Day 002

I'm into my second year of the local Commander group at the University of Warwick (Thursday evenings, come along, join the facebook group). To date I have built mono white (Kemba), mono red (Krenko) and colourless (Karn). I'm not fixated on letter K, my latest deck was five colour (Sliver Hivelord) and I also have pauper EDH (Underworld Coinsmith).

First EDH task for 2016 is to "embrace the chaos" and decide which of the three colour generals I tackle first. How to decide though? I've been going round and round on this. My first impulse was pick a non-white, non-red legend, but I really want to be in red and blue. I want to avoid repeating cards I'm already using and  Krenko being Goblin tribal leaves plenty of red design space in the cards I have in my collection. I am reserving my best black cards for Shadowborn Apostle, so that puts me in Temur (red, blue, green). The options then are Animar, Intet, Maelstrom Wanderer, Riku and Surrak Dragonclaw. I would like this to not be a linear or tribal deck like my others, so Animar and Surrak must be excluded. Intet represents the spirit of Elder Dragon Highlander best, however doesn't interest me much. Maelstrom Wanderer is the most interesting option, only someone else in the group uses it already, so I'll go with Riku.

This may be where I go against my habit and intentionally build in combo. Making arbitrary amounts of mana to sink into big X spells like Rolling Thunder is one path I can take. The green will provide ramp of course and maybe some fatties. I really have no idea where this is going yet, so I'll keep posting updates.