DodgerDave

I am still fairly new at deck building. This is my attempt at an Esper deck I would use to play with friends. Feedback is welcome

played my son just a bit ago. I had Ruhan, Guilded Lotus, jeskai Banner and 4 other dual lands on the board. I cast Cataclsym, I kept Ruhan, GL, Azorius Chancery that gave me both blue & white mana. I then played my land that turn, another dual leaving my mana pool with up to 6 and my son with 1 basic mana, one defender, a fistful of high cost cards and no choice but to scoop. I forget what turn but it was pretty quick :)

I did look at those but stuck with Ruhan. My thought is if I have my opponent in a land pinch they are going to eat 7 commander damage as early as turn 5. If they are not having mana issues I will wait to have enough mana to cast Ruhan and at least one counter spell to make sure he resolves. If he is still on my board by my next turn I should have enough mana to protect him for 2 more swings. I prefer more than one win condition and there are others just not as fast ;)

I have all 100 in the deck, need to break it down.. again and see what I am missing. I will check out that narset card ;) thanks for the input

I made a Jeskai as well, so far its working pretty well but would like your input. I was trying to ramp up this deck from casual to a little more competitive. I would probably use it more 1:1 than I would in groups
http://www.mtgvault.com/dodgerdave/decks/merica/

I usually play at Shane's in Renton, WA or we play at a friends once a month. After the last 4 hour 3v3 match i'm curious to see what decks show up next month :) memnarch/dromar/izzet vs goblins, dragons, and crazy ass green/blk/red deck... we won with 7 life to spare! Some of the stacks were ridiculous, I am pretty sure if the other team heard "counter" one more time they were going to punch someone LOL

Looks pretty sick! how has it been playing?

Thanks for the suggestions. I did add the Witchbane Orb, looking at adding crawlspace as well. Debating ratcheting the control down a bit for a few more big gnarly creatures....

Thanks for looking. I will take a look at that suggestion. I am trying to not spend too much more money on this deck at this time. I hope to play some this weekend and get a better idea how it can do.

I made a bunch of changes and made a new page as well for it. So far I like it, have a few cards still on my replace soon list but I think its a bit stronger now.

http://www.mtgvault.com/dodgerdave/decks/dormar-the-banisher-edh-30/

So.... I played this deck last night against my sons Memnarch deck which I had beat before and an Esper deck (forget who the commander was) and had no issues and won easily. Toward the end of the match a kid came up and wanted in the next round to make a group of 4.

Lets just say he had many cards that cost more than my whole deck. He took us all out with only milling and never had to swing.

Thanks! I saw the 2 battle mastery too, just had not figured out what was missing. I fixed it now (Erase)

I am a little concerned I don't have enough land. My friends I play with have a gentlemans rule about not attacking lands. If I am playing others who do will I need more lands?

I hope my son never see's this deck... he loves a good d!ck deck!

I have only been playing MTG a few months. I have done a couple drafts and built 2 other decks for Standard/Modern. This is my first attempt at an EDH/Commander. My deck does not have a specific theme . I am also trying to use cards I have or can trade for among people I play with.

Sideboard=cards I had in there and replaced recently with a stronger and or less cost card.

I am going to try and play it this week with a "casual" EDH group near me.

Are my ratio's of Creature/Instants/Enchantments OK? Again I am new so don't really know....