Dargo does infact say he costs less for artifacts and creatures sacrificed previously to casting him.

​@chelgoth ok I'm tracking now got it 👍 ty

I played Third Path Iconoclast in this tournament, but I like mixing it up a lot. I've played Gretchen, Malcolm/Kediss, Satyr Enchanter, Lorehold Apprentice, and others in events previously. The format is so wide open to brewing that I love finding new decks all the time. A friend of mine has a Guttersnipe deck in paper, and it can really stack up the damage! I don't see it much as the commander in cPDH, but it shows up a lot as another pinger in spells-matters decks. I've seen people run it with Dragon's Approaches, too, for a huge amount of burn each turn.

Like cpdh isnt everyone cup of tea, these deck seems perfect to pull in completely new players!

Thanks so much for your comment, and for your insight into the deck! I definitely could have spent a little more time talking about Street Urchin (my favorite background) and how it keeps the board under control by providing constant pressure to everyone's combo-piece creatures. It's a key part of the deck for sure, and I appreciate you bringing it up. I'm excited to see how the deck develops going forward, especially with MH3 coming so soon!

Thank you so much!

Thanks so much for watching! Yeah, Hollow Marauder is a deck I've tinkered with a little bit as well, so I was excited to see the deck make its tournament debut here.

Chapters are a great idea -- I'll get them figured out going forward. Thanks for watching!

Thanks for the feedback! When I made the video, no one was running sticker in cPDH at all, so I felt I needed to justify their inclusion a bit more in the video. But I appreciate the comment!

I generally include the Blasts when I'm building competitive red-based decks without blue in them, and especially if I have ways to cash them in for extra cards in pods where they do nothing -- things like Demand Answers or Thrill of Possibility are really helpful here. I don't know that I'd go as far as running Ardent Elementalist effects just for recurring the Blasts, but I've run Elementalist in my spell-heavy Boros Lorehold Apprentice deck and been pretty happy with it. The Blasts are obviously narrow -- only hitting blue spells/permanents -- but blue is a large chunk of the competitive meta, and the Blasts are the most efficient at what they do, so it's a trade-off that I think favors running at least one Blast, and maybe both depending on the decks you expect/whether or not you can get value from casting spells in your deck (lots of pinger creatures, for instance, makes their stock go up as well). Thanks for the comment!

@@ankylosaurmtg Thanks for your reply, I really appreciate your insight and your content.

There will definitely be more Riches to Rags Pauper EDH events in the Philadelphia area! I believe there tend to be 2-3 of them a year. Not sure when the next one will be, but keep your eyes peeled!

Thanks so much! There unfortunately isn't anything like Skullcrack or Sulfuric Vortex in the format to shut off lifegain altogether. The two best plans I can think of to circumvent people gaining life are either to go infinite with a combo of some kind, or get them with commander damage. But if you let me know what sorts of decks you're playing, I might be able to come up with other solutions, too!

@@ankylosaurmtg youtube keeps deleting my comment ;/

​@@ankylosaurmtg ​ hey thanks for the response!! I play manly this UB Baleful Strix deck: archidekt /decks/6027003/ub_commander In my pod we like grinder games so we dont allow infinite combos and my commander is hard to go in for damage What I did was to put some lifegain myself, if you cant beat em join em xd PS: The deck is with 99 cards because im already testing the leaked mh3 scurrilous sentry

@@ankylosaurmtg ​ hey thanks for the response!! I play manly this UB Baleful Strix deck: decks/6027003/ub_commander In my pod we like grinder games so we dont allow infinite combos and my commander is hard to go in for damage What I did was to put some lifegain myself, if you cant beat em join em xd PS: The deck is with 99 cards because im already testing the leaked mh3 scurrilous sentry

@@ankylosaurmtg hey thanks for the response!! I play manly this UB Baleful Strix deck In my pod we like grinder games so we dont allow infinite combos and my commander is hard to go in for damage What I did was to put some lifegain myself, if you cant beat em join em xd PS: The deck is with 99 cards because im already testing the leaked mh3 scurrilous sentry

I had a number of those creatures in my earlier iterations of the deck -- Fang of Shigeki, Hopeful Eidolon, Spirited Companion, etc. -- but eventually wound up trimming back on them in favor of spells to either protect the commander, or removal like Last Breath or Master's Rebuke to make sure I could take out something like a turn-2 Malcolm or an untapper out of Gretchen. I tuned the list to deal with the most popular competitive Pauper EDH commanders as best I could, but if your playgroup isn't as focused on tournament-level PDH, tacking "draw a card" onto your creatures is great! And you can definitely cut some of the spike-ier cards for a more robust creature-base in that case. Thanks for the comment!

@@ankylosaurmtg Gotcha - I've yet to build my own Commander deck, was just using Moxfield and found some pretty cool interactions. I may build the deck with 110 card options and just iterate as you obviously have done, based on the play group/opponents.

Great idea! Yeah, Satyr Enchanter feels like it has a wide range of deck building options available to it, depending on how casual/competitive you want to make it. It's just an all-around solid value engine in the command zone.

@@ankylosaurmtg Would you consider Shelter over Stave Off?

Yeah, Imoti is a great deck for that card! Just a free draw 7+ so much of the time.

My understanding is, the deck needs a 5-color commander primarily for the color identity, and often won't bother casting the commander at all during the course of a game. But there are certain lines (for instance, making infinite mana with Ilysian Caryatid and Freed from the Real) where you can activate Fleshformer enough times to kill every creature your opponents control, and then take out one player with commander damage now that your Fleshformer is enormous. Plus if you have WUBRG lying around, you can always activate to shoot down a Malcolm or something, which isn't nothing.

@@ankylosaurmtg just realized the deck also plays path of ancestry so being a human probably also has minor upside…?

​@@maarten0104 I think the deck would probably play Path of Ancestry just as a 5-color land, but yes, the minor upside is relevant for sure!

Awesome! Yeah, your curve is so low, the storm cards seem like a really good fit for a big, game-changing turn. Thanks for your comment!

I'm glad you've found them useful! Thanks so much for watching

Thank you! I built a version of Erinis/Street Urchin a couple years ago that included rares and was intended to be played in normal EDH pods, but it was perhaps a little too oppressive for the tables I usually played at. I may do a video on that list at some point, though -- if you don't mind potentially becoming archenemy, it's a strong deck that does a good job of controlling the table.

@@ankylosaurmtg I totally agree on the opressiveness of the deck, but if you bring this "budget" deck at a high power table (not cedh) you can prabably be really relevant even on a budget build. As you said, i would avoid playing this pair at a random power table.

I'm sure you're right. I did play a (much less refined) version of this deck at a regular EDH table once, and while I died to a Kaldra Compleat (indestructible too strong!), the deck did hold its own and even take out the other two players in the pod.

Why?

Personally, I really enjoy having non-legendary commanders in the command zone. When your whole deck is commons, an uncommon creature feels like it has almost legendary status to me (flavor-wise, I mean). It also opens up a ton of options for gameplay that I love!

I feel the opposite, actually its what drew me to the format.