Conquering your Commander: Trostani, Selesnya's Voice EDH / CMDR guide for Magic: The Gathering

[@papamaples617]

These is easily the most inventive commander video I have seen on the ethernets

[@harbear6276]

1:30 Finally a use for my Dark Ascension Foil Seance!

[@Sealdeam]

I would love to see more videos like this one, a new perspective to well-known commanders is always refreshing.

[@Punintentionally]

A million likes for using Seance to great effect. Love how new and unique this deck feels. I've been inspired.

[@JustinBrown-kl2ji]

Good stuff as always. Great little segment at the end about using unique cards you like, totally agree.

[@matthewstanfield3358]

I really like how you give a few strong suggestions to get the creative juices flowing and leave it at that. EDH, in my opinion, is just as much about creative expression and thematically cohesive design as it is about winning and having fun. I’m going to build this deck with your core and my ingenuity. Thanks!

[@tike481]

Loved the animations on Aetherflux Reservior! Keep up the good work and I have to admit, a very spicy commander idea indeed!

[@23matip]

love to see more conquering your commander. Keep the good work!

[@miscellaneousgoblin910]

Just built this deck, thanks for the great twist on a seleznia commander!

[@KidsJavo2088]

This was the most black Trostani I've ever seen hahaha

[@typoholic]

This deck wins just for finding a practical use for Séance. Well done. You’ve already won.

[@pauldyson8098]

Honestly, I've been putting off building Trostani for years. I just couldn't find a way to make him different. Thanks so much for this different take on the deck! I'm interested in seeing where you take this!

[@WildcardZwei]

As a recent subscriber, I am extremely impressed by how different of a take this is for Trostani compared to the likes of our beloved Professor Brian's Trostani EDH. I like that you make decks like I do; by going against the norms of Magic. Your videos on Grenzo and Shattergang Brothers inspired me to build Jund Goblin Reanimator with Vial Smasher and Ikra Shidiqi swapping with Shattergang, because most Shattergang decks go in the toolbox route, letting Krenko and Wort capture all the multicolor Goblin love. Thank you for being a straight-forward and inspiring mtg youtuber. I look forward to more of your lists and decks.

[@doylemb1]

This is the first token deck that I actually liked. Thinking of building my own :X Good job man!

[@nk8244]

I hope you named the deck something like: Goth trostani. On a side note my friend sent me this after I mentioned I was working on an unconventional Selesnya, this video was very insightful to some potential options for my deck.

[@thelunchlady8276]

Man I love Seance so much! I don't know why i didn't think of this before. There are so many populate cards out there and Growing Ranks just happens to be in Trostani's colors.

[@jarretdupree6544]

Ah! I've missed the conquering your commanding videos! Glad to see one again, especially one so cool

[@GGEZUSMOLPP]

YESSSSSSSSSSSS ive been waiting for a trostani deck!!! thank you

[@urbaraskpraetor3316]

might i recomend crested sunmare? a bunch of indestructible horses seems good

[@jameslabbe4119]

Good ideas, especially liked the bit about pet cards and unique decks over cookie cutter netdecks. Great video.

[@eathonhowell7414]

I will definitely play this! Personal favorites of mine may involve more straight reanimation (of which white actually has a ton) but regardless I love it!

[@shilohartisan]

This is pretty much the deck I built, have been building for a long time. We have the same pet cards! Blade of Selves is my fav card in the game. Bramble Sovereign (also, have you considered Minion Reflector??? ) making tokens of Ulvenwald Hydra.Terastodon, Thragtusk, Sun Titan, (have you tried Nylea's Colossus?) with Panharmonicon for extra ETBs. Using Greater Good to sac myriad tokens for value. Soul Foundry. This is exactly what I was doing. I never thought to reanimate tokens though. I briefly considered a naya shell so i could run Feldon of the Third Path but didn't go that route. I had never heard of Seance until now. I'll have to try that out! I actually started this project as an Abzan deck because I love Siege Rhino but really there is no Abzan commander that is make for flicker/duplicate. I hope they have one someday. I was using Reyhan and Tymna, although adding blue would make it more powerful with Reyhan/Ishtai. (Did you know Reyhan + Blade of Selves = 21/21 commander swinging for lethal?) Anyway, I switched it all over to Trostani because she's doing what I wanted to do: make huge tokens of things that never should have been tokens. I never understood why people use the populate mechanic on small tokens, or even big vanillas. I'm like "you could be populating Terastodon!" I think that at first people thought it was a Rhys the Redeemed thing where you populate ALL tokens? if that were the case then sure, go wide with little dudes. But that's not what populate is. Huge worms, or even Phyrexian Processor tokens aren't interesting at all to me, they're just big vanillas. I'd rather have a small thing with an ETB like Reclamation Sage or Wood Elves than an 8/8 vanilla. I get the Synergy with Processor and Trostani though. I wouldn't actually cut it, i'm just saying I like populating more interesting things than vanillas. I don't love your angels other than Restoration. Emeria Shephard would be awesome but costs too much to cast IMO. I'm thinking of trying out more flickers like Lumbering Battlement, Flickerwhisp, Fiend Hunter, Felidar Guardian. but right now I don't have room for them. (Imagine though, populating a Lumbering Battlement token ,which himself had exiled the original Lumbering Battlement, to bring back the first Lumbering Battlement, which exiles the populated token....and flickering ALL your creatures in and out and in and out for max ETB value!) I do recommend Minion Reflector. Nylea's Colossus. possibly Temur Sabertooth. Nacatl War Pride. And I really like Quest for the Holy Relic to find my Blade of Selves or Helm of the Host. I like Rhox faithmender which I see in yoru video but he isn't in your tappedout list did you decide you don't like him? Looking at your list, I really only see God Pharoah's Gift and Seance that can make tokens from GY. I'm going to steal the Seance Idea, but GPG seems pretty expensive. I wonder if it would be worth taking it out and maybe some other GY stuff to focus more on ramp and tutors? Anyway, we had the same idea and built the same deck so that's pretty cool :) I'll steal a few of your ideas and see how they go. Keep having fun! And remember, enemies are just friends who are salty from having been eliminated. :)

[@Thomeyis]

Don't forget to pack a full stack of post-it notes and blank proxy cards to keep track of all your tokens (some of which are randomly 4/4s and black)

[@pauldyson8098]

I had the exact same thought!

[@MestHoop]

This deck sounds awesome! Love techs on unique deck ideas like these!

[@adbslayer]

I love that you made Seance a sound like a good card. Plus just add some Riftsweepers and you can get back your exiled cards later. This looks like a super spicy brew, and I cant wait to see you pilot it (hopefully to a win).

[@MTGMuddstah]

Fact!

[@MrBobbyHuber]

I love your unique approach. Keep up the deck creativity.

[@imaginarymatter]

What about Mirrorpool (the land that allows you create a token of target creature)? You can find it with Ulvenwald Hydra to get the populating shenanigans started.

[@MTGMuddstah]

Great suggestion! I'll have to find one asap.

[@notimeleft1]

Man I love playing Trostani. During one of the commander tournaments at my lgs I did lose the game but it was to commander damage against Edgar markov. He gave his creatures flying and no matter how many times I populated my phyrexian processor tokens (gaining 40 life per in the process) I didn’t have the means to win as easily. Aetherflux reservoir was blown to bits lol. Oh well I just love playing it when I can gain so much off it.

[@Orville117]

a friend plays this kind of deck. but he added blue and all the myriade creatures. pretty cool when u use rite of replication on a myriade creature xd. did u consider sundial of the infinite to end the turn when the end of turn sacrifice/exile trigger is on the stack?

[@claytonleal7947]

Also riftsweeper + seance + populate seems like a great way to always be able to grab your goodies back from exile. First trigger grabs itself back second one grabs whatever else was exiled. Effectively making each wincondition infinitely abusable

[@MTGMuddstah]

Oh yes, Riftsweeper is in my list ;)

[@fredweasley8199]

very cool. i wanted to build a trostani Deck for quite some time, that rout seems to be way more fun than the usual token-strategy :D

[@alfascorpi]

What a cool direction to play!

[@Mighty-Stroker]

Ide love to see some more game play of that Hazezon Tamar deck, great videos man keep up the good work!!!

[@metalsabatico]

Love the idea of this deck. Good job.

[@r.a.w.780]

Dude! This is great! Really nice way to create a deck like this. I'm very interested of seeing some gameplay of it 😀

[@Apkooi1]

I would totally watch a highlights video for this

[@TalentHouseAd]

Add Bramblewoood sovereign into that. I run him as well as brudiclad in my animar deck just for kicks and giggles, and they are HILARIOUS together. Especially with desolation twins or other big critters

[@clorett15]

Love to see your version for Darien

[@claytonleal7947]

So can we expect to see this deck in the near future in one of your other videos? That would be awesome, id love to see how this works in practice.

[@MTGMuddstah]

Yep! Thursday next week and possibly again in the near future.

[@sharperhenz90]

YEAH! SEANCE! Don't let your memes be dreams!

[@raimundkeller6115]

Would you be interested in doing a "Conquering your Commander" for Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs? I think he makes games insanely fast and interesting while beeing still able to somewhat control the board.

[@MTGMuddstah]

I've never actually seen someone play him!

[@ryancrites2021]

God pharaohs gift is the spookiest enchantment I've ever seen

[@tophertbone24601]

Have you considered and Altar of Bone? GW Sorcery, Sac a creature, then tutor a creature to hand. Seems like it does everything you want it to in this deck.

[@MTGMuddstah]

Yep, just a matter of finding one!

[@EliPye35]

Sweet direction to take. Two cards that could work well here are both from Ice Age: Hymn of Rebirth scryfall.com/card/ice/295 and Altar of Bone scryfall.com/card/ice/281

[@fragarach97]

There we go, I missed this series.

[@envysart797]

Feels like felidar sovereign would be a great include

[@JackThrowerofPrinnys]

I love stuff like this. I have a temmet deck that pretty much does this. This makes me strongly consider making it bant lol

[@necrogenesis1981]

Derevi is disgusting with Trostani and Intruder Alarm. I'm putting Cryptolth Rite in for infinite colored mana.

[@jormungardwe]

What about the embalm cards, like angel of sanctions, or the trostani best friend voice of resurgency?

[@MTGMuddstah]

I actually just picked up an Angel of Sanctions. I'm pretty stoked to test it out!

[@jormungardwe]

i guess exile based removal for 3 with trostani is pretty broken, and even more with the multiplier enchantments.

[@kennethacuna9996]

5:10 did you say Terastodon removes non-land permanent?

[@MTGMuddstah]

I did indeed! It got by me somehow =(

[@JMT2K]

I mean he also called god pharaoh's gift an enchantment lmao

[@edwinperez6420]

Thank you for the vid! Gonna start building the deck now

[@fullfrontal2860]

can you do a video on Daxos or vorel of the hull clade. I currently having my Daxos be equipped with artifacts and enchantments, and then using tough low costing creatures as blocks. With Vorel it's all about 1/1 counters. do you have any tips for some you is on a budget.

[@MTGMuddstah]

I've never really played either of those decks. I know Brie has been playing her Vorel deck for a long time, but I have been avoiding doing CYCom for stuff I don't really know how to play.

[@fullfrontal2860]

What about teneb the harvester, you know how to play him to the best effect. The strategy i have right now, it to play low costing creatures and artifacts for mama ramp, and then use spell to get creatures that cost 7 or more into the graveyard, and use teneb to bring them back. I also run a hand full of cards that put stuff in the graveyard and give me tokens. have any tips?

[@arran2264]

Love this series

[@knightfromlordran]

blade of selves is awesome especially in keiga the tide star where its cancerous at that point

[@Tyveris]

So, the way I'm reading this decktech, your win con is big dudes, and your back up is the reservoir. I want this to be good, but it seems slow and very combat-based for something with such a high curve.

[@anxez]

I have an ask, a backwards ask, and it revolves around one of my favorite cards: Relentless Rats How would you build a deck that heavily features the presence of Relentless Rats? It's fine if you don't find that interesting or come up with any great ideas (or simply don't like building commander decks around cards that aren't the commander), but I find this topic kind of interesting, because the rats aren't really a good EDH card by any means, but they do present a unique design challenge when you force yourself to build decks other than "35 swamps, 63 Rats, Sidisi, Thrumming Stone". Especially since the Rats don't immediately suggest any direct color identity or strategy, but they do heavily influence includes into the deck.

[@ZackChess1]

Are you planning on making any Top 10 EDH videos ever again? I really enjoyed those videos. Love your content none theless though :)

[@ZackChess1]

Also, I have a spicy idea for a Scarab God deck. What about doing a mill strategy, and then using eldrazi processors to reanimate your opponent's creatures multiple times?

[@LiiuRamosOFC]

Hey ! Great deck tech as always. Maybe you can consider to add Enlightened tutor, for tutoring win conditions like Aetherflux reservoir.

[@MTGMuddstah]

Enlightened Tutor is a great card! It's one of the ones that I would consider an obvious inclusion, so I didn't really go over it. I'm currently on the hunt to trade for another one for this deck!

[@britain9735]

I might make a similar deck of this with rhys, the redeemed

[@zallceecllaz5672]

Can you do one for goreclaw, I just saw yeva has 4 power so flashing in huge green creatures for cheaper sounds awesome

[@ashtonbrockway9312]

What a coincidence! One of my friends just built a similar deck. Also Terrastodon blows up nonCREATURE permenants

[@autobotjazz1972]

interesting build idea.

[@raimundkeller6115]

a friend of mine has a Trostani deck. I really like it, but it rarely ever wins. Usually it just gets comboed to death.

[@brasstacks7398]

What about felidar sovriegn as an alternate win con?

[@MTGMuddstah]

Certainly! Plus, the deck has ways to recur it from the graveyard, so it's a solid back-up plan.

[@elijahmthompson2313]

Bro. Good vid.

[@couchcommander5280]

Can...... Can you build this and play it? You had my curiosity, but now you have my attention

[@MTGMuddstah]

I have, I did, and I will!

[@couchcommander5280]

aw i missed it? guess i gotta go hunting for the video

[@MTGMuddstah]

The first one will be up Thursday.

[@couchcommander5280]

Oh there isn't a gameplay video up for it? Pogchamp Oh now I'm excited

[@IvanRSaldias]

I'm in love

[@thephilosiphizer9227]

Run token doublers, it's hilarious when you seance a terastadon and get 4 of them because of anointed procession and parallel lives

[@tonyontilt3522]

Love it

[@justtib7429]

i like the idea ! :)

[@hubert12fingers]

more plz

[@deathstar5609]

throw in archangel of thunes for some pumping

[@JGushi87]

Nice deck tech! Are you going to revisit your deck? :O

[@sharperhenz90]

NO Rhys the Redeemed? :( why not Rhys vs Trostani?

[@MTGMuddstah]

The lifegain helps with the Aetherflux as plan B! Rhys is also expensive.

[@RisenSlash]

Some of the less hipster goodstuff for this deck would anything that replicates triggered abilities like Panharmonicon and Strionic Resonator.

[@Sakharee]

Sooo is anyone into Ezuris Hunt? One of the First Cards i've thought of :)

[@drunkenwhaler6890]

I have a roon clone populate deck

[@surakhiri]

Cool!

[@fenixmeaney6170]

My trostani is Lord tribal

[@thatonescarecrow4692]

But GFG is not an enchantment :§

[@zurran00]

Needs an update

[@kmb1800]

Helm of the host is so sexy in this deck

[@MTGMuddstah]

Helm of the Host is an absurd card. I love it to death.

[@Tetrix9898]

BWHAHAHHAHAAH this is so awesome!

[@milltary64vs5]

Couldn't you populate the token from blade os selves?? Edit: you sure fucking can!

[@WillSmith12346]

Good stuff man! If you end up wanting to make one for "The Locust God", here's a list I've been working on. tappedout.net/mtg-decks/the-locust-god-altarclamp-combo/ I've worked hard on making this list (there aren't many good "The Locust God" lists out there) and I love it.

[@MTGMuddstah]

My list is very punishing to me lol. Also, people seem to like to steal The Locust God as soon as he hits the field!

[@WillSmith12346]

MTG Muddstah I've found that Consecrated Sphinx let's you steal games. Sphinx + wheel = you having a good time.

[@qwoijzacxoi]

will not take advice from mtg mudster!! have you seen games??