flying, or heck, just boost another creature if someone's bounced or killed Arix. (That happens a lot, people see Arix and think "Oh no he's playing Voltron kill it") so it makes it very useful if you don't have access to your commander. I also think that Tishana, Voice of Thunder is a good card for a reasonable upgrade. Obviously your draw effects are huge, and if you have them in the battlefield, it'll both make Tishana huge as well, while also letting you avoid discarding down to 7, while also being a great draw card with all of your beasts and manadorks. With his current lowest price at $1.05, I'm rather surprised he wasn't included!
Good additions you've made there. I'm thinking of throwing in the End-Raze Forerunners. They don't fit well into the seamonster-theme, but for one big and surprising swing they're fine I guess
Ive been in the process of creating a Big Sea-Creatures Tribal based deck with Arixmethes over the past week. The fact this deck tech came out in the most oddly convinient manner during said process? Ive never felt more excited and jinxed in my entire life. Great video as always Mitch. :)
Love this! I built the Arcades deck with a few small adjustments, but it’s awesome! Thanks for the videos. I have one suggestion: Since I’m still less than a couple of months into commander knowing what to swap out for reasonable upgrades can be helpful. Either way- thanks! I seriously have tons of fun with my arcades deck and I’m looking forward to building a few more you have!
So, I used this deck as a base and tried making a deck as closely as possible, maybe 85% the same and got smashed pretty hard every time against a geared up Ghired Conclave deck and an Elsha precon deck(matches often turned into a 2v1 though), but even in 4 1v1v1v1 games, board wipes crippled the deck beyond salvaging (though it was an average of 5-6 board wipes per game). I changed the strategy up and removed about another 15% of the cards and exchanged some of the weaker crackens, quest for Ula, changelings and weaker draw spells for cheap spells that focused on turning Arixmethes into a little land creature or finding a way to get infinite mana ASAP, and now this deck has the potential for being a lethal threat by turn 3 or 4 (although with obvious upgrade such as sol ring). In a 1v1, under the right circumstances, it's incredibly powerful without needing to overwhelm the enemy with an army of krakens, but still has the potential to. A few other cards were: - Drift of Phantasms (Basically gives you one more chance to search for Pemmin's aura or Freed from the Real) - Waker of the Wilds ($0.14), Bypassing the slumber counters (and if you have infinite mana combo , then you can make it a 21/21 and instantly CD-KO) - Verdant Touch (If you have Infinite mana combo, you can buyback and turn everyone's lands into creatures if you or someone decides to boardwipe) - Quirion Druid (Just to turn Arixmethes into a creature faster so you can attach the aura to them if you have it) - Argothian Elder (similar to Kiora's Follower) - Orochi Leafcaller (very efficient way to filter mono green into blue) - Clockspinning It is just way more efficient to find ways to abuse infinite mana, and people don't see a 21/21 commander land without summoning sickness coming at them by turn 4
Looks like a lot of fun to play. I went to buy the list right after I saw this. Started to get back into actually playing magic recently and primarily in Commander format. Your deck techs have really helped give me some inspiration and ideas of what I would like to play. Keep up the great work!
Uncommon Kiora also would be a great pick for this deck. Its budget, it's very flavorful and it has high synergy, untapping our commander and drawing cards whenever we play big stuff.
Stompy to me implies it have hate permanents like chalice of the void because that's how stompy in legacy works. I'd use the Highlander term for this kinda deck and call it big blue.
I basically build this deck when Dominaria came out, with Tatyova, Benthic Druid as the commander I was so happy when Arixmethes was spoiled, it's a land and a sea monster!
I have a clunky mono-blue sea creature EDH deck that is gathering dust & this is exactly what I needed to reinvigorate it! The untap tricks with Arixmethes at the helm are a whole new way to win, and the extra ramp and card draw spells green adds are a sweet cherry on top. Plus, I had already picked up Arixmethes thinking he'd go in the 99 in some other deck.Thanks Mitch!
Amazing as always! I cant wait to put this deck together, as if had Arixmethes for a while and I considered making him into a Merfolk deck. But this takes it to the neck level! Thank you again!
My favorite reason for playing a Kraken in mtg is getting to say: release the KRAKEN! I love that you put that nod to the original clash of the titans in here!
I‘m working on this commander for some time now. Not that much on a budget, but I tried to keep it in a normal range...for the mentions I would add „The great henge“; „Return of the Wildspeaaker“;“primal empathy“;“Kamahls druidic vow“; „Nissa, Steward of elements“; „Vivien‘s Arcbow“ and „Nyx Lotus“. I also play some clone-Spells like Phyrexian Metamorph, Altered Ego or clever impersonator that can be used flexible to help me (for example copy a thran dynamo or a non-legendary sea-monster. I will try to use Rashmi as a commander in this deck, which can be a very strong card advantage in the mid-game, when the big Monsters hit the field. One very special serpent is elemental in this deck: Serpent of yawning depths, which lets your krakens, leviathans, serpents and octopuses con only be blocked by krakens, leviathans, serpents and octopuses.
YOOOO I was thinking of making my own deck based around Arximethus(I think i misspelled it)! And commanders quarters makes a commander deck about it! Awesooooome.
think I saw someone play with a deck inspired by this archetype on Magic Arena. They used several blue instant bounce to hand cards to protect creatures and regain enter the field effects. I had a green white token creature draw engine that lost mostly due to mass manipulation, a ~= 50 cent card.
Keep the deck techs up. I love them. Ignore the comments from entitled people that think you are promising them they can go and buy the decks for $25 when you make no such claim. Even a $100 is still budget in the commander world.
While i completely agree with you, as i have multiple commander decks that a card or two is worth more than the average deck he makes. However not counting market changes by just adding up the prices he used in the video below each card (not including any basic lands) it came out to 27.44. Which i still think is perfectly fine, he probably was able to find them slightly cheaper when he was online but....I kinda just want to see one of his videos go "Sorry guys i went a few dollars over budget." which would be great in my opinion. I still love watching everything he makes, always content worth watching!
Thanks! I wouldn't say people are entitled, and I can understand that people may get frustrated when a deck doesn't come out to the price I found on my end. Could be due to a few factors. You do have to go through a two step process to optimize with HP and Damaged cards, which some people don't realize. Also, the decklists are given out early to Patrons, and some of them buy the deck before the video even comes out, which can take out some of the HP and Damaged cards that were available. That and just smaller sellers running out of certain cards. It all adds up, and people get frustrated, which is understandable.
Very cool. Their a lot of assemetrical boardwipe and I like that. You sure seems to hit face very hard with this deck. Looking at the curve I think I would put a little more ramp even if your commander ramp you. Any way seem's pretty fun and stompy!!!
There is another way to get infinet mana in this deck, Voyaging Satyr or Kiora's Follow + Freed from the Real or Pemmin's Aura + Simic Growth Chamber = infinet Green Mana, adding a "Coral Atoll" can actually give another version for infinet colorless mana.
Awesome I was trying to brew a deck around the slumbering isle and include slinn voda, this saves me countless hours and I own a lot of the easy upgrade cards. Thanks Commander Quarters.
I know this is an old video but after running this deck a lot I’ve decided to cut Ula’s temple. I loved the idea of it when I saw it, but in practice unless you play it turn one and get very lucky from then on, it usually does nothing all game. Ive never gotten it to successfully get to three counters, once per upkeep is very slow. Maybe in a proliferate leaning strategy it would be better but this deck is more get out a lot of big guys not buffing the few you have. Love the idea of the card still.
I have a toolbox creature deck with Momir Vig as the Commander. A lethal combo that I go for is Archetype of imagination and Stormtide Leviathan. I can’t usually be attacked and I also can’t usually be blocked.
The plural for Octopus is Octopi. Nit picks aside, this deck is pretty cool and would inspire me to build him but I already have two blue decks so it would mess the colour balance up. Greater Good would be amazing here btw
This is a late reply, but for the record, the -us -> -i pluralization comes from latin, and is only proper with words that come from latin. Octopus comes from Greek. If you want to be archaic, the ancient Greek plural would be octopodes.
Kederekt Leviathan is great with a clone effect. You play him and bounce everything. Then, next turn, you attack with it. After combat, you clone it bouncing everything again, including the original Kederekt Leviathan. After that, you just repeat until your opponent's remove either of them.
I built a deck around Stormtide and defenders like fog bank and everyone hated me. Having a Sea Monster Commander deck is going to make everyone scream. a lot of these cards were big parts of my regular Leviathan deck so this will be fun.
I would replace Colossal Majesty with Drumhunter. In this deck, it has the same ending effect (Large creatures draw you cards), plus also includes a small bit of ramp.
So update, this deck kicks so much ass. Especially when I added Swrpent of Yawning Depths. Just another opportunity to have the big creatures be unblockable. My other decks don't have krakens, leviathans, octopuses or serpents in them and neither do my friends decks. Once I have the Yawning Depths out, game over. Unless they have removal of some kind, of course. Again, great job with this deck build
Yeeeeeesssss I been waiting for this one! My deck looks very similar to this but now I got a good idea for some additions. Thanks for finally brewing this one!
I’ve always wanted a kraken/leviathan/octopus/serpent deck ever since my first Leviathan, Polar Kraken, and Benthic Behemoth. Definitely going to make this deck next.
I run a Voltron variant of Arixmethes that aims to give him Unlockable (Kaseto, Thassa, Whispersilk Cloak, Rogue's Passage) and either Double Strike (Fireshrieker, Grappling Hook) or Infect (Corrupted Conscience, Grafted Exoskeleton)
Another good future upgrade from Ravnica Allegiance is Prime Speaker Vannifar. Her ability allows you to sacrifice a creature and tutor a creature with cmc one higher onto the battlefield..
Every year, I buy up one of every wizards official commander deck they release in the fall. I thankfully have Arixmethes, so building this deck got a bit easier.
Two other cards that I have found to be workhorses in my Arix deck is Thran Temporal Gateway as it allows you to drop out several of your creatures for 4 mana (I run a few more legends in my deck so it helps a bit more than it would in your list) and Loyal Drake. If for whatever reason you need to keep Arix as a land the drake is drawing you an extra card each turn and makes getting rid of that effect wasteful since your opponent cannot target Arix 90% of the time as a land.
I made a graveyard leviathan deck recently with Muldrotha as the commander and it's making me laugh how much overlap there is between this and that deck. There are a few cards in here that I'm definitely going to be adding to that deck.
I feel like tcgplayer pricing is very much not accurate, between market fluctuations, shipping and having to buy a lot of cards from each individual seller. It's honestly cheaper to buy on card kingdom.
But $0.25 is ck's minimum right? If I have to pay 25 cents or more for every card that adds up fast when it comes to budget builds. I just buy tcgdirect to get it all in on package and it's still waaaaay cheaper than ck
I use magiccardmarket with my folks here in EU, and the decks go even cheaper that 25 dollars, as long as you manage smartly the sending costs. I literally built almost all of the decks with the upgrades included, and they end costing about 3/4 of the og price listed here...
Not to mention that TCG Player's Cart Optimizer is more like Cart Breaker and hardly ever works. Half the time when I try to optimize a cart it returns something more expensive, or splits it up into so many different packages that I end up just wanting to pay twice as much to order everything from Card Kingdom and get it in 2 days for free shipping.
Yeah this actually looks fun to play. Pretty cool, idk about practical but it looks fun, and if you win your opponent must retire in shame knowing they lost to sea monsters!
I have been waiting for this!!! I leget bought Arixmethes a while back just because I loved everything about it but wasn't sure quite where to go with it. :)
Good decklist but it needs just a nudge. Explore + growth spiral for ramp and card draw. Genesis wave to just bomb the field with all those big nasties. Nissa Steward of elements or Kiora(s) would help with that tide of creatures Thassa for a more focused deck.
Well, he takes the low price assuming people will take a heavily played card in order to get more power. SO right now this is a $30.55 deck per the link.
In my experience that tends to happen often when you make budget decks. Mostly because once it’s made other people see it and realize it works well, it gets played more, then that causes the price to go up.
Green has always been my favorite color, but I seldom played blue, often going for monogreen or green/white. Lately though I have been building a Kadena Deck and a Chulane Deck and I have to say that I really like the combination of ramp, big monsters and good control effects. Add white or black for some good removal aswell. That said, maybe I should go for a two color Green and Blue next? This deck looks unique and has a very cool tribal theme. Been wanting to make a merfolk theme for a long time, but if they can be a subtheme to big sea monsters then its even better.
Great channel! I’m new to commander and want to try some decks other than precons. Bought two sets of cards from TCG on this channel to do just that. Thank you!!!
Ever since I first saw this card I wanted to build a deck around it, but I never got around to it, I think after seeing this I'm going to try running it, it's time to get kraken....no, no, I leave on my own
You missed the opportunity to name tactic #3 as What's Kraken'
I can’t believe I missed that haha well done!
It just sucks it's not worth 25 anymore. My friend wants me to build decks worth around 25, and I go check this decklist and it's more like 80
@@devantehoschette9021 now over $100!
Alex Babins the median has almost reached 200 at this point
😫🤦
Fun fact about Pemmin's Aura: the enchantment gives the creature it's attached to all the abilities of a blue creature from Urza's Saga called Morphling. Due to Morphling's ability to give itself flying, along with it's other combo-enabling abilities and propensity to beat face, earned it the affectionate nickname of "Superman." Thus, if you rearrange the letters in Pemmin's Aura, you'll find it's a perfect anagram for "I am Superman."
And that's why you should automatically win the game if you equip a Pemmin's Aura to a Darksteel Colossus.
ruclips.net/video/SXy3f6f9DxI/видео.htmlm38s
That's the by far best fun fact i've seen my entire life.
Or platinum Emperion
This is the best flavor win I've ever seen
I just recently pulled a card that will work wonders in this deck. It's Serpent of Yawning Depths, it's a 6/6 that costs 4 and 2 blue to cast, it's an enchantment creature serpent with the ability "Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents you control can't be blocked except by Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents"
Oh god
Yeah. The opponents are f🤬ed.
yeah, i have that card, and was waiting for him to mention it, but it never happened :(
This is such a cool commander, thanks for this deck tech!
Thanks for watching!
I currently got him in my Chulane deck, but maybe he deserves his own now? I never thought of using him as commander.
Bear Umbra!
2 generic, green green= "whenever you attack with enchanted creature untap ALL lands you control"
+(totem armor) "if an effect would destroy target creture instead destroy this aura"
Throw this bad boy on one of your creatures, play a shittonne of cards, attack, then play even more cards. And one of your big creatures gets protection.
now that's what i call value!
A great reasonable upgrade to consider!
I spent hours yesterday building out my Arixmethes deck, trying to piece together information, sad that there weren't any of my usual channels with detailed info. Made the order last night, woke up to it having shipped, logged in to RUclips to this. The timing is amazing :D Love it.
Great minds think alike ;)
Please do upgraded version of this hentai tentacle nightmare deck.
Maybe in the future!
the updated mana base is around $500. Mana base is not budget friendly
Can be done for 200$
Thanks. Have you ever considered showing what cards you would replace if someone wanted to use the reasonable upgrades? Could be as simple as putting one of the original cards down and showing the reasonable upgrade appear on top of it. Either way thanks for the videos.
Depends on your meta and playstyle!
That's a good idea 👍
I've had an Arixmethes tribal commander deck ever since Arix came out, so I'm happy to see you do an episode on them! There's a few good cards I didn't know existed in here, and I'll be looking at tweaking the deck with 'em. One big difference between our decks is how I've kept nearly all cards on theme, so it doesn't have as intense early game ramp, but can still ramp quite nicely. It cost me about $75, but I've got some great merfolk synergy as well as tons of ways to give all of the giant beasts islandwalk, so there's plenty of ways to win there.
Another good win-con card is Hadana's Climb. It's not as instant as the Golden Pig of this deck, but once it transforms it would let you turn your commander into a 24/24 flying, or heck, just boost another creature if someone's bounced or killed Arix. (That happens a lot, people see Arix and think "Oh no he's playing Voltron kill it") so it makes it very useful if you don't have access to your commander.
I also think that Tishana, Voice of Thunder is a good card for a reasonable upgrade. Obviously your draw effects are huge, and if you have them in the battlefield, it'll both make Tishana huge as well, while also letting you avoid discarding down to 7, while also being a great draw card with all of your beasts and manadorks. With his current lowest price at $1.05, I'm rather surprised he wasn't included!
Good additions you've made there. I'm thinking of throwing in the End-Raze Forerunners. They don't fit well into the seamonster-theme, but for one big and surprising swing they're fine I guess
Ive been in the process of creating a Big Sea-Creatures Tribal based deck with Arixmethes over the past week. The fact this deck tech came out in the most oddly convinient manner during said process? Ive never felt more excited and jinxed in my entire life. Great video as always Mitch. :)
Thanks!
Love this!
I built the Arcades deck with a few small adjustments, but it’s awesome! Thanks for the videos.
I have one suggestion:
Since I’m still less than a couple of months into commander knowing what to swap out for reasonable upgrades can be helpful. Either way- thanks! I seriously have tons of fun with my arcades deck and I’m looking forward to building a few more you have!
Glad you enjoyed it!
It really depends on your meta and playgroup! My suggestion is to test as is and then adjust based on your preferences!
@The Commander’s Quarter you could include the cost make it a super budget and make it 99 Lands plus Arimethes and it’s a land tribal🤗
Haha would be a good april fools
So, I used this deck as a base and tried making a deck as closely as possible, maybe 85% the same and got smashed pretty hard every time against a geared up Ghired Conclave deck and an Elsha precon deck(matches often turned into a 2v1 though), but even in 4 1v1v1v1 games, board wipes crippled the deck beyond salvaging (though it was an average of 5-6 board wipes per game).
I changed the strategy up and removed about another 15% of the cards and exchanged some of the weaker crackens, quest for Ula, changelings and weaker draw spells for cheap spells that focused on turning Arixmethes into a little land creature or finding a way to get infinite mana ASAP, and now this deck has the potential for being a lethal threat by turn 3 or 4 (although with obvious upgrade such as sol ring). In a 1v1, under the right circumstances, it's incredibly powerful without needing to overwhelm the enemy with an army of krakens, but still has the potential to.
A few other cards were:
- Drift of Phantasms (Basically gives you one more chance to search for Pemmin's aura or Freed from the Real)
- Waker of the Wilds ($0.14), Bypassing the slumber counters (and if you have infinite mana combo , then you can make it a 21/21 and instantly CD-KO)
- Verdant Touch (If you have Infinite mana combo, you can buyback and turn everyone's lands into creatures if you or someone decides to boardwipe)
- Quirion Druid (Just to turn Arixmethes into a creature faster so you can attach the aura to them if you have it)
- Argothian Elder (similar to Kiora's Follower)
- Orochi Leafcaller (very efficient way to filter mono green into blue)
- Clockspinning
It is just way more efficient to find ways to abuse infinite mana, and people don't see a 21/21 commander land without summoning sickness coming at them by turn 4
Looks like a lot of fun to play. I went to buy the list right after I saw this. Started to get back into actually playing magic recently and primarily in Commander format. Your deck techs have really helped give me some inspiration and ideas of what I would like to play. Keep up the great work!
Nice! Thanks will do!
Uncommon Kiora also would be a great pick for this deck. Its budget, it's very flavorful and it has high synergy, untapping our commander and drawing cards whenever we play big stuff.
My favorite so far. Unique commander, splashy spells, fun theme, and budget without feeling like a week version of an expensive deck.
I've never seen Blue Stompy, this is awesome!
Haha thanks!
Stompy to me implies it have hate permanents like chalice of the void because that's how stompy in legacy works. I'd use the Highlander term for this kinda deck and call it big blue.
Dispite being blue the inclusion of large creatures makes me happy and I wanna try it out! Thanks for the video
I basically build this deck when Dominaria came out, with Tatyova, Benthic Druid as the commander
I was so happy when Arixmethes was spoiled, it's a land and a sea monster!
Nice!
I have a clunky mono-blue sea creature EDH deck that is gathering dust & this is exactly what I needed to reinvigorate it! The untap tricks with Arixmethes at the helm are a whole new way to win, and the extra ramp and card draw spells green adds are a sweet cherry on top. Plus, I had already picked up Arixmethes thinking he'd go in the 99 in some other deck.Thanks Mitch!
The best feeling is strip mining someones arixmethes with one counter left
I already have like, over half of these cards
*Lets get Kraken boys*
Lucky
I was making a braids seamonsters tribal, but I suddenly changed my allegiance to simic.
Simic is a good color combination!
Amazing as always! I cant wait to put this deck together, as if had Arixmethes for a while and I considered making him into a Merfolk deck. But this takes it to the neck level! Thank you again!
lol neck
That would be a fun one too! No problem!
My favorite reason for playing a Kraken in mtg is getting to say: release the KRAKEN!
I love that you put that nod to the original clash of the titans in here!
Remember the days when Wafarers Bauble was $0.16? I miss 'em too...
Pemmin's Aura and Freed from the Real were both cheap too!
I‘m working on this commander for some time now. Not that much on a budget, but I tried to keep it in a normal range...for the mentions I would add „The great henge“; „Return of the Wildspeaaker“;“primal empathy“;“Kamahls druidic vow“; „Nissa, Steward of elements“; „Vivien‘s Arcbow“ and „Nyx Lotus“. I also play some clone-Spells like Phyrexian Metamorph, Altered Ego or clever impersonator that can be used flexible to help me (for example copy a thran dynamo or a non-legendary sea-monster. I will try to use Rashmi as a commander in this deck, which can be a very strong card advantage in the mid-game, when the big Monsters hit the field. One very special serpent is elemental in this deck: Serpent of yawning depths, which lets your krakens, leviathans, serpents and octopuses con only be blocked by krakens, leviathans, serpents and octopuses.
YOOOO I was thinking of making my own deck based around Arximethus(I think i misspelled it)! And commanders quarters makes a commander deck about it! Awesooooome.
Glad you enjoyed it!
When I first saw Arixmethes I knew he would make for a unique commander and would be able to utilize cards that may normally not see play time
Indeed!
think I saw someone play with a deck inspired by this archetype on Magic Arena. They used several blue instant bounce to hand cards to protect creatures and regain enter the field effects. I had a green white token creature draw engine that lost mostly due to mass manipulation, a ~= 50 cent card.
If you have archetype of imagination and stormtide leviathan out at the same time they just cant attack or block. ITS A COMBO
Indeed!
I love stuff like that, also mixing "must be blocked by exactly one creature" with menace where the opponent simply can't block
*laughs in merfolk*
I love Simic Decks
Nice! No problem!
Keep the deck techs up. I love them. Ignore the comments from entitled people that think you are promising them they can go and buy the decks for $25 when you make no such claim. Even a $100 is still budget in the commander world.
While i completely agree with you, as i have multiple commander decks that a card or two is worth more than the average deck he makes. However not counting market changes by just adding up the prices he used in the video below each card (not including any basic lands) it came out to 27.44. Which i still think is perfectly fine, he probably was able to find them slightly cheaper when he was online but....I kinda just want to see one of his videos go "Sorry guys i went a few dollars over budget." which would be great in my opinion. I still love watching everything he makes, always content worth watching!
Thanks! I wouldn't say people are entitled, and I can understand that people may get frustrated when a deck doesn't come out to the price I found on my end. Could be due to a few factors.
You do have to go through a two step process to optimize with HP and Damaged cards, which some people don't realize. Also, the decklists are given out early to Patrons, and some of them buy the deck before the video even comes out, which can take out some of the HP and Damaged cards that were available. That and just smaller sellers running out of certain cards.
It all adds up, and people get frustrated, which is understandable.
Maybe entitled was a strong word. Keep up the good work. :)
Very cool. Their a lot of assemetrical boardwipe and I like that. You sure seems to hit face very hard with this deck. Looking at the curve I think I would put a little more ramp even if your commander ramp you. Any way seem's pretty fun and stompy!!!
Definitely depends on preferences! Indeed!
Super wacky. Awesome!! Good to see someone make a Tribal Big Blue Badstuff deck. Would love to see some more tribal-minded commanders, too!
Indeed!
I've been playing Arixmethes and the consistent ramp in the command zone is very powerful
There is another way to get infinet mana in this deck, Voyaging Satyr or Kiora's Follow + Freed from the Real or Pemmin's Aura + Simic Growth Chamber = infinet Green Mana, adding a "Coral Atoll" can actually give another version for infinet colorless mana.
great video! i'll be making an Arixmethes sea-monster deck soon! thanks for the insights into the key elements!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Awesome I was trying to brew a deck around the slumbering isle and include slinn voda, this saves me countless hours and I own a lot of the easy upgrade cards. Thanks Commander Quarters.
Alright this might be the deck that I end up making! Love the giant sea creatures deck and Arix is awesome
That’s awesome!
Another amazing build, it’s like you read my mind. I’ve been thinking about a Sea Creatures build and this looks fun and exciting!
Thanks!
I know this is an old video but after running this deck a lot I’ve decided to cut Ula’s temple. I loved the idea of it when I saw it, but in practice unless you play it turn one and get very lucky from then on, it usually does nothing all game. Ive never gotten it to successfully get to three counters, once per upkeep is very slow. Maybe in a proliferate leaning strategy it would be better but this deck is more get out a lot of big guys not buffing the few you have. Love the idea of the card still.
14:01 also note that you can put +1/-1 counters on all other creatures on the board an wipe the field even indestructible creatures.
I have a toolbox creature deck with Momir Vig as the Commander. A lethal combo that I go for is Archetype of imagination and Stormtide Leviathan. I can’t usually be attacked and I also can’t usually be blocked.
With all the card draw, I would suggest a Reliquary Tower or Thought Vessel.
The plural for Octopus is Octopi. Nit picks aside, this deck is pretty cool and would inspire me to build him but I already have two blue decks so it would mess the colour balance up. Greater Good would be amazing here btw
Actually that's a common misconception and I thought so myself too before I looked it up. Wizards even uses "Octopuses" in cards like Whelming Wave
This is a late reply, but for the record, the -us -> -i pluralization comes from latin, and is only proper with words that come from latin. Octopus comes from Greek. If you want to be archaic, the ancient Greek plural would be octopodes.
GerbilProphet thank you for the knowledge nugget, I appreciate it
NICE! Yup new commander for sure.
It's a fun one!
Kederekt Leviathan is great with a clone effect. You play him and bounce everything. Then, next turn, you attack with it. After combat, you clone it bouncing everything again, including the original Kederekt Leviathan. After that, you just repeat until your opponent's remove either of them.
Love love love!! Just ordered the $100 version! Absolutely love a turn 2 (with sol ring) commander!! Love you guys!
I built a deck around Stormtide and defenders like fog bank and everyone hated me. Having a Sea Monster Commander deck is going to make everyone scream. a lot of these cards were big parts of my regular Leviathan deck so this will be fun.
I'm absolutely saving this, been wanting to make a simic sea creatures deck for a looooooooong time
Interesting commander, I am going to make one where Arixmethes rides the dilu horse. An island riding a horse into battle is just hilarious
Haha that is pretty funny
I'm late to this video but I knew it'd be a good one. I always come to your channel for quick techs and commander ideas. Thanks for what you do!!
I just bought this deck. For 35 dollars it's a steal and sound like a lot of fun!! I cant wait for the break the bank for this one
I would replace Colossal Majesty with Drumhunter. In this deck, it has the same ending effect (Large creatures draw you cards), plus also includes a small bit of ramp.
So update, this deck kicks so much ass. Especially when I added Swrpent of Yawning Depths. Just another opportunity to have the big creatures be unblockable. My other decks don't have krakens, leviathans, octopuses or serpents in them and neither do my friends decks. Once I have the Yawning Depths out, game over. Unless they have removal of some kind, of course. Again, great job with this deck build
You should definitely update this!!!
Yeeeeeesssss I been waiting for this one! My deck looks very similar to this but now I got a good idea for some additions. Thanks for finally brewing this one!
Omg yes. My first booster pack was from the Dark. I got Leviathan (10/10 trample). This deck is perfect for it.
I’ve always wanted a kraken/leviathan/octopus/serpent deck ever since my first Leviathan, Polar Kraken, and Benthic Behemoth. Definitely going to make this deck next.
And just like that, I'm writing down the decklist and getting my shopping cart ready
This is the first Arix deck I've seen that I've liked, nice!
I run a Voltron variant of Arixmethes that aims to give him Unlockable (Kaseto, Thassa, Whispersilk Cloak, Rogue's Passage) and either Double Strike (Fireshrieker, Grappling Hook) or Infect (Corrupted Conscience, Grafted Exoskeleton)
Another good future upgrade from Ravnica Allegiance is Prime Speaker Vannifar. Her ability allows you to sacrifice a creature and tutor a creature with cmc one higher onto the battlefield..
Every year, I buy up one of every wizards official commander deck they release in the fall. I thankfully have Arixmethes, so building this deck got a bit easier.
Two other cards that I have found to be workhorses in my Arix deck is Thran Temporal Gateway as it allows you to drop out several of your creatures for 4 mana (I run a few more legends in my deck so it helps a bit more than it would in your list) and Loyal Drake. If for whatever reason you need to keep Arix as a land the drake is drawing you an extra card each turn and makes getting rid of that effect wasteful since your opponent cannot target Arix 90% of the time as a land.
Not quite a $100 brudiclad deck tech...but it'll do :)
It really do be like that.
Haha I knew I shouldn't have given you another reason to ask for a Brudiclad episode
@@TheCommandersQuarters dude there's always a reason to ask for brudiclad ;) I will become a meme in this channel lol
@@supernoodles908 haha I have no doubt about that
Super Noodles I built Brudiclad as my first commander and he is amazing!
amazing deck, would love to see what you can do with a $100 budget!
lmao this deck is already up to almost 90
Build the same deck in 2021
Slumbering Dragon will always be my second favorite card
A great card!
@@TheCommandersQuarters Thubdermaw Hellkite is my all time favorite. My first rare from my first pack I got
I made a graveyard leviathan deck recently with Muldrotha as the commander and it's making me laugh how much overlap there is between this and that deck. There are a few cards in here that I'm definitely going to be adding to that deck.
With the new set add great henge and return of the wild speaker.
So happy to see this channel growing. Keep it up man.
Thanks!
Oh I’ve never seen this commander, very interesting
Indeed!
New Theros Beyond Death cards to consider adding; Thryx, the Sudden Storm and Serpant of Yawning Depths
I feel like tcgplayer pricing is very much not accurate, between market fluctuations, shipping and having to buy a lot of cards from each individual seller. It's honestly cheaper to buy on card kingdom.
Andrew Hendricks Not to mention that card quality and ship time are far more consistent on Card Kingdom.
But $0.25 is ck's minimum right? If I have to pay 25 cents or more for every card that adds up fast when it comes to budget builds. I just buy tcgdirect to get it all in on package and it's still waaaaay cheaper than ck
I use magiccardmarket with my folks here in EU, and the decks go even cheaper that 25 dollars, as long as you manage smartly the sending costs. I literally built almost all of the decks with the upgrades included, and they end costing about 3/4 of the og price listed here...
Not to mention that TCG Player's Cart Optimizer is more like Cart Breaker and hardly ever works. Half the time when I try to optimize a cart it returns something more expensive, or splits it up into so many different packages that I end up just wanting to pay twice as much to order everything from Card Kingdom and get it in 2 days for free shipping.
@@hayden32040 this honestly
Interesting spin on Arixmethes, not the way I would have done it but still, impressive to go Big Sea Tribal
Definitely can take it in a lot of fun directions!
Yeah this actually looks fun to play. Pretty cool, idk about practical but it looks fun, and if you win your opponent must retire in shame knowing they lost to sea monsters!
I have been waiting for this!!! I leget bought Arixmethes a while back just because I loved everything about it but wasn't sure quite where to go with it. :)
Damn... I was so excited to go build this, then I went and saw the deck is over $120 now...
Good decklist but it needs just a nudge.
Explore + growth spiral for ramp and card draw. Genesis wave to just bomb the field with all those big nasties. Nissa Steward of elements or Kiora(s) would help with that tide of creatures Thassa for a more focused deck.
Just got reprinted in double masters, now's a good time to grab him for around 3 bucks intstead of 6
One of my favorites so far. Good job, keep up the great work.
I already have a few of these cards for my Arixmethes deck. I now need to go buy everything I dont have.
We need more oloro decks on the internet, and it would be awesome if you could provide!
Maybe in the future!
I loved this card the day I saw it
4 months later and it's $70 to buy this deck now
Chris Valleau up to $80 this week lmao
Well, he takes the low price assuming people will take a heavily played card in order to get more power. SO right now this is a $30.55 deck per the link.
@The True Aaron Burr Not so budget anymore.
R$450 in Brazil...
In my experience that tends to happen often when you make budget decks. Mostly because once it’s made other people see it and realize it works well, it gets played more, then that causes the price to go up.
I just got this card and got so excited when I saw this video!
aww yea! this is sooo good, i wonder how much this tech is going to change with Allegiance and simic's awesome creature typing
Green has always been my favorite color, but I seldom played blue, often going for monogreen or green/white. Lately though I have been building a Kadena Deck and a Chulane Deck and I have to say that I really like the combination of ramp, big monsters and good control effects. Add white or black for some good removal aswell. That said, maybe I should go for a two color Green and Blue next? This deck looks unique and has a very cool tribal theme. Been wanting to make a merfolk theme for a long time, but if they can be a subtheme to big sea monsters then its even better.
Great channel! I’m new to commander and want to try some decks other than precons. Bought two sets of cards from TCG on this channel to do just that. Thank you!!!
Ever since I first saw this card I wanted to build a deck around it, but I never got around to it, I think after seeing this I'm going to try running it, it's time to get kraken....no, no, I leave on my own
Looks like I have my next Simic commander deck to build. :D Thanks!
This deck seems like a lot of fun
If you made a wayfarers bauble playmat im sure you would have more than a few buyers...love your channel!
I think fleet swallower would be a good addition as well.
Thank you!
'Unexpected Results' feels like it should be right at home in this deck haha, either an extra land or eh idk, a huge kraken oops.
This is a really cool deck tech. I'll probably have to build it now... thanks a whole bunch XD deep sea tribal?! Like dah faq!? Dope.
You are a legend! You got a new subscriber.
Holy hell its like you can read my mind I just was starting to build this thank you mr mind reader