The Ruinous Powers Upgrade - Improving the Precon Commander Deck with $100

[@jacksons9546]

I actually went “YES” out loud when I saw Be’lakor in the thumbnail bc that’s the deck I decided to build as well. Looking forward to listening to the changes on my way to campus, keep it up fellas 👍

[@GuysThatMagic]

Glad to hear it! Hope you enjoy the direction we took this!

[@thekushface]

Same! Making the deck as we speak!

[@sumdude666]

Thanks for the video! I wanted to make Be’lakor the commander without scrapping 99% of the deck

[@danielsniff6405]

I will say that be lekor probably would have benefitted more from the 300 dollar upgrade, considering how insanely expensive most of the good demons are. That being said, I still appreciate a more budget take.

[@peggle09]

I def did at least 300$ upgrade to it, I had all the cards already. Some good tutors and ramp with some very good demons.

[@dans6080]

Do you have your deck list?

[@peggle09]

I went full demons with a bunch of ramp. A few devil and teiflings for thier effects.

[@williammartin172]

I went from base to a $300 version then split I and made the $100 they're just too fun, I love Quicksilver amulet 😅, makes it really cheap if someone takes out your cost reducers

[@kalamander8563]

Oh man, Lucius the Eternal is such an awesome design and is really thematic with his lore in 40K. So Lucius is a Chaos Space Marine who's legion worships Slanneshz yhe Chaos God of Excess. Lucius is one of the greatest duelists in the galaxy, and seeks perfection in combat. However, one day he was eventually slain. The winner fell victim to Slannesh's curse. Any time Lucius is killed, if his opponent takes even a smidgen of pride in his victory, their body eventually becomes that of Lucius, and their soul is trapped in the armor, thus the Armor of Screaming Souls.

[@GuysThatMagic]

That lore sounds pretty incredible!

[@lukeraidel1960]

Would you be willing to post a deck for Abbadon as the commander (with only a 100 dollar upgrade)? If not, no worries. Thanks!

[@brisingr0962]

Can’t wait for this deck, I would recommend immersturm raider though for the deck, a two drop demon that lets you slightly refresh your hand? Also only 25p? Yes

[@erubin100]

what the hell are you talking about??? it doesn't "refresh your hand," it just discards a card to draw a card!

[@brisingr0962]

*slightly* I just thinks it’s good for the deck

[@freekill1018]

@@erubin100 it really is good tho 😂

[@erubin100]

@@freekill1018 if you blink it and have lots of recursion, maybe.

[@freekill1018]

@@erubin100 I prefer to use reanimation for it but yeah you could absolutely do those things to break it 😂 but mainly I like it because it's a cheap demon that gives you a way to cycle out an unusable card and I can use that enchantment win con for demons

[@jacksons9546]

As a primarily blue player I felt physically nauseous seeing a deck w/ blue but zero counter spells but beyond that, I like what y’all did. Personally, I removed almost all the cast from exile effects to cram in more and more demon stuff. Liliana’s contract is a very funny wincon when you have 25+ demons. That said I’m not limited by budget bc my pod is online, so my deck is $600+ As for astartes: if you’re British, it’s a-star-Tees. If you’re American the T is softer. Think like a Brit vs American saying “traitor”. Most people just call em space marines though.

[@GuysThatMagic]

Since the deck still had a lot of cascade, I was pushed away from counterspells- David

[@m.k.2056]

do you have your decklist online? i want to go with the demon commander as well and would like to see some upgrade above 100$ :)

[@jacksons9546]

Side note, biggest weakness of this deck is I am greedy and wanted more cool demons at the cost of more reliable mana.

[@jmoney9494]

​@@jacksons9546I love the lilianas contract in universe lore and am so excited to build it into this deck

[@pierre-olivierbourquepratt1517]

Thanks a lot can’t wait for the 300$ upgrade, as I already ordered a lot of cards for that deck so far I’m just happy I’m not a complete fool 😂😂

[@GuysThatMagic]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@Solus3D]

The lost and the dammed is useless without fetchlands. To keep it you need to add fetchlands and more ramp.

[@kalimbanewbie17]

Do you have 100 USD with Abaddon as commander?

[@dantemalick2872]

Rakdos the Defiler just reads wait until you attack then instant speed remove it to make the demon player lose half their lands

[@SirLogos]

And this is why i will not be putting him in my deck. I rather just have Rakdos lord of riots

[@jmoney9494]

I played this out of the box and got literally every card you mentioned to be removed and could never do a damn thing haha

[@GuysThatMagic]

So unlucky! Haha.

[@damo9961]

Black Market Connections is the best demon for Belakor lol

[@GuysThatMagic]

That is a great card!

[@natemaVan]

Dinosaurs!

[@kirururik]

removing cool cards? thats lame, i rather just play with a weaker deck then