Mogis Multiplayer EDH

by McWaffles on 05 December 2014

Main Deck (99 cards)

Sideboard (1 card)

Creatures (1)

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Deck Description

A Mogis EDH casual multiplayer deck. I have been playing this deck about 1 year, I have experienced against a lot of decks and I want to share in this post what I have learnt about playing in a EDH format.

I accept suggestions.

Have fun

Last update: 26 December 2015

How to Play

Start hand and first turns:
You have to focus in a mana ramp hand, do mulligans until you get a hand full of lands, ramp artifacts and one tutor or one draw card. In mostly cases I mulligan twice. The rule of partial mulligan is your friend.
In my early days in EDH format I lost a lot of games because my mana base was too slow. So my personal rule for your start hand is ramp mana fast and recovery cards by card drawing during the match.

Third-fourth turns. In this point you have to choose according to the match:
1 - Cleaning all creatures with your mass removal spells to stop your opponents development on the table;
2 - Play your enchantments to retain your opponents to play creatures or at least hold them on;
3 - Prepare your combos (below I list it) discreetly, while your enemies waste spells against each other. By discreetly I mean cast only ramp cards and play lands, do not show to your enemys how dangerous you are. To do the combo way I recommend one/two combo cards plus one tutor in case of just one combo card;
4 - Disrupt your enemys by playing your discard hand cards like myiojin, skull rend, syphon mind, tasigur's cruelty or enchantment cards like no mercy, price of glory, painful quandary, palace siege, polluted bonds, underworld dreams;
5 - If you do not know what to do or your hand is bad, play Mogis or use your draw cards to refresh your hand.

Synergies, this is what Mogis Edh Multiplayer does:
Draw Cards - Ambition's Cost, Ancient Craving, Damnable Pact, Faithless Looting, Harrowing Journey, Read the Bones, Syphon Mind, Underworld Connections, Staff of Nin
Recovery Life - Gray Merchant of Asphodel, Exsanguinate, Exquisite Blood
Discard Hand - Myojin of Night's Reach, Skull Rend, Tasigur's Cruelty, Unnerve
Creatures removal (you hate creatures) - Barter in Blood, Black Sun's Zenith, Blasphemous Act, Chain Reaction, Crux of Fate, Deadly Tempest, Decree of Pain, Extinguish All Hope, In Garruk's Wake, Magmaquake, Starstorm, Pestilence, Pyrohemia
Tutors - Beseech the Queen, Dark Petition, Diabolic Revelation, Diabolic Tutor, Increasing Ambition, Night Dealings
Mana Ramp - 11 artifacts
Hold creatures - Æther Flash, Burning Sands, Lethal Vapors, Repercussion, Spreading Plague, Tainted Æther, No Mercy

Special cards
Vandalblast - Your only mass removal artifact card, use it carefully
Price of Glory - Hold your foes spells, no more instant spells to crack your combos
Mindcrank - Just for the combo with Bloodchief Ascencion, in other situation this card is useless in this deck. But for 2 manas in a odd of a winning combo worth the risk.
Wound Reflection - Make interesting your enemys attack each other
Underworld Dreams - Good against draw massive cards deck.

Combos, win conditions:
1 - Play Heartless Hidetsugu ability + Cast Wound Reflection
2 - Play Mogis (it is the best one to charge fast Bloodchief) + Bloodchief Ascension + wait 3 charges on Bloodchief + mindcrank + discard or damage . My favorite combo.
3 - Play (Sanguine Bond + Exqusite bond), if possible play it in the same turn + damage or life gain.
4 - A lot of creatures on the battlefield (be carefull with yours) + Repercussion + Mass huge damage spell on creatures on the same turn.

Why this deck is good
Hardly ever your commander will become a creature so what you have in pratical terms is a indestructible enchantment that deals 2 damage in in each upkeep opponent, mostly of them will not sacrifice a creature, except in a token based deck. So your matches will be always agressive. Control decks will have to attack fast and expose their win conditions fast, so when they do that all mana is tapped and you can broke their game plan. Aggro decks are based on creature, this deck is prepared to deal against creatures, when they play a lot of creatures on battlefield you with just one massive creature removal card disrupt the game in your favor.
The main problem in this deck is when your opponents play with massive enchantment spells or Commander massive damage (Voltron Decks) and Gaddock Teeg.

Deck Tags

  • EDH
  • Commander
  • Casual
  • Multiplayer

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Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Not Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Not Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for Mogis Multiplayer EDH

Rakdos is my favourite guild, so extremely violent!

You have one too many cards in your deck; the 100 count should include your Commander.
You should consider making Olivia Voldaren your Commander; since most of your creature are low casting Cost, you do not really benefit from the Rakdos ability

A lot of cards you have selected seem weak to me in comparison with others; I will make suggestions for substitutions, but of course the important thing is that you enjoy your deck, so keep that in mind when reviewing my comments. Also I may recommend some cards that are too pricey for your budget if you don't own them because I am not checking all values beforehand, bu t I will try to include budget équivalents.

Artefacts:
Ring of Xathrid => Whispesilk Cloak
Infiltration Lens => Phyrexian Arena (Budget : Graveborn Muse)
Jayemdae Tome => Mind's Eye (Budget : Staff of Nin)

Juggernaut => Steel Hellkite

Creatures:
I think you should have more creatures in this deck and cut on the instants and sorceries. I see you are focusing on smaller creatures, ao I am keeping this in mind in my suggestions.
Vampire Nighthawk
Blazing Specter
Nekrataal
Order of Yawgmoth
Cinder Shade
Demigod of Revenge
Lightning Reaver
Grenzo, Dungeon Warden

Maze Rusher => Ogre Battledriver
Morkrut Banshee => Malakir Bloodwitch

Enchantments
Blood Reckoning => No Mercy
Font of Ire => Relentless Assault

I have to go now but I will comment on Spells and Lands later.

Cheers!

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Posted 08 December 2014 at 22:13

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First of all, thank you, thank you and thank you, you made my day Mazelord.

I´ve never played with a commander deck, although I notice that is increasing alot EDH format and I dont have any deck and any experience about it, I don't have a clue how is a EDH dinamic gameplay. I'm a casual player and my other decks you can see in my profile.

Most of your tips I added to my deck, except:
Demigod of revenge - expensive
Olivia Voldaren - expensive
Phyrexian Arena - expensive
Mind's Eye - expensive
No Mercy - expensive
Malakir Bloodwitch - I don't like it

1º Doubt. If Rakdos, Lord of Riots is not a good commander for this deck, what do you think about Exava, Rakdos Blood Witch and Tymaret, the Murder King?

2º Doubt. While I was researching cards to add to this deck I found these card:
Kaervek the Merciless - Good creature in a Rakdos deck.
Torrent of Souls - A expensive reanimator with +2/+0 and haste
Animate Dead - Give a come back to my creatures, but I guess it is out of sinergy
Shriekmaw - Higher mana cost, but the evoke cost is good
Sulfuric Vortex - Maybe it is backfire me
Terminate - Another destroy creature?
Warstorm Surge - Expensive mana cost
Thunderous Wrath - Do work it well in a commander deck?
Hellhole Flailer - Is it weak?
Fists of the Demigod - Out of sinergy?
Distress - Crack a combo is good for this deck?

Do you think they have a good sinergy in my deck?

Again thank you Mazelord. And in the description of this deck I included you as a co-author.

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Posted 09 December 2014 at 00:12

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You are most welcome; when you appreciate a comment you can also use the little Brown arrows to give the commenter positive reputation, that is always appreciated. :)

Commander is a very nice formatr and it has been really blooming over the last five years, with the drawback that the price of the staples have gone up significantly. That being said it is not impossible to have a lot of fun while staying on budget.

Before I further comment on your deck, one of the very important aspects is if you intend to play this deck mostly in duels or in multiplayer games; do you already know?

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Posted 09 December 2014 at 19:24

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Duels French Format most of time

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Posted 09 December 2014 at 21:10

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For someone new, you made a great budget deck. My recommendations are Grave Titan and Inferno Titan, the reprints from commander are really cheap. And maybe replace your commander with Mogis, God of Slaughter, the gods are hard to remove as commanders and Mogis works well as early game board control.

Kaervek is amazing; Torrent of Souls isn't expensive, most reanimator cards without a downside cost 5; shriekmaw is good with the dictate of erebos you have; this is commander, nothing is too high a cost, play warstorm; thunderous wrath does not work in edh; hellhole flailer is better with auras like madcap skills; fists of the demigod and distress are too narrow for edh

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Posted 14 December 2014 at 22:23

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If you want to see more good edh cards check out my Kaervek EDH, alot of the cards aren't budget but there are some fun cheap ones. http://www.mtgvault.com/mazeroc/decks/kaervek-edh/

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Posted 14 December 2014 at 23:15

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I agree Mogis would be a great commander for this deck if you already have it, but I still prefer Olivia ans she is just 1.25$ more. Also agree with Mazeroc's other comments.

What are the odds that both commenters on this deck would have such similar names?

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Posted 15 December 2014 at 18:53

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Grave Titan is expensive here in Brazil. Belive on me.
Inferno Titan I like it. Mogis, God of Slaughter I love it an indestructible commander never is a bad idea.

About the odds of your names: :o

Thank you both for this help. I'm clumsy in EDH format and I didn't get the mechanics of gameplay.

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Posted 15 December 2014 at 23:56

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I'm full of cards. Which ones I dismiss?

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Posted 15 December 2014 at 23:57

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Since you are aiming at duels, I would cut the most expensive cards and focus on having a strong start and mid-game.
Candidates for cut would be:
Explosive Impact
Bituminous Blast
Arrow Storm
Dead Drop
Morgue Burst

Suggestions for replacements :
Appetite for Brains=> Hymn to Tourach
Cry of Contrition => Wrench Mind
Spontaneous Combustion => Volcanic Fallout
Skull Rend => Blightning
Tyrannize => Browbeat (Your opponent may not alway have a hand, but you always want to draw 3 cards)
Rise from the Grave => Living Death (I have seriously lost count of the number of games won due to this card)

You are also very badly missing a board wipe that removes everything but lands in case you need to sway a bad game; for your budget that would be Nevinyrral's Disk. Also a creature wipe is neve a bad idea; you could include a Black Sun's Zenith or Decree of Pain (Provided you don't own a Damnation).

A word on lands:
Bloodfell Cave => Dragonskull Summit
Rakdos Guildgate => Tainted Peak
Shimmering Grotto => Terramorphic Expanse
Unknown Shores => Reflecting Pool (Or just remove it and use 36 lands, that should be enough)

Commander is a different style of play, but I find it is very exciting to never know what is going to come out and how the game is going to be headed. Keep in mind the games will be longer than with constructed deck and hold on to a few surprises for the mid-game.

Again I hope this is helpful and that you enjoy the deck!

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Posted 16 December 2014 at 00:49

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Also:
Sign in Blood => Ancient Craving

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Posted 16 December 2014 at 01:49

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Log:

-Explosive impact
-Bituminous Blast
-Arrow Storm
-Dead Drop
-Morgue Burst

-Appetite for brains, + Hymn to Tourach
-Cry of Contrition, +Wrench Mind
-Spontaneous Combustion, +Volcanic Fallout
-Skull Rend, +Blinghtning
-Tyrannize, +Browbeat
-Rise from the grave, +Living Death

+decree of pain
+Nevinyrral's Disk

-Bloodfell Cave, +Dragonskull Summit
-Rakdos Guildgate, +Tainted Peak
-Terramorphic Expanse, +Shimmering Grotto
-Sign in Blood, +Ancient Craving

Thanks again Mazelord, very helpful.

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Posted 16 December 2014 at 13:24

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I noticed Reflecting Pool is a bit expensive, you may want to replace Unknown Shores with Bojuka Bog; it damages a lot of decks and will be helpful before you use Living Death.

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Posted 16 December 2014 at 19:08

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-Unknown Shores, +Bojuka Bog

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Posted 17 December 2014 at 00:03

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Your deck is starting to look quite menacing! Please let me know how your games are going.

If you are going to get just one card soon I suggest Grenzo, I had the opportunity to use him in a deck last week and he was very efficient.

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Posted 17 December 2014 at 19:21

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You could throw a Master of Cruelties in there he's fun lol.
Or Abhorrent Overlord with Conjurer's Closet to rack up 1/1 harpies then play Rain of Embers while you have Dictate of Erebos on the field to have your opponents sacrifice their creatures.
The deck is a great start I hope you do well and welcome to EDH!

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Posted 16 December 2014 at 07:34

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Thank you for your advices InnvoicedEarth.
In a commander deck I guess the odds to happen a combo is low.
I appreciate you help but in this deck I'm trying to focus more in sinergy. :)

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Posted 16 December 2014 at 13:29

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I was going to suggest master of cruelties he is great

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Posted 10 February 2015 at 04:44

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I am suffer to build this deck. I dont know what I must change it. Please, help me.

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Posted 11 January 2015 at 12:50

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Havoc Festival? I don't really know Rakdos that well, so I don't know if that would be a good idea. Also, I don't mean to advertise, but could you tell me what you think of this?
http://www.mtgvault.com/inzendium/decks/sickness-slinger/
Good deck, by the way. +1

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Posted 21 January 2015 at 19:46

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Havoc Festival is not a good card to my deck. Thanks for your consideration.
As you want, I have checked your deck.

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Posted 22 January 2015 at 00:50

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The Deck looks great! I am also new to the Commander/EDH crowd. How does it run in multiplayer games?
I could use help with my EDH deck as well.
http://www.mtgvault.com/lorddeathseed/decks/kneel-before-temur-ugin-edh/

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Posted 30 March 2015 at 19:54

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Basically I have losing every game for a combo. I hit my foes alot but always come up someone with a killer combo.
So I'm trying to build a deck that ramp and combo fast. I have problems dealing against enchantment.

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Posted 03 April 2015 at 04:21

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