Burakos Party Leader | Party Healers / Harmers | Commander | EDH | MTG | Budget | Cut-Rate Commander

[@imanujakku]

Debt to the deathless is a pretty nasty budget finisher and a good way to spend all that treasure. It outpaces exsanguinate as soon as you are spending 8 plus mana.

[@GrazzetMTG]

Good suggestion! It performed well in testing but I couldn't find a good card to cut in favor for it in the final build, but it would still make a great addition!

[@bohmel]

Thanks for another cool build grazzet! Hope you've had a good week and the next is even better

[@GrazzetMTG]

Glad to hear you enjoyed it and I hope you have a good week (and next) yourself!

[@noisepoIIution]

Love folk hero, but I went mono black with Haunted One background. They work nicely together

[@GrazzetMTG]

Yeah, saw a few build featuring this combo as well it I agree, it also works very well!

[@MrJustintreat]

I was going to dismantle this precon as I couldn't figure out how it would win. Now I'll make some of these adjustments. Very well laid out and explained plus the stats at the end where helpful

[@GrazzetMTG]

Glad this build gave you a baseline to work from!

[@jesterjackal6478]

Out of the box stock I’ve been winning a lot with this deck. And so have my friends that I’ve let play it. Thanks for the upgrades!

[@Fogshaper]

Love the lifegain idea! I personally play Burakos a little more hatebeary, but lifeline also seems plenty fun.

[@GrazzetMTG]

I can see taking this build in a hate-bear direction but I personally dislike that playstyle - I don't enjoy preventing folks from playing the game and prefer effects like goad or pillowfort de-incentize attacking into me over that.

[@Fogshaper]

@@GrazzetMTG That makes sense, too. I'm not too heavy on them, no Rule of law or anything, but seeing your list has certainly made me reconsider. Drannith, Mindcensor and Oppo sadly aren't clerics to swap out. But I'll have to do some thinking about this.

[@adamsantiago4765]

Awesome work! Can't wait to get this build and try it out !

[@GrazzetMTG]

Glad to hear you enjoyed it!

[@stayathomedad4830]

I just went voltron party and I've been having a blast. All the swords, good black white removal/boardwipes and better mana and this is now one of my fav decks.

[@GrazzetMTG]

All the swords? That must have cost a pretty penny!

[@stayathomedad4830]

@@GrazzetMTG I've had the collection of the older swords for years, the new ones most definitely especially since I'm a weirdo and only like them in foil...

[@barrysetser3909]

Rock solid build here; was not expecting a Party lifegain drain deck.

[@GrazzetMTG]

Glad you like it - I wanted to take this in a different direction since I didn't just want to recreate the Nalia build with a new commander!

[@barrysetser3909]

Was surprised to see so many tutors in the build; definitely a new look for your channel. Would be fun to see some game play vids of a couple of your designs duking it out.

[@adamsantiago4765]

I agree with a Wilson build next. Seems like the people have spoken and would like to see your take on it !

[@GrazzetMTG]

Wilson seems to be the runway winner so far, so chances are good we'll be seeing a build featuring him soon!

[@danielharrison2383]

excellent

[@GrazzetMTG]

Thanks!

[@Cormix34]

Another awesome video as always, thanks for doing what you do. Love your content.

[@GrazzetMTG]

My pleasure!

[@clanechelon]

Interesting build, I brewing Burakos as well, but I am going to try in Rakdos Color using Guild Artisan. Hoping it can generate a lot of treasures :D. My only concern is balancing the classes, might end up running couple of changeling for consistency even if they are not necessarily great creatures. Will see

[@GrazzetMTG]

Thankfully, Burakos isn't as dependent on a full party as other party commanders, so its not as bad if a full party can't be assembled.

[@clanechelon]

@@GrazzetMTG excellent point. 3 party member should be fairly easy to achieved and is still a sweet spot to be. 2 party member might be a bit underwhelming though

[@crovax1375]

I vote for Zevlor, because I think that he would be a good build around for epic spells like Neverending Torment! Also, I've been thinking about building an enchantment themed deck with Faceless One(green) and Shameless Charlatan deck. Any suggestions on good creatures for Faceless One to copy?

[@BalefulStr1x]

Bitterblossom would be a nice upgrade here. Produces rogues to fuel the Commander and tokens to fuel the aristocrat pieces

[@GrazzetMTG]

Good suggestion! That and Black Market Connections would make good additions to put our life again to use for additional party members (and more in the latter's case).

[@mikeyp266]

I made a deck like this, it was ok ...tore it apart and made it a weaponized treasure deck in red and black ...it's surprisingly powerful

[@Smaul002]

Who’d you pick for the commander?

[@Rever333]

Zevlor would be great, mabye ur next commander could be Jahred Carthalion True Heir

[@nickatwork]

Curious to see what background you'd choose for Wilson. He has great synergy with a few of em. My request for future poll has gotta be Baeloth Barrityl or Gut, True Soul Zealot

[@GrazzetMTG]

Wilson can go in a few different directions, so we'll have to see where inspiration strikes! Baeloth would make for a good Volton / Goad build and Gut is a interesting aristocrats commander - so I can see them both making solid builds!

[@nickatwork]

@@GrazzetMTG Gut can also be interesting in a token centric build making it Boros. But the Rakdos is also very tempting and makes sense

[@Silentheaven89]

does the x damage he deal count towards the 21commander life?

[@Galchoo1]

Should I make the same Party joke? Ah, fuck it. Party rock is in the house tonight~ That overused joke aside, looks like the Dragonomicon has won the last vote. Well, at least we'll show Game Knights who's boss. For the current vote, I say we give Jaxis a shot. He's clearly the underdog in this, facing a really wordy warlock and a bear with a backstory, all while being a basic boxing kid. Yeah, he deserves the shot in my book Day 325 of waiting for Grazzet's face reveal. BTW, should we use the #GRAZZET5K hastag on multiple videos, or just the giveaway one counts? Asking for a friend.

[@GrazzetMTG]

Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for the support as usual! The #GRAZZET5K will only count on the giveaway video itself, so if anyone wants to enter it has to be on that video only - hope that clears that up!

[@WillGirling]

Hey man loved the video! I have 2 questions. 1) for the folk hero does the draw activate up to 4 times a turn as Burakos is all 4 types as well as orc - so if you cast a cleric and a wizard do you draw 2? 2) I'm wanting to potentially run it as an Orc Tribal deck and a lot of orcs are Red. So I wanted to ask your thoughts on if you ran any other background with him what ones would you think would be good?

[@mrbonlino]

Sorry to be late, but when it comes to cards like this, they only read tbe card's creature type the one time. Essentially, as long as the creature you cast is a cleric, rogue, warrior or wizard, you will draw one card, and one card only, even if its multiple types at once (warrior wizard, rogue cleric, etc.) If the card worked as you thought it would, then a changeling would draw you 4 cards, but the rules say the card only reads if the creature satisfies the condition once. The same is true for Burakos' ability when identifying a creature's type for their attack trigger. Even if the creature is multiple types like a changeling, Burakos only sees it as one creature type (but being a changeling, they will fit whichever creature type is missing for the party mechanic)

[@mrbonlino]

As for backgrounds, if you want to go all in on treasures, Guild artisan works well with burakos. Otherwise if you want card advantage, tavern brawler is good buffing and gives you better odds at finding cards to spend the treasure on

[@barrysetser3909]

Wilson, Wilson, Wilson!!

[@GrazzetMTG]

Looks like Wilson has such a lead right now that he's Bear-ly breaking a sweat. I think we may Paws-ibly see a build featuring him soon!

[@Emblerfied]

This build has my interest piqued. I would love to see Wilson be the winner for next week, and would hope to see Jon Irenicus in the next poll. I really want to give my friends some bad presents! 😁😂🤣

[@GrazzetMTG]

Glad you enjoyed this builds direction! Wilson seems to be a shoe (or paw) in for new weeks build and Jon Irenicus is a good (or bad) "gift" style commander, so I'll see if I can squeeze him into a poll soon!

[@Zeromus5555]

MYRKUL LORD OF BONES NEXT!! :D

[@GrazzetMTG]

I like all the god released in this set, so we may just have them go head to head in a future poll....

[@yankmyarea]

Voting for jaxis as I'm currently working on a Delina wild mage build and struggling hard as I'm in no way a red player lol. Hoping for some inspiration.

[@GrazzetMTG]

Looks like Jaxis is trailing behind Wilson but we still have a while to go so lets see if she can make up the difference!

[@seanbarnette6581]

Hey do you recommend buying the party time precon and then building out the cards from that - or just trying to build this deck outright? I’m not sure if this shares many cards with party time.

[@GrazzetMTG]

I would certainly recommend buying the Party Time Precon - since Black Market Connections alone is about $25 now would make a superb upgrade to the build - and it already had a lot of solid entrants that while not exactly what this build uses, would still make for a very solid deck with minimal changes.

[@TheJukeboxzero]

Def recommend buying Party Time. It’s great out of the box with Burakos and Folk Hero in the Command Zone. Then you can upgrade/focus as you go. Def buy Roaming Throne and remove Mirkwood Nexus.

[@HiLite-ReeL]

Are you August the duck? Similar narrative style.

[@GrazzetMTG]

I wish! But seriously, I had not heard of this KZbinr before but I checked him out and it does like we have at least somewhat similar cadence so I can see the resemblance.

[@chiuka0]

WILSOOOOOONNNN! XD

[@GrazzetMTG]

Tom Hanks would be proud (and so would House)!

[@Fogshaper]

Burakos is female, by the way :)

[@GrazzetMTG]

Are they? I honestly couldn't tell by the art and I was unable to find a source online one way or the other. Where did you find this?

[@Fogshaper]

@@GrazzetMTG I have the German print, and german genders differently than english (German basically has a female and a male version of every word) and she's gendered female on the German card :)

[@USUMAKISS]

Burakos is better than nalia's

[@GrazzetMTG]

Do you mean the builds, as commanders, or both?

[@USUMAKISS]

@@GrazzetMTG both

[@GrazzetMTG]

@@USUMAKISS In my opinion they are both good at different things, with Burakos allowing us to go with higher CMC party members while Nalia prefers lower cost to more easily allowing casting off the top - but ultimately it comes down to personal preference.

[@ValtorixAndSocion]

awesome build, but gosh your hard to listen to when you drag out the last word of every sentence.

[@GrazzetMTG]

Fair point - I'm trying to work to improve my narration so hopefully it should get smoother over time.

[@ackbooh9032]

Narrating style is incredibly annoying because it doesn't respect universal conventions to lower at the end of sentences. Sorry, it's insufferable

[@GrazzetMTG]

Sorry you feel that way.