I know, I said I wouldn’t do multiple posts about this deck. Too bad. Here’s the original card pool:
Trying to create a Black and White Knight deck for EDH / Commander has been a bit more labor intensive than I thought. It is also a LOT more expensive than buying one of the $35 precons and modifying it. If I’m lucky I’ll have this constructed by the end of the year. They don’t call Magic the Gathering cardboard crack for nothing!
I hope to have a post up tomorrow with pictures of some of the more interesting and valuable cards that I get from the new Dominaria set. I have half a box and 2 pre-release kits so out of 30 packs I’m hoping for at least one good card to help pay for all of this. This also serves as fair warning to those of you who aren’t into Magic the Gathering so you don’t expect something else come Monday.
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I did a fine darn job with my gut instinct of “on the edge”. I suspect money is going to play a part of the chosen cards. I’ll be including the TCG midrange price here. Planeswalkers might be swapped out for creatures if the price is too exhorbitant for the overall deck. Totals are rounded up so to give a bit of a worst case scenario.
The next step after this post is to check each card’s edition and see if I already own it. That’ll help with the overall pricing issue too. If I already own a higher card or two, that will make buying the others that much easier.
The Goal now is:
4 Planeswalkers
30 Creatures
5 Enchantments
6 Instants
6 Sorceries
8 Artifacts
40 Lands
Commander: 1
Athreos, God of Passage – $11
Planeswalkers: 4
Sorin Lord of Innistrad-$8 Iffy
Total: $45
Knights/Creatures: 30 and 26 Alternates
Ravos Soultender -$8
Auriok Steelshaper-$1.50
Eastern Paladin-$0.25
Kabira Vindicator-$0.10
Kinsbaile Cavalier-$1.25
Knight Exemplar-$2.75
Knight of Dawn-$0.25
Knight of Dusk-$0.25
Knight of Meadowgrain-$1.50
Leonin Skyhunter-$0.10
Markov Dreadknight-$0.20
Northern Paladin-$0.40
Paragon of New Dawns-$0.10
Paragon of Open Graves-$0.10
Southern Paladin-$0.40
Sunweb-$0.20
Thalia’s Lancers-$0.40
Vona, Butcher of Magan-$2.50
Western Paladin-$0.30
Aryel Knight of Windgrace-$0.80
Benalish Marshall-$1.50
Danitha Capashan, Paragon-$0.40
Josu Vess, Lich Knight-$1.80
Knight of Grace-$0.10
Knight of Malice-$0.10
Kwende, Pride of Femeref-$0.10
Total: $45
Plover Knight – Alternate for Sorin Planeswalker – $0.20
Black Knight -on the edge
Crusading Knight -on the edge
Fortified Rampart -on the edge
Lightwielder Paladin -on the edge
Marauding Knight -on the edge
Mirran Crusader -on the edge
Shimmering Barrier -on the edge
Silver Knight -on the edge
Silverblade Paladin -on the edge
Steel Wall -on the edge
White Knight -on the edge
Arvad the cursed -on the edge
Benalish Honor Guard-on the edge
Cabal Paladin-on the edge
Ageless Sentinels -flying wall
Angelic Wall -flying wall
Enchantmants: 5 and 5 Alternates
Cathar’s Crusade-$5 Own?
Dictate of Heliod-$0.25 Own?
The Eldest Reborn-$0.25
True Conviction-$3.20
Total: $12
Anointed Procession-on the edge
Honor of the Pure-on the edge
Knighthood-on the edge
Lich’s Mastery-on the edge
Marshal’s Anthem-on the edge
Instants/Sorceries: 12 and 8 Alternates
Call the Gatewatch-$0.25 Own?
Cast Down-$0.90
Diabolic Tutor-$0.25
Divest-$0.25
Enlightened Tutor-Own. buy alternate at lethix.com $6
Gideon’s Phalanx-$0.25 Own?
Invoke the Divine-$0.20
Pacifism-$0.10 Own?
Righteous confluence-$0.20
Waylay-$0.20
Wretched Confluence-$0.75
Yawgmauth’s Vile Offering-$1.10
Total: $11
Allied Reinforcements-on the edge
Annihilate-on the edge
Aura Blast-on the edge
Cruel Tutor-on the edge running roughly $25-30
Infernal Tutor – on the edge – running around $15-20
Primeval’s Glorious Rebirth-on the edge Only if get in my dominaria box
Settle the Score-on the edge
Utter End-on the edge
Artifacts/Equipments: 8 and 4 Alternates
Helm of the Host-$2.30
Herald’s Horn-$6.50
Orzhov Signet-$0.25
Sol Ring-$3
Spear of Heliod-$1 Own?
Staff of Nin-$0.50
Vanquisher’s Banner-$2.50
Total: $20
Akroma’s Memorial-on the edge
Blackblade Reforged-on the edge
Executioner’s Capsule-on the edge
Kormus Bell-on the edge
Lands: 40 and 2 Alternates
Command Tower-$1.25
Everglades-$0.30
Fetid Heath-$10
Forsaken Sanctuary-$0.25
Godless Shrine-$13 Real Iffy
Karoo-$0.25
Mortuary Mire-$0.20 Own
New Benalia-$0.10
Orzhov Basillica-$0.25 Own
Orzhov Guildgate-$0.10
Scoured Barrens-$0.10
Shambling Vent-$2 Own?
Tainted Field-$0.10
Temple of the False god-$0.40 Own?
Unclaimed Territory-$2.50
Zhalfirin Void-$0.50
Plains x9-$4 a piece for full art from lethix. or use my own
Swamps x9-$4 a piece for full art from lethix. or use my own
Evolving Wilds-Own already
Terramorphic Expanse-Own already
Total: $43
Maze of Ith-on the edge $11
Sandstone Bridge-on the edge
Grand Total: $180 w/ a $20 possible downturn.
The amount of effort you put into these posts are quite astounding mate.
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Thankfully, after the first post, this one was mostly copy and paste. Goes to show how much free time I actually have though 😀
And when you have a hobby, that’s what you spend time on. It’s definitely eaten into my reading time this month, so I’ll be glad once this set has stopped being “new”. 🙂
This is also the reason I have never tried to make a Commander deck from scratch before. It is a LOT of work, sigh. Probably won’t do it again either…
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Ive never created my own decks neither played a comander game. My oldest brother used to get the decks together and we would just pick a random deck out and start playing
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Ha, that sounds like my younger brother. I can sometimes shanghai him into playing with me. Maybe once a month or so. I’ll take what I can get 😀
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MTG is one of those things I never got into but was really curious about. I don’t know where I’d start. I think something like Gwent from the Witcher would suit my simple mind.
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Yeah, at this point in time it can be really daunting for a new player to get in. However, Wizards of the Coast realizes that and created some decks that are supposedly playable out of the box and are put together relatively well. They’re called Challenger decks. The biggest thing is having someone else to play with. Unless you’re ultra gregarious, walking into a local gamestore and playing a complicated brand new to you game with complete strangers can be really tough 😀
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I have been checking some of the cards out as the artwork is brilliant. Wizards own D&D and just love their quality of artwork in that as well.
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yeah, some of the cards are worth more just because of the art. Some of them are really beautiful…
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I was learning the ropes with MTG and enjoying it, but then the nonhubs started this jobs that requires a lot of travel. Now we have TONS of decks collecting dust.
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Yeah, having people to play with is the single biggest issue I have as well. At some point I’m going to come to my senses and stop spending money on a hobby that I play maybe 20 times A YEAR. Sigh. But until then…
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We have plenty of open games and tables here, but venturing out to explore them is not ideal for me. I never made it that far haha.
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Well, there won’t be any Dominaria pull post tomorrow. I opened the 1/2box and didn’t get one single high value card. Got a couple of cards I want for this deck, but nothing like I was hoping to pay for some of this planeswalkers I want.
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I’d recommend putting Arvad back in (crossed out means not in the deck, right?) as he buffs your many other legendaries plus is a knight himself.
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You are correct. I will probably take out another Planeswalker, sigh. This is bloody expensive!
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I like the collector’s mentality here hahah I’d probably have been in the same situation (or should we call it a trap) as you trying to complete these sets hahah
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I have to remember to keep telling myself that this is a game I want to play for fun. The collectible part really needs to be a distant second…
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