Leovold Emissary of Trest Commander Deck Tech

[@MusicColorz]

YES YES YES Can you please make a tiny leader deck tech for Leovold. Ive always loved tiny leaders and sultai colors have always been my jam. I would love to see one of the best directions to play Leovold in that format

[@Festentorsdag]

Perfect, lots of good ideas. I just happened to watch an aluren legacy today at my local Game shop and thought of doing a leovold aluren deck. That's how I found your deck tech.

[@JumboCommander]

I used to have an aluren legacy deck and it felt so fun to play. I'm glad you like it. I hope Aluren is as fun to play in commander.

[@Festentorsdag]

tappedout.net/mtg-decks/leovold-aluren-deck/ This is where i'm at, atm. It is pretty quick. Sometimes assemble the aluren combo as early as turn 3. XD

[@JumboCommander]

It looks really solid. What does your playgroup think of these turn 3 wins?

[@Festentorsdag]

I have only made it on tappedout so far. But we have people comboing off in our playground and the meta is slowly adapting to have the answer for this kind of things. Usually I'm not playing any infinite combos, but I feel like this could be a deck to pull out when I'm playing too many other combo decks. I don't know yet. I just played a friends leovold wheel deck and it is definitely not much fun playing against such hand disruption.

[@JumboCommander]

That sounds about right. I'm a firm believer in owning a powerful deck for specific situations but I'd prefer ones that have a lot of interesting and interactive decision points.

[@koblfricker278]

Leovold is a STELLAR combo general. With my list I'm going all in on lab maniac, with doomsday as my main wincon. I'm still putting a list together but I intend on making this my hardcore/jerk commander deck... it'll be great

[@JumboCommander]

I agree. He clears the way while simultaneously finding more pieces. I'm with you; people should not underestimate the value of having a "jerk" deck. When my tribal fungus deck was picked apart by indiscriminate land destruction and unkind words I pulled out Mizzix of the Izmagnus for a rematch and only then was I avenged! Hope your build goes well and your enemies weep.

[@TheJimmy000]

awesome video, tiny leaders is an interesting format

[@Tetsubommaster]

This dude is a monster in Tiny Leaders. A guy at my locals runs him with Windfall Effects and hand disruption.

[@birkvanrillaer4787]

Plz make a competitive deck tech. Btw love you're stuff.

[@illusivelord]

This is an exciting deck

[@TheRealCommanderFox]

Rest in peace.

[@171relic]

Fantastic video.

[@BenLaakkonen]

My favorite combo I have in my deck is Dark Petition with spell Mastery and searching up Ashes to Ashes. It's just so good.

[@navo6283]

Breya for the win!!! I bought all five, but Breya is my favorite by far. :D

[@supertwiggey]

How do you return wormfang newt and turtle to your hand for the combo to work? Cloudstone curio? Do they enter at the same time with another blue permanent? Can you explain thoroughly how that works? Thanks a ton. I really love your ideas

[@JumboCommander]

Yeah, it's hard to wrap your head around because in all honesty its a bad (but hilarious) combo. You need Aluren, a recursive bounce effect (Cloudstone Curio + another creature or the Cavern Harpy), the Wormfang creature, AND a relevant land. This lets you bounce the creatures in and out of play with the curio or the activated ability of the Harpy and with each cycle a land will blink in and out because of the Wormfang (gaining some life if it's a radiant fountain or doing a point of damage if it's piranha marsh). It's honestly jank but if you kill someone with it they cannot be mad and you are a rockstar in my opinion.

[@steleo1983]

Damn... I love your deck techs... Is there any possibility for you to do a Gisa and Geralf deck tech... Please...

[@JumboCommander]

I can see it now ....... I cast "Grey Merchant of Asphodel" from my graveyard .....

[@steleo1983]

+Jumbo Commander :: Yup... That's true... And put in Wonder...

[@gakamagaming896]

Nice decks there, Jumbo. Would you mind making Boros Angel EDH. Any Boros Angel commander.

[@JumboCommander]

Sounds fun! I'll put it on my list. I have a really small channel so I'm really excited to take requests. Also Boros can be boring so I like the tribal idea; and I like that it won't be Kalia as the commander.

[@brandenplaysgames4413]

leovold is extraordinarily competitve. windfall, time reversal, jace's archevist. this shuts down decks.

[@1matzeplayer1]

i would love to See a tiny leaders deck!

[@owenkeith1188]

VERY interested in a competitive build. Not to keen on a less-than-the-best best

[@primas927]

I'd love to see a competitive build for this commander please:)

[@RecklessFables]

I don't know if I could survive the hate with a Draw/Discard/Wheel/Puzzle semi-lock with Terravore, Spiritmonger, etc for beatdown. And heck, I'm trying to be nice!

[@jays2376]

Noone plays Tiny Leaders any more. Please, some competitive builds please.

[@LucidWinter1]

And now he is banned ^.^

[@JumboCommander]

+ll Winter ll I'm not that sad ....and people can sell him to legacy players so they don't lose money.

[@JkDubbed]

It's no wonder he is. Like, jeeeeesus.

[@DeviltoGeorgia34]

I understand how a Leovold should be built: work around that first ability. But I already have a deck that wants people to draw cards: Nekusar. You pretty much could replace the red and green in the decks, depending on if you want them to take damage or just have no hand. And since Nekusar "draws" hate (pun intended), this is just a more oppressive way of doing a similar effect. So if I ever get a Leovold, I'm not going that route. I'll probably just do something dumb like tribal Elves. Or just do Sultai good stuff like he mentioned.

[@moxmoonstone]

I'd like to see a vicious Leovold Competitive build, and also I'd like to see a Hanna, Ship's Navigator build if you're looking for ideas 😀

[@JumboCommander]

I'll put Hanna on my to do list. I have a Brago deck in Azorius but he may not make for an interesting video. Hanna on the other hand could be really cool. Thanks for the suggestion.

[@butterknight171]

I'd love to see a competitive build.

[@insomniackitty9397]

emissary of trest not to be confused with emissary of trust

[@slendermann4697]

I built a U/G Ezuri commander deck based around Aluren. I saw the card in this deck tech and started to sheepishly look away.

[@JumboCommander]

Your deck might be more successful. I honestly think Leovold as a commander will get hated out pretty heavily.

[@aappaapp6627]

Leovold looks like Saul Goodman

[@taylorfoley3707]

Doomsday. All I'm going to say. That's my wincon for my Leo deck

[@thordtokle2370]

Eyy! Me too!

[@ChildrenOfOwls]

The 5 cards you get?

[@planpunnarit]

How to destroy friendship

[@themimeoplasm6075]

I'm seeing so many comments asking for "competitive edh decks." But competitive decks really go against the nature of the game type. If you want competitive, play standard or modern. Commander is meant to be a fun multiplayer game with friends. That being said, I do run a Leovold reanimater/hand dump deck that makes all my friends too salty. But what I would like to see is a home brew deck. Not a edhrec Net deck.

[@JumboCommander]

I did make a competitive video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jHfadouchL92eKs I have to say that you are correct in that it was much less fun for me to make these videos. I think it would be fun to play against other top tier lists but fewer interesting decision points when building. I guess it is really a different type of creativity. Hopefully in the original video I delivered that "home-brew" feel with the Aluren combo section.

[@StrongButAwkward]

I liked some of the core concepts of your ideas here. My initial build of Leovold was rather meat and potatoes, standard control style creature finishers that would good pound for pound cards that would grind opponents out under a Leovold hand lock. I liked you Aluren finisher better on principle as generally I think it's a bad idea in casual to drag games out long after they are basically over due to a lock. I also like that it can house a minor elf-ball suite at the same time. This was my take: tappedout.net/mtg-decks/leovolddec/ As I said in my other comment, I very much like the idea of being being able to have one of the combo outs being casting Villainous Wealth at all opponents for their entire decks. It just seems to fit Leovold to a T.

[@eternity5410]

eleves with windfall and tafaris puzzle boxs and all that other stuff

[@MrGGLz]

Alternative list for Muldrotha? Lol

[@wooboy11]

Why make a competitive edh deck? It's like you said: there's no secret to it, just get explosive ramp, and pick the most obvious cards for your strategy. What you could do is a video talking about cards that are played in real competitive edh vs. what people think are competitive (like brago stax vs. blink value brago)

[@urawhat]

Id really dig a competitive build. Heres my take on competitive. tappedout.net/mtg-decks/levold/

[@JumboCommander]

My build matches with yours pretty well: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jHfadouchL92eKs

[@snapcaster5410]

This commander will have the Narset problem where its reputation changes people's behavior. I'd just make it super competitive and get ready for a 3 vs 1.

[@JumboCommander]

I wrote this question/observation in another comment and thought it was relevant here too: "Do you think that if a table bands together to attack any Leovold player from the beginning he can be controlled? I have a friend with a Jhoira of the Ghitu deck and when he pulls it out we have switched from Commander to Archenemy (all against one). All I know if that if someone pulls out Leovold I think I'll go after them no matter how "fair" his deck is. This may mean that there is no room for a deck tech like the one I recorded; only time will tell how we react to this."

[@snapcaster5410]

haha. So you already knew.

[@JumboCommander]

But I'm really interested in the question -- can you 3 v 1 a tuned Leovold deck if one entered your playgroup right now?

[@snapcaster5410]

I think a fairly fast combo deck might be able to beat a tuned Leovold deck, but he's seriously the optimal multiplayer control commander. You get to make the whole table discard their hand by turn 4 with consistency (T3 with a 1 mana accelerant) and then continue to make them discard their hand while refilling yours throughout the game. Add some wrath effects to clean up creatures that get through, counter effects to protect Leovold;CA engine or combos and a bit of spot removal. You already have tutors to add consistency to your wheel effects so you can switch them to find combo pieces when you're ready. Teferi's Puzzle Box with counter magic up wins the game. The world is going to hate this elf.

[@ramyannmurali7840]

Competitive deck is basically a crueler version of Nekusar. Play wheel spells like wheel of fate and others and you get to draw more than your opponent's do: "I draw seven, You draw 1! Having fun yet?". then you just beat them with card advantage or even commander damage. Not very fun, he might get banned soon.

[@theSavageHippie]

I wanna make a Leovold deck, my friends hate me anyway

[@bsmith8166]

how the hell did he get alluren into play? only one g

[@JumboCommander]

An opponent gave me a green with Lantern of Insight, There is an Eladamri's Vineyard and a Magus of the Vineyard out too ... and I exiled an Elvish Spirit Guide :)

[@jbroderick9083]

I really like those early combos, but when you decided to veer into ETB territory you lost me. I feel like Bant is the ETB colors, Roon of the Hidden Realm being the boss commander for a ETB deck.

[@bosstsuna114]

RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP

[@JumboCommander]

No one was really upset when he was banned. Everyone was just like ... yup, makes sense.

[@cbsalty7207]

Competitive build please

[@antonbagger1372]

was i the only who was bothered by the "one forest aluren out" sry but damn i got more triggered than i should have gotten. any love your videos mate keep up the great work.

[@JumboCommander]

Hahaha ummmm, ... an opponent gave me a green with Spectral Searchlight? Oh, and there was a Magus of the Vineyard across the table ... I'm glad you like the videos!

[@antonbagger1372]

haha,,,, sure

[@Tetsubommaster]

Also he only says opponents can't draw more than one.

[@MISFITSERAPH]

give me that competitive build.

[@julien4414]

please competitive!

[@StrongButAwkward]

I gotta be honest, Lab Maniac is such a catch all blue deck win I find myself tired of it. Why not win in a way that only BUG can with a card or combination of cards that can only be played in bug? You already have the set up for it, you just need to swap out Lab Man for one other card. My suggestion is Villainous Wealth. You're running Cloud of Fairies to make infinite mana and Eternal Witness to recur it back to your hand. You can win by playing everyone elses' decks back at their face instead of just another deck with blue that wins with Lab Man.

[@netnoob77]

He looks like Matt Mercer

[@MZuu210]

yes super competiitive

[@CodeProvider]

your allure combo would be better in a 5 color deck. you could run enlightened tutor to help find allure, imperial recruiter, recruiter of the guard, purphuros, like you said. it wouldnt limit the creatures you could play AT ALL. why restrict it to this leovold shell? a waste not leovold seems better. you tutor for waste not the same way you'd tutor for allure and just jam windfall effects.

[@kobuszsp996]

Yeah, but with Waste Not and Leovold, your opponent wouldn't really be discarding that many cards, making it not the best combination.

[@codelicious6590]

Ugh! Leovold is such an expensive card though! I want him badly, like I mean I totally want to marry him and have his kids, but hes too damned high-priced!

[@P4r4k]

competitive edh choose one.

[@zieggy420]

build competitive and tiny leaders!

[@Viscerality]

Competitive!!

[@A3productionstudios]

Make a competitive build!

[@CGtoTHEmax]

tappedout.net/mtg-decks/leo-edh-3/ heres one i built. can you give me some tips? (yeas i know its two cards over it still needs adjusting.

[@JumboCommander]

This might be one of those “do as I say, not as I do” moments but I think that the first step is going to be getting some ramp in your deck (signets, wood elves, cultivate, etc.) and getting your land count up to around 37. This will let you know how many cards need cutting. Your deck does not have a focus and that’s fine. I love EDH decks that are filled with cards I want to play instead of the cards “should” play. If you would like some advice on making your deck more competitive, to match your playgroup, then let me know and I can give you some more specific tips. Thanks for the question; I hope your build goes well.

[@CGtoTHEmax]

well i based it on card draw and im gunna add signets but i would prefer this be at least a half decent deck that could uphold against other edh decks

[@lilskittles2187]

Scootz w

[@serperior1208]

[@Ballpython77]

i refuse to play vs this card the fact you are reducing everyone else to no cards while you have a full hand when you use cards like Windfall, Time reversal etc. ...no thank you! this a game that is suppose to have fun and to interact with others but he stops that.

[@JumboCommander]

Do you think that if a table bands together to attack any Leovold player from the beginning he can be controlled? I have a friend with a Jhoira of the Ghitu deck and when he pulls it out we have switched from Commander to Archenemy (all against one). All I know if that if someone pulls out this commander I think I'll go after them no matter how "fair" his deck is. This may mean that there is no room for a deck tech like the one I recorded; only time will tell how we react to this clearly polarizing commander. Thanks for your input!

[@Ballpython77]

Jhoira does not reduce your opponents hands to 0 while you have plenty access to cards and draw on turn 4. do not mix apples and oranges. 2 very different cards. this game is meant to have fun and interact with other players but when you are the only one playing while the rest is staring at the walls, it's not fun anymore. i told my friends that i refuse to play if someone plays this commander. i have better things to do than to stare at a wall. if they want to build it, fine by me, i'll go do other things.

[@taylormatic]

Apparently no one in your playgroup plays combo decks then since typically with most combo decks a game can easily go from multiplayer to solitaire rather quickly in my experience.

[@Ballpython77]

boring shit

[@JumboCommander]

I think it's all about balance. If I'm playing the right deck then maybe I can answer or race these crazy strategies. But these days most of my decks aren't built that way. There is no right way to play magic but I agree with you guys that when two vastly unequal strategies meet then it just isn't fun.

[@usernameunidentified9874]

Illegal deck... Leovold is banned.

[@JumboCommander]

100% true :)